A/N: I'm back! Tada! I told you I'd get back to this eventually. I've been struggling in maths so… yeah. Stupid Geometry. P.S! I'll be changing my name to Getsemone on the 18th, so just remember that if you think 'I never story alerted anything by this chick!'
Musicgal3: Poor Alonzo. I know he should get hurt, but I can't bring myself to do it… or can I? :D
Tiherina: Thank you! Every loves seeing Alonzo fall off things. It's a way of life.
"Coricopat? Tantomile?"
It really was quite freaky, being this close – almost inside their den. I didn't talk to them much, but they've been getting a lot of attention recently. Almost as much as I've been falling over…
Taking only the smallest step in I rubbed near the base of my tail, where a large, purple bruise had formed from my last fall. I'm normally not the clumsy, but everyone loses balance when they laugh that hard, don't they?
"Can I help you?"
"Whoa Jesus!" I yelled, jumping and spinning around to see Tantomile, the female half of the twins, uncomfortably close. She raised an eyebrow.
"You mean Bast?" She referred to our 'religion'.
"Uh…. Yeah. Munkustrap wanted me to get you and Cori to talk about something." I said, trying to smooth down my puffed fur. "He wouldn't tell me what." Tantomile nodded, before walking across the dark room and shaking a sleeping Sil. She sat up slowly, eyes half closed.
"Was there any reason for that?" Tantomile rolled her eyes as Sil ran her paw through her headfur.
"When Coricopat returns with breakfast, telling him to meet me at Munkustrap's as soon as possible." She said, before returning to me, nodding and walking out the door. I followed her out the door, jogging slightly to catch up with her.
"So how are the new kits doing?" I asked after a moment of silence. I never was good with awkward silences.
"They aren't much younger than you, Alonzo." She said, poking my arm playfully. "But luckily they are recovering from their grief. It will not be a quick recovery."
I nodded, looking down. As we approached Munkustrap's den, a small dark kitten ran out the doorway.
"Going out to play, see you later dad!" She yelled behind her, running off. I laughed as I lifted the blanket acting as a door, ushering Tantomile through. I smiled at Munkustrap before looking up to the sun outside. Munkustrap yelled over to me.
"You have night shift tonight, Lonz. Get some sleep."
Wonderful.
"You'll know when where back." Cori smiled at me, walking towards the door. I swallowed the small bite of food in my mouth before asking, "What should I do while you're gone then?"
"I don't know. Go explore, meet some new Jellicles. It doesn't matter how much you want to, you can't only hang out with my sister and I." He teased. I played along.
"Oh no! However shall I live on?" I fake fainted dramatically. Cori chuckled and walked out of the den. It was now the Dell decided to wake up.
"Whaddidimiss?" I sighed, and quickly filled him in.
"Can we avoid Etcetera? I really don't want to put up with her." Dell said, grabbing one of the rats that Coricopat had bought in for breakfast and scoffing it down.
"Slow down, you'll choke." I said, scolding him. Only a moment later did I have to whack him over the back to stop him from choking.
"Sorry." He wheezed. I laughed, and we walked out into the main yard.
"Oh great, we haven't even met half the tribe!" Dell whined. I looked around nervously, worried about what all these cats may think of me. Dell took a few steps forward. I stayed where I was, until he noticed I wasn't following him.
"Oh you're such a baby. Come on!" He said, dragging me along. Knowing Dell, he wanted to get this over with as soon as possible. I sighed dramatically, trying to hide what small amount of fear there was in me.
"Sil! Over here!" Luckily, Dell actually heard Demeter yell out to me, and we made our way over to her. She was sitting with an incredibly beautiful red queen and a somewhat mysterious looking brown abyssian.
"Finally decided to start meeting everyone?" Demeter teased. Dell groaned, still miserable over the fact we had to spend all day have awkward first conversations. Ijust laughed at him.
"Well, I'll start you off. This is my cousin, Bombalurina," Demeter motioned to the red queen, who smiled and winked, "And my friend, Cassandra." The abyssian nodded, smiling reassuringly. Dell nodded to them in turn.
"We already know who you are." Bomba said, motioning to us. I was rather uncomfortable with the fact everyone knew our story – it felt like my private life was for everyone. Cassandra just looked symnpathetic.
"I'm so sorry, it shouldn't be big news. I know a lot of cats in the junkyard won't talk openly about it." She said, lightly touching my shoulder. "We share your pain, we all know how it feels when a loved one leaves." I was getting better at controlling the tears that had become so familiar here, and so I just nodded, eyes down. I smiled shakily at her. Dell jumped in.
"Well it was nice meeting you ladies, but we're off to go repeat the previous conversation to every person we meet. Tatty-bye!" He said in an incredibly fake, overdone British accent (as cats, we don't automatically get an accent like that in London – it depends on with whom you were raised). As we left, I could hear them chuckling behind me, the saucy red Bombalurina saying "I like him."
A/N: Oh, I FINALLY got around to finishing it. I couldn't figure out how the conversation between Cass, Bomba, Deme, Dell and Sil would go. I had so much trouble with this chapter. Okay, now we're through with that, I would love to see what you want it the story. Since I'm REALLY running out of ideas, and I have no idea where I'm going with this now I've forgotten everything. Review! (If you want :p)