The Making of His Kitten: She Becomes an Actress, He Becomes Interested
Yeah the title lacks true creativity…. I still need to draw Melody in modern clothes really and to tell you the truth… I think that I based Arthur off of my cousin Gavin unknowingly…. They are the same age and Gavin has blond hair and blue eyes too…. Mewe or Elizabeth is based off of my friend Elizabeth. I used the character that she created… YAY!I have no idea what all of that was about…. Not sleeping on the weekends is really starting to mess with me… I was told by someone that I am a terrible writer…. Unfortunately I agree with them… Though I have never really expected anyone to like my stories it is a true surprise when they do.
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Sebastian POV
Today is the day that we meet that dark haired girl from the home movie. The house that we were standing in front of wasn't all that terrible. The front yard was very large though it was filled mostly with toys for younger children. There were plenty of flowers and the landscaping wasn't bad either. I'm not entirely sure why we're here at this time though; the girl from the video couldn't have been more than 15 so she would be in school. A small glint caught my attention and brought it to a dog house. 'Perfect…. They have dogs…' I sighed at my own thought and followed Mr. Writer in through the gate. The pathway went directly in front of the dog house but once we got to it I was surprised to not hear barking, no I heard the opposite. I kneeled down and poked my head in to see. Inside was a pretty female calico cat with her litter of six kittens. The mother had a sparkled collar around her neck, Aoi. "Sebastian…. Get out of there and stand up…." I stood up and cleared my throat before following them up on the porch.
Mr. Writer knocked on the door and it took a total of two minutes for the woman from the other day to open the door. Her eyes lit up as she saw us. "Oh, how can I help you three fine gentlemen?" She gestured for us to come inside so we did. This part of the house was obviously some sort of daycare and there were quite a few customers. Children were running around inside and playing whether it be with others or alone, with toys or games. "We have come to speak about the tape that you brought us a while back." She nodded with that smile again. "We are considering the young woman for a character in the show and would like to meet her." If it was possible for her face to get any brighter than it did. "Of course! She's around here somewhere but I'm not sure exactly where…" She giggled nervously, "Just wait here for a minute."
Luckily for us there was a couch that wasn't just meant for children in the room so Ciel, Mr. Writer and I took a seat to wait. We were all silent for a time but I couldn't say that the room was since there were children playing. "Meow! No animal catchers, no!" That voice belonged to the girl from the video and the three of us found ourselves turning in the direction that it had come from. "No, you have been a bad kitty and bad kitties go to the pound!" A child, who just by listening to them speak one, could tell that they were supposed to be an "animal catcher" answered. By now we could see about seven young children and the girl who had those same cat ears on her head. "But the pound has dogs! Dogs don't like kitties like me!" She actually looked and sounded distraught and could almost make it appear that she was indeed being dragged away by the small children. They made her step over a baby gate. "This is the pound; bad kitty will stay here until we say so!" One of the little girls scolded the girl playfully; she was unable to keep a smile off of her face as she did so. The girl that we came to see however plopped down on the floor behind the gate and covered her eyes like she was crying.
"I'll never live in here! The doggies are going to eat me!" She really sounded like she was crying. It was impressive for a young girl like her. I was smiling a little bit while Mr. Writer looked like his cheeks were going to fall off. The woman from earlier ran back into the room and sighed when she caught sight of the girl behind the baby gate. "Playing animal catcher again are we?" The girl uncovered her eyes and looked up at the woman with a smile. "Good afternoon Mother, can I help you with something?" The girl's mother helped her stand up and step over the gate. "There are some people here to talk to you." The girl nodded and turned to the children. "Sorry guys but I'll play with you more later." They all pouted but nodded before walking away, probably to find something to play with.
