The Cat Who Never Died

The Cat Who Never Died(Farnaz Sha) THE CAT WHO NEVER DIED

Susan had just reached home late from college one day. But as she opened the front door she heard her brother Shawn scream very loudly. So she immediately ran up to his room to see what had happened to him. But as she opened the door of his room she saw the cat open his jaws in a shrill cry of attack. His yellow eyes glowed like headlights. As the cat howled his dark fur stood straight as if shocked by electricity. The ovals glowed even brighter. So much so that the frightened girl had to turn away. She pulled her brother back as the cat uttered a shrill cry. They stumbled back across the room and bumped against the wall. The cat came even more close and then the girl murmured, "This is not a cat, it's a monster". The girl tried to take her brother and run out of the room but it was too late. By that time the cat had already wrapped it's claws around her brother's waist. She screamed "Let's go, let's go". But the cat lowered his head and sank his long wet fangs into the boy's shoulder.

"Stop it! Stop it!" Suddenly somebody started screaming from the room. It was Shawn. He was again watching his favourite scary movie, "THE CAT WHO NEVER DIED". Susan immediately turned off the T.V and started scolding Shawn as whenever he watched the movie he felt sick and never slept at night. It was no different with him this time also. He did not give poor Susan freedom to sleep the whole night.

Next day when she went to college she met Renaldo. Renaldo was her best friend as well as her drama partner in the college play Romeo and Juliet. In the afternoon Mr. Simmons, Susan's drama sir, had called all the students associated with the drama to the auditorium for the final practice of the day. But as Susan was really tired she could not concentrate on the play at all. The only thing she wanted to do was to go home and sleep. As a result the last rehearsal of the day got cancelled and all the students took their cycles, bikes, etc. to go home. Ronalda offered to drop Susan home as she was too tired. But Susan refused. This led to a small argument between the two friends. During which Susan angrily takes her bike and moves out from the college to go home.

Today, Susan had taken another route to go home. She had never gone through this route before. She was very tensed as she had fought with Ronalda for the first time in her life. Suddenly she felt her bike hit something hard. So,she got down to see what she had hit. She had expected to see a stone or a boulder. But to her surprise she saw a white cat laying in a pool of blood. She was very scared. For a minute she froze. She felt that she should have not come that route. But she knew that she could not do anything. She had killed an innocent cat and that was the fact this could not be changed. So, she bent down and took the cat's collar gently in her hands. On the cats Collar it was written, "RAVEN". So she came to know that the cat's name was Raven. She tried calling out to see whether anyone came in search of the cat. But all in vain. No one came. Lastly, after searching a lot, she spotted a house. So, she went to the house and knocked. After some time a young girl slightly bigger than Susan opened the door. She was quite pale and wore a white dress. Susan quickly showed the girl the cat. On seeing the cat the girl started crying. The girl gave Susan a warning that she would soon experience a nightmare that would never come to an end. Susan did not understand anything of what the girl was saying. She went home trying to think what could be the meaning of what the girl said...