Little Angel

Chapter 5

I Missed You

A few weeks later Serenity is walking through the halls after finishing cleaning up a room. She sees Michelle walking down the hallway and she runs over to her hugging her.
"Hi Michelle." She smiles. Michelle looks at the yellow vixen now a radiant young woman. It seemed after her 16th birthday she was happier and the pendant she wore around her neck showed her acceptance amongst Crystel. Their were still times where the vixen would drop into a depression but staying there for almost two years she was getting better.
"So are you done for today?" Serenity shook her head yes. Michelle could tell that there was a very interment relationship between her and Crystel. She could tell the vixen had tasted the water a few times. Michelle always remembered her mother telling her that once a vixen went into the water her body would change a bit and the vixen used to be a tad slim but now she filled out greatly. Michelle smiled and the two started down the hall. "So how about we catch up with Jasmine and get some dinner before I head home?"

"Oh yes that would be great." They both laugh and head down the hall.
Crystel is walking around the halls looking for Serenity and starts to get angry and upset. She needed to speak to her but the yellow vixen seamed to be avoiding her and Crystel hated to be avoided or ignored. Now it looked as if the vixen had vanished off of the grounds of the hotel. It did not bother her if she left but Serenity had not told her she was going anywhere and she worried about her. The last thing she would want is for her sunshine to be hurt. She hears the front door in the lobby open and Serenity walks in laughing. She stops when she sees Crystel with her arms crossed tapping her foot not looking to happy.

"Where have you been Serenity?" Serenity walks over to her like a puppy that just has been caught tearing up newspaper. "Well?" Serenity looks at her.

"I went out with Jasmine and Michelle. We went to dinner." Crystel could see how dark it was outside and she was not sure how far Serenity had walked alone in the dark. That was something that Serenity did not approve of at all.

"Why didn't you tell me? I was worried about you!" Serenity looks away and sees it starts to rain. "Well Serenity?"

"Well I can take care of myself now. I'm not a baby Crystel." Serenity never said that to anyone before. She was going to turn 17 in a month and a half. She had been there for over two years so she imagine she could take care of herself. She knew the streets just as well as Crystel.

"Is that so?" Crystel looks at her. Serenity felt a bit timid but then she felt it was time to show that she was getting older.
"Yes, I can do fine all by myself. I know this place just like you do." Crystel looks away from the vixen.
"If that is the case then go out there if you want!! I don't care. You think your so big and bad Serenity." Serenity looks at her angrily.

"You can't treat me like this! I am your companion!!" Crystel looks away from her. Serenity looks at her. "Don't turn your back on me. What about all the things we promised each other!! What about that!!"

"Well the way you are speaking you don't need me or anything. So why are you here?" Serenity can feel tears come to her eyes as her anger rises as well. Crystel didn't want to do this to the young vixen, she didn't want to do this, but she knew there was a lesson she needed to learn. Something she herself never gotten until it was too late and she had lost her family. Serenity growls loudly as she starts to cry.

"I never want to see you again!!!" She did not understand why Crystel was being so mean right now and acting as if she did not care. Serenity cries and runs out the front door. Crystel sighs softly as she clutches her hands. A male fox walks over to her.

"Aren't you going to go after her?" Crystel shakes her head no.

"This is a lesson she will have to learn…."

Serenity is running through the rain crying. Once again the rain and her tears are mixed. After a while she comes to a stop and takes a deep breath and then shivers. She hadn't realized that she had been running blindly and now didn't realize where she was. She looked up and sees a sign that reads "Maple". She shakes more and covers herself more with her jacket as the wind picks up. She falls to the ground as she feels the reassurance of that day when she had met Crystel. How she was alone, cold and it was raining. Serenity shook her hair and wiped her eyes as she looked up.
"I'm not going back. I can do this." She kept walking through the cold. Crystel on the other hand was looking out the window at the rain.

"Come on sunshine, don't be stubborn. Just come home to me please.." She sighs and looks down.
The next day Serenity opens her eyes and looks down. She had slept in a tree the night before. She jumped down out of the tree and looks up. It was cloudy and it looked like there was another chance for rain. There was no blue in the sky. It was all grey and the clouds looked even darker. Not at all like the happy blue sky with white clouds that she was used to seeing. Serenity sighed as she started walking again. After a while she started to ask people for change so she could make a phone call. In the end she managed to get two dollars and seventy five cents. She took the money and went into a small dinner. She walked in and sat on a stool. She could feel the water drip off of her running down the stool onto the floor. A female walks over to her.