Melody POV
Mother led me over to the couch in the room; I can't believe that I didn't notice them when the little ones brought me in. Then again I can really get absorbed in my playing and acting and sometimes I have to catch myself before I get in too deep. I greeted the trio with a wave and a smile, they all looked nice enough. There was a man with slightly greying brown hair and half rimmed glasses; he was slightly huskier than the other two and quite obviously older than them. He was smiling brightly at me to the point that it looked like it would hurt. The next one to catch my attention was a younger boy with greyish blue hair and one bright ocean blue eye. He was adorable but why on earth was he frowning the way he was? He looked about maybe 11 or 12 years old. Why was he covering his eye anyway? He was looking at me with indifferent interest… Such a strange way of saying something isn't it? The last of the three men was well… I don't really know what to think about him… His haircut was about the male equivalent of mine, layered in the back with fringes on the side only much shorter than mine. Then again the back of my hair isn't layered and he doesn't really have bangs like I do. His eyes were just as abnormally colored as mine, I mean come on. How many people do you know who have red or fire orange eyes? Even when this man was sitting I could tell that he was much taller than me. I figured that a normal girl may swoon over him for his looks; I admit that he's not bad looking but I'd decide if I liked him once I got to know him.
"Hello there, how can I help you fine gentlemen?" I asked smiling toward them. The older one stood up and held his hand out for me. I shook it while he told me his name. "I'm Melody Silver, it is very nice to meet you sir." He continued smiling, "Oh no, the pleasure is all mine Ms. Melody! The three of us are here about the video that your mother gave us." I rolled my eyes and narrowed them slightly at the older woman behind me. "I knew that you were up to something the other day…" She chuckled nervously and ran off muttering something about taking care of the children so I turned my attention back to the three in front of me. "Well we are considering you for a part in the show that we are shooting." I nodded, "Alright, can you tell me anything about the part?" I had been in a ton of plays in elementary and high school so I had no real problem with acting. "The part is for a female neko demon that turns into the maid for a young man and pretty much falls in love with his contracted demon butler."
'Demon…. That sounds interesting… Then he said neko… Well I do that all the time…' I thought for a minute on what to say. "That sounds pretty good to me." The writer smiled and clapped excitedly. "Great! Now we just need to see how you get along with your costars." I smiled at the man's enthusiasm before shaking my head a little bit; not noticing that the two who had stayed seated this whole time stood up. Mr. Writer ushered the younger boy toward me first, sad thing is that I'm not much taller than him. "This is the young man who will be playing your master, Ciel Phantomhive." He nodded his head respectfully at me as I shook his hand. "It's nice to meet you Mr. Phantomhive." He didn't hesitate to answer back but he was watching my every move, "Likewise." The tall man stepped forward to me on his own and I almost fell to the ground. I knew that he was tall but come on! "I'm Sebastian Michaelis; I will be playing the role of the demon butler." My heart dropped a little bit and not in a good way. I had to act like I was in love with a man that was giant compared to me who seemed to be the type that would tease me if he ever found out about my… well there is no better way to say it than fetish… "It's nice to meet you as well Mr. Michaelis!" I smiled despite my inner thoughts and shook his hands. Geeze they were huge! "There is no reason to be so formal; we're going to be working together after all." The writer seemed excited but my smile fell a little bit. "I prefer to stay formal with someone until I really get to know them."
Sebastian seemed only a little surprised at me but he quickly disguised it with that smile. He was about to say something when Mr. Writer interrupted by throwing an arm around my shoulders. "It seems like you three are really going to get along!" I laughed a little bit at the man and he laughed too. "There is just one question that I have to ask you, how old are you?" Of course it would be that question. Now I'm well aware that I do not look my age but it gets annoying sometimes when people have to ask that just to make sure that you're "legal." "I understand I actually turned 18 in October." My age seemed to shock everyone but some people showed it more than others. "Wow, really?!" I nodded and was hugged by the writer again. "That's perfect! No parental permission needed!" I giggled a little bit and shook my head. "It's not like my mother would say no though." He laughed and gave me a pat on the head; he was taller than me too by the way. "She indeed doesn't seem the type to say no to something like this." I had to admit that this guy was pretty fun, not really something that you would expect from some big shot TV show writer.
