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The sun was starting to set behind the trees, and nightfall had already taken its place about the atmosphere. The summer night's breeze began to swiftly blow through the air and ruffled the leaves in the trees, making a rattling sound. The sky was a sheet of midnight blue spreading across the city, speckled with glowing white night stars that glittered amongst the breathtaking scene.

There weren't many cars on the streets and most of the restaurants and stores were beginning to close down one by one. It was about 8:00 by the time Ciel exited the Fresh Market and made his way back towards his mansion. He walked as fast as he legs could take him without his groceries spilling out of his bags. He was still furiously blushing from the close contact that stranger made with him. Thoughts were reeling in his head about what just happened, but Ciel couldn't comprehend any of it!

"What was that back there?" the teenage boy murmured under his breath. He was breathing heavily as if he'd done a three hour workout. His heart was pounding against his chest, though he couldn't tell whether it was from walking so fast for such a long distance or if it was from the incredibly close contact that man had with him. Is that even a normal thing to do? Ciel thought, his mind still in a fury. For a stranger to come up to you, take your chin in his hands, and just stare at you? Ciel dropped his grocery bag on the ground and brought his hand up to his eye patch, remembering how that man looked down at him. Ciel got lost in those deep crimson red orbs; they just seemed to draw him into a deep trance. Those eyes. I feel like I've seen them somewhere before…but why? Ciel wondered. Surely he couldn't know anyone with such deep crimson eyes like that mans. Maybe it was just his mind playing tricks on him. Maybe he had imagined that his eyes were red? After all, red was his favorite color, aside from blue. No, that couldn't be possible. Who would imagine someone's eyes a different color from what they already are? No they were definitely red. But the boy couldn't shake off the feeling that they were so familiar. He didn't want to think about it too much, but the thought bothered him.

Suddenly, a musical tone interrupted Ciel from his thoughts. He glanced down at his coat and fished out his cell phone from his pocket. Flipping the phone open and glancing at the screen, his eyes widened.

Ciel honey where are you? It's already 8:45! Come home soon and be safe!

-Mommy

Ciel furrowed his eyebrows in confusion. It couldn't be 8:45 already, could it? Ciel thought. It was just 8:00 like…five minutes ago when I left the Fresh Market and the Market is only about 15 minutes from my house. Clicking out of the text, he looked at his background of him and his mother, and looked at the time.

"SHIT! It really is 8:45!"Ciel picked up his grocery bag and broke into a sprint towards his house, hoping his mother wouldn't scold him for being home so late. So he'd been thinking about that man, a stranger no less, for over half an hour? That's absurd! Ciel never thought that long about anything or anyone. Something was definitely wrong with him.

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By the time Ciel stood in front of the door to his house, he was completely out of breath. He was panting as if he'd just run a marathon (which he pretty much did). He unlocked the door with the key from his pocket and quietly walked into the house, not wanting to disturb his mother from whatever she was doing. Right after he took his shoes off and placed them in the mudroom, he was suddenly being squeezed to death by ungodly strong arms.

"CIEL~!" Oh lord. He'd suddenly been attacked full on by a body, though he automatically knew who it was based on the high pitched voice. His head was squeezed into a fleshy chest to the point where his face was turning into a pale blue and he could no longer breathe through his nose or through his mouth. He felt as if the grip on his head would sever it. He dropped the grocery bags on the floor, not really caring that all the food would roll all over the floor getting dirty in the process, as he cared more for his life. Ciel's voice was shaking, as he tried to keep his voice under control. He didn't want to yell at his mom for the third time today, even though he had a short temper that would explode like lighting dynamite. He tried to pry the heavy figure off of him before he suffocated.

"Mother! Please get off me!" Ciel had tried to muster out his voice, but only got a squeak out. His back was at an uncomfortable arch, almost forming a 'U'. The amount of pressure and weight his mother was putting on him was too much for Ciel's little and dense body to handle. Despite his mother's skinny appearance, she sure packed on the weight. If this continued, his spine would snap as easily as a twig! And quite frankly, Ciel valued his spine. "Oh mother look over there. There's a really cute guy over there looking through the kitchen window," Ciel said, with an act of surprise. It was actually the most stupid thing he'd probably ever said in his life, but if it would get his mother to release her absurdly strong grip on him, then so be it. He was never going to forgive his mother for this. The woman's eyes suddenly went wide like saucers, and immediately released her overwhelmingly tight hold on her son. Ciel fell to the ground and released a relieved sigh as he was freed from the constricting grip.

