The vending machines. It was part of my daily routine to stop by there on my way to work. Get up, brush my teeth, shower, eat, vending machines, go to work. It had been that way for years, I never thought it would change.

My name is Nabi, I'm a cat. White furred. I usually wear a green scarf with all my clothes, considering they're all white. I figured I needed to add a bit of color to it. just to spice it up a bit. I work as a paper boy, it sucks but it's enough to pay the bills. Nothing too special about me.

I live in a small city in South Korea. We cats share the streets with bunnies, and as far as I know we always have. We don't even like each other that much, most of us pretend the other doesn't exist. Other than the occasional friendship between the two, or diplomatic matters, we don't interact.

This is why I never saw her coming.

The story starts at *cough big surprise cough* the vending machines, during a cold day in late autumn. I wondered up to the Juicy Fish vending machine, placed my order and waited patiently for my drink. This thing takes so long, seriously, how hard can it be to pour water and drop little fish into it?

I was checking my cup to make sure that it was the right order when I heard a clunk on the ground next to me and juice spilling all over the ground.

Looking over I saw a rabbit girl about a head shorter than myself, looking at me with wide eyes and a blush on her face. Her cup of Carrot Juice from the machine next to mine was on the ground at her feet.

She watched me for a total of ten seconds, I was about to ask her if she needed something when five pink hearts popped out of her head. My heart stopped when I realized that they were love hearts. I looked behind me, thinking maybe she was looking at some bunny, who I just happened to be in front of. No such luck, all I saw were cats that were watching with disgusted looks on their faces. It was clear they weren't going to help me. I looked passed the rabbit girl and saw nothing but bunnies with the same look.

The rabbit shyly spun around and shoved a carrot into my mouth. I stared at her not sure how to react. I barely even have normal conversations with my coworkers, I don't even know where to start in a situation like this.

My staring caused her to blush harder, if that was possible. More love hearts popped out of her head.

I took off. The carrot defying physics as it spun around in the air and fell to the ground.I ran past bunnies and cats all looking at me like I was the anti christ, tons of Anti bunny/cat love signs. I looked back to see if she was following and to my surprise, there she was, running at top speed behind me.

She was everywhere! When I climbed a wall, there she was waiting at the top. Whenever I walked down the streets, there she was, jumping out of a manhole and offering me a carrot. The love hearts floating above her head. Not even the bathroom was safe anymore.

I have to admit though; she was pretty creative with showing her affection.

There was one point where I thought I was safe, and I started walking down the street, when she popped out of the ally way with a box of diced carrots. She told me all about how she wanted to ride horses with me. Go dancing and run through a meadow with me. It was creepy.

I turned and hauled ass back the way I came and big shocker….she followed me.

I sprinted through a crowd of people, hoping that they would slow her down somewhat. But it backfired; it ended up slowing me down WAY more than her. I stopped running and turned to see her mow down the crowd just to get to me. I noticed one cat still conscious but that didn't last too long. She gave me a bear hug and rubbed her face into my chest, love hearts popping out of her head every few seconds. I used my basic martial arts skills to break out of the bear hug and I ran until I got to my apartment building and entered the elevator, but guess who was there waiting for me? when the doors opened, There was a cat standing there, he must have been pretty shocked to see me under a pile of love hearts that came from a bunny.

It wasn't long until I was beginning to lose my sanity.

I decided to try a different tactic; I was going to try talking to her. We agreed to meet at her apartment, which was disturbingly close to mine. She was so happy when I told her I wasn't going to run this time.

When we walked to the kitchen table, I pulled out a chair for her to sit on, which she happily took. I noticed the love hearts seemed to be gone, maybe I had a chance to get through to her.

I pulled out three different charts I made and set them on the table. She noticed me looking at her and blushed. I showed her the first chart-

Bunny + Bunny = Love

She looked at me with confusion written all over her face. I showed her the second chart-

Cat + Cat = Love

I looked back at her, hoping she understood what I was getting at, but she still had that same look on her face. I showed chart number three-

Bunny + Cat = No Love

I waited about three seconds but her face didn't change one bit. It was clear she still didn't understand. But I still had plan B.

I brought in three bunnies. Brawn, Brain and Charm and told her to choose between them. Brawn did his best to show off his muscles, Brain didn't even look up as he had his nose in a book. While Charm offered her a rose. I looked over and saw an intense fire in her eyes; she walked over to them, rolling up her shirt sleeve and pounded the hell out of all three of them. She turned to me again, the love hearts I had come to fear were back full force.

I took off; I ran out of the apartment building and down the street, she was right on my tail as always. But this time I had an idea. I sprinted in to the city park and up the tallest tree I could find, Bunny's can't climb trees. Its common knowledge. I thought I was safe. But the next thing I knew I was falling, she had cut the tree down.

Still on the ground, I reached into my pocket and pulled out a small white flag, and began waving it around.

I gave up; I would go horse riding with her. I would dance with her. I would run through the meadows with her. I was just tired of running.

The last thing I remember that day was me and Doki (as I learned her name to be) sitting on the roof of my apartment, watching the sunset as she scooted closer to me a growing pile of love hearts next to her. She pulled out a card and handed it to me. It was an invitation to her birthday party next week.

We met again the next day at the vending machines. She said that I should try Carrot Juice and she would try Juicy Fish, I complied, I really didn't want another week of running from her. I've filled my running quota for the next ten years.

She handed me a cup of the orange liquid, I watched Doki as she got her cup of Juicy Fish, I looked into my drink,seeing little chunks of carrot in it. When I noticed a female cat run past me. and a large male rabbit ran after her holding flowers.

I decided to be brave and take a drink. I raised the cup to my lips and took a quick sip…I loved it! It was delicious! I looked over to Doki who was now downing her own cup like she hadn't had any form of liquid to drink in weeks. Licking her lips, she looked at me and I noticed she had a nose-peg on. She smiled at me with closed eyes. I felt something warm leave me, I turned and noticed a little pink love heart. I quickly swatted it away.

I hope Doki didn't see...