Elizabeth here: there are not enough cute catboys on Literotica and I'm going to fix that: enjoy!
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Simon and I had met in college, back in those pre-catboy days. It wasn't very long ago, but even back then he was cute; short, blonde, and just obsessed with bug collecting. We were both English majors, and we liked it, but there was something about going out into the woods and finding a really nice little bug, you know?
The year after we graduated, we were looking for rhinoceros beetles at the edge of this big field outside of town. I was a lot taller than him, so I looked up in the trees at the edge of the field while he looked under some fallen logs, where the larva were likely to be.
"Tiffany, look at this, I found some elytra," he said. He stood up and held an inch-wide piece of beetle shell; it was brown with black spots. His blue shirt and jeans were speckled with dry dirt, and I was already looking forward to having a bath with him when we got home. We had a big tub in the upstairs bathroom, and although I know that a lot of people think sex in the bathtub is problematic because of the water and how it messes with everything, we thought it was fun and I was looking forward to it.
Over the next half hour of searching, the sky quickly became overcast. It wasn't supposed to rain, but the beetles didn't know that, so we thought we could catch one scurrying around or flying with its little wings.
While I was shaking a bush to see if any beetles came out, my back was turned to Simon, and he was checking the underside of a log forty feet behind me.
Then I heard an ear-shattering explosion behind me.
I jumped and almost stumbled. Birds flew out of the trees above me, and two chunks of wood flew past my head with a loud
wooosh
. I turned around and Simon was face-down on the ground next to a pile of scorched timber.
"Are you okay?" I shouted. I ran to him; it wasn't even raining, why was there lightning?
Simon groaned and rolled over on his back. That was a good sign. I reached him, and his clothes weren't burnt either. His blonde hair was intact, but there were two big spikes of hair sticking out of the top of his head. And his hair looked a little yellower than before, though it could have just been my imagination.
"Nya! What was that?" he said. His voice sounded frightened and high pitched, and I didn't know what that yelp was.
"Are you okay? I think that was lightning. Are you hurt?"
"I didn't see any lightning," Simon said. "Don't worry, I'm okay!" He looked up at me with a cute smile.
The two spikes of blonde hair on top of his head wiggled a little. They almost looked like cat ears...
I looked at them again and realized that they really did look almost identical to cat ears. When Simon stood up, I saw something sticking out of the back of his jeans. Something long, fuzzy, and yellow, gently shaking in the air behind him. And where were his normal human ears?
"But I dunno what's happening to my tail," he said. "It feels funny. Why are these jeans so tight around the base of it? I don't remember them being this uncomfortable..."
"Your what?" I asked. I was concerned for a completely different reason now.
"My tail. I think something's wrong with these jeans, there's no hole for my tail to go through! Are these even mine?"
"Uh..." I just stared at his fuzzy tail as he turned around and waved it at me. It was two and a half feet long, hanging out of the top of his jeans, and it scared me. How did this happen to him? Lightning wasn't supposed to do this to people.
But apart from those oddities, he looked fine. No scars, no burns, not a single singed hair or piece of charred clothing, even though the ground near him was charred black and a few little chunks of rotting wood were still on fire nearby.
"Nya!" he said. "This is embarrassing. Have I really been walking around all day in someone else's jeans? Who even owns these?"
"They look like yours," I said.
"I wouldn't own a pair unless it had a tail hole, these can't be mine." Something brown moved in the corner of my vision, but Simon turned his head faster than I could. "Beetle!" he shouted as he crouched down and got on all fours. His body tensed, his tail pointed straight up, and he leaped towards the beetle. His jump startled me; he pounced a whole six feet towards the beetle and gently grabbed it in his hands.
"Nya! Got it!" He stood up, smiled, and displayed the two inch long beetle to me in his hands as the beetle's arms flailed and tried to escape.
"Um, good job?" I said. "Let me get a jar for it."
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We had our bug safe in a jar and I was eager to get all this dirt off me. Plus, I was looking forward to having bathtime fun. It was going to be a twenty-minute drive home. As I drove the truck through the narrow country roads, Simon kept pawing at the pine tree-shaped air freshener that hung from the rear-view mirror. It was distracting, but I didn't want to say anything.