University year (part 1)
I sit on a bench near the edge of a man-made pond, feeding the wild black ducks and he two domestic mute swans. This is one of my favorite places around here, this is my last week in my first year of University, I have made many friends, and with friends made there where some lost and dating relationships formed and destroyed, even this pond brings back bad memories... I guess I have you all interested now, don't I?... well lets start my story, when I met my lovely room mate.
After my parents left I took a nap, only to be woken by the sound of my room mate moving in, when his parents left I knocked on his door. Our rooms are separate but we are still room mates, we share a bath room, bath tub and fridge. He opens his room door and says "hello?... Oh, you must be my room mate?"
I say "yes, I am. my name is Alex. but most people call me snow for my white fur" I hold out a paw.
He shakes my paw and says "I am Sam, I am a golden retriever. I am often called golden... you know, for my fur. You must be a wolf? right?"
I say "yes, I am a wolf. And it is very nice to meet you, I saw a note, there is going to be a floor meeting at 6:00, so be there or be square" and we laugh at my joke. I say "I best put some things away so, bye for now!"
he says "alright, bye" and he closes his door. I go into my room and sort-out some things, while I did that for some reason Sam was in the back of my mind, just something about him stuck with me. 5:45 rolls around and I leave my room and go into the hall, it is a long hall and at the end there is a kitchen and T.V. room, I bet that is where the floor meeting will be held.
I keep stalling and 6:00 rolls around, people and furs come out of there rooms and into the kitchen, we all get in a circle and are asked our names, species and where we are from. there are few that interest me, the few that do are named Frank the rabbit , Eric the husky, Bertha the fox and Hank the eagle. After those few I lost interest and found myself staring at Sam.
now it was my turn, I say "my name is Alex, I am a grey wolf and I am from St. Johns Newfoundland" and after that I found myself staring at Sam again.
He was the last to speak, he said "I am Sam the golden retriever, I am from Deer lake Newfoundland" and we where dismissed to go back to what ever we where doing before that.
things for the rest of that day was simple, I ate and went to bed, but tomorrow is much better.
The next day
I woke up, got changed, ate and finished my morning routine. Right after I finished I was about to go back into my room, Sam came out of his room and asked me "I know of a good park not far from here, want to come with me?"
He looked like he was all ready to go, so I said "yes, I would love to" than ask "but when?"
he responds "whenever your ready, I drive"
I say "well lets go, I ready to go... and thats good that you'll drive because I got no car, my parents do"
We go out to his car, he unlocks the door and we get in, it smells like dog in here. He says "I got to stop at a store first, okay?" I nod and we drive off.
We pull-up to the store and Sam goes in, when he comes out I ask "what did you get?"
he says "top secret!... you will see when we get to the park"
I try to smell whats in the bag but I only smell plastic from the bag. we arrive at the park and he says "its about a five minute walk to where I want to be, so if you got to use the bathroom, there is one right there"
I say "no, I don't have to go" and he starts to walk down the trail. I cant help but stare at him, I don't know why, but something about him just made me feel so happy around him. I ask "so, whats in the bag?"
he says "not yet" some time passes and we come to a small man-made pond, at one end there where dozens of black ducks and two swans. Sam says "I got bred and bird seed" he opens the bred bag and rips the bred up and puts it in the shop bag, he than mixes in the seed.
We start tossing in the bred/seed mix and the ducks take-off and fly over to us, they seem to love the food, the big swans start to swim there way over to us. Some time passes and we run-out of food, I toss the bags into the garbage bin.
We stay sat down on the bench, watching the ducks being cute and the swans looking cool. I rest my head against Sam's shoulder and he puts a arm around me. I have never felt so happy as I do right now, we made an effort to come down here every day.
About a week after the first move we where back at the park, we were out of food and we where snuggling. A bull dog came up to us and said "disgusting" we look up, he said "gays, something wrong with you lot..."
Sam stood-up and said "now you give that up, what did we do to you"
The bull dog pushed him down and said "you must be some stupid, not able to get a girl so you turn gay!"
I've had enough of him, I stand up and use my height and muscle to try to intimidate him, I said "you lay off us now... I don't start fights, but I won lots"
the Bull dog tries to get a swing at me, I grab his fist and twist his arm, I ask "do you want to pick a fight you cant win?" he tries to punch with his other fist, I grab that one too, I say "One more move and I flip you over my head!"
I keep a straight-serous face, the bull dog glances over to a poodle and kicks my shin, I turn so my back is to the pond and flip him over my head, he flies out into the pond making a big splash, the ducks start pecking at him and soon decide they cant eat him. I help am up and say "come on, its getting late lets go"
We get to Sam's car, he says "thanks for helping me there"
I say "it was nothing, you know..." and I was cut off.
The bull dog is running up the trail shouting "wait!"
I say "Sam, get in the car, I'll talk to him"
the Bull dog runs up to me and between breaths says "sorry about that man, I don't know what I was thinking... you see, my girl friend, she does not like the idea of gays... she told me to break you guys up before she barfs... and while I am okay with gays, I just wanted to show-off"
I say "you should say sorry to Sam, not me."
He says "get him out of the car and its a deal!"
I get Sam out of the car and the bull dog says "I'm very sorry about what happened there, I was trying to show-off to my girl friend. I don't think shes worth it any more, as I just ditched her there... I hope we can be friends"
Sam says "no harm done, I agree that shes not worth it and yes we can be friends!"
The bull dog says "oh god, thats grate!, by the way my name is Benson"
We say "nice to meet you, Benson!"
He said "don't let that stop you from coming down here, okay?"
And that was just the first week, we did not even consider ourselves to be dating yet, join me next time in part 2!.