"Have you eaten with us before?"

Howell had gone to sit the three of you down at a table in the cat cafe, well you were going to go work at making whatever Bee ordered but Howell said he will handle it since it's supposed to be your day off and to go sit down with them. You obliged and now you were sitting down next to Bee with Puppycat on the other side of her, petting one of the kittens chilling in her hair while she decides what to eat. Howell keeps on talking to Bee about what she wants as you stare down at the menu in front of you daydreaming not paying any attention to the chaos happening directly in front of you till Howell finally went to speak to you. He proceeded to poke you on the head with his pen before asking what you wanted.

"Umm... I would like to have a slice of cheesecake!"

He smiled as he walked off back into the kitchen, honestly you chose the safest thing which was the desserts. You knew that there were still some leftovers from the day before that you had baked so they weren't going to be made by one of the Wizard siblings at the cafe. Bee had moved Puppycat's chair in between the both of you to stop him in case he tried to punch Howell with his tiny fists. Charles had stopped by hopping near Bee's side eyeing her before he began to knock off all the silverware that was on her napkin.

She turns to you and Puppycat before speaking "Charles is a bit guarded emotionally. You have to let him come to you." As he kept on trying to stick his paw in her mouth, she manages to get up and grab the silverware that fell on the floor. "Oh. Looks like Howell's a little bit behind on maintenance." You chime in from your spot "It will be cleaner soon!" You hoped that it would be since you weren't able to reach the high parts of the cafe there were noticeable webs and dust up there but other than that the cafe looked in pretty good shape. That was all due to you kicking ass and cleaning what you could from around the cafe. Puppycat looked around as well seeing the dust and told her to get up from the floor, it was then that Howell had come out of the kitchen with your guy's food.

"Here we go."

He placed the monstrosities of food on your table in front of Bee and Puppycat then you looked forward to seeing your plate until you saw that horrible black sauce was drizzled on top. You gazed up at him with a closed smile while clutching your knife and fork in both hands. Meanwhile, Bee was saying that she didn't order the sauce-drowned food that was placed in front of her, Puppycat touched the food with his paw before declaring "Wesley made this." Then proceeded to eat the food that Wesley made. You decided to speak up since you didn't want any black sauce "I didn't order black sauce on my cheesecake...Get back here!" Howell quickly made his getaway while walking back to the kitchen in a hurry. "Enjoy your meal." You made a fist at him and quietly put it down, you started to carefully take off the black sauce on top trying not to get it anywhere else on the cheesecake. Bee starts to pick at her food as well with her fork but sadly her food and Puppycat's were swimming in that black sauce Howell put. She looked down muttering "Gross" while swiping bites of the many dishes that were given to her which was basically all the same scoop of black sauce. Puppycat was busy eating his broccoli while saying sorry to Wesley and kept eating lifting up his broccoli for the both of you to see

"Only this tastes normal."

As the three of you continued to try and eat the food Bee spoke up to Puppycat. "Hey, Puppycat, you got a friend with you." He kept munching on his food for a while. "Yes, you are both my friend" she shook her head and reiterated herself "No, a broccoli friend, it's a nice way of saying you have food stuck to your teeth." You kept poking around your cheesecake. "That's a cute way of saying it and aw Puppycat you're my friend too!" He nodded at you before opening his mouth and started to poke around as Bee directed him to where the broccoli was.

So yeah after seeing that you put your fork down and decided you were done eating for a while, you knew Puppycat would have sharp teeth but that was one of the biggest jumpscares you have seen. After a while, Puppycat decided to just stop since he wouldn't be able to get it after seeing your horrified expression witnessing it. "You are a mess. I'll get you a toothpick." Bee started to dig around the pockets of her dress before realizing something. "I forgot my wallet! AHHH! I knew I shouldn't have come here! Howell's going to hate me even more now!" You pat her back "Don't worry I have my wallet let me get it-" You stood up and dug into one of your pants pockets taking the inside layer out. "Hmm, not this pocket let me try the next one!" You dug into your other pocket the same and with the inside sticking out. You stood there for a while before you sat back down and face planted into the table.

"I LEFT IT AT HOME!"

