Starcrossed (Collab)

Story by Skatelian on SoFurry

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#3 of Shooting Star Contest!

Hi there! This is the culmination of me and Picklessauce69 's Starcrossed contest. The talented winner from more than a dozen wonderful entries was Mohawk Puma who therefore earned the right to be the official collaborator on the finished piece! So here it is! Be sure to give him a watch and go read his own submission!

As usual, this is a work of fiction and the activities in this work of fiction are neither endorsed nor encouraged. Enjoy responsibly and don't forget to leave your feedback!!!!


"Remember, two per seat. We have an entire class to fit on the bus and regulations don't allow people in the middle once we're underway. This would be a really good time for people to go to the bathro... Michael, don't put your head out the window!" The teacher said as she went towards the offending skunk and tugged him back into the bus.

Timothy groaned with an unamused shake of his head and turned back to his cellphone and the wall of text that was in it. He angled the screen a little, making sure he was the only one able to read what was in there before he settled back into the bus seat.

"...and don't let me catch you throwing things to people in front again, okay?" The teacher finished scolding another student and sighed softly. "Everyone ready? No one left behind?" She said as she quickly counted heads, a feat made harder by the fact that they insisted on staying in constant motion.

"Alright Thomas, that's all of them, let's get going and see if the road calms them down." She said with a tired voice. Her entire body drooped a bit before she slumped down into her seat with a tense sigh, already feeling the drain of manning this trip. The bus driver nodded and started the journey, the old yellow beast rumbling into the highway, belly full of restless students on the usual high that accompanied breaking their class routine for a field trip.

The young snow leopard barely noticed the motion. He was enthralled writing on his phone, passing himself off as another teen texting madly in the middle of a school trip. He was old enough to have his own phone, so nobody really paid attention. Or at least, that's what he thought. But in the seat behind him, a pair of eyes furtively gazed...


"And then, he like... He came so close, I thought we were going to kiss and... And... And he brushed his nose against mine! Squeeee!" The mouse girl made excitedly in a hushed tone as her seatmate listened with thinly veiled indifference.

"Oooooh" the canine said, knowing that would be enough to keep her engaged in a conversation. Or a monologue, rather. Jackie was focused on trying to get glimpses of something on the seat in front.

"Oooooh, Jackie you should see him, he's so dreaaaaaaamy. The captain of the football team, and such a hopeless romantic... Did I tell you, this one time he actually... He actually said... He said I looked cute! Cute, me! Can you believe..." The mouse droned on, encouraged by little nods from Jackie, who finally had managed to take a peek at what that elusive boy in front was trying so discreetly to hide.

"Suddenly, with her legs pressed around his thigh, he could feel the heat of her sex washing against his bare fur. Just the sensation of her naked body pressed to his was enough for his breath to hitch in the back of his throat. Her breasts were flush to his chest, squashing together with a crease of cleavage while her lips trailed up his neck with an airy whisper leading the way, "Do you want me? Do you want to feel me wrapped around you, hugging you tight inside of me? I want you... Can you feel how badly I want you?" Her hips shifted, giving him the direct sensation of her naked lips rubbing over the head of his cock which pulsed with agreement, but that wasn't enough. He felt the slick surface of her lower lips, smearing her excitement over him and permeating the air further with her rich, feminine scent. She wanted to torment him into speaking up, sharing his need with her.

The heat of her sex, the slickness that was coating those folds coated his tip, but she gave him nothing more than that torturous grinding while purring against his neck. Teeth teased down his flesh, nibbling down to his collarbone before soft lips replaced them, working back up the same length with the gentle sensation of her fleeting pecks. "Tell me you want me." She paused, giving a rough grind that nearly aligned him to her leaking opening, nearly let him into her hot, needy sex. "Or better yet, take me."

