I walked up the stairs in the hallway to my flat when I unfortunately met the one person I really did not want to meet right now.

My neighbor Lea.

She was the most annoying neighbor one could imagine, a meddlesome 20 years old girl who enjoyed company way too much. The upside about her was that she was a perfect party person and someone who could keep even a larger group together.

But right now, I really did not want to meet her. For the last three days since Shiina lived at my place I had worked really hard to keep her and the other neighbors out of my flat. The reason is fairly obvious, I simply don’t want to have to explain Shiina’s partial nudity.

After all, one of the other big drawbacks that Lea had was that she was a pretty extreme feminist. It was annoying to say the least and outright dangerous in connection with my current situation.

Yet I could not escape her. She had already seen me and quickly walked towards me.

“Ryan, long time not seen!”, she said with her usual cheerful attitude.

I put on a friendly grin and return the greeting.

“It’s been some time since you took part in a party, maybe we should hold the next one at your pla-“, she began to talk, but I quickly cut her off.

“Sorry I can’t, my geckos are currently breeding, I don’t want to disturb them.”, it was an obvious excuse, well at least to me, who was knowledgeable about reptiles. Geckos simply laid their eggs with no further care. There was nothing to disturb in the first place.

But as I thought Lea did not think about that and easily took the bait, giving me a way out of the whole thing.

I quickly exchanged a few more necessary pleasantries and then disappeared inside my apartment. Inside I breathed out in relieve. The thought of what would happen if Lea found out about Shiina was truly too horrifying!

Within the flat I found Shiina who was sitting on the couch and drawing on her tablet. I snuck a short glance at her and confirmed that she was still only wearing her panties and the poncho I made for her. Of course, as soon as I thought of that I felt embarrassed. What kind of person have I become to sneakily steal glances at a defenseless girl?

Thinking that I went to the fridge and got myself some milk for a coffee. I continued to ponder while I made myself the direly needed cup of coffee. Shiina had only left the flat thrice during the three days she was already living here.

Each time she quietly wore some simple clothing and told me she was going to go to a particular art gallery in the city. Once I actually accompanied her and we visited a small art gallery in more remote part of the city.

I did not understand a lot about art, especially the modern pieces, but I still enjoyed the skill and craftsmanship behind the works there.

But the important thing wasn’t the fact that Shiina visited the art galleries, but that she otherwise never left the house How could she stay this thin and well built while moving only so little? After all she wasn’t a bad eater at all!

I sipped at my coffee and mindlessly looked over to the couch. I then realized that Shiina had disappeared from her former place. Surprised I look around the room and search for the girl. The flat wasn’t too big, only three rooms and a bath, with one being my bed room, another one being the living room, kitchen and Shiina’s bedroom and the last one being the room for my animals.

I couldn’t find Shiina in the living room and the bath was open. Shiina never entered my bedroom so it was unlikely that she would be there. The only remaining room was the room with my animals. She did seem interested by them when I first showed them to her.

I took my coffee with me and walked to the small room. As I thought the usually closed door was open and I could see Shiina kneeling in front of one of the enclosures. Stepping closer I saw that she was observing one of my dwarf gecko species, a Sphearodactylus notatus male.

She noticed my approach and looked up to me.

I smiled. “Please don’t feel bothered by me.”

Taking another sip, I looked into another enclosure. A small jumping spider from the genus Phiddipus called this one home. It stared at me with it’s large, cute eyes. Suddenly I hear Shiina’s voice.

“Why do you keep those animals?”, she asked while keeping her eyes on the cute little gecko.

I grinned. “’Cause I enjoy watching them. People own pets because they enjoy caring for them.”

She was quiet for some time.

“So, what do you do with this pets?”

“Feed them, give them a comfortable home and take care so they feel comfortable.”, I answer relaxed and take another mouthful of coffee.

Shiina turned her cute head and looked at me.

“Then am I also your pet?”, she asked curiously.

I almost choked on my coffee. Staring at her innocent expression I begin to question my moral integrity. If I really say this I am really human trash!

But yeah…. Well I guess I am trash then. In all actuality, who could really hold back at such a degree of innocence???

I swallow hard and my body heats up.

“I guess you could say so…”, I say somewhat vague. This way I did not feel like the worst pervert.

Shiina seemed to ponder about something.

“Then you are my owner.”, she suddenly concluded.

My brain absolutely exploded, and I died three times praising all of existence for this girl. I felt my body tremble a little and in fear that my voice would fail I simply nodded.

Thank you, god, buddha, Allah or whatever god there is that has led to this day. I shall never question you again! Of course, this is only empty talk I am still an atheist…

Shiina slowly nodded as if she had suddenly understood something profound.

“I am hungry.”, she suddenly said.

I lift my eyebrows and look at my watch. It was exactly 1pm. You really could set your time after her hunger!

