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Siblings - The Series

Episode Seven

© 2016 Carlos Penguin

Preface

Yes, I am aware of an inconsistency in this story (for those who catch it. If you didn't, don't worry about it). It was a magical, special place that should have never been lost :-(

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Mark and Alice disembarked from the aircraft after a cramped five hour flight. Though they sat, read, napped and talked, being stuck in an aircraft for hours with so many strangers was exhausting for the couple. They couldn't wait to check into their hotel and grab a shower and have a nap.

The cool, dry air in the plane contrasted with the blast of warm, humid air as they exited into the Jetway, instantly making them sweat. Then there was the customs lineup. As if the trip wasn't draining enough.

"Passports!" A stern looking wolf demanded.

Mark and Alice handed their little booklets over. The agent studied them as if he expected them to be counterfeit.

"Reason for visiting?" He said scripted.

"Holidays." Mark replied.

"Where are you from?" The wolf asked, turning the passports this way and that, studying them still more closely.

"Mission, British Columbia." Mark replied as the wolf gave a blank look. "That's in Canada."

"Ah!" The agent said and broke a smile. Returning their passports, he motioned for them to move along and they heard his scripted routine repeat with the family behind them.

They picked up their luggage from the carousel and placing it on a cart, headed for the exit.

Alice Went much slower, admiring the art exhibit in the public area and the open design of the terminal. "Mark, there's no glass in the windows here!" She mentioned, pointing about the terminal.

"A wonderful thing about it being always summer!" He replied, then looked around at his feet, You'd think they'd do something about this gaudy carpet, though.".

"We're on vacation. No floor critiquing, Mr. businessman." She said with a smile and pulled out her camera. "I want a picture of you next to this statue."

Mark looked at the square faced statue with distorted, over sized eyes and a mouth that looked like it was about to scream. "It gives me the creeps!" Mark complained.

Alice gave him a disappointed look. "Oh, come on! You brought me here. What's that local word the pamphlet said for respect? Mahalo!"

Mark gave a defeated smile, "Mahalo." With a sigh, he posed beside the statue.

They boarded a complimentary shuttle bus to the hotels. After an hour of stops at various hotels around Honolulu and Waikiki, they were the only pair left on the bus. The driver looked back at them, "Which hotel is yours? I may as well take you straight there."

Mark quickly fumbled with papers from his laptop bag. "Oblana, on Kuhio Avenue."

"Really?" The driver asked. "You look... like higher class tourists than that."

Mark and Alice looked at each other nervously. He looked back to the driver, "Uh, the travel agency said it was an economic place. Is it that bad?"

The driver shook his head. "No. Clean place, nice restaurant, just not a resort. It's an average hotel. Little rooms, small lanai."

Mark was relieved and smiled, "Just what we wanted!"

They came to a stop light. The driver looked over his shoulder and pulled down his sunglasses. "You're Canadian, aren't you?"

"Why yes! How did you know?" Alice was surprised.

The driver smiled and returned his attention to the road as the light turned green. "Because whether you're an everyday Joe or a millionaire, you all seem to be fine with a humble hut over your head, then spend ridiculously on attractions."

Alice looked confused, "Well, doesn't everyone?"

The driver simply laughed.

They arrived at the hotel and the driver kindly assisted them with their baggage. The hotel auditor and driver knew each other by name and spoke in Hawaiian. Mark and Alice checked in and headed up the elevator to the third floor room.

As the driver said, it was an average room. But a bonus was a little kitchenette with coffee maker, tea pot and microwave. The lanai, or balcony, was small and didn't face the beach.

"Well, it was a hundred bucks a night cheaper than the room that faced the beach." Mark said apologetically.

Alice put her arms around her husband and smiled, "It is just fine, my love." She kissed him romantically and whispered, "Still need that nap?"

Mark ran his hands along the sides of her breasts, making his wife's eyes twinkle. "Well, maybe after." He took her into his arms and let the concerns of home drift as far away from mind as they were in body.

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"Welp, Alice and that brother of mine should be in paradise by now!" Rick said, looking at the clock on the wall.

"Sun and fun." Eugenia said with a manner of discontentment as she scrubbed the dirt off some potatoes.

Rick gave pause at the way she replied. "Hun, you wanna go somewhere spectacular, too?"

"You know we can't afford it." She replied with a sigh. "And even if we could, who would look after Ethan and Elise while Alice and Mark are gone?

"I didn't mean right now, silly!" Rick rolled his eyes and got up from the kitchen table. He went to the fridge to get another beer, but closed the door and went to his wife's side. "Why don't I give you a hand, huh?"

She smiled appreciatively. "Honey, you're a sweet man. You do well at growing these things, but you're useless in the kitchen and just get in my way, you know that."

"Well, don't say I never offered." He pulled out another beer from the refrigerator shelf and sat down. He pondered what he could do to take Eugenia on the vacation she deserved.

Rick was in retirement. They lived off a meagre senior's pension from when he was a mechanic in town, when it was a much smaller place and there were more tractors rolling around than cars.

It had only been in the last twenty years that the town grew in an influx of population, mostly people moving from the east to work in the west. It was a bedroom community of a much larger nearby city, as living was affordable.

"What would you think about me coming out of retirement?"

Eugenia turned around and looked surprised. He had never talked about any such thing before. "What ever gave you that idea?"

"Like you said, we hardly have any money. I can do the 'handyman for hire' thing." He said with a shrug.

Eugenia dried her hands and sat down at the table. "What is the real reason, hm? Worried if the children will have enough?"

"Nah." Rick shook his head as he fiddled with his can. "Jus'... well, Larry's successful, Tonya is on her way, Look at Mark!" He waved his hand outwards in the direction of town. "Even the kids are twenty actin' like thirty." He looked over at his wife, "And what have I got you? Sure, the property is worth quite a bit, but.... dang, we got no kids to leave it to and what's it doing for us?"

In all the years she had known her husband, Eugenia had never heard him talk like this. Mid-life crises? Introspection brought on due to others circumstances?

"Honey, I'm not unhappy if that's your concern. I just have a lot of stress right now. Between Elise being pregnant so young, Ethan worrying about being a father then Alice and Mark flying off the handle like they did and I'm in the middle trying to keep everyone calm and together, it gets tiring." She explained.

"Which is my point, exactly!" Rick said. Yer takin' care of everyone but you." He patted himself on the chest with a smile, "Now that's my job."

He got up and put his mostly-full can back in the fridge. "I'm going to talk to someone. See ya by dinner."

Eugenia watched him grab his wallet, keys, cap and went out the door. "What on earth...?" She wondered, but shook it off and went back to preparing supper.

He returned an hour later with excitement in his face. His boots clumped up on to the porch and he swung the front door open so forcefully he made Chloe, their cat, jump.

"We're maybe gonna have visitors tomorrow." He exclaimed. "Comin' to take a look around."

Eugenia didn't know how to react, or feel. "Just tell me that you didn't sell the house!"

"Hell, no!" He looked annoyed with such an assumption. "We ain't movin' for nobody."

She let out a sigh of relief.

"That realtor buddy of mine Mark and I go drinking with occasionally has a commercial developer in his office tomorrow. They're gonna come take a peek at some of the twenty that we have here along the river." He said.

"Oh, honey...." She looked sadly. "You love the land."

