A day at the park

Story by zacky351 on SoFurry

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#3 of Life Goes On Sidestory: Fantasy #1 - Floating in the Sea of Love


*ScreeeeechHUBBUBULBLUBWHEEERHISSSSSS* *BAM* I slam my fist down on my alarm clock as it's irritating sounds startle me out of sleep like every morning. I lift my head still feeling pretty groggy as I take a look at the time. "11:30! SHIT!" I shout as I jump out of bed. I dash over to my dresser and quickly rummage through all of the drawers to pick out a not too wrinkled set of clothes. As I quickly pull everything on I think to myself, 'DAMMIT! Why the hell did I have to forget to adjust my alarm!? SHIT! SHIT! SHIT!' After I get dressed I run into the bathroom to quickly brush my teeth and make sure I don't have too bad of bedhead. When I look in the mirror I see that as usual I only have one small cowlick that I quickly fix. Once I'm done in there I rush to the kitchen to grab two granola bars and a water bottle, not wanting to be totally starved when I arrive.

As I grab the food my mom walks in and says to me, "What's the rush Joey?" I give her a quick hug goodbye and say, "No time mom! I gotta be somewhere at 12." She looks a bit surprised as she says, "Oh, well have fun and watch out for cars." As I run to the living room I shout , "Don't worry mom! I will!" As I pass through the living room Miguel says from the couch, "Oh, hey Joey! When do you want to..." I quickly wave goodbye to him as I fling the front door open and say, "Sorry Miguel! No time to talk! Gotta run!" As I slam the door shut I hear Miguel shout, "But wait what about...!" but I don't give it a second thought as I jump off the porch and sprint down the street.

As I run I quickly scarf down my first granola bar and swig some of my water. When I have gone about five blocks I slow down to a jog in order to not run myself too ragged. When I am stopped by a red light I take my cellphone out and see that it is 11:48 and think to myself, 'Fuck! From here it should still be at least another twenty minutes before I get there! Dammit! Why did he have to pick the park that's thirty minutes from my house!? Uuuuugh!' I keep jogging the rest of the way, worried that if I were to start running again I would get too sweaty. When I get three blocks from the park I decide to eat my other granola bar and finish my water to give myself some more energy. When I finally get to the park I quickly throw my trash in a nearby bin and take another look at the time. '12:14! DAMN! I'm so late! I hope he's still here!' I think to myself as I look around the park quickly. When I don't see him on my first look I start to get a little worried. I quickly jog over to a nearby tree to sit down and catch my breath before taking another look around. Once I get under it I hear, "Hey! Is that you Joey?" from above me. I look up into the tree to see Xander lounging on a thick branch waving and smiling at me.

I let out a huge sigh of relief as I say apologetically, "I'm so sorry I'm late!" He just shrugs his shoulders and says, "It's no problem. I'm a very patient person. How's about you join me up here?" Then he gives me a sly grin as he says, "Or would you rather stand down there lookin up at my ass?" I quickly turn my head away as I blush. He laughs as he says, "You are so easy to embarrass." I look up at him still blushing as I say, "Well you would be too if someone was always teasing and flirting with you." He laughs again before giving me a big grin and saying, "No. If someone did that to me I would either deck em' or give it back to them tenfold. Now enough of all that. Just climb up here and join me already." I give him a quick nod before I grab at a low branch and start my way up.

Once I get high enough up I settle down onto a branch a few feet away from Xander. When I am secured on my branch I take a second to get a good look at him. He is wearing a teal shirt with wave designs on it, 'Must be his favorite color. I should remember that for later.' I think to myself, loose black jeans and normal black street shoes. When I finish analyzing his cloths I am surprised to look up and see him giving me really big puppy dog eyes as he says "Awww. You don't want to sit a little bit closer to me?" while patting the branch next to his. I chuckle a little bit as I blush and give him a little smirk before saying, "Oh alright. If it will get you to stop making those damn adorable eyes at me." He pumps his arm and grins as he says," Yes! I knew that would work." I roll my eyes as I make my way to the branch next to his. When I am a few branches away one of them snaps and I fall forward into his arms. He pulls me up and clutches me close to him before saying, "Woah! That was close!"

