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Chapter 5

The Interview

7 and half uneventful hours pass and we are ready to go.

"Ok so where is this place?" My eyes widened as I didn't know where to go.

"You don't know where the fucking place is?" He said angrily.

"Well she never told me where to go and I forgot to ask. But I can call and ask."

"Well hurry we have 25 minutes to get there." I quickly went to my contacts and clicked on Nikki and put the phone to my ear.

"Hello?"

"Hi Nikki you never gave me the address to the place you wanted to do the interview at."

"Oh well it's just the local news station, you know where that is right?" I felt so stupid as since I didn't think to go to the news station.

"Yeah."

"Ok great but hurry you have about 22 minutes." She hung up and I just face-palmed and walked to Elliott.

"Well?"

"The local news station." I walked past him to the car while I heard Elliott mumbling 'you are the most retarded person in the whole world'." When we got to the news station we saw everyone running around tinkering and setting up. Eyes soon fell on me and then Nikki came up.

"Nick we start in five, get on the set and hurry!" She ran of and I waved to Elliott and walked over to the small chair that said "Dog-Man" on it. I ripped the sign off and sat down. They didn't even have the nerve to put my real name on it? Nikki then sat down in the other chair and I herd a director start yelling orders.

"OK EVERYONE WE START IN 5, 4, 3, 2, 1, ACTION!!!!!" I herd the usual news jingle and looked over at the news anchor speaking. After about 10 minutes of the news anchor talking about whatever I heard the cue for Nikki.

"And now we will be moved to Nikki as she interviews the strange dog-man everyone has been talking so much about."

"Thanks Bob. With me I have Nick Robertson who is the famous dog-man. I met Nick at a restaurant when my daughter Maggie wanted to touch his tail, funniest thing. So, since we have you here how about you tell us about yourself Nick."

"Um, well I am 19 years old, I was born in Los Angeles, my Mom died when I was born, and my dad died at 13. I lived with my good friend Elliott since then."

"I am sorry to hear about all that has happened to you, how did this transformation happen?"

"Well on my last day of high school I was attacked by people who worked with the same men who killed my father. They injected me with a mutation gene and now I am turning into a canine." A tear rolled down my cheek, Nikki's as well.

"Well, I hope everything goes well on your end."

"I do to Nikki." I wipe my eyes and sniffle.

"Now, I'd like to say one thing...Those who say that this poor man is a freak, is cold-hearted and stupid. He has been through so much and there is no reason to make mean comments. So please do not do that, it's just cruel. Thank you." We continued the interview with a couple of questions. The news anchor started talking again and I looked over at Nikki and mouthed the word "Thanks" and she mouthed back "Your welcome." The news anchor finished, a jingle played and a bell rang. Everyone except me and Nikki started to walk around. I stood up and helped up Nikki.

"You did great Nikki, I hope to see you again sometime."

"I do to." We hugged and parted ways. Elliott was busy looking at everything from the blinding spotlights, to the snack table. I tapped him on the shoulder and he looked at me with a wide smile.

"Time to go Elliott." His smile faded.

"AWWWWWWW. Can't we stay a little bit longer?" I laughed at his childish ways and shook my head no. He slumped his shoulders and walked past me to the door. On the ride home I sat and thought to myself. Am I gay? This question has been in my mind for a couple days now. I've looked at Elliott and though that he looked cute or the occasional times I saw him change I got an erection. It wasn't really that big a deal because if I was gay no one would care but...I want to know.

"Elliott...can we talk?" He turns into the hotel parking lot and parks. He looks at me and smiles.

"Sure. What do you need to talk about?"

"...I think...I might...I think I might be...gay." I look at him shyly and he just keeps his gaze, still smiling.

"Why is that?"

"Well because...whenever I see you change I started to get aroused. I look at you and see you many situations where we kiss or cuddle on a hotel bed. I'm sorry it must be weird for your best friend to be gay and crushing on you but I just think-" I was cut off by Elliott leaning in and kissing me on the lips. My eyes widen but soon lower, and close. At that moment I knew that I was gay, and that Elliott was too. I didn't want this to end but I knew it had to. I pull back and look him in his beautiful green-eyes.

"Elliott...I think I love you."

"I love you too Nick." I kiss him again and smile. We were perfect for each other. I pull back and nuzzle his cheek.

"Do Mary and Mark know?"

"Yeah. I told them about 2 weeks ago. They said they were ok with it and said that they would let me tell you when I was ready. I was gonna tell you on our graduation day but...you know." I nod and stroke his cheek.

"How do you think they'll react to us dating?"

"I don't know? But I think they will still love us." We hug for a little bit longer before making our way inside the hotel. We opened our hotel room door and Luna came running at us full speed.

"YAAAAAAAYY. YOUR HOME." I picked her up and scratched her ear.

"Hi Luna? Did you miss us?" I say with a smile.

"YES!!!!!"

"Luna quiet down, we are in a hotel remember." Luna bowed her head and put on a sad face.

"I'm sorry"

"It's Ok, now lets talk about the interview."

"Ok!" I happily talked to Luna for what seemed like hours but every time I looked at the clock it was only five minutes later. I suddenly froze, I couldn't move. I felt a familiar coldness run over me and I soon thrashed in pain.

"What's wrong Nick?" I heard Luna yell before Elliott ran in.

"Oh shit not again!!" I soon felt the pain settle on 3 different spots, my chest, my left wrist, and my head. Most of the pain started in my chest. It felt like someone was sticking 5000 needles in my chest. It was a burning sensation that I can't describe.

The pain in my wrist was the same. It was in both places at the same time, but then it stopped. For about 5 seconds nothing happened, then I honestly thought my head exploded. The pounding in my head felt like a heart beat. The pain came out of nowhere and it startled me and yelped out in surprise and pain. My voice wavered from human scream to dog howl.

"AHHHHHHHH-OOOOOOOOOO-AHHHHH!!!!"

I grabbed my head, it was nothing like before, it was too much. I fell to the floor, limp, scared. I soon lost consciousness, and awaited my talk with Echo.