Chapter Six
#7 of The Roommate
The remainder of the day passed by mostly in peace and Xaver wasn't forced to throw ballpoint pens at anyone. When he looked at the time and saw that work had ended, he almost jumped up and down and shouted "YES!" Of course, then everyone would have thought he was either insane or just stupid. Xaver kept his relief to himself.
He was eager to get home and enjoy it as much as he could before he was sent to the equivalent of hell. He would have to say goodbye to all his favorite spots in his apartment and give his bed a farewell hug. His grief made him feel a bit childish.
Xaver wasted no time hanging around work. He didn't want to talk to Oscuro again or get laughed at by Hiro. He disappeared from the building as inconspicuously as if he blended in with the scenery. He could have stealth when he wanted to.
Oscuro, meanwhile, was also glad that work was over. He would be going home to an empty apartment, but it wouldn't be like that for much longer. He wasn't lonely, but he did enjoy having someone to talk to all the time, especially if that person was perfect harassment material.
Oscuro didn't know why he always had to annoy people and make fun of them. It came naturally to him and he couldn't help it even if he wanted to. It was just the way he expressed himself and he had fun doing it, so he didn't bother to ever curb his behavior. It really was exciting to make Xaver angry. Oscuro really wanted to get into the cougar's pants; not because Xaver was particularly sexy, but because he was so determined not to give in. Challenges were always fun.
People like Kyle were experienced and not as satisfying to fuck. Once Oscuro claimed Xaver's never-before-penetrated body, he would be the very first one to make the big cat moan in pleasure. Xaver's virginity would be his and no one else's. Oscuro was a very excited buck when he left the building to go home.
Xaver was in a bad mood and Oscuro was in a good one, but Hiro's state of mind was in-between. A condition of happiness and satisfaction couldn't last forever in somebody like him, and his contentment began fading away by the time work ended.
Some asshole had accidentally hit him while opening a door and his head still throbbed from the pain. He had fired four people that afternoon and had to sit down and have a stupid talk with each person being dismissed. He ended up spilling tea on his lap and had to walk around for five minutes looking like he peed himself. It had started out as a good day but turned into an average ordeal at work. Hiro knew his pleasant mood was too good to last and everything pissed him off once more.
"Hey Hiro!"
Great. Just what the short dog needed. His paws instinctively clenched into fists.
"Hey Hiro, guess what? Guess what?" Kyle was obviously excited about something and ran to meet Hiro with a wide smile on his face. "Bel and I are going shopping today!"
"What's so great about that?" Hiro retorted. "Shopping is for girls and fucking pussies. I'm going home to watch TV and eat beef jerky."
Kyle looked unaffected by the other canine's pessimism. "Well I want to buy Bel lots of nice things! A good friend would show Bel how much he appreciates him!"
"No, that's called buying a person's friendship," Hiro said. "And that's just stupid. I don't need to give Bel a bunch of useless crap just to let him know that I like him."
"You're just jealous!" Kyle shot back with a grin. Wanting to have the last word, he skipped away, laughing stupidly to himself.
Hiro was relieved when the wolf disappeared from sight. Kyle was a complete moron and would undoubtedly irritate the hell out of quiet, well-behaved Bel. Hiro still wasn't afraid of losing, knowing that he was a desirable fur as well as a stubborn one. He wouldn't lose to an idiot like Kyle, damn it.
When Hiro went to the convenience store right after leaving work, he was unable to resist buying a pretty, nicely decorated little box of candy. He firmly told himself that Kyle had nothing to do with it.
Xaver stood in the middle of his living room and slowly rotated himself around, getting a good look at every inch of the room. He had obsessive-compulsively stared at nearly every detail of his home as if trying to imbed the place in his memory forever. He was stupidly overreacting. It wasn't like he was going to be separated from his apartment for all eternity and could never see it again as long as he lived. He would only be living elsewhere for one damn pathetic month.
