{"sf1_id":1045959,"sf2_id":null,"title":"A Tail of Romance and Friendship Book 1 chapter 1: memories of the past","author":"Kunar the Oracle","words":2281,"posted_at":"2016-07-14T20:10:00.000Z","tags":["Adventure","Alternate Society","Blood","Cabin","Camp","Cat","Character Development","Cheetah","Claws","Cub (clean)","Curse","Cursed","Cute","Dark","Death","Depressing","Depression","Desperation","Destruction","Dishonesty","Emotional","Epic","Family","Fantasy","Fear","Feline","Fighting","First Person","Friendship","Further Confusion","Gay","Girl","Harsh","Heterosexual","Hindpaw","Humor","Intro","Introduction","Kissing","Kitten","M/F","Magic","Male","Medieval","Mild Romance","Multiple Species","Naughty","Night","No-Yiff","Novel","Paw","Plot Development","Prologue","Romance","Rules","SFW","Series","Speciesism","Story","Story Series","Straight","Suspense","Tail","Thought Provoking","Tragedy","Trouble","Various Species","Violence (Not In Yiff)","adorable","anger","betrayal","disaster","innocence","kitty","laugh","mate","tabby"],"url":"https://fse.anthro.fr/stories/1045959-a-tail-of-romance-and-friendship-book-1-chapter-1-memories-of-the-past","original_url":"https://sofurry.com/view/1045959","image_url":"https://www.sofurryfiles.com/std/thumb?page=1045959\u0026ext=.jpg","description":"","content":"It was a new day... and the first day in a week I\nwould never forget... I was young when my life changed forever, but this day... is\none I could never forget.\nI was only seven and I was sent to bed that night\nwithout dinner. I had gotten upset with my father for making me work the grove,\na small orchard where we grew the Promanins. They are sweet like a peach and\ntough like an apple and a fan favorite in the market, I hated working the\norchard keeping them clean and bug free.\nI yelled at my father for it and I was sent to\nbed starving. As a sneaky kitten I was then I snuck down the stairs to find the\nice book, mother usually kept the left overs in there to save them. As I got to\nthe bottom of the stairs I slowly tip-toed down the small hall and stuck my\nsnout around the corner. The room was dimly lit by the small amount of light\nfrom the setting sun. With the window open I could smell the moist sweet farm\nair from the rain fall we had early on in the day. A smell I miss to this day. \nIt was late so father was out in the orchard with\nmother they would be until the first sun rays came over the mountain. I had\ntime. I slowly walked in to the kitchen and over to the island marking the\nmiddle of the room and then the smell hit me. Moms fried beef she always knew\nhow to cook it just right, juicy sweet and tender with a hint of apple just the\nway father and I loved it. I got on my tippy toes to look on the island and\nthere it was my mom's beef. I licked my lips in anticipation of the juicy meat.\nI reached for it but my arms where too small to\nreach it I frowned softly and put my ears back disappointed siting back on the\nground with a pout. My stomach growled and I put a paw and arm around my waist\nand sighed softly. Still starving I stood up to head back to my room failing my\nquest to satiate my hunger. Looking up I saw my mothers green stool against the\nold oak wall. Walking slowly over to the stool eyeing it up I determining it\nwas of proper height to get me to the islands top. I wrapped my paw around it\nas I pulled it over with a loud screech from the wooden stool against the\nwooden floor boards. I winced at the high pitched sound and closed my eyes\nwaiting to be discovered out of bed. A minute or two had passed before I opened\nmy eyes and looked around, nothing.\nIt was odd for Shure to not get yelled at by now\nI had thought, mother and father always to seem to hear everything that went on;\nI swear they could hear a mouse in the orchard from the other side of the\nproperty. I shrugged it off and thought nothing of it only really focused on\ngetting some food for myself. I climbed up on the stool and looked over the\ncounter to see the beef in a blue clay bowl and purred lightly as I used my\nclaws to pull myself up and I slowly crawled across the island top, siting\nmyself beside the bowl. I eyed it up for a moment before I stuck a paw in and\npulled out a hand full of the ground meat and shoved it quickly in to my open\nmaw eager to fill myself with the meat purring with depth from the still warm\nmeat and took to more handfuls before I felt full and slid down back on to the\nchair landing softly on the floor and rubbed my belly. Purring happily I crept\nback to the stairs, as I started up the stairs I heard a scream of much pain\nand suffering it was coming from the orchard. My ears had shoot up from the\nsound and I said to myself \"Mom?