"Hey honey, hmmm what would you like?" Serenity sighs softly and wipes water off her face. She then pulls out the money she collected.

"What can I get with this?" The female counts the money and sighs.

"A glass of milk." Serenity sighed and looked down. The woman could hear the vixen's stomach growl loudly. The woman sighs. "Alright honey, for you I'll get you a sandwich and some chips." Serenity looks at her.

"Oh miss you don't have to do that." The woman quiets her.

"You keep your money honey; I'll get you something to eat." The woman walks away and Serenity sighs.

"What am I going to do?" She looks down a bit sadly. Her ears folded back a bit weakly.. It hadn't been a full day and she was already missing her friends and Crystel. She couldn't even understand why she ran off and now she couldn't go back to Crystel. The female comes back seeing the vixen deep in thought.
"Here eat this. You look weak." Serenity takes the sandwich and eats it in a matter of minutes and she ate the chips and drinks the water. After she finished she looked at the woman.
"Thank you so much." The woman smiles at Serenity.
"It's alright, all I have to say is that you need to go back home. I'm sure your family is worried about you." Serenity looks down wondering if Crystel was worried about her. She then shook the thought out of her mind. If she was worried then she would have came after her. Crystel just let her go. Serenity left out of the small dinner and continued on her way to somewhere.
A few days later it is raining once again and Serenity has failed in finding a home or real food. Crystel then starts to the front door. The male comes to her.
"Ms. Crystel, where are you going?"

"I'm going to find Serenity. She needs me. She's been punished enough." Crystel walks out of the door holding an umbrella. "Now if I was Serenity where would I go?"
Serenity is sitting on someone's doorstep crying softly once again in the rain. Her clothes once were bright and clean now dingy and dirty and ripped having to escape a dog by jumping over a fence with a ending result of a almost completely ripped open dress. A woman comes to the door and sees Serenity with a not happy look on her face.

"Get off of my steps you little pest." Serenity looks up at the woman, but the woman gives her no sympathy. "I said get off!!" She goes and chases her off the steps and Serenity goes running off to an unknown place. Crystel is on the other side of the city looking in a dinner. A woman comes up to her.

"Can I help you miss?" Crystel looks at the woman.

"Have you seen a yellow vixen? Two tails, lime-green dress and a blue-green jacket?" The woman thinks and then snaps her fingers.

"She came in here about a week ago. Poor little one she was so cold and hungry trying to find something to eat. Do you know her?"

"Yes, she is a great friend of mine and I'm looking for her."

"I don't know. She left here and just was gone." Crystel sighs as she heads back out the door into the rain.

"I have to find her. Theirs no telling what can happen to her. How could I have been so stupid! Never again, I am so sorry my love."
A few hours pass and nightfall set in. Crystel was beyond worried now and all she wanted now was her lover in her arms. She had never been so worried and scared about anything. Serenity was walking holding herself tightly when a large tiger saw her. He walked up to her and grinned.

"Hey honey, why such a beautiful vixen doing out here in this cold." Serenity looked at the tiger and could see the hunger in his eyes. It wasn't for food, it was for something else. "Come on I'll let you stay with me." Serenity backs away from him.

"Uhh, no I'm fine sir. I don't need a place to stay I'm on my way home now."

"It didn't look like it. Now come on. I'm being nice." Serenity tries to leave but he blocks her path. "Now come on." He looks at her with a strange anger. Serenity shakes softly, not from the cold, but from the fear. What did he want from her?
Serenity soon found herself roughly pushed onto a bed by the tiger. She shakes from fear and feels tears falling.
"Please, I don't want to do this." The tiger growls and pushes her onto the bed.

"You know you want this honey. Just let me do it." Serenity shakes harder as she hears a zipper. She then closes her eyes and screams.
"Crystel!!!!" She cries out again as she feels the tiger puts his hands on her roughly. Crystel is walking through the park when her ears perk up.

"Serenity?" Crystel takes off to where she hears the scream. A minute or two later she comes to a door and she hears the scream again. Crystel growls and uses her claws slashing the door apart and going into the house. She runs up the stairs and finds Serenity huddled at the corner of the bed. Her clothes have been ripped of and the tiger that is attacking is also nude. Crystel felt an unbelievable anger rise through her body. Serenity is so scared that she doesn't notice until she hears a very angry growl. She turns and looks.

