INERTIA ☄️🛸[Solar Eclipse Book 4]

Breaking News 📰

I wake up on the couch, taking in my surroundings carefully. I feel tired, but great... A weird feeling, but that greatness coming from my beloved laying right next to me. I get up to repeat the everyday process of taking a shower and making breakfast. I decide to let Catnap sleep, since he can be grumpy if someone wakes him up. Hoppy walks into the kitchen as I bring out the waffle mix, and I look over to her. "Hey Hoppy. How'd you sleep?" I asked her, "Alright, I was choking on my snores." She says giggling. Hoppy reminds me of one of those aggressive western girls you see in movies. "Well, I slept wonderfully." I say, the reason being obvious to everybody in the world at this point.

After a bit of chatting, Catnap and his tired ego walk into the kitchen. I walk up to him and kiss him, pecking each other on the lips. We whisper a couple of love yous to each other. Hoppy just ignores us, as she's getting very used to our behavior. I then begin making the waffles, taking in the doughy smell as I do. I plop the batter into the waffle maker, one by one they sizzle. I then take out the syrup as they cook for a minute or two. Once they finish, I use the spatula to take each one and put it on a plate. I set each plate onto the table; with cups of syrup, they could pour themselves. "Breakfast is ready y'all." I say, calling the feline and rabbit over to the table.

We chat, and chat, as we eat the buttery waffles I have served. Afterwards, I turn on the TV, hoping something interesting is on. I then see the local news channel, "Breaking News, Harrisville Mall being rioted by Redstone City residents." The title read, "Holy shit, that's live?" Catnap asks as he walks up to the TV. "Fuck yeah it is, glad we got outta that city." I say, scanning the protest signs and all of that. Hoppy then walks in, and her jaw seems to drop to her feet. "What the fuck is going on at the mall? I buy a football there and a couple days later it's being bombarded by a bunch of broke hobos?" Hoppy says, standing there in shock. "Should we go see for ourselves?" I ask, "I'd like to, and make fun of them as we walk by." Catnap laughs, "When I was 14, whenever people were protesting against our town, my friend would steal a car and we'd shoot people with paint ball guns. Can't do that anymore, securities are way more advanced now." He completes.

We walk out of the house and walk over to the mall that's about a quarter mile away. We hear chanting, glass breaking, screaming, and cheering. "God damn, it sounds like a massacre." Hoppy says, as we keep distance from the building. Then me and Catnap freeze, as we see the Killer Beez gang get on top of their vans. They start up a speech, and people cheer along with what they agree with. The leader then scans over the parking lot, and me and Catnap run into the crowd to blend in, leaving Hoppy confused. "What's wrong y'all? She asks us as she approaches. "Uh, we kinda had a... bad run in with the Killer Beez, so I don't want any more trouble than we already have with them." Catnap whispers. Once he looks away from our direction, we attempt to get out of the mess, but are immediately met with a suffocating crowd forming all around. "Shit..." I say under my breath, and Catnap looks around, since he's taller than most of the people here. He kind of just keeps his head low just in case the leader looks our way again. 

Once the cheering dies down, the Killer Beez leader uses a megaphone. "Do you all want this town here to be gone, or not?" He screams into the mic, and people from Redstone all scream along with him. Then, after a couple of minutes of protesting and stuff, a bunch of helicopters begin to fly over the scene. "I think we should get out of here, so we don't get in trouble for... participation." I say, and the other two agree, as we push our way through the crowd. Another reason why we have to get out is because we're kind of known from police stations here and there. We get out of the smothering-suffocation of a mess we were in the middle of a second ago. I take a huge inhale, since I was holding my breath throughout most of that experience. I guess I know what it feels like to go to a concert now... Very overindulging, as well as pressuring. 

We run our way back to the house, not wanting to deal with anything out of the ordinary. We shortly arrive, and barge into the door, heavily panting. "I did not want any part of that." I laugh as we sit down on the couch. "Yeah... I can definitely agree with you." Hoppy says, whipping imaginary sweat off her forehead. We relax for a moment, changing the channel from the news to a standup-comedian dude. We laugh at the adult humor and shortly turn of the TV, deciding to make dinner.

Me and Catnap do so, as we crack a couple of eggs, and some steak. I guess it's a mix of a proper dinner, and eggs... which I guess are used in some dinners. Once we finish, we find Hoppy sitting there at the table, probably scrolling through TikTok. We place the plates down for each chair and begin chatting and eating.

Today was alright, wasn't as good as the last couple of days, but it was pretty eventful. Once we finish dinner, we say our final goodnights, and me and Catnap go to bed and cuddle as always. This is always my favorite part of the day... or night... as it's the most comfortable. I love this man so much.

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Heya there, cowpoke! How y'all doing? There's one more part after this, which will be coming out either tomorrow or the 21st... Idk. Either way, it's gonna be a fun one, I'll make sure you guys enjoy it. I really hope you guys enjoyed this series; it'll mean a lot to me if you did. Please share your thoughts and opinions, I ain't gonna get butthurt if you tell me something negative about my grammar, or something. It'll actually help me become a better writer, so please, if you will. 

Anyway, I love you all so so much, and thank you for the support! This one and book 3 are already reaching the 1k read mark! It's amazing, how I created the first one, thinking I'd be getting 200 reads or something, but no, you guys really blew it up! Thank you all so much, for the millionth time... I love you all, and as always, see you next chapter!