\" \n\"I remember I started to cry at this point. I\nrealize now that she could not hear me but I was young then so my mind was not\nthe best\" I look to my best friend siting with me at the fire place. The orange\nglowing embers giving her spotted feline face a light glow to it as a tear ran\ndown her face \n\"Dam it Razam is that why you're so upset today?\"\nshe frowned as she looked up from the fire to my tear stained face\n I nodded\nsoftly saying back \"Ya... that was 11 years ago today\" I look over my shoulder to\nwhere my house once was now only ashes and memories. Looking back to her then\ndown at the fire and I said \"They weren't the best parents but they never\ndeserved what happened to them...\"\nShe looked to me and said \"Razam don't tell if\nyou don't want to alright\" \nI nodded and teared up lightly as I remember the\nblood spilt and the sight of the house engulfed in flames. I shook my head\neagerly trying to forget but unsuccessful I rest both my paws on my head saying\n\"I-I can't not right now... I-I can still smell the blood on the sweet Promanin\ntrees...\" I started to cry softly this made me feel weak I was 19 and still cried\nover something that happened when I was 7\nNar-I looked to me with a soft frown and scooted\nover around the fire pit and wrapped an arm around me and said softly \"It's\nokay man your safe now whatever happened is over and in the past alright?\"\nI nodded in response not able to sum up the words\nto thank her for her kindness she and her mom took me in after that happened I\nlived with them both for a while then her mom had to go for a while after some\nmen in white armor came to the door on a crisp autumn night, but that was a\nstory for another time. After that Nar-I disappeared and I was left alone\nagain... she never liked to talk about it... I tried to ask her why she vanished\nfor 7 years then found in a forest just outside town. She would always say it\nnever happened when we both knew it did... but then again we all have our\nsecrets. After she came back she was soon followed by two others the one I have\nstill not seen and the other hands around the village... she never talks much\nabout them for reasons she again will not say... but that does not matter to me...\nshe is here and with me that's all I care about right now...I looked up to her\nand she stood holding my paw saying \"Alright lets go inside or we are going to\ncatch a cold\" she joked trying to lighten the mood, it worked \"hey I'm not\ngoing to catch a cold with this pelt\" I open my arms to look down at myself. I\nwas wearing a green t-shirt and thin fabric leggings my fur was almost all\nblack expect for a part of my snout, half my left ear and at the end of my tail\nand paws. \nShe laughed saying \"If you say so tippy too\" with\na roll of her eyes she pulled me up the hill by my paw towards an oak cabin and\nI laughed as I walked with her.\n\"hey I'm no tippy too any more Nar-I, have not\nbeen that since we were 9\" I laughed to her as she used my knick name and\nsmiled to me.\n\"Ya yay a whatever now hurry up slow poke I made\ndinner before we came out side\" she laughed as she ran inside letting go of my\npaw.\nI smiled and stopped as I looked over my shoulder\ngrabbing the cold mettle that was the door handle and I turn for just a moment\nto look back down the hill. I saw the fire pit and then a little way down the\nhill and then some was the village a quiet little town after that was the river\nme and Nar-I used to race leaves before she left and then after that was a\nlarge hill with an old oak tree on it I used to play my lute under that tree\nbefore it broke. Then was the ancient forest Dun-wervnil the only forest home\nto the Kamoray, it stretched for hundreds of miles in every direction. After\nthat was the mountain the blocked the light of the village, Mt. sofan and this\nwas my home where I lived my whole life.