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"Here, hand me that tool over there."
"This one?"
"No."
"This one?"
"No."
How about this one then?"
"No. That's too small for this bolt."
"Then...this one?"
"That's too big."
"Ok then how about this one?" Pierce asks picking up a staple gun. I heavily sigh and waltz over picking up the needed tool.
"It's this one."
"Ohhhhh...that one."
"Yep." I agree tapping him in the head with it. He flinches just as I am about to hit him, eyes closed tightly and his ears pulled back. I pause, pulling back the potential weapon as I eye a small tear dabbing in his eye. I lunge forward, yanking him into a tight hug as I try to suffocate him with affection. "You're so cute!"
"Chu -?!" Pierce squeaks, gripping my sides as he tries to get a bearing on what is happening.
"You're lucky you're so cute Pierce." I hum reveling his body in my arms. He's just so cute that I could eat him up! I glance at his face spying his cheeks light up like a red beacon. So cute!
"J-Jackie chu?!" Pierce squeals, remaining tense in my hug.
"Yeah?"
"Why are you hugging me? I kept getting it wrong chu~." He bluntly asks, genuinely puzzled about the affection.
"So? You'll eventually get it."
"But I keep messing up!" He complains looking more down than ever. "All I am is a stupid rat...,"
"Pierce!" I harshly growl pushing him out of the hug. He immediately tenses, startled by my rising voice.
"Don't ever say stuff like that!" It's not only demeaning to him but me too! Why does he have such low self esteem? Did Boris say something to him recently? My glare falters as I see his ears fully pull back and his lip quiver with tears dabbing his eyes. Uh oh.
"GYAAAAAA -!" He wails, darting off into the streets.
"Hey -!" I shout just as he darts out of sight. Ugh, great. I went and scared him off again. Why in the heck is he so freaking skittish?!
"Jackie, why are you so close to that rat?" Boris pouts, furrowing his brows together. My head jerks up spying the feline dangling in the tree before he drops to the ground beside me.
"None of your business." I growled grumpily. Jeez...now I have to go find him and apologize.
...Wait, have to? I don't 'have' to do anything! It's probably better off that I'm not friends with him; I'll only end up hurting him. Whether from an off comment or a too tight hug. Ugh, this is annoying.
"So? So? What's going on between you and the mouse?" Boris purrs tagging close behind.
"Nothing." I answer with a heavy sigh. It's only early in the morning and I've already lost a friend. What's next, Blood and Alice come to-
"A little birdie told me that you've been getting close to my gravedigger, Jackie. Mind explaining this?" Blood's voice purrs as I glance up, spying his suave approach. He tipped his hat as he slightly bowed.
"Negotiations again, Hatter?" I ask still moping. I brush off the depression; relax. I'll fix this all up later.
"In a ways, I suppose. I'm more so here to inquire of the whereabouts of the mouse. Have you seen him?"
"He took off screaming in that direction." I direct jamming my thumb towards the alley Pierce vanished into.
"Screaming? My my~ you must be quite the ring leader to have roped in the rat." Blood teases eyeing me up.
"Roped him in?" Is that another sex joke?
"I imagine that he is quite the submissive lover to someone so loud and obnoxious. Does that mean that you are on top?" He muses as sweat beaded his brow.
"The heat's getting to your head Hatter." I retort, holding back a chuckle.
"Perhaps." He relents, fanning himself with his hat.
"Now, if you excuse me, I need to go and look at the rollercoaster's engine, recalibrate the Merry go round, fix the Love Bird's track, and -,"
"MARY GO ROUND?!" Mary's voice rages as a loud click fills the clearing.
Oh gosh.
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I swear I'm going to beat the stupid out of Mary one day. I heavily heave clasping the side of the brick building as I stop for the first time in hours. I never thought I was going to lose Hatter. Stupid jerk ... Blood ran after me while Mary came shooting up any path he took as Boris struggled to calm him down. If Blood caught up to me I would have been screwed. I bet that's why he came; to make my own boss shoot me. That way he can honestly tell Alice that he didn't directly kill me.
I pull on my sweaty clothes scrunching up my nose in disgust. Bleh. I am in desperate need of a shower right now. I pull back my hair as the salty water drips off of my body in mass pools. Stupid dad; I got all this sweatiness from that man's genes! Yep, nothing like a stinky sweaty girl to turn the boys on. Yuck.
I trot towards my room as the street lamps click on, the afternoon sky shuddering to night. Well, it's fine I guess. I'm kind of tired after all of that running. I hop up the steps slipping into my quiet room. I heavily sigh and slump against the door. Man...How am I going to track down that mouse? It was pure luck that I found and survived his little 'secret house' let alone the fact that I was shrunken. I flick on the lights as my eyes bulge.
Piles upon piles of Sunflowers towered high in my room, some piles even reaching all the way up to the ceiling with their shining glory.
"W-W-What the heck?!" I cry aloud unable to come up with anything else to say. Where in the world did all these sunflowers come from?!
"D-Do you like it Jackie?" Pierce's voice nervously asks. I stiffen as I cast my eyes around the room trying to locate him.
