One sunday night my family and i got home from out of town, as usual my cat maggie, that was a nine year old calico tortishell, was plopped right by the door waitin for us to come home. When i called her over to me, she was limping, actually she wouldn't even let her back foot touch the ground, my mom and i just thought that she would get over it, three days passed and it was still the same. we took her to the vet, i couldn't go in the room with her though, i couldn't stand being in there listening to her meow for help,she hated it in the vet's office,and i hated seeing her uncomfortable. i waited for almost an hour,the whole time i was crying because i was so worried.the vet didnt' know what was wrong so we were just gonna have to wait and see if some pills would work,but they didn't. the day before she had to go get x-rays, my dad video taped me playing with her,and then i left to go to a sleep over that i shouldn't have gone to,i should've stayed home and spent more time with maggie. the next morning at my friends' house i called my mom,she was crying, i knew that there was something wrong with maggie, she had to get put to sleep,the surgery was too expensive and she would never have been the same. i loved my mom for making the decision to not have her suffer, but yet i hated her for taking my best friend away from me. i loved maggie so much,she slept with me every single night that i was home. she was my first pet ever too. that day,my mom drove me to the vet, we walked in and i was trying my hardest not to break down crying. but as soon as the lady handed me the little box, i had to go to the car right away,i cried so hard i started choking. my mom and i drove up to our cottage and the whole way there i just held onto maggie so tightly,i kept petting her back and kissing it, i kept whispering how much i was gonna miss her and how i was sorry and that i loved her so much. when we got there, my dad had already dug a grave, and next to it, we put a little cross that i had made when i was five years old,my dad kept it this whole time. the whole way home nobody said anything,it was silent for one whole hour. i miss her so much and when i read the rainbow bridge poem, i thought of her and i think that that poem is so sweet.