Still feeling somewhat exited about this unexpected development I walked over to the kitchen and began preparing food for the two of us. Shiina also stood up and walked over to the kitchen table. She sat down and proceeded to simply observe me.

Suddenly the door to the flat screeched as someone opened it. I freeze in my motion and my heart starts to pound with an unimaginable vigor.

Fuck. I. Am. Officially. Fucked!

I slowly turned my head and saw my neighbor Lea standing in the door, staring at Shiina. Fortunately, she only see’s the backside and not the pair of cutely shaped breast. But of course, the worst case had to happen and Shiina turned around to see who had suddenly come.

I clearly saw how Lea’s expression changed from confusion to disbelief and then something I would like to call fury of the feminist. Bracing myself for what was about to come I quickly pulled my kitchen knifes behind my back, away from Lea.

She arrived like a gust of wind and a fierce slap clapped like thunder. Another hand was closing in, but I managed to get by arm in between and grip her wrist. Yet again the right hand tries to reach me, but once again I manage to grab it beforehand.

“YOU BEAST!”, Lea’s furious voice reached me, and I saw extreme fury in her face.

“Making an underaged girl do this!!!”, she said something incoherent there and for a moment I blank out.

“Underaged?”, I ask somewhat foolishly.

This only engaged her even more and she struggled to free her wrists to attack me again. Fortunately, my grip was strong enough to prevent that.

“She clearly is just a little girl! You cannot tell me you did not know that!”, she shouted angrily.

I raised my eyebrow, finally understanding that Lea had mistaken Shiina for a younger girl. It was only natural since Shiina truly was too small and petite for her age.

I calmly tried to calm this angry feminist down. “This is a misunderstanding.”

But she didn’t want to listen. “What kind of misunderstanding can there be? You are forcing an underaged girl to be naked in your flat!”, her hysteric voice gradually started to annoy me.

“There is no way you will get away with this! I will sue you and make you pay for this!”, the more she said the more annoyed I became.

Shiina was confused as she looked at us. It seemed that she did not understand what was going on.

“You will pay for your crimes against all women on earth you horrible sex off-“, I finally had enough of this woman’s talk.

“SHUT up!”, I suddenly bark at her, a dangerous light shining in my eyes.

She immediately stopped talking and I could see a shimmer of fear in her eyes. Right now I really looked like a sex offender that was about to rape a helpless women…

I slowly breath out and try to calm down.

“First of all.”, I begin talking calmly.

“This girl over there is called Shiina White and she is my new subtenant. I can assure you that she is 18 years old and that I did NOT force her to wear the clothing she is wearing right now. Furthermore, I did not touch her even once!”, I glance over to Shiina and silently tell her to confirm my story.

For once she seemed to be incredibly sharp and immediately understood what I wanted her to do. She stood up and walked over to us.

“Shiina White, pleased to meet you.”, she made a small bow towards Lea.

My neighbor was stupefied. Disbelieving she stared at Shiina and her eyes fell on the two pale peaks beneath the transparent fabric. She immediately started to blush.

“I-Is what he said…. True?”, she asked somewhat hesitating.

Shiina nodded.

“I am 18 years old, I am the subtenant and I do not like wearing clothes at home.”

Lea was quiet for some time. I suddenly could sense her tensed up body relax and judging that she wouldn’t attack me anymore I let go of her wrists. She slowly lowered her arms and began rubbing her wrists. It seemed like my grip was a little strong.

For a moment all three of us were quiet. Then Lea finally summoned all of her courage and apologized to me and Shiina.

Shiina still did not fully understand what had happened and shook her head in confusion.

“Why did you attack my Owner?”

I immediately knew what was about to come.

“Owner…”, I could hear Lea mumble in a dangerous tone.

“OWNER HM?!”, she had once again riled herself up.

Before she could do anything I suddenly grabbed her by the shoulders and forcefully turned her around. This was dangerous. Feminists were REALLY dangerous.

Fearing that someone could really get hurt this time I furiously thought of a way to restrain Lea for the time being.

My eyes fell on Lea’s clothes. She wore a white, short sleeved t-shirt with some text on it. In desperation I suddenly grabbed it by her shoulders and forcefully pushed it downwards. The collar ripped a little, but as it was made out of some really elastic fabric I managed to slide it over both her shoulders, down her arms until I reached the lower arm. Like this the collar of the t-shirt tightly pressed Lea’s arms against her body and made it impossible for her to move them.

Before Lea could even scream I lightly kicked against the back of her knee’s, forcing her to kneel on the ground. Without being able to move one’s arms it was almost impossible to get up from this position, so I did not have to worry about any more struggles.

Relieved and somewhat proud of my fast reaction I breath out and walk around Lea to face her. Now that she was immobilized I thought I could easily reason with her.

When I finally faced her up front I realized that I had made a large mistake. Tears rolled down her cheeks and I could see strong fear, deeply rooted within her.

My eyes wandered a little downward and I realized that while I violently slid down the T-shirt I also slid down her bra together with it.