He nodded, "Yeah, I do. But this past fall when I was clearing the fallen trees around the tributaries, I realized I ain't gettin' any younger. Maybe it's time to keep a bit and let the rest go?"

She put her arms around him. "Please don't do this for me. I don't want you to resent me for an impulse decision."

He kissed her and smiled, "How could I ever resent you?"

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Ethan was laying on the bed, watching his sister brush out her long hair while seated at her vanity. With each stroke of the brush, her breasts which were already a decent size for a vixen of her build, now swollen from pregnancy, bounced, jiggled and swayed. He always 'enjoyed the show' when she exited the shower and did her grooming routine.

She had her hair in her hand pulled forward over her shoulder as she brushed out the ends. It shone like silken threads and he new it as soft as it appeared.

She stopped and gave him an over the shoulder glance with her sparkling amber eyes, "Are you going to have that grin the whole time?"

"I always do!" He replied.

She put a hair elastic in and a hair band on her head, settled just ahead of her fluffy ears.

She stood up and turned to him, placing her hands on her baby-bump belly. "Be honest, please. Am I still sexy?"

He held out a hand and she came to the side of the bed and took it, placing it on her belly. "You are the most beautiful, sexy vixen in the world to me."

Elise giggled and smiled, "You're biased. But I love you." She leaned over and kissed him.

She straightened up and went to get dressed, but he gently pulled her back to the side of the bed. He kissed her belly, "I love all three of you."

She stroked his ears and hair. "But will you say that when I'm a fifth-month blimp?"

"I'll be proving it to you!" He winked.

She smiled, flattered. "I've been doing some reading on the net. Hormones, body changes, my sex drive will likely plummet in the last month."

"I read up on it too." He gave an encouraging smile and kissed her hand. "We're in this together."

Elise, caught off guard by his tender words, became emotional and knelt at the side of the bed, held him tight and cried.

He kissed her and held her, his chin on her shoulder. What was a moving moment for her, was for him as well, feeling strong that he could comfort her.

Elise got up and wiped her eyes with her fingers, "I'm being so silly. I just can't help it, lately."

He handed her a tissue for her running nose. "And here I thought you were doing this just so I could feel all manly, holding you."

She gave him a crooked mouth expression, "Sure, mister macho man. Sure."

"Why don't we take advantage of the fact you're naked?" He whispered.

"Because Tonya and Kiana will be here in an hour." She whispered back.

"Ooooo..." He got a huge grin. "Want to wait so they can join in too, huh?"

She gave an open-mouthed look of shock and smacked his arm gently, "One minute you are so sweet, the next you blow all the 'brownie points' you made with a dumb comment like that!" She went to the closet and got some clothes.

He sat up on the bed, "Well, what's the point making them if I can't spend them now and again?"

"Just behave and start supper, please? I'll finish it." Elise rolled her eyes.

"No problem!" He said and went out of the bedroom, then popped back in with a grin, "They're 'vagitarians', right?"

Elise growled at him and threw a pillow as he scurried out, laughing.

"Happy Holidays!" Tonya and Kiana said with smiles and gave their host and hostess hugs as they entered their apartment. They brought colourful gift bags full of things.

"Merry Bah Humbug!" Ethan added with a grin, holding the door open.

"What is all this?" Elise asked.

"Gifts for the future baby." Tonya said. "Since I'll be at school for the shower, we thought it would be a good idea for you to have them now."

"We just met you and you're being so generous?" Elise aid with surprise.

"The way Kiana has gone on about you and Ethan, I feel like I've known you two for years." She said and placed the bags on a chair.

"I guess you don't know yet, eh?" Ethan asked of Kiana.

"Know what?" Kiana frowned. "Is everything all right?"

Ethan chuckled, "Everything is fine, but we're having two babies."

"Really?" Kiana smiled widely to Elise who nodded. "That's wonderful!"

Ethan leaned against the wall with his arms crossed, watching the estrogen fuelled 'cuddle puddle' of congratulations. "All we need now is Cerise and Marie here to top this off." He smirked.

Tonya overheard. "Oh now, now, now, I didn't forget about daddy." She handed him a little envelope.

With curious surprise at the gift, he opened it. "A gift card?" He smiled. "Well thank you! I didn't expect this."

"It's good at all the places a new daddy will need. Hardware stores, housewares, the local cab company for when mommy has her umpteenth false labour. You know, all the stuff you'll have to take care of." Tonya said, happy to help out. "I got dad's advice on it."

"Well, we greatly appreciate this. But with the prices of things, I'm sure a crib and a playpen will take care of it." Ethan winked and placed it in his wallet.

Tonya gave him a hug and whispered to him, "There's five thousand on it. Don't go buy a car."

Ethan was stunned and handed the card back. "I... we... can't..."

"Oh yes you can!" Tonya looked stern that she was not going to take no for an answer and pushed his hand with the card back towards him. "For them." She looked over to Elise and back at him and smiled, "For her."

Ethan paused. "It's a deal!" He agreed.

The siblings served up a roasted chicken dinner. Ethan put a gravy boat of sauce beside Kiana, who helped herself to far more potatoes than chicken. "Try it!" He said. "Came up with the idea myself." He said proudly.

She raised an eyebrow at him and sniffed it. It smelled nutty, which immediately made the little squirrel girl drool. She stuck her fork in it and tasted some. She promptly emptied the boat of sauce on everything.

"What is that?" Tonya asked and sniffed over her girlfriend's plate.

Kiana had a mouthful and her eyes rolled back, "Mmmm, this is the best thing, EVER!"

"I modified a curry recipe that was based on cashew nuts into a gravy for when Kiana came over." Ethan said. "Drowns out the carnivorous flavour of our meals."

"Ingenious." Tonya remarked. "I learned something tonight."

After dinner and some conversation, they talked about a game. "Strip poker!" Ethan offered with a hopeful smile.

Elise face-palmed as Kiana gave a chittering giggle.

"You wouldn't have a hope of winning. My dad taught me poker tricks." Tonya casually replied.

Ethan grinned, "Who says I want to win?"

Tonya gave a surprised expression and laughed. "Okay, you got me there. Wasn't expecting that one."

"Oh, stop encouraging him!" Elise griped. "What about a trivia game?"

"What trivia category are we talking about?" Kiana mentioned. "Elise would win TV and movie trivia, Ethan only knows Sci-Fi and I'm lousy at trivia."

"Rummy!" Tonya offered as an idea, looking around at the group. It was agreed.

"Strip Rummy?" Ethan mumbled.

Both Tonya and Elise banged their foreheads on the table as Kiana literally fell off her chair, laughing so hard.

Ethan looked back and forth at them with a grin, "Well?"

Several hours later, an evening filled with laughter and enjoyment of company, the time flew into the early morning hours. The guests parted and looked forward to a return when Tonya was on summer break.

Elise closed the door and gave a happy sigh. "Kiana that little sweetie has come so far. I think all it took was for her to meet the right someone."

"Well, I know how that is. And she was under my nose all this time." Ethan put his arms around her and kissed her.

Elise giggled, "Mr. strip rummy. You just wanted that hot little skunkette out of her clothes."

"I have a better idea. How about we get you out of your clothes, instead?" Ethan said and nibbled her neck and ears.

"While the memory of Tonya is still fresh in your mind, right?" She gave him a crooked smile. "Well, as long as your dick remains in just me and your fantasies just remain that, I guess I can let you get away with it. This once." She said and began walking, pushing him backwards toward the bedroom.

