Day 309 - Cute as a Button

 CUTE AS A BUTTON

Prompt - Cute as a Button : Write about something you think is adorable

The noise upsets her, as it does so many pets.  Fireworks nights are bad nights for cats and she is no exception.  Even though she's one of the lucky ones.  It's all happening at a distance for her.  Up here, on the sixth floor, with an outlook into the darkness of the cemetery, the flashes and bangs are far off, removed.  In here, up here, they can cause no alarms for humans, excepting those with autism etc.  But they can still upset a cat for whom the nature and origins of the sights and sounds outside are beyond their comprehension.  

And so she withdraws, to her safe space.  The place of retreat when threats enter her domain, the one she's used to being able to dominate, with the fellow residents she can manipulate with ease.  Threats like small children, any bearer of loud noises and sudden movements, anyone who threatens her live-in companions.  Under our bed, among the storage boxes, she feels she is away from it all, that nothing can touch her.  Not even me.  I can elicit a response if I lie down and stretch out my arm to be sniffed.  But if she doesn't want to come out, she doesn't.

Stay there for now little one.  You must do what's right for you.  Whatever that is, whenever you choose to join us again, you remain the cutest of the cute, the adorable centre of life in this flat.  You are Zoe.