In love with Kitty

Just thinking about my favourite character.



I have a problem. I’m in love with a married woman. A fictional married woman. A fictional married woman that I created. It didn’t start out like that. True, Kitty was based on a real person, but I never knew her name, and I only spoke to her a couple of times. So all her personality I invented, all her likes, dislikes, sense of humour, everything. I never wrote down her physical looks as they seemed unimportant to the story. Perhaps they aren’t important. I can picture how she looks, but I don’t have the necessary words to truly describe her. That never seemed to matter. But the personality I created for her is that of a woman I’d like to meet.
As I said, it didn’t really start like that. The girl Kitty was based on was nice enough, and kick-started my story writing. The first part of ‘Summer Rain’, the first couple of paragraphs, was something I had to write after our brief encounter. But she is not the same Kitty as the one at the end of ‘Full Circle’, not as filled out as a character although she does display some traits towards part III. It all points to me ascribing to Kitty the personality of the woman I’d like to love. She cares for her husband, her children, her parents, and her friends. She has a sense of humour to match mine and a way with words better than me. She isn’t perfect, she can be snappy, but deep down she doesn’t mean it. She is kind and helpful, but will put her foot down when she wants to stop something. Possibly she can be a bit moody, but we all are, it’s something you accept. Kitty knows what she wants, but she won’t trample over people to get it, but she will find a way. She recognises that life creates problems and does her best to help smooth them over for her family. In short Kitty is the woman I love, and I can never have her for two simple reasons: She’s in love with her husband Eddie and she doesn’t exist!