The four of us sat down on the couch to talk a little bit more. Mr. Writer said that he had some questions for me. "This is just to clarify but you have no problems with acting romantically toward someone correct?" I nodded my head at him, the bell on my ears jingling as I did and began counting down a few of the roles I had played in onstage that required romance. "I've played as Juliette in Romeo and Juliette; I cosplay as Yuki Cross which in some cases fans want me to pose with a Zero or Kaname cosplayer in a romantic way so I've done that too…" I shivered as I remembered one play I did just recently. "Then I was Ophelia in Hamlet recently…. Gosh the guy I had to hit on was a creeper!" My disgust went away though when I remembered the next thing. "Then there was this one time that my friend and I pretended that we were lesbians to mess with these really religious people." I started laughing a little bit. "You should have seen their faces when we kissed!" Ciel raised an eyebrow at me while Sebastian smirked. "So you have no problem with kissing then?" I turned to look at him and shrugged. "Nope, no problem at all~." Don't think that I'm some kind of slut, it was just acting.
After a few more questions which I might add were not as fun to answer as the first one they stood and got ready to leave. "We'll expect you at the studio at 8 in the morning tomorrow to get you fitted for the animatronics and measured for your costume." My eyes lit up at the mention of animatronics, I've always wanted to wear some! I jumped up and shook the writer's hand. "You bet that I'll be there!" I lead them to the door and waved at them as they left the gate. As soon as they were gone my arm dropped but I still stared in the direction that they had gone. I was an official actress now; I had a part in a show! My inner rejoicing was interrupted by a meow from my feet. Aoi sat there looking up at me with her green and blue eyes. Yes she had an eye of each color though the one that stood out the most to me was the blue one which was the reason for her name. I sat down on the steps and let her crawl into my lap. "Did you hear that? I get to be in a TV show Aoi." She meowed at me again and rubbed her head against my chin as if congratulating me.
Sebastian POV
"That girl was pretty interesting…" Ceil trailed off as he took a seat at his computer, no doubt he was going to look things up on the girl that we had just met. I shrugged from my position sprawled lazily across the couch with my arms behind my head. She didn't seem like anything too special so far, just a normal girl who liked to dress up as a cat. "She didn't seem all that impressed by you, most girls probably would have fainted at the news that they were going to act out romantic scenes with you." My lips turned up in a smirk but I still didn't look at my step-brother. "She was probably acting so that she could get the part." I chuckled and looked up at the ceiling. "She probably passed out on the inside at the thought." The younger boy sighed and I could just imagine that he was shaking his head. "You're really cocky, you know that?" My smirk grew, "Not without reason little brother, not without reason." I could probably get some fun out of this girl by teasing her, even if she didn't seem to get my bit on kissing. Perhaps she really was that good of an actor; she seemed pretty convincing when she was playing with those little kids.
"Hey look at this, she and some other girl, probably the friend that she was talking about earlier, have a Deviantart account." I stood up slowly and made my way to stand behind the blue haired boy. On the computer screen was a picture of the girl that we met today, Melody, in a gothic Lolita outfit standing beside a girl with sky blue hair in a punk neko outfit. Ciel went to another picture that showed the same punk neko and a girl with shoulder length brown hair in a black school girl uniform. That must have been the Yuki Cross cosplay that she talked about. The next picture was of Melody dressed as Yuki with two men. The one with dark hair looked like he was about to bite her neck while the one with light hair was holding a gun to him. The girl looked so natural in the situation. I hummed and walked away uninterested. "You have to admit that she's pretty good." I shrugged and resumed my place on the couch to turn on the TV. I flipped through the channels bored and momentarily stopped at Animal Planet. Too Cute! Was on, I quickly clicked the info button only to scoff and go on to the next channel. That episode was puppies, not something that I was interested in seeing.