But a month was a long time. Thirty days, or thirty-one, depending on what month it was. Seven hundred and forty-four hours. Seven hundred and twenty in a thirty day month. Forty-three thousand, two hundred minutes. All in all, a long crap load of time when looked at in detail. Xaver wanted to lock himself in a closet and hide when he thought about it.
"Goodbye, lamp," he said with a sigh. He reached over and petted the object. "Bye, couch." He sat down on the piece of furniture and enjoyed how soft it was.
Xaver figured his sanity had finally snapped. He had always predicted that it would happen someday, but could never calculate when. All it took was a stupid idea from his boss to send his mental health over the edge. Oscuro would never want to have sex with him once he found out how crazy he was.
That was it. Xaver sat up straighter as if his sudden idea had hit him from behind. Maybe if he behaved badly on purpose, Oscuro wouldn't want to live with him. Xaver could lose his job if he backed out, but if Oscuro wanted an escape then nothing bad would happen to Xaver. Oscuro would probably get fired instead, solving many of Xaver's problems. Xaver could manipulate the situation and force it to his advantage, which would teach Hiro that he couldn't control his employees. Xaver felt fifty times smarter after making that realization.
He got up off the couch, looked around at his settings, and no longer felt the psychotic need to bid farewell to everything. He would find a way to cut his horrible ordeal as short as he could.
The next morning at work, Hiro found out where Bel's workstation was at and loitered around the desk, waiting for the effeminate rabbit to appear. He wasn't used to doing nice things and felt like a complete idiot standing there. Bel hadn't arrived yet and if Hiro just walked away, nobody would know he had ever been there.
He finally gave in to his insecurities and casually walked away from Bel's desk. He was being stupid anyway. Buying somebody a gift wasn't going to automatically establish a relationship with that person.
Hiro shoved one paw in his pocket and headed for his office, where he would probably fire some more incompetent fools. An annoying laugh floated down the hallway and Hiro halted. He could recognize Kyle's laugh anywhere, and if Kyle was there, then Bel could possibly be nearby. If that was the case, then Hiro needed to separate the two so that Bel couldn't fall prey to whatever seduction tactics Kyle came up with.
Hiro soon found the secretary walking with Bel, happily chattering to the quiet rabbit. Work hadn't officially started yet, so Hiro couldn't get Kyle in trouble and needed to find a different way to drive off the tall wolf. He had nearly forgotten the box of candy that had been in his paw the entire time. He might as well get rid of the stupid thing. He sighed and walked up to Bel, completely ignoring Kyle. "Hey, Bel. I happened to stop at the store and thought you would like this." He held out the pretty little box. "It will give you something to do while you're on break."
Bel stared at the box like he had never seen one before and slowly took it. "Thank you. That was thoughtful."
Hiro shrugged. "I'm only nice to a select few people."
Bel wanted to ask why the two canines appeared so mysteriously interested in him, but he couldn't bring himself to say the words. Perhaps it was because he didn't want to know. "I'll see you later, Kyle." He waved to the tall wolf and headed back to his desk, unaware that two pairs of eyes were avidly watching.
"I thought my cock would have been enough for you," Hiro said to Kyle. "You have to have ass too?"
"Of course!" Kyle replied. "I never get to be on top of anyone, but Bel's pretty and passive enough to be my bitch. You don't know what it's like, Hiro. You get to have all the ass you want, but all I ever get is cock."
"That's just incredibly stupid sounding," Hiro said.
Kyle's smile grew a fraction wider. "Insult me as much as you want. Since Bel will be mine soon, I won't need you and refuse to have sex with you." He laughed to himself at the surprised expression on Hiro's face and wrapped an arm around the small retriever's shoulders. "That's right, Hiro, no more private sessions with your sexy secretary." He let his arm drop and reached down to find the crotch of his boss's pants.
Hiro's eyes widened the moment Kyle's fingers reached his cock. His sex organ was protectively concealed within his pants, but the feel of the other's hand on him was agonizing and he tried to pull away. "Damn it, Kyle. Stop."
