022 A Girl's Gotta Eat

Kitty woke up in a clean, soft bedroom, wearing nothing.

She didn't take anything over from the bar, or, her old life. The one room key and the cloth on her were everything that she had when she checked in the hotel last night.

But being a luxurious hotel with sky-high price, which, she only got to knew after she walked in the lobby, it had almost everything she needed. All she did before she went to bed was taking a long, hot bubble bath in the huge bathtub.

Her woolly blue hair fell on her tiny body right to the waist. She sat up in the bed, hugging the soft, fluffy beddings close to her chest and shook her head, giggling because the ticklish feeling on her waist caused by her hair.

It was a great, sunny morning, nothing to complain about.

So many things had happened in the past week that waking up in a room with a 61th floor view over the city was like a dream to her. Kitty covered herself with a bath towel and got off bed to sit by the French window --  the southeast corner of the room was not a corner, but a huge floor-to-ceiling window with a curve in the places of two walls, giving a great view of both directions --  and gazed into the city scene.

What now? Kitty thought to herself. She used to worry every morning when she woke up, about food, about where to live, about her siblings, but none of those worries was like what she was worrying about now:

Is she a witch? Was her mom also a witch? Did her parents really die only just last month? Had they been hiding away from her the past three years? Why did Perses send men to get her?

And what was bothering her the most, was that when every one of these questions were popping out in her mind, it was Erebus's face she was seeing behind them.

What does he have to do with any of them?! Why cannot she just stop thinking about him? It's not like they have any connection whatsoever.

"Let's figure it out after some breakfast. I have to live first, IF I want answers." Kitty mumbled to herself and stood up, only to froze where she was because she just realized, while she WAS living in a very luxurious hotel, she didn't belong there:

She had absolutely NO money. Nor an identity for that matter.

"Ughhhh..." Kitty let out a cry and threw herself on the huge bed, covering herself again under the cover as if that could make all of her troubles go away.

It would be nice to have some magic now, if she really was a witch!

Kitty sat up again and went to pick up her cloth from the floor. She didn't survive on the street for three years just to starve in a luxurious hotel bedroom! She didn't have anything else if not her will to live. Any problems thrown her way; she would find an answer in the end.

She was in desperate need of a job, any job. But it wasn't like she went to some fancy schools, or any school for that matter. Her mom home schooled her until she was 12 because she thought she could teach Kitty more than a school could, and Kitty DID do well in her first year ever in a school when she was thirteen, until she got pulled out of there and sent to an orphanage just a year after that.

"Bet you didn't see that one coming, mom." Kitty mumbled after a long sigh.

She learned enough to educate herself, AND she learned enough to survive on a street. But she didn't have the luxury to educate herself in the past three years, and it somehow felt weird to look for food in a garbage can only to returned to a luxurious hotel in the night.

"Is this a joke to you?!!!" Kitty yelled at Erebus in her head.

Kitty rubber her hair in frustration, but right when her hair was a mess, there came a knock on the door.

"Hmmm... yes?" Kitty answered in a small voice. She had no idea who could be visiting her right now, at this place no less. Only Erebus and his men knew she was here.

Right when she was struggling about what to do, a woman's voice rose from outside the door:

"Good morning, miss. Room service. I'll just leave the breakfast out here in your lobby. And someone left you a box with a note on it, I'll leave it here on the table too." Ohh, right. This room had its own lobby. A small hall between her room and the hallway so that room service won't be a bother to the guests, but no one could get in without a key either, so to protect the guest's privacy.

"Ohh! Thanks!" Kitty replied, and she could hear steps walking away.

After a few minutes, Kitty opened her door and stuck her head in the lobby. No one was there.

She slide into the room with one arm around her waist -- she was still in the bath towel.

Breakfast looked fantastic. It was two slices of toast, a fried egg, a cup of milk and a bowl of strawberry. Her favorite!!!

"Luckyyy~" Kitty yelled and jumped to the bowl of strawberry. If she had the sensation of a werewolf, she would have known someone was right outside her door. But she was not, so she just dropped a strawberry in her mouth and went on the check the box.

Erebus leaned against the wall of the hall way, listening to the sounds coming from Kitty's lobby. His lips curved into a smile when he heard her yelling "lucky". Of course she loved it, that was the result of his experiment he did the first morning when they had a meal together. His huge bowl of fruit cuts got him a list of fruits that she likes, from top favorite to just so so.

He stood straight again and left without making a sound, and only the hall way witnessed a legendary alpha smiling to the air for nothing but a little girl's happy morning.

"Something to remember me by." Said the note on the box.

Of course it was from Erebus, and in it was her new clothes and necessities they picked up together for her.

Kitty took the box back into her room with a deep thought look on her face. She dressed up herself in silence, and hurried with fresh up and breakfast and getting herself ready for another day of her new life. But just when she put her hand on the door knob again, she suddenly slowed down and put down her hand. She turned to lean against the door and took a longgg sigh:

"As if I could forget you, you mischievous, charming devil."