A young, dumb idiot. I thought it would be best, whatever her reason to put more distance between us would be better forboth of us. It’s what she wanted, and I always give her what she wants even if it’s not what I want.
But she’s coming back to me.
“Franki, please be nice to Lily. I don’t need to scare her away even more than I already have,” I tell my feral kitten who responds with a hiss.
Yesterday, she stole a piece of cheese right off my plate I was eating. Then looked at me like I’m the problem.
I hear Lily pull up and go outside to meet her in the driveway. She gets out of her car and looks up at my house.
“What?” I turn to look where she is to see what she’s staring at.
“I just realized I’ve never seen your house.”
“Good thing that’s going to change.” I smile.
“I’m here for one reason, and one reason only,” she states, firmly. “You said please.”
“Is that all it takes? Because I’ll get on my knees and plead for you every day.”
“Let’s not get ahead of ourselves.” She smirks.
I want to pull her into me and kiss her senseless again. The temptation is so overwhelming, but I manage to stop myself. Instead, leading her inside and crossing my fingers we aren’t about to be greeted by Franki launching herself at myface.
“What exactly is the cat emergency?” Lily asks as we walk inside. The little orange devil sitting on the edge of the counter with her tail wrapped around her paws.
Technically there’s no emergency, it was just an excuse to get you over here.
“Look at her.” I stretch my hand out in the direction of my cat.
Lily raises an eyebrow, looking at Franki then back to me. “She seems fine.”
“She’s lying.”
“Right.” She nods, walking over, and putting her hand toward Franki who sniffs it, bumping against her fingers and then allowing Lily to run her hand along her fur. “Seems perfectly fine to me.”
“That’s what she wants you to think, and then when you least expect it she attacks.”
Lily and Franki seem to give me the same look that indicates they think I’m crazy.
“Yeah, I guess she just doesn’t like you because she’s fine with me.” Lily starts petting her with both hands, and I can hear Franki’s purring from here.
I reach out to try and pet her as well, but she bats at my hand with her paw.
“I like you,” Lily says affectionately to thekitten.
“What about me?” I raise an eyebrow.
Her face twists. “I’m still deciding.”
“You know you never told me what happened to make you hate me.” I fold my arms across my chest. I didn’t plan on confronting her about whatever changed between us, but I can’t help it.
Lily isn’t a stranger to giving me mixed signals, but she always ends up making her feelings extremely obvious. Her face always gives away how she’s truly feeling. Except lately because she kisses me, then ignores me. Comes over but acts like there’s still bad blood between us.
If we’re going to have any chance at anything then I need to know what I even did.
Lily scoffs, looking only at Franki. “You know exactly what you did.”
“No, I really don’t, so if you want to enlighten me, Lil, that would be great.”