Sleep

The dogs were barking as the train whistle blew. It was not a quiet night, for there was also the sounds of cars rumbling down the road and of children still out playing in the yard.
For although it was technically night, the sun still shone in the summer sky. So long as the sun shone, the children would play.
Yet within the house, there wasa cat who just wanted to sleep. At every sound that came flittering in through the window, the cat would lift her head to give a disgruntled glare. She wanted to sleep, yet the world seemed to insist that she stay awake.
Even the cat's own brother was against her going to sleep. For as soon as he noticed she was comfortably falling into slumber, the cat's brother would pounce on her.
This all made the cat very grumpy, and so she decided that if they wouldn't let her sleep now, then she would make sure no one got to sleep later.
And so it was, that when everyone else settled down to sleep that night, that the cat created as much chaos as one little cat can.
Suffice to say, no one slept.