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Chapter 19: Preparation

Hunter left the dormitory building, sulking about his ordeal from Sol's prank. The next thing he realized while walking through the campus was the smell of Robin's odor mixed into his musk. He picked his deodorant can and sprayed it under his shirt to hide it.

Hunter was glad Keanu was not around today. He left early that Wednesday at noon, so he could search for his Halloween costume. Eventually, Hunter sulkily traveled alone on the street train that late afternoon to his home.

The moment he unlocked the door of his house, he was surprised to find the lock chain removed. Apparently, his mother must have unscrewed it in case if Rylan would lock Hunter outside. He closed the door and found his young brother sitting alone in the living room watching his new favorite anime series which was the one that Keanu was watching a few days ago when he hung out with him.

Rylan pretended he was not there, even if he glanced at him when he opened the door, sitting with both hands on his lap and his mother was at the kitchen preparing for tonight's dinner.

Rylan was like a young version of Hunter, but his brown and white fur was lighter, somewhat pale, and with dark brown eyes and ears. He was just in his simple white shirt and red shorts as if he were sick today.

Hunter spoke calmly as possible from sounding in a bad mood, "Mom, I'm home."

"Welcome back, Hunter," said Mrs. Montana. "I'm making steak tonight. Medium rare?"

"Yeah, sure, keep it juicy," he said and made for his bedroom.

He heard Rylan mumbling something about his extra smell of pinewood, but he ignored it.

He passed Rylan's and River's room which he glanced at his youngest brother playing with the Switch on his bed. Next was his sister's room but the door was closed. He walked into the bathroom and unclothed himself there and washed off his mess of a semi-failed prank. He got rid of Robin's smell and the dried bodily fluids on his lower stomach. He felt a lot of things today, and sulking was the right word after the outcome of the prank. That little thought really made the big difference when it snuck into his mind. It was embarrassing, irritating, and stupid.

Not that he hated it, he knew what he was feeling right now and did not tell Sol about it.

Hunter sighed, he hoped for tomorrow would get over it.

After dinner, Hunter laid in bed and sank into his thoughts deeply. He had calmed down but knew his parents sensed something from the wolf as he ate quietly his meal. He took another breath and exhaled, closing his eyes. The image of Keanu embracing him so close together in the shower was very erotically romantic. Hunter's cheeks blushed and his heart fluttered.

He had fallen in love before, so he was familiar with that territory. Only more... special?

He only knew Keanu for two months, and this same went for his first boyfriend Lester from last semester. They became boyfriends two months after they met and broke up one month later before the semester ended. Their relationship didn't work well after Lester's parents found out he was dating a beastman instead of a human. Bigotry was still present, and Hunter could not do anything about it because Lester's parents threatened him that they would get him out of the university if he didn't stop dating Hunter. Lester thought about his future first and made the painful decision to break up with Hunter, talking to him face-to-face.

Hunter enjoyed their time together; the human was just a new outer and saw nothing wrong with dating someone who wasn't the same species.

Now he didn't know how and why this came up in his mind. He sighed and seemed he was just longing for a significant other to fill that void he was missing months ago.

His cellphone rang, he picked it up from the nightstand and checked the caller, Keanu. He wondered but he kind of smiled that he called.

He swiped the answer button and spoke, "Hey, Keanu. How's it going tonight?"

"Hi, Hunter, I'm... just checking... uh, if you have your Halloween costume?"

"No, I haven't, I still have plenty of time to get one. So, did you get your costume?"

"Yeah, I found a prince costume for my size, Jack thought it was gay, so I bought it."

"A prince costume, huh?" Hunter's smile widened and his tail wagged between his legs. "Wow, never thought you're into fairytales... and what do you mean gay?"

Keanu laughed. "I don't know, he just opinionated. I thought it looked cool and... formal, so..."

"Did it catch your attention?"

"Well, it was the only costume I found that fit my size, and a lot of costumes were selling fast. I heard Halloween is very popular nowadays for teenagers."

Hunter chuckled, imagining the arctic wolf dressed in a white military-style jacket with attached golden epaulets on the shoulders, some brown slacks, a jacquard sash, a military belt, and a gold medal. This gave him an idea.

"Hey... I think I know what to wear this year."

