The Blackwells

24. The calm before the fat storm

Zaid

"Can I call him prince! So, it's almost the same like his mama." Clair asks, looking down at the baby kitten asleep on her lap.

I was just making myself a morning coffee when I heard two little knocks on my front door.

Clair had walked over by herself to see the kitten, I don't think Mika or Xander even know she's here.

"Course you can, he'll be yours soon." I tell her while taking sips from my coffee.

Clair will be getting Prince once he's older enough to be away from his mother.

Suddenly Princess comes trotting over into the kitchen, rubbing her head into my legs.

I look down at my gray cat "You are getting desexed missy." Princess looks up at me, tilting her head.

I found Princess two and a half years ago as a kitten.

I was stumbling out of a club, drunk off my ass.

It had been my mom's birthday that night, so I went and got wasted to forget that I couldn't celebrate it with her.

I was passing the alley way when I heard a tiny meow.

In my drunk state I had to squint my eyes to see the small gray kitten in the cardboard box, looking at me with wide eyes.

Moments later I was picking up the kitten and hugging her to my chest, giving her warmth because she was shaking.

I remember slurring the words "What am I going to name you." Before I walked to my car and opened the back door.

Then I had laid down on my seats and passed out with my new child cuddling into me.

The next morning, I woke up to the kitten licking my nose, I had groggily gotten up with the worse fucking headache.

I stepped out of my car holding the kitten to get fresh air when I had looked up to the bright pink neon sign of the club I had been in the night before.

Princesses.

I remember I had frowned "I was in a club called Princesses?"

I snort at the memory.

That's how I named princess, after the place where I found her.

I shake my head, bending to scratch Princess behind her ear before looking up at Clair "Are you hungry Clair?"

She looks up nodding her head.

"Pancakes with ice cream?"

She immediately widens her eyes "Yes please! I've never had that, but I've seen it on TV!" She practically screams with excitement.

I chuckle and Clair quickly looks down "i-im sorry for yelling."

My smile turns into a sad one "It's okay Clair, you did nothing wrong at all."

I turn around and pull out my phone, sending a quick message to Xander telling him Clair's at mine having breakfast so they don't think she was kidnapped or something.

Then I get to cooking.

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After breakfast with Clair, I walk her back home.

She asks if she can visit tomorrow, and I say a 'of course'.

After that I walk over to my dads, he had asked me to come over in the morning last night to speak about something.