<b><i>Note to readers: </i></b>The following RP started life at<i>Guilty Pleasures.  </i>Sadly, most of the early posts were lost when the site went dark.<br/><br/>This is a story about two neighbors.<a class="username" data-user-id="1065" data-username="@SilverVixen" data-xf-init="member-tooltip" href="https://blackdahliaroleplaying.com/members/1065/">@SilverVixen</a>plays Stella McIntosh, while I play Anton Kostaki.  In addition to the apartment building they live in, what they also have in common is cat ownership and a love of music.  Stella’s feline friend is a 14-pound Maine Coon named Tesla, while Anton’s furry roommate is a 7-pound black Persian by the name of Licorice.<br/><br/>Anton’s unit is #508, while Stella resides upstairs in #608.  They first meet when Licorice takes full advantage of an open window and scrambles up an oak tree, depositing herself in Stella’s apartment.  One thing leads to another and Stella makes dinner for him after Tesla shows up at his apartment to hang with Licorice.  Anton reciprocates by then preparing a meal for her.  Their cats have unknowingly assisted the pair into a friendship.  The following posts lead up to this dinner engagement.<br/><br/>Details, details.  Stella is a long-haired redhead and an accomplished pianist with the local symphony.  Anton wears his brown hair short and is a model.  Nothing on the national or global scenes, just locally for catalogs, department stores, etc.  They’re both single, though he is a widower.  At this stage of the story, she knows this about him.  A bassoonist in the symphony has been asking Stella out, while Anton is being pursued by Magdalene Melendez, a model he had just shared a recent photo shoot with.