Chapter 12

Merjuh University For Higher Learning

24th of September, 8:31 PM

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Resembling a cub waiting for their parent to scold them, Teofil shuffled from paw to paw in Leonardo's doorway.

The meerkat sat his desk with his back straight, typing on his laptop as if he hadn't noticed the Erian Wild Dog. Leonardo became fearful whenever somefur other than his roommate entered . What were they smelling? The cum in the sheets, blood in the carpet, scented lube and condoms hidden under beds? And if so, how long until they asked?

"Smells like a rabbit's den in here! Who'd you fuck?"

"Is that... mint lube?"

"Oh Aengel, you don't... hurt yourself do you? You can talk to me, I promise!"

That last one worried him sick. He had never (and never would) hurt himself on purpose, but for somefur to think that he really had was a blow to his pride. If somefur assumed he had, surely that said his facade's were faltering. Maybe it wasn't the idea of being called suicidal that was mortifying, but rather the idea of being exposed.

A whine escaped Teofil,

"Leooooooo!" He complained, "Why aren't you talk to me?"

The meerkat continued staring down at his computer, creating a tension between them.

A stomp from the dog's paw made Leonardo jumped:

"What have I done?!" Teofil staggered as he spoke.

"E-mail." Leonardo simply replied as he sent it off to Delephine, it was a fake summary of the day saying he'd fixed everything.

A blatant lie to anyfur who knew how the world worked, nothing was ever fixed. Plasters, glue, tape, everything you could use to fix is only temporary. That was something Leonardo's mother reminded him of, old problems always found a way to surface.

"Oh. Can I come in?" Teofil requested. "I'd like to ask forgiveness."

"For what?" The meerkat spun on his chair to face the dog.

Taking that as a sign, Teofil entered and closed the door behind him before seating himself on the empty crocodile's bed. His nose detected something odd (the lube), but he was too naive to know.

"For earlier argument. I shouldn't have said that you love Callum, I understand how emotions... corrupt after sex."

The Erian Wild Dog gave a toothy grin, Leon couldn't help but smile back. There was innocence and purity behind the canine's twinkle.

"Thank you. I'm at fault too I'm obliged to admit, I'd be indebted if you accept my apology as I have yours."

"Can you... say that again?"

"I'd like to ask forgiveness too, after all I said... hurtful things to you."

Leonardo got out of his seat and plonked himself next to the boy. He placed his forepaw on the dog's leg and subtly stroked it.

A ripple ran up Teofil's leg, spiking something in his groin and his libido.

"I couldn't be more sorry."

Feeling something flutter up in his stomach, Teofil blushed and averted his gaze. Denying it was the worst thing he could do and Teofil knew this well, but it getting out would only mean trouble for both of them.

'Star student takes advantage of foreign student!'

'Erian savage forces prize pupil into loving him'

Risking everything, Teofil held out a yellow rose that he retrieved from his back pocket. This was the best way to do it, behind cover and in safety. Perhaps it was sly to catch Leon alone, but it was cruel to pop the question in public.

Teofil found himself at a loss for words as Leonardo took the rose and twirled it in his fingers, carefully avoiding the thorns. Yet, at closer inspection, the meerkat found stubs where the thorns had been individually hacked off.

"What a thoughtful gift, flowers are such wonderful things in nature. And the colour of rapport no less, suitable."

The meerkat couldn't help but feel a little annoyed that Teofil had gone out and killed this thing.

"Next time though, would you mind getting my favourite colour?"

"Which is?"

"Burgundy."

Teofil didn't exactly know what burgundy was, at least he couldn't picture it that is, but he was sure he'd be able to find one or two.

"I'd be joyful to do so."

The two scooted closer, inspecting the rose together. As Leonardo spun it around in his fingers, he noticed that there was a small rip in one of the petals: whether it was Teofil's or his own doing he couldn't tell.

"So you mentioned earlier about sex, when did you come to that conclusion?"

"Uhhhhh.... After Jiyeon."

"Was he your first?"

"My first?"

"First furson having sex with." Leonardo explained.