Disney and Nickelodeon were useless seeing as how it was still early in the day and they would be playing little kid shows, not that they ever really played anything that interested me anyway. Cartoon Network had Tom and Jerry on but it was one of those crappy new ones that I refused to watch. Maybe Comedy Central or Discovery Channel will have something interesting on. I flipped to Comedy Central first, nothing interesting there so I went to Discovery Channel. Dirty Jobs was on so I clicked it to see which one it was. "Ah damn… It's that stupid mule breeding episode…" I had seen that one a million times so I turned off the TV. Did I really expect something interesting to be on at this time of day? Ciel had gone to playing games on his computer like he normally did but he seemed to notice that I was bored. "Check the Science Channel… Maybe How It's Made is on." I rolled my eyes but turned the TV back on and to the channel that he had said. This kid had pretty much memorized the schedule for all of the educational channels so of course he was right.
I wasn't really interested in the show but I left it on in hopes of alleviating my boredom. "What are you doing over there anyway?" Ciel didn't look away from his laptop to answer me. "I'm making a Deviantart account so that I can follow Melody." That kid is smart but sometimes he goes a little bit overboard when trying to get to know someone. Some people would consider him a stalker but after living with him for a few years I got used to it. At times the way he acted could be endearing to me but to others it would alienate him. Much like the way his character in the show would be portrayed Ciel was not very sociable. I was actually kind of surprised at how well he got along with that girl today, granted he didn't speak to her much but he seemed to approve of her. Then again he is young compared to Mr. Writer and me so of course she seemed a little more drawn to him than the two of us. She seemed to be a natural with younger children since she was working with her mother in a daycare center and the children seemed rather fond of her as well.
"What did you think of her?" Ciel stopped typing on his computer for a minute before looking up at me. "Well, she seemed nice and actually pretty fun…. It might be fun to work with her but only time will tell." I nodded and looked back at the TV. We have more of a chance to get to know her tomorrow and I would get a chance to see how she would react to being teased by me. I smirked at my thoughts, I do hope that she turns out to be more interesting than most other girls and doesn't fall for my tricks so easily.
(Next Day)
Melody POV
My alarm went off at 7:30 this morning; I jumped out of bed and into the shower as fast as I could. I wasn't one of those girls who took forever on their appearance but I knew that if I was going to be working on a TV show then there would be other people that I would have to meet and I wanted to make a good impression on them. I blow dried my hair and decided to leave it down today. What I dressed in was nothing too fancy, some yoga pants and a camisole under a low-cut shirt but it looked alright on me. I made my way into the daycare where Mother was taking care of some of the children who were asking where I was. When they saw me they all ran over and latched themselves onto my legs. "Where are you going Ms. Melody?" Lillynette asked while looking up at me with her big, brown eyes. I smiled and ruffled her short, brown hair. "Well I have some people to meet. I'm sorry that I can't spend time with you today but I have work to do." I kneeled down and hugged each of the children that came up to me. Once they were finished with their hugs and goodbyes I walked out the door while waving at them as I headed to the studio. The guards let me in with no problem so I guess that Mr. Writer remembered to tell them that I was coming and led me up to an office of sorts.
The guard that had led me up knocked on the door before opening it and telling Mr. Writer that I was here. "Ah Melody, and two minutes earlier than we told you!" I smiled and stepped inside when the guard stepped to the side and left the room. "I wanted to make a good impression on everyone so I thought I would get here a little earlier than expected." He smiled back at me and stood from his seat behind the desk. "Well it is nice to know that you are a committed girl." His arm wrapped around my shoulder and he began leading me down a hallway. "Here is where you will get your measurements taken; Angelina* will be in to help you shortly." I nodded and stepped into the door and he closed it behind me. It didn't take long for a woman dressed all in red to come through the door. "You must be the new character! I'm Angelina Durless and I am going to help you with your costume." I nodded at her and she asked me to remove my clothes. I blushed a little bit but knew that it was necessary to do so. I pulled off both of the shirts that I was wearing revealing my black Hello Kitty bra.
