When Dreams become Reality: Chapter 9: Family, Friends, & Memories

Story by wolfy22 on SoFurry

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#9 of When dreams become reality


DISCLAIMER: Again, this chapter is 100% clean, but there is some strong language though. There will definitely be some steamy moments happening in the chapter after this one though, so stay tuned for that. :) This chapter actually makes me wish I was a kid again, though that's how I still act sometimes even though I myself am 22. Check out Ryan Masterpaladin's page and I hope you enjoy ^_^

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The rest of Saturday night had passed by normally, with all of 6 of us staying at Tony's house. We all went to bed that night pretty tired after the long day we all had, and I was the first to actually fall asleep before everyone else, since I went up to the bedroom while everyone else was still doing other things downstairs.

I woke up on Tony's bed the next morning to find out that he was actually not sleeping next to me for once. It was already 9:30 A.M., so I figured that he had already left to head out to do his commercial shoot.

I got up from bed, stretched and took a shower. It felt kinda weird taking a shower by myself for once without my big tiger, but I knew it would only be for today. As the hot water was running down my hair, I started to think about what I needed to do to plan out everything for Tony's special day on Tuesday.

After I finished getting cleaned up, I got my clothes on to head downstairs. I didn't know whether the other four were up yet, so I walked past the bedrooms without even thinking of barging in on any of them, ESPECIALLY after what happened yesterday with Sull on his bed. I proceeded downstairs to notice that no one was down there, so I figured everyone was still sleeping. I was about to plop onto the couch to watch some TV before I immediately thought of something I needed to do for Tuesday. I went over to the phone in the kitchen and dialed my home phone number.

"Hello?" a low voice from the other end spoke.

"Hey dad!" I exclaimed, being very happy to hear him.

"Hey mike! How's your arm doing??" My dad replied, sounding very concerned.

"It's A LOT better, it's not back to 100% yet but I'd say it's around 75. Not much pain in it anymore after taking some of the pills that the doctor gave me, but it's still a bit weak." I said back.

"That's good, just don't overwork it on the computer or anything like that." My dad responded. Before I could say anything back though, my dad then started talking about a different subject.

"Hey mike, are you doing anything tomorrow or Tuesday?" I was surprised to hear him ask me that, since that's why I originally called.

"Funny you mention that Dad, I was calling you about that. Tony's birthday is actually on Tuesday, and I wanted to know if you guys wanted to come to his house for the celebration and maybe I could show you around the city after?"

"Yeah that sounds great! Mom has the week off from school for April vacation and so does will. Want us to head down tomorrow?" That caught me off guard since I wasn't planning on having them come down right away, but I was still happy that they said they would be able to visit.

"Sounds like a plan! I have the perfect gift for the Tiger, I can't wait to see his reaction to it." I replied back.

"What did you get for him?" My dad asked.

"Well, we went to the Yanks and Tigers game yesterday since Tony loves Detroit, and since I work for the daily news now, I was able to get to the Detroit locker room and get all the players to sign a Tigers jersey for him!"

"Mornin mike" Sull said as he noticed me on the phone while he was coming down the stairs, still looking a bit tired. I waved back to him and continued to talk to my dad.

"WOW! He'll DEFINITELY love that" My dad exclaimed. "So we'll call you when we get near there tomorrow. Where should we meet you?"

"Here, I'll give ya Tony's address here. It's 12 Kairos Drive in Queens. Tony's not here at the moment but I'm sure he won't mind you guys stopping by." I said back to my dad.

"Sounds good then Mike, just please stay safe and watch your surroundings. Call us if you need anything".

"Alrighty dad, see ya tomorrow!" I said, hanging up the phone and seeing Sull right near me sitting down at the Dining room table. "So your parents are coming tomorrow?" James asked.

"Yep, I want to get a bunch of people here for Tony's birthday on Tuesday. Do you know anyone you could invite?" I replied.

"I do, but I don't know how Tony would feel about it. Maybe we should hold the party at our house?" Sull asked me, and I quickly started thinking for a bit.

