Kahliopey

Her name's Kahliopey (sounds like kuh-lye-oh-pee), but she hates it and prefers to go by "Gidget".  She's a broody artistic type that blares Trans-Siberian Orchestra through the walls from her apartment next to yours while you're trying to sleep.  One disastrous relationship after another has left her reclusive in her own little artsy world, surrounded by strange and awkward reject pets: a hairless egyptian cat with a bent spine, an iguana with a permanent state of IBS, and a ratty-looking terrier which is missing one eye and has a tendency to accidentally run into things at full speed and knock itself out cold.  You normally just keep to yourself, waving politely but not really interacting at all.  Today was different.  In a dizzy haze, you find yourself sitting on the curb with Kahliopey (oops, Gidget) hanging over you worriedly.