Theme 7 - Pets

A letter to my ex

Dear Patterson family,

I don't know if you remember me anymore, but I used to be your loved pet, Molly. It's been a long time but in my memories it seems like yesterday. Oh, the days when I used to play with the kids! But as you well know, things aren't the same anymore. Everything changed the one summer at the summer cottage.

I was lying on the grass watching you swim and play. Suddenly, I saw a huge butterfly! I had to go after it, even though I knew I shouldn't have left the yard. I just couldn't resist the urge to follow it, I was almost enchanted by its bizarre beauty.

After a while I found myself lost in the middle of the forest. I didn't know which way to go, every way looked exactly alike. I ran in the forest desperate to find you. Since I didn't hear you looking for me, it took me days to get back to the cottage.

When I got back, I was hungry and desperate to come back home. I was even willing to stay in that horrible moving, metallic thing you all liked so much. But soon I found out that you and that metallic thing were gone!

I thought to myself that it was surely just temporary and you'd come back for me. After all, the summer wasn't over and you never left the cottage before fall.

But you didn't come back. I couldn't believe you left me! Did you even try to look for me? I was alone and I had to learn how to hunt.

Next year when you got back to the cottage, I ran to you. You didn't recognize me! I admit I didn't look exactly the same anymore, but I am still the same cat I was a year ago.

Maybe it's better this way. If you forget me after a few days, I deserve something better than you. And what's more, I've grown to love my new life in the wilderness!

Not yours anymore,
Molly