Left and Leaving

Story by cold turkey on SoFurry

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#2 of Highschool Sucked


Well, here's part 2 for ya. Sorry it's taken this long to get it out, but I kind of got stuck with writer's block and had to leave the story for a bit. I couldn't think of a better title than the Weakerthan's album mentioned in here. Thanks for reading. * * * After my unusual and seemingly innocent greeting of "Mornin sunshine" he started to laugh a little bit, causing the bed to shake, making it squeak and groan under the combined weight of our two bodies. Soon I joined in and as our laughing fit passed, I looked over him again and rolled out of my bed, tearing some of my fur out because of the dried cum that was in it causing tears to well up in my eyes. Apparently, some of Robbie's fur was torn out too because as I did this he gave a yelp and started to clutch his stomach. Walking towards the door, I looked over in my full length mirror and saw that most of the fur on my stomach was matted down with Robbie's seed and that the rest of my fur was very messy and disheveled. Giving a little snort I looked over at Robbie, who was obviously confused, and chuckled asking "I'm going to go hop in the shower....care to join me?" His face lit up and he jumped out of the bed. I looked over at my clock that was on my nightstand, in bright green numbers it read 8:22 A.M. Knowing that no one would be awake this early in the morning on a weekend, I didn't bother putting on any clothes and walked out of my room with Robbie closely following behind me as I made my way over to the linen closet and got out two towels. Tossing one of the towels to Robbie, I gave him a wink and a playful slap on the rump as I passed him on my way towards the bathroom. Tossing my towel on the sink basin, I walked over to the shower stall and started up the shower. Robbie had snuck up behind me a wrapping his arms around me in a tight embrace. Somehow, I was able to turn around and was met with his muzzle now firmly pressed against mine and his already hard cock pressing up against my thigh, already leaking pre; my sheath quickly beginning to stiffen. As he inhaled, his fur rubbed against my forming erection, sending shivers up my spine and making me begin to moan. When I broke away from the kiss, the bathroom was already filled with steam and I hopped into the shower, closely followed by Robbie. It was my turn to catch him by surprise, I turned around and grabbed the back of his head and firmly pressed it against my maw, using my other paw I grabbed his throbbing member and slowly began pumping it. He moaned into our kiss and began trusting into my paw, the warm water and his pre making my paw glide faster and faster along his length. Hearing him murr loudly, I could tell that he was close. A moment later I broke the kiss and he began to moan loudly, sending jets of pearly white cum up onto my stomach, some of it spilling off and mixing with the warm water, disappearing down the drain. The bit that was still on my paw I began licking off with earnest, savoring the salty-sweet flavor. Tongue lolling out of his mouth and breathless, he looked over at me licking his seed off my paw and grinned. Then getting onto his knees he grabbed my throbbing member and started to suck on the head of my cock, making me gasp at the sudden warmth. Taking my entire length into his muzzle, he came off of it and started to paw me off. By now, my head was rolled back and my eyes closed so I didn't see him start to suck on his finger getting it slick. Again, he took my cock in his mouth and was rolling my sack with one paw, but with the other he reached around and started to prod around my tailhole, teasing it. I shuddered at the new sensation that was his finger slowly penetrating into my tailhole and began to moan loudly. Slowly sinking another digit into my hole he began pumping them and sucking harder, bringing me infinitely close to the edge. Feeling my sack pull closely to my body, he knew I was close and doubled his efforts, sending me over the edge. Still pumping his fingers into my tailhole he came off my cock and started to paw me off again. Letting out an earsplitting roar, I had the most powerful orgasm ever, sending ropes of my tiger cum flying over his head and landing on the far wall, some of it finding a home in his headfur and some on his muzzle. The portion of my cum that he could reach on his muzzle he lapped up quickly. When he stood up, he licked his lips saying "Yummy" Laughing, I grabbed him in a hug and started to lovingly clean my spunk from off the parts of his muzzle he couldn't reach. Kissing him deeply, we embraced, our wet forms pressing against each other. Breaking the kiss and backing up, I looked over him and grabbed the bottle of shampoo, squirting a rather large glob of it into my hands and began massaging it into his fur, making sure to get all the spots of cum from the night before out of it. He began to murr again, leaning back against my paws that were snaking through his wet fur. He grabbed another bottle of shampoo and did the same, using his claws to scratch at the skin beneath my fur making me purr rather loudly. Climbing out of the hot water, we started to towel each other