Fun at the mall (revised edition)
This is my first and definitely not my last story for yiffstar. I'd like to dedicate it to the person that introduced me to this site. I won't name her except to say that she is a friend of the author of the Sirius series. Here's to you! The two main characters, Xolotl and Bastet, are named after deities from different parts of the world- Xolotl -Xo- is an Aztec Coyote god, Bastet -Tia- an Egyptian cat goddess. I'd recommend reading the backstory and plot, *NOT* just skipping to the sexy bits.
BRIEF BIT OF BACKSTORY: This story is set in the capital city, Deltane, of an invented country named Arora. Most Arorans are canine, vulpine, and lupine, while the inhabitants of their troubled southern neighbour, Solcalo, are sekhme (felines. Tia is a second gen. sekhme immigrant) and rouseh (rodents, small carnivores). The tiny country Tia and Xo are vacationing in, Laplaia, is populated by lizards. Laplaian magic is different from the magic in Arora, which had been in major decline for several hundred years until the re-instatement of the Bagadi (the link between Arorans and the spirit world. These events will be the subject of a series coming soon!) several years prior. Enough of that for now- raise your hands those of you who are here to raise a body part other than your hands. Yeah, I thought so. Run along and have fun.
- * * Fun at the mall- an Aroras tale The day was splendid. It was sometimes too hot in Deltane city at this time of year, thought Xolotl the Coyote as he stood on the veranda of his apartment building, looking out over the canals. But today there was a breeze playing with his tan fur which made it just perfect- The day that is to say, not his fur. There was such a soft, lazy ambience in the air that he almost didn't want to leave on holiday. But then, no temperature could make him forget how much fun he and Tia were going to have... "Hey!" "Gah!" Xolotl jumped as Bastet popped up behind him. The little grey cat was exceedingly quiet, and he was easy to startle when he was off in his own little world, which was not an infrequent occurrence. She laughed at him. "I've made a list of the things we need to buy and I wanted to see if you could add anything to it." Xo and Tia had been planning a vacation together for months, and were leaving the next morning. Xo, an architect, had saved up his weeks off, as had Tia, who was a diplomat, until they both had enough time to do something really special. Their plan was to travel south, visiting friends along the way. By the end of that week, they would have reached the Laplaian border, and a day's drive from there would bring them to a beachside cabin lent to them by a connection of Tia's where they could do nothing but hike and relax by the sea for another heavenly week. The blonde Coyote took the list. "By the Bagadi, do we really need all THIS?" "Our cabin doesn't even have running water, and it's in the middle of nowhere. I don't want to have to pick this stuff up on the way." "But this list is huge! For one thing, we don't need a flint. Your fire magic is just fine." "I'd have to use Laplaian magic and I know nothing about it. Going up in an enormous fireball isn't my idea of a fun vacation." She picked up her purse. "Besides, it's not as if we can't afford it." "butbutbut...clothes, a tarp, swimsuits, cards, knives-" Tia snatched the list, circled a few 'essential' items, and handed it back to him. Xo continued to read- "-scented candles, lingerie, and lube. I see." Tia called up a skimmer and hustled Xo into the craft. It was a beautiful day, with the inconstant clouds reflecting in the city's canals. At the same time, she looked at her boyfriend. The Coyote was wearing a thin white shirt and a pair of Khaki pants, wrinkled because he hadn't folded them. Typical. Xo was an extremely tall individual, with soft tan fur and longish blonde hair. People often talked about them being opposites- He was a tall, strong Canid, light-coloured with blue eyes, a poster-boy Aroran. Meanwhile, she was petite (the only big thing about her was her chest, as her sisters sometimes teased her) a dark grey cat with deep chestnut hair and large, smoky eyes- clearly of sekhme descent. Xo was shy, she was outgoing. They seemed as different as their clothes- his were light, hers a wine-red summer dress. But for the most part, the differences between them as people were as superficial as the differences between their clothes; both had wild imaginations, loved jokes and pranks, and had similar tastes in nearly everything else. They were so well suited to each other that they were not only lovers but best friends, which in some ways was almost