Valerie, as promised, went to the library with Alice. Alice sat in her lap while Valerie read one of her favorite books.
After a while, the butler came in and told Valerie the king summoned her.
"Valerie, Malphus has called you to his office." The butler looked at the cat, then he looked Valerie up and down, and then he left.
Valerie got up from her chair and walked out of the library, whit Alice not too far behind her. Valerie took the easy way to his office because she knew the king didn't like to be kept waiting. She had no regard for how Malphus would react to Alice.
"Yes, sire?" Valerie walked into Malphus' office with Alice not far behind.
"Bring two cups of tea, and a plate of cookies" Malphus ordered and Valerie bowed leaving his study unaware that Alice decided to stay behind.
"Meow" Alice jumped ontop of Malphus's desk and lightly pawed his paperwork to retrieve his attention.
"Hello, Saphora, have you been spying on my residents again? You look nice, who has dolled you up?" Malphus asked the cat, giving it a quick rub on the head.
"Meow" Alice answered to receive a nod from Malphus.
"I see, I suppose she has given you a name to then, what is it?" Malphus asked the cat.
"Meow" Alice replied to Malphus.
"Alice, hm. Alright then. So, what's been happening around here Saphora?" The king had his own ways of knowing what went on in his castle. He's rarely seen around the castle and Stanely never spills secrets, so the people wonder how he knows things.
"Meow" Alice licked her paw and scratched her nose.
"I'll speak with the stable workers, but I see Mary has been a busy bee. We'll just keep Valerie busier." Malphus replied to see Alice nod.
After a few minutes, Valerie walked in with a plate of cookies and two cups of tea, she saw Alice balled up on Malphus desk, and Malphus was working as if nothing odd was happening.
"Alice!" Valerie whisper-screamed to get the cat's attention.
"Get down from there at once." Alice complied and did what she was told while Malphus chuckled.
"No fret darling, Alice and I have become good friends during the time you were gone," Malphus said for Alice meow in agreement.
"Of course you have, here's your tea and cookies," Valerie said and placed the plate down, right before she was about bow down and leave for the library she heard Malphus ask her to sit down.
"These cookies won't eat themselves you know. I'm not for sweet things, other than you." Valerie rolled her eyes at the remark and took a bite of her cookie. Alice jumped up into her lap and sat there as if Valerie were a throne and she was the queen.
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A knock, knock, knocking came from Leo's door. He could only guess it was his food. He paused whatever killing game he was playing and grabbed a five off the table on the way to the door.
"Leo Quinn?" The delivery man asked as soon as the door started to slightly creek open.
"Yep" Leo replied as he grabbed the pizza.
"Sign here please" The man held a clipboard out to Leo and he grabbed his pen and signed. When he was finished he placed the five he had grabbed off the table on the clipboard.
"Night man," Leo said and closed the door. He put two cans of soda on top of the pizza box and brought it to the sofa where his killing game was still paused.
He propped open the box and popped open one can of soda. He grabbed a big slice of meat lover's pizza as he unpaused his video game. At the time, it was 11 pm, he knew he had school tomorrow, but he didn't care like most boys his age. He stayed up until 3 am playing video games before he put on some youtube and fell asleep at 4 am.
The next morning his alarm rang at 6 am, he pressed snooze. It rang again, he hit snooze. This happened several more times before he finally got up, and when he did it was at 8 am.
He groaned and rolled over to look at the clock, hoping he could sleep for 5 more minutes. He was that it was 8:06 on the clock and almost had a heart attack. He jumped up from the bed and took a quick shower. He put on the first not rotten smelling thing he could find and grabbed a cup of yogurt on his way out of the door.
He walked down 3 sets of steps, his apartment being on the 3rd flight, and he got into his busted-up old car.
He broke 13 traffic regulations on the way to school hoping he wouldn't get caught, and he didn't. He ran into the school doors that were just on the verge of locking because it was 8:22 and rushed down the hallways looking for his class before he found it and bust in like the police.