"Oh no! Back in the tirbe, sex is common. Sort of a friendship thing, a love thing if you're dating."

"Has it ever been a love thing for you?"

"No... My tribe are kind, but they're my friends. I can't mate them, it feels wrong."

"Meaning you don't like how vaginas feel?"

"Wrong. Vaginas are just as good as cocks, but whether it's a tailhole or a vagina I just don't want sex with my friends. I've done it, plenty of times. I don't want it though. I don't love them, but I do." Teofil tried to say, lacking the words to really express how he felt.

"I think I get what you're saying." Leonardo frowned. "It's almost the same with me... Unless I'm drunk, I can't really enjoy sex that much. Male or female."

"Yeah..."

The two fell into silence for a while. Eventually, the meerkat stood up and propped up the rose in a boot; he'd buy a vase for it later. Hopefully, Callum wouldn't care who was sending the meerkat roses.

"I'd hate to be a buzzkill, but it's tutoring time. Did you do everything I asked?" Leon questioned.

"Yeah, write a story and analyze that one you gave me."

"Let's go to your room. Callum will be back soon after all."

Leonardo just had to get out of the room, Callum wasn't the reason at all.

The short walk down the corridor was pretty eventless, up until the point where they entered to find Jiyeon standing in the middle of the room wearing what the two of them could only describe as the prettiest dress ever.

The meerkat frowned, then joked:

"Sorry this is the male dorms."

Jiyeon scowled back, then adjusted the see through top of his dress so that he could stuff his bra a little more. Through the floral pattern, you could just about see the lace lingerie bra Jiyeon wore.

"Surprised to see you out here, thought you'd be between that tiger's legs."

"You'd be out of here before you could blink if she heard you say that."

"Going to go sell me out? Funny, always knew that you were a rat. Literally and figuratively." Jiyeon quipped.

He stuck his leg out onto his bed to slip on some matching shoes. Though the skirt of the dress wasn't too see through, the partings in it revealed a see through underskirt and lace panties too. It seemed that Jiyeon was expecting to get laid.

"Good one. Shorten it next time."

The marble fox carefully put on lace arm gloves and stockings, essentially making them into stealth lingerie.

"Where are you going, Jiyeon?" Teofil asked. "You look pretty." The Erian Wild Dog was practically enthralled, he couldn't help but stare at the fox.

A part of him wanted to reach out and squeeze Jiyeon's chest, to check if it was really just stuffing.

"Dinner with Luke. Thought I might dress up a bit for it."

"A bit? I'm surprised you're not covered in make up. What, too expensive for a whore?" The meerkat stuck out his tongue like a cub as he sat down on Teofil's bed.

Though he did nothing but poke fun at the fox, Leon was admittedly impressed by how beautiful Jiyeon looked. If he weren't such a trap and, as far as Leonardo suspected, infested with diseases, the meerkat would have considered bedding the fox.

"It's called a natural look. Surprised you didn't know with all that reading you do, are there any books you haven't read?"

"The hoe's guide to being a rentboy, I'm guessing you've got a copy?"

Fury flashed in the vulpine's eyes.

"Shouldn't you be eating out the princess?"

"Already used that one." Leon snorted, he didn't expect to win so quickly. "How many times do you sell yourself to be able to afford something so elegant? You don't deserve to even see such a fine piece of work."

"I made it myself you fucking prick! Unlike all the toffee nosed, gold digging, stuck up cocksuckers like you I can do things on my own!" Jiyeon almost screamed, hurling his shoe at the meerkat.

It hit the wall, the heel smashed a small dent into it.

"Psycho!" Leon laughed as the fox stormed out of the room on the verge of tears.

Teofil made up his mind on what to do fairly quickly. He snatched the shoe from his bed and a box from under the bed before hurrying after the fox.

"Where are you going?! Teofil, your tutoring!"

He was just in the time to catch him disappearing down the stairs, it wasn't hard to figure out where he was going.

The Erian Wild Dog opened the door to Luke's room the moment he got downstairs, finding Jiyeon with Shaun and Luke huddled around him.

