From One to Another

A Jellicle High School Story

"I'm sorry baby-cakes, but this is the way it has to be."

"You asshole! I knew you'd do it... I knew you'd do it!" A tall, charming-looking tom sat across a small restaurant table with a white queen's paw in his own. The thin body of the queen, clothed in a plain pale lavender tank top and a tight black skirt. Her long, slender legs ended in spiked black heels and her feathery white tail was wrapped around her calves. The tom, whose brown and gold tinted hair flowed down either side of his lean, handsome face, wasn't even looking at the sobbing queen, and shifted the collar of his slightly oversized black leather jacket. The letters "J.H" adorned the right breast in scarlet and underneath the jacket was a plain white t-shirt. Under the table, the tom's legs were conveniently on the opposite end of the bench from the queen's and were covered with relaxed fitted jeans. The white and black sneakers he wore were snuggly laced.

"If you knew it, why didn't you just..." The queen stood up, slapping the tom harshly across the face with a sob.

"Because I loved you! I loved you dammit, Tugger! You're such an asshole!" With that, the slender white queen stalked out of the restaurant, sobbing heavily. Her shoulder-length blue-white hair flowed around her shoulders.

"Sickening, isn't it?" Demeter's green eyes came up from her fries to examine Bombalurina's slender face. The scarlet queen's blue eyes were fixed on Tugger and Deme rolled her eyes silently.

"Uhm-hmm..." She muttered, taking more fries out of the basket before her and putting them in her mouth. Bomba absently reached for them and took three out of the basket and brought them to her lipstick-slicked lips. Her long, wavy red hair was streaked with gold, black and white, framing her slender and delicately boned face. Her blue eyes were thickly lined with liner and mascara, the heavy lashed blinking every so often as the light reflected off the irridescent green covering her lids. Without even the slightest glance at her friend, Bomba continued to inspect the now sulking tom.

"I mean, look at him! He's so... full of himself. Dumping poor Vicky without a reason other than he was bored. Seriously..." Demeter let a smile curl the edges of her full mouth and she snickered. Bomba looked over at her with a raised eyebrow and leaned against the table so her full chest pressed against her thin white blouse lightly.

"What? You have something to say?" Demeter grinned at Bomba when her mouth wasn't full and then leaned over the table to look directly into her eyes.

"He just... reminds me of someone I know almost exactly. When they get bored with their toys, they just leave. How long has it been now with your newest toy? Three, maybe four days?" Bomba gave an indignant flick of her hair and glowered at Demeter over the edge of her cup. When she set down the glass with a definite click, Bombalurina smirked.

"Going on a week with Alonzo, but really, he's always doing the same thing. 'Wanna go to the movies, Bomba?' or 'Hey Bomba, wanna go catch the ice cream parlor before it closes?'. Honestly, any more ice cream and I'm not going to fit into my cheerleading uniform." Demeter rolled her olive-green eyes and went back to the fries. Bomba looked back at Tugger and felt a flutter of excitement go through her when she saw that Tugger was looking her way.

"Ooh! He's looking! He's looking!" Demeter looked over her shoulder, pushing her chin-length black, golden and slightly reddish-tinted hair away from her eyes. Brown eyes locked onto her rounder face and Deme felt a flush rise in her cheeks. Turning back to Bomba, she grabbed more fries.

"Then why don't you go and talk to him?" Bomba was already preening, smoothing a pampered paw over her long hair. Her blue eyes went to her friend's green ones and her smile grew.

"You think? I mean, what about Alonzo?" Demeter grinned at her friend and patted her paw.

"He'll get over it..." With that Bombalurina was on her feet, and strutting over to Tugger's table, leaving Demeter with the rest of the fries. "I hope..."

Demeter switched seats and munched on the fries while she snorted and snickered at Bomba's antics with Tugger.

"A player for a player; that's going to be an interesting match. Wonder how long it's going to last?"