Chapter 19: Grizabella Reprise
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I was probably breathing very heavily, but I still worked up the strength to crawl over to Old Deuteronomy. I reached out to him, and I smiled. Surely he must be proud of all of us.
But when I saw him....I was confused. He looked kind of dissapointed. Did anyone else see it?
I didn't know. Everyone suddenly turned around. Tugger hissed, and so did most everyone else. Oh man....was...
Turning around, I saw what I thought was true. Grizabella had entered the junkyard again. Clearly she refused to be kept out of the ball. I began to smile. Surely, if everyone saw how determined she was, no matter what she did, they will let her dance with them, right? Oh, man, everyone still refuses to let her come by. Coricopat and Tantomile slunked towards her, but when they got close, they jumped and hissed, before scurring away. Jemima tried to reach out to her, but Dad immediantly smacked her arm away, and ushered her out of the clearing, like many other cats were doing. Tugger walked by her, fluffing his mane in her face, cuasing her to twitch her nose a little. Dammit, Tugger, why are you such a jerk?
Well, I won't be! I decided to make up for scratching her. I walked up to her and began to dance next to her, rubbing my bottom against her back. Yeah! She smiled! She's getting happy! I was happy too, so I bumped her.
Crap, I bumped her too hard! She just got knocked like ten feet and almost fell over. I'm sorry, I'm sorry! But I already saw how hurt she looked, and I ran over to the garbage. I looked back. Oh, good, Demeter caught her. Aw, Demeter, Bomby, why do you hate her so? Munkustrap looked like he was about to hurt her.
I was about to go and protect her, and I noticed Exotica slinking out of Quaxo's pipe like she was going to do the same, but then Old Deuteronomy made a gesture with his paw. Munkustrap understood, and turned away from the queen and ran out, following Demeter and Bombalurina. Exotica vanished into the pipe.
You see the border of her coat is torn
And stained with sand
Huh? Jellylorum? Why are you still out here? Hey, are you mocking her? That's not nice Jelly! But then I stopped thinking, because Victoria reached out to her. I noticed she and Grizabella both had a...undescribable look on their face. But then Jelly pushed her away, and pushed her out of the clearing. The look on Grizabella's face was enough to shatter my own heart.
And you see the corner of her eye twist
Like a crooked pin
Jem? What was she doing here? Jemima reached out to her too...oh please touch her Jemima, please...
Mom, you suck!
I soon found myself leaving the clearing as well. By now I knew that this made Grizabella all alone, with Old Deuteronomy. I hoped he would do something to help her.
Might as well go look for Bombalurina or Tumblebrutus or something...
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Done!