Chapter 18: The Jellicle Ball Part 2
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Yaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaawn.
That was a nice catnap! And what better way to spend it wrapped in the arms of your new mate? At least, I hoped....Bombalurina wouldn't just use me like that would she? Sure I overhear Mom and Jelly calling her a slut most of the time, but still!
I opened my eyes briefly, and saw Old D sitting on the tire, smiling contently.
I frowned for a moment. Why doesn't he sleep? Suddenly, I felt movement against my back. Huh? I looked over and saw Coricopat and Tantomile shoot up. Hey, where'd Exotica go? Man, sometimes I feel bad for Exotica, she doesn't really like dancing...
Hey, Quaxo's up too! I started to get curious. Did the three cats sense something? Dad was sitting up too.
Maybe something was wrong...Oh crap, maybe Macavity had come back! I quickly shook Bombalurina's shoulder. She stirred. "Pouncy?..." she asked, her eyes opening. Gasp! SHE CALLED ME POUNCY!!! YEAH!
Suddenly, Bombalurina shot up as well, her nose twitching. Yack, everyone's up? What was going on. I noticed Quaxo was pointing at something, and then everyone started freaking out.
What was going on? I looked up. Gasp again! Grizabella! She was sitting on top of the old plexiglass, looking down at us.
For some reason, seeing her made me....want to dance. Wierd.
But that didn't stop my feet. The lights all flashed on, and I found myself running to a corner of the clearing. Then, the music began to beat in an upbeat and absolutely rocking sound. I began dancing, and I sensed some other toms were dancing the same as me. I bent over and shook my hands over my legs and feetpaws, before moving them back up my legs and doing it again. After doing that a few times, I bent over backwards, shaking my arms like a conga dancer or something. Then I reached my paws up to the sky like a lion. I paused briefly when I noticed Grizabella was looking at us with a sad stare. But I continued dancing.
Man, she was still giving us that look. I was now dancing the same as the others, and we even ran over to her and turned and shook our butts at her. We were totally showing off, just to spite her.
That's why I decided to sit out, and I let Munk and some other toms take the floor. As I was sitting, I noticed that all the other old cats were sitting down too. Aw, I must look like an idiot! Well, Exotica should be sitting out-wait, is Exotica dancing with Coricopat and Tantomile?! Darn it, I do look stupid!
"Pouncival" a stern voice said. Huh? Mom and Dad had come up to me. "Yeah, Dad?" I asked, looking at them. They don't look to happy... "Pouncival, we noticed you had done the mating dance with...Bombalurina," Mom told me, a look of digust on her face.
How dare she! "And you mated with Tugger," I suddenly shot back, before shutting my mouth again. Oops! I shouldn't have done that, cause now she looks....shocked. Huh, guess she didn't expect me to bring this up. But my Dad said "Pouncival!".
"Dad, to remind you, you mated with Victoria...AND Plato," I decided to say. Technically they shared Victoria (GROSS), but I decided to let Dad explain that. YEOW! Mom just screamed in my ear. Better be getting out of there...Mom is looking pissed at dad and dad looks like he's about to faint from fear.
Now that I was safely back on the dance floor, I began having a lot more fun. We were all dancing and hopping, and I noticed Bombalurina was giving me looks. Maybe our mating dance HAD meant something...OF course it had to, she did it with ME!
Then, of course, Tugger has to come steal the limelight. If someone were to watch this, I'm glad Teazer is in front, they'd see her so much more!
Ooh, that look Tugger is giving me is not one I like at all.
Anyway, I felt like the dancing portion of the ball was getting finished up, and I was starting to feel tired again. We danced madly, as if we were being driven insane by the moonlight glaring on us. Wow, that sounded poetic!
Soon, we began to dance slowler. We shook our hips, and I heard the music getting louder and faster. I had a feeling maybe Coricopat and Tantomile were making the music happen, cause they're the only cats in this tribe I now that have any magical skills (reading minds and stuff like that-they like to use that to their advantage).
Now, we were all backing up and twisting our heads, and spinning, and running, and running back and running forward, and twisting, and reaching our hands up into the air, then we pawed at the air madly, spinning, running, running, going to Old D, and then the music just exploded and I ran forward, and jumped into the air and landed on my knees.
Now, everything as quiet.
And I was REALLY tired now!
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Done!