Melissa was digging around underneath her bed. A random object would come flying out as she shuffled deeper inside. "God damn it, where did it roll off to? I know I saw it go under here."
I had passed by the door to her room and happen to see her throwing stuff. Stopping at the entrance and look at her tail whip around as she kept on digging through her stuff, I walk in to see what she was up to. "Melissa, everything alright? You're not stuck are you?"
The mouse jolts a bit as she was too focused on trying to find what she lost. She shuffled a bit out from under her bed and looks at me, "One of my coins slipped out of its slot when I was adding more to my collection and I saw it roll under here somewhere. Now I am trying to find it so I can put it back in its slot." She then slinks back under the bed and continues digging through her stuff. "Come on... it shouldn't have gone too far in this stuff..."
Turning my head and looking at her drawer, I saw a large book that was opened up and had many slots indented in it. Many of them were occupied by a coin shaped object, some I recognized from around the area, some that looked very foreign, and a few that looked really old and rare. My eyes dart down as I saw a small box bounce around and stop next to the drawer.
I then started looking over at all the stuff that was strewn about on the floor. From random boxes, to jars, some used leather armor with some holes in it, then came flying out a basket of rubber ducks. "Melissa... why do you have this much stuff, and under your bed no less?"
Shuffling a bit, she dissappeared under her bed until she popped her head out from where she was. "Some of this stuff is when I use to adventure back in the day." I then pick up the basket of ducks. "Don't ask about that one. Drunk spending has it's werid moments."
Never had any alcohol myself to figure that out. Putting the basket down, I walk up to the bed and kneel down. Melissa was surround in a huge assortment of random stuff to where even I was unsure where she would find a coin in this mess. "Melissa, how much stuff do you have? I swear it looks like you are opening a shop here."
Melissa looks behind her before her eyes shoot open. "There it is!" She then scrambles an arm deeper into the mess and pulls it back with a weird shaped coin. With a smile on her face, she crawls out of the bed and walks back to her coin book. I myself kept staring at the mess under hed bed.
My attention was cut short as I felt Melissa poke a finger on my back. "Veronica?" I look back at her before looking back at her stuff. "Melissa, is all of this from drunk shopping?" She shakes her head before she started picking some of the stuff off the ground to slide back underneath the bed. "No, just stuff I collected over the years."
Standing back up myself, I look over at her drawer where the coin book was and I figured that if that was where she pulled it out, what about her closet? Melissa noticed that I was staring at her closet. "Veronica, if you are wondering about the stuff in there, I can tell you right now you are going to be questioning me heavily." She then goes to the closet and opens it up.
Inside was nothing but plaques and jars filled with coins. I was baffled on how much she has. "Where even are your clothes?" She giggles before closing the closet and walking over to me to pet me on the head. "This may be my room, but I use it more for my collection. I sleep with Shade a lot so I just moved my stuff in there. She doesn't mind at all since it is a decent sized room."
I blink a bit before she wraps an arm around my waist and leads me out the door. "Anyways, now that I found that coin again, what were you doing earlier? I can help you if you need it." I had to think a bit of what I was doing, "I was just walking around the house. I'm not sure what else I was going to do."
"Well, Shade and Kitsuno are out right now, how about you and I go have some girl time ourselves? Share a drink or two and have a good time. What do you say?"
Smiling at that thought, I nod and Melissa led me into Shade's room. "Alright, let me change clothes real quick and we can head out." She walks over to the closet in the room to open it up and disappeared inside. I myself however took a look around the room. Shade had quite a lot of space herself with this room and it was organized well. There was a cabinet filled with crystals and figurines. Getting closer to it and inspecting some of the crystals showed that some had some real age to it due to the cracks in the edges.
This made me wonder where Shade got some of these. Kitsuno and Shade have told me a lot of tales when we were together after we ended up on that strange archipelago. Some of the purple amethyst reminded me of that huge geode we found and I wonder if she grabbed some of it to bring back?
My attention is then drawn to a bunch of bottle caps that littered the desk in the room. Curious, I walked over to the desk and picked up a cap. "Hey Mel, how often does Shade drink?" The mouse girl pops out of the closet in a red short sleeve shirt and tight blue jeans. "What do you me-- oh, that. Anything alcoholic, not so much. Maybe a cider here and there, but a mass majority of that is soda related."
Looking over at the pile, it looked like about thirty-two bottle caps. "Is there a reason why she has these here?" Melissa smiles before opening a side drawer. And inside the drawer was a large assortment of random bottle caps. "A whole.... how long has she been collecting bottle caps?"
Melissa shrugs, "Beats me. Not long I would say because of how she and her sister lived before." She then pulls out a bundle of bottle caps and rearranged them on the desk in the words, Hi Shade!, and walked away from the desk. "Come on, I know a great sushi place we can go to. Shade showed me the place last week and it was wonderful." I shook off the fact that Shade had a whole desk full of bottle caps and followed Melissa as sushi did sound good.
