The Little Neko (girlxgirl)

Chapter 4

*rylies pov*

I notice my masters eyes on me as I walked around her house, exploring but making sure not to go anywhere she didn't want me. I hadn't noticed her looking in my bag until I heard the familiar squeak of my ball. My ears swiveled around to where mistress was and I walked over, seeing if she was going to play with me. 

"Is this your ball?" she asks and I nod, my eyes on the little blue ball rather than her. She chuckles and set the ball on the ground before rolling it forward. I quickly chased after the ball and pounced on it causing it to let out a loud squeak. 

As soon as the ball went silent I got up and used my paw to hit it right back at her. The game went on like that for a while, Mistress would roll the ball and id catch it before hitting it back at her.

I eventually got bored and started cleaning my fur when a red dot suddenly came into my vision. My ears flattened up as I crept towards the red dot and jumped at it, catching it under my paws. When I lifted them up I didn't see the dot there, instead it was on the floor not far away. As soon as I went for it the dot started running away from me, I of course, chased it. 

I heard laughing but was too intent on catching the, where'd it go? I look around and sniff the floor, trying to figure out where the red dot went. I look up to see my mistress laughing happily and her brother with a small smile on his face. I liked my mistress laughter, it was pretty and made me feel happy. I soon snapped out of thought to realize I was looking her directly in the eyes,  quickly averted my gaze and laid down beside the couch.

"Rylie can you become a human for me again?" my mistress asks and I quickly obey, feeling my body quickly grow and reshape itself. 

"Yes mistress?" I reply tilting my head. 

"Rylie I already told you to call me Claire, not mistress." she says but continues before I have the time to apologize. 

"I was thinking we could cut your hair, unless you like having it that long?" she says.

I nod my head excitedly, "Yes please mistress Claire!" I chirp making her smile as she walks with me to her bathroom. She had me lean over the side of the tub as she washed my hair which made me purr at the nice feeing. I was surprised when she handed me a little rectangle which I think my old master had called a cellphone. 

"You can look on that for what hair style you want aright?" Mistress says and I nod, soon finding something that looked nice and I showed it to her. she looked surprised.

"Are you sure you want it that short?" she asks since the photo I found had the hair about an inch below where her human ears are. I looked back at the phone, a bit sad since I really liked that. 

"I can find something else..." I mumble but mistress quickly shakes her head.

"if you want your hair that short ill cut it for you, I just thought you like it long with how your hair is now." she says. "If you're cutting off that much we could probably donate it too."

"Whats that mean mistress?" I ask her curiously, handing her the phone back.

"Some people don't have hair so if we donate your hair, they could make it into a wig to have pretty hair like yours." she says with a smile as she brushes out my wet hair. 

"Okay mistress, we can donate my hair." 

she smiles at me happily as she started to work on it. "How about we play a game Rylie? ill ask you a question then you get to ask me one." 

I nod in reply and she starts. 

"Whats your favorite color?" she asks me.

"Red. Is that your brother I keep seeing around?"

"Yes, his name is Max. Do you have siblings?"

"I was the only one born in my litter but my mom had many more before me." I have to think of a question that wont possibly offend her. "Have you ever had a pet before me?"

"I had a pet hamster once. What's your favorite season?"

"I like fall because one time my master let me go outside and play in the big leaf pile with his Daughter... but he got mad when I didn't want to come inside so I didn't get to play outside after that." I look down sadly. 

"Ill let you play in the leaves outside when fall comes." Mistress promises me making a small smile fill my face as we sit there in a comfortable silence until she finished with my hair.

"I have an idea, how about I invite my best friend over? He has a neko about your age, I think her name is diamond." she says making me smile and nod. 

"Yes please mistress!" I say happily as he helped me dry my hair before going to call her friend. I decided I wanted to do something special for her in return, maybe she'll let me make her cookies. I like making cookies, they make the house smell nice. 

"Alex and Diamond said theyd be here in about twenty minutes." mistress says as she walks downstairs and pets my ears, making me purr loudly. 

"Thank you mistress." I say, nuzzling her side gently. 

"For what?"

"For caring about me." 

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Rylies pov age 11

"Do you have to go to school?" I say sadly looking up at Emilee, my masters daughter that's four years older than me.

"Yes Rylie, I have to go to school ever week day." she says with a smile as she pets my ears and I purr.  "We go over this every day princess, ill be back later." she says and walks out the door.

I do what I do everyday, wait for her by the window. My master didn't come home until late last night and he'd probably sleep most of the day. I didn't understand why he always smelled so bad after he came home from a night at 'the bar.' 

Finally Emilee came home, I greeted her at the door with a hug but noticed a boy behind her. 

"Hi I'm Rylie!" I chirp looking up at him. He rolls his eyes. 

"Rylie this is my boyfriend." she smiles and puts her lips against his, ew. She laughs when she sees my facial expression. she walked up to her room and soon came down in a coat with her bag. 

"Can we play today Emilee?" I ask her hopefully.

"Sorry princess, I'm going out on a date. maybe later."

Maybe later, that's all I ever heard from her anymore. After three months on my twelfth birthday I tugged on her shirt to get her to look at me. "Can we play today Emilee, please?" I gave her my best kitty eyes. 

"I'm sorry Rylie, maybe later." she says and something inside me snapped. 

"You always say that! when is later?" I yell at her. She narrows her eyes at me. 

"Go to your kennel." she commands pointing at the door to the basement. I hate the basement, there's thing down there In the dark. "Now."

I heard the tone in her voice and went down there, turning on all the lights as I went down just for her to turn them off after she shut my cage, leaving me stuck in the pitch black cage. 

Two days. She forgot about me for two days. It was her father, my master, who finally found me when he was coming to look for more beer. He grumbled under his breath and opened the cage letting me upstairs but Emilee wasn't there. 

That was the day my firs master returned me. He said it was my fault. His daughter ran away the day we fought and no one could find her. So I sat in my cage, waiting for a new master, little did I know how much worse he would be.