Bells

Chapter One
A small jingle fills the room, and I blink open my crystalline blue eyes. A furry cat stands over me, the vision so bright and vivid. Hanging from the cat's neck is a violet collar, and a bell dangles from it by a thread. I stretch out my paws, he laughs and smiles, nuzzling my scruff. I purr, fully waking up, and I pull myself up out of my woven basket.

"Hey!" My sister hisses, leaping up as I place my paw in the wrong place. She bites down on it, and even if her teeth are small and nearly harmless, she still makes me hurt. I yelp, and my dad picks me up and places me on the shaggy rug.

"Speckles, biting your brother is very wrong." Speckles looks down at her paws. She mumbles something, and her tail swishes over my brother. He sneezes, and