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Overcoming Musophobia

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Several years ago, back when Andrew was in 5th grade, his class had a pet mouse that students got to take home with them for the weekend. The purpose of the mouse was to teach the students of the class responsibility, as they would be responsible for making sure the mouse had clean water, clean bedding, and food to eat. In addition, each student would have to write a small report based on what they had learned while keeping the mouse for the weekend. The teacher at Andrew's school had been doing this for five years now, and this was the class' third pet mouse. The first one died of natural causes over summer vacation one year, and one student (who wasn't exactly the brightest penny in the fountain) learned that mice and snakes don't make very good friends when he tried to get mouse #2 to 'play' with his older brother's pet python.

The first weekend after Spring Break, Andrew got his turn to take "Snowball III" back home with him. Like all the kids in his class, he had grown to like the mouse, it looked cute and playful, running around in its little treadmill, and even letting the students pet its soft fur very gently. Fortunately, Andrew had no other pets, so it seemed as if there would be no problem bringing Snowball III home for the weekend. All he needed to do was feed her, change the bedding and water, and then bring her back to school on Monday morning, so he could give his report that afternoon.

He liked the little mouse. He did as he was told by his teacher, let Snowball III out of her cage every once in a while, to go into her little "ball", so she could run around the house freely. His mother wasn't too fond of mice as a while, but since this was a pet and a school project, she made an exception for Snowball III...at least until Monday.

Things went well until Sunday afternoon when Andrew was about finished writing his report for school and he decided to give Snowball III a little treat...a small bit of carrot. He fed it to the mouse, watching as she took it from his fingers with her hand-like front paws, held it to her mouth and soon started nibbling on it. Andrew thought it was cute the way she ate the carrot and wanted to get a bit closer to Snowball III. He stuck his nose in close to the cage, thinking that maybe he could make a connection between himself and the mouse. However, Andrew's gesture was seen differently by Snowball III. She became frightened, and in response, bit Andrew on the tip of his nose.

This sent the 11-year old boy screaming while holding his nose in pain, getting the attention of his mother who happened to be home at the time. Andrew didn't understand why Snowball III bit him. She always seemed to calm and friendly and he thought that she liked him. Instead, the incident would go on to traumatize him for several years afterward, and it would only intensify as he got older.

By the time Andrew reached Middle School, he started to attend classes with Kapernian students that had been assigned to his school as a part of the Earth/Kapernia Integration Project. Kapernians looked like anthropomorphic versions of many types of animals on Earth (mostly mammals), they could walk like humans, talk like humans, think like humans, and do just about everything that human beings could do. Generally, Kapernians liked having humans around them. After all, they had all descended from humanoid beings long long ago. At the same time, Humans also benefitted from Kapernian technology as it helped improve the quality of life for humans all over the world, wiping out several diseases that could not be cured with human sciences (at least at that time) and providing new crops that could not only withstand harsher weather conditions, but also produce ample yields so that many people in starving countries would have the food they needed.

Andrew discovered that most Kapernians were friendly and made friends with a male fox and a male raccoon during Middle School, and an older male wolf during his first year of high school. However, while he saw most Kapernians as friendly, there were some that made him feel uncomfortable. In addition to his buddies, he discovered that there were a couple of Kapernian mice attending schools he was in...Kapernian mice that had long and partially fused buck teeth*. This brought back images of what happened with Snowball III earlier in his life and made him feel nervous...so nervous that when he was approached by a male mouse who wanted to be his friend in middle school that he ran away screaming down the hall, earning Andrew a detention for running in the halls and making a racket.

After this incident, his mother tried to convince Andrew that he was overreacting and that Kapernian mice were nothing like Snowball III. She even told Andrew that she used to date a Kapernian mouse before she met his father back when she was in high school. She also tried to insist that what Snowball III did to Andrew was not out of her being 'mean' to him, she was probably either just scared or curious since mice tend to gnaw on nearly anything they can sink their buck teeth into. To an extent, his mother's advice did help, but Andrew still had flashbacks to when he was bitten by Snowball III every time he saw a Kapernian mouse.

Aside from that, Andrew had a good relationship with his Kapernian classmates. He treated them the same way he would his human classmates and thought little more about it. It stayed that way through middle school and up until his senior year of high school, when Andrew would receive a surprise during the week before the homecoming dance.

On Wednesday afternoon, Andrew went to his locker at the end of the day, just like he would any other day of the week and found a note that had been dropped inside of it. Curiously, Andrew picked up the note and noticed that it had a very faint scent of perfume on it, suggesting that a female classmate of his had placed it in there. Andrew had no idea who would have done it, he wasn't terribly active when it came to dating, as he was more into getting his work done and getting into college. However, he opened the note and read what it said.

