Submission : BDSM Short Stories

Four - Kitty Catch

     I always loved animals, I was always fascinated by them.

      When we'd play house in primary school I'd always play the cat or the dog, instead of watching the newest cartoon I was watching David Attenborough with my elderly neighbour. I blame him for my fascination, my parents worked late so he offered to watch me after school, he'd come pick me up and we'd go to his and watch animal documentaries until my dad came for me for dinner. He knew everything about any animal I could ask about, he was the grandfather I never had growing up. By time I became an adult I could never appreciate his knowledge, before I turned eighteen he died peacefully in his home doing what he did best. Solving a puzzle while watching a documentary.

      I was the one who found him, I was the one who planned his funeral with the funds he left. He had left me a note saying what he wanted and where his will was, in his will he told me he had no family and that his wife and he were never blessed with children. She died long before I was born, and he was too heartbroken to marry again, so when he saw the frazzled neighbours and a curious little girl he took the opportunity to be less lonely. He detailed how our afternoons were his favourite parts of the week, and how he was sorry he left me so soon but that he would never be far.

      Now that I'm older I can understand he was on the spectrum, he often struggled to look me in the eye and he had quirks that as a child I didn't notice. Four years on without him I still sit in our position and watch documentaries, though now with my boyfriend Nate. Instead of Nate doing a puzzle he's writing emails or planning our next sex adventure, I still have a part of my oldest friend. He wanted his ashes spread in different places but I couldn't give him away fully, so I had a tiny piece of him made into the bell I wear on my collar.

      He did shape me into who I am, and my sexual fantasies. He had no filter and told me how animals mated and I found it interesting, I asked him one day if I could mate like an animal and he told me about pet play. It didn't take long when I got in a relationship with Nate for me to tell him I wanted to try this, he was freaked out for a few hours until he researched it. The next week he gave me a gift, a pair of ears and a tail.

      I've never looked back since.

* * *

      I sighed dropping my car keys in the dish by the front door.

After a long day all I wanted to do was get into a bath and lose myself in a smutty romance or scare myself half to death reading whatever chapter Mel was working on that day. I checked my phone before I did anything, she hadn't sent anything new over so it looked like I was going to end up reading that new book she peer pressured me into buying. My body sagged in relief when I stepped out of my heels, for all I enjoyed wearing them the relief was like no other. That's when my eye caught on an envelope, I picked it up smiling to myself, once I opened it the intentions of the night became clear.

Open the box in the bedroom, put on what is inside and wait for me at the door. Text me before you open it so I can make sure I'm home. I love you.

- N

I fired off a quick message to let him know I was home, in response I got a thumbs up. I took the stairs two at a time, clinging onto the open bathroom door so I could turn myself and not smack into the wall, I flung myself into our bedroom stopping short when I saw the box. Almost as if it were unicorn shit I carefully stepped closer, kneeling on the plush carpet I spent hours contemplating with Mel. I pulled the ribbon off the box, gently opening the top to reveal what was inside.