bettter. Xo, who had previously been examining the city as the floated by, noticed his cat was looking at him. He gave her a brief but winning smile. As they drifted down the canal, Tia allowed her tail to trail along in the water for awhile. They were still in the nicer residential part of town, so the water was clear and sparkling. Xo continued to grumble about the shopping trip. "Quit whining. You just don't like shopping" she said, flicking some water at him with her tail. "You bet I don't like it. Biggest waste of time I know" He said, flicking water back. "Only if you're a raging snob, which you ARE" She teased with a happy laugh. Flick, flick. It quickly escalated into a full-scale water flicking fight, with much giggling on the part of the Cat and the Coyote and much eye-rolling on the part of their skim-driver, a Dalmatian, at his passenger's lack of decorum. After a stalemate was declared, Tia again addressed her partner. "I know a bunch of places where we can get some of this stuff- little indie shops mostly, You'll probably like them. But for some of the stuff we're gonna have to go to the complex." Xo groaned. The complex was a huge chain of stores just outside the city. It was rich in soulless corporate enterprises, and he hated shopping there. Tia knew of her lover's distaste for the place, one which she, to a lesser degree, shared. She reached her tail across the boat and twined it around his in a show of compassion. "I know you hate it, but it'll only be a few hours and I can't do it by myself. Okay?" Xo gave a tired but kind smile. "Yeah, Okay." Xo had reasons for hating shopping that went beyond the regular macho-man abhorrence of all things girly. In spite of, or perhaps due to, his tallness as a child, he had always been painfully shy. The extroverted Tia and her friends had helped, but he was still reserved around strangers. He hated large places and big crowds to a degree that was almost agoraphobic. Tia knew this, and was gentle about it. Both had their hang-ups. Some of the first shops they went to weren't bad at all. The specialty stores, the mom-and-pop shops, the boutiques run by crazy women with strange accents. They visited many stores this way, exploring incense-scented corners in the warm afternoon light. Eventually, it came time to leave the downtown area and go to the complex. The canals didn't go all the way there, so they arranged for their skim-driver (the Dalmatian, who had willingly been engaged the entire day despite his employers immaturity) to leave them at the drop-point to walk to the complex, drop off their previous purchases at their apartment, and then return to the complex for them in a few hours. As they walked from the drop-off point to the complex, Xo's shopping pessimism returned. "You know that Coulter's outlet that they opened here a few years ago?" "Yeah?" "This isn't where they originally wanted it." Tia pricked her ears towards her boyfriend. "Where?" "You'll never guess." "Where?" "The Kujek swamp" "No way!!" The Kujek swamp was located just off the road leading south from Deltane city. It was widely recognized as an occultic site, and was a major source of natural ingredients for the magick lessons at the University and the City's hospital. "Yeah, they said the site was basically unused and that it would be more convenient for many city-dwellers. They didn't make the plan very well known, but they'd approached the city council." "How do you know all this? I never heard about it." "They wanted my firm to come up with plans. Well, you know the crew we have at my office. We were all just about as horrified as you were and protested the building rather than designed it. Of course, the Bagadi returned around then and the public's opinion towards magic shifted, so Coulter's dropped the idea. But otherwise, I think it would have happened." Xo looked at the area they were walking through. It was not as magical or as important as the Kujek, but it had been very beautiful forest, not so long ago. What creatures had lost their homes, what special gifts of nature had been forsaken to make this consumerist haven that Deltans thought was such a necessity? He could still see a few small, scrubby trees from the sidewalk, their sight cut into diamonds by a hard chain-link fence. Tia, meanwhile, was silent. They arrived at the complex. It really was an ugly building- large, grey-and-blue, sprawled on the outskirts like a sleeping giant. It lacked the aged beauty of the inner city and so instead squatted on it's back porch. As an architect, Xo was offended by the lack of aesthetics. The couple approached the monolith, and passed through the swinging doors. Both caught