Tyrone lived in a rooming house on Gottigen St in a small room with cracks on the wall and nicotine stains and whatever else the previous tenants left.
The rooming house smelled of meldew, mold and certain drug smells as a lot of people liked to do drugs there. Tyrone had a pet cockroach who affectionly named bubba who he kept in a tin box that used to have cookies in it. He'd feed the cockroach crumbs and sometimes a special treat.
Every now and then Tyrone would empty the tin and let bubba crawl around the floor in patterns as any over fed bug would do. The lady that lived in the room across the hall, you would say she had the crazy cat lady starter kit. she also had the the delux set. she had too many little fuzz balls. Though I guess its for the best because they kept the other fuzz ball population down who chewed threw bread bags throughout the house.
The fuzz balls would roll up and down the halls. The other tenants didnt care about the critters wandering around giving them funny looks while they were trying to eat. Sometimes tenants would get ganged up by a bunch of kittehs when they opened a can of tuna or other food as that lady had so many cats she couldnt possibly feed them all. She made sure to keep plenty of clean litter boxes so the cats didnt leave turds everywhere or pee in corners.
The landlady was a pothead she chain smoked all kinds of pot. She didnt really care about the filth in the house. She'd just collect the rent every month when the tenants got their social assistance cheques. She also liked to bring a can of sardines and get accosted by a flurry of hungry cats. and give them head pets. The kittehs she could reach in the cat mosh pit in the hallway.
At the end of the hallway in a room was an autistic lady with cat ears. She would hide in her room and sit in the dark. She was a bit of an odd ball with her cat ears and monotonious voice. The other tenants would feed her and give her head pets just as they did to the four legged critters. After that she'd go back to her room and hide. She had a job though, she probably was the only person their with a job. She worked from home as a programmer, she found it fun. She couldnt feed herself but she made money, lots of it programming which she would give to her family and room mates.
She'd open her laptop in the dark and manically write the code for her client, a lot of the time with a ciggerette she puffed on, the reflection of the text on the screen in her glasses. Sometimes she'd hear a sound and she'd move her ears then go back to coding(or light another smoke) She didnt say much to other tenants except when they asked her for ciggerettes, she looked shy her ears downs, she'd cover her face with her hands. She stopped by Tyrones room and said "when are you going to stop feeding the bug. Nya" Tyrone didnt say anything because he was passed out. Tyrone was about the only person she would talk to as she didnt find him as scary as the other tenants. She looked blankly for a few seconds, pushed up her glasses. she picked up a empty can of beer and sniffled it, she then carefully placed the can back near where she found it. She was bored so she left the house and wandered down to the Tim Horton's down the street.
She walked in, no one was there. There was a radio station playing pop music over the speakers. She walked up to the counter and asked for a medium double double. The machine repeated what she said and she responded "yes" then it asked her for $3 she tapped her debit card. Then her coffee rose up from the desk. She sipped her coffee and walked outside and sat on a bench. Terra sniffled her coffee taking in the aroma she felt herself dozing off so she took a gulp. she wandered back to the rooming house carrying her coffee. Terra was a bit tired so she was spilling her coffee a bit(she can be a bit clumsy for a catgirl)
She climbed the stairs in the house and turned towards Tyrones room. His door was wide open and he was passed out in the middle of the underfurnished room. Terra said "Tyrone! What are you doing" Tyrone opened his eyes and mumbled some giberish and uttered the f word. He stumbled up and looked for the tin bubba was in. Terra walked in the room and Squatted close to the floor keeping her tail off the floor. She didnt want to sit on the floor with the sticky beer residue all over it. The only furniture on the floor was a very worn and stained mattress and a dresser. She sat there for awhile while Tyrone lay there semi-concious. Terra got bored so she left Tyrones room and went to her room to take a nap. She was so tired just jumped under the covers and started having a catgirl day dream as she drifted to sleep. She slept for a few hours, woke up. She sat up in her bed and gave her armpits a whiff. Terra was a bit of a slob so sometimes she would get stinky because she slept in her clothes.
She didnt like bathing at the rooming house because the washroom was gross. Terra was a stinky catgirl. She didnt care though because she didnt need to impress anyone. Her clients only cared about her code. and in her personal life she'd rather play video games and draw. She didnt socialized much. Terra reached for her
pack of cigs, pulled one out, lit it sipping her now cold coffee. Cold coffee to Terra was like cold pizza. Terra took a couple puffs off the cig then walked to her desk. She opened her laptop and powered it on. She started manically coding because she just wanted to get it done.
she was getting low on cigs so she shut down her computer and made her way to the convienence store a few blocks away. This store was just a kiosk on the corner because they only sold things like ciggerettes, lotto tickets and junk food like pop. The machine asked what she wanted. She asked for a 20 pack of Malboros. It asked her to confirm she said yes. Then the machine asked her for $20. Terra tapped her debit card. Then the machine beeped and flashed "Thank-you" on the screen. A mechanicle sound from above then her ciggerettes plopped on the counter. A voice said "Thank-you for using the Needs kios" beep. Terra lit a cig and puffed on it. Then her stomach growled. Terra was hungry. So she went back to the kiosk and asked for a can of tuna and a can of Pepsi. she paid then the pop came out of the counter and the tuna plopped from above. Terra carried a pocket knife to open cans. she put the can on the counter, stabbed the top and cut it open she got a plastic fork from the kiosk and nom nomed on the tuna.
Sometimes Terra would walk down by the capsule hotel down the street. she mostly wandered around aimlessly when she wasnt manically coding. Terra was wearing a T-shirt that said "OKAY" in capital letters, she thought it was amusing when she saw it at Walmart. It was a bit too big for her as it was a men's tshirt, it hung over her waste, over legs. Terra went back to the rooming house. One of the kittehs was by the door, Terra scratched the cat's ears and continued to walk through up the stairs. She went back to her room.
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