"Really?"

"Sure, we got, like, until Sunday, right?"

"Sure, uh, and I heard they will be restocking at the party store tomorrow, so you better hurry up before it goes empty again."

"Sure, no problem, can't wait to see your costume."

"Me neither, I wonder what's gonna be?"

"You'll find out soon, good night, Keanu."

"Goodnight."

Hunter hung up and felt now relieved and cheered up. He guessed hearing his soft voice calmed him down, and it really worked. He could not stop smiling, it wasn't a big grin on his face, but it was a smile, nonetheless. He could finally fall asleep tonight from his crazy ordeal.

...

Sol and Natasha sat together outside of the cafeteria's outdoor tables with parasols shielding them from the sun. Sol called Hunter this morning, hoping to see him all right after yesterday and Natasha was the same to check on him. Hunter just left them alone with Robin in a whim all sulked.

Natasha sighed. "Is he coming?"

Sol assured her. "Yeah, he's coming, we haven't heard his side of the story, so..." he shrugged, "let's see what he has to say."

"Do you think we went too far?"

"I don't know, Hunter knew the terms and conditions and stuff. He took the risk, but... I just didn't know he would come all sloppy."

"Oh, maybe I can cheer him up by telling him about my first time which didn't last like five minutes."

"Uh, let's not make it all too awkward, Natasha, alright? But could you tell me about it?"

"Oh, he..." Natasha shamelessly spoke her first-time experience to Sol which was the most awkward love-making performance that didn't last more than five minutes, talking about how it all started and how it ended. "...and his penis was long but not thick enough, so it felt like, doink, doink, doink inside me and poking through it. Bobbie was doing weird shit to me as if this whole thing were a porno and finished me off before I knew it. I was very disappointed how it turned out in the end."

Sol sat there, leaning with his arms crossed on the table, with an incredulous, WTF-ed face.

"What?" said Natasha.

The leopard roared in laughter. This kitten can't be serious! He thought.

"You think my story is funny?"

"Hell yeah, I cannot believe you told me this kind of thing to a guy!"

"Of course I can, you're gay and you would take this seriously."

"Even if I were straight, I would still laugh about it and tell it to my friends."

"Oh god, don't tell them about it, except Milagros, I already told her about it. I thought this story would cheer up Hunter."

"Yeah, if you don't mention the doink, doink, doink part, we're good. No, wait, that will definitely cheer up Hunter!"

Natasha pouted annoyingly at the laughing leopard, but saw Hunter coming by and waved at the two. "Look, he's here."

Hunter sat with them at the table, he looked decent to talk which relieved Sol and Natasha about their concerns on the wolf.

"Hunter," Sol greeted, patting on his shoulder, "you're doing alright?"

"Same as always, guys," Hunter sighed. "Look, sorry if I left without warning, but I was kind of upset about yesterday."

"We can see that," said Natasha. "Robin said that you nutted too soon, oh, and I got some of your sticky spunk on my shirt and leggings."

Hunter pulled out the collard of his shirt uncomfortably and Sol held his laughter. "Oof, sorry about that."

"It's okay, it's only bodily fluids," she waved it off. "We called you to see us and to check on you."

"Well, I'm alright, guys, no worries."

"Come on, Hunter, tell us. What happened?" Sol shook his shoulder.

Hunter sighed; it was still fresh in his mind. He blushed in embarrassment, but he quietly talked about his ordeal with Robin at Sol's dorm. Despite that Sol was present and listening to the conversation, Natasha listened intently to everything that happened before she arrived at the dorm room to make her performance. She felt guilty that she did not make it sooner.

"Oh, I see," Natasha said apologetically. "And what made you to um..."

Hunter looked the other way to the horizon near the beach even more red on his face. "Ah... a silly fantasy of mine came out of nowhere and opened the gates of..." he shrugged sheepishly, "...well."

"Oh, my god."

"A fantasy, you say?" said Sol.

"Yeah, it was really stupid of me." Hunter's reddened wolf-face increased.

"Wow, what you were thinking, man? I knew you were uncomfortable doing it with Robin, but never thought you were thinking of someone else."

"Let's not go there, Sol, come on." Hunter gestured his hands in defense.

