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The Black Cat

The second article about black cat came and brought me out of despair

By aleaxPublished 3 years ago 8 min read

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When I cried, my parents were at a loss. I did not know how long I cried, until my mother kept asking me what was going on.

All I know is that he went to the construction site, and there was a safety accident, and he was trying to save someone, and then he lost...

My father and Piex are half colleagues. They helped me to call his company to confirm, and then they were confused.

My mother has been comforting me, and when I cry tired, she sent me back to my room to sleep, but when I opened the door, there were all the things she prepared for my wedding.

She wanted me to lie down on the couch, so she and my dad figured out what to do.

Butch kept walking around me, as if he knew I was sad, and afraid he would come too close to me and affect the children, so he kept leaning over my lap and looking at me with his amber eyes.

He used to be a good boy. He didn't make any noise, and he never scratched anything. Sometimes when I couldn't find something, he would fetch it for me.

Now he's looking at me on his lap, like when I'm with Piex, he's drawing, I'm reading.

Two people sometimes busy for a while, I stop from knocking on the keyboard, turned to see, he also held a pen, and I on one eye, regardless of smile or not smile, the gentle eye, enough to let a person at ease.

But Piex, who always looked up to me in the middle of the stare, was gone, just Butch.

I sat up on the sofa and reached out to Butch, gently stroking his neck.

Maybe he knows that Piex is gone, so he's suddenly back. To be with me?

My whole person was groggy, after crying for a while, and began to vomit, the whole person is more and more bad, not long before the stomach began to pain, also see red.

My parents were afraid of my accident, hurriedly sent me to the hospital, the doctor said that there was a preemptive abortion, let me stay in the hospital for a few days, and then the original examination of all the documents to take over, compared with progesterone what.

My mom was at the hospital with me, and I told my dad to go get it from the house Piex and I were staying at.

When I was asked for the key, I remembered that I had given it to Mary.

When I told my parents, my mom didn't take it too seriously. She told my dad to drive to the Piex family to get the keys and then go to the house to get them. The Piex family would be too busy.

But my dad looked at me and said, "You mean, Nagasaki's sister took the key to your house?"

I was so sick that everyone was confused, fearing that the only vein of Piex in my belly would be gone, I just nodded feebly.

My father glanced at my mother for a few moments. My mother seemed to understand something and asked my father to go outside and call Mary.

That night I vomit all the time, water vomit, vomit to the end is bile and bubbles...

Finally, I don't know how to fall asleep. In my dream, Piex is holding me and giggling and talking about how baby will be born.

When he woke up, it was still dark, and Butch, who was supposed to be cooped up at home, did not know when to lie on the bedside cabinet.

See me wake up, called my mother "meow meow", woke up my mother, my mother immediately asked me to drink water, do you feel anything wrong.

I looked at the ceiling of a grey, finally return to absolute being, in that auditorium at my mom's way: "the body silver-gray Piex favorite suit, death is expensive, he bought more than two years, is the rising pipe and proposing to me through the time, he said, such as xiao bao was born, he was wearing his wait outside me... let small treasure to see his handsome appearance at the first glance."

As I said these words, Butch was standing on the nightstand, looking sideways at me, and finally, with a light step, jumped onto the bed and rubbed himself against my arms.

I know it is in comfort me, touched its head, toward my mother way: "You help me to call my sister, ask her if she found that suit, in the wardrobe of the second layer of the most inside, with a dust bag covered."

I dare not talk to Mary on the phone again for fear that we will both be sad.

My mom looked at me with a blank look, and then the tears came, and she said that Mary was his sister, and she must know.

But in a strange tone, which I did not understand, Butch shrank into my arms and patted me with his soft PAWS.

I lay down and rubbed the cat for a while. The doctor checked the room and made sure there was nothing wrong with it. He told me that I had better not touch cats and dogs with hair.

Butch gave a vague whine and jumped to the windowsill to stand.