Ethan gave an innocent expression, like he had no idea what she was talking about.

Tonya and Kiana had got into the elevator. Kiana went to push the button, but Tonya stopped her.

"What's wrong?" Kiana asked.

"Nothing." Tonya said and grabbed her girlfriend and pulled her close, planting an aggressive kiss on her.

She pinned Kiana against the wall of the elevator and was grinding her pelvis against her while pawing at her body. "I am so horny for you." Tonya said as she took a breath between kisses.

The naughtiness of sex in a public elevator made Kiana tingle. Her stomach got butterflies and she responded. She opened Tonya's long, leather winter coat and groped at her crotch through her tight stretchy pants. She felt her soft, swollen lips in a revealing camel-toe. Slipping a finger between them, the warm and slippery wetness became evident. She massaged her vaginal opening, eliciting a moan that made no effort to be unheard in such a public place.

"Oh... like that... yessss...." Tonya panted with her forehead pressed against Kiana's shoulder. She gave a grunt, then a louder one, then with a few heavy breaths, she gave a few shallow pelvic thrusts and her thighs clamped on the squirrel's dainty hand as he body quivered in delight. Tonya clamped her teeth onto the scruff of Kiana's thick coat and used it to muffle an extended moan of relief.

"My... little... treasure..." Tonya panted into Kiana's ear and let out a long sigh of relief. She smacked her lips, not unlike a dog. "That hit the spot."

Kiana giggled.

Tonya smiled. "Your turn."

Kiana gave a little gasp and blushed, "But we're already taking chances getting caught!" She began to halfheartedly protest, but Tonya was already on her knees, her little mephit nose poking about her girlfriend's crotch through her designer jeans that she had bought her earlier that day.

She felt her zipper being lowered and the button being undone, Kiana's already chubby belly feeling a relief of restraint from gorging herself on dinner earlier.

Tonya pulled Kiana's pants down about her calf, where they hung up on a set of heeled, designer winter boots she also had got her as a gift. "Here's the fun part." Tonya said. "Reach out and grab the wall rail and hang on."

"Huh?" Kiana said confused, but grabbed the rail in the elevator with her hands. Tonya lifted her up by the ankles and manoeuvring so the boot heels were on her back and slid her head from behind Kiana's thighs, ending up with her face exactly where she wanted.

"Hey, beautiful." Tonya smiled from between Kiana's legs. Kiana's pants around her ankles, they were as if bound. If she let go of the rail, she'd fall. It was bondage without the ropes. But she didn't have time to think about her situation, as a tiny, warm, flicking tongue made its way between her fur covered pink pussy lips, sending her into convulsions of ecstasy.

Ethan and Elise had got each other undressed. He was once again admiring her body and the changes it was going through. She felt so flattered, so very attractive as when he was doing so, she didn't see once any hint of revulsion like she had been so worried about, but one of enthrallment.

"I've been wanting to do something different with you." She said in a sultry manner. He smiled and nodded.

She pressed against his chest with a smile for him to lay down. He did so and she got on the bed and straddled him. She took his penis in her hand and lowered herself onto it. She then realized how deep he could get in this position as well as how erotic it was for her.

He placed his hands on her hips. "Our first 'cowgirl', yeeehaw!" He remarked.

She just smiled at him and gave her hips a thrust and the motion rippled up her body in a smooth motion. She leaned back and gave another, then another. He was mesmerized by the fluid motions she was doing.

As her speed increased, her breasts bounced and swirled, as if she was a belly dancer giving him the ultimate lap dance. She ran her delicate fingers through her long hair, letting it fall from them, flowing like strands of silk. She turned her head coyly, her vixen mouth opening slightly, beginning to pant.

Their eyes locked, the gentle love in them they had for each other being communicated, as well as the increasing intensity of passion. The artistic motions of her body were giving way to carnal lust. She leaned over him, her hips thrusting madly. "Yes... oh yes... gonna.... cum..." She said with breathed words as his back arched, sending his load forcefully into her, triggering intense multiple orgasms within her own body.

Minutes passed as the lovers remain locked at the hip, their mated organs pulsing, squeezing, tingling. She had collapsed on top of him, moaning, stroking, her claws digging in on his arms with each grip from her vagina.

He licked the sweat soaked fur on her neck and shoulders. He felt himself grow harder again while still inside his sister. Just like that night at work when he lost all control of himself while she was experiencing her fires, the same sweet scents wafting up from her, filling his nostrils, the same burning sexual desire for her filling his veins. He gripped powerfully at her shoulder blades, making her jerk in reaction. He uttered a deep, low feral growl and nipped at her ear.

She gave a moan, "Oh yes baby, lose control." She whispered and rose her head.

He licked her neck, sniffed loudly at her cheek and behind her ears, then with a louder growl, sank his teeth into her shoulder and rolled her over onto her back. He rammed her mercilessly until he came a second time.

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"What a fabulous collection of little shops!" Alice said in pleasant amazement as she and her husband walked through the International Marketplace, near their hotel.

Far from being a place with just cheap souvenirs made in other places off the island, there were handicrafts of all sorts, some of them being made right before their eyes.

"Well look at this!" Mark said as he picked up a ukulele. He strummed the four strings of the instrument. "It doesn't sound like I remember them to." He replaced it and looked disappointed.

"You're no shark bait, haole." The oversized retailer of indigenous origin said. "Try this one." He pulled a ukulele from under his covered table and handed it to Mark.

Mark strummed that one and smiled, "That's the sound I remember from school." He played a few clumsy chords that he could remember. As he did, the memories of music class grew stronger and his fingers were moving much better across the fingerboard in minutes. "I'll take it."

"Two hundred." The retailer said.

Marks smile was erased. "Why so much? Is it made of gold? Is it a hundred years old?" He grumbled.

The retailer calmly shook his head and replied, "It's mine and that's what it'll cost for me to replace it."

Mark looked at him, then at the ukulele, then back to the retailer. "I'm honoured." He paid him the $200.

Alice's mouth dropped open and looked angrily at him, but remained silent.... for now.

Their first evening was drawing to a close and they hit the restaurant in the hotel for dinner.

"Feels like lunch, since we had that nap... and a little bit of romance." Mark winked to Alice, then picked up his menu.

She grinned and blushed.

"We should book ourselves a luau for tomorrow or the next." He suggested. "All those pamphlets you picked up at the airport should have something on that, huh?"

"Nothing too expensive." She said. "Especially since you got that overpriced guitar."

He put his menu down. "Oh come on. This is probably the last big holiday we'll have. No kids with us either. We would have blown $200 on their wants anyway." He picked up his menu again, "Anyway, brings back a good memory for me. And I can play it, too."

It wasn't worth ruining their day she decided and looked at her menu as well.

After stuffing themselves on a dinner of local fish that they had never heard of before and wished was available back home, they retired to their room.

Looking at the information in the pamphlets, they decided to book a luau the next day for the day after and decided that tomorrow would be a fine day to take a shot at hiking Diamond Head.

"I say we'll make it only half way up." Alice grinned facetiously.

"Ha! Such little faith you have." Mark said. "We're in great shape for our age." He looked though a few more pamphlets and added, "My guess is we'll wheeze out at a third the way up." They both laughed.

A beautiful Hawaiian morning came with a gentle breeze in through their lanai, making the curtain blow ever so slightly. As was frequent in the winter, it drizzled in the early morning and the clouds disappeared by mid morning to give the day that famous 'Land of Forever Summer' the islands were famous for.

