Chapter 5 (Wendell)
#5 of First Steps
I almost fall asleep again, even if we only have been awake for a few hours. I don't want to move since it's nice to be holding Todd. Or should I say, my rainbow fox. Don't get me wrong, he still has orange fur on him, but it's mostly on his back.
I hold him close to me and I start to gently stroke his stomach fur. I wonder if he's still awake? After all, who knows how long it's been since we starting cuddling.
"You still awake Todd?" I ask.
"Yes. I am." I hear him say.
"Ok. Just making sure."
"What time is it?"
I turn around and briefly look at the clock then go back to cuddling my fox. "It's almost noon."
"Thanks."
"So... did you just want to stay like this all day?"
"Why? Is there something else you wanted to do?"
"I'm sorry," I say, "I didn't mean it like that. I love cuddling with you, I just wanted to know if there's anything else you wanted to do."
Todd flips around, and wraps his arms around me. I look into his eyes and smile. He gives me a kiss. "I'm not sure what else I want to do."
"You just want to stay home all day?"
"Yeah. We've already done a little bit much don't you think?"
"But what about that mess downstairs?"
"I'll get it later."
"When are your parents coming home?"
"In a couple days."
"How are you going to explain the rainbow tail?"
"Not sure yet. But, I'll think of something."
"I just hope so, because my parents have already kicked me out. If yours do the same, we'll have no where else to go." I say. I just hope that Todd's parents would understand that he's gay.
"Wendell?" Todd asks.
"What is it?"
"Is there... anything else you're... curious... about?" he says it like each word might kill him.
"To be honest, I'm not sure. What about you?" I pet his head as I say this.
"No. Not really. You sure you don't have any other weird fetishes you want to share with me?"
I can't help but laugh. "Fetishes? Really?" He just nods. "What about you?"
"I don't really have any. It's only just the blindfold and we've already tried that." Todd reaches behind him and grabs something off his nightstand.
"What's that?" I ask.
"Here. I got this at the park yesterday when you went to use the bathroom." Todd takes my paw and puts a rose in it.
"You got this for me?"
"Yes." Todd kisses me again. I stare at the red flower in my paw.
"Got a hair pin I can use?"
"Uh... there's some in my parents room. Why?"
"Because now I have an idea of my own." I say. Todd gets out of the bed and leave the room for a second. When he comes back, he has a hair pin.
"Do you mind telling me what you're going to do with this?" Todd asks.
"This." I take the pin from him. I take the rose he gave me and, using the pin, I put it behind my right ear.
"Aww, cute." he says.
"Thanks. And the idea just came to me."
"Why? Were you jealous of my rainbow fur and wanted to do something yourself."
"Something like that. Plus I've always wanted to do this."
"Well, it makes you even more adorable." Todd hugs me again. I blush.
"Do you have any other crazy ideas in mind?" I say sarcastically.
"Nope." After sitting in silence for a few minutes, the phone rings. Todd and I walk down the stairs to see who it is. Todd doesn't recognize the number at first, but I do. At first, I'm hesitant, but I pick up the phone and hit the "answer" button.
"Hello?" I say.
"Wendell?" I hear a familiar voice.
"Mom?" What the fuck does she want?
"How are you?" I'm fucking angry that you and dad kicked me out of the house for being such unreasonable and unsupportive bastards.
"I'm fine. Why?"
"Well, I was wondering how you were doing." she sounds serious, but who knows.
"What did you want? How did you get Todd's number?" I say impatiently.
"It's written in our phone book."
"Oh." I keep forgetting I did that a few months after Todd and I met.
"I've been meaning to say something to you."
"What do you want?"
"I want to know if you wanted to come home." Is she serious?
"Why would I do that? When I told dad about my sexuality, he blew his head off yelling at me, and what did you do? You sat on the couch doing nothing!"
"Wendell, I'm sorry. I talked to your father about that and-"
"I don't care. I'm happy here. And if you have a problem with it, too... fucking... bad!" I slam the phone back on its receiver. I bury my face in my paws and start to growl.
"Is everything okay?" Todd asks, putting a paw on my back.
"No. My mother wants me to move back in."
"Why? I thought they kicked you out."
"My dad did. My mother didn't do anything to stop him. That pretty much implies she was on his side." I start to shed a tear. "Besides, I want to be here with you."
"It's ok." Todd pulls me into a hug. What's different is that this is more of an im-here-to-support-you hug instead of an i-dont-want-to-be-separated-from-you hug.
"Thank you, Todd." I hug him back, "Let's hope that never happens again." A couple minutes later, the phone rings again. It's the same number.
Todd looks me in the eye. "If you truly don't want to speak to them, don't answer it." I let the phone ring a few more times then I let the answering machine get it. Mom (or Dad) doesn't leave a message, which I'm not surprised.
"I'm sorry you had to go through that." he says.
"It's okay. Let's just hope it doesn't happen again." I say.
"Hey, why don't we see a movie or something. To get your mind off this."
"Ok." I give Todd a small kiss, "What do you want to watch?"
"Well, we've got plenty of DVDs here, or did you want to go to the theaters?"
"Can we watch something here?"
"Of course." Todd leads me over to this huge bookcase. A closer look shows that it's filled with nothing but DVDs. No books.
"I thought bookcases were for books." I say.
"They are. We just ran out of room in the small cupboard underneath the TV." Todd skims through the movies he has. "What do you want to see?"
I take a look at what he has. Damn, he's got a lot of good movies. One catches my eye. "You have Fifty Shades of Grey?" I smirk.
"Yes, but I don't want to watch all that sex crap."
"Have you read the book?"
"Yes. But I'd rather read it than see it."
I take a look again at what he has. Fault in Our Stars, The Grudge, Scream, Insidious: Chapter 2. Does Todd actually watch all of those scary movies? He used to be scared of them when we were younger.
