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I'm laying on my bed, starring up to the ceiling. The air coming coming from my open window carries the smell of fresh bread form the baker next door. A glance at the clock, it's 7:43. Perfect to fall asleep for like another hour or so.

I close my eyes. Today is Saturday. My grandparents are visiting us for a week. When they arrived yesterday I wagged may tail so hard towards a doorframe, it still hurts. My father is going to run for president and his parents want to help him with his campaign.

I decide against sleeping and get up. The house is still quiet. Apart from the baker nobody likes to get up early around here. At that moment I get a message from Kasha. She invites me for breakfast at a Café in Ghetto 15. "Sure, I'd love to!", I reply and also send a message to Amark whether he wants to join us.

I go to the bathroom, relive myself, brush my teeth and comb my fur. Lately I've been shedding like crazy. After I'm done I almost run into my grandma. She had apparently been waiting for me to clear the bathroom. I greet her with a hug and a lick.

"Good morning", she says. "Why so hastily on a weekend morning?"

"I'm gonna meet with Kasha for breakfast", I answer.

"Well then I don't wanna' delay you but please be quiet with the door, dad and daddad are still sleeping." With that she closes the bathroom door after her with a sharp peng.

I leave the apartment a start cycling to Ghetto 15. By bike it takes about an hour to get there and you are not much faster by car. Still no answer from Amark. Looks like it'll be just Kasha and me then. Not that I'd mind. Having arrived at the ghetto I show my passport to a fat human cop who controls the anthros entering or leaving at this entrance.

"You gotta wait, I'm on break", he says while stuffing a donut in his mouth.

A couple donuts later I ask whether he'd check my passport now, telling him I have an appointment.

The cop slowly looks up from porn-magazine he's been reading. "I don't care about your appointment", he says. "And should you dare to bother me one more time during my break I won't in at all. It's that easy." With that he continues to study his magazine.

I can feel a growl building up in my throat. What is this guy even thinking? But an argument with the ACD is pretty much the last thing I need. I move on to a different entrance. Here I'm finally able to enter the ghetto without further complications. Ghetto 15 isn't nicknamed "Catto" without a reason. Almost all of its population are felimorphs. Canimophis aren't very welcome here and I get a lot of repining stares on my way to the café.

We often meet here because there are very strict rules as to when residents are allowed to leave and enter the Ghettos. For example you are not allowed to say outside over night. Also unless you work somewhere outside, you are even restricted in how often you may leave. Since I and Amark don't live in a ghetto it is much easier for us to visit her than the other way around.

As I turn right on to the road where the Café is located I can already see Kasha sitting at a table outside. Her tail is curled around one of her chairs legs and she is studding the menu.

"You are late," she tells me as I take a seat in front of her.

I explain to Kasha what happened at the entrance.

"It's always the same with humans", she says. "They think they can do with us whatever they like but one day we will strike..."

I interrupt her. "Calm down, not all humans are that bad. And by the way, did I tell you that my father will run for president again?"

“Alright, but who is going to vote for him? Anthros are not allowed to and there aren't that many half-bloods to."

"Well, that's something thats still to be worked out. But even if the campaign fails, it will still help to create more awareness for our situation", I answer.

"Everyone knows of our situation, nobody will care" She licks her paw and wipes it over her head.