Alice had woke early. She showered and went down for breakfast. Afterwards, she quietly returned and read some of the local events advertised in the tourist information booklet provided by the hotel.

Mark went from a sound snore to grumbling, then groaning in his sleep. She looked over and saw him smiling. "I wonder what he's dreaming about?" She said quietly to herself. "Oh!" She added as she watched him become erect under the bed sheet. "Maybe I should have asked 'who' he's dreaming about." She giggled.

Still smiling, he gave a chuckle. He scratched, then gripped himself as he slept. This was getting quite interesting to Alice, who gently lay down beside him and pulled back the sheet for the show.

"Mmmm, yeah." He mumbled. A droplet appeared on his tip.

Alice smiled. With a mischievous grin, she leaned over, then looked to see if her movements disturbed him. When he didn't stir, she used her long, canid tongue to touch the salty drop that formed on his penis. This felt naughty, exciting and had a thrill that he could awake at any moment and she would be caught.

He squeezed himself with his hand, making a larger drop form, this one running down his red, veined shaft. "Should I?" She thought to herself and with a quick motion, she leaned over and licked him.

"Mmmm, baby!" He mumbled in his sleep and began smacking his lips. Alice gave a blushing giggle, then covered her mouth. "Hush, girl!" she thought to herself and waited for the game to continue.

He moaned a couple of times, more drops appearing. This was too much for her as she thought, "Let's see how long it takes for him to wake up?" She leaned over again, this time putting her mouth over what wasn't covered by his hand and gently began sucking.

About a half a minute later and without opening his eyes, Mark began to masturbate as Alice continued to suck. It wasn't long before his hand moved rapidly followed by a grunt and warm squirts of thick, slippery juice began to fill her mouth.

He let out a sigh and his softening red stick of love fell out from between her lips. He released his grip from around what was now his soft, furred sheath and rubbed his own balls, giving another sigh, this one with a big smile.

His eyes opened and he looked down to see his wife's smiling face, her head laying on his thigh. "Good morning!" She said cheerfully.

"Alice!" He replied. "I had the oddest dream." He smiled and stroked her cheek.

She propped herself up on her elbow. "Oh really? Do tell!"

"I was dreaming that you woke me up with a blow job while I was on vacation." He said with a grin.

She moved herself up beside him and he put his arm around her. "What and odd thing to dream about." She said.

He admired her for some time. "Do you know how long its been since you did that?"

"Not since our honeymoon." She replied.

"Way too long!" He smiled.

"Well..." She looked down and put her hand on his balls and fondled them. "The taste is just as bad as I remembered. So don't expect another anytime soon."

He laughed out loud. "Well, thank you for trying that menu again, at least." He ran his hand along her side, across her hips and the furry side of her leg. Lifting her loose fitting summer blouse, he unzipped her shorts and undid the snap. "Now why don't you bring your sexies up this way and get a morning treat for yourself."

She gave a giggle and coy smile. "My, you are frisky today." She slid her shorts down her legs and kicked them off her feet. She swung herself around and lifting her tail, bent over and straddled his chest. She let out a little squeal as his whiskers tickled as ran up the inside of her thighs and across her lips. He lapped her from front all the way across and up the inside of her tail. She melted as her husband's practised tongue worked its magic.

--

Rick woke up on the late side for him. It was almost ten in the morning. They both had spent most of the night into the wee hours of the morning excitedly talking and planning as to what they'd do with the extra money. Rick wanted to fix up the house and Eugenia suggested hiring a professional, or it would never get done.

He looked to the side and Eugenia was sound asleep on her stomach, her head turned away. She in fact had got up for a short period of time much earlier, but was taking a nap after doing morning chores.

He admired her form under the blanket. Such perfect curvature that he had to resist stroking her, lest she'd awake.

Rick rolled his large physique around and sat up on the side of the bed. Scratching his head, he realized he had no hangover. Matter of fact, they were so enthralled with plans the night before, he never even thought of his usual routine of polishing off the better part of a case before bed. He was however, hungry.

Getting up, her meandered into the kitchen wearing only his socks, boxers and undershirt. He admired, as he did every time he was in the kitchen/dining area, his buck head on the wall with a .270 rifle hanging on its antlers. Even fresh out of bed, Rick radiated the meaning of country redneck.

There was two slices of bread left, no butter and perhaps a cup of milk left in the fridge. He opened a couple of containers with leftovers, only to discover a bio-hazard inside. He dumped them in the bin, container and all. "Gotta do some shoppin' today." He muttered.

He picked up the phone and hit the speed dial for his favourite pizza delivery. He encountered a phone message that they were open from four in the afternoon until one in the morning. Six hours until they opened. "Well, this won't do." He grumbled and returned to the bedroom.

"Hun, there ain't nothin' to eat!" He pawed at Eugenia, who was snoring, one arm hanging off the bed and her hand being nuzzled at by Chloe.

She grumbled and groaned at being woken up. "What do you want?" She said muffled with her face half in the pillow.

"Food!" Rick replied. "I'm hungry and the cupboard is bare."

"So? Go shopping." Eugenia said without opening her eyes. "Get a hamburger. Don't care."

With a grin, he pulled the blanket off of her. He lifted her tail and gave her ample rear a swat. "MEEEP!" She squeaked, snapping awake.

"Yer a naughty skunk, ya know that?" He swatted her again, enjoying the jiggling of her buttocks through her fur as he did.

"Oooo, hoo, hoooo! Been some time since you did that!" She said, a wide grin filling her face.

"Well, somebody has ta be keepin' ya in line!" He grinned and gave her another swat. Eugenia began to purr.

Rick climbed on the bed and lay on top of her covering her soft body. She kissed him from over her shoulder and felt his erection poking at the back of her thighs. He shifted his hips until she felt his tip just slip into her pussy from behind, making her give a small gasp.

Unfortunately for both of them, for as big of a guy as Rick was, he was not that well endowed. The small pokes we was providing her in the position she was in was giving her pleasant shivers of little orgasms. Then things got adventurous.

She gave a squeak and all her muscles tightened. "RICK!" She shouted.

He gave what could be considered an 'evil' chuckle. "Yes, my sweet?" He asked innocently.

She grunted and he gently stroked her hair, kissed her neck and held her hand. Her body began to relax. As it did, Rick was able to slide his length inside her ass.

"Ooooo..." She gave a high pitched sigh. "I wasn't sure at first, but...." Eugenia said and began thrusting in sync with him.

He was gentle with her, the kind of loving they shared on those special candle-lit evenings with soft music, when they were a much younger pair.

He let out a barely audible sigh as she felt a warmth fill her where she never had been before. His weight on top of her, the ache of a virgin anal penetration and the warmth of his seed in her made her tingle from head to paw. After all these years, still new experiences were to be had.

They shared a shower and with a youthful bounce in their step, went out for lunch before going shopping.

--

Tonya groaned as she woke in her hotel room. She soon realized Kiana was beside her and gave a smile and sigh of adoration for her. The emotional twinge of young love in her heart. "You're such a special little thing." She muttered to herself as she watched Kiana breathe, sleeping soundly.

Looking over at the clock, it was almost noon. She felt a rush of guilt, but realized what a potent 'sleeping pill' that a night of satisfying sex could be.