Fingers trembling, he grabbed her hips and pulled her tight to him, no more squirming away. His fingers clenched hard enough on her sides she mewled softly into his neck. He shifted, spreading those lower lips wide around the head of his cock before lining up and-"

A sudden glare of sunlight forced her to look away. Timmy had shuffled his position, the screen of his smartphone now reflecting the sun and making it impossible for the canine to read what he was penning down. She huffed, nearly loud enough to break his concentration, and flushed red as she felt her body react to being pulled from such an arousing train of thought.

Glancing over, her rodent friend squealed at the sight of her blush, which she immediately assumed to be thanks to her story. "I know, it seems so scandalous! Ah!" Maggie then launched into a full blown account of the entire night again, relishing in the details while Jackie's muzzle snuck above the back of the seat again. Her eyes peered down at the snow leopard boy. He was definitely petite. He had the face of a cub still with extra fluff padding his cheek with downy white fur above which his bright, striking blue eyes sat still locked onto the screen of his phone while his fingers typed madly. An oversized sweatshirt dwarfed his body slightly, covering the thick fur, covered in odd shaped speckles, but left his thick tail free to writhe through the air and smack to the seat in front of him before dancing beneath his own seat with building excitement. Lucky for him, the quiet boy had landed the only single seat beside the teacher, most likely because all other had dove for their friend's benches. He wasn't exactly popular either, very shy and reserved.

Jackie bit her lip, curiosity and mischief both getting the better of her as she saw a mutual friend eyeing a drooling sloth falling asleep beside her. Slobbery Sam, they called him, on account of the puddles of drool that were left in his seat-mate's shoulders every time he felt asleep. The cunning girl quickly devised a plan and turned to the still babbling mouse.

"Maggie, you know who would just LOVE to hear about this?" She asked, which immediately peaked the mouse's interest.

"Who?"

"Well, besides me, of course... Sarah there. She knows every gossip there is in this school... And probably knows a couple of things about your new boyfriend too" she suggested. From there on, curiosity drove the mouse.

"You're right! Sarah, come here, I wanna tell you something!" She said excitedly, beckoning her over frantically.

"I'll trade you my seat if you want" Jackie offered, to which Sarah immediately said yes. After all, her pink shirt was too pretty to be ruined by Slobbery Sam's inevitable drool. "You're a life saver! I got a matching purse to go with this! I cannot have it ruined!" Sarah whispered into Jackie's ear after leaping out of her spot.

Jackie got up, but instead of going to the seat next to the sloth, she went to the empty space right next to Timmy. Stepping up the aisle, she felt a little jitter in her spine, the sensation of nervousness before confronting someone... of interest.

"Hiya!" She blurted, bumping into his shoulder slightly as she collapsed onto the seat with her own fluffy tail wagging madly.

"Ah!" Timmy made as he was startled, and he quickly pressed a couple buttons on his cell phone that launched a game. She couldn't help but notice that it was a well practiced motion. He was used to hiding the contents of his phone.

"I'm Jackie! I got seat booted and I don't wanna sit by Slobbery Sam..." She jerked her thumb back at the sloth, still sleeping and starting to drool.

"Oh! Sorry, you just s-startled me. I'm Tim" he said softly as he extended a paw and shook hers. She could see him blush under his white fur, giving him a rather funny shade of pink. And she could also notice a well placed notebook on his lap. Seems this boy was used to hiding more than just the erotica he read.

"Oh no, I didn't mean to, I'm sorry. I haven't seen you around much... Are you in Heltzbinger's class? Intro Classics?" She asked, suavely directing the conversation into mundane territory.

"Y-yes. Though I don't pay attention in there much..." His voice trailed off into a slight blush, realizing that he didn't want to continue down that line of conversation and having the canine inquire as to what he did to occupy himself there. "Uh-uh.... what did you think of our last book?"

Jackie feigned a yawn, chuckling a little before letting a long yawn stretch her muzzle open, pink tongue curling up to the roof of her mouth. "It made me sleepy Just to think about it again..." She stretched her slender arms up, letting them reach towards the roof while her back arched, thrusting her maturing chest out much to Timothy's surprise as he gulped, but then she just relaxed and slumped into his side a little.

