They Call Me the Cat Lady by Amy Miller

Author:Amy Miller [Miller, Amy]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: Fiction, Literary, Family Life, General, Women
ISBN: 9781786819031
Google: Ts2FDwAAQBAJ
Amazon: B07N8GFKHF
Publisher: Bookouture
Published: 2019-04-26T04:00:00+00:00

Seventeen

It wasn’t long before Nancy witnessed Stuart, with her own eyes, bullying Alfie. At 3.10 p.m. on Friday, when she was leaving the school grounds, she saw Stuart punch Alfie in the back, sending the poor boy ricocheting across the playground. Stuart had then sprinted out of the school gates to his father’s waiting car before Nancy could react.

‘Alfie!’ she called, as he picked himself up off the floor, but Alfie merely glared in her direction before running home himself.

Now she didn’t know what to do. Speak to Marcie this weekend or wait until Monday and report what she’d seen to Mr Phillips? Her mind buzzed with difficult questions and so having to feed Sally Mills’s cat, Titus, was a welcome relief from her muddled thoughts.

Sally’s home was in the centre of town, on a cobbled street not far from the Priory church and quay, bang in the middle of a little collection of pubs, restaurants and takeaway food shops, where office workers congregated to toast the weekend. Though it was early evening, the sun was still very warm, so people sat at tables outside bathed in golden light – women with bare, sunburned shoulders holding fishbowl glasses of wine, and men in short sleeves with their shirt collars open.

‘Shouldn’t have worn this cardigan,’ Nancy muttered to herself as she walked past the revellers, clutching her bag close. Striding through the streets with purpose, she walked as if she had no time to stop. Not that anyone noticed, she realised. If she suddenly smashed a hammer into a shop window and stole a television, and any of the pub-goers had been asked to give an eyewitness description of her for a photofit, she would bet that none of them could. She felt she had become quite invisible – but hadn’t that been her wish? To live under the radar.

Occasionally, though, she longed to revert to the person she had once been. Stopping briefly outside a dress shop, she dared to look at the price tag on a red dress displayed in the window. She baulked at the price, knowing she could make one herself for half the cost. She had sewn a red dress or two for herself in the past. She’d been wearing one on the first day she met Larry. Wouldn’t it be wonderful to make one again? One that complimented her figure now that she was in her fifties. She sighed. Why would she ever need a red dress? No doubt it was a ridiculous thought.

Head down, she continued on her way and arriving at the address, a top-floor flat above an art shop, in a listed building on a site which, centuries ago, was once a hospital for lepers, Nancy entered the building and went upstairs to the flat, quietly unlocking the front door, to find Titus sitting on the doormat, purring like a drill. He was an enormous cream cat, a Ragamuffin breed, with beautiful long hair and paws as big as a baby’s hands.

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