Hey, all I'm back once more, and I have a little request. If you have ANY comments, good, bad or worse, please please please email me at: diamondrope@Hotmail.com. THANKS! I hope y'all like this one!
*...*: Denotes thought
"No."
"No?! Whaddaya mean, no?!"
"Well, lets see. Yes means it's alright and since no is the oppo-"
"I know that! I mean, why?"
"Why? WHY?! I'm sick of this game! I don't wanna be a sidedish anymore!"
"What do you mean?"
"I mean you have to choose. It's me or her. Got it? Me or her."
"Hey baby." Cassandra purred, rubbing up against Alonzo while quietly looked over his shoulder at Mistoffelees. *Oh baby! I never knew such a small package could pack such a punch!"
"..yard garden tonight?"
"Huh?" Cassandra tuned back into the real world as she forced her eyes to "her" tom. Alonzo frowned and looked behind him. Cassandra gulped but sighed when she saw Misto was no longer there.
"ANYWAY, as I was saying...oh forget it. I'll see ya round, okay?"
"Kay, sweetie." Cassandra said and slinked off, winking at toms on the way. Alonzo sighed as he watched her go, knowing that she hadn't heard a single word he said. Across the junkyard he could see Jemima and Mistoffelees in a game of pounce. It took all his willpower not to break into hysterical laughter as Etcetera joined in unexpectedly and scared the pair almost out of their skins. Noticing Alonzo, Jemima excused herself and walked over to him.
"Well?"
"I need mo-"
"Jemima! Come here a sec, Etcetera needs to ask you something." Mistoffelees said, rubbin ghis friend before scampering off under Alonzo's dark look. Jemima ran over to Etcetera where the latter pulled her into a garbage can, leaving Alonzo alone. *I need to go find Munkustrap...now.*
"Serves you right."
"Serves me right?! Jeez, Munku, I thought you'd be more understanding." Alonzo said, making a face.
"Well, lets look at it this way. You have Cassie, you have for almost a year now. But Cassie gets a little...restless, shall we say. So you go for something new. But did you have to go that new?!"
"She's a year old now!"
"You've been with her for almost two months!!!"
"So?"
"Humans call that a pedophile."
"A peda-what?"
"That's an older person going after a child."
"Ew. At least Jemima's within my age range."
"Oh yes, a one year old and a two and a half year old. That's real close."
"Shut up."
"Look, you said she gave you an ultimatum, right? Her or Cassie."
"Yup."
"Then I suppose there's only one thing to do."
"Lemme guess.."
"Choose."
Alonzo found Cassandra and Jemima among the ranks of the cats in a circle around Mistoffelees. At the moment he was levitating Electra in the air, threatening to drop her every once in a while.
"Put me down! PUT ME DOWN!!" she cried and Misto shrugged.
"Aiight." He saind a promptly let the powers go. Electra landed gracefully on her feet and scratched Misto's tail playfully. He was already busy, though, making random things appear and disappear.
"Cass, can we talk for a sec." He said, tapping her on the shoulder. He watched her slowly drag her eyes away from the small black cat and to himself.
"Um, I wanna say that I've-"
"Hey, I haven't seen you in a while." She interrupted him, giving him a soft kiss. There was a small gasp by him and he turned enough to see Jemima gaping at them, pain in her eyes. Cassandra giggled as she saw the kitten as well.
"Oops, I guess we shocked her a bit. Kittens aren't used to PDA you know." Alonzo didn't reply as he saw Jemima shake her head a couple of times and run away as fast as her legs could carry her. Cassandra took Alonzo'a paw and led him to a more secluded spot where they could be alone. Alonzo didn't realize he had left until they stopped.
"Now then, where were we?"
"N-n-no!" he cried as she leaned in again.
"What?"
"No! That's what I wanted to say, I mean. Cassie, I don't want there to be an us anymore."
"What? WHY?"
"Because, you're too....flirtatious. You've been with half the toms, I know that at the least! And, and.."
"And?" Cassandra didn't try to deny that, she didn't lie. She had been quite unfaithful in her time.
"There's someone else."
"Who?" But Alonzo went on without hearing her at all.
"Only I don't know if she'll take me back now, I've hurt her a lot." He left with that. Cassandra sat there, hurt, confused, beffuddled and most of all concerned. Who was this queen who had taken him away from her? She thought back through the day, Misto's tricks, Jemima's look, her tears..wait a sec. Jemima, it had to be. *He left me for a KITTEN?!* she thought angrily and then resigned her dignity and cried.
Alonzo found the kitten in the same position.
