Drrama

Allow me to narrate a funny incident that took place during the wee hours of this morning. To say wee would be putting it mildly because it happened at exactly 3:45 am.
I was woken up by the cat's treatment of my sleeping person as a free-standing highway and he was unclear about his demands.
Suspended between dreams and reality I tried to shake off the sleep and opened the bedroom door to let him out and in a flurry of black and white fur the feline dashed out like there was an emergency recall of his favourite foods.
Being dark and near night I turned on a switch to get some semblance of my surroundings when I saw my cat running behind another cat.
What?
You read that right. There was another feline marauder in my house, eating my cat's leftovers that had been left in his bowl and so quick was this whole scene that my eyes near watered and I wondered if I'm still dreaming.
The thieving cat in question ran like he'd seen water and climbed the thin mesh that stays stuck behind window panes for formality's sake to keep out the mosquitoes, but it's rather frail in that the trespassing cat's momentum was able to dislodge it and it fell to the ground outside along with the cat.
Of course, nothing happened because I'm on the first floor but the whole point is that we had a furry thief in our midst and he got away.
My darling furball obviously incensed by this intrusion didn't much listen to me and ran after the robber via balcony but he was long gone and so was my sleep.
It's not every day you see creatures of the night basking in your house and scurrying all over. It isn't frightening but enough to startle the dreams out of your eyeballs.
Well, my cat returned empty clawed and I thanked him for coming back in one piece by feeding him because I was able to discern the size of the burglar by his ability to dislodge the wire mesh.

How on earth did another cat get into my house? That is the question, and one glance towards the open balcony doors was enough to answer because it had been purposefully left open so as to enable the cat to let himself out anytime he pleased; what was not taken into account was the fact that what let's one out also allows others to come in and that is exactly what happened.

Sleep by that time had been easily trumped by befuddlement and it was with contemplating pursed lips that I made my way towards the kitchen.
Seeing how I'm awake so early, one must make the most of it and I did make a lot of breakfast and delicious lunch.
Finding my way back under sheets around 5:30 am I soon found residual snooze loitering near my pillow and as beige as it was I let it soak my eyes for a while.