Growing up, my brother and I were heavily into video games. Every night, we would stay up playing our Nintendo 64, Playstation 2 and Game Boy/Game Boy Color/Game Boy Advance until 3am and when we would wake up, go straight to doing the same thing. My mother found it to be a problem; she was right.
It was a Friday, and my dad dropped off my brother and I at school. My mom then picked us up and took us back home. She was telling us how she has a surprise for us. We didn't know what it was but we were extremely excited to just have a present -- even if it was shared with each other. She told us to go into our room to find our present. When we went into the room, we found our present sitting on my bed looking so confused. It was our first kitten, Shadow, a Black Tabby. It was the best present that we've ever had. And I was so excited to spend quality time with him.
I was probably about 7 or 8 years old when I was gifted Shadow. Unfortunately, Shadow had passed away from cancer a long time ago. He was five years old at the time.