I asked the doctor to let me out of the hospital to see Piex, and Butch, who was standing on the windowsill, let out a low SOB. My mother was devastated.

Let me tell the doctor that the baby's father died, anyway I want to take a look, the doctor said I was not emotional, she stood beside the window to cry, also did not help me.

When the doctor finally asked her to comfort me, she turned her head, took him out, and said to me, "Do you know what the Piex mean?"

"What? What do you mean?" I looked at my mother and croaked, "I'm going to see Piex. What else is the point?"

"He died, and Mary and his parents went to talk about compensation with the lawyer and the company, didn't tell you? Mary took the key of his house, just because you didn't want to come out where you live."

"Last night when your father went to get the receipts, she was adamant that she wouldn't give him the keys. She said she would get them and she would clear out all your things. Now the Piex family wants back even that school district house you started renovating." My mother looked at me.

"Xiao Yi, if Piex were here and you were married, the Piex family would be your family. But if he was gone, you would have nothing to do with the Piex family."

As my mother said this, Butch stood on the windowsill and mewed again and again, and even ran back from the windowsill again, jumped on the bed, and pulled at my arm, as if in a hurry to explain something.

I think I heard Piex's name, so get excited. I took him by the scruff of his neck and calmed him down.

When I thought of the way Mary looked when she saw me yesterday, I immediately understood.

Piex and I have been talking for years, living together for a year, and his family have been very nice to me. I have never changed my name to Mom and Dad, but I have followed his sister and brother-in-law.

Yeah, well, he's busy, but his mom took me to the pregnancy test, and his sister gave me a whole set of baby care products, and she took it with her so Butch wouldn't affect the baby.

But in a flash, Piex is gone, and they have nothing to do with me, and they are afraid that I will take Piex's property.

I felt my chest stuffy for a moment, and said to my mother: "These things, I don't want to talk about, can I see him first?"

"Even your father was not allowed to go to his house. It was Mary who showed up and said that it would be better to put some things in front of you so that you wouldn't get confused later." My mother shook her head with a wry smile and whispered, "You stay in the hospital first."

I don't know how things have turned out this way...

After what happened to Piex yesterday, his family couldn't even let him see him one last time?

"I still have his baby in me, and he really wants it..." I squeezed my mother's hand.

But looking at the helplessness in her eyes, it was immediately clear that this child was the most troublesome to the Piex family.

Piex has an upper-middle income and a lot of assets, so as soon as I get tested, he drags me to get a license.

At that time, my pregnancy was not very good, also a little red, threatened abortion, hospitalized for a few days.

Mary: Well, you have to pick a special date for something like this, at least until I'm pregnant.

Piex thinks so too, but is so excited that he can't stop until he does something, and excitedly buys the school district house.

The purchase contract, wrote our names, marked to read to the children, also said that such as the real estate certificate down, write the child's name, he gave the child's birth gift, but the real estate certificate has not come down.

If it weren't for the baby I'm carrying, all of Piex's stuff, it wouldn't matter to me, and that's what the Piex family is afraid of.

I lay on the bed and turned my arms around Butch to stop him whimpering.

Suddenly, Piex was not worth it. After his accident yesterday, Mary's first thought was that she was afraid that I would fight over property. She was calm enough to find an excuse to get back my key and send me home "safely" to my parents.

He didn't want me to see him one last time, and he didn't even want to keep the last of his blood.

Maybe the only thing hurting for him right now is me, and Butch in my arms right now.

I glanced over at Butch, met his amber eyes, and turned to my mother. "I'm going to have this baby and not want a penny from the Piex family."

Butch seemed to understand. He stood up, let out a quick scream, and shook his head at me, as if in anxious denial.

But what does it know!

He does not know how much Piex wants the baby to be born. He does not know that Piex has already made many little toys at home.

Check out pregnant less than a month, he had made small wooden horse and baby bed with his own hands.

He doesn't know that after him, maybe only me and this child will always remember Piex's existence.

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