In the man’s home, there was a woman, and a little girl.
I realised that the adult woman was the man’s wife and the little girl was their child. I could smell the same scent coming off that little girl as the man. Furthermore their auras was also similar.
It was tiring to keep calling that little girl, ‘little girl’, so I just called her ‘girly’ instead.
As if she had been waiting for the man to carry me back home, the woman, with her long hair tied behind her, came bringing a towel in hand, wrapping the towel around me and held me.
Perhaps the towel had been warmed up beforehand; the soft, white warm towel gave off a nice fragrance.
“Oh my, she’s gotten this cold.”
“Miyoko, put her in the bath first.”
The man says, and the woman shakes her head.
“What are you saying? You’re going in too.”
“Ehh…”
The man stands the umbrella in the corner of the doorway as he lets out a miserable noise.
“I’m telling you now, but I’ve never raised a cat before. When you suddenly said that you wanted to move into an apartment that allowed pets, I was so surprised… Ah, let me wipe him down. Hey, let me handle the dryer, you’re just too clumsy. It’s alright to use the low setting, yes?
“….Um, yeah, should be.”
The man said vaguely. However the woman continued regardless.
“I’ve already prepared your change of clothes so you can go straight in.”
After hearing an, ‘Alright’, the woman hands me, wrapped in a towel, over to the man. Seeing the girly next to the woman looking over in this direction full of curiousity made me uncomfortable, and I slowly turned away from her.
“Hey mum, I want to use the dryer~”
“If you want to play with the kitten then you need to finish your homework first, Yuuka.”
The man stands up, carrying me as he passed by the two.
As I passed by her, I took a sneak peak at the girly’s face. She let out a sigh, and puffed up her cheeks, looking like a mantou.
“I’m only in middle school, why is there so much homework.”
“There’s a lot to learn after all.”
As I was listening to the woman say that to the girly, the man and I entered a certain room.
A humid warm air tingled my nose as the man closed the door behind him in a familiar fashion and started undressing. I had a really bad feeling about this. That feeling came to fruition the moment the man opened the next door, having finished taking off his clothes.
The bathroom, with the warm white steam floating about, had a bathtub filled to the brim with hot water.
That was my first experience with a bath.
I bring out my claws, and tried to run away from every direction, and every time I would do so, the man would panic to catch me. When everything below my neck was put into the hot water, I finally lost all energy to even move, and I ultimately let him do as he pleased. Then, in my dazed state, I was handed over to the woman outside the bathroom, and was attacked by a towel this time.
Damn it, why am I being subjected to this.
I mutter annoyedly, I felt like it didn’t matter what came next anymore. After all, I couldn’t imagine anything that would drain me more than that frightening bath.
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The Fourteen Years I Spent as a Cat
KurzgeschichtenI am an abandoned black cat. Having not even been named, "I" met a human man one day. For some reason, he couldn't leave me alone, someone who didn't know love. Which is why, I decided to go live with him. Naming me Alexandria? You've got to be joki...
