Preface:
I left a bit of a cliff hanger on the last installment. A reference to trouble with Megan's ex-boyfriend. Well, the truth of the matter is that I've written that part about six times now and can't get it to read correctly. I think, perhaps, I was getting too anxious to have P&M end in Part 10 and tried to do too much too fast. There are some other concerns in their lives which need to be covered before we deal with him.
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Saturday, August 2, 2014, "Mistress."
It had been a month since Penny first had sex with me and I'd told her I was going to claim her. It didn't happen all at once, but I realized I really was happy with her. I'd expected her to spend almost all her time as the kitten. And she did spend most of her time that way, but she also spent several hours a day as a woman. Usually nude, which I'd taken some time to adjust to.
I still tended to wear panties and a t-shirt around the house but, sometimes, would do without one or the other, which delighted Penny. She's convinced me to spend a Saturday nude. I enjoyed it, to an extent, but I still had some body image issues to get over. My small breasts, height, and how thin I was made me self conscious. Especially around her enticing voluptuousness.
She commonly did her cat things, lick my hands or face, rub her body around my legs, climb in my lap an so on. But if I wasn't wearing panties, once in a while she'd attack my pussy with her mouth. And she was right when she said she was very good. I really had just seconds to stop her during one of these attacks before she had me. At those moments I really wondered who was in charge?
She did whatever I told her, but when she took me this way I was helpless. If I was standing, I had to grab something and hang on. A few times she made one of these attacks then stopped just before I came. She called it "edging." She be going at me furiously then just turn and walk away.
She'd go sit a few feet away and groom herself, leaving me to either try to calm down or to finish myself off while she watched. She said she loved watching me masturbate. After this happened a few times I guess I came to believe her because I always did when she did this to me. And, again I wondered while doing it, who's really the mistress?
She also started to bite me sometimes, usually when I was petting her. In an odd bit of acceptance, I didn't think anything of it the first few times. My cat had done the same thing when it was a kitten. I'd become so adjusted to her being a kitten that I'd hardly noticed it.
I was planning to formally claim her tomorrow. I had bought her a new collar and had a gold tag made for it. One of those with "My name is" on the front and "If found, please call" on the back. Her name and my cell phone number. I'd also bought her new ears and a tail, having gathered a sample of her hair from her brush and paid to have them made to match.
Penny rarely just up and offered opinions, and didn't talk much about her past. She'd answer anything I asked, but didn't often offer anything without prompting. She wasn't so much secretive as she didn't think her past was important.
So, this Saturday afternoon, with my plans for tomorrow, I decided to ask about her dropping out of the world so suddenly. We'd just finished lunch, which we'd had in the back yard. She from her cat bowls, me the more usual way. I was sitting in the grass, leaning up against one of the light poles along the brick paved path that went to the garage.
She was laying partially on the grass, but with her upper body in my lap. She had the back of her head up against my stomach so we both faced the same direction. I was petting her, from her head down her side and over the swelling of her hips. Every couple of strokes I'd also go further and run her tail through my fingers. I thought that the new one was so much softer and a better match for her hair. I wiggled her cat ears a bit. Her tail and ears had certainly seen a lot of use. I made a mental note to order a couple more sets of the new set, so we'd always have fresh ones on hand.
I said, "Penny, you never did tell me why you dropped out of the word. I understand that you found the pressure to much, but your disappearance was so sudden. Don't tell me if you don't care to, I don't want to raise ghosts for you. I'm just curious."
I could hear the smile in her voice, "I'd fight ghosts for you, Megan."
I was still petting her, but could Sense she was a little bit tense.
I said, "I love you. I see you don't want to. I'm sorry I asked."
She was still quiet, but relaxed.
She said, "I love you too, Megan. I have almost from the start."
Another pause. Then, "I'll tell you."
I said, "Please, I don't need..."
She cut me off, "Hush."
I smiled down at her. She hushed me from time to time when she wanted to say something. I don't think she was even aware of how inconsistent that was with the idea that she was supposed to be the submissive in this relationship.
She began...
"Why I disappeared you know. I realized very suddenly that I was becoming something I didn't want to be. I didn't want to be an "inspiration to young artists" or a role model or anything else. I just wanted to paint. I found that so much of my time was being taken up with public appearances and speeches and gallery openings and what not that I didn't have much time to paint. And when I did I got interrupted or was distracted and my work wasn't the same."
She asked, "You had a cat you raised from a kitten, right?"
I said, "Yes. My parent's thought it would teach me responsibility. I guess they were right."
I didn't mention that almost every child with Powers was given a pet. Cats were favored because of their independence. The child had to learn to get along with them rather than make them submit to the child's will.
She asked again, "So, you had to take care of it?"
I replied, "Him, yes. I got him as a barely weaned kitten for my fifth birthday."
"Well, mine was different. My parent's got me a kitten that was born the same day I was. As I grew up he was always there. He didn't get a name until I gave him one. Everyone just called him "cat" or "kitty" or "the cat" until then."
She said, in a quieter tone, "That's why I love it so much when you call me 'kitty'. Memories."
She continued, back at her normal tone. "When I did give him a name, I was still pretty young. Learning to name things by what they did. Chairs were 'sit on's' and telephones were 'talk to' and so on. I guess it wasn't surprising that I called the cat 'Meee,' after the sound he made when he wanted attention."
"Over time that got shortened to 'Me'."
The memories jumped back into my mind. One of the oddities of 'Penelope' was that she always brought this small orange cat with her wherever she went. Places with restrictions against animals had to either make an exception for Me, or Penelope wouldn't appear.
But she was still talking, "Me was sort of a security blanket for me. People tried out all kinds of ideas about why his name was 'Me,' but, oddly, nobody ever just asked me. I guess they liked their wild theories better."
"And, of course, my handlers were forever trying to get me to give up taking him everywhere and got quite angry with me when some place wouldn't make an exception and I didn't show up. I wished I could have been strong like that about other things."
I Sensed her turn sad. "He died that day in Chicago the morning before the opening. Natural causes, he was pretty old by then, for a cat. I wanted to cancel my appearance, to fly him home, to my parent's, and bury him. My manager said I couldn't do that, the show was too important."
"I went to the opening, but wasn't paying much attention to anything. Among other things, I couldn't figure out what to do with my left arm. He snuggled in between my body and my left arm, under my breast, when I had to be on my feet. The space there felt empty and I was fretting that someone would throw him in the trash before I could get him home."
She was quiet for a long time. I could Sense that it wasn't time to interrupt. I waited. Her mood changed, turned angry.
"Then my manager said, 'Jesus, Penelope, lighten up. It was just a cat."