The Kitty Castle: A Narrative Fiction

I heard the door slam shut, “ Hello, Mom, Dad?,” I shouted, but heard nothing, but a bag being plopped down. Even though I was scared and confused, I walked down stairs. “What the heck!” I yelped. “You scared me!”

“Oh, sorry,” my bestfriend, Ani, said calmly. “Do you have cheese sticks?” I had known she was coming to sleepover, and there she was! She let herself in, now she’s rummaging through our refrigerator!

“Yeah, we do.” I laughed giving her the package of cheese sticks. She took three, and put them back. One of my kittens trotted by, it was Oliver, and I scooped him up!

Ani petted him, and spoke the words of a genius, or so I thought at the time, “We should make an obstacle course for them!”, she said looking at me with big eyes.

The kitty castle was a wooden structure covered in carpet, that my cats laid on. We staggered and struggled to get up stairs, hitting our toes on the bottom edge of the piece of furniture. The two for us lifted it into my room. I set a nail polish box as a little jump for the cats. We lined the track with clothing and pillows because for some oblivious reason we thought that was enough, so they would stay on track. The final challenge was the kitty castle. We put it at the end so the kittens would have to scale it to win. Ani put the last box down. We had finally finished! The only had one more job. To get the kittens. It felt like forever, but we got them. I was holding my cat Oliver, and Ani was holding my brother’s cat, Walter. It was

“Ok, Walter’s turn!” I removed Oliver from the castle, and set up the treats again.

Ani had Walter in her grip. “Let em’ loose!” I screeched. She let him go… That day we saw how fast that bulky cat could sprint. I promise he ate all the treats, and got to the finish line in less than six seconds, so like five seconds. There was a moment of silence. “What was that!” Ani laughed. “I don’t know!” I grinned, “Want Oliver to go again?”

“Yeah” she stated. We set everything back up. I put Walter outside the door, and closed it, or so I thought I did, as Ani held Oliver. I set the treats back out, and as Ani was about to set Oliver down to have his turn the door swung open. It was Walter! As fast as lightning, he shot up the kitty castle, and ate the treat. The castle was tipping over. Ani being the hero, she ran, and caught the tower. “We should stop…” I stated. “Yeah,” Ani walked down stairs, and I heard her open up the