Catatonic Mouse (Song Inspired Short Story Contest) INCOMPLETE

 When listening to "Catatonic" by Hans Zimmer the first thing I thought of was hide and go seek. Then I thought of a cat and mouse chase. So that was the inspiration for my "mouse" character Maus, her lovable bf,  named Katze, and the crazy  Felis. (NOTE: Yes my characters are human, don't let the names trip you up.) Of course it also had to tie in with the music and I hope I did a pretty good job of that. Please enjoy! <3

“Maus come over here!”

Katze, my lovable boyfriend’s voice drew me out of my dreams of escape from this mansion and into the large parlor room where he and his creepy uncle Felis were looking at a giant map spread out across a big table.

I tried dragging my feet towards him (oh how I dragged!) but unfortunately ended up where the two were standing in a short amount of time. Of course, Felis stared at my boobs, which was obnoxious. I made sure to wear a turtleneck for this visit but even so, the creep still found a way to get around it. I shot him a glare but Felis gave this super gross leer that told me he was getting some kind of sick satisfaction from my annoyance. Of course, when Katze glanced over Felis’ face was normal.

I didn’t always hate Katze’s uncle but after Felis exposed himself to me on one visit when Katze was away, it burned any friendship that could have happened between us. Katze didn’t believe me, but I knew it was Felis touching himself beneath my window calling out gross things we should do together. How many old men whose right arms sticks out at weird angle live in this neighborhood? And how many of those old men knew I was staying the night? Instead of closing my eyes and running to hide in the covers, I should have recorded that pervert!

“Maus look at this!”

I snapped out of my fury that always rose when I was in the presence of that sicko and I tried to focus on what my other half was telling me.

Katze motioned toward the map, showing me the reason for his excitement.

Huh?

The map showed lots of square, more squares that should have been there. I could distinguish Felis’ mansion, but that was only a small corner of the map. The mansion only had five stories; it didn’t make sense for all those other building and rooms to be there.

“Was there another house built before this one?” I asked Felis out of the corner of my mouth.

“What was that dear?” Pervert was too busy checking out my breasts and I caught his eyes lingering there before snapping up to my face.

Katze answered my question before I could choke out an insult. “This is Uncle Felis’ old lab that’s runs underground.”

Ew sounds super creepy. Perfect.

“What happened to it?” Please say there was a disastrous fire that destroyed years of valuable research.

Felis answered, “It was shut down for violating health codes and other… reasons.” Yay!

“But,” He went on, “I am reopening it soon and will get back to my research that was paused so many years ago.” He stroked his right arm which was forever held out sideways due to his catatonia. I used to feel sorry that he couldn't use his arm, but after learning his true personality I have more sympathy toward the servants who have to see it everyday.

“Why not just keep it closed?” I couldn’t help asking.

“Well, I had a lot of interesting experiments down there, and now that I have enough grants and sponsors to fund it, I might as well finish what I started.”

“Oh, that sounds interesting.” Not. I lied to his face to be polite but it must have sounded genuine because Katze smiled in me in what sadly looked like a surprised way.

“It’s fantastic that you think that Maus, because Uncle Felis offered me a position.”

“Umm…come again?”

“We may move out of the apartment and live with Uncle Felis, isn’t that awesome?”

I…I…no…

The whole world began to spin, my knees turned into jelly, and I began to sink into the thick Persian carpet that was probably worth more than everything I owned.  Felis managed to stead any me with his left hand, and I almost thanked him, but then he took the liberty to grope my boob!And of course, Katze was looking at my face when it happened! Ugh! That’s the same hand he used to…ew!

Just when I thought I might faint for real, “Maus!” Katze put his hand on my forehead concern written over his face. “Are you feeling well?”

No, I want to throw up actually. I managed to stand up and I hugged myself around my waist. I couldn’t look him in the eye; I couldn’t just crush his happiness so soon. Besides, maybe Felis was dying.

“I’m really tired.” I said, trying to look as sleepy as I could. I even faked a yawn to add realism. “I really need to get some sleep.”

“Are you sure you’re going to be alright?” My boyfriend was so cute sometimes, he looked so worried for me I felt hope that I could get him to reject the offer.

“Yeah, just come up and join me when you’re done okay?”  I started to leave and was out the doorway when I heard something that assured me I wouldn’t not sleeping tonight, or any night any time oon, because I would throwing up instead.

”Can I join you too?” That raspy voice called after me, and my mind vainly tried to flush out the image of sleeping next to Uncle Felis with his pervy hand and vulgar comments.

 Next time, Katze is coming here by himself!