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“Look at this one, hahaha!” Dearka was showing the 104th cat video that day to Yzak.
“I’ve seen enough! If you love cats so much, why don’t you get one?” Yzak waved a hand dismissively at Dearka and his phone full of cat videos.
“You know… maybe I will”, he said contemplatively. “Though my apartment doesn’t allow it”
“That hasn’t stopped you before hasn’t it”, Yzak huffed, standing up to walk away from any more cat videos.
“Maybe I could say it’s one of my friends’ cats and it’s just visiting”, Dearka was seriously contemplating plans to make it happen.
“You can’t live with me if you get kicked out!” Yzak shouted, closing the door behind him.
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-The next day-
“What, no cat videos today?” Yzak asked sarcastically, sitting down across from Dearka.
“You sound disappointed”
“Am not!”
“Do you want to see??” Dearka was already moving his phone towards Yzak. “Her name is Ribbons! Isn’t she the cutest! She’s so tiny!”
Yzak was a little surprised Dearka actually went through with it and was quiet for a few seconds.
“Well, since she’s so small, I guess she’s easy to hide”, he conceded. Looking closer, he didn’t want to admit that indeed the tiny kitten was cute.
–
Dearka was surprised to find it was Yzak that had knocked on his door.
“Well yeah, I just had something to drop off here”, Yzak held up a jacket as if it was a great bother.
“Oh ok”, Dearka stumbled over his words.
Yzak grumbled something about Dearka leaving his jacket anywhere and everywhere.
“Do you want to see her?” he asked excitedly.
“What? Well now that I’m all the way over here…” Yzak stepped past Dearka, not-so-subtly looking around.
–
“Isn’t she the cutest ?” Dearka said, holding up the very small kitten.
“You’ve already said that!” Yzak made a move to snatch her from Dearka.
“Can I interest you in my new religion?” Dearka moved closer to Yzak on the couch who was currently occupied by waving a feather toy around for Ribbons.
“Your new what?”
Dearka showed a picture of Ribbons on the arm of the couch, perfectly lined up with some hands from another picture behind her.
“I… might be interested” Ribbons batted at the feather toy and Yzak ducked away to hide a smile. There’s no way Dearka could see that .