"How 'bout this?" he pulls a movie out and gives it to me. The Divergent Series: Insurgent. I've never seen it.
"I never watched this one."
"Really? I think you'll like it."
"Ok. Fine." I know that it's based off a book or something. Does Todd read this stuff too? "What's it about again?"
"It's about a girl and her friends who try to run away from this crazy women obsessed with killing off an entire population of unique humans: Divergents. Hence the name of the movie." He says it like he memorized it. Todd puts the DVD in and turns it on and hits play. He sits on the couch next to me and cuddles up to me.
For the most part, I was paying close attention to the movie. I guess in a way, it sounds familiar, but I wouldn't know. Neither of us talk for the entire movie. The phone went off two or three times, probably my parents again, but I didn't want anything to do with it.
When the credits start, Todd just mutes the TV. "What'd you think?"
"It was nice, even though I've never really knew anything about Divergent. But, I'm glad I got to watch a movie with you." I just realized that we're both still shirtless. I blush.
"That's sweet."Todd smiles, then giggles, "Why are you blushing?"
"I just remembered we both don't have shirts on."
"Haha, that's ok."
"I know, I just... haven't gone this long without forgetting it before."
"Again, that's ok."
"So what's your favorite part of this movie?"
"I liked it when Tris said 'We are not the problem, we are the solution' and then Jeanine tries to execute them anyway."
"Really? I liked when toward the beginning when they all went to that farm-like place."
"When they went to Amity?"
"Whatever floats your boat." I say.
"So, you've never read the books before?"
"No. Not really. I'm more of a fan of Stephen King books." I have been since I was around twelve years old.
"Oh? What's your favorite King book?" Todd snuggles up to me more.
"I guess Under the Dome. It's kinda long, but in the end, it was pretty awesome. Plus, the TV show is pretty great, even though I've only seen the first season."
"Why only the first?"
"Not sure. Never got around to the others." I rub his head gently.
"You should show me sometime." Todd says. After a few more minutes, I hear a grumbling noise. Todd looks up at me and smiles. "Are you hungry?"
"Yeah, I guess so." Now that I think of it, it's around 2 o'clock and I haven't eaten since we were at Daisy's several hours ago.
"You want me to make you anything?"
"No, I won't make you." We both get off the couch. My muscles ache. That movie probably was pretty long if it does that.
"What're you hungry for?"
"Nothing too big." Although, I can eat a whole truck right now. "What about you? What do you want?"
"Pizza. There's some in the freezer. I'll share with you if you want."
"Sure." We walk into the kitchen. The hair dye mess it still there. Todd goes over and turns on the oven. I open the freezer (it's one of those that's on top of the fridge) and take out a pizza.
"We should probably clean this up while we're in here."
"What do you mean we?" I say teasingly, "You were one who brought in the dye."
"I know. Thankfully there's still some left to use next month." Todd puts the bowls in the sink along with the brush. He turn the water on to rinse some of it off. I take a wet rag and wipe down the counter of spilt hair dye. As we're cleaning this place up, the oven's preheated light blinks. I take the pizza out of the box and I put it in the oven. I set the timer for the time it said on the box.
"About twenty minutes before it's done, foxy." I can't help be a teasing wolf.
"Foxy?" Todd laughs, "Is that like my pet name or something?
"Maybe." I wink at him, then kiss the side of his face. "Do you hate it? I'll stop calling you that if you want me to."
"No I like it, it's kinda cute."
"Not as cute as you." I say.
"Aww, you're too sweet to me."
"You almost done yet?"
"Yeah. Just give me another moment." Todd says. I take pull up a stool next to the counter and rest my elbows on it. My eyes wonder around the room and I find myself staring at Todd's rainbow tail. He's so cute. I wonder if he expects me to do the same.
"Why are you staring at my ass?" Todd snaps me out of my paralysis.
"I wasn't, I was looking at your cute rainbow tail." I say.
"Oh. Alright." Todd starts to purposely wave his tail around.
"Are you trying to make me horny?" I ask.
"Maybe..." he stretched the end of the word, as he does, he waves his tail in a circle, making me even more horny.
"You're such a tease." I say.
Todd turns the water off, pulls up a second stool and sits across from me. I put my ears down and put on a sad look.
"What is it?" Todd asks
"I wanted you to sit on my lap." I sound sad.
"Ok." Todd gets up, sits on my lap and I wrap my arms around him, rubbing my paws along his rainbow belly.
"Sorry I sound whiny, I just love when you cuddle with me."
"Me too." Todd says, "I love when you hug me."
"Wait! If I remember correctly, you're the one who's always trying to hug me."
"Is that a problem?"
"No. I love hugs, I'm just saying." I rest my head on his shoulder and hug him tighter, then give him a kiss on the neck and he moans.
"Well, I love you." Todd says.
"I love you more."
"Thanks."
After a few more minutes, I can't help but raise a question. "So, how long have you had feelings for me?"
"Since the day I met you."
"Really?"
"Yep. How long have you known you were bi-curious?" Todd asks.
"I guess I've known forever, but I realized it after a few years of hanging out with you."
"Oh? But I thought that you've only wanted to be with me for two years now."
"I did and I'm happy to be your boyfriend. I guess you made me realize that maybe I've always liked boys in a way. After we entered High School, I saw you and thought you were adorable. I didn't see you as just a friend anymore."
"That's nice. But I always knew I was gay and I've always had feelings for you. That's why I never had a girlfriend. And it's why I've always wanted to hang with you every chance I got." he says.
"I did not know that. But, I'm glad I do now." I gently stroke his stomach fur.
"Do you still remember the day we first met?" Todd asks.
"Of course I do," I say, "It's almost like it was yesterday..."