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Theo waited for a few seconds for his parents to respond.

"What do you want, Theo?" a loud, deep voice yelled from the living room. "If it's gas money, you can forget it because I JUST gave you a hundred bucks last week and you have a job." the voice continued as the purple wolf it belonged to walked up the stairs. "You really need to get your priorities straight and stop messing around with that fox."

Theo grimaced at the thought. 'That damn vixen slut is gonna get what she deserves.' He thought. 'Why do I always fall for sluts?!' He clenched his fists quickly and put his 'big bad brother' act back on.

TJ and Theo's dad finally came up to the top of the stairs and looked at Theo with a sideways 'I'm right here' look. He was dressed in formal business suit and wore black framed glasses, but apparently, when he'd gotten in the house, he'd taken off the jacket and loosened the tie. He had shoulder length shiny black head fur that looked like it had been combed to perfection like in a portrait.

"Uhh dad," Theo began, "Is TJ supposed to have friends over?"

Their dad shook his head. "Boy, don't give me this shit again. I'm tired of you always trying to get him in trouble when you're mad. Cut him some slack and go do something with yourself. You've had that little slutty girlfriend of yours over here plenty of times, so TJ deserves a break."

Theo stood frozen with his palms facing up and his arms out as if to say 'what?!'

"She is a whore and I know that now." Theo began, "but I don't see why he gets to have people over with no-"

"It's because I said so." His dad interrupted. "Now go do something before you make me even madder." He walked back downstairs to continue what he was doing earlier.

"Dude, your dad is awesome." Slater whispered into TJ's ear making him shiver.

"Yeah I know." TJ responded. He had just realized that they were still holding hands and he blushed as hard as physically possible.

A growl escaped Theo's throat as his opened TJ's door forcefully. "I'm gonna get you one way or another TJ." He said with fiery passion in his voice. "You aren't gonna not get punished for the same thing I DID get punished for... I'll get you somehow."

Theo walked out of the room and slammed the door forcefully and went to his room; angry that he couldn't take out his frustration on his brother.

'Wait, what am I thinking?' he thought. 'Why am I being an asshole again? This is exactly how I made TJ cry earlier.' Theo sat back on his bed thinking things through until he couldn't stand the anger inside him.

"AAGH!" he shouted as he threw a plastic bag filled with marijuana to the back wall of his open closet. "This shit isn't fair! Why am I so stupid and easy to fall in love?!" He couldn't contain his rage anymore; he had to let it out and the only way to do it was to teach the guy that stole his girl a lesson. 'I'm coming for you Eddie...' he thought with an evil smile on his face. Eddie was an orangeish brown Jersey cow that played football at the school and was the varsity's number one quarterback. He was the only guy cool enough to wear his hair like Elvis and dress in blue jeans and leather jackets. All the girls wanted him and all the guys envied him. Theo was the only exception; he HATED Eddie for 'taking' his girl from him.

TJ and Slater became more comfortable with the things that they had been doing so TJ ended up in Slater's lap while they both made out for a few minutes. TJ finally broke the kiss and looked at Slater with wide eyes.

"Th-this isn't some bad joke is it?" TJ said hoping with all of his heart that the tiger would say no.

"Of course not dude." Slater began. "That was the first kiss I've ever had where I actually felt something."

TJ blushed and scooted out of Slater's lap. "Well, I'm glad." He said getting up to open his mini fridge. "I thought you were just being an ass again. Sprite?" he winked at Slater.

Slater just shook his head and laughed. "Dude, if I was being an ass, you'd know it. And I'd love a Sprite."

TJ grabbed them both Sprites and sat down next to the tiger he was hoping he could now call his own.

Slater opened the can with a loud *pop* and took a large gulp. "So," he said, hoping for TJ to know what his eyes were asking.

"So what?" TJ said.

"So, are we..... like..."

"Dating?"

"Yeah that." Slater smiled and took another sip of his drink. "I didn't know if you wanted to or not."

TJ leaned his head on Slater's shoulder and replied "Well, if I didn't wanna date you, I probably wouldn't have let you put your tongue in my mouth."

Slater blushed and laughed awkwardly "Well, to be fair, I've never dated another guy so I don't know how it works."

"We can just wing it then." TJ began "Because I don't know what to do either. You're my first boyfriend."

A large grin spread across both of their faces and Slater put his arm around his new boyfriend. 'Who'd think that I should be so lucky?' he thought. 'I didn't think I was his type.'

'God he's warm' TJ thought, nestling himself into Slater's body a little more. "You know, I don't wanna get too mushy with you, Slater. I mean, we don't want a relationship that doesn't get past the honeymoon phase right?"