Kiana's eyes popped open and she blinked. She rubbed her face and turned towards Tonya. Her face glowed with a smile made all that much cuter by her pearly, buck squirrel teeth and eyes shone with complete infatuation. "Morning." She said in a whisper.

"Morning, beautiful." Tonya replied. Her dark eyes enhanced by the white markings around them, giving the effect of permanent eye liner. Kiana saw her natural beauty as something no makeup could ever improve upon.

"Were you watching me sleep again?" Kiana asked with a shy, flattered blush on her rounded cheeks.

With a songbird voice she hadn't heard from her before, Tonya replied by singing a few lines of the song, "Every Breath You Take" while she stroked Kiana's hair.

It was one of those moments that both wished would never end.

It would be an hour before they got out of bed and showered. "What do you want to do today, sweetie?" Tonya asked as she brushed her long hair not fully tamed from the fur dryer pre-conditioner she used.

"Well..." Kiana replied between fussing her two larger front teeth with floss, making faces in the mirror as if she tried to see perfection in them at the molecular level. "I want to get you a present, but what would you want that you don't already have?"

Tonya wrapped her arms around her from behind and gave a squeeze, pressing her head to her cheek. "You gave me the best thing already."

"What?" Kiana cocked her head.

Tonya giggled, "You, silly!"

Kiana placed her arms over hers. "You're so sweet.... and mushy. I like mushy."

"Never really had a reason to be, before." Tonya pondered. "But, now I see how people can be." She kissed her tenderly on her cheek, then beside her eye. "It feels so... good. So fulfilling."

Kiana felt a flutter in her heart and a rush to her head. She gave a sigh and leaned her head back against Tonya, their eyes almost touching. She knew she was falling in love for the very first time, but dared not utter those words... just yet.

"I want to tell the world about you." Kiana said. "I want you to meet my friends."

Tonya smiled, "I'd like that."

Kiana gave a happy chitter and bounce. After her morning grooming, she called the friend she most frequently hung out with, next to Elise.

"Where has everyone been?" Marie said, frustrated. They met for brunch at the local mall food court and Marie began with such a scold to Kiana, then gave her a hug. "I haven't seen Elise since a week after she started working and you only twice after that."

"And we've been dying of curiosity. Last I heard was you were spending a lot of time with a new boyfriend." Kiana hugged her in return. "Who is he? Where's he from? What does he do? Elise wants to know if he's cute? You know, the usual." She paused and motioned toward Tonya with a smile, "This is Tonya, my girlfriend."

"Nice to meet you, sweetie." Marie said as she shook Tonya's hand. She looked at Kiana, "Honey, we're ALL girlfriends."

Marie was a black wolf with brilliant amber eyes that were highly expressive. Extroverted and sociable, she loved to make friends with anyone who could tolerate her love of talking.

Kiana put her hands behind her back and looked down shyly. She swayed her body, then took Tonya's arm and kissed her hand. "I mean.... she's my girlfriend, girlfriend."

"Ohhhhhhh...." Marie's eyes widened with realization. "You've finally figured out who you really are, squirrely girl?" She smiled widely. "That is so wonderful. I, well, a few of us, were worried about, well, I mean... you know." She explained uncomfortably and realized that she was digging herself in deeper the more she talked. "Tonya, you're a real cutie. There aren't any skunkettes who aren't, I mean. Not that I've met many, well any for that matter. But I do watch TV and...."

"Shut up, Marie!" Kiana laughed and rolled her eyes. "Your digging to China again."

Marie made a zipper-like motion across her mouth, 'unzipped' and stuck her tongue out at Kiana, then 'zipped shut' again. "I'm bad for that, Tonya. I hope you'll get used to me."

Tonya was completely amused. "Quite all right! Many of the university students I know have a similar problem. It's a fascinating study."

Marie smiled at Kiana, "Ooooo, a smartie and a cutie! Nice catch!"

"Speaking of catch, about you're boyfriend....." Kiana insisted.

"Well, he's different." Marie said. "What do you want to eat?" She scurried off to a lineup in front of a Chinese food vendor. "I can't get enough sweet and sour pork. The downside is it gives me the rankest farts."

"Marie!" Kiana said shocked.

Tonya was laughing so hard, she snorted. "You are hilarious!"

They ordered and sat down with their plates. Marie and Tonya picked up their chopsticks and expertly began feeding themselves. Kiana on the other hand, fumbled with them until she put them down and grabbed a fork.

"It's okay hun...." Tonya said and patted her girlfriend's knee after seeing the expression of part frustration and part embarrassment on Kiana's face. "One can use them or not use them. There is no in-between with these."

"Last time she tried using these, I got a chicken ball in the eye." Marie chuckled.

Kiana glared at her. "And you'll get another!"

"Fffit! Ffffit!" Marie gave a grin and made cat-claws with her hand.

"Hey you two, don't scratch the furniture." Tonya said casually, as she stuffed her face with noodles.

Marie pointed to Tonya and looked at Kiana, "She's going to fit right in."

"Okay, enough stalling!" Kiana blurted out almost hysterically. "He's different, how?"

Marie stared and blinked for a few moments. "Okay, but you did ask." She paused again until Kiana looked as if she was going to come across the table at her. "He's a human."

Kiana gasped.

Tonya's eyebrows raised. "Dun, dun, DUNNNN! This conversation now has my full attention."

"Why?" A wide-eyed Kiana asked. "Don't most humans think we're mistakes? We should all be in cages or on a dinner plate?"

"Ai, yi, yi!" Tonya banged her head on the table and Marie just stared at Kiana with an expression of surprise and revulsion at the ignorance that just came out of her friend's mouth.

"What?" Kiana said with exasperation. "Honey, you even had a bad experience with them in England."

"Yes, A-bad-experience, as in one. I go to uni with hundreds of them. They're fascinated by me, not afraid of or hate me, like my bad experience." Tonya replied.

Marie was still staring.

Kiana fell to silent embarrassment.

Tonya broke the uncomfortable silence between them. "Where did you meet?"

Marie turned to Tonya and smiled, "Online! I had a newbie physics question and posted to a forum. He took the time and had the patience to explain it to me. He knew I wasn't human because I had a 'fresh view of the world' from a completely different aspect. We began private messaging and like you said, he was fascinated by me. We met at a coffee shop and shut the place down. It felt like fifteen minutes passed, but eight hours did."

"Ah! An intellectual bond. Is he a mathematician or something?" Tonya asked with interest.

"Actually, he's a software programmer and robotics designer. He makes manufacturing plant automation, but his passion are those little robots that battle each other or do useful things, like look for people under rubble." Marie giggled, "He has more hair than me, I swear. Looks just like a nerd from the 1970's with big hair, bushy beard, glasses, skinny as a rail and two metres tall."

What made the image of them as a couple amusing was that Marie was short and pear shaped. Small B-cups, thin middle that bloomed out into thick hips, ass and thighs. Those ended in perfectly shaped calves that made Kiana very jealous and a pair of small, dainty foot paws.

Tonya grinned and placed her chin on intertwined fingers, "When did the romance happen?"

Marie blushed, "We... we were at a park laying in the sun. I asked if I could touch his fur. I had never felt human fur. I ran my fingers through his beard and hair, over his chest and he was doing the same with my fur. It tingled, very erotic to have his hairless hand running through my fur, touching my skin." She looked around, then whispered, "Next thing I know, our lips were locked, our legs wrapped around each others and our clothes were off." She shrugged, "That was a few months ago and we're still going strong."