off until we were both dry. Wrapping my towel around my waist I opened up the bathroom door and walked out into the much colder hallway with Robbie next to me. Finally in my room, he pulled out his clean pair of pants and a clean shirt and got dressed while I took my time bending over my drawers searching for just the right thing, allowing him every opportunity to catch a glimpse of my ass as I swished my tail from side-to-side. Throwing on a clean pair of jeans and a t-shirt, I took a look over at the clock; it was about 9:30 so I figured we could go out and get some breakfast at the IHOP, I was starving and my stomach had started to growl, I was pretty sure he was too. "You wanna go get some breakfast at the IHOP?" already knowing exactly what he was going to say. "Yeah, sounds good. I starving" Leaving a note on the table that said where we were going, we headed out towards my car. When I climbed in I plugged in my IPod asking what he to listen to, saying that the Pursakitty album wasn't yet on there. Shrugging, he said "Do you have any Weakerthans?" Going through my artists list, I came to the artist selection The Weakerthans asking "Which album? I have Left and Leaving and Reconstruction Site." "I'm not really in the mood for something busy so... why not Left and Leaving." Smirking a bit I put the car into gear and started pulling away saying: "Aye Cap'n..." Passing by a bank that was down the street from the IHOP, I thought that maybe this wasn't the best idea seeing as how it was 10 in the morning on a Sunday and the place was surely going to be packed. Sure enough, I was right. After pushing our way through the crowd to get to the hostess we were told that the wait was going to be about an hour, I looked over at my companion and asked "Do you wanna wait that long?" Pausing for a minute, he answered "Not really, I don't think it's worth it. Unless you wanted to wait." Mulling this question over in my head, I coolly responded: "Nah, I guess I could just make pancakes and waffles at home." I started walking out of the restaurant and opened the door for him. Walking past me, he turned and said "If it's not a problem, I can't cook at all so I wouldn't be doing anything." "Meh, I don't mind, I like to cook..." pausing and chuckling a bit, I said "-indulge me." Laughing a little bit, we both got back into my car and started our way home. ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ Opening the front door, I slowly walked in expecting my parents to be in the kitchen. Instead all I found was a dark kitchen and a note on the table that read: "Shawn, we went out shopping and took Tim with us. I don't know when we'll be back, but help yourself to the food in the cupboard... and make sure Robbie eats something. -Mom" Reaching for a mixing bowl, the stove-top griddle and the ingredients, Robbie asked what the note said. Not even looking over at him, I replied "Somethin about my parents and Tim going to go shopping and to make sure you were fed... dunno when they will be back." and proceeded to crack the eggs into the mixing bowl and tossing in a couple cups of the flour. After plugging in the griddle, I was standing at the counter mixing everything in the big bowl, I felt furry arms wrap around my waist and a soft kiss planted on the back of my neck. Turning my head around, I was met with his lips pressed against mine, all the while never stopping mixing the batter. Finally abandoning my mixing to allow it to rest, I turned around and put one hand on the back of his head, pressing harder and deeper into our kiss. My free paw slowly making its way down his front to the button on his pants. He broke this kiss and looked at me in surprise saying "Not now..." Looking at him slightly confused and a tiny bit irritated, I began pleading with him "Well, if you didn't want it to go this far, why did you even begin?" "I dunno, I thought it would be kind of cutesexy ya know?" Cocking an eyebrow at him, I chuckled a little bit: "Well, yea I kinda do..." his eyes taking a quick glance down at growing bulge in my pants. Taking a moment before I finished off my sentence with a smirk "...you tease." I returned to my batter and started to pour it onto the now hot griddle. Turning around while they cooked, I saw that Robbie was sitting at the table with his ears pressed against his head, looking kind of sad Pondering what he could be upset about and making my way over to sit next to him, I asked with concern in my voice "What's wrong kit? I didn't really mean it." Looking up at me, tears beginning to well up in his eyes. "Are you mad at me?" "Why would I be mad at you? As of late, you're the greatest thing that's happened to me." Looking down at my hands that were now folded on the table and knowing full well where this was leading, I shakily said to him "I think... I love you." Looking up at his face, my eyes now filled with tears he gasped, hugging me tightly and began to kiss me with unrivaled passion. After which he hugged me tighter and whispered into my ear "I love you so much Shawn." I don't know how long we were sitting like this, but upon smelling the smoke that slowly began to fill the kitchen; I immediately broke out of my trance and jumped up yelling "SHIT!" Grabbing the now burned pancakes