Painting You With My Eyes.

Skipper Knightly || 21 || Beautiful Disaster

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♩ ♪ ♫ ♬ Nothing the matter with your head baby, find it, come on and find it! Hail! With it, baby, 'cause you're fine, and you're mine, and you look so divine. Come and get your love. Come and get your love. ♩ ♪ ♫ ♬

Skipper yelped out jumping up from her stool at the bar. “You!” She pointed out at a random person, before wiggling for them to come to her. “Come on. We aren’t sitting this song out! It’s too good to pass up!” Okay, so maybe she was a few drinks deep and ready to break out her dancing shoes and now probably wasn’t the place, but that didn’t stop the girl from dancing towards the other.

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A hint of a smile. “It’d be no trouble.” Peter would understand him getting back later than he said he would, helping a girl find her lost cat was a pretty good excuse.

“Yeah? Well, in that case, I’d love all the help I can get.” She admitted with a soft smile. “Not to mention I think I’ve already checked this floor about four times.”

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“Sorry I’m a little… cranky.  I’m sure it’s a great cat,” He reassured, shrugging.  “It’s fine.  I sort of have a cat - my friend Roman has it mostly, I kind of got it for him.  His name is Heroin Bob, but we mostly call him Stubby.”  He noticed her cringe, and gave her another reassuring smile.  “Unless people live on the first like…. six floors most people just take the elevator.  There isn’t a lot of traffic at this time.  Want my help?”  He had started to follow her towards the stairwell, mostly because he didn’t have anything better to do.

“No, no worries.” She waved it off, returning his smile. “Oh? Stubby? What a fun nickname.” She giggled, wondering to herself, what would make them want to call the cat that. Her imagination ran wild for a moment, before she returned her full attention back to him. “Huh? Oh, well, let us hope not too many people have ventured into the stairwell.” Skipper smiled as she moved along, glancing over her shoulder a little at him. “Yeah? I mean, are you sure? I wouldn’t want to be a pain if you’re busy or something.”

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Niko turned his head at the sound of someone’s voice, tugging out his headphones to offer the girl a smile. “A cat?” He asked, looking around at his feet briefly for no reason, “No i haven’t i’m sorry… But i can help you look if  you want.” He offered with a smile 

Frowning a bit, Skipper chewed on the corner of her lip for a moment, nodding her head. “It’s okay. Not your fault.” She smiled a little, before shaking her head. “Oh, no, no. I couldn’t ask you to do that. Thank you so much, though!”

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Silence for a moment, he didn’t really know how to reply to that. “Would you want to check around? I know the building, I could help you?”

“Yeah?” Her head slowly cocked to the side, her lips twisting up into a light smile. “Are you sure? I mean, I wouldn’t want to bother you.” She also didn’t want the fact that she lost her cat to inconvenience someone else.

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“What no he was little darling.” She said giving the cat a few final scratches behind the ear and handing him back to his owner. “Have you just moved in?” Cate said asking the very obvious question looking around at the few boxes in the lobby. 

“Oh, thank goodness. He can be a handful at times.” Smiling, Skipper reached out taking the cat, running her hands down his spine. “I was so worried about you, Binks!” She hummed, kissing the top of his head as she nuzzled into the crook of her arm. “Ah, yes.. It hasn’t been going as smoothly as I would have hoped.” She giggled a little. “As you can see, I’ve already lost my cat and I haven’t even been here for a day.”

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“I haven’t, no.” He almost didn’t stop at all, he really wanted to just get back to his apartment, but the girl was clearly worried. He paused and turned back towards her. “Um. How long has your cat been gone?”

“Ah.. O-Okay. Thank you.” Skipper was about to turn back the other way and continue her search when the boy turned back to her. Smiling a little, she took a step closer, her hands twisting at the frill at the bottom of her dress. “Well, I’m not completely sure how long..” Her eyes fell for a moment. “I’m moving in.. and with the movers and my parents rushing in and out.. he could have just gotten out twenty minutes ago.. or five hours ago..” Her face fell a little at the thought.

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Link has been sulking back up to his apartment when he decided to take the longer route, winding through hallways and seeing if he could harass anyone into hanging out with him. He hadn’t expected a slightly frazzled girl however. He frowned slightly, trying to recall his trip. “Uh. I hear that’s bad luck.” He gave he a warm smile though. “Nah. Though I just came in through the stairwell so she maybe ran in there?”

Making a half smile, she wrinkled her nose a little, her shoulder rising and falling. “I suppose some people do say that.” A weak giggle escaped her lips. “But, I’ve never really been one for believing in luck. Not to mention black cats are simply beautiful an-” She paused for a moment, dropping her gaze. “I’m aimlessly babbling. Sorry.” Huffing a little, she lifted her gaze back to his, flashing an apologetic smile.

“The stairwell? Ah, okay. Yeah, I could see him taking off in there.” She cringed a little at the thought of people rushing by him. Their shoes stomping about. “Thank you, though, for your time.” She nodded towards him, before slipping around to head towards the stairwell.

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Cate turned around flashing a smile. She was holding the black cat that the girl was looking for. “This little sweetie?” Cate asked giving the cat a few kisses on the head cooing “who’s a pretty kitty”

Gasping a little when the girl spun around, she couldn’t help but smile at the pair. Leave it up to her cat to find a complete stranger to cuddle up to. “Yes, that’s him.” Her pick lips curled into an even wider smile when the cats green eyes met hers. Taking a few steps closer, she reached out, brushing her fingertips over his head. “He hasn’t caused you too much trouble, has he?” Skipper questioned, tilting her head to the side.

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He remembered when he was a kid and practically everything was closed on holidays. Now it looked like everyone was in it for the money. Not even the grocery stores were taking the day off. Well, it all worked out in his favor. He needed to replenish his pantry and unlike everyone else, he actually had the day off for once.  Noah had to balance the brown grocery bag on his knee as he fished around for his keys in pockets. It was then that something small scurried between his legs and rushed down the hallway. He lost his balance for a second and almost dropped the paper bag full of groceries, but caught it at the absolutely last second. Thank god for quick reflexes.  The girl’s voice followed soon after the startling event and his head turned in the opposite direction where the small thing had run off to. “I think I have actually.”

Skipper hated to bother the man, it was clear he had his hands full at the moment. Literately. But if she was going to find her furry companion, she was going to need to ask for some help. Even if it meant them only saying they’d seen it in passing. Her chest puffed up a little at his words, her legs moving to draw her a little closer to him. “Really?” She glanced over his shoulder toward the direction he was looking. “Did you happen to pass him?” She paused for a moment, looking the man over once more. “Or, has he passed you..” 

Wrinkling her nose a little, she stretched out an arm, offering it to relieve him of one of his bags. “W-Would you like me to help? I mean, it’s the least I can do if my cat has be terrorizing you.” She giggled a little, flashing a weak smile. 

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Running a hand over her fave, the strawberry blonde couldn’t help but mumble under her breath to herself for a moment. This is what she got for trying to move into her place on New Years weekend. It cost her more that it should have and it was double the trouble. Not only had the movies broken most of her things, as her parents were leaving, they let out her cat. But hey, things could only get better... Right?

“E-Excuse me..” Biting down on the corner of her lip, Skipper waved sheepishly at another who had made their way into the hallway. “Sorry to bother you. But.. uh, you didn’t happen to see a black cat anywhere have you?” She questioned flashing a hopeful smile.

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