"It must be nice to have such cozy fur, it's like a blanket all the time..." She murmured, making her voice sound slow and thick as though she was slipping towards sleeping. Timothy, flustered from her increasing closeness merely swallowed and bobbed his head shyly, but before he could distress further her head tipped onto his shoulder and both eyes were closed.

"I-is she asleep?" He thought to himself, tail tickling against her ankle curiously, when he got no response a long, relieved sigh left his lips before he started to fidget with his phone again, obviously eager to slip back into it's comforting realm. For a moment, he almost relished in the sensation of her warmth pressing into his side, practically cuddling into him! However, as Jackie snuck one eye slightly open out of her fake sleep, she saw the screen perfect- only to see him casually matching candy pieces.

"Candy Crush!" She almost whimpered, but instead she reminded herself that patience was a virtue and settled in for the long haul, snuggling her cheek a bit more and slowing her breathing to keep up the appearance of innocently having falling asleep onto his shoulder. Then, as the bus rounded onto the longest stretch of road, Timothy worked up the nerve to return to his story, this time giving Jackie an uninterrupted, perfect view.

The same paragraph flicked past before it slowed, letting her see what followed after again. She had to stifle a gasp, however, once she saw the words start to appear letter by letter. He wasn't reading porn, he was writing it!! And good quality, at that. She felt little shivers run down her spine and make the tip of her tail twitch. She held on, making sure to still appear asleep, while Timothy continued to write.

Fingers trembling, he grabbed her hips and pulled her tight to him, no more squirming away. He shifted, spreading those lower lips wide around the head of his cock before lining up and plunging down into the heat of her sex.

"I've wanted you... I've wanted you for so damn long..."

"Mmmm I can feel it... B-be gentle with me"

A little chuckle replied to her response and his thrusts were everything but gentle, however. They were raw, full of need and impetuous desire. With the first plunge forward, he pierced into the girl deep enough to scrape his cock head to her cervix, forcing out a pleading cry from her muzzle. Her entire body was reacting, trembling and quivering like a leaf in the wind. It was intoxicating. Then, with a sudden explosion of noise as his...

Timothy stopped for a second to think about his new line of thought, analyzing where he wanted to take the story after this. He also took the time to dash a look at the girl sleeping against him.

"Still asleep... And still cute..." He thought for himself, only the hint of a smile betraying his true thoughts. Like many other boys in class, he had a crush for Jackie. However, where many saw her tomboyish appearance as off-putting when compared to the fleshy, voluptuous and curvy cheerleaders, he saw perfection in her body. Maybe one day he'd muster up the courage to ask her out. She probably wasn't interested in him anyways....

But across from these thoughts, the girl held her eyes shut and was fighting an uphill battle. She'd kept her eye on Timothy for a while, but had always regarded him as too soft, too... Boring. After all, she didn't want to be like her mousy friend and go for the regular jocks or the lame kids on the fringe, she'd always longed for one of the musicians or the artists with their brooding and intrigue. But with the things she had seen now, she was having a hard time with herself. Learning that the shy, cute leopard wrote porn when nobody was looking... And good porn, at that... And he hadn't fixed his notebook earlier, making his arousal obvious... And yet so well hidden... This kid was a master of disguise. And it was making Jackie giddy to the point where she had to discreetly shuffle just to squeeze her legs together. It didn't help that her heat was supposed to happen soon, the poor little girl not knowing if she was getting the first stages of her season or if the thought of Timmy being a secret porn author itself was getting her all bothered. However, keeping her eyes closed and leaning into such soft and warm fur had an unpredicted effect on the girl, and the rumbling of the bus speeding down the highway sent her into a nap.


"Don't forget your backpacks, the bus won't stay here. If you leave it here, you won't see it until after we're done." The teacher said to an inattentive crowd as the bus vomited eager kids into the park in packets of tightly mingling friends.

