All good things must come to an end…

Climbing down from the windowsill, she looked around for a place to nap and leapt onto the kitchen table. When her owners were not home, it was a place she liked to relax on. It was smooth and cold to the touch, and she enjoyed how quiet this room was during the day. Laying down, she remembered how her life had changed so long ago…even though the memory was not pleasant, she remembered it fondly as being bittersweet. It had taken years for her to feel that way about the memory, but she knew that if she kept holding on to the pain she would never be happy. For the sake of others, she needed to be happy and make the world a brighter place for the ones she loved.

When the heat of summer was ending, and the Jellicles ball was approaching, Jenny was under the impression that Bustopher would attend and choose her as his mate, but as the day approached, Jenny noticed that Bustopher was growing more and more distant. She did not know why, and the wonder perplexed her. So far, Bustopher had never hid or kept something from her, so she wondered why he would be doing so now. Climbing onto the balcony of Bustopher luxurious villa, jennyanydots meowed out a greeting while peering through the glass of the window to search for him. Seeing him, she cast her most well-practiced smile and purred as her heart fluttered when she saw Him lift his head and smile back in appreciation. However, it was the next thing she saw that confused her. Snuggling into him was a beautiful ebony she-cat, most likely purebred, laying against him with a hint of odd satisfaction on her face. She looked asleep, but Jennyanydots thought she might just be happy to snuggle into Bustopher. Her Bustopher! It was true no promise to be together had been made, but as she detected the hint of a heat scent, she realized that this other she-cat was Bustopher lover and a pain so astute stabbed into her chest and weakened her limbs. Why?!? Why was I not good enough for you? Didn't you love me? Don't you want to be with me? Had I meant anything to you? Jennyanydots thought, her young face ridden in pain as she leapt off of the balcony into the maple tree and climbed her way down. How many moonlit evenings had they spent on that balcony, admiring the stars? How many mornings had she woken up with no thought other than to spend time with him? Though she was hurt beyond any pain she had ever experienced, she did not blame him. Had he made her a promise and broken it she could be angry, had she made her a promise and broken it, she would have the right to feel betrayed. As she caterwauled from the emotional pain, the sun bounced off of her silky fur; the sun burning as opposed to gently caressing her.

As she had been too fixated in escaping the situation, she had not noticed that Bustopher had followed her. Truth be told, he loved jennyanydots more than any other queen in his life, and ever would. But the last three weeks he had seen his owners packing, and knew his time here was ending. Not knowing if he would ever return had broken his heart and he knew he had no right to ask for Jennyanydots to be his mate when he might never see her again. She deserved better, she deserved a mate who could be there for her when he could not be. Sitting beside his one true love, Bustopher purred an easy purr. He felt horrible for what he had done, felt horrible that he had even met her. Had they not fallen in love, he could have bared the thought of leaving her here. There was no other option, as he knew he was a traveling spirit and could not remain in one place for too long. He was needed elsewhere by family and his human companions. It was his honour to have this life, and with it came the price of his broken heart. " Jenny…" Bustopher started to say, longing beyond anything else to be able to console her. To hold her beside him again, but knew he had no right to. Such a worthy and beautiful queen was not his, he had no right to touch her in any way. Deciding to be frank and quick, to tell her the truth, he sat up strait and dignified and meowed: " I'm leaving soon. I've known for nearly an entire moon, and I could not find the words to tell you. I hope you can forgive my rash decisions, but I did not wish to continue to lead you on when I cannot stay…and I cannot ask you to come with me." He continued rambling on about how he would miss her every day, how he cared for her, but Jenny wasn't paying attention. His words were blurred, like water was running over her ears preventing her from hearing him. All she could focus on was that he was leaving her. That she might never see him again. The fact that she saw him with a lover mattered little to her now, the thought of him not being in her life was to strong to bear and she tried to terribly hard not to weep in front of him. Though, she probably did. The memory began to get fuzzy, time had erased some of the details from her mind. She tried desperately to remember, but could not. The only thing she could remember, was that fond kiss farewell and the promise to always look fondly on what was.

To this day she had.