Apple Pie and Sanity ((14))

[amanika]

Teazer shook her head, "It doesn't matter." she said quickly.

[victoriousscarf]

"No, I am curious what you were going to ask..."

[amanika]

"It was nothin' really." Just me thinkin' aloud." And wishful thinking at that.

[victoriousscarf]

He raised a brow but nodded. "Alright." Though he was still slightly confused as to what she thought he should have had.

[amanika]

Teazer was quiet for a moment, absently fiddling with her pearls again, she studied the cat before her for a moment, though looked away the second she caught his eye.

[victoriousscarf]

Sonya raised his brows even higher at that, finishing the cup of coffee in his paw. "So, besides your brother, is there anyone in your life?" he asked, simply curious.

[amanika]

"Huh?" it took a second for Teazer to pull her mind back to reality, "Oh," a pause whilst she considered this, well, unless you counted Martin the mystery tom, "no, not really."

[victoriousscarf]

"You ever get lonely with just you and your brother?"

[amanika]

"Never really thought about it t'be honest. Don't have time t'be lonely." Teazer was silent again, still toying with the pearls, "I guess maybe a little. Jerrie an' me, we're close, but we don't always see eye to eye. So I guess if we've had a fallin' out." or even when he was working more than she was, the evenings got long, that was why she went out, though she supposed, even then she was somewhat isolated.

[victoriousscarf]

Sonya nodded. "I'm glad," he said. He had gotten very lonely as a child in a house large enough to hold five families, not least of all a pair of wizened old Russians, his socialite parents and himself.

[amanika]

"What about you?" She'd asked before even registering it, something about the look in his eyes had compelled her to.

[victoriousscarf]

He blinked and shrugged. "It... My parents did not have much time for me and I was an only child." It was partly why he had been so desperate for affection he had married the first woman to act like she loved him.

[amanika]

Teazer bit her lip, "I can't imagine not havin' Jerrie around." she admitted, she couldn't empathise, but she felt for him all the same.

[victoriousscarf]

"I would hardly want you to be able to do so," he said, shrugging and a bit uncomfortable. "It is not a pleasant way to spend one's childhood, being mostly alone."

[amanika]

Teazer shifted a little in her seat, biting down harder on her lip. "I'm sorry." Before she'd really thought about what the was doing, she'd reached across and clasped Sonya's paw in her own, feeling the need to offer him some kind of comfort.