"Stay together, don't just run off" she said as she tried to corral them and lead them to the little hill. Night had fallen, and it was getting cold already as the sun drifted further away and the moon rose up in the air with its yellow glow. She waved at the school bus driver after counting off the kids, and old Thomas drove the bus into the night with a sigh of relief into the now empty bus while poor Miss Elly was left with her group to control.

"Okay everybody, let's find a spot on this side of the hill. Everyone take their sleeping bags out, find a flat spot and clear any pebbles before you lay down your bedding. Hurry though! We want to be ready to start our stargazing once it gets dark! I've got a constellation finding game! With prizes! Plus, we'll try to see if we can spot any satellites or shooting stars! Maybe some of you will make some wishes tonight..." The teacher said as she tried to project her voice to all her charges, though they had already started swarming over the hill independently.

Jackie, hefting her oversized duffle up to her chest stood off the the side, hidden partially by the shadows of falling night as she mused to herself, "I need another excuse to get close to Timothy... this field trip could be our chance!" Her mind wandered to the bus ride, eyeing the boy as he typed up porn (plus he played Candy Crush too! True love already!). She felt a little zing of excitement at the idea before her lips pressed together. "How can I get us together again though...I could just ask to share his flat spot of ground? Say that all the others are lumpy... but then we'd still be separated with sleeping bags!" She paused, scratching at her chin thoughtfully. Her ears lifted up, racking her brain before giving a little, frustrated huff, "You can't cuddle unless you're sharing that!"

She suddenly stopped. The gears in her mind were turning faster, venting out metaphorical steam. Then, her eyes fell onto the small pouch holding her stuffed up sleeping bag. "Without a sleeping bag though..." With a burst of inspiration, she spun and chucked the bag towards a twist of bushes to the side. "Without a sleeping bag, he'll have to share with me!"

At the same time, Timothy unrolled his bag out over his selected patch, free of any rocks or hanging trees that'd block his stargazing vision. Just as he'd laid it out, Jackie hurried towards him, working up her pout.

"H-hey, Tim?"

He looked up, the thick white of his furry tail tracing lines through the air behind him while both of his blue eyes locked onto her. "Yes?" In his chest, he felt his heart start to skip. "Is she going to ask to sleep next to me? This space isn't that big! We'd probably end up close!" He thought to himself, thoughts racing right along with his heart.

"So uh... I kindaaaa left my sleeping bag in the bus..." She said, putting on a blush and dragging the tip of her foot along the ground like an innocent cutie. Tim almost forgot to respond to her, watching her little foot tracing through the dirt, but then he realized with the stretching silence that he was supposed to say something and looked up with a jolt.

"O-oh. Oh no... W-well, what are you gonna do?" He asked. He wanted to ask her into his sleeping bag so badly... The idea of what could happen then, having her so close under the stars. It'd be like the bus, when she'd fallen asleep so adorably on his shoulder, but better! He could barely imagine! But he didn't want to scare her away by coming off too strong.

"Well, I was going to... I wonder... I mean, I'm sure I could bunk with Maggie, but..." She began, starting to diminish the young boy's hope.

"I mean... Your fur is so soft and comfy, and your sleeping bag is bigger than hers... Would you mind if..." She finally came out and began to ask, but was interrupted by him.

"S-sure!" He blurted out, a little too excited at her proposal that the words exploded forward before he opened up the bag, inviting her in with a shy little glance upwards.

"Oh, thanks!! You're too nice" she said as she took her shoes off, gingerly grabbed onto his hand and sunk down into the downy hug of the sleeping bag. Once inside, Tim draped the flap of it over her so that the sides of the zipper would align.

"Uh, d-do you m-mind doing the..." He said softly. He could feel her, she was there... Warm and cozy and perfectly snuggled up against him.

