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Authors name: Ardin Resolute (tuxedosam@angelfire.com)
Story title : Dusty

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Dusty (F/beast, MF, rp, 1st, oral, nc)
by Ardin Resolute (tuxedosam@angelfire.com)

***

A girl finds her direction in life through the love of 
her cat.

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Disclaimer: This story is meant for people 18 years and 
older. If you are not that old, or it is illegal for you 
to be viewing erotica in wherever it is you live, then 
don't read it. No cats were harmed in the typing of this 
story.


Dedicated to Allison, Donna, Brian and Katharine and to 
all the other cat lovers out there, may you all find your 
happiness and joy, no matter where it's hidden.

***

"If we truly believe that it is what's inside that counts,
then who are we to judge anybody's love?"

Love. It's something we hear about all the time, 
something we're told, something that we all believe in, 
not because we know it to be true but because it's just 
been so deeply ingrained in us from childhood. It's 
something that's so intangible that belief alone has to 
be what holds it to us. Love, we're told, is something 
metaphysical, something that's not there, in the sense 
that it's nothing that can be measured or explained. It's 
something that even if we're told it's biological and the 
effect of chemical reactions, we still hold our faith in 
it. 

It's hard sometimes though, to hold that faith. If love 
is truly intangible and out of the reaches of physical, 
chemical or biological reactions, then it can happen 
between anyone, at anytime and it should be beautiful. If 
we truly believe this, as we tell our kids, and have them 
tell their kids, then why can't girls who aren't lesbians 
love another woman? Or men who are straight love other 
men? I'd like to believe that they can. Love is something 
special and shouldn't be wasted because of race, gender 
or even, species. We love who we love.

As a child, I was never really what you'd call "normal". 
Far from actually. As a little girl, while others were 
off playing with their dolls, or playing dress up, or 
running from boys, I was busy getting into things. Not 
trouble, per se, more like boxes. Boxes, at least for me 
at that point in time, were my life. I could pretend I 
was an astronaut exploring deep space, or Superman busily 
working in his fortress of solitude. There I could be who 
I wanted, whenever I wanted and I felt comfortable. 

My parents were rarely home as they both were full time 
providers, and my grandmother who watched over me, 
although she loved me a lot, did not spend much attention 
on me. Which was fine in my book actually as I was 
starting to enjoy being alone, being in my world that was 
the box. I remember how happy I was when my parents 
bought a new refrigerator. That massive box became my 
home. I slept in it, I played in it and I damn well 
wished that I could live in it. I was alone and I was 
happy, until the day my parents came home with another 
box, one that was about the size of a shoebox and 
contained something other than shoes, something alive. 

When I discovered the contents of the box, I almost 
cried. Feeling that I was lonely, my parents, in an act 
of total love and kindness, not knowing how secure I felt 
in my solitude, decided to buy me a pet as a present. It 
was a sweet gesture, but I was terrified beyond belief. 
Not of the cat of course. I wasn't scared of animals and 
this one was only about the size of my dad's palm. I was 
scared because of what it meant to my universe, of having 
to share it with another, of having to share my personal 
space and my life with something else. I was so used to 
being alone. 

I remembered I cried myself to sleep that night and the 
dreams I had woke me sporadically through the night. The 
next morning my mom kept me home from school because I 
had actually gotten myself sick with distress. The kitty 
tried to climb onto my bed but I shooed it off. It looked 
almost hurt. I closed my eyes and dreamt of swinging 
through the streets of New York as Spiderman.

The cat was named Dusty. Eventually at least. My parents 
insisted I name it and it took me two weeks before I 
could even bare to consider a name for that monster that 
had so fiendishly invaded my life. I don't even know why 
I called him Dusty except that it sounded better than 
"The Stupid Cat". 

At first it wasn't so bad. Dusty wandered the house 
curiously and poked his nose into everything while I sat 
in the basement with my box. At first. Then he began 
nosing around me, poking his head into my daydreams. I 
was annoyed to say the least. My imagination was my 
world, and it had no place for a cat. Then one day I 
found him in my box. I was furious. In my immature rage I 
broke his leg. I wish I could say that I felt some 
remorse, but at that point, I was too busy thinking of 
myself. It was easier. 

My parents believed my story that he had fallen down the 
stairs and soon he was in a kitty cast. He stayed away 
from then on and I didn't mind it one bit. And so our 
lives continued on for about a year, with him afraid of 
me, and me hating him.

