Dibs: House Guest (Part Four)

His heart is pounding in his chest. “I’m not going home with you you little brat!”

“Aww,” she giggles. “Look at Mr. Grumpy! Poor little Mr. Grumpy! He is so adorable. It’s not up to you, silly!”

She points her phone at him.

“Say cheese cutie!”

He scowls but this just makes her giggle even more as she takes a series of photos of him dangling from her toes.

Leaving him struggling helplessly from the end of her foot, she crosses her legs and leans back to look at her photos. “That is sooo cute!” she says, showing one picture to Sasha, who laughs cruelly. “I’m putting this on Insta.”

Still looking at her phone, she asks Sasha, “So like, where does he sleep?”

Sasha is also looking at her phone. “Who, Brian? Bunny I mean?”

“Yeah.”

“Well like, when he first shrank, he wanted to just like, keep sleeping in the same bed with my mom. But she said it was like, too dangerous, like she might accidentally squash him or whatever. So he sleeps in their room still, but like, in my old dollhouse.”

Cassie turns her attention to him, absolutely beaming. “Aww, so he really is like a little doll!” She passes him from her toes to her hand, and stands him up on her lap. She takes each of his hands between her thumbs and index fingers, and makes him dance like a little puppet on her skirt. “Low-key that is just like, soooo cute!” She ruffles his hair with her finger. “For real, like, I could just eat you up! Too bad the little cutie is married to your mom. I wanna keep him!”

Yeah, too fucking bad for you, psycho brat, Brian thinks.

“Pffft,” Sasha interjects. “My mom is like literally out on a date right now.”

Brian’ stomach flips.

In unison, he and Cassie say “What!”

Cassie slowly turns to lock eyes with him. She licks her smiling lips as she watches him realize the danger he’s now in.

“Aww, Bunny, you look a little cold,” she says.

This catches him off guard. “Wait…”

“Here, let me tuck you in here to keep you warm.” She puts him down on her upper thigh and tucks him in under her skirt up to his neck, like tucking a tiny child under a blanket. She pulls her skirt taut over him so that he can barely move, and can’t get quite enough air to speak. He can only look up at her smiling face as she leans back and examines her newly painted toenails.

“Good job, Bunny! You’re a natural at painting my toes.” She pauses for a second, glances down at him mischievously, then adds “I could get used to this.”

Sasha laughs. “You should legit just, like, keep him. All he does around here is annoy us.”

Sasha isn’t looking but Brian watches as a huge guilty smile fills Cassie’s face, her eyes gleaming.

“You don’t think your mom would care?”

“Are you kidding? She’d probably like, pay you to take him.”

Brian feels a cold flush of panic. Could this really happen? Could he really end up as this bratty cheerleader’s plaything?

Cassie giggles happily at this news, like it’s already a done deal. “Low-key I’m like, super stoked. I even still have my old doll-house, and it actually locks from the outside so he couldn’t like, get out or anything until I decide to go play with him.”

Sasha grins. “That sounds perfect. I’ll ask my mom for you.”

“Oh my god, like, you’re the best!”

Cassie leans back and watches the movie, one hand holding her phone and the other gently petting Brian’ face. After a few minutes of struggling, he manages to wrestle an arm free and starts pulling himself out from under her skirt.

To his dismay her eyes immediately flick down to him, and she giggles. Without saying anything, she lifts him up to her mouth and starts gently sucking on his head like a lollipop. She keeps her mouth open enough for him to breathe but every time he tries to talk her tongue appears at his face to stifle him. She continues doing this as she watches the movie, her tongue playing with him absentmindedly like she’s chewing on a pen.

After what feels like a long time, she stands up, pulls him out and says “I gotta pee.”

“Want me to pause it?”

“No it’s fine.”

To his horror, she doesn’t put him down, just carries him off to the bathroom with her, swinging him carelessly at her side like before.

She doesn’t even look at him as she sits down on the toilet, just pops him back in her mouth and continues scrolling on her phone. The fact that she’s not even paying attention to him is infuriating to him. As if he doesn’t have anything better to do than wait around for this brat to toy with him!

He fights against her hand furiously but she doesn’t seem to notice. It’s only when she takes him out of her mouth of her own volition that he’s finally able to protest. She sets him down next to the sink and reaches for the toilet paper.

“What the fuck are you doing!” he shouts, exasperated.

She looks at him with amusement. “Um, wiping?” she laughs.

“I mean bringing me in here! Why would you…”

“Same reason I brought my phone in here,” she shrugs. “So I wouldn’t get bored.”

“You… you…” he hates how flustered he is. “You weren’t even paying attention to me! I mean…”

Her eyebrows shoot up, the corners of her lips slowly curling into a delighted smile. He realizes immediately he’s made a mistake.

“No, I just mean…” he tries to backtrack but it’s too late.

“Aww! Bunny!” she coos, snatching him off the counter and nuzzling him against the soft skin of her cheek. “Am I not paying enough attention to you cutie? Do you want me to play with you more?” As she says this she nuzzles him with her nose.

“No! That’s not what I meant! Let’s just…”

“Don’t worry little guy! Soon you’ll be all mine, and I can play with you all the time. Every single day will be just like this! Won’t that be so much fun?”

“No! I don’t…”

“I’m gonna take you with me everywhere, Bunny! You’ll be like my little good luck charm. You’ll never be lonely again. And I’ll never be bored.”