"Uh? Oh! Sure" she said with a giggle at his shyness. She dragged the zipper upwards, making its characteristic sound as she allowed her mind to wander a bit. She imagined her teeth grabbing the little metal zipper on Tim's jeans, and her body shivered a little as she imagined pulling it down to reveal...

"Cold?" He asked softly.

"Holy crap, he just felt me shiver... And that made me shiver again... Ahhhh, body, stoooop" she thought for herself.

"A-a little" she said. It was either that, or confess she was shivering out of her sheer fantasizing about him.

"I'm a little cold too" he said shyly and then very gently and cautiously draped his arm around her shoulder, sharing body heat. Which only made it much harder for the girl to stop her little shivering.

"Alright then! Everyone is settled in, it seems. Nobody fall asleep now, we have plenty of things to see." The teacher said, breaking the little moment. Jackie sighed softly, knowing very well that without the assignment occupying her mind, she would've been in trouble. But trouble didn't really sound like such a bad idea...

"Can everyone see the pointer?" The teacher said as she used her high powered laser to shine a very nice and bright beam of light up into the night sky. The little device was extremely handy with pointing out features of the cosmological landscape.

"Yuh-huh" came the chorus of yesses and yeahs and mmhmmms.

"Good. Let's start with... Orion. Simple to see, look for three very bright stars in a line. That, is the belt..." She began to say, aiming the laser at the constellation and beginning to talk lengthily about its history, major components, and other properties. The two snugglers listened carefully. Growing up in the city, with all its sleeplessness and lights and noise, was not ideal at all for stargazing or any similar activity. Therefore, looking up at the sky dotted with little white dots and many other colorful features, both Tim and Jackie had more or less forgotten the fact that they were pretty much snuggling like lovers.

The Milky Way streaked through the sky like the errant brush of a distraught painter, and the occasional plane soared through the night heavens with its flashing green and red lights. The stars sparkled and twinkled in a way that only happens on dark country nights, and all of a sudden, as if by some mystifying force, every fur on the hill felt small before this gargantuan space.

"And that, is actually Canes Venateci. Despite looking like one very bright star, it's actually two stars orbiting each other in what is called a binary system..." The professor continued as she directed the attention of the students up and towards the aforementioned star.

"Whoa..." Tim said softly, chastising himself mentally for letting out some of his inner nerd.

"Whoa indeed..." Jackie said, surprising him. The girl had gotten used to his arm wrapped around her, and the soft and downy fur was quite nice to have pressed against her. Both looked up, taking in this amazing spectacle.

"... However, all these stars are probably dead. The nearest ones are about 50 light years away. That means they could've died 49 years ago and we'd still be seeing their light for another year. The universe is that big. Not even light can speed in it." The professor said from her own sleeping bag across the lawn of students.

Tim and Jackie were still looking up, mesmerized by this awesome display. Their eyes wandered, and they eventually both ended up looking towards the northern cross. It seemed so peaceful, so silent and so calm up there...

Then, in a flash, it happened. A ten pound ball of rock, which had started its life close to saturn's orbit, sped through the atmosphere at several miles per second. The heat of re-entry flared up into the thousands of degrees, and the rock vaporized before even making it to the lower atmospheres.

Directly below, two teens looked as a white little star sped through the skies, leaving behind a trail of glitter and stardust. It disappeared before they could blink.

"Did you..." She began.

"Y-yeah! Was that a shooting star?" Tim asked.

"Mhmm!" Jackie said happily, then turned around to face the young snow leopard. His blue eyes glimmered in the starry night, reflecting the beauty of the celestial vaults over blue.

"Tim?" She asked softly.

"Yeah?" He turned his head to look at her.

Jackie blushed softly and bit her lower lip. It was now, or never.

