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"Hobbes, what did Susie mean by 'last night?"

"I swear, it's not what it sounds like?" protested Hobbes, knowing the very thing Mom had in mind. She crossed her arms, giving the tiger a very skeptical look,

"Then tell me what happened."

Hobbes sighed, telling the story, "Okay. So, Calvin and I went to her house so Susie could tutor him in Algebra, and obviously, she just assumed Calvin was carrying around a toy."

"Yes?"

"Calvin told Susie that you were all leaving for a few days, and asked her to look after me, her still thinking I'm a toy."

"But why?"

Hobbes blushed slightly, chuckling awkwardly and staring out the window, away from Mom, "He was just being a good friend. He knew something, I'll tell you later. Anyway, I must have been asleep in her room, but woke up here. So Calvin must have lured me back to the house when I was half asleep, so-"

"Wait! Hold it right there, Mister!"

The tiger paused, looking at her, confused, "What?"

"You were in Susie's room late at night, alone?"

"As a toy!"

"Hobbes, just because you're in love with her doesn't mean you should take it that far."

He was about to reply, but stopped short. How did she know that? He crossed his arms, raising an eyebrow, "How did you know that?" Mom flushed, forgetting that she found that out through Calvin. Giggling a little, she placed a hand on the annoyed feline's shoulder, "Oh, oops. Sorry… Calvin might have slipped that one out."

"I swear to God, he'll be tiger food one day…" muttered Hobbes, standing up, and walking out of the kitchen. Mom called back to him, "Make sure, especially that now Susie sees you, you know go in her room at night alone! Okay?"

"Okay!"

Meanwhile, Outside…

"Make sure, especially that now Susie sees you, you don't go in her room at night alone! Okay?"

Calvin and Susie looked in the direction of the house. The kitchen was placed right before the back porch, where Mom and Hobbes were speaking. At the obvious yell from Mom, Calvin knew what she was talking to him about, and had to try his best not to roll over laughing. Susie went wide-eyed, glaring at Calvin,

"You sent your tiger into my room last night without me seeing him to spy on me?"

Calvin went wide-eyed too, knowing that he would get part of the blame for this. She slapped his forearm, looking really mad. At that moment, trying to act as though none of the conversation with Mom had happened, Hobbes stepped on the porch, wearing his red scarf, the colder season taking it's toll. As he stepped outside, he was greeted too with a slap in the arm from Susie. Clutching it in startlement, he glared slightly at Susie,

"Hey! What was that for?"

"For creeping up in my room last night! I changed clothes in there last night!"

"I made sure not to look, I'm not so inconsiderate as to-"

Calvin stared wide-eyed at Hobbes, "She changed clothes while you were there? How dare you!"

"Oh, shut the hell up, Calvin, you sent me there in the first place!"

"I wasn't the one watching her at night!"

"You damn wish you were!"

"GUYS!" yelled Susie, making the two arguing boys stop and look at her solemnly, "Just shut up! I swear, both of you are at fault! I expected this from Calvin, but not from his pet!" Calvin then chuckled, pointed at Hobbes, who crossed his furry arms, glaring at Susie,

"Hey! I'm no one's pet."

Susie flushed, not realizing what she had said. In her defense, she hadn't known Hobbes was anything close to how she saw him now. A completely different persona, and she couldn't judge whether she liked him or not. She didn't like Calvin. She didn't hate him, but didn't like him. She looked at them both sadly, before sighing, walking off towards the large forest behind Calvin's house, running once she was out of sight. Hobbes looked at Calvin, who stared back.

"Bros before hoes?" breathed Calvin.

"I-… I need to go talk to her, Buddy,"

"Fine… I'll be down at the corner market, and I swear, if you don't maul me the minute I get home, I'll rip that fur coat off faster than you can say 'ow'."

Hobbes chuckled, nodding as he took off in a steady run on all fours into the forest. Calvin sighed, muttering to himself as he walked up to his room to swipe a few dollars from the safe he and Hobbes pooled their money in. He walked down the street, still muttering to himself, "With the free time he has with Susie right now at my expense, he'll definitely owe me this Christmas."

oooOoOooo

"Susie! Wait!"

Susie could hear the echo-y voice of Hobbes somewhere in the distance of the forest. Normally, she wouldn't react enough to actually run away, but it isn't every day you meet a six foot tall tiger walking and talking like a human. She creek surged below her, blasting cold water down it's current. She was sitting in a large oak tree in front of the creek, on an overlaying branch. She liked to go up there to think, or to simply feel, and think of not a thing at all. Today, that wasn't the case.

"Susie! Are you out here?"

He was closer. Hobbes stopped running for a moment to catch his breath, taking a deep breath through his nose, when he caught her scent. Smelling it again, he followed it. The fragrance smelt of wild berries, he noted, before walking past some shrub to see the girl sitting in an overhanging branch over the creek. Smiling to himself, he expertly climbed the tree, claws protracted, and reached the branch she was sitting on. Susie looked over at him, jumping slightly, but then just looking down at the water, not saying anything. Hobbes scooted closer to her until he was just beside her, looking at the water too. His white-furred feet dangled a litter further than hers, his long torso making him about six inches taller in head height. He looked down at her,

"I'm…sorry I was in your room last night, Susie." He breathed, looking down.

"But…why? Why did you in the first place?"

Hobbes sighed, "Well… Over the years, I've watched you. I've been with Calvin, and when you saw him holding the stuffed tiger, I was standing next to him every time, since kindergarten." Susie smiled lightly, blushing a tad, "And?"

"And… Well, after figuring you out to the point where I was able to make a…a definite decision on how I felt, I told Calvin, and he purposed that we find a way to make you see me. And, I guess it worked."

"It did," she smiled slightly, "I wish I had found this out sooner. There were times a while back where I could've needed a big fluffy tiger." They laughed lightly, until Susie looked at him again, "So… What do you mean by 'You make a decision about how you felt?"

"Well, I guess now's as good a time to say… I think I-"
"Wah!"

Hobbes opened his eyes, looking down as Susie fell into the soaking cold water of the creek, holding onto a rock, looking up at him pleadingiy, "HELP! PLEASE!" She lost her grip on the rock, and started to drift, as she swam harder the other way, trying to find something to grab onto as she heard a second plash into the water. Hobbes was in the creek too, swimming to save her.

"Hold on! I'm coming!"

Oh, double cliffhanger! Let's see how this pans out NEXT CHAPTER! :3

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-RJ