40. Furry

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"Come on." Coral shoves me and Tye towards an elevator. We end up on the officer office level. Older Tye is waiting at the end of a long hallway. "Pick a disguise you're ok using. We can't go down like this." I push the girl button a couple of times and I finally get a teenage girl. My Tye grabs me from behind. "I love you." "I love you too." He's a normal teenage boy. I nearly get emotional again when Thora grabs me. "Down the hall. We'll take the planet shuttle down to the planet." I hold Tye's hand. I'm scared to death of losing him. Not sure if I'd even remember what he looks like. He got a black shirt on with white trim. It's got number 77 on it. Then he's got short black hair. He is sexy, but he's not my Tye. He is staring at me. "Are you trying to memorize me too?" He smiles and kisses my head. "I'm scared I'll lose you down there woman." I snuggle him as we get on the shuttle. "You're 77." "You're the brunette with pink ribbon in your hair and a tight as hell t-shirt that I would like to see you in for real." "I guess I could change it off before I change back." We step out onto the planet and it is so different. The ground is gray. It feels like sand, not dirt. I hold Tye's hand so tight. "Water is black here." Thora holds up a cup with a black liquid. "It's the same other than it's black. Something in the air makes everything darker. And then this planet has trees and grass. But they are very dark green." "Not like the bright colors on our earth. Everything is dark here." Tye puts his arm around me, and we keep following the group. They are in disguises too. Then an 8-foot tall thing walks around the corner and I jump straight onto Tye. It's covered in hair. I can't see any skin on it. "Sorry miss, I did not mean to startle you." "It's no problem. I should watch where I'm going." Tye puts me on my feet. I realize we are sobering up very quickly, if that's even possible. We catch back up to the group and hear music coming from somewhere. Thora jumps. "THIS WAY." She runs. We follow them and Tye keeps hold of me. I snuggle into him. "Do you remember how to get back?" "Yes, and I'll make sure we get back." I hold his hand tighter. We go into this big outdoor area that has different color lights moving around. It's weird, the lights are actually moving. It has loud music playing. Then lights start flashing fast. It's messing with the way I see stuff. Tye pulls me into his chest. "Stay right with me." I hug him. The 3 girls run out and dance. "You can sit down and get a drink if you want. Come here." We follow older Tye to a table. We sit down, and I scoot right beside my Tye. He puts an arm around me and kisses my head. Then he picks me up and puts me on his lap. I snuggle him. "I have to watch the girls. Sit here or dance. Please don't roam off." We sit like that for a long time. We point out stuff to each other over and over. We also watch the lights and people dance. We see a few more of those tall hairy things. Then a little fur-ball thing rolls over to us and hops up on the table. It's small. I could hold it in my hands. We watch it for a while. Finally, I sit up and lean towards it. It backs up quickly, and then I lean back against Tye's chest again. He holds me tighter and watches it. It comes closer to us again. It sits right on the edge of the table in front of us. I reach out slowly and touch his fur. "It's so soft. Feel it." "That is really soft." It rubs back against his hand. "It's snuggling you. It must like you." "It is cute and soft." Suddenly, a bunch of police run by us yelling. They run into the people dancing. The little fur ball makes a screeching noise and jumps on our laps. The poor thing is shaking. I rub on it. "It'll be ok." Then Tye rubs it. "Poor thing is scared." "We'll keep you safe." We pet it for a while. Then it makes a weird growl noise. "I think it's sleeping babydoll." "It's so cute when it sleeps." He kisses my head. I see Dipak watching us. He's not in disguise, and he doesn't appear happy. We go over to him. He stares at us. Tye's carrying the sleeping fur ball. It dawns on me that Dipak has no idea who we are. "Hi love. They took us off the ship." Tye nods. "I have no idea where they went. I don't even remember what they looked like." "They're in jail. The older group went to get them. f*****g scared me when they said you 2 weren't with them." "We prefer jail on our own planet." "This was too much. We did make friends with this