I sit in the alleyway a little more after I wake up. My tummy grumbles again. Maybe I should have packed a carrot cake along with the sandwich I never packed.

Voices.

Three of them. I look up and see the figures of a pig, cat and... another cat?. Homeless cats.

Wow. Never thought I would ever see that happening. I huddle into a corner. They see me. They walk.

Walking. Closer. Closer. To me. I try to cover my long ears. I fail. The pig walks up to me first. The other two are huddling behind her.

"I'm Annie, and you...?" The pink pig looks at me curiously.

"H-home," I say dryly. She snorts with laughter, and gives me hand. You might think she's friendly, but I do not. Then she does something heroic. She hands me a sandwich.

I like this pig. The two cats eye me cautiously. The black cat steps forward but then hides behind Annie.

The pig laughs.

"It's ok, Salem. She's one of us."

The cat wavers about, but reluctantly shakes my hand. The other cat, a periwinkle one, glares at me. Kind of like how She glared at me.

"This is Princess Melody Sparkleswirl. She doesn't... welcome new ones. But you'll like her." Annie chuckles.

No one has been this nice to me. Apart from Him.

Salem looks like Him.

But he's too shy.

I want to run to Him. I want home. But where is it?

"Just call me Melody for short, alright?" Annie smiles. That pig smiles a lot.

It's better than nothing. I feel as if Melody is already warming towards me.

I like all of them. They take me to their hideout.

A small little cavern. Small, but not too small. A little metal pot is in one side of the cave, tucked away on top of some branches. It smells of lavender here.

I'm not surprised. Bunches of it a strung in a corner.

Soft grass-beds are made in a corner. They have a spare one.

A cracked photo lies on the ground of a toon.

"A neon pink cat used to live with us. But then she found some guy. They live happily now," Salem mutters.

I'm too dumb to work out this complicated matter. I eat some fresh stew instead, slurping away innocently.


Authors note: I never do one of these since I always do one on my other account, but hi :)

Thank you everyone who posted a character! XxLilyPadxX, sorry I couldn't use both of your characters, because if I included your other one, there would be too many characters! Thanks anyway!

Kizzie, thank u as well, but I wasn't sure what kind of animal you were wanting because you never said, so I made it a cat :P And pikachuprinplup, sorry I made your character a super shy one, but you never included a personality, so there you go! I'm not taking any more characters at the moment but I may soon!

Hope you enjoyed the chapter by the way, and keep reading!