"Fuck off!" Jiyeon sobbed, flipping off the dog. "This is your fault."

Luke and Shaun, not knowing what had happened, shrugged to each other and let it fold out.

"No it's not." Teofil frowned, he wasn't exactly the type of furson to let things go wrong.

"Your shoe."

He held it out, but Jiyeon remained silent and motionless.

After a brief, awkward moment Shaun took it instead and helped wriggle it onto the fox's paw.

"Thank you." He, Jiyeon, gave a weak smile to the cat who blushed. "And thank you, I suppose."

"No problem."

Teofil walked a little closer then opened up the box, handing it to Jiyeon.

"Tribe jewelry."

The box was filled with pieces of silver and gold, earrings, rings, wristbands, anklebands, necklaces, pendants and more. The first that caught Jiyeon's eye was a pair of chandelier earrings, their colour a perfect compliment to his fur.

"Thank you!" Jiyeon gasped.

All three of them on the bed stared down into the box, not quite sure what was the most enchanting thing in it.

"But I can't... they're from your tribe like you said-"

"Borrow some. They're not the ceremony things. Only gifts, from mother."

"If you say so..." To be honest, Jiyeon didn't have much of a problem with it whether it was ceremonial or not.

He plucked out the chandelier earrings and fitted them straight to his ears, halfway down on the side of them. Rings were never his thing and with the gloves, he couldn't really wear them or a wristband without tearing the fabric. However, he had no problem with wearing the ankle bands. Two rings of pearls caught his eye, the next he knew they were stretched around his ankles.

His ears weren't quite modified enough to wear most of what Teofil had, but the strands of silver wire were easy to attach to his ears. Soon he had a sort of web of them between both of his ears, it was a bit of an eye-full, but Shaun nor Luke or Teofil had the heart to tell him that.

Finally, Jiyeon took a silver necklace with the face of a fox on it. The marble fox explained that it was almost calling to him.

"Keep it." Teofil grinned. "For good."

Finished, Teofil took back the box and beamed.

"You look like a goddess." Luke complimented.

"I feel like one. Though our plans to fuck might have been ruined, I'd hate to spoil these jewels..."

"No worries! Please, have fun. I'm apologising for what Leo said."

"Fuck him! Not in the fun way. Fuck you in the way though, for this and much more of course." Jiyeon kissed the dog on his forehead. "I'm going to ride you into the morning tonight, got it?"

"Round three is it now? Surprised you have the stamina." Luke chuckled.

"Round five by the time I get round to it. You're cumming in my ass twice otherwise we're never going to a meal again."

With that, Teofil left the three of them; he slipped out of the door without so much as a goodbye.

When he got back to his own room, the meerkat was sitting cross-legged, frowning at the dog's work.

"Ah, Teofil. Right..." He tried to ignore that he'd been temporarily ditched for some fur he despised.

Teofil slipped his box back under the bed.

"Is my work good?"

"Yes... and no. In your writing, you make lots of mistakes, but you have good ideas and you're describing things perfectly. That is, you'll be describing things perfectly when you correct the grammar and some spellings... And how about we get you using some bigger words? I know plenty!"

Unbeknownst to Leonardo, Teofil had undressed down to his bare fur and was starting to lick through the fur on his arms to groom out the ruffles. He didn't mind getting hairballs and a part of him liked the feeling of it running under his tongue, or rather his tongue running over his skin.

"As for you anaylsis..." Leo continued "... You're skipping out on why the writer chooses certain words and the length of the paragraphs. You seem to understand what they're getting at as well as what's being said though. You've spotted motifs pretty well, but you're missing out on a few key ones. I have a few books you can borrow to help- TEOFIL!"

Leonardo half-screeched when he raised his eyes to see Teofil naked and licking his own body. Peeling backwards, the meerkat launched the papers up in a storm.

"What?" The dog raised an eyebrow, briefly stopping his self-grooming.

"Use a comb for goodness sake! And- put some pants on!"

"Why?"

"Because you're bloody naked! Your sheath is out and I can see it! Why are you so calm?!"

Teofil took a moment to process things.

