=A couple days later=
Alice was sitting at the dining room table alone, it was 3am and she couldn't sleep. She sighed as she stared at her cellphone, her mother had been blowing up her phone for days now and she wasn't having it, she was sure that her mother would leave her alone eventually, but no. She seemed so persistent in getting a hold of her. That was the reason she was up right now. The guilt of not answering her call was eating her up alive. As she teared up, she suddenly felt a presence behind her, she turned and found Cole standing at the entryway of the dining room.
She quickly wiped her tears and acknowledged him. "C-Cole? What are you doing up so late?" She asked through her tears.
Cole sat next to her and held her hand. "I should be asking you that. Is everything alright?" He asked.
Alice nodded. "I'm fine. I just…couldn't sleep." She said shakingly.
Cole shook his head. "You are a terrible liar, my love. Now tell me what is bothering you."
Alice sighed. "My mom has been calling me for days now, and I feel guilty for not answering and it's eating me up right now.." She admitted. After a few seconds she sighed again. "I think…I'll give her a call later and speak to her…I just hope it'll be a productive conversation this time."
Cole squeezed her hand. "Come, let's head to bed." He said as he purred into her neck. Alice shivered at his purring. "O-Okay…"
As Alice got up, Cole suddenly lifted her up bridal style, Alice gasped. "I-I can walk upstairs myself." She protested. "Humor me." He said as he walked her up. Alice blushed and laid her head against Cole's chest, making him purr loudly.
Soon Cole laid her down on her bed and he laid next to her, Alice smiled and snuggled against Cole as she fell asleep.
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=Later in the day=
Alice woke up groggily, sleeping so late caused her some hard exhaustion. She looked around and found that Cole was sleeping soundly next to her, his tail being wrapped around her. Alice smiled tiredly and tried to get up, but it caused Cole to stir and wake up, he purred and pinned Alice down to the bed playfully. Alice looked up at Cole and smiled shyly.
"G-Good morning, Cole." She said
"Good morning." He purred as he kissed her all over her face. Alice giggled at all of the affection she was receiving and wrapped her arms around Cole and brought him in for a deep kiss.
Soon Alice had to get up and cook breakfast, as she got up Cole followed her down to the kitchen where Cashew was, brewing coffee. Cashew looked over and saw Alice and Cole and smiled.
"Morning guys!" He said happily as his squirrel tail flicked.
Alice smiled and kissed Cashew's cheek. "Morning!" She greeted. Cole nodded his head at Cashew to signal a hello.
As Alice bent over to the lower cabinets to take out the pan to make pancakes, Seth walked in and noticed her and slapped her butt, making her yelp.
"Morning, Human!" He laughed as she got up, Cole growled at him and Seth wagged his brows at him.
Alice glared playfully at Seth and he merely smiled widely. As she got everything she needed to make pancakes, there was a knock on the door. Everyone except for Seth froze.
It couldn't be…could it?
Seth looked at everyone. "Well? Is someone going to answer the door?" He asked impatiently.
When he got no response, he shrugged and opened the door before Alice could stop him.
"What the!? Alice!? Who is this answering the door?! Where are you?!"
It was.
Angela tracked her down to talk to her.
Seth looked over to Alice, she was pinching the bridge of her nose. She walked over and sighed.
"What do you want, mom? I thought I told you I wasn't going to talk to you anymore?" She said to Angela coldly.
Angela huffed as she straightened her blouse. "You can't ignore me forever young lady, I am your mother, now let me in! I've had a long drive and could use a cup of coffee." She demanded.
Alice grit her teeth and led her to the kitchen where Cashew and Cole were, Cashew looked over and saw her mom and was immediately intimidated. She had such a stern face that said 'I'm better than you.'
Alice quickly served Angela a cup of coffee and slid the cup over to her. As Angela took a sip and looked around her, she looked at Alice.
"So when are you going to stop these little games and come home where you belong?" She asked seriously.
Alice sighed heavily. "Mom! I'm not coming home! You need to get that straight through your head! I love these guys and I'm not leaving them!" She said, exasperated.
Seth, hearing about Angela's question, walked over to Alice and wrapped an arm around her.
"Aha, you're a funny gal. Thinking you can just take my human away from me. Now why don't you scidattle, or I'll have to do something about it." He said, practically snarling at the end of his sentence.
Angela looked shocked, how dare this…animal man come and talk to her like this!? Angela looked at Alice and back at Seth, then back at Alice.
"Alice! Are you going to let him talk to your mother like this!?" She asked, astonished.
Alice looked at Seth and she could immediately tell that he was on edge because of Angela. She put a hand on his arm to try and calm him down and looked at Angela.
"Mom, you're upsetting everyone with your constant trying to bring me home! Obviously someone was bound to snap and tell you to go away besides me!" She said to her.
Cashew looked between the two, he could tell Alice was really on edge right now, he looked at Cole and he could see that Cole was upset, he could tell because his panther ears were flat and his tail was swishing and curling around upsettingly.
"E-Excuse me ma'am…I-I think what Seth is trying to say is that we love her. We don't want to lose her. She's everything to us." He explained, trying to not to set off the strict woman.
Angela glared at the squirrel boy. "You think I'm just going to let my daughter get used up by a bunch of strange animal men then you've got another thing coming! I need her to come home where I can get her life together, because she clearly doesn't know what she's doing!"
Alice glared at her. "Excuse me! I do know what I'm doing! I'm following my heart, and my heart is dead set on loving these guys!" She yelled.
Angela huffed. "You need to understand my point of view! What are you gonna do when it comes time to have kids?! Or to get married!? You have to marry and bear kids to only one of them eventually!" She argued.