with my bare paws I tossed them onto the counter and put some more batter onto the griddle. Looking over towards Robbie and whining a little bit, I said "I'm actually hungry so I don't want to burn these." Shaking his finger at me he said: "Me too, so don't be such a bad cook and burn everything." Feeling a bit insulted, I replied harshly "I'm not a bad cook." "Sorry to question your cooking prowess Oh God of the Griddle." waving his hands in the air. Tapping a furred digit on his maw, and cocking an eyebrow in concentration (as if trying to remember something that happened a long time ago) "You are right, you did make some Steak-ums a little while back." Leaning against the counter, replying: "Yeah, well that's not really cooking. That was tossing some frozen meat into the microwave and nuking it to hell." "But it was good" Pushing myself away from the counter and starting to make my way towards him "Those things are supposed to be idiot-proof" Catching a whiff of the cooking pancakes, he waved over in their direction saying: "That may be so but pancakes aren't, at least not when you make them." "Damn, you made me forget about them again. You know, you're really becoming a distraction to me." Turning my back to him, I gave the pancakes on the griddle a quick flip and walked over to the counter where the ingredients were and grabbed the syrup. "You want something other than syrup?" "Syrup's fine, do you have any butter or something?" "Yeah, sure." Grabbing the margarine from the fridge and a knife from the drawer I put them on the table, I returned to my cooking pancakes with three plates and tossed a couple on two of plates and put the remaining pancakes on the last one. Turning off the griddle, I made my way over towards the table. Setting the plate of golden-brown pancakes in front of my friend, he started to spread some of the margarine on his pancakes and drizzled some of the syrup over it all. As I took my seat across the table from him, I looked over at him in time to catch the astonished look on his face as he took his first bite. "These are amazing!" Chuckling, I mused: "Flattery will only get you so far my friend." and took a bite of my stack, thinking they weren't all that great. He began shoveling the food into his maw. In-between bites he managed to get out: "I mean it..." another forkful disappearing into his maw "-how'd you get them so fluffy?" Swallowing the bit of pancake I already had in my mouth, I said: "Umm, you just put a little lemon juice in the batter." Amazement still not disappearing from his muzzle, he looked at me again saying "They're already sweet too, what did you put in there?" "I put a little bit of syrup in the batter." Still shoveling pancakes into his maw he managed to get out: "I should probably remember that for when my mom makes pancakes." "Fine, but tell her not to go overboard with the syrup, if you put too much in they will be way too sweet." Nodding a bit he helped himself to some more of the pancakes on the extra plate, not even adding any more butter or syrup he woofed them down. After we finished all the pancakes and I put the dishes in the sink, we went into the TV room and flopped down onto the couch. He crawled up onto me, wrapping his arms around me and laid his head on my chest. Putting one of my arms around my head, I grabbed the remote with the other and began idly channel surfing trying to find anything that could spark my interest at 11 on a Sunday morning. Finding that there wasn't anything to watch on a Sunday morning I let out a long sigh and moaned out "Godddd, there's never anything good on." and settled for a straight to video movie that was playing. Dropping the remote on the ground, I slowly began to stroke Robbie's headfur, this new sensation making him murr a bit. After a few minutes of stroking his headfur, he looked up at me dreamily saying "I love you so much." and rested his head back on my chest and let out a long sigh. I kissed him on the top of his head. Although he couldn't see it, I smiled back and whispered "I love you too." And soon drifted off to sleep. ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ My ears twitched at the sound of a key being put into the front door's lock. Waking from my slumber, I came back to my senses and panicked... I have yet to tell my parents that I was gay and them finding Robbie asleep on me would seem a bit off. Poking Robbie on the top of his head, I said "We have to move now.' He lazily asked "Why? I was comfortable." "My parents are home and they don't know yet..." Looking up: "Know what?" sleep still heavy in his voice and eyes half open. "That I'm gay." a blush slowly creeping up my face as I heard myself say it. His eyes opened a little wider, mouthing "Oh" and he rolled off my chest onto the floor with a dull thud. Hopping into the reclining chair next to the couch he put his hands behind his head just in time as my dad walked into the room. I heard my brother bounding down the stairs to the basement as my dad slowly crept into the room, obviously annoyed that he had to be dragged along shopping. Sitting down on my feet he said: "Toss me the clicker." Pulling my feet from under him I asked how the shopping went. Giving me a look that could only say that the experience