"This is all normal to me. Nudity is common in my tribe."

"So you just go around naked?"

"When it's too hot. Sheaths, dicks, balls, breasts, vaginas... they're all just... ehhh, in my tribe. They don't matter, we can flaunt them."

"But still, you're in Veden now!"

"Jiyeon and I walk around our room naked all the time. We don't care."

"Jiyeon's a whore, a slut and a freak. Don't take inspiration from him for goodness sake!"

"Uhh sure... It's just, well normal where I live. We can control ourselves."

"Are you saying the rest of the world can't get a hold of their sexual impulses?"

"Exactly."

Leonardo snickered a bit: his sociologist friends were going to love Teofil.

"Well if you don't mind... may I ask some more questions? And inspect you?"

"Sure." Teofil agreed, not fully understanding.

The meerkat got up, prompting Teofil to do the same and display himself more. Leonardo paced around the boy a little, trying to spot anything from first glance. But all he could see were developed muscles under splotchy cream, sandy, black, white, clay and grey coloured fur.

"Do you have any piercings?"

"Yes. I couldn't bring them with me, metal detectors."

"Ah. Where do they go?"

"Ears, nipples, belly button, penis, sheath, lips errrr perineum?"

"That's a lot." Leon couldn't help but look at the dog's sheath now. "Where on it?"

"Rings..."

Teofil pointed to just in front of where the tip of his cock was showing,

"Just one, here. The more rings you have here the older you are. One for every ten years."

"That's interesting."

"The women, they have lots of piercings. For beauty."

"Right. What are the people like?"

"Friendly, but too traditional. My father he married my mother who's an outsider. That's not allowed."

"Oh, I guess you're shunned then?" The meerkat felt that he could empathise with his friend, at least until Teofil spoke again.

"No, our society is better than yours. They forgave us."

"Are all the people as rude as you?" Leo scoffed.

"Quite." Teofil gave a fake smile. "They're a lot like the guys here."

That at least got the meerkat laughing.

"Okay but I think you mentioned them eating feral meat? Like, wild feral meat. What's that all about?"

"Easier to hunt. Fun, I suppose. You haven't lived until you've speared a lion."

"Your tribe kills lions?!"

"Only when they come to us. It's dangerous to attack prides and the lion tribes would be furious."

"Your tribes are segregated by species?"

"Yes. Speciesism is.... My first lover was cheetah, but our tribe wouldn't allow him in. We met in the plains when we could, hunted and loved."

"That sounds horrible. Do you guys fight? As in, between the tribes."

"Up until recent, yes. No longer though, laws stop us from killing other tribalists."

"That's good I suppose. What tribes are there? The big ones I mean..."

"I'll need my translator, I don't know species in Vedish."

Teofil fumbled around the room, eventually coming back with his phone.

With confidence, clarity and a calm voice the dog spoke into his phone. It was shocking to Leonardo to see Teofil speaking this way, not the language, but his fluidity. Hearing Teofil struggling to speak Vedish had painted a picture of an idiot in his mind.

"Okay. Big tribes are cheetahs, hyenas, leopard, lion, rhino, gorilla, zebra and antelope Dik-Diks, gazelles and impalas"

"Why's that?"

Teofil spoke some more into his phone.

"The four of them gathered in the ancient times for survival. These were the prey species, so they would be easily erased. They came to together when predators hunted them. Eventually, all four of them depend on each other so they never separated after they were promised safety from predators." Reading from his phone proved difficult, but Leonardo understood.

"Gorillas are weird. They hold up the mountain, never come down and "defend" themselves. Other tribalists not return from the mountains."

"That's horrible!"

"Yes, it is. The Governments ignore the gorillas, they also ignore how lions, cheetahs and leopards have battles to prove who is better. A lot of furs die, sometimes Collateral Damage ends up being furs from other tribes. Lions, tigers, cheetahs and leopards, who are not tribalists often ends up getting hurt. Housecats ... get too much hatred from large ones."

"You care a lot about speciesism don't you?"

"Speciesism is wrong and horrible! Furs die because of it!" Teofil didn't need the translator to say that.