"Crystel!! Help me!!" She starts to cry and the tiger gets up and lounges at Crystel. She attacks him as well. Serenity huddles in the corner as she watches the fight between her lover and the stranger. Crystel lands the first punch in the face knocking the tiger back. He growls as he goes and punches back sending Crystel into a chair. As Crystel looks up the tiger is about to send another punch her way but she jumps out of the way and kicks him hard in the back sending him into the wall. Many blows are taken and Crystel gets more then enough bruises but in the end the anger and the rage she has for the male that tried to take her lover's pride took over and she almost mangles him. Letting her claws come out and ripping at his flesh. He tries to counter act but because of the vixen's blinding rage he finds himself outmatched. Crystel sends constant swipes at him. He in returns digs into her stomach with his claws and she cries out. She manages to pull them out and sends a punch to his face and sends him back into a dresser knocking everything on it to the ground. Crystel then lounges at the male and he hits her hard sending her back and he digs once again into her. This time from the back and Crystel screams out in pain. Serenity shakes more crying afraid of what would happen to her if Crystel lost. Crystel finally gets a break when she tips him and he hits the ground hard and she breaks his arm. Afterwards she turns and looks at Serenity. She has wounds on her stomach and back. Many scratches cover her face, neck, arms, and legs. Her clothes ripped pieces. Serenity shakes with tears in her eyes and she gets up and hugs Crystel crying unable to control herself. Crystel breaths out weakly as she takes Serenity and hold her. She then turns and looks at the tiger who is bleeding and beardy alive.

"If you ever touch her again the hospital will be coming to take you to the morgue." She soon takes Serenity by the hand and leads her out. The vixen is still shaken up and crying over what just happened. Crystel doesn't say anything. She just picks her up and walks weakly back to the hotel. Crystel walks inside the hotel carrying Serenity looking very weak as the blood drains out of her. As soon as she gets the yellow vixen into the bedroom she places her on the bed and falls blacking out. Serenity cries out.

"Crystel! I'm so sorry." She puts her on the bed and weeps softly. She goes and starts to clean and bandage her wounds. Serenity had not noticed how many wounds Crystel had gotten during the fight but it was easy and clear to see now. Crystel had taken a real beaten from the tiger.

Crystel slowly open her eyes and wakes the next morning and looks out the window. She sees the sun burning bright in the sky. She sits up and feels some pain in her stomach but sees that she has been cleaned up. She sighs as she looks down and then the door opens. Serenity walks into the door holding a tray with a small breakfast on it. A rose in a vase on the left and it also has a plate that has eggs, bacon, sausage, and pancakes. Theirs is also a hot coffee mug on it. Serenity sits the tray in front of Crystel and looks at her.

"Thank you for saving me Crystel. If it wasn't for you I would have been." She looks down. Crystel smiles as she leans over and kisses her softly. After a while she breaks away from the kiss.
"It's alright sunshine. I'm just glad that you are alright. I am so sorry I didn't come after you sooner."

"No, I should have never left. I'm sorry for being so stubborn. Its just I'm about to be 17 and I wanna be treated that way." Crystel sighs. "Serenity, I give you everything in the world. All I ask is that you tell me if you go somewhere. I worry about you." Serenity looks at Crystel and then looked down embarrassed. She was the one wrong here.
"I'm sorry Crystel. Can you forgive me?" Crystel looks away from the vixen somewhat annoyed but playing with her as well. "Crystel please." She doesn't look at her. Serenity then turned Crystel face to her and softly pressed her lips against hers. Crystel was for once speechless. It was always her who was the provoker. Serenity was usually still a bit timid about showing her feelings to her. Now though, feeling the passionate and soft kiss the yellow vixen was giving her made her change her mind. A little while later Serenity pulled her lips away from her and looked into Crystel's eyes. Her own ice-blue eyes watering begging for her forgiveness. "Crystel please, I need you. I know now that I can only do but so much on my own. You help me when I need it. You protect me and love me you are the only one who has treated me with so much kindness. I love you." Crystel smiled as she heard what she wanted to hear. She then moved the tray over to a small desk and pulled the young vixen onto her lap.

"I suppose I can forgive you this time Serenity. You really did pull a number on me though." Serenity looked down, but Crystel lifted her face so their eyes would meet again. Crystel smiled softly and she could see the familiar pink in her checks as she blushed. "Theirs that cute vixen I feel in love with." Serenity giggled softly as she gave Crystel a soft hug.

"I missed you Crystel."

"I missed you too."