Natasha spoke a little seriously, "Now I kind of wish I could have gotten there sooner, Hunter."

"Huh, what do you mean?"

"Well, I was on my way to meet you guys as planned but my friends dragged me to go get some slushies at the convenience store just not too far from here. Sorry, Hunter, I really should have ditched my friends much more sooner."

Hunter looked at her, she looked guilty. He realized how a slight delay made a whole difference. Had she arrived sooner before his climax, the prank would have turned out as he had expected... or... had he kept steadier and distracted Robin longer during the foreplay, he could have made sure there was plenty of time had Natasha delayed, but there wasn't any other way to keep in touch with Sol the moment when he left the phone on the nightstand. Hunter knew the risks and he could not blame it on Natasha's tardiness. It happened and that was it.

"It's alright, Natasha, it's not your fault," said Hunter. "I was careless too, you know."

"Yeah, a little dream of yours carelessly nutted you than anything than what you were humping on," smiled Sol.

Hunter ignored his statement. "So, did the prank worked?"

"Oh yeah, it turned out well," Sol assured him. "Robin hates me though, I think."

"Dude, what you were thinking? He was your secret admirer."

"A secret admirer who fucked a dozen of guys."

"So? And it's the same as you do."

"And I proved that he is capable of on what was about to do to you and trying to keep a secret from me, remember? You heard exactly what he said, and it came naturally, you almost felt what could have been a trap. You're my best friend Hunter, and you would tell me anything, no matter what. I won't date someone who thinks can get away with anything, and it was all my gut talking, I knew there was something fishy about him."

"So by pulling this prank would teach him a lesson?" Natasha said. "Hmm, what kind of secret admirer would sleep with someone else like that?"

Hunter again sighed. "Well, it did scare me a little what he said about that it would be a secret between us."

"See? Clearly that Robin wasn't for me."

"Tsk, just promise me you won't do this kind of thing on me, Sol, okay?"

"Sure, I won't, Hunt."

After a short silence, Natasha spoke, "So, am I off the hook?"

Hunter said with no objections. "Sure, you're not at fault."

"Good," she stood up, "I'm gonna get me some lunch and I'm gonna buy Hunter a meal for the damages."

"Hey, that's my line!" Sol stood up. "I'm going to buy him some lunch too of yesterday."

"Well, I called it!" She ran inside the building to order herself and Hunter some food.

"NOOO! That was my plan!" Sol ran after her, running inside the building.

Hunter sat there, laughing lightly at the two, treating him something to eat. He guessed that today would be a good day after all. Things were becoming brightly to him.

Hunter entered inside the building and quickly found an empty table to sit and guard it before Sol and Natasha would come back with their food and his.

Sol was the first to arrive and snatched Natasha's second box that was on top of hers.

The leopard brightly grinned at Hunter with his treat in hand and placed it on the table in front of him. "Hope you like it."

Hunter opened the Styrofoam box and revealed a pasta salad.

"That's not his meal, you idiot," Natasha hissed. "That's mine. Think you could get away with it?"

Sol pouted at her with a frown. Natasha handed over Hunter's real meal which was a chicken burger with French fries on the side with ketchup added all over. "Hope you like it," she smiled.

"Thank you, Natasha," said Hunter gladly.

Keanu arrived inside the cafeteria but did not go to the waiting line, he went straight to the table and sat next to Hunter. "Hi, guys," Keanu said and pulled out a wrapped sandwich from his backpack.

"Hey, Keanu, I see you made your own lunch."

"No, Dad made it, he cut it in two and gave me the other half." The young wolf unwrapped one end of the half-foot-long sandwich. "Dad told me to make some lunch at home to save some money." He took a bite; he made a face of enjoyment and tail wagging subconsciously. "Mmm, Dad's sandwiches are the best."

Natasha curiously gazed at Keanu's white fur, he looked very fluffy. Must be his winter fur of this fall. "Keanu, how do you keep your fur so fluffy?" she asked, placing her black-furred hand on the back of his furry neck, and brushed it. Natasha made a funny, wide-eyed, surprised face. "Oh, my god! You're so soft! What's your secret?"

Keanu blushed and felt he had been given a massage on the back of his neck. Natasha could not stop brushing his neck fur. "Uh, plenty of water and healthy food?" he replied. "I don't know, winter is coming soon, I better groom it later."