"If you say so..." Leonardo had never really experienced speciesism, so he didn't have much to say. "Are the meerkats a medium sized tribe?"

Teofil remained silent, but the look on his face explained that he understood.

"Oh." Leonardo noised.

"Our tribe did it, long ago. We have stories about it."

Despite having not ever been to Eria or having even known those meerkats, Leon couldn't help but feel a little hatred mustering in him.

"They say that we were kind and let the women and children leave. They went to Ezil."

"Let's not talk about your tribal wars. There so pathetic! Maybe if you didn't all fight, your tribes would be in the modern era."

"We are in the modern era." Teofil chuckled, he'd been waiting to use that one.

"Your language, the one you were just speaking, it sounds wonderful."

"Thank you. But it's very complex, I don't think you'd be able to say a lot of it."

"Tell me how to say something then. Show me." Leon requested.

"Kocham Cie."

Leonardo tried to say it back, but couldn't wrap his tongue around some of the vowels.

"Well done." Teofil lied.

"What does it mean?"

Teofil beamed and answered:

"I hate you!"

"Rude! Teofil, you could have chosen something better." Leon grinned and met the dog's eyes.

Maybe it was the fact that he was having fun, or maybe because the dog was naked, but something unnerved Leonardo and he instantly went back to being that teacher figure.

"Right. I've put down pointers on your work, improve on them for the 30th please and analyze all of the book too. I've got a few things to give to you, so drop by tomorrow."

"Understood."

"And.... good job. Your story was quite gripping."

Teofil wrapped his arms around Leonardo in a hug.

"Thank you!"

"Dude-dude!" Leon cried as the dog's sheath rubbed his kneecap. "You're naked, ger'of!"

Laughing, the dog released the meerkat who immediately shuffled over and brushed himself down.

"Callum really doesn't deserve some fur as sweet as you." Teofil chuckled.

Not having anything to say to that, Leonardo got up and stretched, hiding a blush.

"Right. I need to get back to my room. It's been nice, talking about your culture. Though next time, why don't we talk some more about your past?"

"Sure!"

"That'd be great. Bye now." Leonardo smiled.

The meerkat stepped out of the room and headed to his own.

Teofil kicked up his legs onto the bed and chuckled. Tricking Leonardo into saying 'I love you' was a little sly, but appeasing in a way. If only the meerkat had meant it...

The wild dog closed his eyes, fingers fumbling at his sheath as his member began to harden and slide out of its cave. Thoughts of Leo filled his mind, the meerkat striped down to his bare fur. How he'd feel, a squishy tummy, thighs and ass just the right size to take a pounding, all contrasting with the boney-ness of the rest of his body. His smell: a rich aftershave on his neck, giving way to more primal and musky scents as the dog kissed down the meerkat's body. Leon's musk would be just potent enough to provide the smallest amount of arousement, it'd get Teofil hard and horny. Yet, the meerkat's musk would be easily overpowered by Teofil's as the dog took control. The sounds, squeaks, groans and moans as Leonardo had his cock sucked for the first time, his ass plundered properly by a tongue and finally stuffed. Tight and wet, but slippy and warm. Just the way Teofil needed it...

In no time, the canine found himself baring his teeth and slowly jacking off his cock. Nine whole inches, a huge amount compared to what Teofil imagined Leonardo to have. It'd impress, entice and get the meerkat down on his knees the moment he heard Teofil bark the order.

The dog's cock was slick with pre, his forepaws gliding over it with ease now as he jacked himself off to the edge of an orgasm. At the last moment, he brought his forepaws away with a soft grunt. His forepaws wet with pre and his cock pulsing, the dog tensed for a moment as he held back his orgasm. A single drop of cum dribbled out of his length, but after a minute passed Teofil was sure he'd done it.

Rolling onto his side, Teofil reached under his bed and retrieved the book Leonardo had wanted him to read through. It was boring, difficult to understand and the notes the meerkat had filled the book with distracted from little joy reading it brought. Without Jiyeon or a fast translator, reading new pages was a nightmare, so the dog flipped back to the start and (in Leon's voice) read it in his head.

