jakes tail was still for once "i mean it is true. shade has to deal with others attempting to take her hood down and i deal with slurs and names"

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shade looked up, the room had accumilated more people, she tugged her hood back on and looked down at her lap, trying to ignore the people

"then... Then why don't you just... hide it?" Asked Rory curiously, glancing nervously around at the growing number of customers

"because i cant really hide mine. not with my tail wagging all the time"

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shade looked at her after jake spoke "sorry. i have to go home"

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jake stood up going over to shade "calm down, did you forget again?" "yes"

"what if you had no reason for it to wag" she said dully, her own tail sagging,

"thats fairly rare for him. hes the optimistic one" shade spoke, attempting to calm down, but failing, starting a panic attack, she hated large crowds, thats why she was in small classes, but she had forgotten her anxiety pills and never took them

"lucky" Rory said, smiling slightly, and her tail did give a small wag underneath the joggers "erm, you need to get out?"

"im fine" (bitch-) she looked down, jake grabbed her "im not dealing with an actual cat" he dragged her outside,which only made the panic attack worse, making her shift into a solid black maine coon with ice blue eyes

Rory wanted to follow, but she didn't want to force herself on them, but... Ugh she really wanted to. So she walked with them, smiling sympathetically as the girl changed, but stopping as she was sure it seemed patronising.

jake picked shade up

"Sorry" Rory mumbled "for intruding"... "Is she alright?"