Alice grit her teeth. "Why can't you be more like dad!? He accepts my relationships! Why can't you just accept me!?"
Angela clenched her fists. "How dare you compare me to that oaf! He is a good-for-nothing who doesn't have your well-being in mind!" She yelled.
"Oh and you do?" Alice snarkily asked.
Angela grit her teeth. She thought Alice was being incredibly stubborn and was getting sick of it.
"Alice, you have to understand that I do think about you and your well-being everyday. Even if I don't act like it, I care about you and how you're doing. I just can't wrap my head around this…this…loving animal men thing." She explained.
Alice sighed as she crossed her arms. "Okay, I get that. But I can't just explain how I love these guys, it just…happened! We all met under the circumstances of me messing up with some magic water bottles and I had to transform them all back somehow, and it seemed that kissing them worked! So I kept kissing them to partially turn them back and then we all kind of just…fell in love and agreed to a polyamory." She explained.
Angela made a face. "What are you going to do when they all fully transform back? You're going to have to choose one of them to marry and have kids with!"
Immediately everyone in the room went quiet. Was that true? Did Alice have to choose one of them at the end of everything?
Cashew, Seth, and Cole all looked at Alice, her face said was completely unreadable.
"Mom, do I have to get married and have children? What if…I wanted to give all that up just to be with these guys?" She said as she swallowed a lump that was growing in her throat.
Angela shook her head with a knowing look. "Alice, you think I don't know you? You've practically told me your dreams of a beautiful wedding a thousand times. You won't be able to throw away that dream easily."
Alice grit her teeth hard as she clenched her fists. She didn't know what to think, she didn't know what to say. Angela could tell Alice was running out of arguments and smiled knowingly.
"Take time to think about it, deary." She said as she began making her way to the front door, Alice followed.
"By the way, there's a barbeque happening next week for Derek's birthday. You've been extended an invite as well as a bring one guest invite, you have to come. There is no other choice." She said as she kissed Alice on her cheek.
"Whatever." Alice said as she rolled her eyes.
Angela smiled at her before walking out the door, effectively leaving Alice to her dilemma.
As Alice shut the door, Cashew, Seth, and Cole popped out from the kitchen and looked at her. Alice looked back.
"I-I'm…just going to go to my room.." She said as she began walking.
"Alice-" Cashew called out.
"I'm fine!" She said, cutting him off. "I just need some alone time…" She said as she left to her room.
The three looked at each other, she was not okay. It was completely obvious. But what could they do to help?
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-Later that night-
It was 3 in the morning and Alice hadn't left her room since this morning. All she kept thinking about was her encounter with her mother and what she said, it was true.. She couldn't just give up her dreams so easily. But she was happy with her current situation, and that's all that matters right? Right.
So then why? Why did the thought of not having her dream wedding hurt so much? Was it because it's been her dream since childhood?
Alice sighed as she hugged her pillow. That's when she heard a knock on her door. She sighed heavily.
"Come in!" She called out.
The door opened and she looked over and saw Cole. He came over to her and sat next to her and put a hand on her arm.
"Hey.." She weakly said.
"Alice…" He called out
Alice recognized the tone he was using and didn't meet his eyes.
"I-I'm not in the mood right now…" She said as she suddenly teared up.
Cole didn't let up though, he purred and kissed her neck.
"Cole please, not now." She said as tears fell down her cheeks.
Cole growled as he bit her neck. "Shhh…" He said as he licked her neck. Alice shivered and moaned slightly.
Cole slowly removed the blanket from Alice's form and purred as he began kissing up her leg, up to her thighs and slowly removed her pj pants and underwear. Alice shivered at the sudden chill that ran up her spine.
Cole kissed her inner thighs and trailed up to her wet sex and gave her one lick. Alice moaned lightly at his affections and squirmed as Cole trailed circles around her clit. Soon he kissed up her stomach, up to her chest, up to her neck, and up to her lips and kissed her deeply. Alice wrapped her arms around Cole and kissed him as a fountain of tears let loose. Cole cupped her cheeks and wiped her tears with his thumbs.
Cole took Alice's pj shirt off and kissed her neck as he squeezed and played with her breasts. Alice moaned and blushed as Cole growled and nipped at her neck.
"You're so beautiful…" He murmured as he bit her lip. Alice blushed as he complimented her.
Cole took off his clothes and pinned Alice to the bed. Alice looked up at Cole and was slightly surprised, instead of looking at her like predator after prey like he usually does, he was instead looking down at her with adoration, passion, and love. This encounter seemed more intimate than usual…
Soon, Cole slid his cock into Alice's wet sex and began moving at a slow pace. Alice sighed in arousal and moaned as she felt how deep he was going. Alice pulled Cole in for a deep kiss as he kept thrusting into her, Cole groaned as he felt Alice tightening around him. She must really like this encounter they were having if she was already this close to orgasming.
Cole then started thrusting deeply into her while still going at a slow pace. As he kept his pace, Alice spoke up.
"P-Please…Faster..I can't take it anymore!" She begged.
Cole purred loudly as he heard such a desirable request and did as she asked and picked up the pace. Alice moaned loudly as she felt how fast he was going. Soon, she arched her back and moaned Cole's name and her legs shook as she hit her orgasm.
Cole growled as he felt her tightening around him and came loads inside her. Alice moaned as she felt herself getting filled with Cole's love. Cole looked down at her, and he could practically see hearts dancing in her blue eyes as she looked back at him with a small smile.
Alice blushed as she felt Cole twitch, he was hardly done.. as usual. She smiled at him and kissed him deeply, she loved the fact that he was being so loving right now..
