Louisseena

Chapter 22

Bruce:

With a little advice from her bodyguard, I found the perfect place to bring her. It was something that obviously caught my attention as I realized while staying with her. The black kitten that was on her apron when we first met at the diner. It wasn’t just a random apron she bought.

Her backpack is black with silver linings of cat pattern all over it. She wears a black shirt with different patterns of cats for most days of work. She even has a hoodie in the pattern of a black cat. The hood itself has cute pointy cat ears. Her phone has a pink casing with a black cat at the back. Her social media profile picture is also that of a black kitten and I bet you that her phone’s wallpaper is also the same. One can obviously tell she freaking loves black cats.

Loulou:

Bruce is driving us to some place in town. I asked where we were going and he wouldn’t say anything. I asked if the food would be nice, he said it will be and I can order anything I like and if I don’t like it, I can just order something else again. He will pay for it all. I blushed at that. My boss is spoiling me and I like it. I didn’t intend to take my vacation so soon. I planned to work for another half a year before I take some time off to travel further away to see the city more. One of my ideal vacation is to go on a cruise to nowhere. Because there is just so many free flow delicious food to try ! I've watch that all on the video platform about this couple travelling on a cruise.

We reached our destination after about nearly an hour's drive. Bruce came out of the car fast and opened the door for me. I thank him sheepishly. He didn’t need to do that. The prince is such a gentleman I thought.

I followed him, walking up a sidewalk. From a distance I saw it. A standing signboard in the shape of a cat is resting outside a shop. It read, “THE CAT CAFE”. I ran forward to the signboard and took out my phone to snap a picture. This signboard is so freaking cute. In the shape of a cat !

Bruce had come up beside and said, “here we are”.

What? I blinked in surprise. “ Here we are Loulou. This place is all yours today.” Bruce said as he was about to open the cafe’s door. He is wearing casual clothing today, much different than his business attire. He wore a white polo shirt with tanned colour bermuda paired with a low top shoes. He still looked so well groomed even in casuals. I’m wearing a pink tee with a black cat print on it and blue denim shorts with my one and only pair of sneakers. I have only one bag and I bring it along everywhere. I put my hoodie, wallet and a portable mobile charger in it. Nowadays I bring an umbrella along.

I noticed the cafe’s door sign says “closed” even though we’re going in. Maybe he had made reservations. As he held the door open for me and we walked in, I noticed a staff member took the cat signboard outside the shop and placed it in front of their door. The other side read,” closed for private event”.

Oh, is there an event here today???

I held tightly onto my phone as I stood behind him at the counter.

The staff asked if we have been here before and Bruce said it’s our first time. They briefly introduce to us that this is a cat cafe whereby it’s your typical cafe but it has cats around. You will get to interact with the cats, pet them, play with them while you enjoy yourselves in a cafe sitting. The food served here is for human consumption only and should not be given to the cats. However, there is a separate menu whereby you can specially order premium treats for the cats.

“As this cafe today has been booked by you entirely, Mr. Lorleans. There will be no other customers. Please enjoy your stay” the staff at the counter said happily as she gestured us to head further in. The freaking prince booked the entire place for real !

We headed into a small area where we could wash our hands and take off our shoes. Then we went through a gate to the main cafe seating area. The staff brought us to our table and gave us the menu. She said she will go and let out the cats now.

While waiting for the cats to come, I picked up the menu and covered my face. I’m reeling with excitement at the fact that I’m here. I always wanted to come here after seeing this place on social media. I had wanted to come here with Jerry… but oh well, he has a girlfriend now. He can always come here with her, there’s no need for me.

I can hear a little whisper in the distance from the cafe’s kitchen and it’s easy to make out what’s being said as I’m a werewolf. “She’s so lucky. I wish Chris was like that” “ Yeah. so sweet of her boyfriend to book this whole place for her.” I buried my face more into the menu trying to hide my peach face. I must be smiling quite silly now.

Soon we can hear little bells tinkling and little paws sound running around. The cats are out !

I have my eyes only for one particular cat and it was easy to spot. There was a little bombay kitten at the far back as if it had lost its way. I immediately went over and picked it up and cuddled it.

“Mine” I thought. I missed Raven so much and black cats are my source of comfort as if seeing my wolf. Even though I know dogs resemble the wolf family more, I just have an attraction towards cats and their behaviour. I feel that their behaviour represents me more.

