The Bewinking of Pandora Pussycat and Talisker Pippin
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Once upon a time Pandora Pussycat and Talisker Pippin were friends
in r.p.c. They were both tabby girls who enjoyed having adventures and
sleeping in kittypiles and going to parties together with all their other
kitty friends. But as time went on, they realized that they were best friends,
and maybe something even more. Here is the story of how
Pandy
and Tally
became winkwinks.
The Moon
One cold winter�s night, Pandora Pussycat (who lives at the Jesse
Memorial Cat Complex in Oregon thuh State) had a very special experience.
As she told Tally later, �Da other night I was sleepin in my catbed in
the cat house at the JMCC, and it wuz a clear cold nite and da moon wuz
on its way to gittin bigger, so it wuz just heading down west when Momma
Jo came in to bring da food and say goodnite to allofus kitties. And as
it wuz headin down west, thuh moon came into da west window of da cat house
an shined rite on me and my catbed. Nowhere else--just a single
beem of moonlite aimed rite where I wuz sleepin, lighting it up reel brite.
It wuz furry beeyoutiful and felt magical and I felt sooooo speshul
that it choze me and my catbed to lite up, out of all da fingz in da cathouse.
And that made me fink of you, cuz I wished you wuz there curled up wif
me. If you teleport on over, maybe it�ll do it again.� So Tally did teleport
on over to the Jesse Memorial Cat Complex to spend a little time with her
friend Pandora.
The Proposal
Pandy welcomed
Tally to the cathouse, and showed her the cozy catbed Momma Jo and Momma
Beth had made for the kitties. Pandy and Tally washed each other�s fur,
and curled up waiting for the moonbeams to make their appearance. �There
are lots of big clouds out, tonight,� said Tally. �I fink I can just see
thuh moon shining behind them over there. It�s a full moon, too.� And then
she leaned over and washed Pandora�s ear. �The moon is full tonite,� replied
Pandora. �You see how brite it�s lighting up the garden? Here -- have a
little fresh nip. I just picked it from the catnip patch growing outside
the cathouse. I fink the moon is gonna shine reel bright for us tonight.�
�You�re right, Pandy,� Tally replied. �Thuh moon�s still big and round.
And it�s real cold out, but it�s nice and warm here wif you.�
Kneading and purring and chewing on the catnip, Pandy meowed, �Purrrrrrrrr.
This is da life, huh, Tally? Purrrrrrrrrr. Tally, I've been wondering . . . do you fink we is like
winkwinks?�
�You know,� Tally replied, �I�ve been wondering thuh same fing. I don�t
know any other girlkitties who have girl winkwinks, but I never had a boykitty
friend as good as you. And Meowmie says that what�s important about winkwinks
is how they feel about each other, not who�s a boy and who�s a girl. So
. . . purrrrrrrrrrrrr . . . I fink it�d be kinda nice to be winkwinks.
Purrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr. Do you wanna?�
The Acceptance
�WHOOOOOOOPPIEEEEE!� Pandora was so excited. �I�ve been so scared to
ask you, Tally, but I have been thinking about it fur a longlong time.
After all, we like to smurgle together and go to dances and parties together
and go on adventures together like you said. And we�re bestest friends,
so why not? Miranda-banda, thuh high priestess of Bast, says cats can do
whatever they want. We could announce it on r.p.c. and tell all our frends,
and maybe we could have a big bewinking party!� And the two happy kitties
purred and washed each other under the light of the full moon.
The Plans
Well, Tally and Pandy went into overdrive. There were so many plans
to make, so many things to do. The first thing was to announce their happiness
to all their cat friends, and invite efurrykitty to the bewinking celebration
and party. And then they had to decide on decor and music and food and
attendants and just everything. They had to decide what to wear. They spent
days and days and days working out all the details.
Tally
asked Giuliani (Thuh Sheperd inna Brite Yellow Prom Dress) to stand up
for her. Tally had met Giuliani at the furrst annual Furball
Prom. Giuliani had gone to the prom with Spike, Tally�s mentor. Tally
was a little jealous of her mentor going to the prom with a d*g, but then
Spike asked her to come too, and he and Tally made a grand entrance riding
on Giuliani�s back. Tally�s housemate, Ceilidh Flurrydance, offered to
have the Siameze
Cat Chorus sing at the bewinking, and even Skye Silversong, Tally�s
other housemate, seemed happy for her (of course, Skye was hoping that
Tally would move in permanently with Pandora -- as it happened, Tally and
Pandora decided it was best to keep their own separate residences and teleport
back and forth to be together).
Pandora asked her
father Poppy and her littermate Sprint from the JMCC to stand up for
her, and the McClowder Pipe
Band agreed to accompany the entrance of the wedwink party. High Priestess
Miranda agreed to officiate, the stocks of the Empurrium
were depleted for the event, and SandS catering developed a very special
menu for the after-winking buffet. Just before the evening of the wedwink
Pandy and Tally exchanged gifts. Tally gave Pandy a pikchur of herself
in a silver heart-shaped frame, and Pandy gave Tally a beeyoutiful bouquet
of wedwink flowers in all their speshul colors. Finally everything was
in place and ready.
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