their breaths as they entered. The inside of the complex was as flashy as the outside was bland. Everywhere were lights, signs, shining things- there were Furs and Stores at each glance. The inside of the complex blasted those who entered, shouting- "Hey! Wow! Look at that! Buy this! Check it out! Aren't I just Gorgeous?" The complex was not a place; it was a neon sign. Xo and Tia dragged themselves through several stores, passing by consumerism, edging around avarice, and examining the showy triumph of capitalism. Everything in the complex was overstated- things were shouted where they only needed to be whispered. It was peak hours during a top shopping day, so there were furs everywhere. So many different kinds of beings, with separate needs and separate selves, blended into a sea of whiskered faces, of swishing tails, and shifting colours of fur. Almost simultaneously, Tia and Xo realized that they would not finish in time unless they split up. They therefore divided the list in two and promised to meet at a certain bench at a certain time. Tia went to give Xo a peck goodbye, but he instead pulled her into a deep and serious kiss. They caressed a moment as they passers-by pretended to ignore the PDA. Through veiled lids and quick glances, others saw the couple, and smiled to themselves, thinking not of the Cat and Coyote, but of their own husbands and wives and lovers, waiting for them in their homes or their dreams. That is the reason people read love stories, and gawp at couples in the park- the selfish but natural need to remember. The only couple that really was embracing disengaged as Xo gave his wining smile and Tia her happy little laugh. She waved to him and padded away, while he remained in the same place, watching her slowly be engulfed by the furry ocean, and disappear. On her end, Tia went to buy toiletries, soap and towels and such. The friend that had lent her the cottage had said it was furnished 'a little', so they would have to bring most everything with them. "Soap...Sunscreen...Shampoo...bug-b-gone..." She muttered the list as she went, ticking things off on the sheet. Under the endless garishly-lit aisles, she came to a screeching halt beside a counter that had several boxes of Condoms scattered about it, haphazard and out of order. There were several brands there, and many sizes from small to the comically ironically named 'family packs'. Tia's fingers began to twitch. She had never known whether it was mild OCD or just eccentricity, but she hated seeing things out of order like that. Impulsively she began arranging the contraceptives. "Excuse me..."came a voice behind her. Tia whipped up. It was a middle aged chocolate Lab. She looked at Tia. She looked at the family-sized box of strawberry-flavoured Sensuals Tia was holding. She coughed nervously. "Erm, do you know where the sunscreen is?" Luckily, several years in diplomacy had taught Tia how to only blush on the inside. "...Aisle four, I think..." "Thank you." The lady scurried away. The cat put down the family-sized box of strawberry-flavoured Sensuals and departed. A few seconds later she returned and put it in her basket. Later, she saw the Lab with a container of topical cream "Wait, if you're looking for sunscreen, don't get that." "Pardon?" "That's topical cream. It's only good if you're already burnt." "Oh! you're right. I'm not very good with labels." "I think they try to confuse you on purpose, to increase sales. You'll want something like this, with SPF 30 or more." "Why thank you. What's your name, dear?" "Tia. And it's my pleasure!" With that and a smile, Tia was off. Later at the checkout, when the Lab was asked if anyone had helped her, and she gave a glowing report of young... "oh, what was her name...Mia?" "Leah, perhaps?" "oh, yes, that must have been it." At the end of the month, a hyena employee named Leah noticed with pleasure a slight increase in her usual commission income. But none of this was known to Tia as she finished her shopping and went to meet Xo to go clothes shopping with him. She was so happy she drew some attention to herself by skipping. She was extremely excited at the prospect of their upcoming vacation. How wonderful to get away from those devolved bureaucrats she had to work with and go visiting friends, traveling, and ultimately spending time with her favourite fur in the world. Unfortunately, her favourite fur in the world was not where he was supposed to be. When Tia arrived at the bench, she found it's only occupant to be a small, nervous looking male fennec clutching a prescription bag. Definitely not Xo. She sat down next to him, but his constant, poorly-concealed ogling at her made