The both of you were now in near tears trying to figure out what to do. Puppycat raised his fist and spoke up. "Let me just punish him and we can run out of here." You shook your head at Puppycat "We can't we have to pay! Plus they really need it..." you said the last part quietly as Bee explained to him how embarrassing it is to leave and not pay. Suddenly a pink envelope fluttered out and Bee caught it with ease tearing it open. "Ooo those pink envelopes again!" You wanted more answers about your parents and who they were before they had you. It boggles your mind how everything is connected. You really want to ask Puppycat about it since he was the one popping these things out, but you were afraid he wouldn't want to talk about your parents. You are pulled out of your thoughts when Bee grabs your hand and you see the pink flash in front of your eyes.

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While falling into the pink void Bee kept trying to take out the piece of broccoli that was stuck in Puppycat's mouth. "Wesley made this broccoli. It's cool." Finally, the three of you landed in front of the big tv again, "Hey, you three. Ready to work?" Both you and Puppycat respond with a 'Yes!' As tempbot warned the three of you to be careful out there "There have been some strange things happening out on jobs lately." Then tempbot looked concerned "Weird things. Hands. Hands in space camouflage have been ravaging planets, on which you've recently had temp jobs. The temp agency tried to trace the arms back to a source, but they were too long." Puppycat shrugged at tempbot "No problem." That made you turn around to look at him bewildered "Woah wait! There are some manicured long hands attacking planets! Aren't you concerned?" Puppycat shrugged once more "We will be okay, just stay with me." You decided not to persist anymore as tempbot gave you three the uniforms needed for the job. Your hair bows had become two large puff balls amongst your hair and you wore the same outfit as Bee only the puffs on your body were blue instead. Then tempbot opened its mouth as the three of you proceeded to float inside of it. Finally landing on a really soft cloud-looking planet puppy looking puff balls started to emerge with a smaller puffballs on their tails. After all of them had come up from the ground in front of you, Bee, and Puppycat one of them decided to speak.

"Hello. We need to get rid of our baby sacks. They have to go out. They are old enough now."

The puffy dog-looking alien then tossed its baby sack towards Puppycat while discussing how they are excited for their babies to explore but saddened that they will be away from them. Bee then held up her phone asking if she can take a picture of them to have on her phone of this memory. The aliens agreed and started to pose for the camera as you watched them all interact slightly bored since you were just standing there. You walked over and sat down next to one of them "Can I pet you?" It kept its smile "Why sure!" You lifted your hand up to pet it which made it very happy. "Wow keep petting me!" You happily obliged enjoying the softness that you can sort of feel through the gloves you are wearing. Suddenly the puffy alien spoke up "Hey guys come here! It feels amazing!" Soon you were surrounded by puffs wanting to get pet by you. Bee smiled seeing you giggling to yourself while trying to pet all of them, she took another picture of you sitting down while laughing and interacting with the puffballs. One of the puffballs noticed and looked over at her.

"Hey, can you send that to me?"

Bee and a few of the puff balls went back and forth as she tried to explain how they need a phone for her to send which they didn't know what a phone was. Meanwhile, Puppycat finally decided to punch the baby puffball sack that was in his arms which made everyone look up in awe to see all the babies floating up in space. Unbeknownst to you Bee had sent the picture of you in the middle of the puffballs to Deckard. He stopped putting the icing on his heavily burnt cake and looked over seeing his phone light up. He smiled seeing the photo "Aw. How cute." He then proceeded to ask her how the two of you were doing. During that time period with you, Puppycat was busy still punching baby puffball sacks and you helped as well petting them before punching them out into space.

The puffball aliens were cheering the two of you on excited to see their babies making their way out into the world. You were laughing at Puppycat due to his attempts trying to punch the puffball sacks harder, but the babies were thanking him for his gentle touch. To your surprise they were saying thank you to you as well, one of them even floated next to your cheek nuzzling you, and then followed its siblings. As Bee mentioned to Deckard about the kittens and Howell he didn't want to mention the fact that you already texted him about the kittens going straight into talking about Howell. He had already known since the both of you text every few days this is mostly due to you not wanting to bother him often while he is in school.

You were still punching away the baby puff sacks till Puppycat turned towards you "Y/N can you keep petting the puffballs? I will punch the babies" You were confused but shrugged "Well alright then." You went back to work petting the puffballs that had already whipped their babies off of their tails to be sent into space. He didn't want you to see the hands that had come up and kept kicking the babies over due to the fact they made the hands break out in hives. While talking to the puffballs about random topics and showing them your phone as well as videos of you and your friends on the island. A pink puffball alien spoke up "Wow! You sure have a lot of friends!" The rest of them spoke up in agreement you nodded happily and looked back down at your phone speaking softly "I sure do..." You were showing them the video of you at the cat cafe when Bee was still there and trying to record a 'commercial' for the cat cafe which resulted in you tripping over one of the cats too busy staring down at your phone and causing everyone to turn to you as the video had ended in laughter. 

