College Component
Kevin is drag out of his dream world by his alarm blaring at 7am, quickly turning it off so he doesn't wake up his roommate; he rolls back over he stares at the blank white ceiling wall of his tiny two person dorm room. "God life has changed in the past three months," he thinks. Kevin is a 19 year old black lab just getting use to his freshmen year of college. Growing up he did everything that made him feel like he was a normal part of society. In high school he played football and was in multiple clubs, he had dated a couple of girls, anything that would make the outside believe he was just a normal kid. But Kevin always knew that something was missing that those thing weren't what he wanted, they weren't him. Now having been in college for the past three months with no parents and no former high school classmates he is starting to realize what that missing part is. He jumped off his lofted bed feeling his tired muscles ache as he stretched. Dropping his boxers seeing his morning wood looking back at him, grabbing his towel and IPod player he headed to the shower to get ready for another day of hiding his real self to the world.
Kevin is a decent student A's and B's and while sitting in his European History class he noticed a new guy sitting a couple of rows in front of him. The guy was a stunning white tiger, the guy had fur that looked as soft as silk, and muscles but not too much to make him look like a meat head, but the most part of him were his eyes. The tiger had the deepest green eye Kevin had ever seen but the spectacular part was how depending on the light they could look darker or lighter. Kevin's entire mind was taken over by this unknown male tiger, so entirely that he didn't even here when his professor called on him to answer a question. "Mr. O'Connell do you mind coming back to earth and answering where Napoleon was defeated and why," said his professor, making everyone in the class laugh including the new guy. "Great now the new guy is going to think I'm some sort of air head he'll never talk to me," thought Kevin as he was leaving the class. But right as that thought was finished he felt a tap on his shoulder but when he looked there was no one there, but when he looked the other way there was the white tiger with the amazing eyes staring right back at him with a grin on his face. "Oh hi..."was all Kevin could get out while trying to get over the shock of those eyes.
"Hey how you doing, my names Chris," said the tiger, with a grin on his face.
"Good, you must be new I've never seen you in class or around campus," said Kevin now finding his voice for the first time sense he laid eyes on him.
"Yeah, I just transferred from state, it's my first day and I don't really anyone. I saw you looking at me in class, so I decided to try on get to know you."
"Great here's this new guy that for some reason I can't stop thinking about and he is watching me stare at him. He must think I'm some kind of weirdo," thought Kevin."Oh it's nice to meet you Chris. God I remember my first day here it was an adjustment. So what dorm are you living in?"
"I'm living alone on Mary 2 room 236. Yeah it has been an adjustment but everyone seems nice. So what about you what dorm do you live in?
"I'm actually also living on Mary 2 I'm in room 230. We should totally hangout tonight, cause at the moment I'm running late to my Accounting class on the other side of campus."
"Yeah totally, see you then."
After and during Kevin's accounting class all he could do was think about Chris and the strange way the tiger made him feel. For some reason that missing part of Kevin seems to be filled by this male tiger he had just met and had only a short conversation with. "God I hope maybe Chris is what has been missing in my life but, would he accept the true me or be totally grossed and think I was a freak." With Chris's mind filled with so many questions he didn't even realize he had walked all the back to his dorm room. "Well I should at least go over and hangout with him, maybe we can become close friends if nothing else. That is if he isn't creeped out and never talks to him again."
Kevin walked down the hall to Chris's room which even though it was two doors down it seemed like it was miles away. Kevin's heart was beating so fast he thought it might come out of his chest. Wiping his paws on his jeans, he knocked on the door hearing the knocks echo in his sensitive ears. One second, two seconds, three seconds," Jeez Kevin why are you freaking out you just met the guy, he's just a normal guy calm down," Then after what felt like an eternity Chris finally but for once Kevin wasn't noticing his eyes, Chris was standing there without a shirt on, he could tell that the muscles didn't just stop at the arms. The lion had a developing six pack and a rock hard chest which was covered with that silky fur.
"Oh hey, Kevin I was just thinking about coming over to your room and see if you wanted to hangout. Come on in I just got COD modern warfare 2 want to play?"
"Shshshure," was all Kevin could manage. "Why does this guy keep doing this to me," he thought.
For the next couple of hours the two just got to normal guys, shouting at the TV over bullshit deaths and amazing kills. "Hey Chris it's almost 6:30 you want to go get some dinner."
"Yeah sure."
The two went to dinner and after getting their food, Kevin thought to himself, "I got to get this guy talking and see what his opinion is a homosexuality, and see if maybe he could actually be that missing part in my life." "So where you from Chris?"
"I'm from Chicago, well sort of my family liked to move around a lot so that where I'm most recently from. What about you?"
"Pretty much the same, right now my family is living in Milwaukee Wisconsin but, they seem to move like every four or five years. So why did to you transfer from state to St. Johns."
"Well there are actually a couple of reasons first state was just too big and I felt like a number instead of a person. Secondly the person I was dating broke up with me and I could stand seeing them around campus so I just needed to get away. What about you why are you up here in nowhere Minnesota?"
"Great," thought Kevin, "this guy is definitely straight and just broke up with his girl friend, God but why do these feeling keep coming up when I around him." "Well mostly because I like the campus and then the smaller class appealed to me also," said Kevin once again becoming part of the conversation.
"So how bout you do you have anyone special up here or are you out on the prowl for the next possibility?"
"No there's no special, and I think there's many people that fit into the category I'm looking for. What about you is there anyone here that has caught your eye in the few hours you've been here?"
"Well there is one, but I don't know how he would react to my advances."
"HE, there is no way he meant he," thought Kevin," Wait you said he by accident you meant she right," said Kevin.
"Nope I meant he, that not a problem is it?"
"No no not at all, I just thought that with your looks when you said you were just getting out of a relationship. You meant with a girl."
"Yeah that's what most people think when they see me a jock, which goes after all the ladies and beats the shit out of anyone who thinks about being gay."
"Oh I'm sorry, but actually finding out your gay makes life a lot easier for me. So not trying to pry but whom exactly was it that you interested in here at school?"
Chris lets out a small laugh," well to tell you the truth it's you but I was worried just like you that you were just trying to be nice to me since I'm new. And that you would totally reject me if I made a move."
Kevin shocked at what was just revealed to him start to feel his tail wag," hey how bout we get out of here and go talk in your room were we can have some more privacy."
"That sounds great to me," said Chris with a big toothy grin.
Kevin couldn't believe what had happened, this morning he was filling like something in his life was missing and not twelve hours later Chris had come along and filled in the gap. "Could this be real or am I still dreaming. Could I have actually found a person that I can be completely honest with and show him my deepest emotions? God please don't let this be a dream," thought Kevin to himself walking back to the room with Chris.
The two walked into Chris's room, and Chris locked the door behind them, they both sat on the futon stared into each other's eye waiting for one or the other to break the ice. End Part One
*Authors notes: I put some of myself into this trying to show the hardship of finding that one person that completes you. Sadly I haven't found that person yet but hopefully someday I will. Thanks for reading.