A Matter of Perspective

Story by Jeeves on SoFurry

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Two brand new college roommates connect rather intimately over their similarities, and some notable but very pleasant differences. <3


This vignette was written for Shakal as part of my Patreon request days for the month of July 2018. It contains M/M sex between consenting adults, and lewdly romantic cuteness. :3

A Matter of Perspective

For months, Adam had been simultaneously longing for and dreading today. He was moving into his college dorm room, and in doing so he was almost certainly going to meet his roommate. In a way, this was a good thing. The idea of not knowing anyone at college had terrified the cat, and it had been a huge weight off his mind to know that he would have at least one person to attempt a connection with right from the start. Better yet, thanks to the wonders of the internet he had been able to connect with his roommate ahead of time, and Tom sounded like a really cool guy. At the same time though, it was kinda terrifying precisely because of just how well he and Tom had gotten along in their online chats.

They'd never met in person. Hell, they'd both been so nervous and eager not to seem shallow in so much of their conversation that they didn't even know what the other anthro looked like. And despite everything they'd shared, their worries, their hopes, their interests and passions in life, and even some stuff about their intimate relationships or lack thereof, Adam was wracked by the fear that once he and Tom actually found themselves in the same room together, either they would feel awkward and embarrassed as hell, or worse, Tom might turn out to be some asshole who would happily take all the embarrassing personal stuff that Adam had shared with him and spread it around the dorm as social currency to ingratiate himself with others.

Of course, Adam had no reason whatsoever to suspect such deception. As he dragged his heavy suitcase packed full of a semester's worth of possessions up the stairs towards the room he had been assigned though, key jingling in his hand, his head was still spinning with worry. It was only when he arrived at his dorm room door that the lithe tabby cat managed to shut his brain up for a moment, and even then it wasn't because the fears he was experiencing had in any way abated. Instead, it was quite simply because his thoughts were interrupted by sounds coming from the other side of the door. By a voice, murmuring to itself with words that sounded all too familiar to the feline.

"C'mon. C'mon, get a hold of yourself. He told you stuff too. Stuff just as personal as what you said to him. He's not gonna tell anyone. He's not gonna share it around just to try and get a few asshole friends. This isn't high school any more. You trusted him. You can trust him. A-and... and you should. It's the right thing to do. It's the good thing to do."

Adam could have listened for longer, could have let his new roommate ramble on more and more with the exact same fears that he himself was experiencing, but he didn't want to let Tom dwell on it any more than he himself already had. Thus he set his bag down upon the carpeted corridor just outside the dorm room door, took a deep, steadying breath, and knocked.

A sharp gasp escaped from within, followed by a loud thud and a brief cry of discomfort. Adam's eyes bulged, and he called out to the figure within.

"O-oh my god, Tom? Is that you? Are you okay?"

The other voice called back, embarrassed and yet obviously relieved to hear the voice address him by name, more or less confirming that it was surely his new roommate.

"Adam? Yeah, I... ah, I'm fine! Sorry, I just hit my head on the light fitting. I'll be right there."

The door clicked from within as its lock sprang open, and moments later it swung inward to reveal exactly how Tom had hit his head on the light hanging, still swinging slightly, from the ceiling in the centre of the room. Tom, with whom Adam had shared deeply private conversations about certain aspects of his... size, was a zebra. A huge, over seven foot tall and powerfully muscular zebra. Compared to Adam's five feet and change, he was a titan. A colossus. And right now he was staring down at the cat with an expression that betrayed one clear emotion above all others.

Pure, nervous hope.

"H-hi..."

The huge zebra extended one trembling, meaty hand.

"It's really, r-really good to meet you at last, Adam."

The cat took the zebra's hand, and shook it with a bashful smile of his own.

"Same! I... I'm really glad we're gonna be rooming together. And, I hope it doesn't sound too grade school to say this but, I really hope we can be friends, too."

The two young men smiled at one another for a few moments longer as their hands lingered in contact, and then... then it was like they'd been friends for an eternity already. Adam dragged his bag into the room, and they spent the rest of that morning and a good portion of the afternoon talking to one another as they unpacked their things. They totally spaced on the first day orientation meeting for all freshman students, far too busy sitting on the edges of their beds and chatting, laughing about all sorts of stuff they'd hated about high school and beaming as they spoke with unironic sincerity about how much better they hoped that college would be in comparison.

It was only when their stomachs began to growl that they abandoned their rooms, heading into the local town together for the first time in search of food, continuing to talk all the while. Neither one of them could believe quite how well they were getting along, and they said so to one another many a time. They confessed how nervous they'd been, how terrified they were that they'd shared too much too soon when first getting to know one another online. All in all over the course of that morning, afternoon and the beginnings of the evening, they probably shared more of themselves with one another than they had not just with their friends back home for as long as they'd known them, but with their family too. They covered the fundamentals of practically every aspect of their lives, except for one notable exception.