The door opened while I was getting ready to pull off my yoga pants causing me to turn surprised in that direction. Angelina also turned to face the door surprised. In the door stood Sebastian with his eyes closed and a slightly annoyed look on his face. "There was a slight rip in my tailcoat that needs repairing." His eyes opened and locked onto my half naked form and widened slightly before he smirked. "Playing up the romance already huh?" I blinked and covered my chest with my arms, only slightly blushing. I had changed in front of others before but in truth this was the first guy to see me like this. "You wish, I'm here getting measured for my costume and you shouldn't be in here while that is happening." Sebastian chuckled and didn't move Angelina only looked back and forth between us surprised. "You should get used to it. My character dresses yours after all." My blush deepened only a little bit but I didn't say a word more to him. "Sebastian, please get out so that I can measure this young lady." The man smiled and left the room with a slight wave in my direction before shutting the door behind him.
With him gone I was able to pull off my yoga pants which revealed my black, Hello Kitty panties that matched my bra. "Like cats do you?" I smiled a little bit and nodded at her as she pulled out a measuring tape. Angelina measured my bust, waist and even my butt. "Such a figure you have for your size." I giggled a little bit and rubbed the back of my head before the red haired woman grabbed my arm and measured it. Measurements didn't last too long but I didn't mind too much since I was allowed to put my clothes back on. With that I was allowed to leave and find something to do that would allow me to get to know my costars. There was a large room where both Ciel and Sebastian were sitting watching TV. "Morning guys!" Ciel looked over in my direction and just nodded in acknowledgement. Sebastian smirked but I ignored him and took a seat on Ciel's left since Sebastian was on his right and I didn't really feel like sitting next to him after what had happened earlier.
"So what are we watching?" I asked looking up at the large screen TV, it was much larger than I was used to seeing but what would you expect from a studio like this? "I'm not sure… It sounded interesting but it's really stupid…" Ciel didn't seem impressed by whatever they had been watching; in fact he seemed rather annoyed. The commercials ended and the show came back on, "Oh Adventure Time! My little brother loves this show." They both looked over at me slightly surprised. "You like this show?" I shrugged at Sebastian and looked back at the TV. "It can be cute but most of the time it's pretty stupid." Ciel nodded in agreement with me about the stupid part and raised his eyebrow at the penguins beating up Jake the Dog. "Oh well, it's something to watch right?" He nodded but didn't take his attention away from the screen. "Better than some of that crap they play on Disney and Nick right?" He nodded once more.
After a little while another person entered the room, he had short light colored hair and violet eyes. He wasn't that bad looking but definitely not my type. "I'm looking for Melody." I stood up and lifted up my hand like I was going to answer a question in school. "That's me; can I ask who you are?" He smiled at me and gave me a little bow. "My name is Ash and I'm going to fit you for the animatronics." As soon as the word animatronics was mentioned I began bouncing in place excitedly. I nodded and followed him to another room filled with different animatronics of different colors and types. "Oh my gosh, this is my dream come true!" I twirled in a circle and let myself fall onto the floor. Ash smiled down at me and shook his head. "Not quite the reaction that is normally given." I stood back up and began looking through all of the cat type accessories. "Do you have any preferences?" Ash asked I nodded and turned back to him. "Yes, both the ears and tail black with semi-long fur." He nodded and looked around with me before grabbing a set and holding it out to me. "Will this do?" I examined the animatronics carefully before giving Ash a thumb up, "Perfect!" He smiled at me again and nodded, "Great! Now we just have to get them fitted to you.
Fitting them wasn't very hard or nearly as painful as I had heard that it would be. Ash had a little trouble getting the ears placed right so I giggled and placed them for him. It shocked him that I was able to place them better than him and he sighed disappointed in himself before chuckling. Now that the ears were fitted he picked up the remote for them and pushed a button. The ears moved without making a noise and without hurting me. When Ash was pleased with what he saw he picked the tail up and moved to fitting it. It wasn't all that awkward since I was used to clothing being fitted to me and this time it didn't take very long for him to fit the animatronic. I did have to lift up my shirt so that he could line it up with my spine though. As soon as that was in place he performed the same test that he had done with the ears on the tail and it moved perfectly too. For a while we played with the movements of the animatronics and my expressions. It was really fun.