little fur ball though." I whisper to Dipak. "Did you see any of those tall hairy..." One walks in front of us. I shut up. He nods. Tye adjusts the furball. "Did you see the water? It's black here." "Everything is very different here. What did you 2 do?" I point to the chair. "I sat on his lap in that chair. I think he's afraid to stop touching me." Tye lifts the arm the fur ball isn't sleeping on. I've got ahold of his wrist. "I think I've got permanent nail marks on my arm. But yea, I'm afraid I'll forget what she looks like." I hug him. "He's number 77." Dipak cracks up laughing. "She's the sexy little brunette with a pink ribbon in her hair. And I swear I am going to find a way to keep that t-shirt." "I guess you 2 figured out how to not get separated from each other. That's good at least and no one is puking. That's also nice." "We were drinking on the ship. But not here." Tye shakes his head. "Black water. I'd hate to see their alcohol." Future Marcus comes up to us. "Let's go. We got them waiting by the shuttle. I can't believe they left you 2 alone. Oh, you got a furry. It's supposed to be good luck if you catch one." "He is the luckiest man alive." "What do I do with it? It's sleeping." "You can keep it as a pet if you want." I take 2 steps at him and put my finger up. "NO." He shakes his head. "God no. That's not what pet means anymore. Wow, that was so long ago. A pet is something you take care of. You feed it and water it. You pet it and play with it. Nothing s****l or weird. That changed so long ago. I thought it changed before you were even born." "The castle had human pets in it when she was young. She found them and ever since, that's what a pet was to her." Marcus nods and we go to the shuttle. "It's not like that anymore. People on earth have cats, dogs, fish, birds, horses, cows, anything can be a pet. It doesn't have to be a furry, but if you take one it would be alright. It won't be able to make babies or breed. It'll be the only one there." "It should be able to have a family." "You can't take 2. Look around. They are everywhere. They would overrun the earth just as badly." "They are everywhere. Why can't people catch them?" "Super fast and amazing at evasion. How did you catch it?" "It jumped in our laps." "Then it snuggled with him and went to sleep." We catch up to future Dipak and others. Future me is passed out on the ground. Dipak is standing there annoyed. "See what jumped in the kids' laps." "No s**t? I've been wanting to pet one of those forever." He reaches out to pet it, and it jumps about 10 feet in the air and into a tree. Marcus cracks up laughing. "It's not meant to be." "Overrated things anyway. All they do is take over planets." He picks up future me. The drunks stagger onto the shuttle, then the future boys. I turn around, and it's sitting in the path. "It's your choice." I barely whisper it. It runs straight for me and jumps on my shoulder. I laugh, its whiskers tickle my neck. "I'll be damned." It moves to the top of my head. I step into the shuttle laughing. "I think it's coming home with us." Future Dipak tries to pet it, and it growls at him. We get back to the ship and I slowly go to Tye's room. He comes in and kisses me. He's himself again. The fur ball jumps on his head, then gets down and lays on the couch. Someone knocks on the door. "Enter." Future Marcus comes in. "They eat vegetables and drink water. Make sure you always have stuff out for it, so it don't go hungry. It'll need somewhere to piss too. Give me a min..." Tre runs in. "Are you 2 ok? Woman, why do you look like that?" "Be right back. I need to find a bathroom for that furry." "We went to the planet Tre. I dressed like this." "And it's really you? What color is bear?" "WHITE." "Ok." He's not convinced. "Michael Trebnor Saxon. I am your mate. Stop staring at me like I'm not. I will throw things at you." "There it is." He gives me a hug. "I was worried baby. Why are you like this?" "Tye wants me to keep this shirt. I didn't want to take it off in the hallway." "That is so cute." Marcus comes in with a box and Tre pets the furry. "You are so soft." "What the hell? Can I touch you?" It makes a weird noise. Marcus reaches and pets it. Then it goes over to the food. He smiles big. "I actually touched one." I do love it when they smile. All of them. "I'm going back to bed. Good night baby." He kisses my head. "You staying with Tye?" "Yea." I see Tye smile out of the corner of my eye.
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