"Hmmmmm...good point, it might surprise him even more that way especially since there's not many places around his house to park without him noticing. So your house then on Tuesday?"

"Yeah let's do that, I know several people that I can invite and since it's MY house, and I don't care what they do haha". Sull commented with both of us laughing. I quickly picked up the phone again to call back my dad, telling him the change of plans. "Hey dad, it's me again. We're changing the plans up a bit, we're all going to head to James' house tomorrow."

"Who's James?" My dad replied, not knowing anything about Tony's friends.

"Oh yeah, I forgot to tell you about that. Tony has some pretty popular friends, you'll know who he is when you meet him" I said smiling at Sull, with him smiling back at me. "Ok...but just be careful again Mike. You don't really know these people, so just use common sense. What's..... his address?" My dad asked with a bit of hesitation, since he didn't know anything about James whatsoever.

"Uhhh....hang on" I said back, covering up the phone with my hand. "What IS your address Sull?" I asked. "324 Glenwood Avenue in Yonkers" Sull replied back softly.

"324 Glenwood Ave in Yonkers Dad. You still going to head down?" I asked.

"Yeah, we'll still head to the city tomorrow, you should introduce us to James if you can before Tuesday." "Sounds good then" I replied, saying goodbye and hanging up.

"So now what?" I asked Sull, when I heard footsteps near the stairs. "Hey there you two" Gantu said as he walked downstairs with Kumi right behind him. The two of them were wearing normal clothing compared to yesterday, and looked like they were ready to start the day fresh.

"I guess we can head to my place then?" Sull replied, with all four of us agreeing. Ord still had not come downstairs yet, though we all decided to eat breakfast and watch TV before we planned on heading out for the day. Little did I know that the news was red hot on reporting a very serious criminal incident that had happened the day before....

*****"Time to waste another day searching for a fucking needle in a damn haystack" The boar said, sighing heavily as he got out of the car along with the Cougar to look for their target.

"Can we PLEASE just convince boss to drop this whole thing? I want to fucking make my stash again, not find some damn human!"

The cougar gave the Boar a furious look after hearing him say that, and quickly exclaimed "So you think you're better than the boss now? I dare you to say that directly to his face. We're getting PAID to do this, so take it up with him if you DON'T FUCKING LIKE IT."

The boar hesitated for a good several seconds after hearing the Cougar lash out on him with nothing but anger, and finally murmured back "...whatever, let's go. Ugh...."

"Meet back at 5 today, UNDERSTAND?" The cougar yelled to the Boar as they started walking through the parking lot, with a couple of people looking at them somewhat awkwardly, as they were looking at two guys dressed up in gang clothing, wearing lots of chains and covered in tattoos.

The boar snarled back, still looking pissed off over the whole situation. "......fine" he said in a low voice, and the two went off to search for the human again.****

Ord had finally awoken and came downstairs at 10:30. With everyone up, we all got ready to head over to Sull's house for the day, especially to plan out Tony's special moment that was less than 48 hours away.

Before we all left the house, I figured I should at least grab the "special" present and bring it to James and Ord's place. I quickly ran back upstairs as the other four were near the front door, all wondering what I was doing heading back up.

I quickly grabbed my Wolf's Rain bag and brought it downstairs with me, putting my phone and also my wallet & Ipod in there as well. "Why do you need that?" Gantu asked me, knowing that we were only going to Sull's house. "Well, I hope you don't mind me storing Tony's gift in this bag...hehe" I chuckled, and opened my bag to take out the ball and Jersey that I got for Tony.

".................... ..................... ......................."

Oh man what I would've done to take a picture at that moment. The faces of Ord, James, and Gantu were all struck with a sense of not believing what I was holding in both my hands, showing the team-signed jersey to the four of them. Kumi was pretty surprised by what I was holding as well, but CLEARLY not as stunned as the other three.

"DAMN dude!!! Tony will LOVE this!" Ord exclaimed, coming right up to me and looking closely at all the signatures on the Justin Verlander jersey that I bought for the Tiger's birthday.

