Alice's Ears Ch. 02

"Ow!" Alice cried out, quickly spinning her back away from the pain. If she was being honest Alice had forgotten, if only for a moment about her tail.

The young man who had grabbed it backed away apologizing, a look of confusion across his brow "I... thought it was a, costume?" He said.

Alice grumbled something about it being real while turning to continue her walk to class. Then the first real wave of hushed voices started talking between themselves or calling out to Alice about her costume.

"Somebody came out of the freak closet"

"Who is that?"

"Kind of cute on her"

"I wonder how she attaches the tail"

"Wait didn't she die a few days ago?"

All that and more, some curious, some cruel. Conversation swept around and past her, word of mouth somehow traveled faster than her feet as news of her new attributes being quite real, or at least well attached, circulated from the man who had pulled on her tail.

"How is that even possible?"

"Did she use glue?"

"Mutant"

"Still kinda cute..."

"Cat stuff aside I swear she didn't look this good before"

The voices grew into a castrophany, swirling around Alice's brain until the jumble condensed into a splitting headache right above her left eye. Alice winced, then sighed with relief as she dove into her classroom and walked to a seat at the back of the class. All heads turned to her as she yelped, having sat on her tail while taking her seat. She muttered a dismissive apology hoping for everyone to go back to what they were doing. Instead they all stared, whispering between themselves, similar things to the halls. Alice drooped under the stares, folding her arms across the desk and resting her chin upon them. Fixing a blank gaze on the board, she waited for the teacher to come in.

~~~

The class was fairly normal, although there was a certain amount of tension. Eyes continuously roamed, hoping to make it look like they weren't just checking Alice out. She was flanked by a multitude of wasps throughout the class, little folded pieces of paper shot from elastic bands. A few of them left welts and little bruises. Even though Alice was being bullied she found she had to respect their aim and craftsmanship. The teacher who had looked at Alice quite curiously when they walked in was now sending her occasional sympathetic glances. They both knew there was little that could be done in a public school, teachers don't get paid enough.

The bell rang and Alice found herself loathing the idea of stepping back into the halls, she sat at her desk waiting for the other students to file out. Suddenly she felt immense stinging pain in both her ears. Alice winced as her head was jerked back so she was looking up at the young woman who peered down at her with a vicious smile.

"Hey Slut," The tall Asian woman sneered, taking one hand off of Alice's ear and slapping her with enough force to stop Alice's Squirming.

Alice squinted up at the woman's face "Fucking psycho Cunt! Let go of me Mirri," the grip on her ear leaving her all bark and no bite, though some spite.

Mirri slapped her again harder, causing Alice's eyes to tear up. "Did I say you could talk?" Mirri said as she twisted Alice's ears hard. Alice groaned and shut up for the time being. "Don't think we haven't noticed your changes, I don't know how the fuck you did it, but this is some weird ass plastic surgery."

Mirri seemed to back off slightly, loosening her grip and softly stroking Alice's cheek, "You know, you are actually pretty cute now that you are putting some work into it, if it wasn't for this cat shit you might actually give me a run for my money on who would lead this sorry excuse for a school." Mirri let go of Alice's ears, and grabbed Alice's forehead, holding her skull in place, neck bent backwards. Mirri bent down so that her face was inches from Alice's. "You know..." Mirri pondered eyes fixed on Alice's perfect skin "I might actually have a use for you." Hair fell like a curtain around Alice's face, the smell of light flowery shampoo permeated the space between them.

Alice groaned to herself again, this of all times, being manhandled by the school bully, is not the time to be getting aroused.

"How about this?" Mirri whispered closing in and licking a long stroke up the side of Alice's face, causing Alice to shiver. The exact emotion causing the unconscious response was up for debate, something between lust and fear. "You come over to my house after school and we see just how useful you can be to me," Mirri was smiling evilly over Alice as she watched the smaller girl squirm. It took the better part of Alice's will to summon anything other than an affirmative.

"Fuck you Mirri..." Alice said unsure whether she was using it as a proposition or declination.

Mirri gave Alice a psychotic look before kissing her hard on the mouth, Alice tried to push her off but Mirri held strong.

"HEY! Hey you two! break it up already!" the teacher yelled.

Mirri slowly broke the kiss, releasing Alice's head with a soft stroke of the hand, followed by a sharp slap. "Good... good..." Mirri said as she resumed a standing posture, "It'll be much more fun this way." Alice righted herself, rubbing her stinging cheek. The teacher gave a questioning look towards her but went back to his papers without much thought. Mirri had long left the room when Alice eventually got up to leave.