Kyle cupped the sensitive area in his hand, rubbing his thumb against the slight bulge. He bent his head down and began delicately licking the back of Hiro's neck. The shorter dog released a soft moan and was paralyzed as the other male touched him. He was hard almost instantly. As soon as Kyle felt Hiro become fully erect, he pulled his paw away and stood up straight. "Well, I guess I had better get to work now. I'm here to do my job, after all, like a good boy."
Hiro soon realized what the tall wolf had done and his aura of arousal was replaced with an attitude of irritation. "Your job is right here!" He pointed down to his protruding crotch. "Finish what you started!"
"I don't have to," Kyle said defiantly with a sweet smile on his face. "That's not part of my requirements as a secretary."
Hiro grabbed onto Kyle's wrist. "Damn it, you gave me a boner, so now you're going to get rid of it."
Kyle pulled out of the smaller dog's grasp, laughing hysterically. "Sorry! You're on your own!" He gave Hiro a pat on the head and disappeared.
Hiro looked down at himself and heaved an unhappy sigh. "Shit." He needed to get to his office and take care of his predicament as quickly as possible. A couple of employees walked by, caught sight of the blatant bulge in Hiro's pants, and stared at it like fools. Hiro did nothing to hide himself and shook his fist at the pair of workers. "Today isn't Stare-At-Your-Boss-Like-An-Idiot Day! Get to work!"
Stupid people. All of Hiro's problems came from the annoying shits that surrounded him and the world would be better off without them. What had happened to Hiro's good week? It always felt like he could never have more than two consecutive good days, which was horribly unfair. Perhaps he was emotionally unstable. He could be fairly happy one minute and then about to rip someone's balls off the next minute.
His privates were starting to ache and he gently placed a paw between his legs in an attempt to soothe himself. The need to seduce Bel had suddenly grown urgent since Kyle refused to have sex with him. Hiro took his paw off himself, quickly made it to his office, and firmly locked the door.
Oscuro was bored. He didn't have a lot to do and didn't feel like doing it, especially since he couldn't stop thinking about what it would be like to live with Xaver. He was sure that the cat already hated him since he had made a bad first impression, and he didn't know how to repair the bad feelings that had started up.
Perhaps it was best if he found Xaver and attempted to give a second impression. He wasn't sure if he would be able to control what came out of his maw, but he would try. He remembered where Xaver's desk was located and soon found the cougar sitting down idly playing around with a piece of paper. He looked just as unmotivated as Oscuro felt.
Oscuro put an amiable smile on his face and stood beside Xaver's desk, moving subtly, but not stealthily enough to startle the poor cat. "Hey, Xaver."
Xaver was not in the best of moods. He was increasingly nervous over his impending separation from his home and he was pissed off because he was tired and didn't want to work. He glanced over at Oscuro and felt immediate agitation at the sight of him. "Go away."
"Why?" Oscuro asked innocently. "I'm just standing here. I'm not doing anything wrong."
"You're not doing anything wrong yet. I know you're thinking up ways to annoy me."
Oscuro pretended to look slightly hurt. "I just wanted to say hi."
"Well you said hi. Get out of here now." Xaver's patience was evaporating quickly. "I don't want to talk to you, so fuck off."
"If I repel you this much already, what are you going to do when you start living with me?" Oscuro asked. "It's my house and I won't have to ‘fuck off' if I don't want to. You might as well get used to me."
Xaver didn't want to think about such maddening logic. "I'll find ways to avoid you." He then proceeded to ignore the deer and pretended to concentrate on his work. Oscuro stood there for a moment and waved his paw in front of Xaver's face to get his attention. Xaver didn't speak or look at him.
"All right, Xaver, be that way. You're going to be miserable and die a virgin." Oscuro promptly walked away without another word. He had handled himself pretty well in his opinion and managed not to say anything particularly immature. True, Xaver still had a stick up his tailhole, but perhaps he would change someday after Oscuro was through with him.