canal walk

i went to london and got a job.
This  morning i decided to walk along the canal to the angel tube station, as i would have a 4.5 hour bus journey ahead of me with no physical movement at all (i moved my thumbs quite a bit actually, as i ended up playing pokemon on game boy for nearly 3 hours straight before falling asleep for the remainder of the amazing bus extravaganza).  I woke up earlier than i expected to and decided to just get out and get some fresh air, enjoying the fact that it was clear out, no rain and a lil bit of sun.  As i began my walk along the canal, boats resting sleepily along the shores, bicycles whizzing by, I noticed another walker, obviously a girl as she was clearly wearing a skirt and a pink backpack.
(pink backpacks are somewhat funny to me.... i had a friend once, rather two friends, im not friends with either of them any more, for very different reasons.  ANYWAY one was a boy, we used to go to the library together to study, i mostly just fell asleep though.... one evening, the other friend, a girl, seen me dozing away, dreaming about collegiate things,  and came by and said hello. yea, hi, this and that, etc. then she left. a lil while later the friend that was a boy starts talking about her, asking me questions and stuff.
and im like, "WHO? what friend?! what you talking about?!"
and he is like "Pink Backpack"
"Who the hell is Pink Backpack?!"
"that girl that talked to you in the library"
"she had a Pink Backpack?"
"yea"
"she has a real name too if you wanna know it"
"nah, thats ok"
and she was referred to as Pink Backpack for the remainder of our friendship, even when her name was found out, and after serious, awkward situations involving said persons came up....)
Ah yes! Back to my canal adventure....
ok. So I took particular notice of this pink backpacked lass, and noticed that we remained the same distance apart the entirety of the walk. Until... suddenly a second pink backpacked girl appeared along side her! I got lost in my thoughts, surroundings and trying to avoid being knocked down by the bicycles passing by, when i realized i was a few paces away from the backpacked school girls (it was apparent at this distance that they were school girls, uniformed and obviously on their way to get their daily learnings).
They were staring VERY intently into the murky canal, which was littered with various floating items, then suddenly turned away. as i approached i noticed that pink backpack number one was crying, and pink backpack number two was hugging her.
"There's nothing we can do it's already dead."
"Who would drown a cat in the canal!"
I got a glimpse of the floating orange tabby and could not stand to look for more than the moment that it took me to realize what they were talking about.
"But we can't just leave it there, we can't just leave it floating there!"
"Well we aren't going to fish it out"
"Then we should call someone to come take it  out.  its awful. It probably got hit by one of the stupid bicycles and fell in"
Too true. honestly, stupid bicycles.  I wanted to vom, but couldn't actually open my mouth.