Penelope was furious

Cecelia (S2) was missing.

It wasn’t too much of a problem, as both her pets were chipped and trackable, it was just that the insolent pet had taken it upon herself to wander off! The indignity of it!

It was especially a problem at the moment; today was new intake day, when the new girls arrived at university. There was students everywhere, trying to find their accommodation, trying to find classes, etc. Now Cecelia had sneaked off to join them…

“Infuriating girl!”, said Penelope, turning to Mary (S1). “You, speak to me. How did she get any clothing, let alone get out?”

“Your new clothes were returned from the laundry and left in your room”, Mary said. “It’s not my fault! I tried to stop her…!”

Penelope held out her hand, palm upraised. Mary came over and nuzzled against it, letting Penelope run her fingers through her hair.

“It’s all right, I know it’s not your fault. You tried your best. Anyway, I’d better go find my wayward pet before there’s any more trouble…”

Mary went back to her basket and curled up. She missed Cecelia and was worried. What was going to happen to her…?

Penelope set off across the campus, eyes on her phone. The tracker led her to one of the intake classes, in the main lecture theatre.

As soon as Penelope walked in, she spotted Cecelia. She was sitting there, in her clothes, trying her best to look like the other students.

Penelope walked up to her without being seen and sat alongside her.

“Oh, shit…!”

“Yes, you’d better be scared, young lady. What the hell are you doing, here?”

“I just wanted to see what it was like!”, Cecelia wailed. “I’ve never had a real life, and I want one!”

“You know you haven’t got that option, anymore.”, said Penelope. “You signed the papers. You agreed!”

“I didn’t know what I was signing!”, said Cecelia. “I want my life back!”

She started crying.

Penelope couldn’t help it. She started stroking her, like she just had with Mary, then she hugged her.

“I thought you were happy with Mary and I”, she said. “I never knew…!”

Cecelia just carried on sobbing.

“Come on, come back with me for now”, said Penelope. “I’m not a monster. I’m sure we can think of something…”

Holding on to each other, the pair went back to Penelope’s quarters. There, Cecelia got undressed and slinked back into her basket, ignoring Penelope completely. She just lay there, sobbing quietly.

Mary squeezed in next to her and hugged her, kissing her. She hated that her girlfriend was so upset…

“Mary, do you feel this way too?”, Penelope suddenly asked. “Do you want a normal life, too?”

“Not as much as Cecelia”, she said, "but it would be nice. I feel that we’re missing so much.”

“Let me think of something”, Penelope said…

Penelope asked to meet with the principal, Nicola who, surprisingly, agreed to see her straight away.

“I hear you were in the lecture theatre today”, Nicola said, as soon as Penelope walked into her office. “You were seen cuddling a girl, who you led out with you. A girl that looked suspiciously like one of your pets, from the description I’ve been given…”

“Er…. Yes…. There’s been a little problem”, Penelope said. “It’s what I’ve come to talk to you about. Cecelia is scared she’s going to miss all her life; she’s happy being a pet, but she wants to be a human being too. Mary’s the same, but not as much.”

“I thought it was something like that”, Nicola said. “I’ve sort of expected it. You can only try and change a person so much.”

“So, Penelope, they are your responsibility. What do you want to do about it?”

“I want them to be happy”, said Penelope, completely surprising Nicola. “Is there any way they can be students during normal hours, then my pets after? I have to leave them alone while I’m in class anyway. They may have a few problems fitting in, at least to start with, but who doesn’t, learning away from home?”

“Ok, how about this; I need to make up the numbers on the English Literature Class; they can join it tomorrow. Only condition is you pay their fees and act as their next of kin; I’m sure that shouldn’t be a problem. Also, you’ll need to go clothes shopping; I’m not having Cecelia and Mary in class naked!”

Both Penelope and Nicola giggled at that; the thought of Professor Harris coping with two naked eighteen-year-olds in his class sounded downright funny…!

“That would be wonderful!”, said Penelope. “After all, it’s not their fault their families ran into major debt; also, as I’ve said, all I want is for my pets to be happy.”

“I’ll get the paperwork ready”, said Nicola. “You go tell your… pets.”

Cecelia looked up from her basket with a squeal of joy as Penelope told them. Mary was also overjoyed. They both promised to behave in class; they would sit at either end of the lecture theatre to stop them getting ‘tempted’, and only meet up back at their quarters.

Sex that night between all three was lively and enjoyable…!