An exception which was notable because it wasn't a new subject. Because it was something they had discussed before, on one particularly lonely, vulnerable night while they had both been lying in their beds at home earlier that summer, longing for someone, anyone with whom to talk about a matter so personal that at times it seemed almost insurmountable.

When they returned home though... home, not to their families but to their dorm room, not alone but together with their new friend and roommate, that subject was weighing heavily upon both men's minds. Their knowledge of what the other man had shared with them during the summer was inescapable, and for Adam in particular it was present with renewed curiosity behind it. It wasn't that he doubted or disbelieved Tom in what the zebra had told him. But, back then Adam hadn't known that Tom was a zebra, so when he'd been told what he'd been told, he had made certain... assumptions. Assumptions which had been rooted, amongst other things, in Tom not being a species so unabashedly known for their... size.

Back in their room, their room, just the two of them with no-one to check up on them, visit them or in any way catch them, Adam blushed and nodded as Tom asked if he minded them locking the door when they were both in at the end of the night, just in case. No sooner had Adam offered his affirming response, he heard the click of the lock and knew that they were sealed away together. His heart raced, and he tried to stop it, to tell himself not to get carried away and to remind himself that a friendship was far more important than the idea of a college hook-up, particularly with the person whom he was meant to be living with for the next year. Nevertheless, it continued to pound within his chest as he watched Tom wander over to his bed, sit down and look over with a bashful smile at Adam.

"S-so..."

The zebra murmured nervously, seeing the cat's eyes widen and hoping beyond hope that he wasn't being too forward, that he wasn't going to come off as creepy or trying to put the moves on Adam, no matter how much he might have wanted to after the incredible day they'd had together.

"...do y-you... uh, do you mind if I get a little more... c-comfortable, in the evenings? I... I uh, I told you about how I... how I wished I could, a-at home."

The cat's eyes got wider still. This was it. This was how they'd gotten onto that subject in the first place. The idea of how little privacy and space they'd had at home, and how they were both so glad to have found a roommate who seemed cool with the idea of things being more casual and relaxed within the bounds of their shared space.

"I'd love that."

Adam murmured, before realising how that sounded and almost choking as he struggled to formulate a caveat to his prior statement.

"I... I mean, I'd love to be able to get more comfortable too! N-not that I want to see you more comfortable. Not that I don't want to see it, I just... oh god..."

He buried his face in his hands with a dry chuckle of absolute embarrassment, stunned at how quickly he'd been able to tangle himself up into knots. To his relief though, the zebra just laughed warmly back. By the time Adam raised his head again, Tom was already pulling his t-shirt up and over his head, revealing a gorgeous muscular body as his arms reached down and began to unbutton his jeans.

"I... I'm glad we talked about this before we got here. Like, I'm not the kind of asshole that would make judgements anyway, and I know you aren't either. But... I'm just glad that you don't have any, uh... expectations?"

Adam's eyes widened as he heard Tom just say it while the zebra turned away slightly to step out of his jeans. Finally, it was no longer unspoken. Finally, one of them had acknowledged that they had spoken about this specific, very personal issue.

That night had been a wild one full of personal topics from a lack of privacy to their mutual lack of sexual experience, but perhaps even more intimate and personal a revelation than that of their mutual virginity had been when the two eighteen year old guys had found themselves discussing length. How neither one of them were particularly well endowed, and how that fact had made gym class an utterly humiliating experience when put up against the various studs and stallions in their classes who were eager to show off all that some others might be lacking.

"It... it's cool, man. Seriously. You could lie around buck ass naked if you wanted, and I wouldn't say a word. Not about anything, but, definitely not about what we talked about before. You're you. You're Tom. And, that's who I'm friends with. That's who I'm glad to be roommate's with, and I don't give a single shit about the size of your..."

Dressed now in only his rather tight boxer briefs, it was then that the zebra turned around.

Tom almost choked, and his eyes bulged as he stared at the soft but still obviously thick, visible manhood contained within the zebra's only remaining item of clothing.

"...c-cock."

At first, Tom was blushing and smiling with gratitude. The longer that Adam stared at his crotch however, that smile began to fade and that blush began to grow much deeper.

"Y-yeah? Because... dude, y-you're kinda staring."

Looking decidedly more nervous and uncomfortable, and frankly a little betrayed, Tom turned away from Adam once more as finally the cat was able to drag his gaze away from the zebra's crotch. He looked up, saw the expression on Tom's face, and whimpered softly.

"Oh, oh shit, I'm sorry. It's just... it's not what we talked about. You said, I... I was expecting... y-you said that you were small. You said you were like me. Below average. You might even have used the word tiny."

