Runaway

I went out to do some errands a few weeks ago, and found this out on the hallway. It looked so disconsolate, sitting there outside our neighbor's door. When I returned a couple of hours later, it had moved one door down the hallway. I thought nothing of it.

But, when we went out for dinner that evening, it had moved again, this time, two doors down. That's when I realized it was probably making a run for it! Slowly moving towards the elevators! As we made our way to where we were eating, we were thinking of reasons why it was running away. Probably fell in love with one of its kind who also resides somewhere in our building. Or it heard of others who are living freely in an exclusive community. Or it just got fed up with how its masters were treating him. Poor thing.

We expected it to have made excellent progress while we had our meal, so we were looking forward to know where it was standing when we got back. When the elevator doors opened to our floor, it wasn't there! Maybe, it had already inched its way down one floor. Just for the heck of it, we explored the hallways of the nearby floors. Empty! Haha!! Maybe it was already on EDSA boarding a bus!

Back on our floor, as we passed the row of doors leading to our unit, our neighbor opened his door and we saw it! Just by the door! It had a large heavy basket of clothes on top of it. (Probably put there by the owner to prevent it from running away again.)

The door closed again. And I felt sad for it.

Photo by: Nards