Betrayal

I did not realize this would happen, but there came a day when I realized that Lucy had betrayed me. A couple months after we got married it occurred to me that she preferred Latino over me. It happened the day he came home and Lucy went right up and rubbed against him. She proceeded to drop onto her side and look up at him with big doll eyes, begging for his attention. Then she started making a habit of following him around like a little duckling. He will get up off the couch and call her and she prances behind him like he holds the key to her heart. He calls her from a different room and she comes running.

This is the true test of loyalty. Lucy prefers Latino's feet to mine and whenever he stops petting her she looks straight up at him, demanding more. She keeps rearranging her position to maximize the surface area of her body that gets attention from his foot. I try reminding her that I am the one who has fed her and kept a roof over her head for over eight years. She does not care! She just glances longingly outside, like that is where she would rather be anyway. And if it was up to Latino that is where she would be. Maybe that is why she likes him.