I did not like their presence in my room. They were intruding into my private space and I wanted them out of there. Previously, I had taken stringent actions in similar cases. But that day, equanimity had set in from god knows where and I decided to let them be. Though I had not met these two earlier, they seemed to be aware of my previous actions and were ready to run. As I walked in their direction, they ran to the other end of the room and looked at me furtively while feeling their surroundings tentatively. I smiled as I found, for the first time, an element of cuteness in them. Earlier, it was always disgust but now I looked at them with rising fondness. I waved them goodbye as I switched off the light and walked off the room.
Since then, I found them every time I walked into the room. Initially, they would run and hide at the farthest end of the room. As days passed, I started identifying similarities between them and cats. It must have been those round eyes, which turned brown compounded with worry and curiosity. But unlike the cat, they were agile and would in a matter of seconds dart across the room. During the next days, I looked at them with a smile on my lips. I was tempted to caress their backs but it was tough to get to them. At some point of time, I started talking to them too; asking them about their lives. I received no response but it did not matter. The relationship was ambling along well.
One evening, as I walked into the room with the intention of baptizing them as Roly and Poly, a disgusting but familiar stink hit my nose and I shrank away from the room. I understood the reason for the stink. In a moment, I was back in the room with a Hawaii slipper in my hand. I smashed the yet unnamed Roly and Poly and sent their little souls heavenwards. It was all done in a matter of seconds. I looked at them sadly and thought "When a roach encroaches our coach approach them with a hand of reproach promptly"
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