I was 10 when my life fell apart. I skipped home from 
school that day. I had just gotten an A on a math test 
and I was one happy kid. As I was approaching my house, 
all I could think about was whether I would patrol Gotham 
in the batmobile or the batwing. It turned out to be 
neither. 

I had been crying for 5 hours when my parents got home 
and explained that they had taken the box outside to 
carry some things back into the house with when the wind 
picked up and blew it away. They promised me to get me 
another one, but I knew it wouldn't be the same. I was 
crushed. I spent the days crying and the nights crying 
and somehow managed to keep that routine up for a few 
days before an event happened that changed my life.

It was 2am when I awoke, vaguely aware of a presence in 
my room. Dusty, his well-kept orange fur glinting in the 
light off my Flintstone's night-light, nudged me awake 
and meowed at me expectantly, ignoring my flailing arms 
and excessive use of the word "die". He kept it up until 
I finally gave in and got up, thinking that I needed to 
feed him or something. It was odd for him to be here at 
any rate as he had taken to going or nightly strolls 
around the neighborhood.

I was hesitant at first to follow him outside when he 
jumped out the window and meowed for me to follow, but 
eventually my fear of having my parents woken up by the 
noise prompted me to slip on my sandals and join him. It 
was exhilarating being in the night air with him, a 
feeling of adventure and feel and excitement that just 
made me feel alive. And scared out of my wits. But I was 
in good hands, or paws, I should say. 

Dusty knew all the back alleys, all the secret paths and 
roads and eventually we reached our quarry, which was to 
say, my box. I couldn't believe it, but there it was. A 
bit dirty of course, as it had been outside for a few 
days, but it was my box nonetheless. It must've taken me 
at least half an hour to drag it back home and by the 
time I fell back asleep it was almost 4, but I was 
happier than I had ever been. I wanted Dusty to join me 
in my bed to celebrate but he ran when I reached for him. 
For the first time in my life, I knew what it felt like 
to care about hurting somebody. I felt shunned.

I was never one to give up. When I was 6 and I was trying 
to ride a bike and kept falling over, despite my mom's 
anguished pleas, I continued trying. It took me 45 more 
attempts and several cuts and bruises, but at the end of 
the day, I had done it. I never gave up on anything. My 
mission now was no less important. I had to make it up to 
Dusty and tell him how much I wanted him in my life. He 
had given me something that I hadn't felt before. He had 
cared about me.

As a selfish 10 year old, I never felt cared about by my 
parents who were rarely home or my grandmother who never 
seemed to talk to me. I realize now that I was stupid, 
but I can't change how I was. So everyday I came home and 
before my grandmother could do it, I'd feed him. 

It took him a while before he would go to the dish if I 
was nearby, but slowly it happened. Everyday I would talk 
to him, and confide in him, and pet him and (attempt to) 
hold him. Gradually his fear fell away and we became 
closer. I began to realize how wonderful it was to share 
your life with somebody, to share your thoughts, to have 
somebody care (or at least make you feel like they 
cared). 

We became closer and closer until one day, when I was 
busy with my homework, a small ball of orange fluff 
jumped onto my lap. It was then that I knew it was time.

Dusty was so happy in my box. He danced and jumped and 
batted at the cardboard flaps. He rolled around and 
bonked his head playfully at the walls. I had never 
smiled so much. I wanted to remember this moment, to 
preserve it forever, but I didn't know how. My eyes 
desperately scanned the room for a camera, or a pencil or 
something. The canvas felt soft to the touch. 

I knew I wasn't supposed to touch my dad's art supplies 
but at that point, I didn't care, I just wanted to 
remember the moment. I hadn't painted much in my life, 
and I didn't know exactly what to do when I picked up 
that brush, but I was driven more on emotion than 
thought. And then a miracle started to happen. I didn't 
know what I did at the time and I still don't, but I know 
that it changed my life. The brush seemed to flow with my 
heart, dancing with the playful tunes that were caressing 
my inner being. 

I watched Dusty and the painting began to grow, almost on 
its own, almost organically, almost as if it was a being 
unto itself. When I was done I stared at it in amazement. 
It wasn't Picasso, but it was beautiful. What experience 
I lacked was made up by passion. Skill was replaced with 
enduring resolution. My parents were impressed with it 
too, and my dad never made a mention of my illegal use of 
his supplies. 

They encouraged my gift and soon my room was filled with 
all sorts of paintings, most of them revolving around my 
new best friend, Dusty. My relationship with my parents 
also grew stronger with the discovery of my newfound 
talent as I began to realize that they truly did love me. 
And of course, Dusty was with me every step of the way.

