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In the seventeen years I have been alive, these past few weeks have been the most... "flavorful". I thought I had the basics of my life figured out and knew what I needed to do to progress my high school life. Before, I thought I was a straight A student that was a red fox that played football, wrestling and track along with having a string of not so serious girl friends. And now I'm having trouble figuring who I am again .Of course I had a life out of school, I even had a job on the weekends as being a server in my dad's friends bar and I had quite a few school friends but that's all they were school friends. When the school day is done I stick by myself, when I was dating it felt like I was dating just to date, just like every other kid.If you were to meet me you would think I am a shy, normal guy that can be considered cute but that is mainly due to my piercing blue eyes that look like they glow if you look at them right. Don't get me wrong I am nice to everyone but in my relationships I was never "that" nice, unlike most hormonal teenagers I can live without counting the bedroom as a date, well if I'm being honest no girl has seen my room other than my family. And for some reason that is everyone's business, and school reputation is everything, in well... school so I should be striving for that and I could not care less about it, but apparently all my "dates" have seen under my covers and still girls throw themselves at me like I'm in a teen jock movie and they do that just to say at their next slumber party "Did you know I slept with the tight end on the football team?" When people talk to me in school they talk to be friends with the tight end of the football team not Riley Moone the tight end of the football team.( Ha ha get your laughs out now I have heard all the jokes)I'm not depressed or anything like that I swear but that is how I see it, and I see myself as a lone fox too different from everyone else, but things always change and that happened one night after football practice.

*CRASH* only after seconds of catching the ball I am tackled to the ground, okay tackled is an understatement I was flattened. I start to pick myself up with the ball in paw " Oh don't make such a show getting up Moone." The voice I recognized to be the safety says next to me sarcastically.

"You know this is practice, right?"I ask him not so fake as he did. I see the bulky jet black panther named Brandon standing up next to me curling and uncurling his thin tail while offering his paw, I take it and noticed how hard he actually hit me as I feel my ribs creak.

"You know how it is 110 percent in practice and..."

"120 percent in the game yeah I heard you say it enough." I try to tell him while imitating his country accent. I toss the ball to coach a big buffalo and start to head back to the locker room not knowing where Brandon went. I take off my helmet and loosen my pads around my aching ribs, yeah that is definitely a bruise. I open the door to the locker room and take off my practice jersey while I make my way to my locker. I hear some of my fellow offense guys talking about going to a place to unwind but I don't listen. I start taking off my shoulder pads so I am just in my pants and black workout shirt. I start to quickly stretch my arms and ribs while picking up my water bottle and bag out of my locker. I shake my fluffy tail to get some movement into it. I close my locker and get ready to walk home before someone pulls my shirt lightly.

"Hey didn't you hear us? Don't you work at a bar?" Thomas a big polar bear who is a lineman for the offense asks me.

"Oh hey, uh yeah I do, how do you know that?" I answer to him following what they will all say next.

"So can you take us their to have some fun and chill out?" Jack a doberman who is an okay wide out asks me energetically while hitting me on my back with his paw.

" I work there under the table, it is still a bar so no none of you are old enough." I somewhat lie to the ten people in the group. I remember Stuart my boss who is a grey mouse said that I can bring friends there but he can't make them any beer, he is risking enough letting a group of rowdy teens in his bar. I am just tired from today and want to go home.

"Come on, stop being a pussy just let us this once and we won't ask again."Brandon asks from behind me, I am still mad at him by the way.

"come one" "just do it" " stop being like that" they all start telling me. After a few seconds of listening to them and making up my decision I stop them.

" Okay! okay, listen I will bring you this once but after that I can only bring a few of you in every few weeks." I raise my voice at them so they can hear me. Everyone starts cheering and getting their things for my loss, I get out my phone to text my Mom.

Riley) Hey Mom I'm going to hang out at a

friends house I'll be home late, we wont be

stupid. (Mom You better not, or god help you, me and Dad are at work so

:) Be home before 12 Love you.

I don't like to lie to my parents but I know they will would be mad at me for bringing my team to my secret work place. I put away my phone and wait for everyone to follow me out the exit, and they seem to move more faster than their usual sluggish selves. After a minute of everyone changing and getting out of their pads I ask " Is everyone ready?" no one says anything.

"Lets go then." I want to move quick so I can get them at the bar have some soda and some snacks and go home, I don't want to stay out too long while wearing my pants with my pads because they are very uncomfortable to walk in.

After playing follow the leader with a bunch of rowdy guys being their crazy selves for a few blocks we finally make it to a building with neon lights in the window spelling the "Drunken Mouse" ( very creative Stuart) I lead them to the entrance. It is not crowded at all because it is still somewhat early but there is a group of three in the back one is a fellow fox, the other is white wolf, and the last is a female bat. "Okay guys let me just ask my boss to see if I can let you in I'll be right back." I tell my tailgaters and before the door closes I hear a chorus of " yes daddy!" So I turn around and give them the finger.

"Riley! So good to see you you're not working tonight right?" Stuart booms from across the room making the group in the back turn around.

"No I'm not working tonight but I was wondering if I can bring in some of my friends right now?" I ask him casually.

"Of course you can, just don't break anything and because I see that you all just got out of practice and will stink up my bar I'm charging double for soda." He tells me with a smile so that I know he's lying.

