Cathy had just about had it. Everyone called her Cat or Kitty. Not because she was cute, but because of her damn ears and tail. Why did her parents decide to do this procedure to her? She wasn’t even born, just a bunch of cells.
Cathy was genetically altered as an embryo to have feline ears and tail. Her parents had paid a lot of money so they could have a cute Kemonomimi child.
But this child was now sixteen and feeling the pressure. She lived in a town that was all humans. She went to school with boys and girls with their ears on the side of their heads and nothing that stops them from sitting all the way back in a chair. She had been looked on as a freak all her life. Some like it, but others didn’t. She got tired of the stares. She could block them out for a time, but it still got to her.
She has tried to talk to her parents about it. They supported her and tried their best, but enough was enough. She wanted to leave!
She had heard about a town a few miles away that was full of Kemonomimis, and she had investigated it. She decided she was going to run away and head there. Maybe she will feel accepted there. Maybe she’ll even find a job. Most of the jobs wanted her to show off her ears and tail to attract customers or not hire her because they didn’t have the proper safety equipment for her head. Hats are a pain in the ears, and she can’t hear people with one on.
She packed her bag with some clothes, what little money she had and the ticket she bought online with her parents’ credit card. The rest she had to leave.
She slipped out one night and was gone from that life in the hopes of finding a better one.
