8/19/15

I'm starting college next week! Whoop! Hopefully my English course will help me improve my writing. :D


Megan looked intently at the room Millie had carried her into. She had been placed on a pillow on top of the couch and was told to "stay still" until she got back.

The room wasn't that interesting but what was was the way those two boys kept looking at her. They didn't even try to hide their distrust as they hadn't taken their eyes off her since they entered the room. Even now she could feel their glares on either side of her as she looked at the television set with little interest.

While she pretended to pay attention to the cartoon Millie had selected for her while she wait, her ears were erect and ready to pick up on any movement her seating companions made.

Her ear twitched as she registered the sound of Millie's returning footsteps. Just as Millie was about to enter from the hall, Megan stood up and placed herself rather suddenly in the lap of the boy to her right. Said boy flinched violently and shoved her off his lap to the floor. Megan made a show of laying on the floor and yowling loudly in pain as though the shove had forced her to land on her injured wrist.

As expected, Millie rushed to her side. In her hand the little bag of ice she had went to retrieve for her.

"What in the heck was that for?!" Millie yelled at the boy who had shoved her, as she softly lifted Megan up and placed her back on the pillow. "She had only been trying to be friendly. Not that you two jerks deserve it!"

Megan let out a small whimper and gazed up at Millie while extending her now bandaged wrist. Millie had taken no pause yesterday in wrapping her paw and creating a splint for her.

Millie glared up at the dark haired boy, who was now raising his hands in a sign of surrender.

"S-sorry. She just startled me." The boy said, the slight increase in his heart rate showed that the younger girl's anger had scared him. Megan smirked at this information. It seemed that while she was smaller, Millie held a sort of power over the other two. Interesting.

Millie's glare hardened before she turned back to Megan and gave her a soft smile.

"It's okay Miss Kitten. Now hold still." Millie said as she gently placed the bag of ice on her paw. Megan tensed at first but slowly relaxed as a burning sensation she hadn't even noticed faded away. Millie smiled as she noticed the tenseness in Megan's body disappear.

Millie turned back to the dark haired boy, who had been trying to discreetly slide off the couch, and grabbed him by the tail of his shirt.

"You're not going anywhere until you apologize."

"I already did!" He said, again raising his hands in surrender.

"Not to me! To her!" She said pointing a finger at Megan. Seeing as Millie's eyes were now on the boy, Megan flashed him a smug smile. This was going to be fun.

"Why? She's a cat! She won't-" He said but Millie cut him off with a raised hand.

"Either apologize or I can tell my daddy that you pushed her off the couch." Millie said with a expectant look in her eyes. Megan snickered a bit internally. So that was the power she had over them. Not only was she a forceful little thing, but the father came at her beck and call.

The boy seemed like he was having an inner debate with himself before he sighed, turned and walked over to stand in front of Megan's pillow.

"I'm sorry." He said in one breath.

"What was that Dennis? You said it so fast I don't think she heard you." Millie said from his side, her arms crossed and foot tapping on the carpeted floor.

The boy, Dennis, rolled his eyes and looked down at Megan. Megan smiled up at him innocently, something that seemed to only irritate him more considering the glare he was trying not to make. He closed his eyes and let out another long breath of air before looking back down at her.

"I'm sorry." He said, this time pronouncing each word clearly and slowly. Obviously a slight snub to Millie who's glare had yet to leave him.

"That'll do." Millie said lifting the pillow with Megan up, sitting down and placing the pillow in her lap.

Dennis sat back down on the couch, Millie and Megan now right beside him. Megan smiled victoriously as both boys sat irritably on their ends of the couch and scowled.

I'm going to enjoy staying here.

. . .

Coop watched closely from his bedroom window as Millie took the cat outside and scowled when he remembered that he couldn't follow them unless he was accompanied by an adult.

Looking over to the side of the room he saw that Dennis had been writing a few things down in his notepad. Dennis brows were furrowed and he kept squinting at the paper, as though he could find the answer he was looking for if he looked at the paper close enough.