After a while, you looked around to see Bee and Puppycat standing as you get up to stand next to them from the surrounding puffballs that follow behind and stand in front of the three of you. The puffball aliens wiggled their tails happily "Thank you for your delicate punches. Our babies are going to have a great time out in the universe, thanks to you." You smiled happily at them "You guys are welcome!" Bee then looked at them "Aww... I didn't do anything. But you're welcome!" Behind you three was the temp bot's open mouth the both of them huffily dived in while you were about to jump in as well one of the puffballs comes up to you as you pet it one last time. "Bye, everyone! Take care!" You jumped in and heard multiple byes.

Somehow the three of you landed in the napping cupboard of the cafe "Ouch!" Suddenly coins had been rained upon the three of you "double ouch!" You rubbed your head while Bee complained about having to pay in coins. "Oh no. Coins? I gotta pay in coins?" You shrugged "Hey it's better than nothing." You then see a fluttering wad of cash landing on your lap and a note.

'Thank you for your pets and for punching our babies!'

You giggled at the note, Bee looked at you in shock "What? No way they paid you in cash?" You smiled gleefully and then handed her the note. "Yeah! For petting them apparently!" She gently takes the note from your hand reading it before laughing and looking away sheepishly "haha maybe I should have pet them as well." Then the two of you get out from the cupboard standing behind the register. You hear Howell speaking to Charles to stop bothering him for a while till he turns around screaming seeing you guys. "AHH!" All of the cats that were sleeping suddenly woke up and began to run all over the cafe while you and Bee stood there looking at Howell. He finally calmed down and questioned the both of you "How did you two get in here?" Standing up while looking at both of you concerned. Bee spoke up for the both of you "We just needed to pay our bill." He then smiles and waves his hand "Oh, don't worry. I wasn't planning on charging you two."

Both you and Bee plead to let the two of you pay for your food while she dropped her bag of coins on top of the table and you put some cash there as well for your meal. He walked over to the two of you "In all coins? And some cash... Though that is a lot of coins." He proceeds to pick one up before speaking again "I don't know. I'll have to wash them. Make sure Tim doesn't put any up his nose." You had to stifle your laugh since the atmosphere was pretty serious at the moment Bee then spoke up "I just want to be responsible for once. Please?" You patted her back comfortably which she appreciated making her stand straighter in confidence while talking to Howell. He looks away from the coin in his hand and back over at the two of you "Well since it's mostly your fault and Y/N's for convincing Deckard to go to culinary school and since we lost most of our customers because only one of us sort of knows how to cook real food I will take your money." He puts down the coin he was holding and goes to pick up Charles from the floor.

"Thank you two for doing that by the way. Deckard loves cooking. I don't know why I opened a cafe. I think I just liked the attention.. and to be able to boss people around."

Bee finally felt more comfortable and mentioned how she liked to be bossed around by him, he tells her he should come by more often and how it is nice to talk to her. At least that's what you heard for the most part you had snuck off after a while spotting Wesley's hair while you were staring around the cafe waiting for Bee and Howell to finish their sentimental moment together. You quietly snuck away while they started chatting more amongst themselves as you went into the kitchen seeing Wesley putting and fish into a new bowl and you helped him move the fish from the kitchen planning on putting the fish in the bathroom. But the two of you were stopped once Howell had spotted you and Wesley which Wesley gladly answered Howell seeing his annoyed face.

"We are moving my fish into the bathroom now."

Then you spotted Puppycat on the ceiling coming down exclaiming for Wesley to watch him as he lands onto Howell's face before sliding off and sitting in his arms, you clapped for his performance. You and Bee then stared at Howell in amazement since he was now super sparkly while Wesley complimented Puppycat "Cool" then the two of you slinked off to the bathroom to put the fish away leaving Puppycat sitting in Howell's arms excited to hear Wesley say that to him before Charles stuck his paw in Puppycat's mouth. 

(Thank you all for the votes, comments, and adding to your reading lists! I really am grateful for all of you who read this book even though it's a bit all over the place! I hope you all have a nice day/night! :))