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Breath in, breathe out, slowly. Nope. Fuck that. No calm anymore. "What. The. Fuck. Alex?!" I shout at the human in the doorway. "Hey Jess this is Katie, my roommate." He says scowling at me. It appears, the slithering monster, wrapping around his leg, and through the door it comes. Every hair on my back is standing on end, my tail is straight up, my claws are fully extended, I can feel my nose twitching as it rises to full height. Now in the center of my house is a looming, cold-blooded, scaly creature, and my best-friend and roommate calls brings this, this, this DEMON into our home. "Hey Katie, this is my girlfriend Jessica, she's a Slytheri."

Oh.

Hell.

No.

And Alex is happy about this?! I need to save him from this. I-I-I j-just g-gotta but right now I gotta get through this. She leans over him giving him a long, deep kiss surely shoving her venom down his throat with her tongue. Vile, disgusting, PUTRID I say, but I actually say nothing. The two part and "Katie" reaches a hand out to me, of which I nervously and begrudgingly shake. Momma always said to never trust a snake, and yet ALEX falls for one? No, surely this is, this uhhh... I can't think of a reason. Which is why it is WRONG!

Alex sets a bag of some "Chinese" food on the table, three boxes. Alex finally notices my glares and responds in kind and switches his gaze between me and the "Chinese" food, I concede; I will eat with the serpent. Plus human food rocks.

The meal is, quite frankly wonderful, the food hits every box and as a bonus my box is mainly meat based. Alex and the serpent "Jessica" have weird noodles, vegetables, and two kinds of meat in theirs. A sign of her power, Alex prefers "beef" to "shrimp", I-I think at least. "So how did you two meet?" I ask forcing a smile. "Oh! We met at work, he was managing the unloading of the "Harlot's Respite" when I bumped into him on my way to try to arrange a trade deal with the local spaceport." She says as if she is enjoying a juicy pear. "From there I met him again at the meeting as he gave a presentation about how to increase efficiency at the port, and again at the corporate party celebrating the success of out deal and the approval of his restructuring plan. In all the excitement he was the only available guy to kiss on, so that's what I did." She says biting her lip then letting her long, forked, tongue droop from the other side of her mouth. Gross. Alex then picks up the story "From there I got her number and since then we've been seeing each other." "And how long has that been going on?" I ask still forcing that dumb smile. "About three months" They say in unison. God. Fucking. Dammit. I could not save him, why the hell didn't I ask? Regardless, I must save him from the claws of this snake.

After dinner and more small talk around careers, "aPpArEnTlY" she's the heiress to a local shipping company, leave it to the snakes to control the movement of things. I need some air, especially since I'm seeing my best friend being toyed with by a heartless snake. With a wave from both Alex and "Jessica" I leave the apartment for a walk around the block. As I walk on the dark streets of New Rønne the cool breeze of the coming spring brushing through my fur, its just cold enough to make me want to put my ears down and cover my nose but too war to do so. My mind wanders, it goes over every asshole move Alex has made, every elementary school insult, every dirtbag prank, but also all of good he's done without thinking nor asking. He's always been there for me. I can feel a tear on my face quickly absorb into my fur. Stop. No.

I wanted to live with Alex, I've wanted to do so since we were kids. Those four years where he was gone were hell, not a day went by where I didn't think of him. When he came back he was still just so Alex, but something was off, something he still hasn't told me. I thought I was finally getting to him, he finally laughed again. He was finally becoming that man I love once again. I turn into a nearby park, sitting across from a statue. I look up to the weeping winged Feli clutching its heart. I'd never noticed it before, but I can feel it too, my crush stolen by a snake.

After consolidating my heart I return from my walk, before I even get to the door to the apartment I can hear moans of "YES" and "Harder" coming from inside.

Goddammit. Why now?

I quietly make my way into the apartment and to my room. The photo of high school graduation sits idly on my nightstand, a nervously smiling Alex sits there holding the badge of the 86th Series and I with an acceptance letter to the Martian Institute of Medicine. I smile remembering the night of prom where we danced away the night and I woke up in the same bed as him. Nothing happened but still, it's a warm memory. But a memory all the same.

It's gonna be another one of those nights. I wrap my blanket around me like a burrito and stare at the wall and try to fall asleep. "A-A-AL-ALEX YES!" shatters any attempt at trying to sleep. Thank God tomorrow is Saturday.

The moans, screams, and cheers of "YES!" continue to for hours. You spent the time doing a mix of; browsing /xfohm/,

watching PeepPipe videos, and apathetically masturbating. At around 2 AM I finally get to sleep.

At eight the next morning I wake up to the smell of breakfast; bacon, eggs, and french toast. I peep out to see "Jessica" looming over the stove-top frying bacon, eggs, and the toast. Evil woman is trying to take Alex from me by the stomach. She flickers her tongue and turns to stare me in the eye. "'Morning Katie! I made you some too" She beams. I will not eat her food. "I actually need to run some errands this morning Jessica." You say feigning sadness. Jessica raises and eye hood "Okay..." She says. I scramble for my keys and hop in my car.

Rum-m-m-m

Key twist

m-m-m-m-m-m

Twist again

POFF and a cloud of black smoke shoots out the exhaust before turning totally silent

"Are you fucking kidding me..." I mumble. Slowly I slump towards the steering wheel to press the button to release the hood. Fuck Arthro Cars as a side note. The engine is as it always looks, a twisting mess of cables around a fusion cell. After poking a few with a clawed finger trying to look like I know what I'm doing I hear a muffled chuckle. Alex is standing behind me, he shakes his head and says in a soft voice "You're helpless sometimes...". He ruffles the fur on the top of my head and takes off his nightshirt.

Ho-lee-shit when did Alex get all those scars.

Must be that serpent

...Oh, no wait those from his service.

He starts decoupling cords and unplugging wires, working his magic. Moments later he is holding a coal-black cylinder of... something. "Diverter blew. I'm gonna have to go get one after breakfast so hold tight." He says slightly disappointed at the state of affairs. "Fine, I 'totally' didn't have anything to do this morning." I say angrily "Not my fucking fault you don't know how to maintain a car." He responds shaking his head. He gently slams the door going inside obviously a little tilted.

After a minute I get rather bored of waiting annoyed, and so I head towards the door. The smell of Jessica's cooking seeps under the door and right into my nose. It is sickeningly good smelling now. I creak the door open and see that snake wearing an apron over her sweater chatting away with Alex, I can't hear everything but I can hear "How ungrateful..." "It might just be that time of month..." "Do cats even have that?" "Maybe it's work...". Now that is just rude... albeit not unjustified. Still, I need to get that diverter so I can get out of here and most importantly, how I can get that snake off of him. I whip out my phone to at least try to past the time with something other than salivating over tainted food and the temptress who has taken what I wanted.

More pointless time wasting, and by that I mean I reading the news "Jehovah's Witnesses Rebel... AGAIN!" "Scions Kill Fourteen Head Lords: Here's Why." "CC Contracted to Make Theater World for the Ruh Troupe.". Good shit.