A Broken Heart in a Broken Family
Chapter 2
A Broken Family
The next day the Jellicles were getting ready for the Ball.
"Bomby," Dem called running up to the red queen, who was on top of the car trunk.
"What's wrong Dem?" Bomby asked, looking at the worried gold queen.
"Have you seen Munk?" The gold queen asked, worried. "I saw him this morning, but now I can't find him anywhere."
"I saw him and Tugger go near the entrance a few minutes ago."
"Thank you Bomby." Dem replied as she ran towards the entrance of the junkyard.
"You're welcome." The red queen yelled as she watched her golden friend run off.
Once the gold queen reached the entrance she looked around and saw a tom walking towards her.
"Why are you in such a hurry?" Tugger asked with his hand tucked into his belt.
"Have you seen Munk?" Dem asked
"Yeah, I just got finished talking to him he's over there." The Maine Coon explained pointing to the junk pile.
"Thanks," Dem replied walking over to where her mate should be. "Munk," She called approaching her silver mate.
"Dem, you look tired." The silver tom replied examining his golden mate.
"That's because I was running around the junkyard looking for you." The red queen explained sitting beside him.
"Sorry," Munk sighed, looking down.
"It's okay, I found you eventually." The gold queen replied with a smile that her mate returned. "The Ball is going to start soon." She stated looking over at the rising full moon.
"I know," The silver tabby replied, looking at the moon than at the gold queen. "Are you ready?"
"I guess so," She answered looking at her mate.
"You guess?" He questioned, tilting his head.
"I don't know." Demeter sighed.
"Well, maybe we should go to our places then." The silver tabby stated standing up.
"Alright," The gold queen replied as she and the silver tom headed over to their places, as the Jellicle Ball was about to begin.
The Ball started perfect, except for having a boot thrown at them, everything was going well, but near the edge of the junkyard a grey cat stood waiting for a good time to join the Jellicles.
The Rum Tum Tugger interrupted Jennyanydots's song but that was expected, but no one expected that Rum Tum Tugger would be interrupted by a grey queen who limped into the junkyard. The Jellicles slowly backed away as Grizabella walked closer to the Jellicles. The silver tabby stayed making sure that his mother doesn't get near the other Jellicles. The old queen started at her older silver son as she began to sing her song. Later Demeter continued the old queen's song as Grizabella slowly walked out of the junkyard.
Once Grizabella was away the Jellicles continued with the Jellicle Ball. The Jellicles were having a great time dancing to stories and songs, but the old queen kept coming back and asking forgiveness from the Jellicles but mostly her broken family.
It was almost morning when Grizabella came and sang once again. The old queen sang her heart out asking for forgiveness. The old queen fell to the ground tired from her age, as her young daughter, Jemima, rose and sang with her mother. Once Grizabella finished her song, she looked around and began to walk off when a pure white kitten, Victoria, came and forgave Grizabella, as well as the other Jellicles and her no longer broken family.
The old queen almost cried when she realized she was loved again by her kittens, her brother, friends and the other Jellicles. She was led to the tire by her older brother, Old Deuteronomy, and was chosen to go to the Heaviside Layer.
The Jellicles finished their Jellicle Ball and would never forget it.
After the Ball the Jellicles cleared the center of the junkyard heading to their dens, as a silver tabby approached the tire and looked up at the Jellicle moon.
"Munk," Demeter called as she approached her silver mate.
The silver tabby looked down at the golden queen but never replied.
"Are you alright?" The gold queen asked sitting next to her mate on top of the tire.
"I'm fine." Munk replied, wiping away a tear.
"Then why are you crying?" She asked, noticing the tears forming in his eyes.
"I'm not crying." He stated, looking at his mate.
"Munk," The gold queen called hugging her silver mate. "I know who you talked to last night."
"Who?" The silver tom asked looking down at her breaking their hug.
"You were talking to Grizabella."
"You did find out." The silver tabby sighed looking away.
"You should have known that I would have found out sooner or later."
"I know," He sighed looking back at the moon.
"Munk," Demeter called leaning her head on his shoulder. "How do you know Grizabella?"
"It's a long story Dem." Munkustrap explained looking at his golden mate. "You'll find out someday."
"I know I will." She replied smiling at her mate. "I love you Munk."
"I love you too Dem." The silver tom replied kissing the gold queen as the Jellicle moon shined brightly on them.
Munkustrap had forgiven his mother for her mistakes and knew that she was happy. But during the night Demeter had a hard time going to sleep as one question kept running through her mind. 'How does Munk know Grizabella?'
To be continued . . .
Author's Note: That is it for the first part of this story. I hope you enjoyed. Please leave a review. Thank you for your time.