"Pierce?"
"D-D-Do you forgive me? I don't want you to be mad at me." He stutters as I intently listen to his trembling voice. Where is it coming from? I carefully slip pass the mountains of flowers searching for his hiding spot. "S-Sunflowers can be dried in the sun and-and their seeds are really yummy...so, please forgive me?"
"Forgive you? Pierce, I was never mad at you." I answer as my head flicks to a particular corner of the room. I stare hard as I sneak over to the corner, jumping around as I look for him. Hm ... not here either ...
"Huh? B-But you were yelling at me earlier ...," he trails off searching for an explanation to the sequence of events.
"It's because you called yourself stupid! You not stupid, Pierce. It's insulting to me when you say that."
"How chu~?"
"We are friends, Pierce. I don't make friends with idiots." I huff spying a flickering tail. I smile.
"So...you don't hate me?"
"No." I almost laugh, peeking around the bend where he was hiding, curled up in a ball in the corner.
"You forgive me?"
"You never made me mad in the first place." I sweetly comfort, touching his shoulder. He glances back with drooping ears, still sulking. I wrap my arms around him bringing him into a hug. He almost immediately relaxes, melting in my embrace as he eagerly returns the affection.
"Hm...you smell." Pierce notes, lightly sniffing the air. A faint flush crosses my cheeks. Ah, I forgot I was sweaty.
"Yeah, sorry about that. I'll go take a shower right now - GAH!" A wet, tiny tongue draws across my shoulder sending an electric jolt down my spine. I slip back with Pierce falling on top, knocking into the side of a sunflower mountain. It sways for a moment before toppling over us, burying us under their watching eyes. I stiffen, almost panicking as he sucks on the back of my neck running his tiny muscle across the surface. "P-Pierce -!"
"Hm ... you taste good too chu~," Pierce happily hums lightly brushing his lips over my jaw. I tremble as I struggle to get a sense of what is happening. My chest tightens as my heartbeat begins to pound even harder against my chest. K-Kissing...and l-l-licking me -!
But I can't stop him.
No matter how hard I try to shove him off the sense of a strange euphoria pins my hands down. A dull, agonizingly sweet pulsing thumps beneath my skin boiling me from the inside out. W-What in that world is going on? My head cranes back as I wrestle with the conflicting emotions.
He takes that a little strangely. A hum arises in the back of his throat, rising and falling in a hypnotic pitch. My own mind goes hazy as I struggle to understand the wave of emotions. Why am I letting him do this? I ... don't understand ... I've never let a guy in before so why is Pierce able to dip and dive past my guards so easily? It's like I have no defenses against guys like him. Pierce's fingers readily sweep up my jaw as his mouth captivates my lips. The boiling blood concentrates over my cheeks as I reach up, sliding my hand across his neck and down his throat, feeling his skin hardly mold under my touch from his surprisingly muscular form.
"P-Pierce...," my shaking voice utters before he seals my lips, continuing with his humming tune. Without warning the door slams open.
"Jackie, do you know what happened to my sun...flowers...?" Gowland's voice trails off as he beholds one of the greatest collections of mass flowers ever produced ever. My heart stops beating as I suck in a quick startled breath. Oh my gosh oh my gosh what is Gowland going to think oh my gosh oh my gosh -! Pierce's eyes take on a hazy look, once more connecting our lips. I snatch hold of his shoulders and throw him out of the pile before popping up from the sunflower mass. "Jackie?"
"G-Gowland! H-H-Hi! I-I-I-!" I stutter unable to spit out a coherent sentence. K-K-Kissing me and - and - and licking and - and -!
"Uh...hi? Jackie, did you steal all of my sunflowers?" He asks looking around the room. My eyes dart over to Pierce who is just coming out of his little moment, looking dazed as he looks up. Oh thank goodness he's hidden by another pile of sunflowers or else Gowland would have noticed that he was in the same pile as me.
"Uh, no, I didn't. I-I-I wanted to ask you why they were all here." I spit out. Yeah, that's a good coverup. Act like I don't know anything and maybe he'll go along with it. As long as Pierce stays quite I can get a hands on the situation and -
"Huh? But Jackie, I gave you all these flowers. I went into Gowland's garden and picked them for you!" Pierce cheerfully cries with a broad, distant smile. My face drains of color as my head snaps back to Gowland. Oh gosh...
"PIERCE, HOW MANY TIMES HAVE I TOLD YOU NOT TO PICK MY SUNFLOWERS?!" Gowland demands whipping out his shotgun.
"GGYYYYAAAAAA -!" Pierce squeals the second he hears the gun click into place.
BANG
In a mass explosion of petals and seeds I fall back, covering my face from the barrage of debris as I gap towards the giant hole now in my wall. Gowland's eyes grow wide as he hides the gun, whistling as he promptly turns away.
"GOWLAND! How many times have I told you not to shoot at property?! NOW THERE'S A GIANT HOLE IN MY WALL YOU NITWIT!"
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Did you know that mice sing / hum songs while they are courting? Well, I looked it up, and apparently they do! How cool is that? 10 REVIEWS as always~