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There was a knock on the door. An almost hesitant knock that sounded as if it weren't even sure it's self why it was there.

An eyebrow raised followed by it's owner as the small gray demon rose to his feet and sauntered over to the door in a somewhat slumped position. He opened the door.

"yeah? Ehh? Katrina?"

He stood up straight and gave her a look of surprise.

The tall catgirl looked at him for a moment, blinking and quickly shifting her eyes to the right as his eyes met hers.

Her heart was pounding quickly, but she wasn't about to tell him that.

"H-hey.. I overheard you talking the other day.." She started sounding flustered for no real reason.

She had been listening to the conversation, but he didn't need to know that.

"And.. I heard that you wanted to play a new game that came out.."

Nitros nodded. Wondering what exactly his wife was up to.

"W-well normally I wouldn't care or anything, It just so happened that I really wanted to play the game t-too ya know..."

Despite the fact that she had never even heard of it before she heard him talking about it. But.. he didn't need to know that either.

She glances back over at him and her eyes meet with his again. She blushes and looks away again, now looking pretty angry. Why the hell was he keeping eye contact with her!? He was normally looking elsewhere!

"I-I mean it's not like I was going out of my way or anything, I just really wanted to play it too." She hisses for some reason making it apparent that she wanted to play it.

Even though she made a special trip to the store and waited in line for four hours to get it. But.. that wasn't important.

She continues to look away and holds up the game.

Nitros's eyes light up for a moment. "W-woah, you got it? Heh, I've been wantin ta play Lucha Man and the Wrath of the Hydra for, like, a year!" He said, his tail now wriggling.

Why did this only seem to piss her off a little more. "Yeah yeah, well, If you want to play it, that's ok, I mean, I could let you borrow it from me for a while..." she meows, trying to sound nonchalant but failing.

Nitros grabbed the game from her and smiled. "Heh, thanks Katrina... ya know, it's two players, we could BOTH play at the same time." He says pointing to the little symbol in the bottom corner.

Her heart fluttered and her face reddened even more. "W-what, No, T-that's ok... I'm probably way too good at it anyway, I don't want to ruin your game by winning all the time."

So she says even though all she wanted to do was play that game with him. Even if it was only for a few seconds, that would be enough.

"Well, I have other things to do you know... r-really important things... so play your game and don't bother me ok?" She says still unable to look him in the eye.

"Uhh... sure... Thanks again!" He said with a little wave before shutting the door.

The catgirl went to reach out but stopped and turned around.

There was a hint of sadness in her face for a moment before it quickly turned into a cute little scowl. "Damn midget... acting all cool... acting like he wasn't trying to get me to say something dumb.." She meows, once again lying to herself.

She knew she shouldn't, but keeping her image was very important to her. And doing anything else would just be too embarrassing. Not to mention the things he might say if she gave him a little more leeway. Yeah, that's right. She had to keep him in line so he wouldn't do something too stupid. She needed to keep him from going away, Keep him from changing, so that he was always the stupid little guy she'd always known. That same dumbass who would fall on her and pretend it was an accident. The one who acted like groping her breasts was a greeting where he came from. That guy who could look her in the eye and say anything that was on his mind....

He was the same kid who swept her off of her feet and made her feel like the most beautiful person in the world.

But, well.

He didn't need to know that.
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What a coinkidink that I found this just now, but I absolutely love it and if I had to choose one, I would say this is the perfect theme song for Katrina and Nitros.

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I so rarely get to write stories about what Katrina is thinking or how she gets around Nitros on some occasions. Sometimes she's really pissed off at him, and other times so shy she doesn't know what to do. But for the most part, as stated here, it's because she really doesn't know how to handle the situation completely. Stuck in paranoia and in trying to maintain her image she's forced into a strange position. She used to say she hated him, and well, once that changed, she refused to admit that she was wrong.

I hope you enjoy the story, lol.

Colored pencils are so fun. I was in some kind of funk lately and didn't know what to do to break it, but it seems that conventional coloring did the trick.