She's a cat and she isn't even mine. Her name is Princess and do you want to know who she belongs to? The guy I'm dating. Yes, the straight man I am currently dating owns a black cat named Princess. At least that is what I thought in the beginning and let me tell you, I definitely began to look for signs that maybe "straight" wasn't the right word for him. In the end though, it turns out that he is in fact straight. The cat however? Not his. It happens to belong to, wait for it, his ex girlfriend. To which my thought is, "awesome" (sarcasm, of course).
How he became to primary care taker of the cat is a somewhat complicated story but I can say that the cat's mother currently lives in Rome and hasn't paid the money for the cat to get it's shots and get transferred across the sea to her. At least the ex isn't going to come showing up randomly at his door right? Glad I get to dodge that bullet. However this does make the situation a little interesting.
If I wanted to pinpoint when this happened I would have to say that it was when I was "house sitting" while the boy was out in LA for 5 days. Let me tell you that was a fun thing to explain, "I have to go feed a cat. It's not mine, it belongs to the ex girlfriend of the guy I'm seeing...." I'm not a huge cat person but I love that girl. She can be sweet and she can be a little bitch. She is spoiled and takes over the apartment. Whenever I go over there it's a quick "hi" to the boy and then off to give Princess some lovin. How did I get here? Of course sometimes I want him to just get rid of the thing. Especially when I see how hard it is for him to deal with having the cat as well as half of his apartment full of other things that belong to his ex (yes, they lived together). How can you get over someone fully with these constant reminders? Occasionally he sort of lets show how bad the relationship ended and hurt him. I have no fears of him still loving her, but maybe losing the cat is the only way for him to fully put it all behind him. Which of course would be hard for me because for some reason, I love that cat.