Slater turned his head a little bit and had a look of confusion on his face. "What? The honeymoon phase?"

"What we're doing right now." TJ exclaimed "Don't get me wrong, I like it, I just don't think we can last too long if don't have a good foundation."

Slater just stared at him blankly for few seconds then finally, he said, "I know how it's supposed to be. But the problem is, I don't want to be away from you. Not even relationship wise, I'm just talking about us as friends. When I'm away from you, I feel like something is missing."

TJ slowly nodded his head. "I see." He said. It seemed like they'd been talking for only a few minutes until TJ looked at his watch and saw the time.

"Holy crap dude! You gotta go!" TJ exclaimed. It was 7:33pm and Slater should've been gone 33 minutes ago. It began to rain torrentially and TJ decided that'd he'd get Slater a Jacket from Theo's closet since he and Slater were the same size.

Slater stood in the hallway as his boyfriend went into his brother's room to find a jacket until he heard a low "Holy shit!" come out of the room.

"What! What happened?!" Slater said running frantically into the room.

TJ held up a large plastic bag filled with green stuff that looked like dried grass. "There has to be like, 5 pounds of weed in here!" he said in a hushed voice. "It sure would suck if dad found out about this."

Slater's eyes went wide when he saw the very large bag of the herbal drug. "Sweet holy god of Saturn that's a lot of weed!" he said dumbfounded. "Can one person REALLY smoke that much in their entire life?"

TJ picked up another plastic bag that was on the floor in the closet. "Looks like it. I think that's why Theo always asks my dad for an extra hundred bucks."

"Well, are you going to tell your parents?" Slater asked.

"I'm not sure if I should." TJ began "If I did, Theo would get in trouble for the weed and I'd get in trouble for being in his room in the first place. We can't go into each other's room to get stuff."

"Oh. Well, I don't need a jacket. I'll just run to the car." Slater suggested. He didn't want any more commotion than necessary.

"Ok well you'll have to climb down my window." TJ said trying to change the tiger's mind.

"Don't you see I'm a tiger? I can just jump." Slater said with a chuckle.

"Suit yourself babe." TJ said as they walked out of Theo's room back into his.

TJ gave Slater a quick goodbye kiss and Slater jumped out of the window to start his journey home. TJ laid down on his futon and decided that thinking about things would be better than eating. He thought about everything that happened that day until something finally clicked. 'Where the hell is Theo?' he thought.

***

Theo left after he planned what he was going to do to Eddie. 'I'm gonna gut that bastard and turn him into steaks.' He thought as he revved his engine and put the car in drive. He couldn't help but to let his hidden anger out and he was glad that he'd bought a Cobra Mustang instead of a Civic. He rounded the corners as close as possible and sped through the road as the darkening late summer sky poured itself upon the Earth. Theo decided that he'd slow down a little bit since it began to rain harder and he didn't want to slide off the road. He passed the school and made a left at the first stoplight. Theo and Eddie had been best friends until freshman year because Eddie had joined the football team and Theo stuck with soccer; so Theo knew exactly where Eddie lived.

Theo pulled up in front of the house and came to a skidding stop. He got out of the car and put on his leather gloves; they heightened the impact of his punches. He walked up to the door and paused to take a deep breath before ringing the doorbell.

The door opened a few seconds later and Eddie came out with no hesitation giving Theo a big friendly embrace.

"What's been going on tough guy?" Eddie began. "I never see you at school anymore. I was hoping you'd come visit sometime so we could make like milk in a fridge."

Theo wanted to push Eddie off of him and beat him to a pulp, but he just couldn't do it. He knew his ex girlfriend had been a slut because of what TJ told him but Theo never believed his brother. He also couldn't push Eddie off because he remembered why they'd been good friends; they had inside jokes and references to stuff that happened that neither of them could ever forget.

Theo simply returned the embrace and sighed. "Dude you totally left me alone freshman year and I just thought you just felt too cool to talk to me anymore."

Eddie sensed the slight tremble in Theo's voice and realized that he'd hurt his best friend without meaning to. "Theo, you know we're tight no matter what. I was busy freshman year. And I still talked to you when I saw you."

Theo figured out at that moment that he'd been thinking all of these wrong things about his best friend. He couldn't be mad at him, nor could he try to blame anything about them not talking on him.

After a few moments of awkward silence, Eddie decided to say something to relieve the tension.

"So, do you wanna come in?" he asked with one eyebrow raised. "It's a wet version of hell out here."