I sit there a while in slight shock before realizing that Xander is actually hugging me to his chest. I can feel the heat rising in my cheeks as I hear his heartbeat in his chest and feel his big, strong arms embracing me. Before I get too comfortable I shake my head and nervously say, "Um, yeah. That was really close. Thanks." He seemed to realize at that moment just how long and tightly he had been clinging to me and gently put me down on the branch next to his. He cleared his throat before saying, "Yeah. No problem. Wouldn't want you to get a broken leg now would we?" I chuckled a bit at the awkwardness of the moment and said, "Yep. Wouldn't be fun at all would it?" He grinned as he saw that I was okay and said, "Right. Now how's about we get down from here? Don't need any more mishaps now do we?" I nodded and we both slowly made our way back down to solid ground.

Once we got back down to the leaves covered grass we both stretched out a bit and let ourselves relax after our little scare. Xander was the one to break the silence when he said, "So, maybe wanna grab an ice cream to calm our nerves?" I smiled and nodded as I said, "Yeah. That sounds good right about now. Where do you want to go to get some?" He grinned and pointed behind me as he said, "No need to go anywhere. There's a guy right there." I turned to look where he was pointing and was not at all surprised to see a push cart vendor being swarmed by children a few yards away. We casually walked over to them and joined the line.

When it got to be our turn Xander said to the guy, "Two Ninja Turtles bars please." After the guy gave us our ice creams and we started to walk away I looked at Xander with a small grin and chuckled. As he tore open his ice cream he gave me a questioning look and said, "What? You don't like this kind of ice cream?" He looked down at the ground as he said, "Sorry, I thought you would." I just chuckled some more before I said, "Sorry. No, it's not that. I just pegged you for more of an ice cream sandwich kind of guy." He rubbed the back of his head as he gave me a bit of an embarrased smile and said, "Oh, yeah. I guess most people wouldn't expect me to get a kiddie bar like this huh?" As we finished off our ice creams I decided to be a bit bold myself for a change by putting my arm around his neck and pulling his head down while saying, "Awww. I think it's kinda cute to see a big, strong guy like you with an ice cream like that."

I could actually see Xander blushing through his white cheek fur as I dragged him along to a bench. As we approached the bench he managed to wiggle his head out of my grip, messing up his hair in the process. I stood there chuckling as he tried to pat his hair down to no avail. I stopped chuckling as I walked up to him and ran my fingers through his hair, fixing it for him. During my finger combing he closed his eyes and moaned softly, prompting me to continue stroking his head. After about three or four minutes of me just standing their petting Xander while he enjoyed it I slowly drew my hand back. He continued to stand there with his eyes closed for another minute before I cleared my throat and brought him back to the present. He blushed again and I chuckled while I said, "Guess I'm not the only one with an adorable blush." He joined me in my chuckling as he said, "I guess not." After we calmed back down we finally sat on the bench I had brought us to minutes ago.

I sat up straight while Xander put his arms behind his head and laid back against the bench. Seeing him in that position I couldn't help but check him out. I ran my eyes over his entire body, drinking in all the details I could with his cloths on. When I looked back up towards his face he was grinning. His grin became a slight smirk as he said to me, "Like what you see?" I blushed hard at being caught openly staring at him and quickly looked down at the ground. He just continued to grin as he said, "Awww. No need to be embarrassed about me catching you checkin me out. I wouldn't be embarrassed if you ever noticed any of the times I've been doin it." I slowly looked back up at his face as I said, "Y-You've been checking me out?" He chuckled a little as he said, "As hard as it may be for you to believe, yes! You may not think you look so good, but to me you do."

I blushed again, but kept looking at him this time as I said, "Um, well. Thanks!" I looked back down at the ground as I continued, "I guess I don't really have that much confidence." I lifted my head back up to look him in the eyes as rubbed my arm and shyly said, "But I am trying to work on that. It does make me feel really good to hear you say you like the way I look." He smiled warmly as he put his arm around my shoulders and hugged me tight before saying, "Any time Joey. Any time." I let my insecurities go for that moment and snuggled up against him. He smiled down at me before he closed his eyes and started moving his face forward. My eyes widened as I blinked, realizing that he was coming in for a kiss! And not just any kiss, my first kiss!