~~~~~

By the time the school day had ended, Alice was quite perturbed. Never in her life had she thought that she would be the main attraction at school, which was not necessarily bad. But as the day went by innocent enough teasing took on cruel features. Her tail was constantly being pulled. Nicknames had come and gone like the flipping of a coin, each one more degrading than the last. There had been a short period where many young men came up to her holding their crotches asking if she wanted a taste of their milk. The looks people were giving her went from the kind gaping stares of someone seeing novel beauty, to one of a pervert holding themselves back. Alice couldn't deny a certain pleasure building from the constant heckling. But she was starting to get worried and was quite relived when the taunting crowd thinned out in the parking lot.

Alice had spotted Emma's car and was weaving through the lot. She got there before Emma and was scrolling through some trashy site while waiting. Suddenly she was slammed against the side of the van parked adjacent to Emma's car. She hit the thin metal with enough force to leave a sizeable dent in the old rusted vehicle.

"Oof," Alice groaned as the air was pushed from her lungs, her head whipped back and cracked a strut between two windows, momentarily blinding her with a bursting of stars. While in a flashbanged state she felt a body press against her, heavy. A thigh lifted Alice's skirt and slipped between her legs, resting firmly against her pussy, only the thin fabric of her panties stopping a true transfer of heat.

"Sup slut?" A familiar voice asked rhetorically "Waiting for me?"

"M-mirri?" Alice gasped, still winded. "Wha? why... this is... too far... you, you're... hurting me..." as she tried to pry the bigger woman off of her. Mirri held fast, sawing her leg ever so slightly while staring into Alice's eyes. With one hand Mirri grabbed Alice's left ear and yanked her head sideways. She then planted a long heavy kiss on Alice's open mouth. Alice gasped as Mirri's tongue slithered past hers to explore. There was very little that was sensual about it, Mirri was trying to show Alice that she was Mirri's to do with how she wanted. On top of it all, and uncontrolled, Alice moaned ever so lightly. Loud enough though, for Mirri to hear.

"Hah... hahahaha" Mirri laughed breaking the long kiss, "I knew you were giving me signals, you want this just as bad as me." Alice was sure she had not given anything to warrant this advance and as she thought about why Mirri was doing this, Alice felt a hand sliding up her stomach and under her shirt. With Mirri's grip on her ear, and head still spinning Alice didn't dare move. Alice couldn't deny that her body was heating up, though for the past few days she hadn't had much control over it.

Mirri had begun rather brutishly groping Alice's breast and was coaxing out groans and mewls from her trapped peer. "Last chance," Mirri said nibbling on the free ear outside of her grip, "I take you back to my place, and you show me why I shouldn't really fuck you up. If you do well enough I might keep you around as my pet." Alice couldn't help but gasp at the threats, and a part of her wanted to say yes to stop this fairly public act of tribadism. Even more so Alice was growing more and more concerned about the behavior of her classmates.

Young adults can be cruel, but today had been something quite different than anything she could imagine. In one day people had gone from curious teasing to what many could call sexual harassment and assault. It was like being in Alice's presence had slowly made the students go insane. Or at least change their behavior markedly. Come to think of it, everyone she had interacted with since her trip to the hospital had been plagued by alien behavior. Even Alice had noticed changes in her own thought patterns, especially in situation like this where she could feel her arousal climbing.

SLAP!

"Jesus fuck!" Alice cried out as Mirri's hand whipped across her cheek, something between a sob and a moan escaping her lips as Mirri went back to fondling Alice.

"Where the fuck did you go space cadet?" Mirri hissed. "I need an answer... now. You coming home with me? Or are you going to try to fend for yourself?" Mirri pressed her leg hard into Alice to punctuate her next statement, "Try, being the word you should focus on."

Alice moaned from the multitude of sensations and struggled to slip her body sideways past Mirri's weight. Mirri held her tight and planted another deep kiss on her "Which is it going to be?" She asked breaking the kiss "I know you want something from me, you're just too scared to say."

