The One Life War

Chapter 1 - Cat Obsession? Blame Joey

The noise had yet to stop. Joel had it clocked to have been eleven hours since the beginning, and he was, to be perfectly honest, done with Minecraft cats for the rest of all time.

Lizzie hadn't come out of her office since breakfast, and it was almost time for dinner. Joel, being the polite boyfriend that he was, generally waited for Lizzie's permission to enter before coming into her office space; however, after waiting for three minutes without a response, and the sound of Minecraft cats meowing being louder than ever, he decided he had had enough.

The gamer slowly opened the door to his girlfriend's office, on edge from the cat noises, but the annoyance on his face quickly turned to confusion, as the first thing he saw upon opening the door to his love's office was at the very least, two hundred cats.

"Uhhhhhhhh." Was all Joel could say for a good thirty seconds, before he fully took in what was happening. Lizzie, the love of his life and the cutest person on the planet, was staring obsessively at her computer screen, while, simultaneously, feeding hundreds of cats fish and creating hundreds more. This wasn't necessarily a new behavior for Lizzie, seeing as she had spent hours breeding enough chickens to completely fill Scott's property, but Joel had never seen someone do the same thing with cats, of all creatures.

Lizzie was entranced. So entranced, in fact, that she hadn't noticed Joel's invasive entrance into her work space, and his dumbfoundedness that had come with the discoveries he had made during his time there so far.

Joel slowly came up from behind his girlfriend, and placed a hand on her shoulder. "Lizzie?" He asked, now thoroughly confused.

"Ahh!" Lizzie exclaimed, suddenly shocked out of her trance. When she realized it was just Joel, and not some sort of murderer, she began chuckling sheepishly.

"Oh my gosh, Joel, you scared me." Lizzie laughed, clutching her hands over her heart in an attempt to get her heart rate back to normal.

"I knocked for like, three minutes..."

"Sorry, I didn't hear you." Lizzie apologized. "What did you need?"

"Well, I was coming in to say that I was planning on starting dinner, but now I have more questions..." Joel explained, looking back at Lizzie's desktop. "Like why so many cats? And why aren't you using your headphones?"

"They broke." Lizzie said, pointing to a pair of headphones on the ground. One of the headphones had dislocated itself from the headband part. "A new pair should be here tomorrow, with Amazon Prime, but for now I just really wanted to immerse myself into the world of Minecraft."

"You could have just asked to borrow mine." Joel pointed out. "And you didn't answer my first question."

"Huh, I didn't think of asking you to borrow yours... May I? Please?" Lizzie asked.

"Umm, if you promise to come down for dinner and answer my first question." Joel shrugged.

"Oh, well Joey and I got cats." Lizzie shrugged. "And so I started breeding them."

"In One Life?"

"Yep!"

"Uhhh okay... Well dinner will be ready in about an hour, so set an alarm or something. And you know where to find my headphones..."

"Thank you!" Lizzie exclaimed, hopping up.

"Seriously, Lizzie, it's almost 6:30, you missed lunch."

"I'll be there!" Lizzie assured him, then she left, presumably to Joel's office, leaving Joel staring at a whole lot of cats with more questions leaving than he had coming in.