Chapter 4The Midnight Bellhop
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I grabbed my electric scooter and sped off. The apartment building was old and run-down, with no doorman and flickering lights. I saw that the lights in the tuxedo cat’s apartment were off. The human wasn’t home yet.
The calico and the tuxedo, now in some kind of transparent, ghostly form, scouted ahead.
“Human, it’s clear for now,” the calico reported.
“This cat kissed an orange cat in these bushes!” the tuxedo announced, rolling around in a patch of grass. “And this is where this cat fought the human! The human won. This cat was gloriously defeated.”
She pranced over to a dumpster by the building’s entrance. “This is where the human found this cat!”
That’s when I saw a dark figure sitting on the steps. My hair stood on end. But the tuxedo cat just trotted happily toward it.
“Human, human, human! It’s my human!” She tried to rub against the figure but passed right through.
The figure, a young woman, saw me and jumped up, apologizing for startling me. She was about to go inside.
“Wait,” I said. “Do you have a tuxedo cat?”
She spun around, her eyes wide. “Yes! Have you seen her? She has a collar with a name tag. Her name is Oreo.” She was practically vibrating with anxiety.