Theo gave in and pushed any reluctance to the back of his mind. "Yeah, sure." He said groggily.

"Well, come on then." Eddie began. "You should tell me what's bothering you too. You look and sound upset."

***

TJ and his parents were sitting in the family room and there was an enormous amount of tension in the room that seemed to make the gravity increase.

"So, you're telling me that you have NO idea where your brother is?" TJ's father said through semi-gritted teeth, trying to hold back his anger and frustration with Theo and his antics.

"Yes sir." TJ replied quietly.

"His phone isn't on and we have no way to-" TJ's father was cut off by the sound of the front door opening.

Theo slipped in quickly and started up the stairs until he stopped as he heard his angry father call him.

"Where the FUCK have you been Theo?" the purple wolf bellowed as he jumped out of his seat and walked toward his son.

"I was at Eddie's, dad. We were catching up and-" Theo was cut short.

"Why are your eyes so red?" his father said. "Does it have anything to do with that huge bag of weed we found in your room?!"

"uuhhh...." Theo said. He couldn't get himself out of this so he just decided to tell the truth.

"Dad, I use that to relieve stress. Everything is so complicated and it gets worse every day, you know?" Theo said with a sigh.

"No I don't, Theo." His father began "But I DO know one thing: If I even THINK you're smoking weed again, you're out of here. You're 17 now and I'm sure you can live on your own."

Theo sighed and put his hands on his head. He knew his father was serious and would kick him out as soon as he got a chance.

"Now Robby, that's not fair." TJ and Theo's mother began. "If the boy wants to buy drugs, let him, it's his money he's spending."

Robby shook his head in disappointment. "That's the problem right there, Sarah! He's using MY money, not his." He spat.

TJ sat there in silence as his parents argued about Theo's issues and other matters that weren't very detrimental to anything TJ cared about. He was lost in thought about how he'd come out to his parents and whether or not Slater should be there. 'We just started dating today,' he thought. 'I'm getting ahead of myself'

Theo tried to keep his parents from arguing by changing the subject, but nothing was working, so he did the only thing that he thought would get them to stop. "TJ IS A FRUIT!!" He shouted at the top of his lungs a few feet away from his father, who shuddered at the volume of his son's voice.

There was an eerie silence and both parents looked at Theo and simultaneously said "What?"

"TJ is gay. He told me the other day." Theo said. He was happy to finally get the arguing to stop and the subject changed, but he realized that he may have ruined his little brother's life. 'Oops...' he thought.

'Oh. My. Fucking. God.' TJ thought. He blushed hard and buried his face in his hands as he tried to turn away.

Both parents looked at each other, then at TJ. "Really, TJ?" his father asked.

TJ looked at both of his parents quickly and began to tear up a little. "Yes sir." He said, his voice trembling.

TJ's father shook his head in a mixture of shame and disgust. "Why?" he began. "What's appealing to you about men?"

TJ covered his face and his voice was muffled when he spoke. "Dad, could we NOT talk about this?"

Robby shook his head and an expression that was a mixture of anger and regret fell upon his face. "No we ARE going to talk about this TJ. I think your hormones have you confused or something. How do you have a role model like Theo and still turn out gay?" he said, rage showing in his voice.

"Dad I can't help it." TJ said trembling. He knew he'd probably get beaten because of this so he decided to withhold as much information as possible.

Robby cracked his knuckles and put both of his hands on his head. "You can go up to your room now. I'm tempted to hit you."

TJ took his hands away from his face and headed toward the stairs when a hand grabbed him by the scruff of his neck. He was turned around to see his intensely angry father glaring at him through those black framed, square glasses.

"You're not going to be gay under my roof boy." He began. "I didn't raise you to be a faggot."

He pushed TJ to the floor, put his foot on TJ's chest and leaned down close. With a hint of a growl, he said, "So are you gay?"

TJ fought the tears burning in his eyes and tried to swallow the lump in his throat before he replied to keep himself from crying. He hated crying. "N-no s-sir" he said shakily hoping his father wouldn't stomp him to death.

Robby just kicked his son in the ribs and walked away. "Go back upstairs," he spat "I don't want to see you anymore tonight."

TJ quickly got up and scrambled up the stairs into his room and closed the door. He sat in silence and rocked back and forth on his futon with his knees pulled up to his chest in fetal position. 'I fucking told him that would happen' he though. He was referring to his brother telling his parents about his sexuality.

"What am I going to do?" TJ whispered. He got up and changed into his pajamas and laid down on his futon.

'I don't think I'm going to school tomorrow...' he thought.