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Cats: A Guys Bestfriend

Jeremwood
Word count: 4583
Chapters: 3

In the middle of the night

The night had been extremely rough for Jeremy, after coming home from an excruciatingly long day at work. Arriving at his apartment he found that he had left his window wide open and that his asshole of a cat had escaped. It wasn't like this hadn't happened before, it had happened a multitude of times, but never when he was this exhausted.

Jeremy pulled out his phone and brought up the tracking app that his cat's chip was connected to. He had chipped Zipper after the third time he escaped (that was the worst it had been, he had searched for him for a whole week and couldn't find him until Zipper turned up on his own). The app showed that his precious asshole cat had gone off into the woods that were 5 miles away from his quaint apartment.

Before leaving for his car Jeremy grabbed the bag of treats of the counter and the leash that he bought for this type of situation (Jeremy used the lease so that once he got his boy back he wouldn't be able to escape him while he brought him back home). Once getting into the car Jeremy groaned because of how late it was getting and because he knew he had to go back into work tomorrow.

The ride was only a few minutes to get to the parking area before he had to get into the woods, the hard part now was trying to find a moving animal in the dark. After getting out of the car he grabbed the treats and his leash and began his trek through the woods. He foolishly forgot his flashlight at home and doomed himself to be in the darkness of the night even though the woods never bothered him before, it is especially different and scarier in the dark.
Jeremy journeyed deep into the woods searching for Zipper, about thirty minutes after he started his hunt the cat had finally decided to rest which made it easier to reach him. The night so far had been easy for him, nothing jarring had happened yet, not even a mysterious snap of a branch that would increase his heart rate. That was until he came upon the area that the tracker told him his cat was.

In the opening was his precious boy, but he was curled around a man's hand that was giving him belly rubs. The man wore what appeared to be a black leather jacket and jeans. What stood out about him was his long blond hair that shined nicely in the moonlight.

"Um hey man- that's my cat," Jeremy got out slowly. He didn't know how to feel about this stranger. It was shocking enough to find someone out in the woods alone at 12 a.m, but it was even weirder when that person is loving on your cat.

The stranger looked shocked at Jeremy's sudden appearance, he got up quickly which caused Zipper to get startled and run off deeper into the woods, "Oh, oh no," the man whispered to himself.

"Shit," Jeremy muttered as he saw his cat run off, but he didn't go anywhere because Zipper ran off behind the stranger and he wasn't sure if he was safe.

"I'm sorry," the man said towards Jeremy in a way to apologize.

"No, no it's not your fault," Jeremy said cautiously, he didn't want to set off the man in any way in case he wasn't friendly.

After a moment of timid silence the man offered, "Would you like some help getting your cat, It's got to be a pain looking for him in the dark.

"Um, sure I'd appreciate that." They slowly started off in the direction that Zipper had run off to in silence.

"You have a very nice cat," the man said to fill the awkward silence.

"Thanks, but yeah he's a nice cat but he's quite an asshole at times," Jeremy replied.

"Yeah, um well I'm Ryan," he smiled at Jeremy as they walked.

"I'm Jeremy," he offered, "Thanks for helping me by the way."