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Geoff wasn't the most popular of students in his year at Central University and he was quite content with that. In fact, the otter mostly kept to himself and to his studies. The fact that Central was a large school was appealing to him. It meant that he was just a number. He wasn't on any of the sports teams (to the dismay of his father who had hoped that his son would follow his webprints to the swimming team at Central) and fraternity life just wasn't for him either. Now and then he would do a shift on the school's radio station but, overall, his focus was on his classes.

And it paid off. The otter's heavily whiskered muzzle pulled into a grin as his term paper was dropped onto his desk. An A. Geoff had spent weeks of researching his topic for his Predator-Prey Ancient Philosophy course and the work had certainly paid off. He stacked up his notebook and books for the class and leaned over to grab his backpack when-

*SLAM*

A huge and heavy canine paw landed on top of his materials. The otter gulped, not able to believe that such a good day could take such a turn.

"Look, dude, you're good at this shit, right?" the paw's owner growled.

Geoff looked up. It was Kyle. Of course, it would be. The two also went to high school together; Geoff did not want to leave the state because of cheaper tuition and Kyle? Well, Kyle won a full ride to Central on a lacrosse scholarship. Kyle made his high school years complete hell. The wolf would always call Geoff "nerd" or "rudderbutt" or some other nonsense, never by his name, and once he tripped the otter while he was heading to his seat, causing the otter to fall and spill his coffee. It was because of the canine's cruel jokes that Geoff was marked absent for all of his classes one day in their junior year after their first-period gym class. Thankfully the janitor heard his yells from the locker that he was trapped in and was able to use his master key to get him out before the school closed for the night.

Of course, it was Geoff's luck that Kyle was also in this class.

"Well?" the wolf glanced down at the paper with the A marked on it. "You've always had that nose of yours in a book. Clearly you understand the material, yeah?"

"Yeah? So? Maybe if you'd spent less time partying and wore your helmet in lacrosse games, you'd be able to too." Geoff cocked his head to one side and pulled his backpack into his lap. Did they even wear helmets in lacrosse? What kind of a comeback was that? With both webbed paws, he pushed the wolf's paw off of his materials and slid them into his bag.

"Listen," the wolf put his own stapled booklet of pages, smeared with what looked like pizza grease and a coffee ring on Geoff's desk. It was their take-home exam from the week before. Of course. Kyle was at an away game and only got to take the quiz when he got back. The otter wasn't surprised to see the F at the top of it. As he recalled, Kyle wasn't the sharpest of the pack.

"Dr. Kandor is letting me correct my quiz this weekend and will put that grade in for me instead of this one. Problem is, I don't get this crap whatsoever and I need this grade to go up to, yanno, help my average and shit. Didn't do that great on the paper either. Think you could help me out, man?"

The otter raised a brow. Dr. Kandor was letting him correct a take-home quiz? Those were the easiest! It was basically cheating. All of the answers came right out of their textbook. Geoff didn't think it was even possible to fail one of those. What was Dr. Kandor thinking to allow the wolf to retake it?

"What's in it for me? Do you really think that I'm going to help you out after the four years of hell that you put me through? Forget it!" Geoff said as he zipped his backpack up and finished his coffee in a single gulp. "And besides, I..er...I have a pretty busy weekend coming up. I have a ton of work to get done this morning and...er..few more things to do the rest of this weekend. Yeah! I have tons to-"

"Sure you do. Come on, man. You think I'm that stupid?" Kyle smirked and leaned back on the chair/desk combination behind him, almost falling as it toppled over from his mass. Geoff bit his tongue hard enough to draw blood, keeping himself from responding with a resounding 'yes'.

"Look," Kyle regained his composure. "We're having a huge party tonight at the frat house. I'll get you in if you help me out here. Few beers, maybe a joint, we'll head up to my room. Have a study session."

"At a party? No way. I highly doubt that we'll get anything done with the noise coming from downstairs. Besides, I'm sure this is some sort of ploy to get me to go there for a challenge for your rushes or something." Geoff pulled his backpack on. "Thanks but I'm not really into that sort of thing."

"Ever even try?"

"Well...no.."

"Hell no. Can't have you missing one of these, then. Wouldn't be right of me. Shit, it might even make up for the so-called 'hell' that I put you through in high school. What, man, can't take a joke?" Kyle wrote the address of the house on the top of the quiz. "Tonight night at nine. Bring the quiz. I'll get you in. You'll like it. Partying's good for people like you." He cleared his throat, his ears drooping slightly, "Look. I need to pass this class. Just...one night. Help me out here."

Geoff opened his muzzle to protest then sighed as the wolf left before he could get the words out. He glanced down at the quiz in his webbed paw, rolling his eyes as he saw that Kyle missed even the simplest of questions. How the wolf could get a score of five on a take home quiz was beyond him. There were over a hundred questions. But it wasn't his problem.. He shrugged and walked out of the classroom, letting the canine's quiz drop into the wastepaper basket along with his empty coffee cup. An invitation to a frat party? He knew Kyle wasn't the smartest but did he really think that this would make everything right between the two?

Then again...

Maybe the wolf was right. Maybe a night out would be good for him. He had to admit that Kyle was pretty cute too. If he wasn't so much of an asshole then maybe he would've wanted to spend a little more time around him.

He thought about the day that the canine had pushed him into the locker back in high school. They were in the locker room at gym and, Kyle had caught Geoff stealing a glance while they were changing. Of course, Geoff adamantly denied doing such a thing and not that it was completely blatant or anything Maybe the wolf smelled a slight change in the otter? Geoff had no idea but he couldn't really blame Kyle in the end.

He paused as he walked out of the building. Sure, that was one time but what about all the other times that Kyle made high school hellish for him. And now? The wolf had the balls to ask him for help getting his grade up? How dare he! Maybe he could get back at him, make him pay for all of the embarrassment that he caused him. Maybe he could get more than just an invitation to the party if he played his cards right.

He scampered back to the classroom and pulled the quiz out of the garbage, wiping off the coffee drops from it. He doubted that Kyle would notice the extra mess anyway. Sure, he would go to the party. He would make sure that Kyle got good and drunk.

Then he would blow him. Somehow, someway he was either going to get Kyle drunk enough to say yes to a muzzlejob from the otter. All he would have to do is set up his camera on his phone and nab a couple of shots. Hell, maybe even a video. All Geoff had to do was blur his face out. Kyle couldn't afford to have something like this happen to him, not with how popular he was in the fraternity and on the lacrosse team. Blackmail? Absolutely. But it would get Kyle off of his back.It was a win-win situation and Geoff had no idea how he couldn't wind up on top.

It was a perfect plan.

Or possibly the craziest thing that the mustelid ever thought of.