After a very restless night, I somehow woke up to find myself in bed. Questioning to myself how I had gotten there, I noticed that Donghae the cat was very attentively staring at me from the edge of the bed.

I surely have some crazy- dreams to think that my new pet was suddenly a crazily attractive man that was somehow attached to my lips last night. However I couldn't help but caress my lips to outline the feeling that the kiss left behind.

Shaking my head roughly thus getting rid of my wild dreams, I called out to Donghae with an outstretched hand which he was quick to approach and nuzzle his face up against. "I don't suppose you know how I got back bed, do you Hae?"

A soft meow escaped him as I scratched away at his chin. "I think Hyukjae is in quite the desperate need of a man to be having these types of dreams, don't you Donghae?" My laughter filling the room as I was sure that nothing that happened last night was real.

Nothing at all.

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I had made dinner plans to have my best friend Kyuhyun over. It had been too long a time since I had the chance to try to be social because of the overbearing work.

As I was toiling away at the cooking pan, Donghae had gotten on top of the counter and sat looking attentively at what I was doing.

"Be careful, Hae. This is pretty hot and it would hurt you a ton."

He let out a purr as I saw him on the side and continued to cook away humming to a random song in my head. "My friend Kyuhyun is coming over. I hope you don't mind strangers," staring at him, he had begun to away at his paw and then proceed to rub it lightly on his face. Blinking at his nonchalant action, I could only chuckle and continue on "I'll take that as a no then. Y'know, I've known Kyu since we were teens. That punk was always practically at my heels."

Pausing to laugh, I bent down to away at the cat. "Time is interesting, y'know? You would think that I would have by now settled down and started a family or something. I can't say it hasn't called out to me but I guess I've just been waiting for the right one. That's pretty silly though..."

Randomly after this, Donghae had taken to carefully lean to my side rub his face against my hand.

"Oh! Don't worry about me, Hae. I become a bit of a sentimental fool at times. I'm sure it'll happen some day. Besides, I have you and Choco right now and that's more than I can ask for." Petting his head one last time before continuing to cook, I I lost myself in one heavy humming session for the rest of the cooking time.

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The doorbell rang through the apartment and I quickly rushed to let in this younger kid who had the damned I luck of surpassing me in height growing up. His handsome features radiating along with his wide smile.

"I brought the wine!" Dangling the very obvious bag and taking off his shoes, he stumbled into a hug and pat at my back heartily. "You're still so damned scrawny! How can you keep it up like this?"

"Overly stressing work can do that, Kyu. Not everyone has the luck to play games and be paid for that." Kyuhyun had been a professional gamer which I often envied because it paid nicely and he wound up doing what he loved for a living. I don't think I could particularly say I loved doing what I did.

Sitting on the sofa besides by my usual spot, he proceeded to investigate the room.

"Are you looking for something?" I asked following his gaze.

"Well, you mentioned you had taken to adopting a cat. I see traces of one but no particular culprit."

That's strange. Donghae was actually sitting right in front of Kyuhyun and he was telling me that he couldn't spot him.

"Are you sure about that, Kyu?" I asked as I proceeded to lean down and sit near the cat.

"Yeah. I mean, if you're becoming a crazy cat lady, I at least wanted to see who your first victim was."

He kept looking around the room but settled down as Choco had proceed to jump onto his lap. Staring at the cat that was so obviously beside me, Donghae meowed and rubbed his face against my leg. I think crazy might start to be the word here....

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Dinner came and went and Kyuhyun had not once spotted the creature that was either next to me the entire time or playing with Choco which made him wonder what was driving her to be so hyper.

Closing the door and saying our goodbyes, I looked at Donghae and leaned down to sit in front of him.

"Do you mean to tell me that I'm the only one who can see you?"

He meowed.

"Am I also to believe that you can understand me?"

Meow.

Falling back on my back, I could only stare at Donghae. A cat I could apparently only see and that could understand me. He made it a point to rub himself against my leg once again before jumping on my stomach.

Stretching out my arms and wiggling beneath him, I let out a loud grunt in frustration. “That’s it! I’m going insane! But how?”