Alice struggled again trying to move, even with her new body and lithe musculature Mirri was just too much of a force to deal with. "Will you just please get off of me first?" Alice asked sheepishly "I can't think straight like this..."

"Fuck no" Mirri laughed, "Not gonna let you run off. Now. Yes or No?" Alice, desperate for a way out was contemplating giving her assailant the answer she wanted. And she was getting close to saying the three letter word that just might have sealed her fate when suddenly a god was lowered from the heavens to the stage to once again cut the play short. Emmaeus Ex Machina.

"Hey, you shriveled jizzrag!" The familiar voice aiming insults at Mirri roared. "Get the fuck off of her!" Emma heaved the entitled bully off of Alice and threw her onto the concrete a few feet away where Mirri looked up smoldering.

"Well well well, you've got an Ally," The tall girl said as she got back to her feet and dusted off a few scrapes, investigating the damage from the fall.

Once she was sure none of the scrapes were anything to bother with she turned to Alice "Looks like your friend made your decision for you. Doesn't really matter to me, but my house would have been... softer..." Mirri flipped Emma the bird and walked away quickly to the other end of the parking lot. Emma gave Alice a worried look but said nothing as she got into her car. Alice, still wobbly from the hit to the head unsteadily walked around the car and got into the passenger seat. They drove off silently.

"So..." Alice began "Didn't see you at lunch..." A question asked though none was given. Alice frustrated from her day couldn't help but let out a little bit of venom. The cafeteria would have been easier on her with a friend to help, though she knew that it could never be Emma's fault.

"I... um, I just had some things to do, thinking..." Emma's voice faded, she was quite unsure of how to proceed with her feelings. In just a few days she had gone from considering herself completely straight, to frequently daydreaming about making her best friend cave to her caress. Emma had spent much of the day after their morning car drive fantasizing about naked flesh and wet lips. She was having trouble controlling herself even now around her lithe catgirl friend.

"Well, I guess you were here when it counted," Alice said referring to parking lot with Mirri, although thinking about the encounter did bring a certain amount of heat to her cheeks. "You doing anything now? Want to hang out?" Alice asked nonchalantly though she strongly felt she didn't want to be alone.

"I actually have some things to do," Emma said declining the offer.

"I could help... you, with them, I mean" Alice replied.

"I would rather be alone, I'll send you a text later-"

Alice cut Emma off, "It's okay, at least you are still being nice to me. The day has been so weird," finishing with a tired sigh.

"Yeah... weird..." Emma agreed, deflated while still struggling to stop the urges pulling her towards Alice. The rest of the car ride was silent as they drove the few minutes back to Alice's house. Emma was fighting her own mind with being this close to someone she now felt a different type of affection for. Affection, arousal, lust, maybe something even more perverse.

Thoughts cascaded through her synapses, a whirling cyclone that threatened her ability to drive, if only slightly. They turned a corner and Emma spotted Alice's driveway. In that split second she knew she didn't want to see Alice leave. Or more importantly she didn't want to leave Alice. A burning desire crept through Emma's mind, face, chest, culminating between her legs. A damp heavy arousal like she had never felt before, or, at the very least, not towards Alice.

Emma pulled her car into Alice's driveway, an out of place action as like most people dropping off others, she usually pulled up to the curb. Emma sat in her seat clutching the steering wheel tightly, silent and gazing ahead. "Alice..." Emma said without turning to her friend "I... ah, changed my mind, I think I can put off a few things till tomorrow. Can I come in with you?" The hesitation present in Emma's speech caught Alice off guard. It wasn't like Emma to be so cautious about hanging out. Hell, they usually just barge into each other's houses uninvited.

"Oh!" Alice exclaimed unbuckling herself and opening the door "Yeah, of course, duh."

Emma murmured an acknowledgement while exiting the car.

She paused as Alice started the climb up the short steep steps. Emma's gaze followed the hem of Alice's skirt as she swayed up the steps. Each stride up the stairs revealing more and more of what was below, Tail flowing side to side helping keep balance as the soft flesh of her thighs and ass jiggled with the light impact of Alice's feet. Emma was obviously transfixed, daydreaming of soft supple flesh, wet, hot, Alice. "You coming or what?" Alice asked from her doorway, shaking Emma from her trance.

