Story About a Yeallow Cat

Once upon a time there was a yellow cat.

One day, it was up on a tree in Nina's garden. It wasn’t really sure how it had got there, but it was there now.

Nina was walking in the garden with her mother. The yellow cat saw Nina from where she was sitting up in her tree. She wanted to wave out to Nina. 'I like the little girl,' she thought. 'I want to be friends with her.'

So the yellow cat waved her paw at Nina. Nina and her mother were looking at flowers in the garden. There were many big, beautiful, red, pink, orange and yellow flowers in the garden. Nina and her Mom didn't look up into the tree and so they didn't see the little yellow cat waving. Then Nina’s Mom went inside and Nina was in the garden all by herself. The cat called out,

“Hey!”

Nina looked up,
“Hi!” said Nina.
Cat waved her again.
“What is your name?” asked Nina. The yellow cat thought.
“I don’t know I don’t have a name.” he said.
“You don’t have a name?” asked Nina. “Everybody has a name. I have two: one is Nina, the other is Malini. My Mom also has two names, they are Amma and Jyoti. My Dad, he has many names. His names are Appa, Pradeep, Paddy and PK.”
“How many names is that?” asked the yellow cat.
Nina counted on her fingers,
“Four” she said.
“Can you give me a name, Nina?” asked the yellow cat.
“Come down from up there.” The cat looked down.
“I can’t. I'm scared.” he said.
“Are you a cowardly cat?” asked Nina.
“No, I don’t know what kind of cat I am. But I can’t get down from here.”
“Wait”, said Nina. She went into the house, to the shelf where her books were kept.
“I know where I saw a yellow cat just like that one”, she thought. She pulled out the big book of animals. There were all the animals you could think of, big and small.

Nina turned the pages, and there! There was a yellow cat, exactly like the one on the tree outside. It was yellow with brown stripes. And what do you think it was? - a tiger!

After Nina went out into the garden and called out,

“Tiga, Tiga!” The little yellow cat jumped up and down happily!
“I remember now! I'm Tiga! And Tiga is NOT a cowardly cat!”

Saying that, he jumped down from the tree! And you can see Nina playing with Tiga, out in the garden, every day! After that Nina and Tiga have always been friends.