"Make a wish"

Tim looked up at the sky, the young snow leopard sitting next to the Bernese Mountain Dog. He purred and looked up at the sky, the stars that their teacher had shown them.I wish... that our friendship could last until the stars fall... A notion that some would say was meant for fools, but he was a young cat. He was next to the canine in the sleeping bag, and it was indeed an awkward position. But she had wanted for him to make a wish... wasn't it her idea when they saw the shooting star together? He considered, then, the porn he was writing... 'erotic literature' they called it nowadays. It'd be worth it, he had a feel for it, could maybe make a career out of it. If only, if only.

"So, what'd you wish for?"

He turned to face her, still in the sleeping bag.

"It's... well..."

"That'd we be lovers, partners, what? Money, power?"

He flushed at 'lovers'. Like all felines, he had that one 'attachment' on his penis... canines like Jackie didn't really care for it. But friends... that would do quite nicely.

"It's a secret; I'll tell you when we get back." For now, sleep made its call, and they both answered, body to body in the sleeping bag.

***

Timothy was the first to awake when he heard a strange call. It came from the nearby lake, and he saw a strange bird. He took out his guidebook, still in his PJ's, and looked up the bird. A loon, huh. Considering how far up north they were from their school, it'd make sense. He sat down on a log, and looked out at the lake. It's like glass, it's so still. He marveled at it, not worried if any feral pumas or other cats were about. Kind knew kind, they wouldn't harm him. He purred, wondering if he could ever see one. He went back to the sleeping bag, and took out his cell. He tapped through the menus, and began to write once again:

Her moans broke the silence as the two mated again, the male proud and barbed as he took his mate. His barbs scraped her lovingly, and he licked the scruff of her neck, knowing that she craved that contact. He purred with love, with lust, with virility, and started to take her harder, rougher, pumping his hips faster...

"At it again?"

He turned to see Jackie, the canine also in her PJ's. The sun was starting to come up, and gave her an attractive backlight as she stood facing him. Her body developed smoothly, both of them in high school years. He could make out her breasts, straining against the cloth of the shirt. He got out of his daze and answered her.

"Yeah... ah, um, why are you up?"

She shrugged. "Everyone else is starting to get up, and Ms. Henderson said we're going to have ice cream after breakfast with the rangers, then we're going back to school." She stood beside him, looking out into the lake, watching the water ripple from the loons as they dove for food. They watched the birds together in silence, then they heard Ms. Henderson start to wake up the others,

"Time to get up, let's go!" Then came the sounds of waking students, during which, "Put that thing back in your pants, young cat!"

At which there was some feminine giggling, then, "Where's Timothy and Jackie? Get ready for breakfast, no time to hold hands in the park!" The poor hapless teacher nearly ran herself hoarse, then the two got up and walked over to the procession of jammy wearing students. Upon their arrival, there was much chatter, rumors started almost immediately.

"Did they do it? Why are their PJ's dirty? Maybe she likes it rough..." Then there were giggles and snickers.

"I didn't do anything with him, come on now!" Jackie looked exasperated, the Bernese Mountain Dog flushed with embarrassment.

"Yeah right! When are you going to be in his next porn collection, eh? Hahaha!"

Ms. Henderson's head turned around like one of those cheesy special effects in a bad movie.

"What was that?" To which a chorus of voices responded, "Nothing, Ms. Henderson!"

"That's good," She huffed. "Thomas! Get up, lazy sod, and let's get these kids off to breakfast with the kind rangers who let us into their park!" After murmured muttering, the big busdriver got up, the students fell in line with their teacher, after getting dressed. They then went off to the ranger station.

***

The ranger building loomed before the now clothed students, a wooden building with metal highlights.

Garland Park Ranger Station read the sign above the door. The rangers were furs clad in dark green, ranger colors, according to their guidebook. The students pushed and shoved, for the rangers had set out a decent sized breakfast for the school expedition.

"Good things come to those with state funding, eh?" Thomas grinned.