When he reached the end of the chapter, he flicked back to the start and re-read it. Soon, he was able to remember most of the important quotes Leon had highlighted for him. Moreover, some of the words were sticking in his head.

"Teofil?" Jiyeon called out as he opened the door to their room.

Jokingly, the fox whistled when he set his eyes upon the naked canine.

"Up to something are we?" He teased.

"Reading!" Teofil held up his book, so that the fox could see the cover. "Learning."

"Need me to translate?"

"No, not at all. I'm rereading."

"Oh." Jiyeon mumbled, and there he was wanting to take his mind off the night.

The fox got out of his dress and folded it back up to place it in the box it belonged in.

"You don't sound happy. What's wrong?" Teofil asked, cocking his head like a puppy and raising his eyebrow.

"The dinner with Luke didn't go as planned."

"Did he leave?"

"No. We got there alright, but we got kicked out when the manager found out I was crossdressing."

"That's mean." Teofil stepped out of bed and slowly crept up behind the fox, who was stretching up on his tip toes to put the box in the wardrobe.

When Jiyeon had set it down, Teofil wrapped his arms around the fox's waist and whispered in his ears.

"I think you look very good in that."

"The dress or the lingerie?"

"Both."

Teofil's forepaws wandered the fox's sides, slowly he brought them and then un-clipped Jiyeon's bra.

"But I like you better naked."

Softly biting Jiyeon's ear, Teofil began to undress the fox at an agonising pace. Watching the dog undress him in the mirror, Jiyeon was paralysed until he was stepped out of his panties. The fox quickly tore off his gloves and his stockings, then whipped around to kiss Teofil on the lips.

"I should have brought you to dinner instead."

"Didn't Luke like it?"

"Up until we were thrown out, he loved it. But he didn't try to fight them, you would have though..."

"Of course." Teofil smiled.

He toyed with Jiyeon's asscheeks, rolling them in the palms of his forepaws and parting them so that he could stroke up the fox's taint. Leaning in, Jiyeon kissed his lover's forehead.

"I thought that you loved Leonardo."

"Complicated."

"Are you meaning to tell me you haven't been fucking me so that you could practise for the meerkat?"

"No. I want you both."

"I'm sure that such a thing won't work. I hate him, he's a bastard."

"Don't say that."

Teofil half-pulled out of their embrace, but soon brought the fox back closer to him so that he could nuzzle the top of his head.

"You're going to have to make a decision." Jiyeon told him.

"I'd rather not."

"How about we skip this fuck so we don't waste our time then? I'm guessing you'll go with the tighter hole." Jiyeon hissed and brought his forepaw up to slap the dog across the face.

Teofil caught the fox's wrist and snarled.

"Stop."

The two uncoiled, heading to their opposite ends of the room.

Jiyeon took off the jewelry Teofil had given to him and tossed it to the dog's bed.

"It felt nice wearing them by the way. If you want me to pay you back for it you could just come over here. I promise to forget all about that little scrap."

"You're having me on." Teofil scoffed, returning his jewelry to their rightful place.

"Damn right you are."

With that, Jiyeon rolled over and buried his head in a pillow. Teofil did the same. The only difference between them was that Teofil wasn't crying.

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25th of September

8:41 AM

"Ugh..." Jiyeon grunted, grinding his body against Teofil's.

The two of them could feel the stickiness that covered their stomachs, how it dribbled down over their bodies and cloyed to them. It felt as if it were choking them as it dried. Jiyeon had it worse, a used condom had been slapped down on his tailhole and it had burst right open.

"We need to stop rage fucking." The fox rolled off, peeling of the Johnny and tossing it away.

"Stop making me angry,cunt."

"Didn't know that you knew those words."

"I heard you call me it last night. That and more."

Jiyeon fell silent, snuggled up in the crook of Teofil's arm with his finger tracing the line between the dog's pecs.

"I shouldn't have, I'm terribly sorry."

"Filthy Erian."

The fox flinched as Teofil repeated his words.

"Spear thrower." Teofil spat.

Another flinch from Jiyeon.

