"Ah!" Ryan squeaked when Kat leapt off his lap. Not knowing what to do now, he just fell back on default response to something bad happening to him; wallow in self pity 'I'm such a screw up. Here I thought she just hid her ears because she was self conscious about them, I had no idea she simply didn't like having them touched. I thought cats loved having their ears rubbed. That was stupid of me to mess up; Kat isn't shy, if she really wanted her ears rubbed, I doubt she would have any trouble asking me, she knows they don't bother me.' Putting his face in his hands, he continued 'I'm such an idiot'