Still looking a little confused and on edge, Tom nodded slowly.

"Well, yeah. I mean, c'mon. I'm barely thirteen inches hard."

Adam swore that he almost fainted in that moment, but instead of collapsing where he was seated on the edge of his own bed, he laughed out loud. Not mockingly, but in absolute wonder.

"T-thirteen inches?! Holy fucking shit, a-and... and you say that's small?!"

Tom frowned, and shrugged.

"I mean, yeah. For a zebra, that's..."

Adam cut him off, throwing his hands skyward in a rather pointed gesture.

"For a zebra! You never said that you were a zebra though. I... I've been picturing you as like my size for the last few months. Thirteen inches is... it's huge. It's giant. It's..."

The cat's voice trailed off as he saw Tom looking at him with embarrassment and confusion, but just a touch of something else too. A feeling that looked unfamiliar to the zebra, and which made him look even more handsome than the stallion already was.

"It's what, Adam?

The two brand new college students, the two brand new friends stared at one another for a few moments. The whole of the year ahead of them hung in the balance, their whole relationship rested on what would happen in the following few seconds. And it was with that awareness fully in mind that Adam did the only thing which made the slightest bit of sense under the circumstances. He told the truth to his new friend, just as he had told it without shame or fear of judgement from the moment they'd started to talk.

"It's so... so fucking hot, Tom. You might not think you're big. You might not be compared to other zebras you've known. B-but... holy shit, Tom. Thirteen inches? I..."

Adam rose from his bed, and half lunged, half stumbled across the dorm room between their two beds. He dropped to his knees directly in front of Tom, and with the zebra staring down at him wide eyed, he shuffled his way closer and closer to the equine male's stretched, cock-stuffed boxer briefs.

"I've dreamed of being with a man bigger than me. T-twice my size, or more."

The cat mewled softly as he slowly reached for Tom's crotch with one trembling hand, looking up at the zebra pleadingly, waiting for any sign that Tom didn't want him to continue. But to his delight, no such sign was presented.

"Dreamed of holding a cock that I could barely close my fist around, and that I could grab with both hands and still see length to spare. I... I've never been ashamed of my five inches, not unless people were openly mocking me for them, but..."

Once more he stared up at the zebra, and echoed the same words he had spoken multiple times already with reverent awe.

"...t-thirteen inches, Tom? Please, l-let me... let me show you that you have nothing to be embarrassed about. Let me show you that what you have in your pants is more than enough for almost any man to handle."

He groped at the length of the stallion's cock through the fabric of Tom's underwear, and mewled again loudly, gleefully as already he felt the shaft quivering, twitching, stiffening within his grasp. The first cock other than his own he had ever touched, and he couldn't have imagined it being more perfect.

"I know when we spoke, w-we both swore to each other that size doesn't matter. A-and, I swear I still believe that. But, oh god, Tom..."

Tugging the zebra's boxer-briefs down and grunting in ecstasy as that swelling shaft sprang loose before his eyes, Adam couldn't wait and longer. He lunged forward, and shamelessly, with the eagerness and inexperience of his virgin body on full display, began to nuzzle, to kiss, and to unabashedly worship the zebra's growing, throbbing manhood.

"...if it did matter? Yours would be enough t-to... enough to make a guy like me beg for a chance to feel it in their muzzle. In their ass. T-to... to risk a brand new friendship that means the world to him, and to roll the dice on the whole rest of this year, by telling his new roommate that he thinks his cock is huge, and beautiful, a-and that he doesn't want to rest... doesn't want to stop until he's made it cum all over him. Inside and out, a-again... and again."

Tom's eyes bulged, and the zebra whinnied softly, bashfully as he peered down at the cat stroking and nuzzling so adoringly at his stiffening erection. He took a deep breath, and as he watched the hopeful desperation etched into his new friend's expression growing more and more intense with each passing moment, he smiled down at Adam. One of his large, meaty hands reached out, but rather than gently pushing the cat away from his erection as Adam had feared, it circled around the back of the feline male's head and stroked his soft fur while holding him, albeit tenderly, in place.

"Then don't stop."

Adam mewled in glee, and Tom's whole body shook, his legs almost giving way as for the first time in his life he felt his cock being engulfed, the tip at least, by another person's mouth.

"Oh god. O-ohh... Adam!"

He moaned to the cat now amateurishly yet eagerly slurping and sucking on his cock, and whinnied in pleasure as he began to buck his hips, thrusting his thirteen inches at the hungry maw of the cat who saw him in a way no-one else ever had. From a perspective that Tom had never believed possible.

Not just as big.

Not just as huge.

But rather as perfect, precisely the way and the size that he was.

"Adam. Oh. Ohh yes... please. Oh, please... d-don't stop."

By Jeeves

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