Teazer didn't show up before Victoria had finished dancing. She lingered longer with stretches afterwards but realised that it was very likely that the orange cat had had a good run with her brother and it was okey to not see each other all the time. Victoria and Tugger went back towards her den and said goodbye. Victoria was happy that she had told him, he had made her fears of the others seem silly and she was so glad he said that they could tell whenever they wanted, he got their back. But something was still different. He had been acting a bit off when she told him about the kiss and he seemed to react when she kissed him on the cheek, and it looked like he saw her differently when she glanced at him during the dance practise. She decided to take him on the words instead, he was probably just not used to this. There was no other queen mates in the tribe at the moment, at least that Victoria knew of, and maybe he was a bit unsure about how to act on it. He really didn't seem to think it was wrong in any way.
Victoria lay down in her bed and realised she had started to think more of her friend as hers after the conversation, like it got more real when you said it to someone else, but still, it would be nice to keep the secret a little longer. And it was fun to know something that no one else did. The small looks and winks during the day had been fun, they could show each other they were special without anyone knowing. Victoria had always thought of herself as a kitten who would grow up and be mated to another tom and have kittens of their own. But now she was a bit divided. She hadn't felt like this towards someone before, queen or tom, and maybe she was just attracted to Teazer and not necessarily only queens. It felt more reasonable to fall in love with a certain cat rather than a gender, but maybe you had to choose? She didn't want anybody else but maybe you could be attracted to both? She thought both the toms and the queens could be cute even though she hadn't felt like this for someone else. She couldn't ask Teazer about this, but maybe she could ask Tugger next time? He would understand that she didn't think of someone else, she was only curious how it worked.
Victoria didn't know how long she had slept but the sun was up when she heard a light tap on the door to her den. She was immediately awake and went up to open. Rumpleteazer stood there holding something behind her back.
"Are you awake?" she asked unnecessarily.
"Well obviously" said Victoria but smiled. "Do you want to come in?" her friend nodded.
"I said I'd bring you something" she said with a mischievous grin. "Tadaa!" Teazer had picked up some kind of bread in a cup that had pink frosting on top.
"What is it?" Victoria asked.
"Good" said Teazer. "I don't know but me and Jerrie ate like three each and they are amazing, this is for you" Teazer put it down on the floor and patted the ground next to her for Victoria to sit down.
"Thank you" said Victoria and sat down, this was a great interruption to her sleep. "How do I eat it?"
"Like this" said Teazer picking up some frosting with her finger and held it under Victorias nose. It smelt amazing.
"Oh" Victoria blushed but leaned in and licked the frosting of the finger feeling like it were made from sparkles and fire. "This was good" she said feeling some thickness in her voice and hoped this wasn't tears coming, she didn't feel sad at all.
"You got some on your chin" Teazer said with the same kind of low voice and licked it from her face, her tongue barely touched Victorias lip but instead of sparkles in the lip she could feel a tingling sensation in her lower belly. Victoria turned her head and put their lips together. The kiss got deeper than before and felt like it lasted forever. When they eventually pulled apart it felt like it was only them in the whole universe and that the universe also happened to contain only this room. They both looked at each other without speaking and then suddenly Victoria couldn't help but yawn.
"I'm not tired!" she said immediately.
"Haha yeah sure, then I guess you are bored?" said Teazer laughing. The tension in the air loosened up and Victoria laughed too.
"Do you want to finish the rest of the cake when we wake up later?" said Victoria after they had stopped laughing. Teazer had started to yawn as well.
"Yeah, let's sleep a little" she answered and without pushing any boundaries they fell asleep in the same way as the night before, facing each other, holding paws.
Tugger had not found any queen up for some early morning action and had went to bed quite frustrated. He reasoned this must be because of the dry season, he usually wasn't this easy to turn on. He tossed and turned all morning, missing the sound sleep he usually had after some time with the dancing queen. He smiled at himself, thinking he had to remember to call her that tomorrow to see what comeback she could surprise him with. The tingle came back and he let out a frustrated sigh.
"Already up or not yet to sleep?" he heard a voice from the door. As he turned around he saw his friend Mistoffelees looking amused.
"What are you doing here Misto?" he said grumpy.
"Just passing by and couldn't help but recognizing a certain unfulfilled sighing from the playboy mansion " Misto said looking even more amused.
"Well the wet weather is not matching my situation very well" he said, and started to groom his mane after the tossing in bed.
"You can't possibly mean that you don't have enough queens in line? Or toms?" Misto kept teasing him. They had kissed a couple of times but it didn't seem to be more than friendship between them.
"Bah!" said Tugger with no good answer to that, he knew he could have any pick he wanted. 'Or could he still?' he thought. "How about yourself then? You are up early and obviously alone"
"Oh but my situation is a bit more matching to the weather, thank you for asking" His friend said with a wink.
"Oh really? Got some today already?" Tugger teased but got a bit jealous. "Who is the lucky one?" he kept going.
"It was just fooling around, not that much action really" Misto said with a little more bitterness in the voice.
"Ah, so you've had guard duty with Alonzo?" Tugger said, knowing about their arrangement that was never to be more than that.
"Yeah yeah whatever, at least it's something. But why are you tossing around like this?" Misto said, laying down with his neck resting in Tuggers lap. They had always laid down like this when they talked, since they were kittens.
"Frustration as you guessed" Tugger said. "Misto have you ever felt some attraction to any of the queens?" Knowing well that his friend mostly played for the other team.
"No not really, I've kissed a few and they are lovely to hold and fool around with but you know how I feel about the rest of it."
"Yeah I know" he knew he could not betray Victorias trust and tell her older cousin about her and Teazer but he still needed to get some of the frustration out.
"Oh by the way Tugger I heard you are taking my little cousin to the ball?" Misto said and Tugger stiffened. He hadn't told his friend that yet. "Don't worry, I've talked to Munk and he enlightened me on your friendship. I haven't talked to her that much since she moved to her own den, how did you become friends anyway?"
"I'm up late and so is she so it just happened, you are not that close huh?" Tugger said realising they had never really talked about Victoria, she hadn't mentioned Mistoffelees either.
"No not really, she is actually not my real cousin but they found her and raised her with my other cousin so we always called each other that" Misto said shrugging his shoulders. "But what about all this frustration Tugger, what got you going?" his friend laughed.
"Well" he decided to tweak the truth a bit. "For some silly reason I can't stop fantasizing about two queens kissing and, well, you know" he said with a grin. "I really seem to only want what I can't have have" Tugger laughed at the irony.
"I know why you keep thinking of that" said Misto.
"You do?" said Tugger a bit anxious he had said too much.
"Yeah. the other day when Bomba started teasing you with Mungos sister, oh I do love that fantasy" said Misto.
"Yeah that must be it" said Tugger breathing out. "Wait what? Do you fantasize about queens?"
"They are lovely to watch Tugger" he said with a wink. "But they don't get you all the way"
"No I guess that wouldn't work" Tugger said, surprised by his friends preferences but definitely intrigued.
"Haha I can't believe that you haven't thought about this earlier, I bet you are always the star of your own fantasies!" His friend couldn't stop laughing and Tugger had to admit he had a point.