"Hut dweller. Pierced freak. Mud dog. Backwards feral. Faggot... I didn't think that one would hurt the most."

"Well I'm a faggot too, so really it doesn't matter-"

"It does."

"Come on, we're both pansexual! What difference is there between us?"

"Back home, in my country outside of what land we own it matters. Leonardo, he told me where the word comes from. Neither of us are faggots and you won't ever be. I could be though."

"I'm sorry."

"Don't be. It's my problem. You helped a little, it's good to... get it out."

"Is it true then, Eria still burns gay furs?"

"Not officially. Government says they don't, my mother though..." Jiyeon could have sworn he heard the dog sniffle. "She burnt her neighbor and is rich now."

"You think that the government is just paying furs who burn them?"

"What else?"

"Eria's fucked up."

Teofil sat up, his head resting against the wall. Jiyeon joined him, only he was on his forepaws and knees between the dog's legs. His tongue reached out to start licking up the wild dog's dried come that was plastered over his balls, but Teofil lifted up Jiyeon's chin and gave him a firm no.

"You said last night was the last time. No more now."

"But... I don't feel alone when we do it. I know it's not healthy, but before I ended up being paired with you I felt like I was the only pansexual furson out there. I know we're not friends and I don't feel like we are, but when we fuck... I guess I feel like I know you. That we're close."

"We'll be friends if you get over your Leonardo hatred." Teofil promised.

"I won't stop hating him until he faces the truth."

"The truth?"

"He's poor, you know that he is. Before he came here he lived in a shack with his family in the middle of nowhere with everyfur scavenging and holding down two jobs."

"Jiyeon we're poor too."

"No, I admire Leon for being able to get to university, especially having come from where he does. But it's how that I can't stand. His entire family dress like Kings and live like peasants, they're trying to be something that they're not. They all schmooze up to some rich furson and drain them dry, but spend that money on making themselves look richer. It's his facade that I can't stand."

"I don't see the problem with that."

"Teofil, look, whenever classes start to mix, social classes that is, shit goes wrong. Leonardo and the princess are doomed, like me and Erik were, like Jacob and Mary are, like Corbin and him were... Do you get my point?"

"You think he'll die?"

"No. But he'll lose what little he has left if he carries on the way he is. I don't want to see him get hurt like I did."

"So you do care about him?"

"Yes."

"Then that's what matters."

Teofil took a deep breath, then asked:

"What actually happened to you? With you and Erik."

"Erik and I dated, broke up and he fucked me over."

"That's it?"

"I don't feel comfortable discussing my past. Nobody who belongs in this entire university knows all of my history."

"Not even you?"

"I don't really belong here. My major is dance and it took me, what, three years to get the money to come here?"

"Leonardo spent six years. You two are alike."

"I spent three years working. He spent six years persuading. We are not alike."

The room fell silent for a minute, until Jiyeon got out of the bed and sighed.

"I'm going to get cleaned off, I have things to do today." Jiyeon announced.

Teofil watched the fox get ready for his shower, he saw the fox pendant still around Jiyeon's neck.

"The pendant, it's a spirit token. It' was for the cunning, the smart, the quick and the nocturnal. It was my mother's, but... now, people hate the fox spirits."

"Why?" Jiyeon asked, picking the fluffiest towels he had.

"My mother, she wasn't supposed to be with my father. So, her family in the city, they called the fox a whore."

"So this is supposed to be for a whore? It's shameful?"

"Only in Eria."

"Still..." Jiyeon fiddled with the silver of the pendant.

"You look pretty in it."

"Thank you." Jiyeon faked a smile.

He couldn't crush the dog's spirit there and then, but as soon as Teofil couldn't see, Jiyeon hurridly took off the pendant and stuffed it into his shoe.

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"Can you believe it though?" Sebastian giggled. "Imagine not wanting sex!"

"Sebastian..." Logan growled a little. "Leave it be, it's not that weird."

"Come on big guy, admit it! You can't imagine a life without sex and, aside from him, you can't name one furson who doesn't like sex."

