Regret

Chapter Fifteen

    "Sorry I wasn't trying to be rude, but you were ignoring me so I had to see what had you smiling so much," Jack said. 

  I grinned and said, "Your forgiven this time, don't let it happen again" 

  "Scouts honor," he replied holding up his hand in some kind of salute.

  "Sooooooo," he says sitting across from me, "You think I'm super cute huh?" he said with a cheeky grin. 

  I was so embarrassed that I just went red and tried to hide my face. 

  Jack laughed and said "It's ok don't be embarrassed I think your cute too." 

  As he said that Emily laughed and sighed, "Young love, it's so cute." Which made me go even redder.

    "I'm just teasing sweetie," Emily said patting me on the shoulder before walking out with her coffee. 

    I picked at the sandwich I was eating and sipped my coffee, suddenly Jack grabbed one of my hands and said, "Hey it's ok you know, I mean if you like me and I like you. What's so wrong with that? There's no-one here to pick on you about that."

 I managed a smile and nodded while putting my sandwich in my mouth.

    We sat and talked awhile and I told Jack that we only just met 2 hours ago, it's a bit soon to be thinking about being anymore then friends, he agreed and finished his lunch and coffee. This time he washed the cups while I put the rubbish in the bin. 

  "Right time to meet the cats," Jack said as he held the door open for me. 

  I smiled and said thanks, we walked over to the cattery which was basically a row of four cabin like rooms that were joint together. 

  Jack explained the first room was for the kittens, the second was for the female cats, the third was for the males and the last room at the end was the recovery room for when the cats got sick or had been operated on. The dogs have a similar one beside the vet room which is off the office.

    Once again he held the door open for me, I walked past him and then waited in the little hallway outside the first room which had two doors to it. 

  "I'm guessing the double doors is in case a cat gets out when people come to look at them?" I questioned Jack.

   "Yeah, hey your pretty smart," Jack replied and chuckled. 

  I shrugged and said "I guess."

 We went into the kitten room and were greeted by a very smoochy black kitten who Jack said was named Midnight and lying in the sun by the window was a brown and white tabby who's name is Tabitha, both were abandoned because they are females.

    "They'll be old enough to be spayed in 3 weeks," Jack told me as he picked up Tabitha, while I was busy giving Midnight cuddles. Before I got too attached to her I put her down and grabbed their bowls as Jack grabbed the water bottle bowl thing.    Jack walked right to the end of the hallway into the recovery room and set the bowl on the bench. There's cages along one wall and cupboards along the other, Jack shows me where the kitten food was while he rinsed out the water bottle and refilled it.

  I busied myself with cleaning the bowls and opening up two pouches of kitten food and tipping it into each bowl, after that we went back to the kitten room and put the bowls down.

 Next stop was the girl's room, once inside I saw four cute female cats ranging from 1-8 years old. There was a white cat named Snow, a grey one named Rayne, another brown and white tabby named Vixen and a black and white one named Dottie.