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Her tail drooped down, hitting the concrete floor.
Beside her, a kitchen.
It had everything you could use to make edible food.
An oven, a stove, so on and so forth.
On her right, a phone with a couple of cracks laid down.
It was a pretty pastel phone case with a couple of old anime stickers on them.
Catballs ears folded above her eyes, as she caressed herself, using the warmth of the yarn to think.
Every finger movement calmed her down, but not enough.
She could barely boil water without everything going up in flames.
Usually, the clefs or dalgon-Ja could come around and help her out.
However, they were sleeping.
A bright red digital clock on the oven read the time of 3 am.
She mostly goes to sleep around 8, yet hunger woke her up.
All the buttons made Catball take a small step back,
Her eyes started to close automatically.
Realizing this, her paws immediately reached the closing eyes, rubbing them ‘till she felt more awake.
Memories that felt distant, ( even if they were from last night ) showed everyone in team meow going to sleep.
Everyone, except cube.
Cube, himself, was very difficult in team meow.
He didn’t focus, he was rough, he teased and made comments endlessly about others while stuttering if he was talked about in the wrong way.
Yet, something about that made catball like him.
He was playful, easily being able to cause fun anywhere he went. His fast nature was one of the most exciting things from him.
Catball even somewhat liked his jokes!
Her hands startled for the phone, before grabbing it and quickly dialing in the numbers of cube.
After she hit enter, her phone went up to her ear, which was now twitching, waiting for a mumble or even just a simple hello.
But it went to voicemail.
Again, she sailed his number.
More slowly, just incase she put in a wrong digit.
After thirteen seconds, he finally picked up.
“…hm? “
“ Oh! Hii cube!! Were you-um sleeping? “
“…yes? I-it’s three. “
“ ah. Well could you help me out~? “
“…it’s three in the morning. “
“ imm hungry :(( “
“…wha? T-there’s a kitchen. Why the hell are you calling me?”
“ I don’t know how to cook..?”
“…damn it. “
A ringing sound echoed in catballs ears.
Her eyes went to the phone, yet it said call hung up.
Her body hit the floor, as her hand rested against one of the oven knobs.
She was actually pretty comfortable here. Her tail was curled up against her legs, which fell on the floor, crossing one another.
She was comfortable, until she opened her eyes for a second, and got hit with a blinding light.
Her tail shot up, and for a second, she was terrified.
Then, the light moved on the ground, now right in front of her.
“ It’s me. “
“ NYA!? oh. Oh! “
Behind the flashlight was cube. His eyes zoned out of something in the distance before his attention went back towards catball. An annoyed face laid on cube,
“ Catball, you don’t know how to cook? “
“Heh..nooo~ But you do, right? “
“..! O-of course I do! Cooking is easy-! “
Oh hell nah he did NOT know how to cook.
And catball immediately knew this.
He said this last time when he had to drive, and he definitely should not hit the road, ever again.
“ …Okay! Sooo… what do you want to cook! “
“ I’m not the one who called. “
“uh. “
“…hmph. “
“ Do you know how to make pasta? “
“ With instructions, right? “
“ummm “
Catballs eyes turned to an unidentified bag of what seemed like spaghetti. It was just a plastic bag with yellow stands in it. Stupid, but catball was hungry.
“ ..Well it can’t be that hard! Hand me a pan. “
A….pan?
“ …wha~ “
“…A pan? Like you know…one of those.. bowl things? “
She looked away from cube for a second, to hide a clueless expression. A…bowl? Luckily, there was a plastic bowl right in front of her. She picked it up and happily handed it to cube.
“ here ya go! “
“perfect! Next, we… We put the pasta in! “
She gladly nodded and took the bag, opened it, and poured in it the container.
“ Now what? “
“ Now we add water! “
Bringing the bowl to the faucet, he poured the water most likely one fourth of the way.
“ Good! Now we just put it on the stove! “ His hands swirled around the bowl till finding a good grip, then holding it on the stove.
“ Out of curiosity, uh, what power do we put in the stove? “
“ hmm…”
Her stomach rumbled. She wanted the food now.
“ put it on full power! “
“ I knew it! “
His hands went in the knob, de activating the child lock, and turned it all the way.
“ Should be over in like, five minutes maybe?”
“ Yay~! “
Without thinking, she ran up and hugged cube, tackle style. He almost fell with the power, right on the open stove, luckily his balance was good, so he crouched down.