"Did you see the bottom here?" I asked the four, with all of them looking down to see what Justin himself had wrote for Tony. "Awwwww...that's so sweet Mike..." Sull said in a soft voice, giving me a cute look after that. I blushed at that moment, feeling like I wanted to give the present to Tony right there and now.

"Well...I gotta get this framed then!" I said to the four, acting very excited for Tuesday. "I know a PERFECT store near our area that can do that for you Mike, and we'll all help contribute to it!" Sull replied, as he came up to me and put his warm fuzzy hand on my shoulder, looking very grateful that I was able to get such an amazing gift.

The five of us headed out the door and went over to our vehicles. I was going to ride with Sull and Ord, but as I was about to get into their Sonata, I heard Gantu's voice near his truck. "Hey Mike, wanna ride with us? We can get to know each other better!" The big guy exclaimed to me, with Kumi already in the truck at this point.

"Ummm...surrrre!" I kinda slurred, since it was pretty obvious that Gantu and Kumi did not really know me that well, and I felt somewhat awkward about riding in their vehicle. "Do they know your address guys?" I asked Sull and Ord as they were getting into their car. "They should....but I told you what it was anyway" Sull replied back, with me nodding and heading over to Gantu's GIANT Dodge.

I got into the small back seat of the RAM, not having much leg room in general to maneuver with. Gantu knew where he was going, and before long, both vehicles were off and driving away from Tony's house towards Yonkers. "So Mike, I know we don't have the same favorite baseball teams, but let's talk!" Gantu exclaimed. The two of us started exchanging a conversation as the big guy was driving along, passing by each car as we got onto the highway.

"So what music you into?" Gantu asked me after we had asked each other a bunch of small questions.

"I fuckin LOVE Eurobeat, plus older stuff" I replied, pulling out my Ipod to show my collection of music, only to have Kumi turn around and look at me quite surprised.

"You....like....Eurobeat?" Kumi asked me slowly with a small accent. "Yeah, I LOVE Initial D. You should watch it."

"Initial D....IS THE...BEST...SHOW...EVER!!!!" Kumi yelled right into my face. In the day that I knew the Bruin, that was the first time I had seen him express ANY sort of emotion like that. He quickly put his hand out, signaling a high five. "RIGHT ON!" He yelled, with me quickly slapping his hand in an excited mood. "Wanna listen to some right now???" I asked a bit impatiently. "Of course!" Kumi exclaimed, and handed me a tape adapter cord to plug into my Ipod. In that span of a couple of minutes, I had pretty much stopped talking to Gantu completely and instead kept exchanging a conversation with Kumi over the music we liked as the car blasted with Eurobeat music.

About 45 minutes passed with traffic, before we finally got to Yonkers. After passing a whole bunch of streets left and right that seemed like they were in the VERY open, we finally came to a somewhat rural part of the town.

"Glenwood...I can't remember the last time I was here" Gantu softly spoke as he turned into the street that Ord and Sull said they lived at. There were A LOT of trees around the area, and each house that we passed by seemed to get bigger and bigger while the truck was driving further down the street.

"Three....twenty four!" Gantu said loudly as we FINALLY arrived at the driveway of the house, with Sull and Ord's car already there. My eyes were only locked onto the mansion that I was looking at. It was HUGE. There was a three car garage in the front with a basketball hoop attached above it, as well as a bunch of yard lights around the front.

"Hey guys!" Sull exclaimed as he opened the door to his house, happy to see that the three of us made it there in one piece. "Wow, I forgot what this place looked like! Haha!" Gantu responded, as Kumi and myself just kept looking at how big the house was while the three of us got out of the truck. "Heh..go look around guys, you can also go out back on the trampoline if you want!" Sull said directly to us. I quickly grabbed my bag out of the car and started to walk around the front of the house to see what was out back. Again, I was pretty flattered by all the stuff they had out back. Ord and Sull had an in-ground pool right outside of their back door, as well as a GIANT barbeque grill next to it. Their backyard itself was GIANT, as it easily looked to be a good 4 to 5 acres in terms of how much land they owned. There was a trampoline on the grass not too far from the pool, which you could only get to by walking over a tiny bridge that was built over the mini-pond that was near the pool area if you were coming from outside the kitchen area where the pool was right next to.

