It's lower? But what? Or where?Slowly, slyly, cautiously, I looked around to make sure no one was watching. My brain instinctively warned me that ...what I was doing wasn't quite "proper" and I might get in big trouble, but I still hadn't located the source of the pleasure/pain or whatever it was. I moved a bit out of range from the side of the house where there were windows. My mother watched me like a hawk when I was outside, so there was very little I could do that went unnoticed as a. Just out of curiosity I made a fun like shall I join for the plan. She burst into laughter. That’s how I succeeded to make her smile. Later I helped in cancelling the things made for the plan. From that day onwards she was open to me and started discussing her personal matters too. We started chatting over phone too.On one weekend, it was around 11 I called her, asked what her plan is. She said she’s feeling bored and told she’s is gonna shopping with her friends. I asked her, I am also feeling. “Flat? Yeah, I think I knocked out the bubbles. I was trying to get the sugar to dissolve.”The cake tin was almost full. He spread on the mix like a pro.“What layer are you on?”“Fifty four.”He was keeping a tally which I thought was a very smart idea.Once he’d finished the cake, he left it on the side to cool. He started peeling a bowl of soaked almonds, dipping them into glace icing and then into what must have been granulated sugar, though it was silver in colour.“So you invited me over here. .. heard a noise coming from under the bedcover. It wasn't asqueak it was a purr!I lifted the edge of the bed cover up and carefully looked under.With big green eyes, white face and a little tongue licking its paws...a cat stared at me.He or she purred loudly, stretched and came out from under the coversand jumped off the bed.I sat down in a heap on the bed (well away from the dead rat) and thecat immediately jumped on my lap.'Hello Honey, where did you come from?'I think the cat was a she.