“ Ach! I was right next to the stove! Understand that!? “
“ yea “
“ Good! “
The time was four and thirty minutes.
“ szoo ummm… what do you eat? “
“ Me.? “
His eyes looked down for a moment at the curious catball. Usually at this point, he would be getting yelled at or being slapped by a ghost, yet all he saw his two beady eyes looking right back at him.
“ I-.. Well I.. to be honest I just get like, instant stuff? “
“ Like gas station food? “
“ You, you could say that. “
“ Dalgon-Ja usually makes my food. She was busy today though. “
“ Oh yeah, her. “
“ She used to have a really cool fast food job! So she makes my food and she makes it really yummy~ “
“ Yeah, yeah alright. “
“ Hehe! “
“ Catball. “
“ hm? What is it, cube-kun? “
“…I smell smoke. “
She looked up, and there it was. Must of been too focused on the conversation to smell the black clouds above.
“ s-shoot! “
“ I.. uhh. Damn it. Do you know where the fire extinguisher is? “
“ n-no…isn’t water supposed to be good? “
“ Wait no! I think mint told me that water will like, not do anything. “
“ aww… “
“ Come on! Let’s get out of here before we continue burning.
He started a short sprint.
Catball tried to follow him, her tail shooting up. He was too fast however.
“ Huh! C-catball keep up!!! “
“ i…I can’t! “
“Ughhh!”
He stood still, and then ran back, faster than before.
His hands immediately dragged catball before putting her on his head.
His hands were making sure she wouldn’t fall, and her hands strapped on his arm, making sure she can keep balance.
He tumbled out, tripping over a piece of the door. His hands went flying. Catball stood the landing, falling on all fours before standing up. She was unharmed.
The same couldn’t be said about cube, however.
When he fell, his knee got bruised badly.
On the side of the building, a sparkle came to Catballs eyes,
A fire extinguisher.
Pulling with all her might, the tab opened. She grabbed the extinguisher and lined it up, right outside the building that was now on fire.
With one pull, an aroma of fluff sprinkled on the fire, putting out in an instant.
“ Yippie! I- I did it! Cube-kun look! Cube-? “
Even though she was happy, cube was still on the ground. Both of his hands were now on his left knee, which catball noticed now was tricking down his foot with blood.
Cube looked up, away from his leg. He closed his eyes for a second, looking very disturbed.
Then woke when he heard Catballs voice.
“ wha..? Oh! N-nice! “
He put his hand against the wall, trying to stand, shakily moving up.
Catball ran back in the kitchen, not for the food however.
Looking in shelves, she found a first aid kit.
Her tail being out of her feet, she skipped back outside right to cube.
“ Cube! I- I brought you something~! Here stay still! “
“ What?! I- I’m fine..! “
“Stay still! It’s just a bandage!!! “
For once, he didn’t argue.
Even if he looked absolutely pissed, he looked away, slightly flinching when the bandage made contact to the open wound.
It was now 5 30.
Catball and cube walked in, and threw out the burnt spaghetti.
“ uhm. Do you just want me to like, get donuts for you? “
“ r-really? “
“Sure. “
“ yes please! “
“ okay. Be back. “
Then he walked away, arms barely moving, slightly limping still.moving pretty fast.
She took a seat on the ground he ears lying on the wall.
Cube was the coolest person she knew!
It was at the point that he was competing with Dalgon-Ja for the top spot.
He took an injury so lightly and non bothersome that you’d think it wouldn’t even hurt!
A few minutes later, at 6, cube came back, holding a plastic bag.
“ Here. “
He took out a strawberry glazed donut with rainbow sprinkles and handed it to catball. Her eyes lit up and immediately sunk her teeth in it. The sweet frosting went amazing with the colorful sprinkles.
Cube took out a matcha donut and took a bite out of that. He closed his eyes and did a slight smirk.
Catball looked up.
Before, the sky that was pitch black, was now filled with color from the rising Sun.
It was beautiful.
“ t-thank you cube! “
“ No problem! umm Thank you for patching my knee—… “
“ hehe! It’s no biggie!”
“ Hey cube~ “
“..? “
“ look at the sky! “
His eyes looked up at it for a moment.
“ It looks cool. “
“ mm! It looks so pretty! “
“ Yeah.. “
And as the colors mixed in the sky
Catball waved to cube her goodbyes
While her ears started to bend
That’s just how this fanfic will end.
THE END :3