"Okay, thank you." I say somewhat sadly with the thought of no early night in my mind, while waving at the guys to come in. I place my bag behind the counter while the pad wearing balls of fur and muscle scoot in front of the counter.

" What does everyone want?" I spend about five minutes pouring sodas and getting light snacks and some sandwiches from the kitchen while taking their money and before I can sit down with my group the wolf from the group comes over, I can see now that he has very cloud like fur and dark brown eyes.

"Hey, can I get a water and soda." He tells me in a fun, playful voice while looking me up and down and back at his friends.

"Of course!" I respond while moving to the right near the end of the counter to get the drinks. I see him put a five on the table.

"Here you go, will that be all?" I ask him in my normal fun work mode voice.

"Depends on what you like." I think I hear him say quietly and before I can ask him what he said he cuts me off.

"Keep the change." He calls out while walking away quickly while holding the drinks. His long tail following behind him.

"Oh,uh thanks!" I call back to him but I don't think he heard me, I see some of his friends look at me and wink. Um ookay and before I can question it Brandon pulls me over and starts talking to me and I forget all about the winks.

I don't even notice the group looking at me from time to time. After everyone gets bored of asking me for a real drink they start filing out one by one and then I'm left alone with my boss and the group in the back. I will never bring them back here again because they left such a mess, someone even caused a stool to fall over and didn't bother to pick it up. So I crouch down and put one paw on the table next to me and go to pick up the stool.

"Hey!" I hear some one call, scaring me and making me bang my head at full speed on the bottom of the table that had my paw on it to me causing me to drop the wooden stool I just picked up.

"Ow." I moan silently while the clattering of the stool stops and pick my self up feeling to see if I'm bleeding. I feel my ribs crying in pain still and the screaming pain in my head.

" Are you okay?" The wolf from earlier asks me while rushing over to me.

"I'm fine, I just have a headache." I tell him while picking up the stool once again and making sure nothing will catch me off guard.

"Would you mind if I look at it ,I just learned about concussions on a TV show?" He tells me hurriedly. This is the first time I start to look at him, He looks about my age and looks pretty handsome, not as much as me though obviously.

"I don't see what good it will do but sure." I answer him feeling a little bit put back by his niceness but I have a feeling that I would do the same thing if he was me. I sit down next to his standing figure and feel him finding the bump on my head with soft touches of his surprisingly gentle digits making sure not to scratch me with his nails.

" You have a huge bump and you will have that headache the rest of the day but it's not bleeding. I'm Kodi by the way." He takes his paws off my head and puts it out for a handshake.

"Riley, nice to meet you." I shake his paw with no reluctance, I have to look up to look him in the eyes.

"you too, I heard earlier that you work here yet I never see you here." Kodi asks me quizzically.

"I only work here on the week ends from 4 to 11 pm." I tell my new acquaintance.

"Oh that's why, I never come here on the weekends I'm to busy." He tells me with a smile and a chuckle. That makes my cheeks burn when he laughs for some reason, I guess it's just hot in here.

" Weekends are the only time I have free." I emphasize the only, and smile back.I get up and start cleaning up the rest of the mess. I still see him standing near me so to pass the time I start to make small talk with him.

"So, what school do you go to or should I say did you go to." I joke to him while getting rag to dry off the spills.

"I "went" to Hemmingway for high school, you?" He asks me while sitting down at a high table next to the bar moving his tail between the hole in the back of the chair.

" Ledgely, It's a good school, good sports teams and some smart kids." I answer him honestly looking around to see if I missed anything but I think there is nothing left.

"Good school, I won't hold you any longer it looks like you cleaned everything, oh yeah if you feel sick or dizzy and in worse case pass out go to a hospital you have a concussion but the bump on your head doesn't look that bad so I hope you don't. Anyways I hope to see you again." He tells me brightly.

" If you really want to, come here on the week ends, I had fun talking to you so it wold be nice to have some one to talk to with out having to act like a server. Thanks for looking at my head I forgot all about it." His ears perk up and I see jumping foot to foot slightly, I stick out my paw to shake his. I Hope the lie about forgetting the pain made him stop worrying.

"If I can I will, put ice on the head see you soon." He shakes my paw again.

"Bye, BYE STU!" I yell across the building. I grab my things and see Kodi walk to his friends with them looking relived and highly animated. And with that final sight I pick up my pace and start to walk toward the exit and home. Alone.

At around 10 pm I got home and get flooded by the known scents of my house and family while staring to unlock the door on the side of my house and shut it behind me. I walk through the living room and around the fools ball table to my door. I know I wont be able to sleep due to all the caffeine and talking all night , so I decided to start drawing on my tablet. I am a good drawer mainly due to the fact I've been taking graphic design classes in school and by going online to post some of my work, but tonight I noticed that I can't focus to well and I feel a little dizzy. I wasn't slipped anything. Was I? I get up from where is was sitting in my room to get some pain killers for my head. I walk to the bathroom and open the medicine cabinet, I find the white and red big bottle very easily because I'm used to taking these after football. I open in it and take two as instructed. I'm starting to feel really dizzy and the bathroom is starting to spin around me like I'm on a roller coaster so I grab onto the counter with shaky and weak paws before the world slowly turns to black and I slump to the floor.

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How does everyone like the story so far! I had a great time writing this piece and I hope anyone that reads all the way through it likes it . This will be a series if it gets good reviews from everyone. THANK YOU for getting this far and I hope to see you for part 2!!