"Jemmy.."
"You chose." She whispered through her tears. Oh it hurt, it hurt so much.
"No! She kissed me, I didn't want-"
"YOU CHOSE!!! AND IT WASN'T ME!!!" She yelled, trying to get him to admit his actions. He stood there with a pleading look on his face for a moment, and Jemima took that opprotunity to run away.
"Jemima? JEMIMA!!!!!"
Jemima ignored Alonzo's cries as she ran as fast as she could. She really thought that he had loved her. All his words, his kisses, her kittens....her kittens?! Jemima stopped mid-stride and thought about that last part again. Kittens? I'm not with kittens, it's not my season, it can't be myseasonI'mtooyoungtohaveaseasonomigodomigodomigod!!! I'M PREGNANT?!!?!?!!!!!!! Jemima amost collapsed right then and there. She was a year old now, she had already had one season, she just didn't know that it was her season a couple nights ago. Oh CRAP!!!* She thought, putting her head in her paws. She cursed with all her might that damned instinct inside her that somehow _knew_ and most of all she cursed Alonzo for being the reason that she was in this predicament. Damn him and all his childr- wait, can't do that. Can't curse my own son. Son? How did I..oh forget it. If I'm gonna have a son I better start thinking up n-names.... Jemima laid down and let her tears resume where they had left off before her revelation.
Alonzo stared at the spot Jemima had until recently occupied. He didn't move, didn't think, didn't breathe. In fact, when Munkustrap came upon him moments later, he was still looking wide-eyed at the ground, is face turning a shade of blue.
"Alonzo? Lonzo? Hey buddy, you're turning blue. LONZO?!" Munkustrap yelled, hitting his friend on the back. Alonzo coughed and took a deep breath, turning to his friend.
"I, she, me, Cass, her, Jem, ran, chose, her, she, I, Cass, me, she, Misto, her, I-"
"Lonzo, try talking sense."
"I, she, Cass, Jemima, she, chose, me choose, run, kittens, wait a sec." Alonzo stopped his own shocked babbling at that point and went over his last couple of sentances. "She, chose, me choose, run, that's all right. Kittens....where did that come from?"
"-ma's with kittens?!!?!?!" Munkustrap's shocked voice. Alonzo turned towards his friend wide-eyed.
"I-I, I don't know!! I don't know where th-that came from!!" He said worridly. Munkustrap shook his head and then backed Alonzo into a pile of junk, his face angry.
"Is. There. Any. Possibility. That. Jemima. Might. Be. With. Kittens?!" Alonzo's eyes seemed to widen past a natural point.
"Y-yes.." he squeaked, bracing himself for the blow. Instead there only came a strangled scream from Munkustrap.
"Alonzo, if she is with kittens and you do not patch this up this instant, then your kittens will have YOU as their first meal!!!! Is that CLEAR?!?!"
"Crystal!!" Alonzo said and ran off to find Jemima.
Jemima rolled onto her back to look at the sky. Alonzo had chosen to be with Cassandra, and now their kittens were going to grow up with out a father. She closed her eyes and sighed as she felt a shadow come over her. She opened her eyes to be confronted with an angry Cassandra. Jemima sighed again and braced herself.
"I can't beleive it. A little undeveloped thing like you won my Alonzo's heart. From me! We all know that more males want me more than even Bomby! But somehow you stole my Lonzo. Well that's fine. But you can bet on it that I'll be back for revenge." Cassandra blurted out and stalked away. Jemima sighed for a third time, completley unimapcted by her words. Why is she so angry? She won! Those petty threats, ha! "You took my Lonzo, I'll be back.. She sounds like a cheap Terminat-wait a sec. I stole her Lonzo? WHAT THE HELL? HE PICKED ME!? She sat bolt upright, only to sigh and lay down again. I must have totally ruined my chances by now. Oh no.... She held back her tears feircly as another shadow fell over her. The face was shadowed but the voice was as familiar as ever.
"Jemmy, I don't care if you won't have me. But I want you to know, I did choose you. I left Cassie earlier today. She kissed me, I swear it. I love you, Jemmy, and I want to be with you forever." Alonzo stopped, praying with all his heart that she'd forgive her. Much to his delight, she smiled and sat up, kissing him deeply.
"I forgive you Alonzo, I love you too. But I don't totally trust you yet."
"Well, I'll prove it somehow."
"I know how."
"Oh?"
"Yes. You can prove it when you help me raise our kittens." Alonzo gave yelp of joy and Munkustrap smiled as he saw the couple embrace. And everything was normal again.