"Where?" his mother exclaimed. She immediately turned around, looking frantically at all the windows in kitchen for the 'cute guy'. There wasn't even anyone looking through the windows. "Ne Ciel-kun! There's no one there!" A pout soon formed on her face as she frowned at the kitchen windows. Ciel casually passed by her with the food he'd put back into the grocery bags.

"I know. But that was the only way to get you to let go of me since you clearly wouldn't listen to me plea." Ciel continued on his way towards the island in their kitchen, ignoring the pout on his mother's face, though no other male teenager, or male for the matter, would've been able to resist it.

"Well it was your fault for being late! You had your mother all worried about you!" She had fake tears forming in her eyes, and her hands clutched to her chest. Ciel rolled his eyes. It wasn't my fault I was late. It was that stupid red-eyed stranger's fault. Thinking of that man again made a noticeable tint of pink spread across his cheeks. Gosh, he just couldn't stop thinking about him. He willed the blush to go away, as he didn't want his mother to start teasing him and interrogating pulled out all the foods from the grocery bags and washed the vegetables and fruit, ready to be cooked by his mother.

"Oh Ciel-kun! You bought all my groceries!" Ciel's mother rushed over the counter and examined all the foods. Her pout face had disappeared, and was replaced by a smile with twinkling eyes. "Aren't you such a good boy?" She took Ciel's cheek between her thumb and index finger and pulled it, earning a growl from her irritated son.

"Mother, if you'll excuse me," Ciel started, pushing his mother's hand away from his cheek, "I'm going to take a stroll in the garden out back," Ciel stated calmly. He went around his mother to the door leading to the gardens. He looked back at his mother who probably didn't hear his statement, as she was looking with delight at the food on the counter, ready to devour everything herself.

Ciel went out the door and down the steps, leading to his rose garden. As he went about the maze, he admired the roses, which he himself had planted over the years. Most of them were already in full bloom. There were red roses surrounding the barrier of the maze. In the path Ciel was currently walking in, there were pink roses. Towards the eastern part of the maze, there were white roses and towards the western part were the peach-colored ones. In the middle of the garden was a large patch of grass with a gazebo and a fountain of a lion spewing water from its mouth. In the gazebo was a large stone bench along with a cement floor with rose petals scattered across it. The poles were covered with rose vines and small roses. Ciel did love his roses after all.

As he strolled down the path he was on, he suddenly started sneezing. Someone must be talking about me. He continued down the path, only to sneeze two more times. At this point, his eyes were getting watery and his nose was getting stuffed up.

"Damn. I must be getting a cold," Ciel muttered under his breath. He looked around his garden for something that could be causing him to sneeze uncontrollably. When he looked behind him, he found the answer to his question, though he wished he hadn't.

On the ground right near his feet was a cat. Yes…a goddamn cat. It had jet black fur and red eyes with a tail that stuck vertically up into the air. Ciel stared it down, willing it to go away with his eyes. But it just stood its ground, not even moving a muscle. That's odd. His stares usually worked with everyone and everything else. It even worked with birds!

"Shoo!" Ciel motioned with his hands, but the cat didn't even flinch. It just stared back at Ciel with those big, pleading eyes. Ugh! Ciel turned on his heel and walked to the end of the pathway, pretending he never even saw the feline. How did a cat get in his garden anyways? He should just have a fence that blocks off cats from his home. One attempted step onto his property, and then the cat should get electrocuted, or something. He despised those hairy creatures to no end.

He made a right towards the part of the maze where all the white roses were. But just as he made the turn, he stopped dead in his tracks. The cat was right there, blocking his looked bewildered. He just saw the cat on his previous path! There was no way it could've gotten here before Ciel. He had longer legs than that damn fur ball! The cat got off its behind and started walking towards Ciel. He took a step back as the cat got closer to him, then another step back, and another, until he finally turned around and broke out into a sprint, running through the path where he had first encountered the cat. When he looked back, the cat wasn't chasing after him. It wasn't even in sight. Ciel furrowed his brow and stopped running to get a better look behind him. He was right. The cat wasn't there. Ciel inwardly sighed.