her more and more uncomfortable. She could just feel him undressing her with his beady, blood-shot little eyes, and would rather eat the entire contents of his sack than put up with it. An angry glare later and he was the uncomfortable one. Tia set off trotting in the direction that Xo had gone, her eyes fishing the crowd for a glimpse of blond hair and tawny fur. Once or twice she even called his name to the mob. She was practically running when she spotted him sitting silently on a bench. Xo's job had been to pick up some of the more utilitarian things they'd need, but that hadn't been the first thing he'd gone to buy. "Good thing we split up or I'd never be able to get this." He thought as he entered the jewellers shop. He'd been saving up more than just his vacation weeks, and had soon purchased the ring he'd chosen a month before. For a moment, he stared at the little, glittering thing, and then buried its tiny box in his pocket. The thought of asking her excited him, but made him anxiously queasy. They'd been together for years... asking in a romantically secluded cabin... she'd say yes. She had to say yes. The ring feeling like a heavy weight in his pocket, he fell again into the habit of trying to plan exactly what to do, what to say, how to say it, what she would say...The questions that had been pestering him constantly since he had made up his mind to ask. He was starting to think that proposing to Tia would be almost as much about marrying her as giving his brain a rest . He moved on to another store to buy survival supplies. Flashlights...batteries... a propane tank... The supply store was oddly designed. Its actual floor space was small, so the rows were crammed together with little room between them. The roof, however, was high so many things near the top had to be reached down by workers with poles or ladders- in short, it was a poor place for claustrophobics. Xo tiptoed through the store, taking what he needed. He paid and left as quickly as possible, only to realize he'd forgotten to buy batteries. Cursing quietly, he re-entered the store, finding them quickly. Relieved, he reached for some... "Ding-Dong. Attention shoppers, we are now having a green-light sale on double and triple batteries for the next seven minutes! Be sure to get yours now!" Xo was instantly mobbed by shoppers trying to get to the batteries. Pushed and shoved one way and another, voices emerged and disappeared from the crowd like malcontent fish. "Excuse me." "Hey!" "Watch it!" Stepping backwards, Xo was jostled off his feet. Vertigo descended as he spun for a fraction of a second, and fell roughly to the ground, someone inadvertently stamping down on his tail. He was momentarily transported back to being pushed around on the school ground of his boyhood. Blue sky...hot ground... Tash standing on his tail and shouting... Xo scrambled speedily to his feet, wanting nothing more than to escape the shop. He sped, panicked, towards the exit and alarms filled the air- he was still holding the un-paid for batteries. "Yah!" The frantic Xo shouted inarticulately. As a security guard started toward him, he chucked the batteries in the air and sprinted blindly out of the store and down the hall, eventually resting out of breath on a bench where Tia found him some minutes later. Tia did not know anything that had just happened to him, but he did not look like he wanted to talk. She instead sat down beside him and for a minute or so they said nothing, only let the crowd flow around them. Xo silently fiddled with his bags. Tia found a microscopic spot on the potted fern next to her and picked at it, her nail making no mark. The plant was plastic. After awhile, Xo spoke first. "I guess we should finish up." The only thing left to do was go clothes shopping. The two major clothes outlets in the complex were Unison Apparel and Coulter's. They chose the first. Inside the store, they found what they needed and headed to the change rooms. Tia's pile was significantly larger than Xo's- consequently, he had decided on his purchases and tried them on much earlier, then waited outside Tia's stall, handing her things and so on. The change rooms were organized as such: A long hallway somewhat separate from the rest of the store, with at least fifteen stalls on either side, the stalls separated with sturdy walls. Each stall was about four feet square, with a full-length mirror to the left of the door and a ledge about a foot deep on the other two sides, to sit on and hold clothes. There were few other people in and out of the change rooms, and as Xo stood holding Tia's bags he looked inside them. Soap...Sunscreen... bug-b-gone... A detective