~Mai~
Takumi had fallen asleep on me. I couldn’t really see anything, it was all blurry and fuzzy. I didn’t know what happened to me, just that I heard talking before. My neck was sore, but I thought it was from falling earlier. I heard the door open again and I couldn’t stop the tears from flowing. What if they took me away again? Was Takumi really ok?
“Please don’t cry, it’s ok. I won’t hurt you.” I heard a kind voice near me. Through the fuzziness I saw what looked like blonde hair. It was a guy I knew at least. “May I check on you and see how you’re doing?” He asked softly. I nodded a little; he seemed nice enough. “My name is Damien.” He said.
“I’m M-Mai…is Takumi ok?” I asked. I jumped as I felt something brush my cheek. He had wiped my tears away.
“He is doing good, I’ll check on him too if you would like me to.” Damien took my pulse and gently took my temperature through my ear. “Is your vision still blurred?” He asked.
“Y-Yeah.” I said.
“That should go away within the next few minutes.” He told me. Sure enough, my vision began to clear up. And I saw Damien walk over to where Takumi was, blocking my view of him. He suddenly jumped back. I looked away so he didn’t think I was watching and I didn’t catch what he said to Takumi, who I thought had woke up. I heard Damien coming back towards me and Takumi, hissed? And spoke dangerously.
“Don’t you touch her.” He said. Damien ignored him and reached towards my face. Actually seeing him for the first time, he was quite handsome. I didn’t understand why he was being so nice.
“Please turn this way.” I did as he said and he moved my hair away from my neck and took off some gauze and I felt cool fingers brush along the back of my neck. “It looks good. Thank you.” He placed the gauze back and pressed the tape back and quickly left. I turned my body around and finally saw Takumi. He had amazingly long hair, and…CAT EARS?! And his eyes were cat like now as well. What, what was going on?! He looked back at me and blinked.
“T-Takumi…” I barely whispered.
“What? Is it true?! Am I a neko?!” He gasped and grabbed at his hair. He was panicking and I got up and sat down next to him, trying to calm him down.
“Shh, shh it’s alright, don’t worry, we will figure it out.” I grabbed his hand and noticed long, sharpened nails. I looked him over again and he was absolutely gorgeous. I had kinda imagined him as a neko when we would cosplay and I sorta liked it a lot. Seeing him in front of me now with his piercings and ungodly long hair, he looked, well, hot. I wondered what it would be like if maybe his hair was black, and maybe dressed in leather. Oh, what if he had gotten even stronger now and could really pin me down? I felt my face flushing and my heart raced. He began to calm back down and looked at me with his new cat eyes and I practically melted.
“Are you ok?” He asked.
“Yes.” I squeaked. “Takumi…I, uh…” He paused for a moment and then smirked slightly.
“What’s wrong?” He asked.
“N-Nothing.” I lied. I couldn’t tell him I had just been fantasizing about him.
“You like this?” He asked. I nodded a little and he cracked a smile, which made me smile too. I was glad he was alright to smile. But that didn’t solve where we were or what happened. I reached behind my hair and pulled the gauze back a little and felt. I froze, my heart stopped, and I felt my eyes widen. “What?” Takumi asked.
“Stitches, Takumi they cut me open…” I looked up at him and it was my turn to panic now.
“Calm down, it needs to stay covered so it doesn’t get infected.” Takumi slipped his hand around and covered it back up gently and ran his fingers through my hair, which immediately made me relax.
“You got really angry before didn’t you? When the doctor was in here.” I asked. He puffed his cheeks and furrowed his brow.
“Of course I did! Did you see the way he was touching you?! Of course I’m going to get mad when another guy puts his hands on you!” He said. I couldn’t help but find it cute. He took a deep breath. “I’m so sorry I got us into this mess.” He apologized.
“No, if I had listened to you and left when you suggested it, we wouldn’t be here.” I defended. I felt awful, it was kind of my fault. But Takumi was too sweet to let me take the blame.
“We were both pretty heated though.” He said. I blushed when I thought about it.
“T-That’s true. Next time, we should be more careful.” I said quietly and put my hand on his knee. Even in this awful situation, I still felt comfort knowing he was there with me.