was horrific, he let out a long sigh and said "In a word... horrific." I mentally patted myself on the back for getting his expression right "We weren't fed and the lines were long as hell... What were you up to today?" "We tried to get into the IHOP but the wait was about an hour. Came back here and made some pancakes." hesitating a bit and trying to act as nonchalant as I could... "-then took a nap until you woke us up... You know what's for dinner?" Not noticing my hesitation on the napping part, he cocked an eyebrow and said "Ask your mother." "And she would be......?" Shifting his attention back to the television screen, he said "I dunno, try the bedroom." Hoisting myself off the couch and making my way towards the stairs I shouted "MOM! WHAT'S FOR DINNER?" Making it to my parent's bedroom, I softly knocked on the door and cracked it a little bit poking my head in asking "Do you know what's for dinner?" I swear to god she came out from nowhere scaring the hell out of me. Jumping back I screamed, alright it came out more as a high-pitched shriek but it still scared me a little bit. Obviously confused as to why I was so freaked out, she said "Don't know. When does Robbie need to be home?" "No idea. I guess we could go out and get something to eat and I could drop him off afterwards. I heard you didn't feed dad or Tim, so I was thinking about taking Tim along." Turning her back to disappear into her room again, I heard her disembodied voice say "Will you need money?" Blushing a bit because I didn't really like to take money from my mom, "We won't need much, I don't even know where we're going to go. Besides, I have my own money. What are you and dad doing for dinner?" Still hearing an eerie disembodied voice: "No idea but I'll find something. When will you be leaving to go eat?" "Don't know." Taking a look at my watch seeing that it was almost five o'clock, thinking how the hell I could have been asleep for almost six hours. "Probably in about an hour and a half or so." "Alright, I have some work that I need to get done so I might not see you till after you get home. Behave" Rolling my eyes a bit I turned to make my way back down the stairs and looked back at the door that was slightly ajar saying "I know, I know." Walking back into the TV room, I sat in the other recliner and looked over at Robbie telling him that we would go out to dinner and that I'd take him home afterwards. Nodding, he said "Sounds good to me. Your dad found that new Trojan War movie... looks pretty good." Giving my nod of approval, although I guess I didn't really have a say in what movie was going to be played, I said "Groovy" The movie was over about two hours later, so I thought it would be a good time to go get something to eat. Seeing that my dad had fallen asleep about halfway through the movie (he tends to do that during a good movie, if it's horrible he'll stay awake and tear the movie a new one) I got up and gave Robbie a quick kiss then walked out of the room, motioning with my tail for him to follow me. Leading him over to the staircase leading upstairs, I told him to go get his things out of my room and meet me in the kitchen in a minute. Suspiciously, he asked: "What are you going to do?" Having already started to walk towards the basement door, I looked back saying "Inviting my brother to dinner, my mom said to see if he wanted to go with us... is that a problem?" Not really anticipating an answer, I opened the door to the basement and thumped my way down the stairs. Turning the corner to make my way to where the computer is, I flicked my brother on the back of his head, eliciting a low growl. "Yo, douche... I'm going to dinner then taking Robbie home. Wanna come?" Turning around in the swivel chair we got for the computer, he eyed me for a moment. "And where would we be going?" a wry grin forming on his muzzle. Confused as to why he would be grinning, I turned around and made my way back to the stairs. "No idea, it's either you come with us or you starve because dad doesn't cook and mom is busy." Again, not really waiting for an answer I went upstairs and walked right into the kitchen where Robbie was waiting for me with his bag. Not a moment later, Tim came thumping up the stairs and grabbed his jacket, slinging it over his shoulder in his arrogant way. Although he was a scrawny for a tiger he still carried himself as if he were bigger, which could explain why he always came off as an asshole. Luckily he had me as a brother and on a number of occasions I had to bail him out of trouble... come to think of it, little bastard had a mouth on him too and a sharp tongue to match. He was always getting into trouble with other furs because he was a sarcastic asshole. Usually it ended up with someone taking a swing at him and me having to step in and break it up; although more times then not it led to the other guy getting a good swing in on me and me knocking them out. Clapping my hands together I said "Alrighty, where are we going to eat?" Tim, while looking bored and disinterested shrugged saying "Don't really care all that much... as long as it's not fast food, I've been eating that shit all week." While looking over at Robbie, he also shrugged and said: "I don't really care either." "Now why are