• back at the abandoned building •
Kaelan look utterly devastated,he sigh and sit back up straight.
"Firstly can you guys help me with a little help "he sigh again.
" just says it man I'm all hears!" Marcus touched his biceps feeling proud.
Meanwhile Tamsin just look him .
" can you please tell the head administrator that I'm sick and can't be there probably for three months?" Kaelan just want earth to swallow him up.
Tamsin sigh. " you know well that he won't agree, three month is too much" she rub his head. Kaelan ears lay flat on his head.
" why not going to take a rest , in the mid time me and Tamsin are going to look for various ways to help you in the mid time!" Marcus says grabbing Tamsin arms playfully, she glare at him but doesn't say otherwise.
"Right" kaelan get up and dusk himself off he, pick up his wet hoodie, Marcus lend him his hat and his giant tail went in his baggy sweatpants. " then I'll see you later guys" he wave and walk away, his whole time looking around , looking for any possible traits ( students) and soon goes back in the door hallway, through the way he hears two dog shifters girls .
"Did you hear there is a new students" milka says her white tail waging.
" you mean he is now a official student here? That tall guy?" April add ,her math book almost falling off .
Kaelen glare at them, when they made eye contact their tails puff up from fears and they walk away quietly. "Sigh!" . The arrival of a 'new student' in the apartment complex was the last thing kaelan needed , and yet, there he was.
Kaelan keep going upstairs and finally reached his dormitory room door, he open it and goes in and lock door, he immediately went to take a shower.
He felt relieved and comfortable, even when his tail start twitching and moving back and forth, after a while he come out and wear his simple boxers and went on his bed .( though it'll help) but even if he turn and twist no sleep come at all.
Kaelan had spent now a grueling sleepless nights ,he sit up and start trying to get rid of his tail , he goes rummage through his room , he found industrial-strength hair removers ( and fail) his fur became silkier, then he didn't give up , he grab a dull pair of scissors , he grab his tail and start trying to cut it but reality spit on him like a old socks, then come pain, he yelp in pain and throw the scissors on the floor , he want to scream, but then come one last hope! .
• half-heart attempt at an amateur exorcism•
of course that only succeeded in making him smell like salt. He then give up and lay on his bed while still trying to figure out a way , he soon falls asleep. He wake up the next days with his alarm on, who was also too noisy for his cat ears, after a while of waking up and doing his morning routine he goes in the communal laundry room , dreading the three-flight walk back up , when he finally saw the supposed 'new students' struggling with a mountain of boxes near the stairs. ( how annoying) the man was tall , annoyingly tall , and whore the most ' mundane' clothing kaelan had ever seen.
" a plain grey hoodie and dark jeans? Canvas shoes, and bright crimson hair…., wait damn minutes" kaelan think deep then his jaw clenched tightly.
It was of course, ignis! ( for Christ sake)
Kaelan stay still for sometimes, he observed him with annoyed expression, his cat ears lay flat, why so early in the morning!, he says to himself deeply. , is he a weird stalker or something why is he almost everywhere, kaelen think once more putting a gross expression on clearly disgust.
Ignis seeing kaelan give a small polite smile not a arrogant dragon smirk, " hey," ignis says with his still deep voice . " you must be kaelan right, I'm ignis, I just move in the room 303"
Wait a second 303 is right across kaelan room 304( ah god there we go again) .
Kaelan monologue was purr unadulterated screaming, the audacity, was he actor or something how dare he. Kaelan fight back the urge to scream at him, a vein pulse on his neck and forehead. " I'm busy!" Kaelan clipped out he walk past him .
" oh right, sorry" ignis replied politely ( too polite to me) he stepped aside letting kaelan past , then he pause his golden eyes sweeping over kaelan for a minute " say, you backpack look heavier!"
Ignis face felt hot , he knew ignis was talking about his tail ,that he had been magically cursed with.
" it…., it a anatomy homework" kaelan spat , his voice full with resentment. Kaelan past him and get in the communal laundry room.
Ignis smiles, a old arrogant smile, " well nice meeting you, neighbor" he talk to himself with a smile on then goes in his room .
Kaelan in the laundry room felt like explosing.
The next week was worse, and worse then a nightmare for kaelan .
Ignis was everywhere, every times , at least not invasive stalking way, but utterly vexing normal way , he was studying on the bench kaelan preferred , making coffee in the communal kitchen when of course just when kaelen try grabbing his breakfast, he even managed to get the locker two down, from kaelan's at the gym .( where kaelan only goes in the dead of night , praying no one sees his tail when he changes) .
And then come the worse part of this ' coincidental meeting' the ' touch'
Kaelan sit in the library with Tamsin and Marcus. " ignis in his ' normal student' life persona, have a alarming habit of ' accidental' contact!,a guiding hand on my back as we round the corner,A brief brush of finger while reaching for the paper towel dispenser!, and a too close moment in the crowded lecture hall line!" He says clearly frustrated he lay on the desk .
Tamsin sigh . " it great that he is getting closer!"
" great what do you mean by great!," Kaelan voice higher a bit. " every damn time , a strange , electric jolt through me, the moment ignis hand settled on my back , I feel a very powerful visceral shiver from my nape, all the way down to my spine! And this damn tail keep straightening up at it!" Kaelan said looking at both his friends. .
" Tamsin and I wanna find out why he got interested in you in this sticky way! Ow" Marcus say and got slap he was hugging Tamsin way too close and she doesn't like that. " booh my baby doesn't want of my kisses!" Marcus Booh softly kaelan sigh and got up .
After that soon enough ignis noticed that , and he love that , he love how kaelan tail twitch involuntary, in a happy seeking motion that kaelan couldn't stop , kaelan was furious at the betrayal of his own cursed tail , he was now just a flustered enraged cat-human , and worse , his animal part was responding like a starving pet.
And that too ignis noticed. Of course he did.
After it , he start giving kaelan a quick, teasing look , his lips curl into a smirk only kaelan could see , and it was laced with a amusement and a increasing lust.
" sorry, my bad!"ignis would murmur innocently , pulling his hand away , leaving kaelan feeling fraught and exasperated.
One afternoon, kaelan was trying to study in his room , his tail wrapped tightly around his midsection under his hoodie in a desperate attempt to ignore it, his stress was level had cross the roof.
• knock ,knock, knocked.•
Then come a annoying knock on the door . Kaelan refuses to answer at the door, he sat still .
"'Kaelan, it me ignis , I saw you struggle with that massive textbook today, I'm just here to drop off my notes—I think my outline on the marshallian demands curves is much better clearer then the professor's one"
Kaelan stood up , every muscle tightened up in pure indignation. This was the breaking point.
He yank the door open, his face thundercloud of concentrated anger " I don't need your condescending help! Take your notes—- " he stop himself his face drain of color .
Ignis was standing there, but not with notes, he was holding a small, woven basket. Inside it , nestled on a soft pillow, was a brand new beautiful braided cat collar,a simple leather, but affixed to it was a small crimson scale , the one kaelan had found in the library, wait when did that disappear from his drawer?, was now polished and shimmering like a tiny jewel.
Ignis eye were intense and golden , he smirk and lean in closer . " I decided," ignis begin his voice droopy back to his well arrogant controller self. "That since you are so stress about being a shifter , you needed a little comfort, it a gift for you" ignis smirk fully.
" you!…get out of my sigh before I call the police on you and told them that you cursed me and now you are stalking me!" Kaelan step back from him .
Ignis smirk only and lean his face close to kaelan neck " you smell absolutely exquisite, little cat , and you will be mine!" Ignis whisper he place the basket down on kaelan door and walk away back in his dormitory room.