"I guess I should take a load off here" I said to myself while I was looking at the trampoline, since I had not actually been on one in several years. I was surprised to see a safety net on it, but it also seemed to be a MUCH bigger trampoline compared to the one we used to have at our house. I walked over, took my shoes off, got onto the trampoline, and started jumping little by little. I was losing myself easily in the moment as the memories started to come back to me of when I used to flip left and right on my old one. Even though my arm was still weak, I had enough strength in it to grab my legs in mid air. Eventually, I started flipping back and forth, still feeling great that I had it in me.

"You're having fun here, mind if I join ya?" I heard a low voice from behind me as I was still jumping after a good 5 minutes. I looked behind me to see James right there with a wide grin on his face, as if he wanted to REALLY wanted to join in on the fun. "Hop on!" I exclaimed, still jumping left and right feeling like I was ten years old again on there.

James got on and we started jumping together, and I felt like the oldest kid in the world right then and there. We both had a smile on our face the whole time we bounced on the trampoline, and it was definitely a moment to remember. Eventually I finally did a front flip and landed on my back, letting out some air as I felt a bit winded at that moment. "Hey, who said we were done here?" James then said as he came up to me and jumped VERY hard right next to me. The force of his jump actually propelled me a good six feet into the air off the ground, which took me by surprise. Before I could even think straight though, I felt James catching me in mid-air and then falling down to the ground himself with me on top of him.

"I....feel so young....again..." I slurred out as I was still catching my breath, laying down on top of the big blue guy. His body felt so warm, and I felt bonded to him at that moment, feeling like he was a long lost friend that I never had. "That was fun Mike" Sull replied at me, as he started stroking my hair little by little, before he put his arms around me while I was still on him, wrapping me into a giant hug. I just smiled at the moment and put my arms around the big guy as well, hugging him back and closing my eyes, thinking how I wanted this moment to last forever.

About an hour passed at Sull's house, with the time now being 1:30 in the afternoon. Sull and I had finished having our fun on the trampoline, and went back inside together to plan out everything for Tuesday. I walked into the back on the house where the kitchen was, and was even more stunned at how amazing everything looked in Ord and James' place. The kitchen actually looked somewhat like Tony's, but it was connected to both the living room and dining room unlike Tony's house which had the hallway separating the kitchen and dining room from the living room.

The dining room was pretty spacious and had a normal sized table for eating, as well as a bathroom to the left of it. The living room was right after that, with Gantu and Kumi watching TV there as I was still looking around the house. Their living room TV was GIANT, and it also had a PS3 and Xbox 360 hooked up to it, plus a DVD player with surround sound speakers all throughout the room.

"Mike sure seems at a loss for words here hahaha!" Gantu said as his arm was wrapped around Kumi's shoulder, with Kumi laughing a bit at my expression. Again, I started to blush at that moment and noticed that there was a closet next to the front door that was near the living room, as well as a staircase next to that that led to the upstairs area. I didn't head upstairs though, as I wanted to start talking about the party plans.

"Ok guys, we need to figure out how we're going to do this" I said to the four, with Sull cooking up some food at the kitchen counter as Ord was now watching TV with Gantu and Kumi. "How are we going to plan out everything?" Ord asked me, not really caring about the movie that Gant and Kum were watching on the big screen. "I think it should go like this...." I said, and eventually, time started passing VERY quickly before I knew it.

Two hours had come and gone, with the five of us eating together and figuring out everything we needed to do. I had already invited my family to come down on Tuesday, even though I was planning on seeing them tomorrow anyway. Sull started to make a couple of phone calls to his other friends that he knew Tony would be happy to see, and before long, we had everything planned out.

"By the way Sull, what's that place you were talking about that can frame the jersey and the ball I got signed?" I asked as Sull was now checking some stuff on his laptop at the kitchen table.