you going to leave it up to me? You all know how indecisive I am..." ambling over towards the TV room, I poked my head in and looked over at my father who had woken up. "Dad, if you were to go out to eat, where would you go?" Looking a little confused and startled, "Answer right now?" "Preferably yes." "I guess I could go for some pizza-" I cut him off and walked back into the kitchen exclaiming "We are going to get pizza, any objections... too bad, I'm the one driving." Before walking out the door I went to my mom's purse and grabbed a twenty, putting it into my wallet. Walking past the TV room to go out the front door, I thanked my dad for the idea and waved good-bye. Making it out to the car, I found that Tim had beaten Robbie to the front seat. Saying "Put something good on" I tossed my IPod at Tim; he snatched it out of the air and began scrolling through the artists. Hopping into the car I started it up, Tim plugged the IPod in and the metallic clangs Converge's "Heartache" began coming through. Laughing, I looked back at Robbie to see his reaction to the sudden change of atmosphere due to the music. He shrugged and began looking out the window into the dark night. Taking that as a sign of indifference, I started down our driveway, music blaring. Pulling into a parking space, we hopped out of our minivan and made our way up to the pizza place "What kind of pizza do you guys want?" Tim was first to break the momentary silence as we walked through the door "Extra cheese, and how about pepperoni?" "Sounds good. Robbie?" looking over at the fox who nodded emphatically. Telling Tim and Robbie to go grab a booth, I walked up to the counter where a rather attractive female raccoon was standing at the register. "Uh, hi. Could I get a medium extra cheese and medium pepperoni and three large cokes?" Smiling a bit and a little bit of a blush creeping up the white portions of her face, she said "Sure, that will be-" punching some numbers on the cash register... " $6.57" Slightly confused and oblivious, I looked up at the prices for the pizzas. "Um, I think you made a mistake. That's only how much the cheese pizza costs." Blushing a bit more, she said "I know, just thought I'd give a cute tiger like you a break." Not exactly wanting to call attention to my preferences, I smiled and started to feel a blush creeping up my face and pulled out my wallet giving her the twenty saying thanks and telling her to keep the change. Turning around I thought why I wasted the whole twenty, but shrugged it off seeing as how it wasn't even my money to begin with. Flopping down into the booth next to Robbie and across from Tim, the same cashier raccoon came over and dropped off our drinks giving me a wink and brushing her tail up my leg as she turned to walk away. Robbie obviously noticed and began squeezing my thigh and looked past me to glare over at the female raccoon. I looked over at Tim who had a smug grin plastered on his maw, a grin that could only say one thing. Eyeing him suspiciously, I said "What do you know?" "Ohhhh, nothing." He picked up his drink and began sipping at it, Robbie doing the same. Finally after a moment's pause he said "I know about you two." Robbie immediately looked up. Raising an eyebrow slowly, I looked at him "You mean me and the cashier? I swear there isn't anything there." He laughed a little bit to himself "I know there won't be anything there. I meant you two." He glanced over at Robbie, making eye contact. Robbie caught on and he began coughing and choking on his drink. Looking at him with a blank stare, mouth agape; I couldn't even blush at that point. I finally choked out "How?" Never breaking eye contact with me: "I heard you last night... and your little roar this morning. Did you have fun?" Robbie sat next to me, completely silent looking down at the table almost a uniform color of red on his muzzle. Looking at my brother, that smug grin widening showing a bit of his teeth now, I said "You are such a fucking asshole, I can understand why someone would want to take a swing at you." Leaning forward a bit, "Awww, you wouldn't do that to your own brother now would you?" Leering at him, I growled "You have no idea how close I am right now." "Now why are you going through this angry, huh? Honestly I don't really care what you are." The anger vanishing, I looked at him a little scared the realization of what is going on becoming evident to me. "You won't tell anyone will you?" At hearing this, Robbie looked up too. "Especially mom and dad... they cannot know." Finally the grin was gone, but replaced by an unnaturally stoic face "Oh I won't. And I especially won't tell mom and dad." He folded his hands up on the table, that damned grin returned "But tell me, how long has this little 'fling' been going on?" Looking over at Robbie, he smiled reassuringly. I don't even think he was frightened anymore. "Ummm, it kind of just started yesterday." My face began blazing with a blush. "Wow, you two got off to a pretty quick start. Just as long as it doesn't happen on the couch or anything like that... that's public domain." It was then that the pizzas came, that same damn raccoon and one of her female co-workers, a bunny. They dropped off the pizzas and the plates, along with a tiny