Three Short of 19, Part 2.5

WHEREIN A CAT-GIRL AND A HUMAN GIRL INTERACT, NERVOUSLY.

This was it, no hope anymore. The girl she had, so suddenly, gotten so damn flushed for had seen the l00d picture-- Oh jegus she's thinking like Equius, that can't be a good sign-- But even that didn't matter, she saw it and oh wow that feels really purrfect...
    Her depressive chain of thought had been interrupted by the nails-- Not hard razor-tipped troll nails, but those soft human fingernails-- scritching slowly across her stomach, relaxing her as Jade sat down beside her on the bed.

"...Are you mad at me?"
"Why would I be? It's a really nice picture."
"But, it... It's us..."
"Well, I can't say the actual event in the picture is what I expected, but it just means you like me, right? A girl should always be happy to find out someone likes her."

Shocked with how easily Jade handled it, how flippant her response, she thought once again about how strange human romance was, and... now she is thinking about how those lightly trailing fingernails are getting higher and higher up with every pass, up near her ribs now.

"Uhm, Jade? I think you're getting a bit..."
"Oh! Hah, um, woops! I got distracted when we were talking... So, let's get back on track! Things that are different between humans and trolls."

Jade pulled her hand away and then put it forward again-- Helping Nepeta lever herself up into a sitting position, her blush still a strong green.

"Right... Well, there's the whole horn issue, of course."
"Ooh, yeah, start there-- I've been curious about that!"

Nepeta smiled at the change of pace-- Hopefully they could put the whole Forbidden Wall incident behind them-- and got into her teaching mode- Back straight, one hand pointing as she spoke, the other firmly and resolutely at her side.

"OK, every troll has different horns, and they... Aren't purrticularly like meowst animals, really. They're mostly kinda soft, very slightly fuzzy, and we can feel with them."

And that is when her concentration is absolutely shattered by Jade reaching forward, oblivious to the connotation, and running one fingernail up the ridges of her horn. Certainly, she had touched her own horns before, but no-one had ever done it to her, and the difference was immense: All composure lost, her eyes closing to focus on the sensation, it hit her like a bolt to the tail and rolled up her spine, her whole body shaking as she slumped forward.

"Ohno are you hurt? I'm sorry, I didn't think, I just..."
Nepeta panted and shook her head before responding
"No, I... I'm OK, just... sensitive. Really sensitive."
She could already feel the blush rolling across her as Jade figured out what she had done, the human girl blushing brightly as well.
"I am so sorry! That, um, wasn't what I meant to do."
"It's totally fine-- Let's call it even for the wall thing, OK?"
"Haha, sure!"
However, the sensations that single bit of contact had brought out were more then enough to make her shift nervously in her seat, legs rubbing together, and start shedding her large green coat-- It was suddenly very hot in here. And as she shrugged out of the coat, Jade noticed, for the first time, just how muscular the thin girl was-- Lithe limbs rolled with smooth musculature, her black shirt oddly tight on her body, her shoulders rolling with the kind of power she was used to seeing drive one of John's hammers clean through an Ogre. Nepeta must have caught her staring, because she giggled, breaking Jade's reverie.

"Silly purrson-- Your turn!"
"Huh?"
"Well, tell me about a human thing!"
"Hmm..."
The idea came that this might be a good opportunity to tease the cat-girl, or maybe, maybe, see how serious she was about what she put on the wall. Either way, it would be fun, right?

"OK, so, boobs! Which, ya know, I guess you have, but probably not the same."

With that entirely non-sequiter statement, thus filling her daily quota, she quickly pulled her top off, revealing a rather plain blue bra on her modest chest.

"...What's that strapy-thing?"
"Oh wow, you guys don't have these? It's a bra-- I guess it's for modesty, and, um, support?"
"Mreow? Support? Mine stay up just fine on their own."
Nepeta poked at her own chest curiously
"Yeah, still there!"
"Well, humans are... squishier, I guess! Which... fuck, actually makes Karkat right about something."

They shared a laugh over that, one which was cut off as Jade undid the bra to reveal herself completely to Nepeta.