\nI was snapped out of the moment when I heard\nNar-I call \"Come on man I'm hungry\"\nI laughed at this comment as I walked inside the\nwarm building and joked \"Well nice to meet you hungry have you seen Nar-I? If\nyou do tell her I'm waiting for her to eat\"\nShe rolled her eyes saying as she walked back to\nthe table with a plate for us both \"Ha ha ha so funny Razam you killing me over\nhere really I'm dying of laughter\" she said practically drooling sarcasm.\nI smirked saying \"well sorry not all of us have\nhad years of being a comedian\" \nshe rolled her eyes as she placed down two plates\nof food with a small steak and rice saying having a seat a cross from me \"Just\neat it or I will\" she began to eat her dinner as I soon did the same happy to\nhave some food in me and as always she finished first at sat upright saying\nunder her breath \"heh slow poke\" I finished after and said \"Ya so I like to\nenjoy the meals you make that a bad thing?\" she gave me a smirk in reply\nstanding to take our plates, \"So how is work going?\" I asked to start a\nconversation \"Its shit as always nothing new but any money is good money\" she\nsighed softly as she put the plates in wash tub \"Razam...\"\nI looked down as I know what it meant when she\nsaid my name like that she was about to say something that was going to make me\nupset \"Yes Nar-I?\"\n~~~~~~(((Nar-I)))~~~~~~\nI sighed again as I turned to face my friend and\nlooked down \"I'm leaving\" I could feel the mood drop in the room as I said this\nand I knew he would have questions that I could not answer and I was about to\nhurt him again ... just like when I left last time\nI heard him say to me with built up emotions\n\"h-how long...\" I frowned and shook my head \n\"Forever... I have to go and I will not be coming\nback... I leave in the morning\"\n I could\ntell he was about to cry as he stood up and said to me \"Why... why are you\ntelling me this right now? I thought we were friends Nar-I\" there he goes he\ndid it playing the friends card I sighed once more \n\"I was not allowed to tell you I'm risking a lot to\njust say this...\" I shook my head hating myself for saying this to him but better\nnow than never and I could hear him growl lightly and then bark out \"How could\nyou just leave me again after all this just why Nar-I?!\" he ran out the door\nand slammed it behind him and I teared up lightly as I whisper \"Because ill\nhurt you if I don't...\" he was gone and I'll never get to really say good bye to\nhim.\nI felt a shiver run down my spine and I said out\nloud \"It's alright Hun he is gone... why did I have to do that?\"\nA clocked figure stepped from the shadow in the\ndoor from a dark fog coming off of him \"Because he is blind to the world he\nlives in you know as well as I its better this way\"\nI nodded back to him and said under my breath\n\"Better never meant easier\"\nHe sighed as he took my warm paw in his cold\nleather glove as his other wrapped around my wait holding me in to a loving\nembrace \"It never gets easy to deceit those you love Hun and you have a big\nheart as it is\"\nI looked up to him under the cowl and in to his\ndeep violet feline eyes and gave his arm a light squeeze saying to comfort\nmyself in his arms \"Thank you Hun but still... not fair to him\" I look down as I\nfelt his hand rub my back. \n\"I know love\" I felt him lift my chin and look\ndown in to my emerald eyes and felt his warm lips on mine as he kissed me\nlovingly and I returned it with eager desire before he pulled back and said\nsoftly \"Well, let us go before he returns\" I gave a light nod as I rest my head\non his chest and we both faded back in to the shadows like wind blowing thru\nsand gone in to the night.\n __________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________Fav watch and vote if you like it comments are always welcome ^^~N~May Renmora watch over you~K~Stay cool cats be a proud pups and always be brave bears ^^ have a nice night/day/evening/morning/... what ever ^^ bye-byeFrom the paws and pens of kNunar and Noah the writer and the puppet master"}