"That's if the state keeps funding us... half of our textbooks are a decade out of date." Ms. Henderson sighed, and sat down at the table with her students and the rangers. There were sausage and other breakfast meats, pancakes, plenty of syrup, and eggs. The rangers were sitting at their own table, and their walkie-talkies would often go off as the students ate. Timothy and Jackie sat across from each other, while Maggie, the mouse from the bus, sat to Jackie's right. The skunk that had his head out the window on the trip there sat on Tim's right.

Tim sat and forked through his eggs, with a healthy helping of syrup on his pancake. Jackie was eating her breakfast with gusto.

"What's wrong?" Jackie asked him, concern in her eyes.

"What?" Tim looked up, a forkful of egg near his mouth. Syrup dotted his whiskers comically, and there was a dab near his nose. "It's nothing, really." He ate the egg, then wiped at his face with the napkin, hoping that the sticky syrup wouldn't mat his fur.

Jackie giggled at the feline and the syrup. "You missed a spot, right..." She took her own napkin and dabbed at his nose. "Here. There we go, all clean now."

"Come on... I'm no cub!" He whinged, trying to keep his voice down so that Ms. Henderson didn't hear. Speaking of which, she had finished her food, and was talking with Thomas the bus driver, in muttered tones.

"Alright you lot! Time to finish up and say thank you to the good rangers." Tim and Jackie looked up at this, their food finished in the meantime. Everyone had finished their food by this point, and the students got up and said as one, "We thank you from Coltonville High!" The rangers smiled at this, happy to help the students with their astrology tour. Jackie and Tim stayed by each other, with Maggie in tow.

"So, what's the deal with her?" Tim inclined his head towards the mouse. "She's one of my friends, a good one." Maggie hopped into the middle of the two, and began to dance around them excitedly. "Did you do it? Did you take his barbs?"

"We didn't!" Jackie growled. The barbs of a feline were not meant for polite company, even when they were covered in Health class. Tim was embarrassed at the time he had to strip down for the class, along with two other felines, a puma and a tiger. Granted, his parents weren't too happy and threatened the PTA with a lawsuit, but still...

"She's right, we didn't do anything. Just sat out and looked up at the stars, then fell asleep." Tim blushed adorably, not wanting to be the center of attention again. There was her insistent rubbing against him, but still, he knew nothing happened. Now all he had to do was to let her know what his wish was. The trio followed the line of students, their paws making no sound on the dirt. Tim fondled his cell phone, in his pocket this whole time. He gave it a couple pats, and then climbed in the bus. He took his seat alone, then noticed Jackie and Maggie behind him. He'd noticed how she watched him out of the corner of his eye as he wrote, and he figured, Why not? She already knows about it anyway...

"Come sit over here, Jackie. If you'd like." She nodded and sat beside him. Meanwhile, Ms. Henderson checked through the list of students one more time, then took her seat at the front of the bus, behind Thomas. "Get this thing started, Thomas, you know where this ice cream place is?" He nodded, the equine shrugging as he started up the bus and they began to drive out onto the main road.

Around them were the great mountains of the region, and they came upon a sign before they got to the park, which said that this was state land. On the reverse, the sign said that this was Mohawk land. The reverse said, "Shé:kón! You are entering Mohawk land. Enjoy your visit!" Their route took them through Mohawk territory, and their ice cream place was somewhere here. The bus soon filled with the sound of excited chatter, cell phones going off, and more Candy Crush. Timothy tried to drown it out as he began to write once more:

With a yowl, he came inside her, his barbs making sure that the young female he bred would take. If need be, he breed her again and again, keeping her swollen with his kittens on his whims. He licked her scruff, then her face, purring as she mewed for him. "My sweet, mine. All mine... mine to breed, mine to protect, mine to honor..." He showered her with licks and kisses, in their villa by the sea.

"Almost done?" Jackie looked on, giving the feline shade as he worked. He blushed that she was reading his intimate thoughts, his work.

"Yeah, then I have to proofread it, mark it up, and send it off to Lady Bast's Publishers."

"You mean that one Lalonde affiliate that does... what again?" She looked up at him with those green eyes of hers.

