Teaser Post: I’m Fed Up With Pretending To Be Fine
“Cock-a-doodle-doo!”
There’s a rooster crowing. Why is there a rooster crowing? Which neighbor is hiding chickens in London flats? Who even does that? Although there’s also bright light streaming in through an open window off to his left, and a warm, heavy weight on the left side of his stomach.
Wait. Open window? The windows of his flat don’t open. And who in their right mind would have chickens in flats? And what’s that weight on his stomach?
Harry groans, digging the heels of his hands into his eyes as his brain finally catches up with everything going on around him. He’s not in London, he’s in a little bed-and-breakfast in Wisconsin. He’d heard and seen chickens last night when he and Zayn had arrived, but that doesn’t explain the warm, heavy weight on his stomach.
He shifts to sit up and is rewarded with a sleepy ‘mrrph’ from where the weight gets shifted. He turns his head to look, just in time to see the large orange cat from last night shifting itself into a sitting position, its front paws tiny columns that it wraps its tail around as it sleepily contemplates Harry. Harry knows from experience that, unless they’re regularly around shifters, domestic animals don’t like the smell shifters have and tend to avoid them. His wolf had caught the scents of canine and feline off Liam and the little girl the night before, so the animals on the property are used to shifters.
He reaches out and manages to give the animal a few scratches behind the ears before it yawns widely and hops down off the bed. He watches as it pads across the floor, hops up onto the chair he hadn’t noticed last night under the window and jumps up onto the windowsill. It sits there a few minutes, blinking slowly at Harry before turning and hopping out into the daylight outside. There’s a part of Harry that wants to burrow under the covers he hadn’t slept under when exhaustion had taken over last night, but the cat had the right idea: he should get up and go outside.
Title: I’m Fed Up With Pretending To Be Fine
Written by: @babyarcanacasey/patdkitten
Artist: @haroldsmoon
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