My new Friend Pepe
June 30th 2010 21:04
Exercising after work one afternoon, I came across the tuxedo cat who hangs around Brett’s old place. I knelt down to stroke her and she came up and rubbed her body against me several times before rubbing her head against my knees and hands. She then lay on her back and let me gently touch her belly. Finally she put her front paws on my lap and started kneading me. It hurt but not as much as when Gingersnap does it. I kept stroking her and she moved closer to me such that she could then climb on top of me and sit on my lap. I sat down but she wasn’t interested; she only wanted to sit on my lap while I was kneeling down. Fine, I thought, I’ll kneel down then. Once again, she climbed on top of me. I let her rub her face against my hand and I could hear her purring softly. “Good girl,” I whispered in her ear as I cuddled her. It’s times like this when I wonder how people can be cruel to animals when they can be so affectionate.
By now, a couple of passers-by had stopped to watch us interacting. I asked them if they knew her name but they all said no. One of them said, “She’s a funny cat. She likes to sit on the pavement. That’s all she does all day.”
I then continued with my exercise. By the time I had finished, it was getting dark. I went past Brett’s old house and there she was. Some people who lived in the house next door suddenly walked past us, saying something that sounded like pair-pair.
“Excuse me,” I asked the old man who was doing most of the talking, “is that your cat?”
“No. She just likes to hang around here.”
“Do you know what her name is?”
“Pepe,” he said, pronouncing it as “pair-pair”. “P-E-P-E.”
“Thanks,” I said.
I soon discovered Pepe belonged to the people who lived on the other side of Brett’s old place. How perfect! I love looking at Brett’s old place; it is beautiful and sophisticated-looking white terrace house but the rent was astronomical due to its clear view of the Sydney Harbour Bridge. That was why Brett decided to move to a cheaper place.
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