Alice was glaring at him with narrow eyes, incredibly displeased. She looked like a kitten who had her breakfast taken away.
"Why did you stop petting me?! You’re not allowed to pause! I need it to recover!"
"..."
Silence.
With yet another defeated sigh, Kaiden slowly resumed stroking her hair.
Alice practically melted into the pillow, getting visibly comfier by the second.
Minutes passed like that. The atmosphere was quiet and warm, incredibly soft.
A tender stillness wrapped around them, gentle and fragile.
At last, Alice spoke.
"I love you, big brother."
For once, there was no questionable undertone to what she said.
Just truth.
Kaiden smiled. "I love you too, Alice."
"I’m really sleepy..." she yawned.
"Then sleep," he whispered. "I’ll stay until you do."
Her whole face lit with unfiltered joy.
"It’s just like the old times..."
Peace settled in between the two of them; it felt like a very tender, familiar moment.
And then, the heaviness hit him.
Kaiden felt sluggish and tired, weirdly exhausted. He hadn’t even gone for tonight’s rodeo with his girls, yet he felt as if he had been drained of all his essence.
"Mm... maybe I got hit by the transformation too..." he muttered. "The girls did say I looked a bit more buff. And evidently I smelled better as well... Bastet was going places back there..." he couldn’t help but chuckle at the memory of his awesome tanned kitten sniffing him as if he suddenly turned utterly irresistible.
Alice peeked at him from under the blanket, eyes warm.
"I noticed it too... The changes might be minuscule on the surface, but they’re very easy to notice for someone like me." Her eyes sparkled proudly. "Those women might think they know you best, but that’s only because I haven’t revealed all my knowledge! They’re living in a bubble, one that I can pop any moment should I choose to! Hehe!"
Kaiden snorted despite himself.
"Alice."
"Hm?" she mumbled, sleep tugging on her voice.
"I want you to get along with them."
His voice softened. "I love those women with all my heart. They’re so important to me, I can’t even begin to put my feelings into words. I hope you can accept that. I hope you can stop treating them like enemies to defeat in your evident crusade for my attention, and become good friends instead."
Alice blinked slowly, then turned more serious as she reached up, fingers brushing the hand that was not permitted to stop its petting motions all this while.
Her touch was small and soft, incredibly sincere.
"I know," she whispered. "You don’t have to worry."
Her eyes softened. "I only spent a little time with them, but I can tell they’re all great..."
She breathed in and pouted, "It’s just, I wish they weren’t doing ’it’ with-"
"Alice," Kaiden interrupted immediately.
She pouted. "You didn’t even let me finish."
"I didn’t need to."
Alice giggled, releasing a tiny, mischievous sound.
"I’m just messing with you~"
She sank deeper under the sheets, getting ridiculously cozy, yawning so cutely it should’ve been illegal.
"I can tell that I’ll have a lot of fun in the future," she whispered, then gave a grin.
A gremlin grin.
A Luna grin.
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