Thirteen can be a frightening age for some. It was for 
me. I was already well into the process of becoming a 
woman and to say that I was uncomfortable with the 
changes in my body was to say that rain was wet. Although 
I was maturing sexually, every part of me that was me and 
not this stupid body I was stuck in, wanted nothing more 
than to be that innocent kid playing in her box. 

My friends, what few I had made in elementary school were 
also acting differently, dressing up more, talking 
differently, thinking about different topics. They didn't 
want to run from guys anymore. Quite the contrary 
actually, as it seemed like they wanted to run TO them. 

My life was quickly changing and the speed at which it 
was moving was making my head spin. Eventually I was left 
alone again. My friends having realized I was a "weirdo" 
and so, by some logic that only made sense to them, 
"ditched" me. I wasn't exactly happy that year.

It was hot that summer. Especially in my room. For some 
reason that can only be explained by God or a mechanic, 
my air conditioner took that time to break down. I 
remember lying in bed in my underwear wishing for snow to 
fall. It was an effort just to sleep. Sometimes it didn't 
seem worth it. Dusty would often come into my room and I 
would converse at great length with him. 

We'd talk about the weather, and about life, and school, 
and my parents, and my friends, or lack of such, and 
philosophize about the great mysteries of the universe. 
The fact that he didn't talk back didn't bother me one 
bit. He was a good listener, and he had his way of 
telling me how he felt. It was at that time I began 
falling in love with him I think. I wasn't sure at the 
time, but now that I think back, I know it was indeed 
love. But at that point, I just knew I cared for him a 
great deal.

The first lick was like heaven. I hadn't expected it at 
all. That night had been the hottest and I had laid in 
bed stark naked trying to imagine myself on Hoth fighting 
a Wampa. I didn't feel Dusty climb onto my bed and I 
didn't see the look of worry in his eyes. It wasn't just 
heat that bookmarked that day, but also the fact that I 
had actually been given a proverbial slap in the face by 
a guy that I liked when he told me I was too ugly. It 
wasn't a good day. I felt like crap and with the heat, 
I'm sure I was beginning to smell like it too.

I didn't expect Dusty to get between my legs and I didn't 
expect him to slowly massage me with his tongue. I didn't 
expect the feelings of immense pleasure sweep through me 
either. I moaned. His sandpaper tongue dug deeper and the 
sensations increased. My breathing quickened, my body 
quickly responding to his loving manipulations. His 
tongue found my clit and suddenly I was in heaven. 

My orgasm, my first orgasm, washed through me like clean 
spring water and I bit my pillow to stop screaming out. 
He looked up and I thought I saw him smile. I knew then 
that our friendship had become something more, and that 
he had done what he had done, not out of instinct but out 
of something far greater, something that made him more 
human than any homosapien I had ever and would ever meet.

We spent almost every night together after that and every 
day. I was becoming an expert painter by then and every 
day I would turn to him for inspiration and he'd give it 
to me, even without doing anything. I once painted 6 
pictures of him sleeping. He helped me through so much 
during our time together. Besides making me feel like a 
real woman every night, he helped me through my day life 
as well. 

My first day at highschool, my first exam, my first fail, 
my first A. Everything I did, it was like he did it too 
and felt it too. He loved me. I don't know if animals can 
love, but hell if that wasn't the closest one has ever 
gotten. Life was heaven for a while. My paintings were 
amazing and garnering rave reviews from teachers and 
students alike and my confidence level was sky high. I 
didn't even blink when I failed my first Calculus test 
and instead worked harder at the subject and ended up 
with a 90 in the course. I never gave up and Dusty made 
me feel worth all the effort. I was in Eden. Then along 
came the snake with the apple.

It had started innocently enough. I was sitting in the 
hallway by the Music Department one quiet afternoon, 
after just about everyone had gone home, painting the 
people playing Frisbee in the field just outside the 
window when my canvas was knocked over. In anger I looked 
up to see what type of horrid criminal had dared to 
defile my work when I came face to face with the most 
spectacular example of a male human I had ever seen. 

Somehow his facial features, although not overly special 
by any stretch, pushed all the right buttons in whatever 
biological centre it was in my body that governed my 
hormonal lust. It was love at first sight. 

What happened to the defiant, box-loving superhero at 
that moment escapes me, but I felt more like Lois Lane 
than Superman and I was loving it, if only because of my 
damned hormones. His smile was unreal and I just stood 
there staring. His name was Tom. Tom. Tom. Tom. The triad 
of letters bounced around my head, the name of a God. He 
made a joke. I giggled. He brushed  his hand against my 
cheek. I blushed. He asked if I was single. I didn't even 
think. "Yes."