slip of paper. The two turned around, again the raccoon's tail brushing against my leg, creeping a little higher up this time; as they walked away the bunny turned to the raccoon and started to giggle and grab her arm. Tim grabbed a slice of the cheese pizza while Robbie grabbed a slice of pepperoni, I left them untouched. Looking over the tiny slip of paper, in neat script there read "The cute tiger"; slowly unfolding the note there was more of the script saying: "I get off in twenty minutes, meet me out front. - Cacie" My head rolling back, I slowly mouthed "God damnit" and pushed the note over towards Robbie. He read it and snorted, trying to hold back a laugh; looking over at me he said "If you want you can go see her. As long as I get to go." Feeling the tension at the table lift, I reached over for a slice of the pepperoni pizza and bit into it. Tim looked up at me: "Shame it's wasted on you, she wasn't too bad lookin either." Eating in relative silence, we finished up the last of the pizza and we made our way out the front door where Cacie was supposed to be waiting. Seeing her leaning against the side of the building she walked over to our group, a swagger in her hips. At this point, all Robbie could do to keep himself from laughing was bite onto his lower lip. When she made it over to us, she looked me over again and said "Hey cute tiger." Wrapping my arm around Robbie's waist I pulled him over towards my side, making him yelp a little bit. The yelp slowly turned to a giggle and he put his arm around the front of my chest, he said: "You know, I said the same thing when I woke up this morning." Tim slowly back away and started towards the car, turning back to yell "Shawn, pass me the keys." Obliging, I tossed him the set of keys and told him to throw on Between the Buried and Me's "Alaska" album (epic one might call it). Returning my attention to the dumbfounded raccoon standing in front of me, she looked horrified and heart-broken. "You're not really a tailraiser are you?" I pressed my maw against Robbie's muzzle and kissed him deeply, he practically melted in my arms. Breaking off the kiss and turning to face her again, I said "Sorry babe, I guess I am." Undeterred, she shifted her gaze to where Tim was and stalked after him; leaving Robbie and me alone. I looked at him and broke out in a fit of laughter; no sooner had he joined in when I looked over at the tiger-crazed raccoon giving my brother her number. Walking up to my car, my brother had already gotten the music on and the car started and was sitting in the front seat with another toothy grin on his maw. Looking at him, I gestured for him to get into the back. Reluctantly, he got up and hopped into one of the captain seats in the back. Getting into the driver's seat Tim tapped me on the shoulder and jumped forwards to get into the space in-between the two front seats. Looking up at me he said "Catching chicks on the rebound is easy. Ya know, we should do this more often." A little grin pulling at the corner of my mouth, I said: "You know you're an insensitive dickhead right?" Again looking up at me, he said: "If I'm not mistaken, you were the one who blew her off in the first place." Putting the car into drive, I pulled out of the parking spot making Tim fly backwards into the seat behind him. Pulling into Robbie's driveway, Tim asked him if he were going to be coming to the show tomorrow night. Parking the minivan in his driveway, Robbie hopped out saying "Hold on, I'll go ask." Disappearing in his house for a moment, he came back smiling. He walked up to the driver window and announced that he would be able to go if I can drive him. "Why the hell not, I'm already carting around his ass." pointing to Tim who had made it into the front seat "- one more shouldn't be a hassle." Robbie's face lit up as he said goodnight and turned to walk back to his house. Tim hit me on the side of my head. Glaring over at him, I snarled "What the hell was that for?" Smiling a bit, he said: "Go say goodnight dumbass." Immediately understanding what he was getting at, I leapt out of my seat and caught up with Robbie. Grabbing him by the arm, I turned him around, embracing him and kissing him deeply. Breaking away from the kiss, I brought him closer and whispered into his ear "Goodnight." Letting go I turned back towards my car and started walking, my brother had apparently changed the music from Between the Buried and Me to The Bouncing Souls' "Hopeless Romantic" album. When I got back into the car I saw that Robbie hadn't moved since I left him. Putting the car in reverse and slowly backing down his driveway, I saw him walk in his doorway and turn around. Tim looked over at me saying: "Ahh, young one is learning quickly." I swatted him in the face with the back of my paw saying "Smart-ass" * * *

I know that I seem to be ending my stories with quick little one-liners but what the hell, my life is full of them. Thanks for reading. I don't own IHOP or Apple, Converge, Between the Buried and Me, Bouncing Souls or The Weakerthans for that matter... but I thoroughly enjoy their respective services and offer a tip of my cap to them and hope none of them catch wind of this and sue the hell outta me... HERE'S TO HOPING *crosses fingers* Much love