Admittedly, Logan couldn't. Nor could Luke who shrugged and agreed with the bat.

"Why do you think he is that way?" The bat continued as they walked down the corridors of their dorms, forepaws full of shopping.

The three of them had set out to go shopping for ingredients, all so that Alex could cook something up. They'd gotten back and when questioned by Jake, the Ivian blue cat's twin, responded truthfully. To that he'd laughed and revealed a few things about his brother. For one he was Non-binary, for two he'd wanted to be called Alexis at a time and for three he was asexual. The first two, Luke, Logan and Sebastian could understand, but the last? That was... confusing for them to say the least. Sebastian, being about as perverse one could get, Logan being as far into reading sexualized stories as you could and Luke being as horny as a rabbit, not one of them could picture what it would be like not wanting sex or not being sexual attracted to anything.

"Who knows? Let's not bother him about it." Logan half-begged.

"Agreed." Luke.

"Fine, but if he brings it up-"

"Sebastian!" Logan barked. "Mention it and I'll kill you. Don't ask even if we start talking about it."

"Ughhhh..."

The three entered the kitchen, where one furious looking Alexander was waiting.

"You're late for lunch. It's one thirty." The cat scowled.

"Lessons don't start until October, it's not like you have anywhere to be! Cut us some slack!" Sebastian shrugged, skipping over to pat the cat on the back as Luke and Logan set down the bags. "We got everything that's on the list, so what's for lunch?"

"For you three? Nothing. I told you, I wouldn't cook unless you three got here with the ingredients on time."

"Oh come on Alex! Aren't we pals? You promised..."

"Sebastian, I just finished making Mason and that lot some ice cream can't you guys wait for your lunch? I want some down time!"

"Oh I could help with that..." The bat winked.

Without invitation, Sebastian slipped a forepaw under Alexander's shirt and stroked his belly as his other forepaw squeezed the feline's sheath.

"Just cook us something small and you'll have all the down time you want with me."

"Sebastian!" Alexander scoffed, shoving the bat off of him. "I won't cook at all if you ever touch me like that again, I thought you weren't like the rest."

"He's sorry." Logan quickly stepped in, seeing as how Luke hadn't seen anything. "He just wants you to confess to something."

"Which is?" The cat put his forepaws on his hips and pouted.

"He wants to know if you really are asexual. We were talking about it in the hallway."

"Oh."

"If you don't know if you are or not I'd be happy to help you explore." Logan winked.

The cat's facial expression went from disturbed to furious.

"Excuse me?!" Alex turned up his nose. "I'm not going to have sex with any of you. I'm not ever going to have sex for Aengel's sake!"

"Well damn!" Logan laughed, trying to defuse the situation before Sebastian could make it worse. "I was hoping for a twink sandwich, so I guess I'll have to settle for a normal one."

Logan rose up to his full height and stretched, underneath his shirt Alexander could make out just how ripped the bull was in case he hadn't remembered from yesterday.

"I'll get right on it." Alexader half-sqeauked, then rushed to the bread cupboard.

Taking no notice of the sudden change, Logan walked back to the table with Sebastian.

"That was odd." Sebastian commented.

"What was?" Oblivious as always, the wolf chimed in.

The bat lowered his voice and leaned in.

"The way he just... gave in. He doesn't want to make us a sandwich, so why the hell is he doing it? Plus the not wanting sex thing got me thinking. What if he's been hurt?"

That was where Logan was going to draw the line.

"Alexander?" He called, causing a look of terror to spread over the bat's face.

"Yes?" The Ivian blue answered.

"Forget about making me something, I forgot that I promised Corbin I'd show him a dive bar. But Luke and Seb still want something, so how about you just give them whatever you were going to make me?"

"Sure."

With that, Logan glared down Sebastian and mouthed a warning not to ask about Alexander's past. Unsurprisingly, the bat didn't listen. However, he wasn't dumb enough to cross Logan straight away. He could, and would, wait for the right opportunity to bring it up.

"Thank you." Sebastian gave a false smile as he was brought a cheese sandwich.

He looked Alexander straight in the eye and started to analyse.

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