Hunter watched as Natasha kept on feeling his head fur with a smile and a chuckle. Hunter knew the few times he ruffled his head; he was very fluffy as a cloud.

Sol, who was sitting on his right, leaned on him, and whispered, "Did you asked him out?"

Hunter was perplexed, he didn't know how to respond to that. "What do you mean?" he whispered back.

"Halloween is coming, everyone is going, and did you ask Keanu out? Just wondering."

"No, I didn't--"

"Dude, come on, don't you like him, do you?"

"Let me finish, Sol. Listen, it's not a date, but we all gonna hang out together this Halloween, so there isn't much to expect. We're just going to hang out," Hunter firmly stated.

"But still, do you like him?" Sol kept going and pushing.

Hunter could not take it anymore. "Yes, I do, but let me take this on my own, okay, Sol? Don't get on my way and stop being nosy. You already have problems on your own with that raccoon of yours."

"Ouch, man, it isn't that much of a big deal. He'll get over it."

"Natasha, could you please let me eat my sandwich in peace?" Keanu asked embarrassedly.

"I can't stop, you're so fluffy!" Natasha kept petting his white fur with both hands, disheveling his fur into a mess.

"Ahh! Stop it!" Keanu pleaded.

Milagros arrived with her food tray and saw the weird sight. Hunter and Sol were still whispering to one another before they noticed her presence. "Natasha, what are you doing?" she asked.

"You should feel his fur, Milagros, he's so fluffy!" beamed Natasha.

"Milagros, tell her to stop!" Keanu had enough and could not fight back.

"Natasha, stop it, you're messing with his fur."

But was already too late, as Natasha stopped, Keanu's fur was a mess as bed hair. "Thank you, Milagros."

Hunter looked at Keanu's mess, he tried or offered to fix it with one hand, but Keanu slapped his hand off away. "Sorry," Hunter apologized, rubbing his hand, it stung like a bee.

Keanu pointed his muzzle upward and shook his head vigorously to fix his fur and flattened it by his own. He was still blushing but resumed eating his sandwich in peace. He lost his good mood today.

Hunter brought up a new topic. "So, you guys are ready for Halloween this weekend?"

Milagros said, "Uh-huh, yeah, I'm up for it. I'm dressing as Cleopatra."

"So is Sergio dressing as something Egyptian like you?"

"No, he's dressing as a pizza delivery guy this year."

"A pizza delivery guy?" Hunter rose an eyebrow.

"He's planning a Halloween prank for his next video upload, but I don't know the details."

Xavier and Broderick arrived, joining with them for lunch.

Sol asked the reindeer, "Yo, Broderick, you have your Scorpion costume?"

"Yup, ready for a Mortal Kombat!" Broderick smiled. "Get it?"

Sol cringed. Everyone cringed.

"What are you dressing as, Sol?" Hunter asked.

"Sub-Zero," he answered, "thought we could make a show during the party. Hunter, what's yours?"

"I need to go to the party store after class and see, I haven't bought the costume yet, but I made a reservation this morning before it gets sold out."

"What's your costume, Hunter?" Keanu curiously said.

Hunter smiled, shaking his head, and zipped his lips. "I'm not telling you, your royal highness."

Milagros asked Keanu with a smile, "What's your costume, Keanu?"

"A prince."

"A prince?" Natasha cried. "OMG, I was going to dress as a zombie bride, Keanu! We can pretend we're a couple."

"Yeah, so everyone will look at the handsome prince than his ugly-ass corpse bride," said Sol.

Natasha was mentally triggered, glaring with her yellow eyes wide with fury at Sol.

She kept her composure at bay but gritted her speech. "Okay... all I need is to change the costume to look like a princess marrying her prince charming~."

"Didn't you, like, told me you had a bad prom date, like, over a year ago?" said Broderick.

Milagros caught on to what Natasha was up to. "Don't tell me you're trying to fulfill what you couldn't have, Natasha?"

Natasha gasped with one hand on her chest. "Well, I never."

"Sounds like it is," Sol sneered.

"Well, whatever, I was just thinking if we could go as a couple for one night."