mystery by M. M. Lang, five nutmegs, and a family pack of strawberry flavoured Sensuals. While goodness knows why she wanted so much nutmeg, the sensuals soon had Xo reminiscing about things not intended to be thought in public. Tia handed him a dress which he asked the Badger saleswoman for in a larger size. Through the crack where the door met the hinge he saw a flash of her hair, a glance of her naked back. He could hear the shifting of fabric as she put on and removed clothes. It struck him that he was separated by only a few feet and a thin plywood door from his beautiful, naked lover. Now there was a sexy thought. The sales lady came back with the new size of dress. Tia opened the door a crack, reaching her hand onto his as she took the garment. Before she could get the door closed again, he stopped it, forced himself inside and locked the door behind him. "Xo!..." She began, then stopped as she saw his eyes devour her body. When she had opened the door to take the dress, she had been half changed into a bikini, and now wore only the blue bottoms, all else revealed. He smiled at her mostly nude form. "I like this outfit." Tia smiled coyly at the attention of his eyes. He brought her closer to him and she nuzzled the fur around his neck. At the same time, he slipped his hand down the back of her bikini bottoms, gently squeezing her rear and making her purr. "Wait!" she hissed, disengaging herself. "What if...?" Xo went to spy out the door crack. There wasn't a crowd of furs in the change room, but there was still between a dozen or two. Could they risk it? It only took him a glance at the bared body before him to make his decision. His complex reasoning could be summed up as that he wanted it, and he wanted it NOW, dammit. In response to Tia's what if, he pushed his fingers down the sides of her bottoms, slipping them off and disrobing her completely. Tia's face lit up and her tail twitched from side to side. Launching herself at Xo, she met him in a hungry and passionate kiss, then pulled herself down until she was kneeling before him. As he shed his shirt, she quickly removed his pants, seeing his boner beginning to rise under his boxers. He expected her to remove them too, but before she did so, she quickly felt his growing hardness through the silken fabric, oh so gently touching his sensitive parts. "mm.." "hush." she urged him. They'd be quiet or they'd be found. His member hardening, she pulled down the shorts to reveal it. Xo leaned back against the wall and slid downward until he was sitting on the bench, spreading his legs and inviting Tia's head between them. She lifted her arms around the back of his neck, the tip of his rising sex touching her chest, and ran her hands down his chest, just lingering over his nipples. Her hands wandered through his chest fur, like a blind person finding their way. When they came past his belly button, she gave it a little kiss, as one hand gently stroked the underside of his member, the other cupped his balls. Nuzzling just below his bellybutton for a moment, she then carefully took the very tip of his cock in her mouth, delicately licking and sucking it. She reared slightly, lifting her breasts to brush the fur of his balls with her nipples, to cradle them softly. She took more of his member into her wet mouth, stroking and tasting it, while his hands held her head. After sucking down the entire shaft to the back of her throat, she removed him from her mouth and pressed the shaft between her breasts. The downy chest fur, moist from his pre and her lubrications, caressed his cock while her rough tongue brushed the tip. She alternately held his balls or his shaft with her breasts, sometimes only holding the tip in her mouth, other times sucking him all the way back when his hands forced her head onto him. Both took deep, ragged breaths as silently as they could. *** The Badger sales lady, Hestia, returned to the stall where the young coyote had been standing a few minutes before. Where had he gone? She had the pair of shorts he'd asked her to exchange, and now he'd vanished. She was about to knock on the stall of the girl he'd come in with, when she heard muffled noises and whisperings within. For a moment her expression was confused, then shocked. But only for a second. Then her regard broadened into a secret and knowing smile. She hurried over to the other senior fur she worked with, a beagle. "Illie! Come here! There's a couple in the change rooms!" "What of it?" "Nonono, There's a couple in the change rooms." "What do yo- OH!" Hestia tittered. "Lucky young kids." "It certainly takes me back hessie. I was quite the lady about town, you know." sighed