Author's note: I'm not dead. I'm very busy this summer but am still writing. I'll actually be writing a new story that I'll be posting hopefully later this summer. Not on though. You can find it on my eka's blog.

Zoey sat down in her chair, her hands trembling as she held her 20 year old book on sociology from the library. Her eyes looked up nervously at Anna as Anna panicked about.

"It's just so weird! So creepy. I can't stand to even look at him." Anna ranted on, throwing her hands up in the air. Zoey didn't know what was going on and assumed the worst.

"Come on Anna. It can't be that bad." Zoey tried to calm Anna's nerves a bit. School was already stressful enough and she didn't need anymore stress in her life. Not now.

"I mean.." Anna paused midsentenced, "How would you handle it zoey? How would you handle a mouseboy that actually WANTS to be eaten? It just so creepy." Anna shuddered in disgust as she held her arms close to her chest. Zoey looked up with an interested look. She was curious about it now.

"Anna, what do you mean by that?" Zoey asked as she placed her book down on the desk, her ear on the left side perked up with interest.

"It's exactly what I said zoey! This weird mouseboy wants to be eaten." Anna continued on as she finally sat in the chair with a thump, "Stupid chair. Stupid butt. My ass is too big for this chair." Zoey scowled at the last comment. She wished she had anna's booty troubles.

"Anyways…" Zoey interrupted anna's muttering and offered a solution, "What if you tried to interact with him. See what makes him tick?" Zoey nearly picked up her book again on instinct but retracted her fingers slowly towards her lap. She saw anna look up at her with an expression that said 'Seriously'?'.

"You got to be kidding me Zoe. You don't expect me to interact with that thing. Do you?" Anna questioned as she lowered her head onto the desk below, "It's just super annoying you know. I would eat him and be done, but the thought of him actually enjoying it makes me sick to my stomach."

Zoey grabbed the edge of her book again and pulled it towards her. She really wanted to know what happened in the next chapter but wanted to support her friend at the same time as well.

"Well Anna, why don't you do what I do with my mouseboy? Hang out and have fun together." Zoey said with a smile. Anna chuckled at the thought.

"Hanging out with a mouseboy? Seriously? Sounds like a joke to me." Anna said with a smirk on her face, her cheeks blushed red.

"Yeah hang out. What's wrong with that?" Zoey asked with a confused look. Anna placed both of her hands on the table. Anna looked at zoey like she was insane.

"I mean. Who would hang out with their food?" Anna asked as she looked at her nails carefully, one of them slightly chipped. Zoey pouted and felt her ears lower.

"I do!" Zoey said quietly and Anna giggled. She slapped her thigh and cackled with laughter.

"Oh right! I almost forgot. You hang out with nart, nute, nite…..?" Anna rambled off names quickly as she tried to remember the name of zoey's pet.

"It's nate!" Zoey said with a bit of anger. Her eyes showed a tint of rage which was quite unlike her usual personality. Anna become defensive and put her hands in front of her, palms out to say "Easy there tiger."

"Yes it's nate, how could I forget?" Anna replied with a smile and hoped to calm zoey down. "Show me a picture of him." A smile came to zoey's face as she typed on her phone, clicking on various apps. She grinned from ear to ear as someone else showed interest in her pet mouseboy.

"Here!" Zoey giddily showed Anna a picture of Nate and Anna smiled. The mouseboy was a shrimp! He looked so small that Anna could crush him beneath her foot. There was no muscle on him. He looked a little young and didn't have anything standoutish about him. What did zoey even see in him?

"He's….." Anna tried to search for the right words, "One of a kind." Zoey pulled her phone back to her and grinned at the photo.

"Nate is my little baby. I love him so much! I could just eat him u-" Zoey paused as she realized what she said and quickly coughed to get the conversation back to normal, "Anyways, I think you should try to hangout with that mouseboy. It'll be good for you." Anna knew that talking to zoey wasn't going to get anywhere. She had her mind stuck on that answer and wasn't going to budge. Nate caught anna's interest. He wasn't special in particular, nothing was out of the ordinary with him, but a mouseboy that small? Perfect bullying material. If she ever got the chance to hold him and play with him?

Anna shuddered at the thought, crossed her arms over her chest and smiled with glee. One day it would come, but not anytime soon.

"Anyways anna, I got to get going. This book won't finish itself!" Zoey said as she got up from her seat and pushed in her chair, "Talk to you later!" Zoey waved goodbye to anna and began to walk away. Anna didn't know what to think. Maybe zoey was onto something. Maybe it was time to interact with this mouseboy.