Polly - vol.1

マイスペに書きはじめたポリ記（うちのねこ）です。

Winter 2001

When I just moved with my friend Hana-chan to Sunset Park in Brooklyn, I found a black cat on the street on my way home. A female cat. She seemed very friendly as i went close to her with my right hand carefully trying to reach her. It did reach her quite easily. It was amazing. Then my instinct told me that she needed ME, not just any home but me (you know how you dramatize your situation when you are alone in a foreign place). I told her if she came home with me i'd give her canned tuna, and i started walking... She followed me! I looked back many times to make sure she is after me, for about 5 minutes till i got home. What a girl, when i reached my apartment door she even showed an interest in getting into my door. With those eyes looking up at me... Hey, welcome... I told Hana-chan right away and she excitignly agreed on takin her in, and that black street cat was our cat from that evening.
Hana chan and her then-boyfriend named her Eames (like that designer) pff but we called her Im-chan. Im-chan rapidly won our every attention possible in the house with her gorgeous look. She really had beautiful facial features (she does to this day) and her posture was simply divine. Hana chan and I started idolizing her and she filled our lives with happiness. We both had wanted a cat so badly, and the angelic Im-chan landed on our floor from the sky.

However, she did have ordinary cat's behaviors. One of them was being in heat. She started making weird whining noise day and night, and wanted to go outside from out little windows. (we lived on a half-basement level which only had small windows on higher parts of the walls) There was an access to the backyard (just wild, not tamed) from hana chan's window, so she started letting Im-chan out for a while every now and then. We thought she was just playing in the wild - which seemed to us where she used to spend days and nights, but one day Hana chan witnessed a rather shocking scene - there were other cats hanging out there with her. Male cats! yaaay! The news was both shocking and and amusing. I remember a great deal of giggles in the house. Needless to say, Im-chan's belly started to grow after a few weeks of her wild foraging.
After 2 months - around the beginning of February 2002, Im-chan's behavior started to look alarming so I brought home a cardboard box to make her a little house. I think she was in there for the next couple of days. On the evening of February 4th, when i came home from school, I had a peek in her box from its small entrance - expecting it might have happened - and i saw these funny little things movin in the dark - kittens. Kitteeeens! The babies were born! In our very own livingroom! wow. How many? i didn't dare to count just yet. Then Hana-chan came home, and we celebrated in such an excitement. Later we carefully looked into the box - there were 3 black ones, 2 gray x white ones, and one tri-color (black white and gold)... six kittens. You did it Im chan.
It was so overwhelming. Cute precious things in our living room, we held them, praised them and took too many photos of them... and got shocked to find six huge nipples on the belly of our idol - Im-chan was now a mama...

to be continued.