A Neko's Treat -Chapter 2-

It's been a few years now. I've grown up to be thirteen in human years. God only knows how long that is in cat years. I've been away from wild cats for so long! But I'm still happy.

Strangely, my chest grew into two big humps like a camel. Eco called them... boobs. He and I measured them one day when his parents weren't home. My boobs were a little less than four inches wide each, and about four inches from the sternum.

Oh! My tail grew, too! It grew in accordance to my own body. So my tail has been about half my body size my whole life. Eco and I measure more than my expanded chest, you know. My heigh was about five feet and my tail was a little more than half of that.

I usually don't wear any clothes around the house and neighborhood either. Eco's parents thought it to be weird for a pet like me to wear clothes. But the first time I found out Eco went out to eat, he conviced his parents to bring me along. It excited me so much! We got some clothes for me to wear; so whenever we go out in public, I wear sandals, jeans, and a shirt.

Everything was good for thirteen years except for one day. I woke up at noon with a grumbling in my belly. I held my abdomen in pain of hunger. Crawling on all fours seemed to help me conserve more energy.

That day was a strange one. No sound was in the whole household. Right in the middle of the hallway, I stopped dead in my tracks. No sound except for the occasional sounds of the neighborhood. No sound in the house meant no one was in it!

This couldn't be! Did they leave me behind? I checked all around the house before checking the driveway where the cars are usually. There was no one! Eco, his mom, and his dad were all gone!

After searching for what seemed to be the longest time, I plopped my body in the kitchen. There it was! My favorite food all laid out! Milk with dry food and tiny, meaty treat on the side. Oh, yummy!

With all the immediate hunger, I lunged forward to eat and lap up every bit of food that lay for me to eat. After gorging myself in the delicious meal, I noticed a paper beside me.

After close inspection of it with Eco's signature at the bottom, I find that he wrote it. But because of my messy eating, it got all smeared and illegible. If I tried to wipe off food or milk, it just got messier.

Though all my efforts to try and read it, I couldn't. Very few words were legible. Words like "leaving", "permanently", and "come back". My hopes were starting to leave me as thoughts of my Master Eco leaving me were strong.

I may have forgotten to mention. It was summer and out of school while he was eighteen and very muscular. He was on the wrestling team. I helped him with my skills as a cat, but I may never wrestle with him again if he left me permanently and may never come back.

Trying to hopelessly read the note didn't help me at all. Finally, I just went to the front porch to wait for him. I curled up with hands propping up my head, looking at the emptry driveway to hope for a truck to come into view. My tail swayed slowly back and forth while waiting.

While I waited, I imagined him hugging me strongly into his warm, caring body. I want that feeling back again! I want to feel him next to me. His strong arms curled around my back, caressing and petting my tail. In my imagination, I purred, making me actually purr. At the moment of realization that it wasn't real, my purring stopped and I frowned.

My imagination seemed to be the only thing occupying me since I had toys inside. The toys meant nothing to me if I didn't have Master Eco watching me or actually playing with them with me.

Again, about what seemed to be forever once more, my stomach growled angrily at me. I knew I had to feed it; I groggily pulled myself up to enter the kitchen twice now. I searched lazily for any edible food. I picked up the scraps that I flung onto the floor, but they didn't help much. It seemed as though my efforts to gain food failed as the growling kept going.

I made my way to Eco's room since I was sick of the kitchen. My hopes wavered to whether or not he'd actually be back. My mind was set on no.

Boredom rushed over my body. With nothing to do, I quickly became drowsy to the previous milk I took approximately three hours ago? I don't know, I was too depressed to check the clock. But drowsiness soon entered my head. My eyelids felt like anvils, soon falling to close my eyes shut. I bet it was the scent of Eco on his bed that helped me sleep. I had one of the weirdest dreams I've ever had.

My dreams became filled with images of succulent fish. I dreamt of gnawing off their flesh until I reached their bare bone. Some looked so good that I just swallowed them whole. My belly soon became bloated and swollen to a point where I couldn't even move! But then... I smelt something wonderful!