I dialed Maya's number and waited. It rang for a second but then it went straight to voicemail.
'This is Maya La Salle, please leave a message.'
She didn't pick up.
'Probably busy.' I thought.
I'll try later then. Just as I got to the bench I saw Johan walking down the block next to the library, he spotted me and waved before quickly heading over.
"Sorry I'm late pal, I had to drop my cat off at the vet." He said.
"It's cool, let's head in then." I replied.
We crossed the street and went into the library, he went to check us both in while I went to select some books. I went to the fantasy section and browsed ,
through the collection.
'Ultimate shadow King. Nope'.
I couldn't really picture anyone else being referred to as shadow King, even if it was only fictional.
"Profane Prince of Domination, now this is more like it." I said.
After selecting that one I went to the booth to wait for Johan.
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We finished quicker than expected as Johan told me there wasn't anything more he could teach me.
In two hours 'prox' I had learnt what was supposed to take me two weeks. He asked me to accompany him to the vet to pick up his cat and maybe from there we could hangout at the arcade.
I could easily tell that he was bored, probably a loner in desperate need of friends and I had nothing going till tomorrow anyway so I decided to play along.
We got to the vet and had to wait for another ten minutes before they were through with the cat.
"Something's up with that cat." Jacinth said, as soon as I laid my eyes on the cat.
'What the fuck was up with this world? As barren as it was even a cat could not be normal?'. I thought.
This couldn't be a coincidence, first that thing, then jacinth, now a cat.
I looked at the cat more thoroughly, it was a snow white cat with a small build, one would think it was suffering from malnourishment, maybe this is what jacinth meant, I thought but quickly put aside that thought as I noticed the imperceptible smirk on it's face, the cat was fuckin grinning.
This wasn't no Alice in Wonderland, that cat couldn't be normal.
"Try get me closer so I can touch it." Jacinth requested.
I tried but the moment my hand approached it, it snarled and moved away quickly.
"Oh sorry about that, Peanuts is a little skeptical about strangers." Johan said awkwardly.
Now I was really amazed.
Who the fuck names a cat, a white cat no less, Peanuts?