#maybe you should've locked that tess

[pixeldolly]

Walden BACC #533

Hayden: “Who’s a pretty kitty and a good kitty? Yes you are!”

Tess: “Cymorial must like you; usually, he is quite skittish around people other than me.”

Hayden: “Being accepted by the cat - feels like a rite of passage.”

Tess smiled affectionately as she prepared the salmon for Hayden’s dinner.

Hayden: “Hey, can I have some of that juice?”

Tess: “Juice?”

Hayden: “Yeah, the red stuff in the pitcher over there, on the counter.”

Tess: “Oh! That’s not juice! That’s a, um, tonic for my condition!”

Tess had had to tell Hayden something to justify her peculiarities. The “rare medical condition” which made her highly sensitive to sunlight and heavily restricted her diet had appeased Hayden’s curiosity for the moment, but it wouldn’t hold up forever. They had also never spent the night together - Tess had always shied away from the idea and Hayden had respected her boundaries, but the longer they were a couple, the more difficult it would become to ignore the proverbial elephant in the room.

Tess: “Dinner will be ready shortly!”

Hayden: “All right, I’ll just use the bathroom real quick.”

I’m going to ask her tonight, Hayden thought giddily as she walked away, letting her legs carry her without thinking about it. Her heart fluttered in her chest and he stomach clenched anxiously, but she was happy, happier than she’d ever been.

Before she registered her mistake, Hayden opened the door in front of her;  it wasn’t the bathroom she suddenly found herself in though, it was the room next to it. She froze in the doorway, speechless.

Unnerved by the silence but unable to tear her attention away from her cooking, Tess called out over her shoulder:

Tess: “Hayden? Are you all right in there?”