"That's right, we gotta go do that!" He exclaimed, and quickly looked up the address to the place where I needed to have everything carefully put into a frame. "Yeah, I was right! It's only about a five minute drive from here! Let's go!" With that said, James and I quickly grabbed our things and headed out to his car to go to the store to get the Jersey and baseball framed for Tony.

While we were driving in Sull's car, I couldn't help but wonder if Tony himself had any family members that might be interested in coming to the area to celebrate his birthday.

"Hey Sull, does...Tony have any family members that we could invite?"

Sull didn't respond to me for at least ten seconds. I felt like I asked something I shouldn't have at that moment, before I finally heard James reply "Tony....doesn't really talk about his family...let's just leave it at that." I agreed right away, and turned on the radio for the rest of the drive.

The place we ended up going to was in a bit of a mini-plaza, and looked somewhat run down as well. Luckily, the human that ran the place was VERY nice, and was able to frame the jersey in less than a few minutes. Since the ball couldn't fit in a frame, the lady running the store showed me a bunch of cases I could use to put the ball in. Sull and I eventually agreed on a tiny cube case that was meant to put baseballs in. After 15 minutes and $45 later, I was walking out with James with an autographed baseball in a sealed case, as well as a framed jersey of every single Detroit Tigers player from their 2011 opening game. It was only a matter of time now before Tony's big day arrived.

Sull and I arrived back at the house, with it now being 3:45 in the afternoon. I spent more time getting used to their place, and eventually started having fun with the rest of the guys for the day. Ord and I spent some time playing Left 4 Dead on the Xbox 360, while Gantu, Kumi and Sull all went and played basketball outside.

"That fucking TANK!" I shouted, acting pissed off after I was incapacitated by the Tank in Left 4 Dead hitting me with a rock. "I got it Mike, hang on" Ord replied as he kept using Louis to shoot at the tank with his shotgun. *BANG BANG BANG BANG BANG* the sound emitted from the speakers all around us. After a good few minutes of unloading bullets left and right, the Tank FINALLY fell down on its knees and died half way through the airport in the Dead Air campaign. "Thanks bud" I said smiling as Ord, and we eventually finished up the level.

We kept playing the game until around 5:45, before I overheard something.

"EVERYBODY...WANTS TO RULE THE WORLD...."

My ringtone went off on my phone, and I quickly ran over to my bag near the kitchen to see who it was. I opened my bag, quickly pulled it out as the song kept playing, and noticed that it was Tony's cell phone.

"Hey there big cat!" I replied sounding a bit excited.

"Hey hun, how's things?" Tony replied.

"Things are GRRRRREAT!" I replied with both of us laughing. "I'm at Sull and Ord's house here, we've done a lot of fun things today"

"Nice! I wanted to call you to let you know they need me here tomorrow to do more commercial shoots, so I won't be coming home till Tuesday."

"PERFECT TIMING!!!" I thought to myself, knowing that everything couldn't be unfolding better at this point. I almost lost my sense of thoughts in that moment before I finally responded several seconds later.

"..Oh..... alrighty, wanna just head over to this house then on Tuesday?" I asked Tony, crossing my fingers.

"Uhhhhh.....sure I guess! Haven't been over there in awhile anyway heh. I guess I'll head down that way after I finish my stuff up here, I think I'll be there in the later afternoon" he replied, with me clinching my fist and giving myself a thumbs up.

"So I'll see you Tuesday afternoon then Ton, hope everything goes well out there!" I said back on my phone.

"Yep, it sure has, today has been SO much fun working with a bunch of little league kids."

"I bet. I gotta go now, love ya hun" I replied one final time.

"Love you too Mike, see ya later!" and with that, I hung up the phone and quickly ran outside.

"BOOYAH" Gantu yelled as he slam dunked the basketball right over James and Kumi, with the three of them looking like they really worked up a sweat against one another. Gantu was almost at the level of the basketball hoop with his height, and Kumi & Sull weren't far behind either. It made me feel like an outcast in a way, though I just sarcastically smiled at the moment. I then remembered what I wanted to tell the guys.