"Well, I'm not even interested, Natasha," Keanu said, wrecking Natasha's one hope of a chance to fulfill her terrible past prom date.

Aw, come on! Natasha mentally cried.

Hunter asked Xavier, "So what's your costume, Xavier?"

The parrot shrugged. "Last year costume; a skeleton that can glow in the dark. And Xerxes told me he wanted a Thor costume, but he couldn't find one at the store and were sold out, so he stuck with a firefighter costume as plan B."

Inside Sol's dirty mind, he imagined a steamy dragon wearing fire-proof trousers with red suspenders, a tight sleeveless white t-shirt that accentuated the dragon's muscles, a red plastic helmet, and a plastic axe.

"Sol, could you stop drooling over Xerxes' costume?" Xavier saw his funny-looking face as he dreamt. "I seriously doubt he will be wearing a skimpy costume of a stripper."

"Dude, get out of my imagination, will ya?!" Sol said.

"Just saying." Xavier rolled his eyes.

...

On Friday at Sergio's dorm room, upbeat sensual music was playing from the speakers. The coyote-boy danced erotically in front of the laptop's camera, he was in live and wearing nothing but a thong with a Mexican flag and a black mask. A flood of comments of his followers roared in the live chat, letting out countless compliments, love, colorful emojis, and many, many, many, dirty lewd comments. Sergio ignored them, knowing he could not please everyone's desires and demands. He knew he would have a gay following when he started this, but he had a decent number of followers of all kinds from all over the country and the whole world. This was by far the most erotic performance he ever made by one follower who requested him to recreate one of the internet's famous memes.

He bought a black curtain as a background to hide any familiarity of his dorm from being exposed from any individual who could likely identify the dorm's layout as they watched his mature videos. He assumed some people on the campus would be watching him without knowing who he was.

He danced like an improperly oiled-up machine, his movements were stiffed and lacked any flow and smoothness of his arms, legs, torso, and tail. Someone in the chat said she could hear him squeaking and creaking as he danced, knowing well he wasn't that much of a dancer. His amateur moves, however, made him sweat and his body glistened all over his fur which appealed pretty much to his audience. His jiggling package became the spotlight which the comments called him the Mexican version of Ricardo Milos--

He heard the door knocking, Sergio stopped like a statue, heart racing and the live chatters reacted to his sudden behavior they didn't saw coming.

Sergio quickly turned off the music and told his followers with a deep-faked voice that he was going to end it for today and apologized, ending the live stream. He turned around and removed the black curtain bar and hid it behind the couch. He didn't have time to think about who it was at the door, so he threw away the black mask on his face, picked a towel as he panted and dried his sweaty body vigorously, and grabbed his clothes where he left on the bed and reused them. He put on the black shirt of his favorite band logo and boxers without removing his thong.

The door kept on knocking; it came to his mind it was not Xavier's way of knocking nor Milagros', so he didn't know who it was.

He breathed to calm his agitated heart and made to the door. "I'm coming!" he said.

He opened the door and... he really didn't expect to be, of all people, the raccoon that Sol had targeted two days ago. Sol told him about the prank yesterday, including Hunter's embarrassing moment. He thought it was kind of funny. Well, somehow not anymore now that the raccoon was there in front of him.

Robin stood there with a sterned look on his natural masked face with crossed arms.

Sergio never met Robin in person before but knowing him as a raccoon he almost said his name, "Can I help you, Ro--?" he stopped.

The raccoon caught that; he raised an eyebrow. "You know my name? Figures..."

"Huh?"

"You were involved in Sol's prank, right?" he demanded.

"Uh, yes, and no..."

"Don't play dumb with me, I saw some of your YouTube videos and saw Sol in one of them. I know you're the only guy here making elaborate pranks on this campus. Never thought you and Sol were capable of making such sick-fuck of a prank on me."

"Uh..." Sergio was afraid, despite the raccoon's small stature, Robin was accusingly glaring at him. He raised his hands defensively. "I only helped him giving him ideas for the prank and he did the rest. I wasn't there when it happened."

"Tsk..." he looked away before looking back at him.

"So, what do you want from me, I'm busy with stuff."

Robin said bluntly, "I'll give you fifty bucks if you help me prank Sol for what he did to me."

"W-what?"