Illie. "I'll bet you were." "I even did it on a train once." "Did you now? Did you ever try a plane?" "No- did you?" "Yep." "Oh my." *** Tia had moved up again, standing before the still sitting Xo. He had buried his face in her breasts, flicking the nipples with his rough tongue, nuzzling and nipping, as Tia tried not to breathe too loudly at the pleasure. Xo's erection lay lengthwise between her legs, the head out just beneath her ass as the base of the shaft brushed her clit. With the end of her tail she gently stroked the tip of his cock, making him bite her chest a little harder. She sucked in a ragged breath, and he could feel the warm wetness welling up around his sex, her body showing it's pleasure when her voice could not. Xo didn't know what it was that finally pushed him. The thrill of screwing in a public place, Tia's quiet but labored breathing, or simply pure lust. He abruptly stood up and shoved Tia up between the opposite wall and his own body. Luckily, the stall walls were thick and sturdy, and if anyone heard the resulting muted thump, they made nothing of it. Tia was squeezed up between the wall and her lover, and as he supported her ass with his hands as if she weighed little more than a doll, she pushed herself back against the stall wall, wrapping her arms around his neck, positioning her cunt for his penetration. With a single look into Tia's eyes, he carefully pushed himself into her. Tia ceased to breathe for a moment as she felt his member enter, making a soft, wet noise from the lubrication they had given it. Xo pulled himself out a bit, and then pushed his way in again, deeper this time, almost all the way, but so as to be as quiet as he could. Again and again Xo thrust his cock into Tia, each time harder, faster, deeper. They slowly and carefully sped up, and as he pushed her she rose up a little against the mirror behind her. Every time he plunged into her, she closed around him, gripping him inside. Pushed up against the wall, Tia rose and sank with each thrust, her inner muscles instinctively squeezing as he rhythmically pounded into her sex, the Coyote's cock filling her. The angle pushed his cock up against her inner walls, grinding her G-spot and making her feel even more the texture the meat forcing itself into her. At the same time, Xo felt as she milked him, the soft wet pussy enveloping him as her face took a blissful expression. He felt the spasms of her inner muscles as she orgasmed around his member, a fluttering feeling about his greedy sex. For some time they continued this way, he forcing his cock into her, which pushed her up against the wall, which made her grip him deeper inside her, which made him push harder... a reciprocal circle of pleasure. Suddenly, Tia felt her lover speed even a little faster, and begin to shake as his climax neared. As he buried his cock to the hilt, he stopped, and quaked violently, and she could see his mouth open to moan, or cry out. Xo could sometimes be noisy during sex, which was good, but if he made any noise now they would certainly be caught...! She needed to shut him up. As his mouth opened, Tia lunged, desperately locking it with hers, their sharp teeth grinding each other, drawing a little blood. Their mouths one, Tia latched onto Xo, forcing all of him that she could inside herself, at the same time as he gave a last push. In this savage embrace they felt each other come, mixing inside Tia. He exploded, the sperm filling her completely. Both felt a single, powerful orgasm split between the two of them, and their eyes watered and minds blanked in the silent ecstasy. At length, they began to calm, and Xo gave a gentle, almost massaging thrusts to finish. There was a little blood in their mouths, and sperm dripped from where his member remained inside her. Tia lowered, slumping a little against the mirror as he removed his glistening sex. She leaned against him for support, and for just a moment Xo did nothing but hold his beloved as she nuzzled close in his arms, smelling her musky scent and feeling- not hearing- her happiness, as she could feel his. Eventually they realized they would have to clean up and leave. True, they had been in less than ten minutes, but eventually someone would knock and the store closed in thirty minutes. "There are some tissues in my purse" whispered Tia. "Not very many" Said Xo, upon investigating. There were only a few. Tia used most of them on her chest and pussy, and still the latter wasn't ready. "What am I going to do?" asked Xo, his member still quite wet and only a little bit of tissue left. Tia smiled shrugged as if to say "What the heck?" and knelt once more, saying "You can finish me off