To say that Sil and Alex’s coffee date went well would have been an understatement. If you think having sex after the first date was the sign of a successful date, try having sex during your date in the men’s bathroom of a café. If that isn’t a home run, what is?

With their first date having gone well, Sil couldn’t stop thinking about the tigress; he had her on his mind when he was eating, studying, and sleeping. He realized it was bad when the professor of his European History class asked him a question while he was daydreaming and he answered “Alex”. Luckily for him, the answer his professor was looking for was Alexander the Great, so he wasn’t wrong. He recognized the symptoms of what he was going through very quickly since he had gone through a similar thing with Alex before. It was when they bumped into each other on the running track in high school. He was a much smaller cat boy back then, in more ways than one. He knew he liked Alex, but this feeling inside him made him realize for the second time in his life that he was in love with her. The difference was that he wasn’t going to let her be the one who got away, not again.

As his professor continued the lecture and explained how Alexander earned his “the Great” title, Sil pulled his phone out, opened up his messaging app, and pressed on Alex’s picture that was right at the top. Once his keyboard popped up, he began typing up a message to send to her. He started off with a plain and simple “Hi”. He stared at his phone’s screen and let his thumb hover over the send button for a full ten seconds before he deleted everything and started again.

Sil: “Hey, Alex! Are you free tonight to hang out? 😀”

It didn’t take long for the tigress, who Sil assumed was in a class of her own, to respond. When he felt his phone buzz in his hands just a couple seconds later.

Alex: “Hey! Aren’t you supposed to be in class? Sure! I’m free tonight. What did you have in mind?”

The black and white cat quickly sent his thumbs back to work. Her quick response to him was a good sign and he wasn’t going to ruin it by replying to her even a millisecond too late.

Sil: “Hah, it’s a bit of a boring class, so I thought I would make some plans for later. 😉 You said you were good at Mortal Kombat, right? Want to hang out in my dorm and play that?”

It took the tigress slightly longer to reply this time around, but as soon as the three dots popped up, the history professor had lost Sil. No amount of European history, no matter how interesting and cool would be able to pull him from falling for Alexandra the Great. His phone buzzed in his palm as Alex sent another reply.

Alex: “Inviting me to your dorm, huh? If I didn’t know any better, I’d think you had a crush on me. 😘 How does 7 PM sound? I’ll bring over pizza.”

Sil’s smile grew wider as he read the text from the tiger girl whose finger he had found himself wrapped around. His thumbs tapped against his phone screen as he typed up his reply and he spent a considerable amount of time picking the emoji to send with it.

Sil: “Awesome, can’t wait!! 🥰”

Once his text went through, he waited for it to be read before he tried his best to resume listening to the lecture. He glanced at the clock on the wall and let out a soft sigh when he saw that it was only 11:54 AM. It was going to be a very long lecture.

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The sound of water echoed through the dorm room as Sil did his best to clean up the mess that was his dorm. Usually, he would have gotten a little pissy over how messy the dorm was, but he only gave his roomie Jim very short notice that he was going to have a girl over. Plus, the grey wolf stuck around to help clean up the mess. Sil did the dishes, cleaned up the dirty clothes scattered everywhere, and even scrubbed the bathroom just a smidge so that it was at least presentable. While he did all of that, Jim swept the ambiguous crumbs off of the floor and made their bunk beds look nice. Dusting his hands together after a job well done on the beds, Jim hopped down from the top bunk and walked over to the cat that he was happy to call his roommate. “So, safe to assume you’ll be putting a sock on the door tonight?” he teased.

Sil couldn’t help but smile as he turned the water off and dried his hands with a tea towel. He tried to hide the smile when he turned around to answer but to no avail. “Probably, but I don’t want to put a sock on the door now because she’ll see it when she comes over… Maybe it’ll happen, maybe it won’t! I just want to spend some time with her. Can’t get her off my mind at all.”

The tall grey wolf jock chuckled and patted his buddy on the shoulder before he pulled him in for a very bromo embrace. “I get it, my guy, tiger pussy is straight up bussin’, plus, that Alex chick? Damn, she’s got a smile that will melt you from the inside out.” He nudged his fist into Sil’s chest endearingly. “You got this, bro, easy. I’ve seen your dick and balls swinging around, if she ain’t hooked on that, the rest of us are out of luck.” He let the black cat go after a few seconds and shrugged his shoulders. Sil thought what the jock was saying made sense, and while Jim probably wasn’t someone he would trust with any mathematical calculations, he would trust him on calculations about sex, sports, and alcohol. “Yeah, yeah, but like I said, if not, it’ll still be cool to hang out with her,” Sil said with a soft purr as his tail swished around behind him like a broom on steroids.

“God, dude, you are so in love with this girl man!” Jim fist-bumped him in the chest again. He turned around to grab the lonely sock that was draped over the ladder of the bunk and handed it to the cat boy. When Sil saw the dirty sock, he looked at it with disgust and tried his best to not take it when it was handed to him. Jim took his hand and placed his dirty sock into it and patted Sil on the shoulder. “Here, in case you change your mind.”

“Jim, I don’t want your smelly sock.” Sil stared at the slightly discolored sock in his hand and protested. When he looked up from his hand he saw that Jim had his gym bag slung over his shoulder and was in the middle of slipping out. The wolf had half of his body already out the door when he said his goodbyes and wished his roomie luck. Then the door closed behind him and Sil was left with the room all to himself. Sock still in hand, Sil sighed and sat down on his bed. He let out a chuckle as he looked at the smelly sock and considered pre-emptively putting it on the door. Just as he was thinking about it, he heard a knock on the door.