Alright, it's not as long as I wanted it to be. There were a few ideas I had that just didn't seem to really work, but I got it done.
Enjoy
Stealer swallowed. “What happened?”
Jiff looked at Stealer. “Are you sure you want to know?”
“Tell me.” Stealer said.
“Alright, what happened was…”
“Jiff! Stealer!” Someone called from behind.
They both turned and saw Sasha walking toward them, waving. She had that characteristic smile that she always seemed to have.
Jiff sighed. “Sorry Stealer, me and Sasha have some stuff to talk about. We’ll just have to finish another time.”
“What are you both talking about?” Sasha asked as she came within earshot of their conversation.
Stealer looked at Jiff, then back to Sasha and said “We were talking about… puppies.”
Sasha grew all excited when she heard that. “Puppies?! I love puppies! They’re just so soft and cute and playful and fluffy and I just want to hug them every time I see them!” She said as she gave herself a hug.
Stealer stood up and stretched. “Well, I have to go now Sasha, sorry I can’t stay.” He turned and addressed Jiff. “I hope we can continue the conversation that we were having another time. I would really like to finish it.” Then he walked away.
Jiff faced Sasha. “It’s no wonder everyone thinks that you’re an airhead.”
She blushed. “I can’t help how I sound when I get excited.” She sat down where Stealer had been sitting only a few seconds ago. “Besides, it’s nice not having others expect that much of me.”
Jiff leaned back and looked at the sky. “It must be nice not having any responsibilities. Ever since I can remember, I have been responsible for something. I envy pets like you. You just have to wake up, get fed, and then go out and play with your friends. No stress or worry in day-to-day life.”
Jiff looked over to Sasha when she didn’t respond. She was twittling her thumbs in her lap. “Yea, no worries.” She eventually said.
“Are you still worried over your feelings for Bino?” Jiff asked as he straightened himself out.
She simply nodded her head as she continued to stare at her twittling thumbs.
“Do you want to talk about it?” Jiff asked.
Sasha stopped twittling her thumbs and looked at Jiff. “It’s just, I know Kyria wants to be with him, but so do I. I never told her that I feel the same way about Bino that she does. So when she told me that she felt the way she did about him, I told Bino that I thought they were cute together when I saw them and that I was going to try and go out with his brother so I wouldn’t get between them and that she had a crush on him too and-”
Sasha took a deep breath in. She had gotten so worked up that she had forgotten she needed to breathe in order to keep talking for a second. “Sorry, I didn’t mean to ramble like that.”
Jiff was nodding his head. “It’s alright. I think I got what you were trying to say. Kyria told you how she felt about Bino, and you didn’t want that to get between the friendship that both of you had. So you dumped him before Kyria could find out you felt the same way, but now you’re torn on the inside whether you want to stay friends with Kyria or try and become Bino’s girlfriend again and possibly hurt her in the process.”
“Exactly.” Sasha said as she went back to twittling her thumbs.
“Does Bino know you feel so strongly for him?”
Sasha kept her eyes on her thumbs as she said “I don’t think so. I’ve always kind of flirted with Fido, his brother.”
“I know who he is.” Jiff said.
“Right. I- I don’t mean to flirt with him. It’s just that I get so excited when I see him, I can’t help it.”
“You mean like the ‘I want your poppies’ sign you had when he came back from the academy?”
Sasha’s face immediately turned a deep shade of red. “How do you know about that?!”
Jiff shifted in his seat to get more comfortable . “I’ve learned to gather information over the years. Have you forgotten about that?”
Sasha was still red as she said “N- no. I just didn’t think you would look for stuff like that.”
Jiff chucked real quick before he became devoid of any emotion once again. “I look for everything that I can. While I try not to dig into others personal lives without reason, some stuff does come through the cracks.” He looked Sasha right in her eyes. “And I can tell you this; Bino has not made a decision about anything yet. Right now he’s mostly confused. My advice to you, tell Kyria how you feel and then let him choose. He may not choose for several years yet, but don’t worry about it in the mean time. Life is too short to worry about things you have no control over.” He broke eye contact and leaned back once again. “Trust me, I’ve done enough of that in my life.”
