by Michelle Blood

Created on: March 17, 2010

My name is "Big Bubba". Learn to like it, love it; simply because I have had to. I did not choose to be named as such, but I would not venture to find myself a more fitting one. I've come to respect the name which I have been bestowed, even if it was given to me by a child. This child, who I will not name to you, loved me more than anything. It shown in her eyes, it was in the words she spoke, and the way she played with me. Even if she was dressing me up in doll clothes, though I did not mind too much. I loved this little girl so very much.

She was the first human I ever saw after I was born, and she was so very careful with me. She would pet me, and talk to me as if I was the only person there. Yes, I said person; for she treated me as if I was her kind, and I found that endearing. It set deep in my heart that she found me to be her best friend, even though I was cat. I knew all her most secret, inner thoughts, and if there could have been a way, she would have known mine.

I never found myself lacking for attention, because I was always with her. Though, during the day she would disappear from dawn until just a few hours before the sun set, but I always knew she'd be back. She had this ridiculous collar around my neck that a ear deafening bell on it; I hated it. She knew this, because she traded the old one for a new one soon after, and it had no bell.

I saw this little girl as my best friend, my confident, and my comfort. I always knew that I had a home, and food to fill my belly. I was never without, although I could hunt in the field outback, or catch fish in the river just a ways down the dirt road. I saw her fishing once, with a long stick that held string on the end of it in the water. Though, she never caught anything....Except once, with her brothers. The three of them, they had found a huge tire in the river, and they surrounded it. My girl was the brave one, she stuck her hand into the dark water inside the tire, and grabbed at something. Her brothers helped her keep a hold of it, out of view, but when I finally could see. It was the biggest catfish I'd ever seen, with faint yellowing on the belly. I was so proud.

I was a cat bound to a human through some kind of bond that I've never been able to figure out. I loved that little girl with all the world. I saw the world as a fathomless expanse, that went on and on forever. Mountains, hills, and lots and lots of trees. Dirt roads, rivers, square houses with wheels, and cars. That's what I thought it

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