"That's fantastic!" Tonya said. "We need more mixed couples in society, I think. I mean, love is love, right?"

Marie nodded emphatically. "Totally! I used to think like Kiana, but soon learned that it was just, well, bullshit." She put her hand on Kiana's, "Sorry hun, nothing personal. Every species has good and bad. Even us."

"Sounds like a man I'd like to meet." Tonya said. "Fellow nerd and all."

Marie smiled, "He would like that. He likes meeting others like us." She looked at Kiana, "So, how is Elise? She works and is living with her brother in their own place. That's all I know."

"Ummm...." Kiana had to pull herself out of her emotions to rejoin the conversation. "You know she's about a month and a half pregnant, right?"

"WHAT?!?!?!" Marie shrieked, causing others in the food court to turn and look. "She... who... I mean when.... WHAT?!?!" Her amber eyes were so wide and she was so shocked, Tonya was thinking that they might start to glow any second.

Marie stood up, slung her purse over her shoulder and picked up her food tray. "We're going over there, now. I have to know. Everything! No wonder she's been hiding."

"She hasn't been hiding and she's working today." Kiana said in hopes of calming her friend down.

"Nuh-uh. I'm seeing her. Where is her work?" Marie insisted.

Kiana didn't know if she should answer.

"Out with it, woman!" Marie appeared to be on the verge of a fit and create a scene.

"At her dad's store." Kiana said with an expression like she just betrayed her troops to the enemy.

"Let's go." She said and padded to a rubbish box where she just left the tray on top of, without emptying it.

Tonya shrugged, "You sold Elise out, we better keep an eye on this loose canon." She got up and held her hand out to her girlfriend.

Kiana got up and took Tonya's hand. She looked like she was about to cry, "You didn't have to put it like that." She said in a whine.

They got out into the parking lot and after a jaunt, they came up to Marie's car. "What the hell?" Tonya said as she beheld the forty-two year old rust-kissed hulk of an Oldsmobile Toronado. "Let's take my car. At least it doesn't have room for fourteen!"

"Get in!" Mare snapped.

Rolling her eyes and shaking her head, Tonya got in, followed by Kiana. Both practically could stand up in the back seat area. "This thing is a small house on wheels!" Tonya thought out loud.

Kiana was used to riding in it and Marie's excitability and ardour. She was confused by Tonya's alarm.

They tore out of the parking lot and squealed the tires. Marie had cut off another car and received a long honk from the upset driver. "Jeez!" Tonya exclaimed, hanging on to her seat belt.

Marie and Kiana were talking as if nothing had happened.

After ten minutes, they entered the industrial area where the store was. There was one intersection that had to pass through.

"Marie... Marie, the light is red. MARIE! OH MY GOD!" Tonya shouted fearful and closed her eyes tight.

"Calm down. Lots of visibility and no one was coming." Marie calmly said.

They arrived at the store and Marie hopped out of the car. Kiana was next and scurried ahead in hopes of getting to Elise first.

Tonya stumbled out, slammed the heavy door shut and spoke a few curses. "You are what gives us female drivers a shit reputation, you know that?" She said angrily.

Marie ignored her.

Inside the store, Elise was just hanging up on a customer inquiry when she saw Kiana looking worried and scurrying toward the counter. "Oh God, oh God, I'm sorry." She said.

Elise stood up and looked amused at the worrying, scurrying squirrel looking so serious. "What? What are you sorry about, sweetie?"

Just then, Marie came into the store and saw a pregnant, rounded belly on her vixen friend and screamed, holding her hands to her face. "Oh my gods, it's TRUE!" She shouted and ran toward the counter with a big smile. "You're really pregnant."

"Excuse me!" Cerise interrupted, looking very annoyed. "This ees a place of ze beesnees. You will conduct yourselves accordingly or you will be leaving!"

Hearing the scream, Ethan and Terrance both ran in from the warehouse.

--

Earlier in the day, it began innocently enough....

"When are we supposed to see that doctor of yours?" Ethan asked as he made cold-cut sandwiches for their lunch.

"Today, but I forgot to make the appointment." Elise said with a sigh.

"Call and see if we can get in tomorrow." He suggested. "You must be in your second trimester by now. Your morning sickness has been gone for three days!" He said happy for his sister.

Elise shrugged, "It might be worth a try." She said and shoved some ham into her mouth from the deli package her brother was perusing. She gave him a a quick kiss and a big hug.

"Uh-oh!" Elise said as their embrace was interrupted by her going into a convulsive heaving. She made it to the sink just in time.

"Guess I spoke to soon." Ethan rubbed her back sympathetically.

"Bonjour!" Cerise said cheerfully as Elise walked in the door. "You are ze sunny shades of green this afternoon, non?"

Elise chuckled. "You're too good at reading me."

"Ees all in ze body language." Cerise gestured. "You has ze good day, you go pad, pad, pad across ze floor quickly, your hair bouncing like ze girls on your chest." She cupped her own boobs as she explained. "You get ze morning love, you sing and hop in ze door. You have mornings sicknesses, your eyes are ze puffy and you slouch." She waved her arms, "You express like ze French, just in different ways."

Elise laughed, amused at the comical description of her. "You're too funny. Thanks, I needed that."

"If you happy, I happy, beesnees happy." Cerise twirled a pencil in the air and caught it.

"Hey buddy!" Terrance greeted Ethan as he entered. "Last Friday before Christmas. Are you going to have a party?"

Ethan thought for a moment. "Too much stuff going on in our lives right now." A reply that was an understatement.

"Oh, I can imagine." Terrance said sounding empathetic. "First Christmas away from home. Parents spending it in Hawaii. Pregnant sister in your apartment. You must be pulling your hair out."

"She's showing that much?" Ethan said surprised. Living with her and seeing her daily, he never really considered it.

"Looks like she's either in her third, or she's going to have twins." Terrance said in a whisper. Straightening up and clearing his throat, "Is the daddy spending Christmas with you two or is she going there?"

Ethan was caught off guard. His mind scrambled to get creative. It couldn't, so he used his old standby answer, "It's.... complicated."

"Isn't it always?" Terrance replied with a shrug and walked away.

Ethan gave a sigh of relief.

Elise came into the warehouse with a smile. "Uncle Rick and Aunt Eugenia are bringing us supper here tonight, if we aren't busy."

"Sounds great!" Ethan replied with a smile, the ham sandwiches instantly forgotten.

"They'll be by at seven. Cerise and I Will call you in then, honey!" Elise no sooner said that and gave a wide-eyed squeak and covered her mouth.

Ethan face-palmed.

Terrance stuck his head out of the lift truck, "Oh, it really IS complicated!" His expression was one of hearing the juiciest gossip the town ever had to hide.

Ethan heard the phone ring up front. Elise took advantage of that to run back into the store and he heard the door to the store close while his hand was still on his face. "What else can go wrong, today?" He grumbled to himself.

Terrance came over wearing the grin that Ethan always hated, as it meant an incoming barrage of questions. "We're all friends here. Far be it from me to not respect that love is love. How did this come about?"

Ethan sighed and looked up from his massive face-palm. "Well, that's just it. It happened and here we are. It's good for us, so we're...." Ethan was interrupted by the sound of a scream from the front. He and Terrance looked at each other, then ran into the store area.