Coop coughed to get his attention but even then he didn't look up. Irritated, Coop walked over and glanced down at what Dennis had been writing. Oddly enough it looked to be a mess of crossed out words.

"Dennis, what are you doing?" Coop asked looking over over his friend's shoulder. Dennis jumped, not noticing that Coop had moved so close to him, and scowled.

"I was just looking over our notes. It's too early to draw a conclusion or anything but I wanted to make sure we didn't miss anything yesterday."

"Oh." Coop said sitting down beside him.

"So far we know that Kat's built some sort of tiny bug machines and put them in a circle around this area." Dennis said taking a crumbled piece of paper out of his pocket. "I wrote this in a hurry while you were chasing Kat."

Unfolding the paper, Coop saw that there was an odd scribbling of words, hardly visible enough to read.

"What does it say?"

"Well, while we were running I tried to write what direction that clearing was in. My best guess was that..." He said pointing at the faded words. "The site should be somewhere west of your house."

Coop blinked owlishly in astonishment. "Wow Dennis. I'm surprised you had the hindsight to do this. I didn't even notice where we were going." Coop said with a slight blush.

"Don't be so hard on yourself. I only remembered to do it at the last second. If one of us had thought to pay attention to what direction Kat had been coming from we'd probably have found the place sooner."

That didn't exactly help to lift Coop's mood. Trying to think of something else, Coop walked back to the window and glanced down at his sister and that cat again, only now noticing the absence of another hairless pest.

"If anything I bet that naked rat is back at that camp site."

Dennis walked over to the window as well and stood beside him as they both looked over the yard.

"If we really did cause some damage the other night then he's probably back there trying to fix it." Dennis said. He then focused his attention on Millie and the cat. "And we can't go out there without an adult, or Millie will rat us out."

"Yup." Coop said with a sigh.

They both turned from the window and slid to the floor.

"My dad won't be back until later so we can't exactly go anywhere." Coop said with a scowl. Dennis nodded his head.

"And my dad said that if I get in trouble again he's going to put one of those high tech security locks on my door and window."

Coop scowled harder. Out of all the times his dad didn't believe him this had to be the worse. Now there were two alien cats he had to worry about. Why couldn't he get caught when the world wasn't at stake? With all his dad's talk about responsibility it only made it more clear that he had a responsibility to stop whatever plan Kat was working on.

Coop was about to make some insult about Kat when he remembered the look on his dad's face when he caught them in the forest. He'd been trying to forget about it but it just kept coming back to him. That look of disappointment. He's never seen his dad look like that before. Sure he'd made him angry but to actually know he disappointed his only parent made him feel… sick.

Coop hit the back of his head against the wall in frustration.

"My dad thinks I'm a screw up."

Dennis turned his head sharply in his direction and stared at Coop in surprise. He opened his mouth to say something but ended up closing it again. He took his time in figuring out his response.

"You're dad doesn't think you're a screw up. He's just worried about you. He doesn't believe in all this so when we go off and something happens he thinks you're getting yourself into danger for no reason. He just wants to know that you're responsible enough to take care of yourself."

Dennis placed a hand on Coop's shoulder and gave it a squeeze.

"Once he realized how responsible you really are I'm sure he'll calm down."

Coop scoffed and rolled his eyes.

"Yeah, responsible, sure." Coop said, not meeting his eyes. "Just like how responsible I was when I lead us through the forest without a map or any other way to find our way back. If not for Kat leading us back towards the house, and dad finding us, we would have been lost."

"Coop, you can't put all the blame on yourself. I was right there with you and it's not like you twisted my arm to make me follow you. I'm completely capable of thinking for myself and that means we both should have been thinking more clearly about what was going on." Dennis said earnestly. "Besides, if you hadn't dragged us out there when you did, we might not have seen the direction Kat was going and found that clearing. You are responsible Coop. You just tend to let emotions cloud your judgement."

