Next Step in Paradise

Next Step in Paradise

Author's notes: So for the first month of summer, I wanted to try a story where things are a little different. This time the characters who appear in this are not from any series I love at all or even OCs that have already been established as being mine. This time, the two were inspired from a different short story I read long ago. There was something about both felines that really spoke to me so I wanted to try my hand at writing a story where inspiration was inspired in a different way. Of course like with other writings I have, many of the same themes will appear as always but there's still differences involved. I do hope people enjoy this and maybe in 2023 I might do a part two with these loving felines. Also there will be some jumping into the past here too.

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In the course of one's life, there were always ups and downs. Sometimes those two things would hit an individual harder and more frequently than others. But there were times at the highest or lowest points that things could change. These could be for the better, and then sometimes for the worst. In the end, what made someone strong was could they at their lowest rise up again? To never give up on life or themselves? What helped was when there were others who believed in the individual or when two others formed a bond that helped out the other. The latter was certainly true for a certain couple who after hooking up, had mostly gone up to that good, high point in their lives. And now it found them on vacation, a small amount of time to just get away from their usual lives. Just a short span to be with each other at beautiful South Beach, Florida. Right now night had fallen, but it was just as beautiful as the area looked during the daytime. There was no cloud coverage, and the moon was shining with the full face being seen. Such a time screamed for romance, but the couple at the moment weren't out enjoying the night life here. Right now it found them at the hotel they were staying at, with him emerging from the bathroom having just finished a shower. The male's fur was mostly dried off, his short black hair still damp, and a pair of clean boxers were being worn to not go fully nude. "Natasha, if you want, the shower's ready," he said, thinking his love and girlfriend was waiting on one of the beds in their hotel room for her turn.

What greeted him was silence and his black colored eyes, darker in color than his fur and hair, scanned to find he was alone. His tail began to twitch with worry like his feline shaped ears. His girl wasn't in their room. All the panther saw were the two large bed with white colored sheets and blankets, the usual mounds of matching pillows one would find in hotel rooms for the beds, the large T.V. sitting on the wooden stand with the fridge built into the latter, the two chairs, the table right against the wall, and the white colored curtains in front of the sliding glass door that lead out of the room. He then glanced to the closet here but saw the lights were off, covering that part of the room in inky black shadows. The panther's eyes began to show worry, and he had every right to be given to what had been lost in his past. But just then a vibrating sound tore the feline back to reality. He knew it was his phone and his black eyes on instinct went to the source. His phone was letting him know he had a text message. The panther went to the bed side table and swooped the device up in his right paw. Checking saw the message was from Natasha which instantly made relief flow through his veins as the panther read the text. The male could hear her now, speaking it as if she was standing in front of him, in her beautiful, sexy voice. "I have just gone out for a bit love," went her text. "I will be seeing you soon Daniel..."

Natasha's text ended with x's and o's, one of the ways when communicating with her boyfriend just how much she loved him. But it was matched by how much the panther loved his pantheress in return. The feline just closed his eyes, smiling as he envisioned her again in his mind. Daniel's gaze then turned to the other bed in here. The feline remembered how beautiful she had been even when still asleep. "Natasha..." the panther whispered with love as he sat on the bed across from hers that he had slept in last night being on this vacation with her. His mind drifted to the past, to what had led to them meeting and falling in love.