Chapter 15 - Growing Up
**--Naki--** In the past, whenever I felt I couldn't handle issues at home, I'd go to the pool. There was this public indoor pool my parents would let me go to before I had the one at high school. It's not always empty or quiet but noise doesn't...
Treading Chapter 6 - Prom
**-Naki - Monday-** Seniors have no school on Monday in order to prepare for prom, and it is a busy day. Motley and Samson are going to meet me there after I drop Fen and Sian off. I've been so busy that I don't even know who Samson or Motley are...
Another Neotrian Christmas
**--Otto--** "Thanks, dad," I state, taking the cloaker he holds out and clasping it in my palm. Behind him stands Mrs. Varin; a normal-sized, white-furred fox and mother of the family we're indentured to. "Going up," Mrs. Varin states as she...
Treading Chapter 9 - Requoran Neotrian
**--Naki--** "And what were you doing that was so important that you didn't -call- to tell us that you wouldn't be home? You had us worried sick, Naki!" mom says, keeping her voice just below shouting levels. I try to keep a straight face but I'm...
Partners - Pilot
"Please step forward to choose your starter." Professor Cliff states, peering at the first of the group of 5 students lined up for graduation. It'd finally come. The day I graduate and become an official trainer. It felt like yesterday that I'd entered...
Treading Chapter 8 - Registration
**--Naki--** Fen and I don't talk as much for a few days. When I do manage to get him on the phone, our conversations are short and they don't flow as well as they did in previous weeks. I notice he's more agitated, especially on the topic of...
Treading Chapter 14 - The Fall
**--Fen--** When I was younger I was less aware of what I was compared to the other students in my class. I knew that my cloaker allowed me to grow and shrink but that didn't matter. I never took it off at school so, as far as I was concerned, I was...
Treading Chapter 12 - Problems Afoot
**--Fen--** My first class is General College Physics I., which will hopefully be more exciting than the name implies. It's in a lecture hall across from the one where my orientation class is held every Thursday and my professor is thankfully not...
Saturday Shift
#7 of short stories here's another short story set post-registration in jevin's 'cloaker' universe.
Treading Chapter 17 - Treading
--Naki-- "You haven't called us in a while. How're your classes?" Dad asks over the phone as I walk through campus on my way back from my last midterm exam. It's late-- the professor pushed the exam back due to some scheduling conflict so we just...
Treading Chapter 2 - Rumors
**--Fen--** "Naki Pelwisk? Really?" Sian looks up from the greasy-looking slice of pizza settled on his plate. "He offered to help you swim? Just like that?" The raccoon chuckles, shaking his head. "Lucky~, he's got a nice rear on'em I bet." ...
Treading Chapter 13 - Normalcy
**--Naki--** _Forced removal of Requorans from campus would be an overreaction to what should be obvious. What do you think we were doing? Neotrians and Requorans are not so dissimilar from one another. What would you have done? We were finding jobs,...