Sweet CEO’s First Love - Chapter 66

Heart walked down the street, a big frown on his face.

‘Again, how many times has this been? Will I have to tell Min? I don’t want to tell Min.’ Heart looked down at the path and saw a big stick laying on the ground, large enough to walk with and stopped to pick it up.

He knew he was stalling, he had been stalling, ever since he had left school with the note from his teacher outlining what he had done.

“The note doesn’t say why I did it,” Heart stated, vehemently. The street was empty except for him as most kids were back with their families probably eating dinner.

When he went home, the house would either be empty, or there was going to be a very unhappy Min since he was late.

There wouldn’t be any dinner waiting for him, warm and inviting to fill his belly.

He knew he came home carrying the gift of a note from the principal for fighting in school.

“I didn’t start it. I only finished it.” Heart stated, sniffling and rubbing his nose into his green sweatshirt.

Heart turned into the alley that led to his house and was poking at things with the stick purposefully going as slow as he could, to arrive there even later, and give him even a few more seconds of freedom. The alley was dark and uninviting, but still better than his warm home and the bright lights that would show off the shiner on his chin.

The sun had gone down at least a half-hour ago. He wasn’t sure since he didn’t have any way to tell the time. But he knew he was late. Also, he knew Min wouldn’t be happy with him at all.

Especially once she saw his face.

… And the note.

Heart beat a dirty, broken box with the stick. Hitting it hard on the side once, in his frustration.

A huge hiss and growl stopped him in his spot and he dropped the stick to the ground in alarm. Falling down with it. He peered into the dark carefully.

A small shape emerged from the box next to the one he hit, and Heart sighed with relief. He hadn’t hit the box with the animal in it.

The cat sat down and stared at him, its yellow glowing eyes blinked as if judging and measuring the human’s worth. The person who had so rudely interrupted their night.

“I’m sorry I disturbed your sleeping hole?”

“Do you live here? I have never seen you here before.” Heart coaxed the cat out speaking soothingly to it. The cat stood up and stretched out its thin body before walking into the little light there was from the illuminated windows on the buildings around them.

The cat was very thin, with a pretty patterning of orange and black splotches that made her raggedy fur look half decent. He thought that it would be a pretty cute animal if only it was being cared for.

The cat stretched again and Heart noticed that the cat was most definitely a lady.

“Do you live here?” Heart asked, holding out his fingers for her to sniff while leaning forward as far as he could, his back ached a bit as if to remind him he had been in a fight earlier today and he hissed at the sore muscles. The cat leaned back in alarm and hissed as well.

“Sorry.” Heart apologized. She turned her nose up, blinking at him almost like she was insulted, he had dared hiss at her, but after a moment she leaned forward curious what this being in front of her smelt like.

She sniffed his fingers carefully, and Heart held as still as he could for her.

After a moment she walked past him and rubbed against him once, then walked back to the spot, she had been in before, sat down, and began licking her paw.

Heart smiled crouching into a position that was easier to hold for a longer time.

She watched him suspiciously, but when he made no move to go for her, she went back to her grooming. When she finished, she turned away from him and stared at the way back he had come from. Out towards the street where a few cars were parked and even fewer cars passed.

“Are you waiting for someone here?” Heart asked.

“Does your family live that way?”

“Your Mom? Dad?”

She turned to look at him and blinked slowly.

He smiled sadly.

“Are you like me?” He lay on the ground inching himself closer to her like a worm.

She watched him curiously. He stopped a few centimeters from her and she leaned back for a moment before lifting a paw and swiping at his face very gently as if to pat him and tell him she thought he was weird.

He smirked. “I know, I’m strange… That’s what the other kids say about me because I have no parents. I guess I’m like you… Or we are like each other.”

The girl stood up and rubbed against his face, shoving her entire body against him hard. Her fur traveled up his nose and across his face, getting in his mouth.

Heart felt the hair tickle at the inside of his nose and willed his body not to do it, even though he could clearly feel the sneeze coming on.

Unable to get his hands up fast enough, he let out a loud sneeze into the night.

The cat jumped back in alarm, and Heart wiped his nose quickly in an attempt to stop the next one, but sneezed again. The cat took a few more steps away from him, suddenly very wary of the big lump in front of her.

“Come back. You’re so squishy and soft. I just want to pet you.”

Heart sneezed again and felt relief.

“Ah, I think your hair is gone from inside my nose.” Heart commented, rubbing his nose and eyes. When he blinked she was gone.

Heart sighed and slowly stood up, dusting his dark black jeans off with his dirty palms. He couldn’t see properly in the poor lighting, but he had a feeling he was just rubbing the dirt around in big circles.

But it would have to do. Since he needed to head home and face his doom.

It was better than staying here, all alone.

“You were so squishy. I wish I had been able to feel you with my hands before you left though.”

“I guess I need to stop stalling and actually go home now.”

Heart walked the last block to his apartment in silence, his mind stuck between the poor lonely cat, and his impending doom.