Yellow Cat Story 63: Today Is My Birthday
Yellow Cat Story 63 begins a little differently.
Today, Yellow is home.
No mysterious appointment. No private business. No urgent trip to the wine bar.
Boss is almost surprised.
“Hey, Yellow! You’re actually home today?”
Yellow has a very good reason.
“Yes, Boss… It’s my birthday.”
For once, Yellow is not preparing an excuse for where he has been.
He is waiting for something.
And with A Time for Us playing softly in the background, even Yellow seems to believe that today might be special.
Yellow Has a Birthday Dream
Yellow has been waiting.
He even skipped breakfast.
Surely Boss has prepared something special for his birthday.
Maybe a wonderful birthday dinner.
Maybe a surprise party.
And then another thought enters Yellow’s mind.
Maybe there’s a present too.
Now the dream begins to grow.
Perhaps everyone is hiding somewhere, waiting for the right moment to jump out.
Perhaps Black has secretly organized the party.
Perhaps Madam has sent something.
For a cat with such a complicated social life, the possibilities are endless.
Yellow waits.
And dreams.
Maybe There Is a Surprise
The longer Yellow waits, the bigger the birthday becomes in his imagination.
A special meal would be nice.
A present would be better.
A surprise party?
Now we are talking.
Yellow has spent so much time defending his freedom, protecting his privacy, and developing his mysterious “career” that perhaps he feels he deserves a proper celebration.
Today there will be no investigation.
No ground surveillance.
No air surveillance.
No questions about suspicious girls.
Today is Yellow’s day.
Then dinner arrives.
A Bowl of Ramen
No cake.
No steak.
No grand birthday feast.
No beautifully wrapped present.
Ramen.
After all those dreams, Yellow’s birthday banquet has arrived in a bowl.
Some cats might complain.
Yellow probably considered it.
After all, this is the same Yellow who once declared:
No food.
No freedom.
No privacy.
But tonight there is food.
Technically.
And it is his birthday.
Technically.
Boss looks at the great dreamer.
“Yellow… you really do dream big.”
A Small Birthday, a Big Story
There was nothing luxurious about this birthday.
No expensive present was waiting behind the door. No giant cake appeared, and nobody arrived carrying a beautifully wrapped box.
But perhaps that is why Yellow Cat Story 63 feels a little different from the others.
For so many episodes, Yellow has been running somewhere—escaping Black’s questions, defending his private business, dreaming about the wine bar, and searching for his next adventure.
Tonight, he simply stayed home.
The birthday meal was only ramen, but Yellow was there with Boss and Black, in the same familiar place where all these ridiculous little stories began.
Maybe Yellow dreamed too big.
Maybe Boss planned too small.
But somehow, a bowl of ramen became enough to finish the day.
And for once, Yellow did not need an excuse to stay home.
Happy Birthday, Yellow
Perhaps Yellow did not get the birthday celebration he imagined.
There was no grand party.
There was no expensive present.
There was only a simple meal, a familiar home, Boss nearby, and another ordinary evening in Yellow’s wonderfully complicated life.
And somehow, that feels right.
Yellow has spent so many days chasing freedom, romance, mysterious business, and whatever might be happening at Madam’s wine bar.
But on his birthday, he came home.
Yellow waited all day for his birthday surprise.
He dreamed of presents and a feast.
What he got was ramen.
Still…
it was his birthday ramen. 😹🎂
Happy Birthday, Yellow.
And with Yellow Cat Story 63, Cat’s Story has finally caught up with you. 🐈🐈⬛