I brought it back to my seat and showed the prince. He chuckled at me.

“ I’ll call it Raven. Raven is the name of my wolf too” I said to Bruce as I continued to pat it on my lap and turned my attention to the menu. I think I’ve said too much.

“My beast name is Wayne.” Bruce smiled proudly as he introduced his lycan to me.

I ordered their pancake set with maple syrup and a hot cappuccino. I intended to have something sweet for brunch first and then later I’ll order some savoury food. I planned to stay here very long with my Raven. The prince better be ready or else he can leave without me first, I thought sneakily.

When the pancakes arrived, it was so camera worthy ! The pancakes had strawberries as their ears, forming a cat head and the butter on it was also in cat head shape melting away. The maple syrup was in a pourer that had a paw print. My cappuccino came with latte art on it, of course a cute cat foam sitting on top. I kept taking pictures of the food itself and the drink. I made sure to also snap a picture of my whole meal at an angle which shows that someone was sitting opposite me. Of course I did not include his face or hands because it would be damn obvious who it was.

I spend most of my attention with little Raven instead of the other cats. Something about her being a kitten just draws me closer to her. Maybe my wolf can be reborn as a pup too? I thought. I urged the prince to pick out a cat too. It can’t be only him looking at me playing with cats. He awkwardly points out a white cat as if he’s afraid of cats. I laughed at him and picked up an orange tabby cat and placed it in his arms. But he wasn’t willing to hold it as if the cat was rejecting it. I didn’t care HAHA. Now his shirt is full of orange fur as the cat jumps off from him.

Round 2:

I ordered a pan seared salmon on top of a bed of quinoa and iced earl grey lavender fizzy drink. This time the food wasn’t plated as cutely as the pancakes. It was still elegant and I took more pictures of the food. I also made sure to snap pictures of the food that the prince ordered. He ordered smoked salmon eggs benedicts for his brunch and pasta for his round 2.

I laid on a bean bag with Raven on my lap after being so stuffed after round 2. I was getting a little tired too playing with the cats. Bruce came and laid behind me. I like his presence near me. I felt a sense of comfort.

“Could you tell me why you were upset yesterday? Was it because Elliot is leaving?” Bruce quickly added the second sentence.

“No. Wasn’t about him” I am just pondering how to put it into words. How do I explain the feelings I felt yesterday when I realized about Nicole. I know she is not that kind of mean person or scheming person. I just don’t know how to react to her anymore, to them. I’m not used to these kinds of social things. “ It’s about a girl.” , hoping to ease his mind. I think maybe I felt somewhat jealous. But no way am I going to tell Bruce that I was jealous over another guy after we kissed.

A little while later, I also ordered a slice each of new york cheesecake, strawberry shortcake and a dark chocolate cake together with a plate of macarons. It’s too many sweets but I wanted to try them all. I shared them with the prince. Well, I kind of forced him to share half with me.

I absolutely love macarons and they are always so expensive. Being the greedy me and since he’s paying, I ordered all the flavours there were on the shelf. He laughed at me silly as if he didn't know whether to allow me since his words had said so or trying to stop me because it’s too much. Finally he suggested that I could just bring the macrons home. That’s a really great idea !

It was dark outside when we left the cafe. On the way home in the car, I spend the time looking through my picture gallery on the phone. I looked at all the food pictures I’ve taken then at all the pictures I’ve taken of Raven and the other cats. I mostly looked at Raven’s picture the longest.

I adjusted the photos lighting and organised them, getting them ready to post online my social media account. I did sneakily take a few pictures of the prince with the cats. Of course I won’t be posting those. There was one picture I took of him holding Raven. I set that as my new wallpaper and teehee to myself.

“ Thank you BB, I had the best day with lil Raven. #Cats #blackcat #food #sweets #catcafe *heart emoji *cat emoji” I hit the post button.

Yep, I’m shy like that. I’m too shy to express my full thoughts into speech so I just decided to upload it with a caption instead of saying it to the real person.

“Thank you boss Bruce for today” I said in the car while he is driving.

“You’re welcome Loulou.” He replied as he turned his head, smiling before looking back at the road.

BB actually stands for “Bald Bruce” not “Boss Bruce”. haha shhh don’t tell Bruce.