"Come on, you deserve to relax a little," Lu Han told her, sprawled on Kyungsoo's leather couch with her feet over the back of it.
"I do relax," Kyungsoo defended with a scowl, "On the weekends."
"And how is that?" Lu Han challenged, "With a crossword puzzle."
Kyungsoo glared, "Well, I try, but then I get interrupted by certain people."
Lu Han grinned like she'd been given a compliment.
"I'm making sure you interact with people who aren't lawyers," she informed her, "It's very important for your mental health."
"Last time I checked, you were a writer, not a psychologist."
"I would have made an amazing psychologist, but whatever."
Kyungsoo rolled her eyes.
"Anyway, my point is, getting a cat would be good for you," Lu Han told her, rolling off the couch and landing on the ground with a thump, "Companionship, happiness, et cetera."
“Okay, first of all,” Kyungsoo started, not even bothering to comment on the fact that Lu Han was currently on the floor, "You're not suggesting I get a cat. You're suggesting I get a catgirl. And secondly, I'm not even a pet person.”
“You say that like you're a people person,” Lu Han snorted. Having crawled back on the couch to sit like a normal person.
“Exactly, so why would I want a catgirl when I don't want a pet and don't really like people?”
“Because you clearly don't get proper socialization anywhere else, so it would be good for you,” Lu Han reiterated.
Kyungsoo was not convinced.
“I know you're really happy with Jongdae, but having a catgirl just isn't for everyone, okay?”
Lu Han huffed, clearly disappointed by Kyungsoo's reaction to her suggestion.
But Kyungsoo hadn't asked for advice. She was perfectly content the way she was and that was that.
Except with Lu Han, it was never so simple.
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Kyungsoo should have known better. She really should have.
Dismissing a conversation with Lu Han didn't mean it was over. It just meant that they'd stopped talking about it for the time being.
Usually, Lu Han would just bring it up again later and bug her.
This time...this time Kyungsoo came home from work and nearly had a heart attack because she could tell someone had been in her apartment. And then there was the fact that she could hear some sort of...crying? (whimpering? yowling?) coming from her bedroom.
Considering a burglar probably wouldn't be crying, Kyungsoo surmised that she probably wasn't in any danger. But with that out of the way, this reeked of Lu Han. Why had she given her a key to her apartment?
With trepidation, Kyungsoo made her way to her bedroom and peered around the door frame to see...a girl, a catgirl (she should have known), curled up in her bed with the blankets a mess around her, gripping handfuls of the sheet as she cried.
She looked fully grown (so she must have been a year old, at least, in human years- the age at which hybrids matured and started to age at the same rate as humans) and had shiny black hair that came down to her waist with sleek black ears perched atop her head and a matching black tail that was curled around herself.