Elise tried to settle Marie down, but it was like she didn't even hear her as she ran her hand over her belly. "A real kit in the making! My girlfriend is going to be a mother!" Marie broke into tears and gave Elise a hug. "Honey, I'm so happy for you!" She stepped back for a moment, "It is happy, right?" Elise nodded with a smile. Marie hugged her again and repeated, "I'm so happy for you!"

Cerise went up to Elise and whispered in her no-nonsense voice, "Takes ze break. Get your friend under control!"

Tonya came in through the door, her hair dishevelled from under her hat. "You're here too?" Elise smiled.

"Having... a... heart attack along the way, but yep, I'm here." Tonya said as she held her chest.

"You drove them, didn't you." Elise asked Marie.

"Why does everyone think I'm such a bad driver?" Marie asked innocently.

Both Tonya and Ethan choked. "You're serious, right? Ethan said simultaneously with Tonya's "Of all the incredible things said today!"

"Who is he?" Marie said with an anxious grin, ignoring the remarks. "Who's the daddy?"

"Uhhhh, well...." Elise averted her eyes and fidgeted. "He's really a sweet and decent guy."

"Do I know him?" Marie prodded. "Is it that friend of your brother's, Al?"

"How does this make you feel?" Terrance whispered to Ethan with an expression of disapproval of how Elise was being prodded and put on the spot for information.

Ethan thought of how his own dad did that to him. He knew exactly how uncomfortable she was feeling right now.

"Enough of this, Marie." He said sternly. "If my sister wants you to know, she will let you."

Marie's jaw hung open. Ethan had no problem telling her to 'shut up!' before, but she had never known him to jump so strongly to his sister's defence.

Elise sighed and looked over her shoulder at her brother, "It's... OK. She feels she has to know everything, so let her know." Her logic was that either Marie will be fine with it, or her head will explode and best move away from this friendship now rather than later.

Ethan nodded. He walked over to Elise and put his arms around her. She intertwined her fingers with his over her pregnant belly. "The two beautiful kits my sister is carrying, are mine." Ethan said calmly.

To everyone's surprise, Marie burst out laughing. Ethan, Kiana, Tonya and Cerise looked indignant at her. Terrance gave an expression of disdain. Noticing this, Marie stopped laughing. "Oh gods, you're not kidding, are you?"

Elise shook her head and leaned back against Ethan, who changed his grip and was wrapping his arms protectively around her.

"Ooooo...." Marie said after a few moments, "When did this turn of events happen?"

"That one needs medication." Tonya said to Elise while pointing to Marie. She knew that her new acquaintance was going to be part of her doctorate thesis.

"Marie..." Elise said with a sigh. "I will catch you up, later. But now I'm at work. Please respect that."

Marie began to protest, but was interrupted by Cerise, "Ze one who belongs here has spoken. OUT!" She shouted, pointing towards the door.

Marie blinked a few times as it sank in that she'd been thrown out. She stuck her muzzle in the air at Cerise, "Humph!" She uttered and left in a snit.

Kiana giggled, amused. "Bye!" She waved to everyone, but Cerise had her arms crossed and was tapping her foot paw.

"Auch!" Tonya growled and turned toward the door as she rolled her eyes at the thought of another ride with Marie at the helm.

"You have interesting friends." Terrance said and began to whistle as he returned to the warehouse.

"Who were ze childrens?" Cerise waved frustrated towards the door.

"The squirrel and the skunk aren't that bad. But Marie, the wolf, she's... well... impulsive." Elise replied.

"She's got loose screws, that one." Ethan added and made a swirling motion with his finger at his head.

Cerise nodded. "Ok, I can forgives ze limited mental capacity. But..." She threw her arms up, "I do not needs to tell you, it seems. You know that one."

"I'll see it won't happen again." Elise said assuredly.

"Right." Ethan mumbled doubtful and rejoined Terrance in the warehouse.

On the way back to the mall to drop off Tonya and Kiana, Marie dove sane and silent. She was quite insulted at being kept out of the loop by someone she considered a close friend on top of being thrown out of yet another retail establishment for her lack of control.

"There's some nice ways to focus and reduce impulses." Tonya said in science-mode, breaking the silence. She just got a glare from Marie.

"Honey, not now." Kiana put her hand on hers and whispered.

They arrived in the mall parking lot and Marie stopped near Tonya's rental car. Her and Kiana got out.

"Uhhhh, thanks for the ride." Tonya said with a forced smile.

"Whatever." Marie replied, despondent and peeled out as soon as the door was closed.

"So!" Kiana said with a crooked smile. "That was Marie."

Tonya gave a few nods. "I can do an entire paper on her, if she'll let me." She smiled, "Any other friends for me to meet?"

"None that complex." Kiana responded as she opened the door to Tonya's car and got in.

"That's reassuring." Tonya said as she opened her driver's door and placed a plastic bag she used for rubbish on the seat before getting in.

She closed the door and started the car. Turning on the defogger and heat for a while before they moved.

"Oh? Should I be protecting your rental car's seat as well?" Kiana asked.

"I have to go back to the hotel for a bit." Tonya simply said.

Kiana told amusing tales of Marie on their drive back. Tonya was grateful for the insight.

They arrived back at the hotel and got out of the car. Tonya leaned on the roof with a contemplative look.

"She could have onset Borderline Personality Disorder." Tonya observed. "Do you know if she's abusive to her relationships? Violently physically or psychologically manipulating?"

"Not that I know of." Kiana replied. "Just the opposite. Around males, she's quite demure."

"How is her mom and dad?" Tonya was getting quite intrigued.

"Well, they disapprove of pretty much anybody she's gone out with. Her dad supports her best he can when her mom's not around. Her mom is like..." Kiana shrugged, "Strict to the point of Gestapo, I guess you could call it."

They closed the car doors and began to walk up the stairs to the second level.

"Oppositional Defiant Disorder." Tonya said as she clapped her hands. "With a particular malice towards females, probably because of the mother."

"She has frequently said she wished she had my mom. She also spends little time at home." Kiana said.

"She needs to move away from such a toxic environment." Tonya unlocked the door to the room and turned on the light.

"You are so smart!" Kiana said with awe. "You're with her for two hours and know what we couldn't figure out since grade six!"

"Ha!" Tonya chuckled and turned up the heat. "Just an educated guess. No substitute for qualified help."

She unbuttoned her long, leather winter jacket and looked at Kiana with insecurity. "Uh, please don't laugh."

"At what?" Kiana asked, bewildered.

Tonya removed her coat to reveal that the back of her skirt was soaking wet, as was the fur on the back of her legs.

"Oh, honey!" Kiana said with compassion. She took Tonya's coat and placed it on the chair. She took the skunkettes hand and held it to her chest, her face filled with sympathy. "Marie's driving?"

Tonya nodded and lowered her head, shamefully. "Yeah, your new girlfriend has a little problem when scared." A tear rolled down her black and white furred face. "Someone can sneak up behind me and SPLOOSH! I dump my bladder." She wiped the tears from her face. "Kids in school loved that. 'Princess and the Pee' I was dubbed."

Kiana put her arms around her and held her tightly. "No one's laughing, now."

Tonya sniffled and stroked the squirrel's soft hair that hung out from under her toque. She kissed her between the eyes. "You're a compassionate little treasure."

Kiana lay curled on the bed and watched TV while Tonya showered and changed. She used a portable 'dry cleaning' kit she always travelled with on the lining of her jacket.