That ended sooner than I would have liked it to but all good things must come to an end right? I made my way back to the sitting room where I had left Ciel and Sebastian earlier. They were still there but now Ciel was doing something on a laptop. I walked up behind him and leaned over his shoulder. "What are you doing?" He flinched a little bit but looked up at me in surprise. "Oh, I was playing World of War Craft." I looked at the screen of the computer and put a finger to my lips. "I've never played that before but I've heard that it can be pretty fun." He nodded without looking back at me and playing his game again. "I myself play Pokémon online but it's not really anything like that." He nodded again in a detached way and I knew then that he wasn't listening; he was too busy playing his game. I sighed and walked back over to the plush couch. "Ciel's not much of a talker is he?" Sebastian chuckled and shook his head. "You picked up on that quickly." I shrugged again and leaned back against the couch. "Well I work with kids all day and when you get a new one then you have to learn about them quickly." He hummed in what seemed like appreciation but I wasn't too sure with him. "Anything you want to watch?" I shook my head and pushed my bangs out of my eyes.
Sebastian sighed slightly and began looking through the channels again. The only show that caught my attention was Futurama, "How about that?" I asked pointing at the screen. Sebastian selected the show and went to it. "I guess if it's what you want to watch." The three of us went silent for a little while until I decided to confront the man about what had happened earlier. "You knew I was getting measured when you walked in to that room didn't you?" That smirk of his came back causing me to roll my eyes. I hadn't known this guy for very long but I had already decided that he would have to work hard to make me like him. "Indeed I did but like I told you, my character dresses and even bathes yours so you should get used to me being around." I sighed and just rested my head on a fist that was propped up on the armrest of the couch. "You're really cocky aren't you?" Ciel chuckled in the background; he seemed to be listening to everything that the two of us said. "I told you that you were cocky."
I smiled and turned to face the boy whose face was hidden behind the computer screen. I gave him thumbs up and giggled. "I like you kid!" Despite the fact that I couldn't see his face, I knew that he was scowling a little bit in my direction. "I'm not a kid so don't call me one." My eyes softened a little bit before I laughed. "Right, I'm sorry. Thank you for telling me." He nodded without saying another word to me. Such a cute boy he is. Things went silent again but silence was something that I was not used to since I helped Mother in the daycare center so I decided to make conversation to try and get to know more about the show that I was going to be on. "So can either of you two explain more to me about the character that I'm going to be playing?" Sebastian smirked a little bit more as I relaxed back into the cushions. "The character that you will be playing is the love interest of my character. She's an immature little neko that Ciel's character and mine find while on a trip into London. We take her in and begin teaching her how to function in the human world." I hummed slightly as I thought about it. That was something that I could do. "Sounds alright to me I guess… Please explain your characters a little bit to me?"
Ciel chose this instant to pipe in, "My character is an English nobleman who has taken over his family business due to the murder of his parents. When his parents were murdered he was kidnapped and so in order to escape his death he made a contract with a demon in exchange for his soul." Sebastian figured that it was now his time to explain his character since Ciel had pretty much introduced him. "I play the demon that the Earl has summoned to help him. I become his loyal butler who would do anything to protect the soul that he Young Master has. He is a powerful demon based off of a raven that loves cats and has his own charming quirks." He smirked and placed a hand on his chest, "Much like myself." I rolled my eyes and looked away from him. "You obviously have an ego that is very hard to fit through a garage door." Ciel chuckled at me once again without looking up but he seemed to like when I insulted Sebastian even with it was just a small little thing. The older man just seemed slightly upset with being insulted but it was only a fun little banter to me. "Don't mind him; he's just upset because you aren't reacting to him the way he wants you to." Well that explains it. Sebastian glared in the direction of the boy.
I may have just gotten here but I could already tell that I was going to have a good time. As long as Sebastian didn't go too far with his teasing which seemed like something that he liked to do.
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I want to thank tohru15 for being the first to comment on this story. Melody doesn't really know what to think of Sebastian yet but she does think that he is egotistical. I really hope that I keep Sebastian in character in this story.