Sasha lowered her gaze to the ground. “That’s going to be hard to do. I can’t just not think about something like this.”
“Give it time. It’ll get easier. Trust me on this.”
“Alright, I will.” Sasha said as she stood up. “Thank you for the advice. I’m going to go think of a way to tell Kyria how I feel about Bino without sounding… desperate I guess.”
Jiff nodded at her as she turned and walked away.
Sasha doesn’t deserve this kind of worry in her life. She is so kind hearted, even if she still is kind of dense at times. She’s even letting me stay in her doghouse again. Without that, I would probably be in the shelter right now, unable to walk around like this. *Yawn*
Boy, it’s only about 5:30 and I’m already feeling tired today. I should get up and go to the shelter right now, but I’m just so comfortable right now. Maybe I could just rest my eyes. Only for a second though, just a… slight… second. “ZZZZZZ.”
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“Hey mister.”
“Huh?”
“Are you awake mister?”
“Wha?” Jiff opened his eyes and looked around.
I must have fallen asleep. I wonder what time it is?
“Hi mister!”
Jiff looked down and saw a black puppy standing right in front of him. The puppy had some white fur on his chest and he was smiling at him. “Hey mister, my name is Cliff!” Cliff’s tail was going about a mile a minute.
Jiff smiled back as he said “Hey there Cliff, what’s an energetic pup like you doing in the park alone?”
“I was here with my friends playing catch but then they all had to go and now I have no one to play with but then I saw you and wanted to know if you could come play with me?”
Jiff chuckled at Cliff’s eagerness to play. One of the only things that could get Jiff to show genuine emotion was an energetic puppy. “I’m sorry Cliff, I didn’t mean to fall asleep here. I have somewhere that I need to go right now.”
All of the puppy’s energy seemed to go away. “Oh, ok.”
Jiff rubbed Cliff’s head as he said “Maybe we could play another time, how does that sound?”
Cliff immediately became excited again as he said “Maybe we could play tomorrow can we play tomorrow we could come here and I could bring my friends and we will all have fun please please please?”
Jiff chuckled again. “Alright, we’ll play tomorrow. Bring all of your friends and we’ll have fun all day long.”
“YAY!!” Cliff yelled before he ran off, no doubt to go tell his parents or invite all of his friends.
Jiff watched the pup until he disappeared from view.
I haven’t seen a pup with such energy in a long time. It feels nice to be able to play with him instead of trying to push him away from me so he won’t get involved with my search or find out who I really am. This town has such a peaceful feel to it that I may actually stay for a little while. Or a long while, a long while would be better.
But first thing is first. I need to go to the shelter now. I’m late enough as it is.
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Nox looked up as Jiff walked in. “You’re later than usual.”
“Are you expecting me to give you an excuse?”
“… I guess not. I know you better than that. You’re just going to ask me the same thing that you do every day. Where is your student?”
Jiff crossed his arms. “And I trust you’re still not going to tell me?”
A sly smile came across Nox’s face. “Well, I’ve been thinking. Since I have nothing to lose if I tell you, I guess I will. But only if you tell me something first.”
This caught Jiff by surprise. “And that something is?”
“Why do you want to find him so bad? He never told me, and I wanted to know what he did to make you want to kill him so bad.”
With a speed almost too fast to be seen by that naked eye, Jiff reached through the bars and pulled Nox right to them. When he spoke, it was with a tone so dark and cold that it could have made a demon cry. “I want to find him so I can repay him for killing my son.”
END
Now, I have a surprise planned in the upcoming week or two. I debated whether or not to do this, and I decided that I would. I just hope that it turns out to be a good decision. (For anyone that I may have PMed asking about this, please don't spoil it
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And in the meantime, I have something that I would like to post to make up for the took longer and shorter than expected update.
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This is a picture of Kyria. The real Kyria. I based Kyria's look in my story from the actual Kyria. Figured you all might enjoy this.
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