Story by Kassandra, for Sachi

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"Semore! Get up you lazy cat!" Jessica Butler was yelling at her cat, Semore, for the fifth time that night to get up and off of her bed.

"Semore! I have to go to sleep! Please get off! I'll give you extra food tomorrow morning!"

That did the trick for Semore. The chubby, calico cat got up, hopped off the bed, and quickly ran out the door. Semore was a lazy, fat, time- consuming cat, but Jessica loved him anyway. He had been given to her as a kitten. She could remember his tiny, frail body being put into her warm and trembling six-year-old hands. But now, Jessica was older. She was ten years old, and couldn't spend all her time with her cat anymore. Why, she had homework, friends, and science projects to worry about. But through all of that, she still found time for Semore, her extremely spoiled cat. Semore had been acting strange lately. He was fatter than usual and was more picky and choosy about the scraps Jessica sometimes gave him from the table. Jessica didn't think ! much of it, but little did she know that she was about to get a big surprise.

The next morning, Jessica got up and got ready to go to school. Her mother gave her her sack lunch and her backpack as she rushed out the door to make her school bus. Later in the day, she heard a voice over the intercom say, "Please send Jessica Butler to the office, her father is here to pick her up." This was unusual, because Jessica's father worked late on Tuesday afternoons, but she did as she was told. When she got to the office, her dad signed her out and they walked to their car.

"What's going on, Daddy?" Jessica asked.
"It's a surprise," he told her.

After about ten minutes, Jessica noticed that they had pulled into a vet's office. Naturally worried about her precious Semore, she rushed into the building. When Jessica burst through the door, she got the shock of her life. She saw Semore laying in a large box, with three baby kittens by her side.

"Oh, wow! I guess we're going to have to change your name, huh Semore?"
Her cat meowed in agreement and she said, "Your new name, will be....... Shocker! It fits you just right!"

The End

Story by: Kassandra, age 12