I remember when I was 5, I hated my mom's pepperoni casserole. Noodles and spaghetti sauce with some weird seasoning topped with mozzarella and pieces of pepperoni. I hated it. And one day, I would have to eat that or greek dressing (which tasted even worse) My curious cat jumped on the table, and started sniffing my pepperoni. So my clever mind thought, "Hey! I can get my CAT to eat this stuff!". So I took one scoop of the horrible casserole, and he ate it! To this day my mom still doesn't know.

Throughout 5th and 6th grade, I became somewhat depressed. I couldn't trust ANYONE. I didn't know what to do, or what to think. I was just, trapped. It felt like the room was closing on me. I considered myself as just surviving and not living. One day when I was crying in my room, Pineapple limped into my room. He gave me a look that said, "You can trust me". I picked him up and squeezed him tight. I told him my problems. I trusted him when I couldn't even trust my own parents.

"Pineapple?" I whispered, "I know you are gonna be gone someday but I want you to know that you are the best cat I will ever have."

In 6th grade, I noticed that Pineapple was in pain. He was meowing more, and not the sweet meows of a kitten. It was more like the meow that tells you, "Hey! That hurts!" I noticed he wasn't walking and running as much as he used to. So I came to the conclusion that he was injured. He was losing weight. This made me think, "I should lift him up on to the counter. This made him happy. Later on we discovered that he did indeed have a back leg problem. So everyday when I got home from school, my fat cat would rush to the door, wanting to be lifted up onto the counter so he could get some food. Every day when I walked home, I thought of him. My mom had seen him get on the counter sometimes, but I would still lift him up. I would always think that he could injure himself. I worked with his problem, and I noticed his problem was getting worse. It came to the point where he couldn't make it on the the couch, which was about 5 or 6 inches tall.