He'd refrained from any sort of contact for an exact forty seven hours.

Then his impatience got the best of him, he made calls that went unanswered, texts that stayed ignored.

And the unexpected surprise, another something he didn't want in his life was at his doorstep yet again.

Stupid cat.

Obviously somebody's, purebred exotic, from the markings, but no tags, no type of ID, not even a tracking chip. ( Wade knew this since he'd had the useless hairball vet checked, no sense getting diseases from the wretched thing) .

He told it time and time again it was not living here, this was HIS home, no nuisance animals allowed.

Each week passed and a new item appeared in the house, three litter boxes upstairs, one for each bathroom, two downstairs plus one in the laundry area.

One up to his chin tall wooden tree shaped scratch post, on each floor of the house, he wasn't taking chances risking his furniture.

A scattering of toys in nearly every room, small pairings of food and drink dishes, and a massive fancy crown shaped bed, from the luxury item pet shop nearby.

thousands of dollars spent and there was his home companion, Carrot, orangish brown with brown spots, and a black cloth strip of a collar decorated with a row of tiny rounded silver studs and a round name tag dangling.

He caved and called Justin.

'i need a favor.'

'Can it wait? I'm going wakeboarding.'

Wade ignored the Were whine. 'Call him for me, see if he's there.'

'He's there. We talked about the game last night.'

Carrot reeeee-yeowed, rubbing around his human's pointed toe shoes.

'He'll talk you to you but not me?! I told you he hates me.'

justin sighed over the line, miles away. 'He loves you, that's why he's not talking.'

'Nonsense.'

'Hey even marriage isn't perfect.'

'As if you'd ever know about-' Carrot meowed loudly again, cutting off Wade's bickering.

'Was that a cat?'

'It's the noise from this absurd program on.'

'Shit in a tree and call it monkey crap, you got a cat!' justin laughed into his cell. 'I have GOT to tell Dr-'

'Don't you dare! I'll never live it down!'

'Pity for the ruined reputation.'

'Anyway I'm not giving up.'

'Nobody said you should. Did I? Nooooo I did NOT.' Justin replied innocently.

'Annoying tramp, I hope you get sand in places that won't wash out.'

'Yeah love you too, great Leader.' Justin said sweetly, mockingly.

'Urfff.' wade left that call at that, scooped and cradled Carrot, his best helper to keep the local mutts from urinating in his roses. Wonderful thing about Carrot, it (Wade was too polite to check the lower anatomy) didn't care for dogs either, hissed and chased them off, clawing and tail puffed into a fur balloon.

He gazed into shiny healthy cats eyes.

'How do you feel about a nice travel?'

A purr and head bump rub against his neck.

'Good enough.'

junk mail. Junk mail. A string of emails from the guys.

He clicked through, read and answered, drew, Justin, JCurt and Axel, ding, ding, ding, all in a row.

One email left, the same one a dozen times today.

He sighed and read.

this one a tad different, it had the same urgent PLEASE CALL! and the frowning emoticon but this one had a funny picture with it, a goldfish in a small bowl, fish wearing a shark fin on its back.

'Fish You Were Here.' The caption read.

Heath smiled faintly.

He moved the email to trash.

Didn't delete it.

Didn't reply either.