"I think you're cute!...Love 'F'", the note read, as the author made sure to hide her true identity. When Andrew noticed the ending, he started to think about all the female classmates he had with a first name starting with "F", trying to figure out who left him the note. In his mind, there were a total of three likely suspects. One was a human girl in his science class named Fiona, who seemed interested in science and was a bit of a bookworm. She seemed a bit socially awkward, so he figured that this might be her way of telling him that she liked him. Then, there was another human girl in his English class named Fernanda. She was rather attractive, and Andrew did have a bit of an interest in her, but he always thought that she was "too good for him".

There was also a wild card in this scenario. There was another female in his science class that could've left the note...a golden-furred vixen by the name of Foxanne. He had seen Foxanne before back in middle school, they were in the same homeroom in 8th grade, but she seemed to keep to herself back then. Andrew still hadn't considered dating a Kapernian female, although he had to admit that Foxanne was cute. It wasn't out of the realm of possibility that he'd consider dating Foxanne, but he wasn't sure about it right away. For now, since he didn't have any additional information, he figured that he'd wait and see if anything else happened before investigating further.

The next day, as Andrew returned to his locker at the end of the school day, he opened it up and found another handwritten note that had been slipped through the grates at the top of the door. It had the same flowery aroma as the other note, making Andrew even more curious as he opened it up. "Hi there, cutie! I've seen you around the halls after Mr. Gerber's 3rd period chemistry class and I've been dying to meet you in person!", the note read as Andrew went over it.

This was a bit of a surprise to Andrew. She had mentioned his chemistry teacher, yet it appeared it wasn't someone from his chemistry class. This pretty much eliminated Fiona and Foxanne as suspects, since they both had first lunch after 3rd period while he had third lunch after 4th period. It also seemed unlikely that it was Fernanda, since he had English for 4th period and he usually got to Mrs. McComb's class before Fernanda did. So, it was likely a female he didn't know who had left him the notes. However, there was more on the note that had been delivered.

"Meet me over by the school spirit rock near the football field after school tomorrow. I'll be waiting for you there", the note continued before concluding with the same "Love, 'F'" closing. However, below that, there was even more. "P.S.: There's something I want to ask you, but I'll wait until we meet tomorrow", the note read as Andrew stood there in complete surprise for several moments, slowly coming to grips with the situation.

Someone wanted to be his girlfriend...bad! He could only imagine what might happen the next day when he met his secret admirer, so when he got home he went to his mother and asked for advice.

When his mom saw the notes, she put her hand on her son's shoulder and had a long talk with him...a talk that involved several things, including sex. Andrew had just turned 18 towards the very beginning of the school year, and there could be problems for him if his secret admirer happened to be younger than him. She also tried to explain to Andrew that if he were to get involved in a sexual relationship with his secret admirer that he should make sure to use condoms. His mother was not overly eager to become a grandmother. She wanted it to wait until her son was able to support a family before he had one.

Andrew felt a bit awkward when his mother talked to him about sex. He already learned about it several times over the course of the last few years and she didn't really offer him any helpful advice outside of what he already knew. Besides, while he was curious about what sex would feel like, he wasn't expecting to have a sexual relationship right away. If it happened naturally, he would be willing to go with it, but he knew that he couldn't be too eager to have sex, especially towards someone he hadn't even met yet.

Still, as a "just in case" measure, he did go to a local convenience store to pick up a small box of condoms, putting one of them inside his wallet. He didn't expect to use the condom, but he wanted to put it there to be safe. After all, his secret admirer could be Kapernian and he was aware that Kapernians had a more active sex life than humans did.

With the condom in his wallet, Andrew went back to school on Friday and went about his day as usual, still thinking about those notes and wondering who could've left them in his locker. He still wondered if it could possibly be one of his classmates, but it seemed as if they were interested in other things...with Fiona having her head buried into her chemistry book, Foxanne not being in school today, and Fernanda seeming to take an interest in one of the football players. This pretty much proved to Andrew that it wasn't one of them who left the notes.

So, Andrew continued to attend classes just like any other day, waiting until the final bell rang at about 3 PM so he could meet the female who left him the notes. The day seemed to crawl along for Andrew, each minute seemed to last an hour for him. Of course, it didn't really help when he had to listen to long lectures given in his English and Social Studies classes. His final class of the day went a bit more smoothly, since it was a class on Animation, which meant that he had more time to actually do stuff than listen to tedious lectures. It was still early in the year, though, and it would still be a few weeks before he would be ready to try producing an animated project. For now, he was still learning about the basics of animation.