Kiana rolled over and faced her girlfriend who was working away on the jacket. "Can I ask something personal?"

Tonya stopped, looked at her with a smile. "You can ask me anything, sweetie."

"Your... problem isn't uncommon. Why does it bother you so much? Because of how they treated you?"

Tonya thought for a moment. "I guess, ego?" She said as if analyzing herself. "I'm not one to feel weak. This issue I have makes me feel out of control of myself, because I can't control it."

"That makes sense." Kiana said. "You're quite a 'Type-A' personality."

Tonya went to the side of the bed and knelt down, placing her nose almost against Kiana's, "Do you like me like that?"

"Yeah." She whispered and gave a coy smile.

"Because for you... and only you, I can be submissive. Very submissive." Tonya said in a sultry voice.

Kiana giggled, "But if you are, what would I do?"

"This!" Tonya said as her mouth clamped passionately, forcefully, as far open as it could go on Kiana's. Their tongues danced together in a flamenco of mutual lust and desire, as the stresses and embarrassments of the day were quickly forgotten.

--

Eugenia had dinner ready and was wrapping it up lovingly for bringing over to her late working niece and nephew. Rick was on the phone with his realtor acquaintance, discussing the options for selling off most of the property. He finished the call and came and sat at the kitchen table.

"Rick honey, what's wrong?" Eugenia asked with concern. "You look like you've seen a ghost."

"Well, I may as well have!" He said. "Tom, that realtor guy I was talkin' to, he talked to a developer who knows the lot and is willing to make us an offer already."

"So fast?" Eugenia was surprised. "He probably wants it for some hokey amount of chicken scratch. Don't jump too fast at the first offer." She warned wisely.

"One point four." He said. "My mind can barely grasp that."

"One point four... what? Thousand? That's an insult!" Eugenia said indignantly.

"Million." Rick replied.

Eugenia's mouth hung open.

"That was my reaction, too." Rick said. "What in the hell would we do with that much?"

"Lots!" She said with a beaming smile. "You took it, right?"

"What?" Rick said, perplexed. "No! I said I'd discuss it with you. You weren't even sure about it this morning."

"Take it, you old redneck!" She shouted with a smile.

"Are you sure?" Rick said, still in disbelief of her quick change of heart.

"Give me his number, I will." She reached out all grabby at the phone.

"Settle down, woman!" He held the phone away from her. "I said I'll call tomorrow an' I will. Jeez!" He was convinced she didn't see any consequences for the dollar signs.

"Anyway, we oughtta get goin' to see that nephew and niece. They're probably fading away of hunger as we speak." He said and got up to help load the plates and containers into the truck.

"Take it, take it, take it...." Eugenia whispered natteringly the whole time they did.

They arrived at the store early, it was just past six. It had already been dark for an hour and the fact the whole team was in the store told them that it was a slow evening.

"Dinner bell!" Rick said as he held the door open for his wife with his butt, he himself having his hands full.

"Plenty for everyone here!" Eugenia said with a smile, putting items on the counter.

"Meat, taters, just enough veggies ta make ya fart!" Rick laughed.

"Mai oui!" Cerise giggled at Elise's Uncle's humour. "He ees as you say, amusing."

Terrance introduced himself, as they had never met before. Rick shook his hand, "I may as well know you from what my brother's said about ya. Yer the one with the cable executive hubby, right?"

"That's me!" Terrance smiled.

"Well, what can he do about my TV? Dang thing's all fuzzy in the sticks where I live and..." Rick's complaint was interrupted by Eugenia.

"He can't help you, dear. Just call the people again."

"And get put on hold for an hour?" Rick complained.

"Uncle Rick..." Ethan said with a sigh.

"Okay, okay." Rick relented and went to find some chairs for his wife and himself.

Elise and Eugenia made sure everyone got a plate and cutlery as Cerise took the foil coverings off the containers and put serving spoons in them. "Thees looks tres divine!" She said, her little nose twitching as she took in the aromas.

"It's not French, but will keep you healthy." Eugenia said as she loaded a plate for her niece and nephew.

Cerise smiled, "Ees OK. Not everything has to be ze European. I likes all food. Well, almost."

"Almost?" Eugenia asked, curious.

"Ze hamburger has to be ze worst invention, ever. American revenge on ze world, non?"

Eugenia laughed. "You haven't tried Rick's barbecued buffalo burgers." She licked her lips, "The first bite will come back out through your nose and the rest will make the hottest day feel cool."

Rick was telling stories that interested Cerise and Terrance. Ethan heard them a hundred times, but never tired of the one he was telling now.

Eugenia took her plate and gingerly sat down beside Elise. She let out a small 'yip' as she did. "So, how's my babies? Both of you."

"Ethan and I are OK." She said after swallowing her bite of dinner. "Oh, you mean the kit? I have news!" Se smiled. "Three of us!"

"How wonderful!" Eugenia said in a heartfelt way. "Twins, just like you and your brother."

"I know! Isn't it a blessing?" She replied and noticed her aunt squirming. "Auntie, are you OK?"

"Ah..." She said with a blush, "Your uncle kind of tried..." She leaned forward and whispered, "Something new." She leaned back again. "I'm a little tender."

Elise gave a little gasp and a blush. She covered her smile with her hand, "Oh goodness, in the bum?"

Her aunt nodded, then gave an uncomfortable cough and blushed even more.

"Ethan's been bugging me to try that. I was going to let him on Christmas Eve, but now I'm not sure, seeing you."

"Oh honey, don't ever be afraid of new intimacies. It really does bring you closer." Eugenia whispered and they both giggled.

She then put her hand on Elise's shoulder and parted her fur. "Oh my!" Eugenia said with surprise, seeing teeth marks on her shoulder where he broke through her skin. "You two get a little rough yourselves, I see?"

Elise swallowed her mouthful and coughed as it went down the wrong way, patting her chest. "Ethan went feral on me last night." Her eyelashes batted and eyes rolled with delight at the memory, "I think I have a fetish for rough sex."

Eugenia giggled, "Rick's done that to me a few times. Canines really pin you down helpless when they go feral, don't they?"

"I have to bite my tongue to keep from calling him 'master'. His ego will inflate and destroy the building!" Elise said as they both laughed.

"Well, pregnancy can bring on some unusual sexual cravings, my friends have told me." Eugenia said as if consolation.

"I noticed!" Elise said, polishing off her plate and strongly wanting to refill it. "But he isn't complaining."

"They never do!" Eugenia said as she stood and took Elise's plate. In her tradition of there being food left over, the kids must still be hungry. "The first plate fed the babies. Now I'll get some for you."

"Well what the hell!" Rick shouted, getting everyone's attention. He was looking out the large front windows. It had began to snow.

--

Mark and Alice were watching another romantic Hawaiian sunset. It thrilled Alice as if seeing a sunset for the first time.

She let out an excited squeal, "Mark, did you see that?"

"What?" He replied and looked all about.

"I saw it! I saw the famous 'green flash' as the sun sank below the horizon!" She said excitedly.

"Oh, that!" Mark said. "That's a phenomenon caused by atmospheric refraction when...." His explanation was cut off by Alice's hand gently going over his mouth.

"I don't want a science nerd version. Just a romantic one." She said and laid her head on his shoulder.

He held her close as the warm, gentle breeze swept across their fur. Another day ended and another soon to be reborn.