"GUYS, I just talked to Tony!" I exclaimed as Gantu was dribbling the ball back near the cars. "What did he say?" Sull asked, with Kumi and Gantu looking curious as well. "He's not coming back till Tuesday, and I told him to come here!"

"Wow, that can't be better timing. When's he coming exactly?" Gantu asked as he started doing fancy moves with the basketball.

"He said late Tuesday afternoon, but I'm not sure exactly when. HOPEFULLY he'll call back before he heads this way" I replied, with the four of us agreeing. "Wanna join in Mike?" Kumi asked, as the big bear didn't really seem to know much about basketball but was still having fun playing it. "Sure....but I'm like the midget here, so take it easy on me!" I replied, with all of us laughing after. We ended up having a 2v2, where Sull and myself faced Gantu and Kumi, first team to 11 points wins.

*SWISH*

"Whew! I made one at least..." I thought to myself as I let out a huge breath after I sunk in the 6th point for our team, since I missed the other few shots I took, with Sull helping me out in getting the other five. Before I knew it, the game started passing by rather quickly, and we actually seemed to work our way around Gantu, since he was slower than the rest of us.

"10-9, OUR GAME POINT" Sull shouted as he really seemed to be locked into the game at that moment. I took the ball out after Kumi checked it into me, and started dribbling slowly towards the bruin. He had his hands out ready to steal the ball at any moment, while Gantu and Sull were both shoving each other, since Sull was trying to find an open spot to take a shot.

I decided to try a risky move, but I didn't think it would work. I eventually got right up face to face with Kumi, dribbled the ball into my left palm and stopped.

*WHISH*

You could actually hear the flow of air moving as I made a spin move to get around the right side of Kumi, leaving a WIDE opening right up to the hoop. I got closer and closer before I eventually heard Sull shouting.

"LOOK OUT MIKE!!!!"

I turned my head around to see Gantu heading right towards me, looking almost like a Rhino charging at full speed. He jumped up at me getting ready to block any shot I was about to make, and right as he jumped, I saw the opening I knew would win us the game.

"WHAT?!" Gantu yelled while he was in mid-air as I threw the ball inbetween his legs right to Sull who was standing on the left side of the hoop at that point. Kumi didn't rebound enough to get to Sull after the spin move, and as I passed the ball to him, he jumped up with all his might and SLAMMED the ball into the basket.

"GAME!!!!!!" Sull yelled, and eventually gave a smile which reminded me of the ending scene to the movie he was in. I quickly ran over to him to notice him opening his arms for me, and I jumped into them. We hugged for a good amount of time, and I kept feeling like this was a day where I traveled back in time to my childhood, being together with great friends and having endless amounts of fun.

As Ice Cube's song goes, today was a good day.

*****"Nothing again today, like I figured." The boar said as he met the Cougar back at their car in the supermarket parking lot at 5:00 P.M.

"I got off the phone with boss earlier, and I think you might want to re-think about not capturing that human now." The Cougar replied as the both of them got into the car and started heading out back towards their local spot. "What you talking about?" The boar asked.

"See, boss is willing to give us an extra...bonus...to the guy who captures him." Eric replied slowly.

"Yeah, how much, I'll be shocked if it's anymore than a fucking twenty dollar bill" The boar grunted back.

"How does....a COUPLE THOUSAND DOLLARS sound?" the cougar exclaimed, with the car almost drifting off the right side of the road as that figure was mentioned.

".......THOUSAND?!" Jim yelled inside the car, so loud that a couple of people were looking at the car after it passed them, wondering why they just heard shouting in there.

"You heard me. Boss got a sick payment from a good customer and wants to use that money for a purpose. Plus.....he said he would actually treat us with RESPECT if we got this done."

"Wow, boss might actually act nice? That's a fucking rare sight. I guess for that amount of money, I'm definitely going to catch that damn human" The boar said with a look of confidence in his eyes, as the Oldsmobile eventually arrived at their hangout.*****

TO BE CONTINUED.....