I shook the last few drops of digested beer off the end of my penis and looked over at the litter box again. Against the wall between the toilet and vanity sat a low-sided, litter-filled, plastic tray that must have been about four feet in length. The granules looked slightly used, but instead of paw prints on the surface, there were large indentations and scuff marks. As I moved over to the sink to wash my hands, I also noticed that a single, long, black hair lay curled up in the corner of the tray.
Returning to the living room, I puzzled over the strange dimensions of the cat facility. "Hey, Bri," I called out, passing through towards the kitchen, "Regular or light?" My buddy Brian, who I used to work with until I changed jobs, could afford to lose a pound or two. He probably should have been the one getting off his butt to fetch the beers instead of sprawling in his leather recliner, but I knew he was glued to the ice hockey game on TV.
"Regular, Harv," he answered recumbently, "Are you suggesting I need to watch my girlish figure?"
I returned from the kitchen and brought him his beer. "So what's with the litter box?" I asked.
"That's for Sheeba, our cat."
I crossed over to the couch and sat down. "What've you got β a mountain lion?"
"Ah ha-ha ha-ha ha-ha," he guffawed, "No."
"No really, Bri," I pressed, "It's as big ..."
"YESSS!!" He sat up with a jolt, causing the recliner's footrest to slam shut. I looked over at the TV to catch the replay.
From the kitchen, the sound of a creaking screen door announced someone's arrival. Brian and Karen had one of those houses where everyone came to the back door even though the front one worked just fine.
"Bri!!" yelled the visitor. It was Karen. "Can't you park any closer to the garage, Hon?" The crumpling of paper bags told me that she had just returned from grocery shopping, but the accompanying sound of sliding and scurrying on the kitchen floor had me stumped. "I'm almost half out on the street."
Struggling with the zipper on her jacket, Karen entered the living room. "Har-vey!!" she screamed in pleasant surprise when she caught sight of me.
"Harvey's here," Brian pointed out without looking away from the TV or considering the need for the observation.
"I can see that," she answered as she kneeled on the couch and threw her arms around me.
Karen is not a stunning beauty, but she would be a very distracting girl-next-door. She has a narrow face, wears thin glasses and typically pulls her shoulder-length blonde hair back into a pony-tail. Sometimes she looked like Helen Hunt to me. And just below the surface was something sultry and wild that would peek through from time to time but never fully revealed itself. She was definitely a better catch than Brian deserved, but the two of them joked around a lot and made a good team.
She gave me a welcome kiss on the mouth that was softer and longer than it probably should have been. I felt kind of guilty about enjoying it so much, and then she gave me a second one. Karen tended to be expressive like that, and I figured that Brian, in full confidence of their relationship, would just ignore us. Nevertheless, when I heard a noise at my feet, I wondered for a moment if he was standing at the couch glowering down at us, but I dismissed the idea. The sound was more like a heavy padding or creeping noise that moved across our front. Was it Sheeba? I wanted to look, but Karen's face blocked my view as she toyed with my lips, and then, the movement disappeared into the hallway.
"You're gonna stay the night, aren't you?" Karen said, coming up for air and finally taking off her jacket.
"No," I responded, "Brian told me you've got a guest named Sheila staying with you now, and I don't want to be an added burden."
"Harvey's staying the night," Brian said off-handedly, continuing to fix his attention on the screen.
"Oh, it's no bother! You're staying. It's decided, but ... I don't know where Brian's going to sleep," Karen flirted.
"Yeah right!" Brian scoffed, leaning back more in his chair. "Ah ha-ha ha-ha ha-ha ..."
"Let me just go put some linen on your bed," Karen said, getting up off the couch. "It's so good to see you again. ... Brian, could you go put the groceries away for me?"
"Yep," Brian replied but remained in place.
Karen threw her coat over at Brian, who let it slide off him onto the far side of the chair, and then she walked towards the bedrooms. In the hall, there was a sudden scurrying noise. "Oh! Sheeba," she cried, "You almost tripped me. Here ...," after which, a small wire-cage ball with a bell in it came tinkling into the room.
Quickly behind the ball pounced the large, dark figure of a ... a ... a girl on her hands and knees. A girl with long black hair and ... a tail ... and pointed ears! Sheeba? Surely not! It was definitely a girl. She was in her early 20s, and she was wearing a black Lycra bodysuit and studded leather collar. Scampering towards the ball, she swatted at her prey, causing first it to dingle under a sideboard and then her to lose interest.
"NO!" Brian yelled at the TV, "You idiots!"
The prowling cat girl turned her attention to the recliner. Her black, cat ears stood high on her head, and her black, semi-firm tail swept stiffly to and fro with her body's undulating movement. The suit fit closely on her like a second skin, allowing me to see clearly the athletic tensing of her muscles, the sculpted definition of her curves and the heavy sway of her breasts. Brian's hand dangled over the armrest, and the girl slid underneath it, making his fingers drag over the top of her head. Brian reacted by petting a few strokes along her back without looking.