once I'm done." She quickly and efficiently cleaned him as dry as she could, licking and sucking the cum from his dick, rubbing a little away with her tail. Xo enjoyed the pleasant after-glow feeling of the brief blow job, the final massage of her tongue while he put on his shirt. Afterwards, she sat sprawled on the bench and his mouth cleaned out some of the cum inside of her. She purred softly as his tongue provided a final Coda to their experience. Anything that was left they cleaned up with what was left of the tissue, as well as some of the crepe paper that had been wrapped around some previous purchases, carefully checking to see that no-one was watching as the exited the stall together. Finally, they appeared before the checkout with their choices fifteen minutes or so before closing time. The last thing for the bulldog cashier to ring through was the blue bikini, which as he was about to put into the bag noticed a tiny spot on it. "Oh, I'm sorry folks; it looks like this has a stain on it or something." The bulldog seemed a little out of it, and didn't notice Xo blush and Tia's expression freeze. They'd found what he was looking at, and immediately recognized it as a dried fleck from their lovemaking. "I think I have to give you a discount if it's damaged at all." "Nonononono that won't be necessary" said Tia with a nervous laugh. The bulldog looked confused. "It's just a tiny dot. Nothing to worry about. It'll probably come out in the wash." said Tia quickly. "Yeah, no need for a huge discount." added Xo. "It wouldn't be fair. We'd be jack-I mean ripping you off." Xo turned a colour often associated with beautiful desert sunsets. The cashier, although confused as to why anyone would turn down a rebate, was nevertheless relieved. Despite it being policy, the manager tended to harangue those who actually discounted items. "Okay then. That's real decent of you two. Don't often see people that honest these days." Tia and Xo smiled and said nothing. As the exited the complex, they did not see the eyes of two ladies closing up the store, who had noted their lengthy changing time and quiet noises from the stall. Looking particularly after Xo, the Badger gave a wry smile and nudged the beagle, saying. "Certainly would have liked to have been in that stall." And the two of them laughed. Outside, away from the well-meaning sales bulldog and on their way to the skimmer pickup, Xo and Tia also laughed. Xo gave a long exhalation "That was.. that was just wow." "Aren't you articulate." Tia joked. She felt the same. "Hey, you're supposed to be the silver-tongued diplomat here, not me." Xo rebuked. "Well YOU were the one who needed to be kept quiet back there. I almost had to bite your tongue out." "What do ya mean 'almost'? It feels like you did." Xo winced. Tia smiled fondly, and stopped in front of him. "That little love nip? Let me kiss it better." Leaning forwards, she met him in a kiss far gentler than it's predecessor. The two melted into one shadow in the twilight. As they finished, they remained in a hug, and Xo pushed his long nose into her shoulder mumuring. "It's better now." she leaned her head into his shoulder as well, and sniffed. "Are you crying?" he asked. Tia had never been emotional like that. "No." she replied with a little chuckle "You still smell like musk. We both do." "Ahem." The final ejaculation came from neither Tia nor Xo, who looked over, but from their skim-driver, who had arrived at the point and was watching them. How long he had been standing there was anyone's guess. Tia and Xo brought the rest of their purchases into the boat and set off for home. "I guess we weren't completely successful in not getting caught." whispered Xo. The Dalmatian didn't know what the two were whispering about, but as tiresome as they had been that day, he thought them cute. Seeing a little romance like that did people good. But then, he didn't know the half of it, now did he? Epilogue Tia and Xo left on their vacation the next day. Exactly what occurred- why Tia wanted nutmeg, what answer Xo got for his proposal, and exactly how much of that family pack of Strawberry Flavoured Sensuals they went through- is a story for another time. But guaranteed, when they returned, whey would look fondly at their day at the complex, and from then on, Xo NEVER whined about going shopping. ___________________________________ Yes, I intend to write about what will happen on their vacation. Since this is my first story, please don't tear me into tiny, shattered little pieces of despair, but do know that I would almost prostitute myself for some comments, so if you've anything to say,lemme hear it. Yours, Mistress Musun.