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Guero - 3. The Cowardly Lion Part 2
The Cowardly Lion Part 2
“Ah!”
The scream of my sister prompted me to jump from my bed and run towards her bedroom, followed closely behind by my parents and brother. We found her in her bathroom that led off from her room. She was standing at the sink, her toothbrush clutched in hand, as she stared wide-eyed at the corner of the bathroom.
My mother asked, “¿Ana, que pasó?”
She turned towards us, and said shakily, “Th-there was a mouse!”
When she screamed, the mouse had ran off, so we spent ten minutes looking throughout the bathroom and the bedroom, looking for it, before my mother stopped us.
“Mis hijos, es muy tarde,” that was her way of telling us that we needed to go to sleep. But, my sister was still concerned about the mouse.
My mom told her, “Mi hija, temenos los gatos.”
That calmed Ana down. We had five cats at the time, so that mouse was definitely not going to live to see another day, especially if Chiquita had any say about it. She was the most… predatory… when playing with her toys. So, it wouldn’t surprise me at all to see her having the mouse within her grasp by morning.
With that, we all headed to bed, assured that the mouse would be cat food.
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When morning arrived, I got up and went to the food bowls near the laundry room, to feed the cats. But after I had poured the food in their bowls, the cats didn’t show up. That’s odd, they usually dashed over when they heard the cat food being poured.
Then, my sister ran towards me, “Drew! Come quick, you have to see this!” I followed her back to her bedroom, and she led me to the far corner… where all the cats were!
My sister turned me, and said, “You won’t believe who caught the mouse?”
Wait, what? Isn’t it Chiquita? But no, she was the ones looking in the corner. So… who did catch the mouse?
When I saw who did, my jaw dropped.
There, before my eyes, the mouse clamped within his jaws was Guero! If that shock wasn’t enough, when Chiquita took a step near Guero and the mouse, Guero growled at her!
I couldn’t believe what I was seeing. Guero is usually a pretty mellow cat, and for him to growl has left me speechless.
Then again, even the mellowest of cats can become a lion when defending his prize, and Guero was no different, for at that moment, he looked every bit the proud lion.
1. I changed my sister's name for privacy reasons.
2. "que pasó" is Spanish for "what happened."
3. "Mis hijos, es muy tarde" is Spanish for "my children, it's late."
4. "Mi hija, tenemos los gatos" is Spanish for "my daughter, we have cats."
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