"Y-yeah, sorry," Emma said shaking her head and following her friend into the familiar house.

~~~~~

The two friends had been sitting on the couch some time, descending into the abyss of youtube's weirder side. The atmosphere in the room was awkward to say the least. Both girls were at direct opposite ends of the couch with Emma staying silent to all but the most direct statements and questions. At some point Alice decided she had had enough and turned off the T.V to confront her friend.

"OK," Alice started "I can handle the teasing, the bullying, the odd behavior of everyone I've ever met or known. But I can't handle you. What... the fuck, is going on in there?" Alice moved across the couch, punctuating her sentence by poking Emma in the forehead. Emma tried to start an explanation into her behavior but faltered as she stared into her friends big amber eyes, showing a bright red blush before turning her head away and looking at her hands.

"Ughh..." Alice groaned, rolling her eyes "Fine, don't tell me... but it's not like I would judge you... probably." The orange haired girl moved back to the opposite end of the couch, dejected frustration written in bold across her brow. Without looking at her friend Alice began to hypothesize out loud. "I get it, it's about me, or maybe something I did... or my changes... or... did I offend you somehow?" Alice asked only partially looking for a response before turning to her friend "Please..." she said "Can you just tell me how to make it right? You are like, my only friend... and everything is going weird and my parents aren't here, I don't really have any support right now..." Alice began to ramble as the weight of everything that had happened began to sit heavy in her mind.

Tears started to well in the corner of her eyes as she ran her hands through her hair, frustration, ambiguity, loneliness and above all confusion. By this point Emma had snapped out of the fog of lust and embarrassment, concern for her friend pushing the lesser emotion out of the way for the time being. Emma quickly scooted across the couch and embraced her friend in a warm hug before the beautiful cat girl could start crying.

"I'm sorry. I'm sorry, I'm sorry!" Emma pleaded "It's not you, it's me... I... I'm... it doesn't matter," Still unable to express herself "I'm here..." Emma said trying to comfort her friend "For you I mean. I know it's been weird, honestly I didn't expect you to come back to school just yet. I am not sure how you've been coping but I should have stayed with you, at least more than I did."

Alice wiped her eyes on the back of her hand and turned into the hug, resting her chin on her friends shoulder "No... I mean, maybe... you've done enough," she said sniffling, "you did save me... twice... I am just scared and confused, nobody knows what's going on and everyone is acting different to me, and I can barely recognize myself in the mirror."

Emma broke the hug so she could look at her friend "I'll be here as long as you need me, and..." Emma said before a pause "Aside from the, uh, feline bits. Which aren't bad. You look..." a blush blooming on her face "Really good, like, when I look at you it's the same you, but it's better, way better..."

"Oh, um... thanks, I guess" Alice said slightly bewildered "I mean, yeah, I don't see myself in the mirror either, better" she nodded in agreement while subconsciously rubbing at an itch on her ear "way better..."

~~~~~

They sat closer to each other after the kind words were passed between them, killing time with mind numbing videos of little content. Alice was keenly aware of the glances her friend kept taking, each stare ending with Emma blushing and looking down at her legs. "Ok, enough is enough," Alice said switching off the TV off to confront her friend again "Something is going on, your acting like you have a... crush..." Alice's eyes went wide as she realized the reason her friend had been acting weird "Whoa, whoa whoa whoa whoa... I mean Em... I know you are...were straight..." Alice swiveled towards her friend, a look of innocent embarrassment at being caught written on Emma's face. Emma continued to stare down at her hands without saying a word, though she did sigh, possibly out of relief, maybe exacerbation. "Emma," Alice started, "how long? no, it was after I started changing wasn't it? The hospital, you were acting strange in the hospital"

"Yes, er no... maybe..." Emma stammered "I mean in the hospital it was like I couldn't help but admire your beauty, like stumbling across a work of art, transfixed? but... I didn't want to, uh, um... you know, with you." Alice moved closer to her friend and took on of Emma's hands in her own causing Emma to look up into Alice's unnaturally amber eyes, Immediately causing a deep red to flash across the embarrassed girl.

"But... you know you could have told me," Alice said keep her gaze fixed on her friend "You know I'm not exactly straight, I wouldn't have judged you."