Coop turned to Dennis and gave him an appreciative smile. He was just about to tell him how helpful he was when a spark of an idea lit up in his head.

Responsibility... emotion…

Coop stared off into space as his idea started to form. If he could just get a better hold on his emotions, then maybe… Yes!

"Dennis!" Coop said suddenly with excitement. Dennis's eyes went wide from the sudden change in mood and responded with a confused "Yeah?"

"I've got an idea that might help us! What you just said about my emotions? Well, I'm not the only one with that problem!"

Dennis's brows furrowed as he tried to keep up with Coop's train of thought.

"Okay? Who?"

"Kat! Don't you remember? Whenever he started to get really pissed at us he would lose focus! Just like I did when I was chasing him the other night! He's had the advantage all this time because he's been keeping calm while making me angry. If we can just turn the tables on him…

"Then we can have the upper hand!" Dennis finished. Coop nodded vigorously in excitement.

"All we have to do is act nice to him and that other cat long enough to get close to them. If we don't react to their taunts then Millie won't be able to tell dad that we've been hurting her cat and he won't have a reason to keep us away from them. That way we can watch them as much as possible!"

"And with us around them all the time they won't have any chance to sneak off to that little area of theirs, and if they do we'll just tell Millie that we saw them going into the forest. With how protective she is she'd be terrified of Kat getting hurt so far away from where she can reach him." Dennis said.

"Especially with that other one pretending to be hurt. She'll have a heart attack if she sees her little patient trying to sneak back into the forest where she 'supposedly' got injured." Coop said with a smirk. "And with them so close by and my dad not having a reason to punish us, we may even stall long enough for our punishment to get taken off, and once that's gone we can run back to that site and see exactly what they've been up to!"

"And maybe even bring back some evidence. If we're able to take pictures, or better yet grab something, then we'll be able to prove to the world what's been going on. The government might even take over from there!"

Coop's eyes lit up at that idea. If they were able to get evidence not only could they give it to the government, but his dad will have no choice but to believe him. Finally!

Just as he was fantasizing about what will happen once they get Kat locked away, the sound of a car horn interrupted his thoughts and he heard his dad's voice calling out from the car.

Coop rushed down the stairs, his excitement giving him an extra boost of energy. He rushed out the room, and just as he was about to give his dad a loud and excited welcome back, there was a sudden pull at his arm. Coop turned around to see Dennis right beside him, looking down the hallway stairs with a discouraged look on his face. Coop blinked owlishly at him in confusion before looking down towards the front door and noticing a box held under his dad's arms. The sight of it made his stomach drop.

It was marked "Home Window Security Alarms".

His dad had actually bought an alarm in case Coop snuck out again. Like he was some sort of criminal. Coop stared down in sullen shock for a moment before noticing that his dad was now talking to Millie who in her arms sat that new cat.

A cat that was now smiling at him with an evil sort of glee in her eyes.

Coop stood there shocked for a moment before turning his back suddenly and going back into his room. He stood there in his room with his back to the open doorway. His fist clenched tightly at his sides.

Dennis walked in quietly and softly closed the door behind him. He could see Coop's fist shaking at his sides, and he could hear his breathing coming in and out in harsh breathes. He was about to say something to try and calm Coop down when he noticed his breathing slowly calm, and his fist slowly loosening and becoming open at his sides. Coop turned around slowly and gave Dennis a confident smirk.

"They think this is gonna distract me? Throw us off our game? Well that just shows how cocky they are. They're not even gonna see what hits them."

Dennis smiled and nodded his head in agreement. Coop nodded as well and walked back towards the door and out into the hallway again.

I'm not gonna let this stop me. We're going to stop them and prove to everyone that we were right. Then my dad will have no choice but to believe me.


Just another reminder that I've drawn and uploaded pictures of Kat and Megan in their human forms, as well as a picture of Megan in her cat form. You can check my profile for the link or just go on deviantart and look up my screen name. IT's the same as the one I have for fanfiction. :D