Izabella had been put in the back of the room furthest from the door. She suspected that it was because of her earlier break out. Jenny and Jelly had been keeping her under extra watch the rest of the day and Bella started to feel like she needed to get away from their supervision for a while. The room was dark and she could hear that the other kittens was already starting to to fall asleep. She wasn't tired at all but she didn't want anybody to know so she lay there with her eyes closed and just listened to the sound of the other kittens. Suddenly her eyes jerked open and she realised that she must had been sleeping for a while. All the other kittens was sleeping heavily and she could see from the door that the sun was up outside. Bella carefully made her way up and moved towards the door. When she came to it she hoped that Jenny and Skimble would not be in the room next door. She gently pushed the door to make a small crack to peek through and as she did she could hear voices. Immediately she moved back into the room. 'There must be some other way out' she thought and started looking around. She could see some light falling in from behind a crate and moved over slowly. She managed to move the crate a little bit and saw that it was used to close a hole in the wall. Light fell into the room and she could see a few of the kittens starting to move around. Without thinking more about it she pressed through the hole and pulled the crate from outside to close the gap behind her.
She knew very well where she wanted to go and this time she knew the way. Very carefully she started making her way across the clearing. She had to make sure no one saw her, but it seemed that most cats had gone to sleep already or at least back to their dens. When she was at the door of the den she had seeked out she gave a small knock but when no one answered the door she opened it and went in. Tuggers den was a huge mess but to Bella it was just exciting with all the stuff. Now that the tom wasn't there she started to take a closer look at his den and her eyes fell on the big pile of blankets he used for a bed. There were cushions as well and Bella jumped up on the pile to see what it was like lying on top of all this. At the kittens sleeping room they all had a blanket each they could curl up on or inside, but this was like all their blankets for just one cat. She rolled over on her back feeling the comfortable cushions pressing back at her. She jumped a bit up and down and made some acrobatic moves while in the air and then landed on her side a bit too close to the edge and rolled of. She had not hurt herself but was a bit disoriented. She shook her head and then stopped when she saw something shiny sticking out from under the lowest of the blankets in the pile. Bella couldn't help herself and reached in to grab it. She had never seen an object like this and wondered what it was. It consisted of two metal rings that were attached to each other by a small chain. It seemed that the rings had some kind of hinges that could make the ring smaller or wider and there was a small key hole at the side of them. She was confused, 'maybe it was some sort of decoration?' she thought. 'or could it be some sort of bracelet?'. She had seen that some of the cats wore collars and maybe this was like that but you put it around your paw instead. 'But why are there two circles?' She tried to put her paw through one of the circles and pulled at the hinge of the circle making it tighter to fit around her front leg. When she had pulled it tight she felt like it was a bit too far and tried to open it up again but it wouldn't work. She began to panic a bit and tried to pull her paw out but it didn't work either. 'What do I do now?' she thought to herself. The other circle dangled from her paw and she was happy that she had only put it on one of her front legs, she had thought for a second that the other must be for the other leg but thought it stupid since that would make walking, or anything, really hard. 'Maybe it's some sort of trap for curious kittens?' she thought to herself embarrassed that she had gotten stuck. Bella climbed back on top of the bed and lay down on it thinking about how she would get out of this mess and before she knew it she was sleeping.
Tugger had been out with Bombalurina that night and when the queen asked if they should go back to her den he thought it was a good time to surprise her with something he had found when he had been out hunting a few days earlier.
"Let's just stop by my den first, I want to pick something up" he said with a grin and leaned in towards the queens ear. "I think you will like it" he whispered with his sexiest voice.
"Pervert" said Bomba with a smile as if she had read his mind.
When they came to his den they stopped outside and he pinned her to the wall and kissed her, letting the kisses wander down her neck until the queen let out a moan and then he pulled back. He always wanted to leave her wanting more.
"Stay here" he said with a wink and went to the door.
"Hurry" the queen said pouting her lips and blowing him a kiss.
The door wasn't properly closed but he figured he had just forgotten to close it earlier. When he came inside he saw that it was far worse than that. He immediately saw Bella lying on his bed and had recognized his little souvenir tightly locked around her paw. 'This is not good' he thought and went straight out again.
"That was fast" said Bomba surprised.
"Eh yeah, ehm, we will have to do this another time" he blurted out and closed the door firmly behind him. Bomba could not go inside and see this.
"Oh my god, this was your plan all along wasn't it?" said Bomba with an expression on her face that said she should have expected it. "You just want to tease and never please, just forget it, whatever, another night then, chicken." she added and left him with a laugh.
"I'll make you scream my name tomorrow instead" he shouted after her and Bomba just waved back without looking. He felt stupid for backing out but he knew Bomba didn't take any offense, they always teased each other. 'I'll have another chance' he thought to himself with a smirk.
Then Tugger remembered why he had sent away the queen and sighed. He was going to have his mane pulled out by Jenny for this. He just hoped that Bella had no idea what she had found and with a little luck he could convince her to keep it their secret. He went inside and sat down by the sleeping kitten and gently pushed her shoulder.
"Got yourself in a bit of a mess there have you?" he said as she woke up.
"Oh hi Tugger" Bella said and looked down blushing.
"Let me give you a hand" he said with another sigh and went over to a jar that stood on a shelf up high and picked out the keys for the lock. He opened the lock and took the 'bracelet' and put it with the keys in the jar again. "Are you hurt?" he asked.
"No I don't think so" said Bella massaging the area that had been gripped tightly.
"You shouldn't play with things that you don't know what they are" he said trying to figure out if she knew what it was, but forgetting that this just triggered the kittens interest.
"What is it? Some kind of bracelet? But why would you want a bracelet that you need a key for?" she asked all the questions that came to mind.
"It's ehm.." Tugger started and scratched his jaw thinking. "It's a bracelet you can use when you take a friend to the city so you don't lose each other" he tried.
"That's smart!" said Bella buying his lie. "Can we use it together some time?" she asked and Tugger felt a shiver down his spine at the inappropriate suggestion.
"Haha no you are too young to go our into the city" he tried to laugh feeling more uncomfortable than he ever had.
"But soon I will be older and then you could take me"
"Take you?" he said with panic.
"To see the city" Bella said and wondered why the tom had gotten so nervous, he even had started sweating.
"Oh of course right, that will be fine" he said trying to pull himself together.
"I can't wait!" said Bella happily and Tugger realised he just promised to take her out of the junkyard, something he could definitely not do with a small kitten.
He made her see that they would have to wait quite some time before it was possible and hoped that she would forget in time. He also made her promise to keep it as a secret between the two of them. No one could know about this and she couldn't tell anyone about the bracelet, if she did he would not go with her, he said trying to sound authoritative, something he had never been good at. He took Bella back to Jennys den and she showed him the hole in the wall she had snuck out through. 'This kitten is amazing' he thought. 'She always gets what she wants'.