Alright! Sorry to my lil sis that it's sooooooo late, but, hey, I have a schedule to keep. So, here it is! Chapter two of Game of Cat and Mouse…
The day of the study/ sleepover Ib and I scheduled, at lunch she said, "so are you excited?"
"Duh," I answered.
"Good, are you allergic to cats?"
"Nope."
"Then unless you're allergic to boys we're good," she responded. That's when I started to get worried. Boys? Darn it! This will be one crazy weekend.
Later…
I arrived at her house to see a cat meowing at me.
"Hi, who are you?" I asked it
"Meow," he said putting his paws on my leg, I knew that he could tell I was worried about the boy. Ib walked in.
"Wow, he likes you!"
"What's his name?"
"Tiger, we found him stray and so we took him in." That's when I saw him, out of the corner of my eye, her brother.
"Hi," he said sounding bored.
"Uhhh... hi," Ib said, " can you leave now?"
"I only came because mom told me to." He answered. Ib turned to me,
"Ready to go study?"
"Yep let's go!"
Later…
We had finished studying and now were setting up an air mattress. Her brother walked in.
"Hey losers," He said.
"Go away!" Ib yelled shoving him. He stumbled into me and ran out of the room before he could see anything.
"Sorry-" Ib started to say but then she looked down and saw a little black cat with green eyes.
"What- where is Ochiba?"
"I'm over here!" I said swinging my paws crazily.
"Where did this cat come from?!" She said swinging me around.
"I'm Ochiba! Now put me down!" I said screaming.
"It talked!" She said dropping me. She pushed the door closed and tilted her head in confusion.
"It's really hard to explain," I started, "right now though, can you get my bag from downstairs? It has my clothes in it."
A couple minutes later…
"What in the world is going on?" She asked as I put on socks.
"It's really hard to explain, you might want to sit down," I answered. "You see, how do I put this? The Sohma family is cursed."
"Cursed? What do you mean?"
"Well as you said earlier, it makes me allergic to boys."
"I was joking earlier-" she started.
" I know and I'm not technically allergic to boys, however the Sohma family is cursed by the twelve zodiacs so whenever we are hugged by someone of the opposite gender or get sick we turn into animals."
"How is that a curse?"
"I'm the cat."
"I gathered,"
"Do you know the story of the cat?"
"Yes."
"My curse is heavier then everyone else's... I'm shunned for being tricked while the rat rejoices. I'm a monster that can't control himself I get three years outside then I go back to my room 'inside' for the rest of my life."
"That's a horrible life!"
"It's the truth, it happened to every person cursed with the spirit of the cat before me, why should I be any different? I had never been outside before this year." Ib was crying now.
"Why can't you fight for yourself?" She asked
"I can fight all right it's just I can't disobey 'gods' words... He never invites me to the zodiac gatherings anyway."
"Can I do anything?"
"No."
"What about that necklace?" I clutched the necklace.
"I don't want to say. How about it hides my true form?"
"Okay, I guess that works."
"I think that dinner's ready."
"Okay," in all the excitement we didn't notice that her brother was hiding outside the room, listening to the whole thing, and wondering: what secrets does she hide with that necklace?
Hope that the quality of this makes up for lateness! Anyway, Jessie, don't review your own fanfics, it looks bad. And write the next chapter! Also, this is going really fast. Hope that you liked it! Bye!