"Come on, I want some revenge, that's all I want."

"Jeez." Sergio could relax on what he was up to, and he saw this as childish play. This whole thing had turned into a prank war. He rolled his eyes. "You were Sol's secret admirer, right? I'm sorry he turned you down, but..." he shrugged, "can you just let it go, man?"

"I'll double it to one-hundred."

"Dude..."

"One-fifty?"

"You can do better than that."

"You're that horny coyote, aren't you?"

Sergio was confused, trying to act normal, but failed. "W-what?"

Robin snorted. "Don't act like you don't know." He pulled out his phone, showing him his latest live stream video, dancing like a wannabe dancer. "This is you, I knocked on the door and saw your reaction. You're K9_aztecwarrior, aren't you?"

Sergio was losing it and afraid. "Are you blackmailing me?"

"If you help me make this prank, I won't tell anyone that you're into this bullshit, and I'll pay you two-hundred."

Sergio was embarrassed that someone would actually come to his dorm and scream that he was_K9_aztecwarrior_. He had no choice.

"Er... ah, alright, alright, deal. I'll help you set the next prank, but first I must make some rescheduling because of it."

"Sure thing, Sergio. And here." Robin gave him his phone number. "Keep me in touch."

Sergio hesitantly took his phone number. "Are you sure you want to do this?"

"Surely, we'll talk more about the prank later."

"Alright, I'll text you what I have in mind."

"See you, Sergio." Robin left with a satisfied face.

Sergio closed the door and sighed; he could not believe this was happening. He handled it badly to deny he was the said dancer. How did Robin find out? Did he watch the adult videos he made and then saw and compared his prank videos online? It could have been worse. He always thought Sol would likely find out first since he assumed the leopard would watch some adult content in his free time, but he did not know if Sol had a porn account or what his innuendo username was.

Sergio sighed and took off his shirt to take a shower because he saw how Robin's muzzle wrinkled when he probably had caught a whiff of his sweaty musk. After he took off his boxers, he heard a familiar knock and opened the door.

Xavier greeted calmly after his soccer practice. "Hey, Sergio, I'm back from..." he trailed off. "Que carajo?"

Sergio thought, for a moment, Xavier caught him naked, but no, he was still wearing his thong. He screamed and covered his privates. "Uh, I can explain!"

The parrot spoke unamused, "I don't know what you're into or pranking about, but if you're going to dress like a stripper for Halloween, you're going to be kicked out." He marched to the bathroom and closed the door.

Sergio stood quietly and embarrassed, it might be a good idea to get off his skimpy thong.

He looked at Xavier's previous Halloween costume; a black hoodie with printed glow-in-the-dark skeleton for the torso and arms, and sweatpants for legs. It hung on the wall, ready to be worn, and that gave him an idea for his next prank and how to be incognito under Sol's radar.

"Hey, Xavier, wanna switch costumes?" Sergio asked.

"Por qué?" said Xavier in the shower, asking why.

"I would like you to do the pranking, so people won't be suspicious."

"Okay?" Xavier doubted as he scrubbed his feathers. "But why do you want to wear my costume?"

Sergio knew Xavier was not stupid and he would keep asking until he was satisfied. He had to partially tell him what he was up to.

"I have a new prank and your costume is ideal from being seen in the dark, you know?"

Xavier scoffed, "It has glow-in-the-dark all over it, Sergio, someone will see you behind a glowing bush."

"I'll wear it in reverse when the time comes, you'll see me wearing it normal during the party and when I'm gone, you know where I am doing."

"Uh..." Xavier doubted, he got off the shower and wore a towel around his waist. "Why do I have to do the pizza prank?"

"Come on, do me a favor, and... don't you want to have fun and scare people for one night? It'll be fun."

Xavier exasperated after a short break. "Hah, okay, I'll do it."

Sergio smiled. "Great, I'll fill you in on what to do and where to go and--"

"Do me a favor," he sternly interrupted.

"W-what is it?"

"Can you get rid of that tanga out of my sight!?" It was burning Xavier's eyes.

Sergio was still wearing that skimpy thong. He grinned sheepishly and covered it with his hands. At least he convinced Xavier to switch roles without knowing what he got himself into regarding that raccoon.

And Halloween was just around the corner.