"Feline porn, erotic literature..." Tim blushed again, the skin under his fur turning a bright pink from embarrassment. The chatter grew louder, causing the two to look out the window. Before them was a small white building, with two doors on either side that went in and out. The sign above the door said, Welcome to Gregor's Farm Ice Cream, made with real milk! Best ice cream in the North Country. There was a design of a little cow holding an ice cream cone. Below that was another sign that said, Flavor machine is set to chocolate this week. Ms. Henderson sighed at the ice cream shoppe, it was nearly empty, which was good.

The bus soon stopped in the parking lot, taking up a good amount of it. Thomas engaged the brake, and opened the doors for everyone. The students rushed out, happy that there was a treat from this field trip. "All right, settle down! Those who can't have real milk, stay on the bus. We don't want the PTA coming after the teacher's union because someone had an allergic reaction." She then began to herd the students in a lined, orderly fashion, while the students gathered their change and money they were allowed to buy things with, mainly from their parents. Tim and Jackie dug in their pockets and brought out a few five dollar bills. Tim saved his work, and kept his money at hand, his tail swishing with impatience. The students were led into the building, which consisted of a counter, another sign that had prices, and a cash register. The server was a homely looking American Shorthair tabby, female, with green eyes. Her uniform consisted of a grey shirt with a white apron that said, "Gregor's" on it. She set about taking the students orders, sifting through them with a tired manner. The main attraction was the old fashioned ice cream machine that had the date 1955 stamped on the side. The machine was made of blue iron, and whirred and clanked as it began to make the ice cream. The cones were waffle style, decent sized, and were around $5.50 apiece. One size only, though, which was good enough for Tim and Jackie. When it came time for them to give their order, Jackie put hers in first, and paid the server, then Tim gave his, and also paid her. When the register rang with the money changed, the two were led through the line of students to the outside.

Here there were small tables with umbrellas, and the sun was shining. Several students were sitting about, eating their ice creams. Tim and Jackie took their seats, and Jackie smiled as she saw Maggie wave and come over with her ice cream. The mouse sat next to Jackie, and the three began to eat their ice cream.

"So, what was your wish?" Both Jackie and Maggie looked over at Tim, muzzle full of chocolate ice cream. He looked at them, and merely said,

"That we be friends until the stars fall." Maggie blushed at this, while Jackie smiled, while licking her ice cream with a canine tongue. Tim licked at his with a cat's tongue, rough, rasping, and delicate. He purred as he ate his ice cream.

"You mean... you don't want to be lovers?"

"What do you mean?"

"I thought you wanted... because of what you were writing, I thought you wanted me." Jackie stared off into the distance, then turned back to him.

"You know what I've got on my- Everyone saw it during Health class. I wouldn't force that upon you."

"Maybe she's into that sort of thing, huh? Pain with pleasure?" Maggie giggled again, but she stopped with a glare from Jackie. She soon finished her ice cream, eating her cone.

Tim shook his head. "Friends first, Jackie, then we see what goes on from there, hm?" He finished his ice cream, and got up, seeing that the others were being led back to the bus. He motioned for Jackie and Maggie to get up, the both of them having finished their ice cream cones. They got back onto the bus, and took their seats, Maggie sitting across from them this time. Tim took out his phone, and looked over what he'd wrote.

"What's it about, anyway?" Jackie looked over to where he had his phone.

"A young noble cat and his nekomimi servant, and their lusty encounters in some French villa by the coast." He shrugged, figuring that she would know the rest. He put his phone away and stared out of the window, thinking on his friendship with Jackie. She leaned against him as he did so, the canine's breathing slowing to match his, as the bus trawled on back to Coltonville. The bus driver snorted, wanting to drown out the noisy students, and turned on the radio. The first song to come up was by Max Webster, "Battlescar". He grinned a big grin as he drove on, the two new friends in his charge snuggled together as the 80's tune went on.

-J

-MohawkPuma

-Pickles