"I must've been imagining things," Ciel murmured under his breath. As he turned around to walk back to his house, he suddenly tripped and fell over onto the cold ground with a loud thud. He lay there for a few seconds before sitting up and rubbing his throbbing head. He turned around to see what he had stumbled over only to gasp. The damn cat was just sitting there in front of Ciel, proudly waving its tail in the air as if it had just accomplished something. Well, technically it had succeeded in making Ciel fall onto the ground as well as making Ciel's clothes all dirty, as if he had played in the mud. "Great. Now thanks to you I got my favorite shirt all dirty," Ciel said to the cat. Oh great. Now I'm talking to a cat. He looked at the cat, but it looked back at the boy with glittering red eyes. Just like that stranger's. Wait, what? Ciel! Stop thinking about him! You can't let him plague your mind like this! Clearing that thought from his head, Ciel returned his attention to the breathing ball of fur in front of him. Now that he looked at the cat, it looked pretty harmless. But Ciel still glared at it. He didn't trust the damn thing.

"~Meow~." The cat walked up on Ciel's legs and sat on his lap. Actually, more like it cuddled with Ciel's stomach. It wouldn't stop rubbing its head against his abdomen as it happily swished its tail in the air, signaling its happiness. Ciel was just stunned. In the past there was never a cat that would willingly walk up to Ciel and cuddle up to him. Usually they cowered in fright from him because he would try to forcefully hold them, or just because of his piercing blue eyes and his cold stares. That he could come into such close contact with a cat without sneeze-

"ACHOO!" Damn. He just jinxed it. He sniffled as he looked at the cat contentedly sitting on his lap. He hesitantly brought a hand and gently pet it, afraid that it would scratch his face and run away like many cats before. But instead it seemed to like being pet. It was practically purring against Ciel's hand on its fur. It was soft and silky and was probably the softest thing Ciel had ever touched. He brought the cat up to his chest, and let his cheek come into the contact with the fur, not really caring that he was going to be sneezing for the rest of the night. This was probably the only cat that would ever let him touch it and he might as well enjoy it while he can. A few more moments passed by, as Ciel continued to pet and hug the black cat until he heard his name.

"CIEL! Come inside! Dinner's ready!" Ciel's mother yelled from their porch. Ciel turned around to see her hand in the air to get his attention. As if yelling out loud so the whole world could hear her wasn't enough.

"Ok, I'll be there in just a sec!" Ciel yelled back. He watched his mother retreat to the kitchen, leaving the door open behind her. He looked back at the cat in his lap to see it staring lovingly at Ciel. But he boy sighed; a sad one. Well there was no helping it. His stomach required food as it was grumbling for quite some time now. He lifted the cat off his lap and onto the ground as he stood up and dusted the dirt off his clothes. The cat gave a meow of disapproval but he couldn't help it. He had to go eat dinner…..dinner…..Oh lord. He'd forgotten all about the food he had bought from the Fresh Market that afternoon. Bananas, eggplants, jalapeño peppers. Just thinking about it wanted to make him puke. He shook the thought out of his head and looked down at the cat.

"I have to go eat dinner now. I'll play with you some other time though, okay?" Ciel bent down to pet the cat one last time before getting up and walking towards the steps that led up to the porch. As he reached the last step and walked onto his patio, he looked behind him to once more say bye to the cat. But as he did, it wasn't there. It had disappeared…..gone, like thin air. Ciel rushed to the edge of the porch and scanned his garden like a hawk. The cat wasn't in sight! Was that even possible? It had only been like a 6 or 7 second walk from where he was in the garden with the cat, to the top of the stairs. That really was an odd cat. It probably did run faster than Ciel, now that he thought about it. Ciel shook his head and made his way to the kitchen, not noticing the pair of glowing red eyes from a tree only yards away from where he was standing. Once Ciel closed the door behind him, a toothy white grin appeared just inches below the pair of gleaming red eyes.

"Found you, Bocchan."

Wanna throw a rock at me? Strangle me? I do have a habit of leaving stories at Cliffhanger's don't I? Sorry, but I quite like them a lot!

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