Nick/Cats Present

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Catseye leaves a gift for Nick, which leads him to a tour of her new room, an an awkward moment that will be in his head for days.



Because it was habit, Catseye was in cat form when she snuck into Nick's room through the window with a present clutched in her tail. She still wondered if the mouse would have been a better choice, but she wanted something that she didn't give to other people and mice were a present she gave to all her friends.

Jumping up onto his bed, she sniffed in his scent which made happy thoughts circle around her head and had a purr escaping her. She plopped the large plastic half-man, half-wolf garden statue she'd found at a Halloween display in the mall onto Nick's pillow, pawed it a little so it looked like it was sleeping in his bed with its head on the pillow, drew the covers up over its body, and scampered back to the windowsill, careful to close the window behind her with her tail.

As Nick flipped on the lights to his room, he was happy that the influx of students were all female, leaving him with a room to himself. He dumped the pile of books from his classes for the day on the desk next to the door, and eased it shut. But just as he was about to relax, and let out a sigh of relief, his hunting senses kicked in. Quickly the boy noticed that there were a few things different about his room. His sheets slightly ruffled, the shades to his window slightly moved. Despite his best efforts, the boy was quickly beginning to crouch into the half-crouch of his wolf-form, moments away from shifting as he approached his bed. A snarl escaped his lips as he pulled back the cover and noticed the wolf statue. He still was slightly hesitant as he picked it up, but all the tension escaped him when he noticed the small purple hair clutched to the statues neck. "Cats," the word escaped his lips like a song as a rare smile spread across his face.

Gleason was half-bounding out of the door, and it took him next to no time to navigate the corridors of the hallways to the adult housing section of the mansion. He made a slight note of how much he had progressed in his navigation of the mansion, but he knew exactly where he was headed. Pulling up in front of Catseye's door, he rapped several times with his hand.

Catseye opened her door eagerly without checking who it could be- the room was so quiet she was often desperate for company while she was there, though she understood that she had to try and be comfortable there by herself because it was what grown-up people did- and her face brightened when she saw Nick. "Hi Nick!" she called out happily, "how was your last class?"

"It wasn't too bad." The boy couldn't help but continue to smile whenever he was anywhere near Catseye. His face brightening, he slowly moved the statue from around his back, holding it in front of him. "Would this happen to be the work of a certain purple-tailed mansion dweller?"

"No I think it was the work of people in Taiwan," she answered seriously.

Nick took a step back. He was still deep in consideration if Catseye was simply stating where the statue was made, or if she had seriously just made a sarcastic joke. The boy decided to play it cool. "Well, I'm going to be in debt to the people in Taiwan then. This is one of the best gifts I've ever been given."

"They made it but I gave it to you!" she exclaimed with a happy smile. "You like it? It is just a silly thing but I thought it was special."

"I love it Cats." The boy was grinning from ear to ear, as he leaned forward, but he stopped himself a few inches from Catseye, his mind still flashing with images of Jay's metallic wings. "Would you mind if I kissed you?"

"Kissing would be good," Catseye replied with an emphatic nod.

Nick was more than happy to oblige as he pressed his lips to hers. Despite everything that had happened between the two of them, he still felt a slight jolt throughout his entire body whenever he kissed the girl.

Kissing Nick made Catseye's body feel like it had live mice running around inside it- sort of jittery almost. And sometimes warm and sometimes cold. It was very funny, but a good kind of funny. She opened her mouth a little and tilted her head the other way, trying to see if that made it feel different, the way Amanda said having your mouth open was different from kissing with your mouth closed.

The boy was a little surprised at the change of tactics, pleasantly so, but it also suddenly made him self aware of the pairs surroundings. He backed away slightly, breaking the kiss as his face flushed to a bright red. "So, um... would you mind showing me your new suite?" As had become a habit with the boy, he quickly realized how that must have sounded just after he said it. "But only if you want to..."

Grinning, Catseye took Nick's hand and dragged him into the room. "It is the same shape as all the other rooms except there is only one bed in each room and there is no mess and not a lot of things really because I do not have a lot of things." The walls were completely bare, the furniture consisted of only what had been provided for her. She had some books stacked up on her desk, along with her homework, and in the open closet she had stacked up her various collars and the few pieces of real clothing she owned, but on a whole the room looked very spartan and impersonal.

Nick looked around the room for just a brief moment before he turned back to her. "I'll have to get you a few things to hang up on the walls, so you can make sure it feels a little more like your place." Grinning he found her face again with his eyes. "Do you ever get lonely without a roommate though?"

Catseye made a face. Nick always seemed to ask questions that made her think a lot. "Yes. I napped with Nico one night though so then I was not lonely. Sometimes being alone is good because then I can practice sex by myself but sometimes being alone is not good."

Nick nearly spit as soon as he heard the word, his eyes were as wide as saucers as he turned around towards her. "Practice sex... by yourself... I uh..." He just couldn't find any words. "How, in the what, how now?"

Getting very close to Nick's face with her own, Catseye blinked at him a few times,sniffed, then poked him in the cheek with a clawed fingertip. "Are you okay? Did you hurt your brain? Did I hurt your brain?"

Nick took a very deep swallow as he closed his eyes, trying to focus in on his words. "Yeah, it's just I..." But as soon as he opened his eyes, he saw just how close Catseye was, and everything fell out of his head once again. "Watchya doin' there Cats?" was all he could get out.

The catgirl tilted her head curiously, still staring at Nick's face. "Just trying to make sure you are okay," she answered with a grin, then took a step back. "I hurt your brain?" she repeated, since he'd answered in the affirmative.

Nick couldn't help but smile. It was the natural reaction to seeing the purple-haired girl in front of him. "No." He pressed his lips to hers for a brief moment before separating and looking directly into her eyes. "Whenever I'm around you, my brain seems to be just fine."

"So it's okay that I practice sex by myself?" she inquired, still not sure if she was supposed to tell the boy she was a couple with that she was practicing sex. "I want to make sure I know what feels good if you and me ever have sex."

Nick paused for a second before answering. "Yeah, I think it's ok for you to practice..." He dropped his voice down to a near whisper, "...sex..." The boy had an uneasy grin grow across his face with the word. "But uh... just keep it a secret. Ok?"

"Okay I can keep it a secret yesyesyes!" she assured him, nodding emphatically. "It is private I will not tell anybody anymore."

"But that still doesn't mean we can't hang out tonight right?" The boy added with a hopeful grin.

"It is only sex I am supposed to keep private yes? I can talk about other things with you?"
Nick laughed again. "You can always talk to me about anything you want Cats. You should know that by now."

"Almost anything," she corrected, though she gave him a grin after she said it. "Just not practicing sex."

"Except practicing sex." Nick added with one final smile.