Quickly sitting up and causing Donghae to fall off from me and hiss in disapproval, I found myself crawling towards him. “How? I can feel you,” ruffling up his fur (as another hiss escaped him) and even picking him to make sure an entire cat was in my arms I could only remain baffled by it all.

“How? You’re here!”

Donghae struggled to free himself from my arms. With one paw on my chest trying to support himself up, he bent up to my lips.

“HOW?!?!”

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Once again lost in my dreams, I was resting on someone’s lap. I was calm. Feeling at ease by the hand that was away at my hair. A voice that made no sense yet filled me up with the happiest feeling in the world was wrapping me in its embrace. I was woken up by the kiss that was placed upon my lips as I staggered out of the dream getaway.

Rubbing a hand on my bleary eyes, I could suddenly hear a voice in my apartment. It was a familiar voice. One I hadn’t heard for days but I was extremely sure of who it belonged to.

Staggering out of bed, I opened my bedroom door to see the strange man rolling around on the floor playing with Choco. This time he was actually wearing clothes. My clothes to be exact. And that collar hung around his neck still.

Noticing my arrival into the room, the man stood up and was cradling Choco in his arms who was barking and wagging her tail as she too had noticed me. “Good evening, Hyukjae.”

My mouth was dry. I wasn’t sure who this man was and why in the world he had Donghae’s collar around his neck.

Now that I could actually pay attention to the man, I couldn’t help but notice how strikingly handsome he was. And how perfectly my clothes fit on him like they were just meant to be worn by him. Shaking my head to take away those stupid thoughts running through my mind, I finally spoke. “Who are you?”

The man sat down Choco, who ran towards my side still wagging her tail brightly, “you named me. You should know.”

“No. I don’t. Why do you have that collar on you?”

the collar around his neck, he was returning the stern look that I didn’t notice was also on my face. “You gave it to me.”

“I did not. I gave it to my cat. It should be with him.”

“It belongs to me, Hyukjae. You gave it to me. You asked me to be a part of your family when you gave it to me.”

Falling back against the frame of the door to my bedroom, I was either being too stubborn to believe his words or far in too much disbelief of what he was saying. “Who are you?” I shot again. I could feel my facial features hardening with each  passing moment.

“Donghae.”

I felt the ground beneath me shake. Well, it didn’t, I was just sliding down the frame as my legs had given out from underneath me.

Noticing that he was down on all four and making his way next to me and sitting very casually in front of me, I could read the tag on his collar. It was the same I had given to the cat.

“You… You can’t be…”

Reaching out a hand to push the hair on my face behind my ear and then proceeding to kiss my cheek afterwards, his very soft voice continued, “I am.”

“Why?”

Placing a hand on his folded knee and his face onto the hand, he would only just stare at me without much to say. I felt at ease. Like he was always meant to be there. Like he had always been there.

“I’m not sure exactly,” he began. “I was happily living my life as a cat. I had tried to befriend many but none of their humans ever lived up to what you wound up being because of Choco. She tells me so much. I was always so curious about you.”

“But… Why are you… Human?” I could hear my voice cracking at the final word.

“I don’t know. I’ve lived for a long time. But it seems like humans never really noticed me. I don’t think I ever really needed to be noticed or fed though. I was perfectly fine the way I was. But I’m much, much better now.”

“I’m slightly confused as to why I’m here. In this form,” he continued as he stretched out his arms and legs and stared at the weird body beneath him. “It feels right. I can finally talk to you as well. I like it. I like you, Hyukjae.”

I could feel my jaw drop at his very sudden confession yet I couldn’t help but shake my head and try to get up from my spot.

I hadn’t gone very far before finding myself being pulled back to the ground once again. This time, Donghae had  pulled my face next to his with both of his hands. His features had softened as he repeated “I like you, Hyukjae” before his eyes fluttered closed and he pulled my face close to him once again making our lips meet.

Shock still running through my entire body yet I couldn’t help but close my eyes as well and return that sweet kiss that he made linger on my mouth.

A/N: For someone who has a cat that no one can see that suddenly turns into a human and is kissing you, you sure are taking things very well, Hyukjae... O_O  Thank you for reading. -S