Author's Note: Well, I gotta say, this took me one day to make this chapter and it should be my new record so far. Okay, I think you deserve a reason why the last chapter got the temporary M rating; when Ella Mental was taking a shower, she diddled with herself so I felt that it wouldn't be safe to do this at a T rating. Luckily, chapter fourteen is up now so it's back to the T; speaking of the word "back," her friend shows up again in this one.
Routine Stop
The atmosphere got bright and clear as the golden sun was still shining. A few (more) automobiles of all shapes, sizes, makes, and even models drove through (and around) other streets, roads, turnpikes, avenues, bridges, tunnels, highways, freeways, and even some went off road along with a few bicyclists at their side. As everything remained the same as it was like yesterday, people would find it typical to not find anything out of the ordinary. There were still people going to work either by car, train, boat, plane, or even on foot; also, there were folks who worked around or at their own homes and some who were unemployed looking through newspaper ads for some jobs. Regardless whatsoever, the orange feline was one of them.
Ella left outside her house sometime ago just to arrive at her workplace like everyone else who had to punch the clock at a nine-to-five pace, metaphorically and/or sometimes literally. She now had already finished her strawberry shortcake yogurt and then found the same bus stop from yesterday during the rainstorm and sat down on the bench, waiting for a bus to ride her to the office. It wasn't long 'til a navy blue bus drove up to the stop where the feline waited on for arguably at least ten whole minutes; sure enough, Yasmine came around this time without her back and as the bus doors opened up the two characters in question entered the banana blue motor vehicle both alphabetically and chronologically. As Ella took her seat, the vixen paid the slug exact change for the ride the two were going to have once again before sitting near her again.
"Good morning, Ella," were the first three words that were said out of Yasmine's mouth to the feline. Ella responded to the vixen's comment with a more-or-less typical, "hello…" "It's a pleasure to see you again," Yasmine spoke, "very lovely weather we are having so far." "Well it is but since yesterday I know that not everyday is like that; after all, a sunny day could chase the clouds away," the feline cynically spoke to her. The vixen tittered as she then replied, "very poetic; I bet that English was your favorite educational subject." "Actually, it something I had just thought of," Ella said, "anyway, what was yours?" "It's easy: Martial Arts," Yasmine answered quickly to the feline's question. Ella was slightly surprised about the vixen's riposte and inquired, "but isn't Martial Arts an after school extracurricular activity?" "It's actually a self defense class where people learn how to fend for themselves against enemies with their body," Yasmine countered, "how do you defend yourself?" "Women's self defense," the feline answered as she knew a little more than just low blows below the belt of the opposite sex.
As the wheels on the bus went round, round, round, the vixen then asked Ella, "What did you do last night?" "Nothing much," were the very two words the feline started off with, "all I just did was read a book for my spare time last night." "What was the name of the book?" Yasmine solicited. After following a short and slightly gauche pause Ella finally answered the question, "Fire and Ice by Kathleen and Donald King." "That sounds like a nice book," the vixen responded, "do you like it?" "To tell you the truth, I didn't actually care for it; but, it was a good read so far," the feline retorted.
Now Yasmine started to talk to Ella about what she, the vixen did last night, "My night was more or less, the same as yours. All I did was go out for a nightly walk around the valley to catch some fresh air and to stay in shape. Afterwards, I went to a secluded hot spring and bathe to keep myself warm and relaxed so I wouldn't catch a cold. Then, I went back home once I'd dried myself off to eat and fall asleep."
"Oh, I see," the feline spoke up, "speaking of warm and relaxing, I just took a shower this morning and it refreshing" "Wow, sometimes when I take a shower I go to the waterfall and bathe as well," Yasmine said. Soon, the bus was starting to pull over at a different stop to where Ella realized that stop was leading her to headquarters and just to end the conversation she said, "there's my stop so I should be going to work now." "You still have my phone number, right?" the vixen spoke as the feline got up from that seat, "We could still go out for a night on the town." "We could but I have to see how my workday turns out," Ella responded as she got off the bus and continued on foot to work.
Author's Note: Well, nothing to say here except this: Please Read and Review...