"The Cat Trail to Texas Part 2"

Posted 04 June 2008 - 03:42 PM ( #1 )

That morning was an exciting one. None of us slept in. In fact, we stayed up until 11:30 PM and didn’t care. We woke up at 5:30 AM and didn’t care. We were so excited. We could not wait to find our fathers.

We lied in the bunk bed. Selena and her cat lied on top bunk, and Jason and I lied on the bottom bunk with our cats.

At 6:30 AM, we all got ready to go. We took turns playing on Webkinz, and watched early-morning cartoons.

At 7:00 PM, Selena and I kept sending Jason to the window to see if Grandma and Grandpa were coming early. We didn’t want to miss a thing.

Then at 7:30, we called them up. The first time, no one picked up. Then the second time, Grandma picked it up, still mostly asleep, and started talking gibberish. It was funny, but we couldn’t take the wait.

At 7:45 AM, I dug through my drawers, and found an old Barbie brushed and Selena and I used it to brush our cats. Jason’s didn’t need it because he had a short-haired Webkinz. But once in a while, Jason would straighten out Salem’s hand with his hands. We even straightened out our cats’ whiskers a few times.

After all that waiting, it was finally 9:00 AM. But Grandma and Grandpa didn’t show until 9:15 AM.

“I’m telling you, Max. There’s a lunatic calling us!” Grandma said.

“Aw, shucks, Lee. That was just the kids! Didn’t you see the Caller ID?” Grandpa said.

“What if…” Grandma said.

‘So, Katrina, Jason.” Grandpa interrupted. “Hi. Hi to you too, Selena. Sorry were late. Grandma wouldn’t stop talkin’ gibberish.”

I laughed.

“That’s ok, Grandpa. Can we go now?” I said.

He laughed.

“Fine. Go get your bags and load up in the van.” He said.

We got our bags, put them in the trunk, and got in Grandpa’s mini-van.

Grandma and Grandpa sat in the front, Selena and I sat in the middle-back seats with Sophie on my lap, and Pears on hers, and Jason sat in the back-back seat, with Salem on his lap.

So we were off, on our little cat trail to Texas.

“You must be bored by now.” Grandpa said. “Is there any fancy stories you’d fancy to tell?”

“Well, there is one story.” I said.

Selena and I gave eyebrow messages to each other, and she knew what story we would tell.

When I looked to the back of the car, Jason looked puzzled. Selena and I pointed to our cats, and then he knew what story the three of us were going to tell together.

We were going to tell our story of how Webkinz brings people together…

To Be Continued…