Up in a tree.

Alex sighed heavily as she sat there on that low branch of the tree. Her legs dangling down bellow her she leaned her right side against the main trunk of the tree. Yeah she wasn't a fan of heights and looking down made her a little dizzy but that's why she had her hands so tightly clenched on the branch, just in case.

If Alex had wondered how much her life could get worse, well she found out. Currently she was stuck not only as a girl but as one with some cat like features for the rest of the summer probably. How was she going to explain this to people? Either way she was going to worry about that later, right now she was going to do her best to hide it. It's been successful so far going on the better part of two days, but it was getting pretty uncomfortable.

He ears twitched being contained under the baseball cap she was now wearing to hide them, and she had her hair pulled back pig tails to hide the fact her ears were not where they should be. Her claws, she discovered, retracted into her hands and feet quite nicely she could keep them hidden easy. Her tail and sharp fang like canines that she was finding difficult to hide. Her tail, she had taken to stuffing into over baggy pants, it was extremely uncomfortable to sit down like that but so far no one had noticed. Her teeth she just didn't' smile or let people get close enough to her while talking for them to notice. Talking was becoming another problem it seemed it seemed it was becoming harder and harder for her to someone without making stupid cat noises or rolling every other r sound. Her's was a charmed life.

That was why she was up here in the tree, she was avoiding her new roommate, who was the source of her feline torment, and everyone else. She took off her hat, letting her ears spring out finally free and wiped some sweat from her brow, her tail twitched in her pants leg but Alex decided not to let it hang out, her ears she could quickly hide if someone walked by, the tail, not so much.

Alex shifted a little bit in the tree as she saw someone down on the ground below her. Dammit she thought, how did he sneak up on her, she wondered as she reached for her hat and accidentally dropped it on the ground instead. Crap! She cursed herself as she figured out how she would hide. But it was too late she saw him down there staring up at her, his eyes full of wonder. She smiled nervously at him, showing him her sharpened canines and coming off a bit more intimidating than she had originality wanted to. Well that cats out of bag with this boy at least, she realized as she felt her ears twitch atop her head.

She cringed as he called her neko-sama, she learned real quick what that meant recently. Akemi explained to her that neko meant cat. And why was everyone insisting on using Japanese with her all of a sudden?

“Hehe,” Alex said giving him a nervous wave. “Hello.”

Alex sighed a she watched the boy climb the tree. Why was he doing that? She didn't want him up here, that was the point of being up here. No one else would come up here or would have any reason. Yet this boy was so damn enthralled with her that he had to try and climb up the tree despite repeated falling out of the tree and on his ass. Fanboys, Alex thought as she let out a moan of despair, that's what this boy was. My god, Alex realized, I have fanboys. She just looked down and shook her head as he finally made it to the tree branch she was on out of sheer thanks.

Snatching the hat from the boy's hand she grumble a a begrudged thanks and placed it back on her head. She really didn't need him to bring it up she could have gotten it with her TK but she guessed it's the thought that count. That's when an idea danced through her head that made her smile a wicked grin on the inside. So many people had been screwing her over and messing with her lately, she was going to return the favor on this boy, and maybe scare him out of his infatuation in the process.

“My reasons for hiding it is my own! Nyah!” Alex said as she shot him a sideways glance. “MY people don't think it's decent to show those things to outsiderrrs.” Alex said trying to infuse her words with a mixture of her mothers Spanish accent and all these stupid purrs and weird cat sounds she makes as foreign as possible.

“Oh?” Alex said as she stared at the boy with a puzzled look on her face. How did he guess that so acuratly? Did he know Akemi? Had Akemi been blabbing her secrets to everyone else. No she could tell form the boys mind he didn't recognize her he was completely making that up as he went along. It was a guess, a stunningly accurate one but a guess none the less. “Hehehe,” Alex chortled playing off the boys prediction. “Don't be silly. Heow is that even possible.” Alex said with all the well placed awkward pauses and stammers in place to help imply that English is not her first language and she is unfamiliar with speaking it.

“I've all ways beenya like this.” She explained. “Borrrn on a far away island with otherrs like me.” She said looking at him with a rather cat like grin, wondering if he was buying any of this. “Mya roommate is crazy though.” Alex admitted slumping her shoulders and frowning. “I am not used to how you humans act. She is always wanting to... uhhh whats the word? Pet meeow?” Alex was wondering if she was playing the accent up too much? Either way he would either believe it or she could pass it off as a joke to the over the topness of it all.

Realizing she hadn't introduced her self she turned to him and said, “My name is Ale-” She paused realizing it would be awefuly weird for someone foreign to have such a common name. “Aleksa- Zandrrra, but everyone here just calls me Alex so you cyann too.”

“Well,” Alex said trying to think as fast on her feet as possible. “Myah motherrr is um... how you say? The boss? The leaderrr? And she wanted to send me, her first daughterrr out to learn about you people.” Alex said gesturing at Gallent, implying she meant humans. She was starting to feal silly with such a blatant lie but was surprised that this kid was buying it form her. How long would she be able to keep it up? She wondered.

“But I would like it betterrr at home nyow instead of herrre.” Alex said slumping her shoulders again and looking down at her feet and the ground, getting a little dizzy she clenched tighter to the tree branch burying her claws in it. “Weeee uhhh don't have this sort of things you humans have, like those metal boxes on wheels? What you call carrrs? No? But wee have electricity and rrradio and have contact with some humans. But my motherrr wants us to have more contact, and modernize ourrr people. So she sent meow herre.”