I began to spend less time at home and I think Dusty 
knew, or at least suspected something was up. He would 
always look at me strangely when I came home later and 
seemed to be able to pick up Tom's scent on me. He still 
lay with me though and still would bury his head lovingly 
in my mound, but I was beginning to stop him. It wasn't 
normal. And now, as my integration into the real world 
began, I was starting to worry about my "relationship" 
with my cat. I began thinking about it to the point that 
it became an obsession. 

My biggest fear was becoming a deviant and I began 
picking every flaw out of Dusty. Nothing he did was right 
and nothing he did was normal. I wanted to deserve Tom, I 
wanted to be worthy of his attention. I wanted it so much 
I eventually believed it. I loved him. I wanted to love 
him.

The day I skipped my art show for Tom's football game was 
the day that we became a couple. I was so happy and I 
wanted to cry. I was accepted. I began to wonder if my 
years of isolation was merely me fleeing from a world 
that I didn't want to put in the effort to try to be in. 
A better world that I just didn't want to try at, that I 
was afraid I'd fail at. 

I felt like I had conquered that fear, that I had become 
something truly special. We fucked for the first time 
that night, in celebration of his win and everything. Tom 
never wanted to call it "making love" he said it sounded 
too wussy. I didn't climax that night, but he did and it 
made me feel special when he did, like I was worth 
something to him, that I was useful, special. 

When I came home, late as usual, I crawled right into 
bed, knocking away a curled up ball of orange fur that 
had been sitting so patiently in my bed. But I hadn't 
even noticed it. I was normal, I was special, I had found 
love.

As my relationship with Tom progressed, I gradually began 
to forget about Dusty, scolding him if he needed 
affection while I was on the phone. Our long nighttime 
interludes had long since been replaced by sleep. He grew 
lonely, depressed. When Tom had first come over, Dusty 
hissed at him, and instead of feeling safe, I got angry. 
Eventually Tom started replacing his customary spot next 
to me in bed. It was tough on him. 

If I had paid any attention at all back then I would have 
noticed him changing. The bounce and energy I had once 
loved in him had faded out slowly. He woke up each day 
like he was forced to, like his life had no meaning 
anymore. But I ignored him, moving from being a girl to a 
woman, I forgot about my brief childhood love affair with 
my kitten and concentrated on tom. He was everything to 
me, and soon my world had no room for Dusty. 

And one day the inevitable happened, I woke up and my 
companion for the past 6 years was gone. Someone had left 
a window open, which had happened often in the past, and 
Dusty left. He had never done that before. I was 
devastated. We searched all over. We put up posters, made 
phone calls, placed ads, but nobody had seen him. 

Tom didn't understand why I was so upset over "just a 
cat". He didn't understand, how could he? He had never 
had anybody so close to him, so loyal, honest. Dusty was 
more than a pet, more than a friend and even more than a 
lover to me, he had been my soul mate. And I loved him.

Eventually time passed and I graduated from highschool 
and moved in with Tom, but my pain didn't fade. With 
every day that passed it became harder and harder to get 
up, things weren't the same anymore. I buried my thoughts 
in anything I could, my studies, my job, Tom. I stopped 
painting. Without Dusty as my inspiration, the paintings 
just didn't seem to have the same life I used to be able 
to breathe into them. 

Slowly, the years pasted and I realized my gift had left 
me, my paintings seemed so cold, so lifeless. I was 
unhappy, but I didn't know what to do. I couldn't leave 
him, he was everything that was left in my life, 
everything that I had buried my pain in. As time went on 
he began getting more irritable. I thought marriage would 
solve everything. 3 years after living together, we tied 
the knot. The honeymoon was lovely, we went to the 
Caribbean, and shared sunsets together, yet still it 
wasn't the same. There was something
missing. There had always been something missing.

When we got back, things got steadily worse. We were 
slowly falling into debt, and the honeymoon had taken a 
significant chunk of our savings out of us. I sold my old 
paintings for money but I hadn't made a new one in over 4 
years. Worse still, I had dropped out of university. I 
just couldn't focus. Tom still had school and I had to 
work both days and nights to support us. He began getting 
angrier each day. He criticized me, my cooking, my looks, 
my art. One night I caught him in bed with another woman. 
I was devastated. 

