"The Rum Tum Tugger is a curious cat
If you offer me pheasant I'd rather have grouse"
I despised being woken up in the middle of the day especially when it was by people. My head was screaming for aspirin and a club soda.
"If you put me in a house I would much prefer a flat
If you put me in a flat then I'd rather have a house"
Couldn't remember how I got home last night or how I wound up in bed. I got up and stretched. Then I looked down.
"Why am I not wearing any clothes?" I wondered aloud. I looked for my jeans but couldn't find them… and my shirt was on the floor torn up.
Memories floated back and hit like a musket shot.
"Good god" I sighed slamming my head into my hands.
"If you set me on a mouse then I only want a rat
If you set me on a rat then I'd rather chase a mouse"
Then it hit me that that was not the voice I wanted to hear at any time of the day.
"The Rum Tum Tugger is a curious cat
And there isn't any need for me to shout it
For he will do as he do do
And there's no doing anything about it"
I shot out of my bed and ran to the living room; I knew that pepped up singing voice anywhere.
And what should to my wondering eye appear…
"Tugger!" I yelled as the tom froze in the middle of spoon full of ice cream.
He slowly set the spoon down "Hey" he said with a big smile
"Tugger why do you do that?" A voice from behind startled me. I shriek and jumped around to see Mistoffelees with his fangs bared.
My head pounded as I backed away from him and it to a kitchen chair. He came over and took my hands in his.
"If you don't let go in the next five seconds you will be come a kitty-kabob" he dropped my hands. I was in on mood to deal with giant cats, hang over and one of them seriously pissed me off.
Ok so I had tried and succeeded in seducing him but… ok it's my fault, I admit it, but why didn't he just leave!
"Well some human woke up on the wrong side of the bed today" Tugger laughed. One death glare shut him up; I guess he wanted to keep his face.
Suddenly came a knock at the door "Faith bunny, its mommy" First these two not her, wow my morning is shaping up to be great.
"If both of you don't get out now" I said through my teeth "You're dead" Tugger grinned but Misto tugged his sleeve and went to the window. In flash they were changed and out. I slammed it shut.
I opened the door to be hugged and squeezed by a woman who looked exactly like me.
"Baby Bunny" my mom squealed as she jumped up and down with me in her arms. My mother was very much the best friend type of mother, not that I minded much but it would have been nice to have a parent and not a friend.
"Hey mom" I pulled away and led her into the apartment.
"So sweetie" she began but I already knew what she was going to say
"Mom he was with another girl I don't care if he was there during the 'crisis', its not worth it"
She rolled her eyes "well I didn't come here to talk to you about that" she propped herself on the couch "I came here to see if you were alright, one of your friends called and asked if I knew why you had slammed out of a club."
"Amy" I huffed
"No" she smirked "a young man on your house phone" my eyes snapped open "He called himself Tugger?" she looked at me with a so-who-is-he face, that one that said 'you have a boyfriend don't you?'
"He's an old friend mom," I said 'and I never want to see him again'
"Well how come I never met him" she smirked
"Because we don't see each other very often" I sighed
She smiled and kissed em on the cheek "well you seem ok so I need to get to work" she headed toward the door "Bye baby babe" I weekly waved back.
"And to think" clink, clink
I looked to the window to see a tuxedo cat pawing at it. He mewed and I just shook my head. Did he think I was going to let him in after last night? And Tugger calling my mom! The scratching became a knocking. He had transformed and was now banging on my window. His way of saying I either let him in or he stayed like that.
I opened the window.
"Thank you," he said climbing in.
"Why are you here?" I groaned
He smirked "The Rum Tum Tugger is a terrible bore" I gave him a blank look and turned on my heel. He stopped smiling and folded his arms across his chest "I wish you would see" he said sadly
"See what?" I asked turning around but he was already gone. I felt myself frown, I couldn't help but feel a bit empty.
"No" I shook my head "He's not…" I tried to finish the sentence but nothing came out.
… I decided it was more than a one shot