So here's another chapter and I actually decided to pull the trigger. Read and review if you want to, I'd love to hear both good and bad!
Don't own any cats that I know of.
Tugger felt like his normal self for almost an hour after he left the junkyard. He didn't second guess his decision and he could shake the awkward moment he had with Bella, no problem. He even thought about trying to find some queen to try out what he and Bomba had done together. But when he realised that he hadn't eaten properly and that whoever he wanted to meet up with would most likely not be interested until the evening, all doubts caught up with him. At first he was mostly angry with Bella for making him feel this way. He hated that she was the one setting the rules. He couldn't even help himself and had kissed her back. He felt a shudder down his spine. The kiss had been fantastic, really gentle, but at the same time it had been horrible. He knew he couldn't walk around and seduce kittens. Even though they were almost queens now there was an unspoken rule and it applied more to him than any other cat since he was the big flirt and heartbreaker. And he was a tom and she a queen. The others didn't care what the tom kittens did with the queens but it was different when it came to the queen kittens. And he was son to the leader of their tribe. Not the perfect son, but still.
'And why had she kissed him?' he thought. She had said something about embarrassing herself and he thought that maybe she really had a crush on him like the other queen kittens. But she hadn't shown any signs of it before. 'Something must have happened' he thought and wondered if it was something he'd done or something else. He knew that the only way he could get an answer was to go back and ask her, but even though he didn't want to admit it, he was scared about how the others would react. She had taken initiative, and that to start with would be tough to convince the others about. But he had kissed her back and then rejected her. He felt ashamed when he thought about how insensitive he had been about it. He just got shocked and the thoughts about what would happen if the others found out took over. He knew that when the evening came he would have a hard time stopping himself from going back and hoping she would want to see him. He had tried so many times to just ignore it but he knew the temptation to go back would be tough to resist. Tugger decided that he needed to get distracted so that his mind could clear and when he felt his stomach reminding him about the small breakfast he had earlier his legs started walking towards his human home. 'If shit hits the fan that would be the first place they'd look for me' he thought but reasoned that he might as well be comfortable until then.
After a few hours at his human home he was well fed and lounged on a cushion near a radiator. He could have been worse. As he had imagined it was already hard not to speed back to the junkyard to see Bella. He was getting more convinced that she probably had a crush on him and it made him feel smug about himself. He knew she would come around eventually. But he couldn't shake that weird feeling he had that there was something special about her. Something that made him want to take it slow, and whatever came out of it he wanted it to last. He had never felt like that before and he couldn't really see what was special this time, only the feeling that it was. He realised that he liked Bella as a friend, she was someone he could talk to and someone he could relax around. 'Maybe I only like her as a friend?' he thought but remembered the kiss and the feeling when he held her in his arms. No there was something else there. It would just be easier to go back and talk to her and he started to regret his decision to run away in the first place. He hoped that he hadn't ruined anything now and at the same time he was irritated that she had such a big impact on him. Normally he left a queen whenever he felt like it and he knew he had broken some hearts in the past as well, it usually never affected him like this. For some reason this was important. He let out a deep sigh and decided to take a nap and see if he could think clearer afterwards.
When Tugger woke up he saw that it was dark outside and he knew that the kittens wouldn't be up much longer. 'Maybe Bella would still want to see him tonight?' he thought and left his human family. He hadn't more than turned a corner when he saw his older brother coming towards him. 'Oh boy, here we go' he thought and braced himself for what to come.
"Tugger!" said Munkustrap walking towards him looking very angry. Tugger figured he knew what had happened.
"Munk!" he said back trying to laugh at the harsh tone.
"Don't joke around now, this is serious" said Munk as they met up. "Do you have a good explanation to why Bella cried in my arms after she fainted in the junkyard, hm?" he said putting his paws to his sides so he wouldn't use them to shake some sense into his brother. He did not think that Bella was the one to blame in this.
"Is she ok?" asked Tugger worried.
"She is better" said Munk a bit taken by how worried Tugger had sounded. "But that is no explanation" he demanded.
"Ehm, what did she tell you?" said Tugger hoping he didn't have to enlighten his brother.
"You tell me what happened and we'll see if I believe you?" said Munk squinting his eyes. 'Well at least there was some doubt about it' thought Tugger.
"We just hung out like we do sometimes and, I don't know, she kissed me" he said looking away.
"That sounds reasonable" said Munk and Tugger looked up. "The one queen kitten in the junkyard who is unimpressed by you starts kissing you out of the blue, what did you do to lead her on?" said Munk and Tugger started to second guess himself. 'Maybe he had done more than he thought?' he reasoned with himself.
"I don't know! Actually we had a good time, we were resting and she.. ehm, sang for me, and I didn't want to make her feel uncomfortable but I might have done so anyway, I don't know, I wasn't trying anything" he said pleading, hoping that it made more sense to Munk than to himself.
"Well you are not going to try anything either!" said Munk a little less convinced his brother was an ass. "You are going to get back with me, apologise to Bella and make sure she feels better!" Munk was raising his voice again.
"Geez take it easy, I will try alright?" said Tugger not sure he was the one to make everything better again.
"You are so immature, you just run away when things get tough! Have you ever tried to stay and fix the mess you made?" said Munk shaking his head and realising the real reason he was so angry with his brother.
"Let's just go back" said Tugger biting his jaws together. Those last words had stung. He knew he was immature and selfish from time to time but he was still a lot younger than his brother. What hurt most was that this time he had tried to act unlike that with Bella but when it backfired he fell into old habits.
Munkustrap could see that he had been a little too harsh with his brother. Those last words had just slipped his mouth in the heat of the moment, but it had felt good to say them. There was some truth to them after all. Suddenly Tugger took a strange turn and walked off into another direction.
"Where are you going?" asked Munk confused.
"Oh" said Tugger who forgot his brother didn't know about the secret entrance. "I have a secret way in" he said and shrugged his shoulders.
"You have a secret way in and hasn't told the protector of the tribe about it? What if Macavity would find out?" said Munk as he hurried after Tugger.
"I.. I didn't think about that" said Tugger and stopped. He had just been happy to have a secret way out, he hadn't thought about the possibility of someone else to get in.
"Come on, let's make sure it is still secret" said Munk and hurried the steps.
Tugger picked up the pace as well and lead the way. He was opening a broken cupboard that had no back to enter into the clearing where the tree stood, and as soon as he entered he saw that the clearing was not empty. His heart sunk as he saw Bella standing against the tree with Tumblebrutus kissing her.
But then everything happened really fast. He saw Bella pushing away from Tumble almost in panic and at the same time he could feel Munk pushing him over screaming something. Tugger fell hard to the ground and when he looked up he could see Munkustrap mid air as he went for attack. Where he would land stood a tall and red cat Tugger knew too well and in between them stood Bella.