He promised me it would never happen again, but somehow I 
got the feeling it had already many times. I didn't know 
what to do. I wanted to leave him but I couldn't get up 
the courage, I felt guilty, I didn't want to hurt him. I 
suggested that we should get counseling. He got angrier 
than he had ever gotten before. I spent the whole morning 
trying to cover up the bruises with makeup. 

Then one day I woke up and my world was shattered again. 
The picture above our bed, the one I had painted so long 
ago of dusty, my first painting, the one that started my 
love affair with the arts, was gone. I searched 
frantically, reliving my desperate search for my cat all 
those years ago, until Tom told me he had sold it, that 
it had been worth a lot of money and that it had nothing 
but sentimental value. I was crushed. I said that he had 
not bothered to sell his autographed football. 5 years 
ago he would have apologized, 3 years ago he would have 
given a reason, now his fists did the talking.

When he left for school I looked through his stuff and 
found out who he had sold it to, and pleaded and begged 
to get it back. Eventually the new owner agreed. I bought 
my painting back, for twice what it had sold for.

Tom returned that night and found out what I had done. He 
was livid. He screamed at me for my selfishness. I told 
him we still had enough money for the rent and for food, 
and it was my money. He wanted none of it. He hit me 
again, hard, then again and again. I was crying. I could 
taste my blood from my broken lip. He said he had a long 
day and wanted relief. I wasn't up for it. He didn't 
care.

He threw me on the bed. I screamed, but he threatened to 
hit me again. I shut up. He ripped my pants off and undid 
his belt. I protested. His belt buckle hit my forehead. I 
shut up again. He held my hands down and got between my 
legs. I tried to stop him but he threatened me with his 
belt. I closed my eyes and cried inwardly. I braced for 
it, and heard a scream. I looked up. He was holding his 
bloodied penis in his hands, 3 slash marks deep across 
it. 

I heard a meow from beside me and saw dusty, my lover, my 
protector, my hero, looking at me with concern. His fur 
was no longer a shiny orange, he looked bony and 
malnourished, and he walked with a limp as if a limb had 
been broken and left to heal on it's own, but at that 
moment, he was the most beautiful sight in the world. I 
felt so many emotions at once grief, guilt, relief, 
everything flooded through me at that moment, but only 
one stayed, joy. 

I got off the bed, changed my clothes and gathered my 
things. He screamed at me and swore at me and spat at me. 
I didn't care, I felt courage I hadn't felt in a long 
time, I felt young again. I left him that night, feeling 
scared and excited all at once. I called my mom from a 
payphone and took a cab back home.

I finalized the divorce soon after and lost a lot of my 
hard earned money to him. I didn't care, I was in love 
again. A week later, I was sitting out in the yard like I 
had all those years before watching Dusty play in the 
flowers, and I suddenly felt a feeling I hadn't in a very 
long time. Immediately I got an easel and a brush out and 
began painting, and painting, and painting. The brush 
felt like a feather in my hand, I didn't have to think, I 
just painted. Picture after picture after picture until I 
ran out of canvas. 

The next day some well to do friends of my parents came 
over and were talking to them when they saw my pictures 
lying against the wall to dry. They were impressed and 
wanted to buy some. Eventually their friends heard about 
it.

I sold painting after painting in the coming weeks, and 
continued to create. I made more money than I had made in 
a year of work living with Tom. And through it all, dusty 
was at my side, making me feel loved in a way that only 
he could. And every night he was back between my legs, 
taking me to greater heights than Tom ever could. Making 
me feel complete, whole.

He died many years later, living longer than most cats 
were supposed to. I was with him till the end. Holding 
him as he gave me one last smile and lick. I thought I 
saw the glimmer of something special in his eyes as he 
left me, something that said "I love you". 

By then I had moved out into my own place, an expensive 
apartment which I could now afford with all my success as 
an artist. And a week after, I got another kitten, his 
name was poof. We didn't get along at first, but I kept 
at it, feeding him and caring for him and loving him. And 
one night, while I was lying in bed missing dusty, I felt 
a familiar presence of fur between my legs. I was in 
heaven again.

The End.

Author's Note: Love comes in all shapes, and all sizes. 
This story could have happened, depending on your point 
of view. Love isn't something that can be proven or felt, 
except by those who believe in it and have felt it. If 
you don't believe in love being universal and real, then 
the above girl was sick, demented and the cat was nuts 
too, however, if you do believe that love exists and that 
it exists in the soul with no restrictions and no 
limitations, be it size, shape, race, gender or species, 
then the girl and the cat truly did love each other. I'd 
like to think they did.

END

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