Bella Talks

Bella jumped up on the table in front of him, she stared at him for a bit and then gracefully lept to his lap where she curled up and closed her eyes. he smiled and scratched behind her ears.1

"I need to write back something witty and meaningful bella" he said2

"i suppose you do" she replied. At first it didnt quite register with him that bella had just spoken, he started to reply but stopped quite suddenly.3

"did you just talk?" he whispered somewhere inbetween his gasp4

"yes, sounds emerged from my mouth and formed comprehendable speech, that is what most people would consider talking no?"5

He paused. There wasnt really much to reply to that, and what does one say when faced with a talking cat, it really wasnt anything he'd considered before.6

"am i drunk?" was all he could think of.7

"no, stone cold sober" came more comprehendable speech from beneath the whiskers8

"wait.." he thought for a second "is that a song i was just listening to?"9

"i do believe it is."10

"were you listening too"11

"you could say that, i hear everything you do."12

"i must be sleeping, none of this can be real."13

"Scientifically you're completely awake and conscious, though what is real is the fact that you've been asleep for a very long time"14

Things still weren't making sense to him.15

"have you always been able to talk?"16

"in a way, though not aswel, this is really all of your doing to be frank"17

"how is this my doing?"18

"well, i am talking, but not. The speech you hear is not coming from me, but you."19

he lay back in his chair, he ran his hand down her back and then back up to just behind her ear.20

"lovely." she purred21

"are you trying to say that you are part of me or what? is this some kind of religious moment?"22

"religious! heavens no. I know only too well that even i couldn't shake your atheist beliefs. No, rather a manifestation of something you have forgotten. A part of you, if you will, that you have largely suppressed. I've been lying dormant in you for quite some time, it seems that now is the time which you need me the most, as such, i am here."23

"So you are me?"24

"Part of you"25

"and which part would that be?"26

"why, your irrational side, the side of you that longs for the adventure you secretly dream of. When you have your little escapist day dreams, thats me"27

"then why have you come now?"28

"well if you don't know the answer to that question then neither do i, its something for you to work out"29

he sat up and rested his hand under his chin30

"all that i can understand" she continued "is that you've been asleep for a very long time now, and i suppose i'm here to wake you up, wake you up in a way that you need to be woken up, If you want to talk religion, think of me as The church of whats happening now"31

She stood up on his lap and turned her furry face towards his32

"i must be off now, i would say that i hope we meet again but if we do that would mean you having another crisis similar to this one, so i rather hope we don't. It was a pleasure."33

With that, and a quick flick of her tail, she left him. He would have watched her go, though he needn't have, she was now the same bella he had known before, but he felt as though his head couldn't move. It was alot for one man to take in.