Allen's p.o.v~
The next day, Minhee, Taeyoung and I met up at the park around noon. We split up and decided to search, along with asking people if they have seen Tampopo or not. I gave the two of them a picture of Tampopo for photo reference.
I looked under the park benches, some couples even looked at me like I was on some type of shit.
"LISTEN HERE YOU TWO I JUST LOST MY PET CAT AND SIDE KICK. KINDLY FUCK OUTTA HERE."
............
Ok I didn't actually say that out loud. But I wish I did. We pretty much searched for 2 hours and stopped to break. The results were horrible. Minhee asked all the people he could find around the park but got nothing and Taeyoung even searched for places outside the park, but none of us found Tampopo.
This search was really stressing my mind, I kept muttering curses in Mandarin while pacing around.
Did someone else took her?
Perhaps she got stolen by someone.
Goddammit where the fuck is she?!
Starting to feel desperate I rubbed my temples and thought about all the bad possibilities that could possibly happen to Tampopo.
"Umm...excuse me?" I heard someone said as they tapped my shoulder.
"What?!" I asked in an angered tone. The person flinched a bit...I think. Great, today was just going well. First we're trying to find a missing cat and second, I accidentally yelled at a stranger who probably thinks I'm weird now. I looked at the stranger and took notice of the thing he was holding in his arms.
A ginger cat?
...
....
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TAMPOPO??
The stranger smiled at me and asked, "Is this perhaps your cat? Your friends over there asked me and I found her near the flower bushes."
Now listen, if I didn't knew my own cat I wouldn't have believed that it was Tampopo in the stranger's arms. She's usually very aggressive and would even claw at other people but she seemed so.......
compliant,
while the stranger was holding her.
Now that's super weird, I'm not even sure if it was my cat anymore but I hesitantly took her and looked at her. Oh God she just keeps looking at the stranger for some reason, its creeping me out.
As I kept looking at Tampopo with a confused expression I suddenly realized that I didn't even thank the person who had found my cat.
"Thank you for finding my cat" I smiled.
"It's no problem. I just happened to find her that's all." he smiled back.
~Timeskip coz ya author-nim is a lazy mf~
After the encounter, Minhee and Taeyoung both went home and I also walked back to my place with the cat in my arms. Weirdly enough she didn't even struggle in my hold.
Now I think Tampopo is on some type of shit.
I can't believe that guy who found Tampopo was so nice. We sOmEhOw exchanged numbers after hanging out for a bit and he told me that his name was........"Park Serim" I guess? I dunno.
And I'm pretty sure that Tampopo
has taken a liking to Serim. Weird.
I slept soundly that night with the feeling that a huge weight has been lifted off my shoulders, I hope the cat doesn't run away again. I should probably buy a collar for her.