Finally, at 3 PM, the final bell rang, and Andrew was free for the weekend. He made his way to his locker, quickly dropped the stuff he didn't need off, and then left the building. He immediately walked towards the football field, where the purple and white painted school spirit rock was located and sat down upon it, waiting for his secret admirer to show up. The football field looked like that of most suburban high schools, it had two sets of bleachers (one on each side of the stadium), a small press box on the home side of the stadium, and a small concessions building. The field was located next to the school's athletic training facility, which was home to the school's basketball arena. That week, the Mavericks were playing the Tigers on the other side of town, so the football team was already on their way to their game when school let out.

Several minutes went by as numerous other students left the school grounds for their weekend, all while Andrew kept waiting by the rock. As time went on, Andrew started to wonder if maybe someone was trying to play a joke on him, as he saw several females go by him and none of them stopped to say anything to him. Still, he kept on waiting even as the buses started leaving the school grounds while things settling down around the school and football field. Then, a few moments later, he felt someone tap on his shoulder. "Hiya, cutie! You waiting for me?", a sweet and cheerful female voice called to Andrew as he sat on the rock.

Curiously, he turned to face the female who left him the note...and when he saw who it was, a chill ran down his spine. Andrew's secret admirer was a mousette...a mousette with bubble gum pink fur and sapphire blue eyes. Her hair was naturally a light blonde, but had been dyed purple to go better with her fur color. She wore a purple and white "Mavericks" T-shirt along with blue jeans, along with a silver necklace with a heart charm on it that had the word "Princess" engraved on it. To most, a mousette like her would seem extremely cute, but Andrew's eyes focused on her partially fused buckteeth as flashbacks of what happened with Snowball III ran through his head.

He started to back away, fearful that he might get bit again...by a mouse who had much bigger teeth than Snowball III did. Almost immediately, the teenage mousette looked at Andrew and felt a bit puzzled. "What's the matter? You're acting like you're afraid of mice or something like that", she asked, having seen this reaction in humans before. Although she was the same age as Andrew and had just moved to his school that year, she had been living amongst humans since she was 6. As a young mousette, she had to deal with several human boys and girls getting "frightened" of her, since they had all been 'programmed' to think that mice were 'bad' without understanding the difference between an Earth mouse and a Kapernian mouse. Things got better for her as she got older, but when she noticed Andrew's behavior, she knew she'd have to calm his nerves.

"Are you acting like this because you think that mice like me are 'unclean', or is there something else bothering you?", she asked, curious to know why Andrew was resisting her.

While keeping some distance between him and the mousette, he decided to explain the whole thing to her, mentioning how he was bit by Snowball III several years before and how he was afraid that if he got too close to another mouse that he'd get bit again.

This was another thing the female mouse had to deal with growing up. Her big buckteeth were quite strong, capable of biting through the barrel-end of a wooden baseball bat if she bit down hard enough. However, her teeth looked more dangerous than they actually were.

She reached one of her arms out to Andrew and offered to help him up. "Sweetie, I'm not going to bite you like that. I'd never bite anyone with my teeth unless I was acting in self-defense", she assured Andrew. "Sure, if you make me feel good I might give the lobes of your ears a soft little nibble...but I would make sure that I don't bite down on them hard enough to cause any pain", she added while blushing a bit. "Besides...I wouldn't mind letting you give my ears a nibble if you'd like to", she continued, admitting that her ears were a known source of both sexual and emotional pleasure in Kapernian mice.

Andrew was a bit surprised by her behavior. He never expected her to be this open about her feelings after only now just meeting her. However, Andrew started to trust her a bit more and soon took her arm, getting back up onto his feet before she leaned in towards him, giving him a gentle kiss on the nose...right on the exact spot where Snowball III bit him several years earlier. "By the way, my name is Fay and I just moved here a couple months ago. I was feeling a bit lonely and I saw you in the hallway, and...well, I think you can figure out the rest, sweetie", Fay mentioned in a soft and sweet tone.

Andrew started to look at her differently. He started to see Fay the same way he would if a human girl had shown interest in him. She seemed friendly and cute, and it was apparent that she liked him, so he figured he'd give it a try. He first apologized for his actions when they first met, he was only acting on past experience and didn't know any better. Fay forgave him and gave him a big hug, holding him tightly in her arms.

"So...I'm going to be available next Friday night. I was hoping that you and I could go to the Homecoming Dance together", Fay suggested while embracing Andrew.

When she brought this up, Andrew felt a new conflict arise within him. On one hand, he seemed willing to go on a date with Fay, but at the same time he had never attended a school dance in his life. He wasn't sure if he would know what to do. "Are you sure you want to do that? I mean, there's going to be a lot of people there, and...", Andrew started to explain as Fay giggled in a playful manner and then touched his nose with her fingertip.

"I know what's going on here...you don't know how to dance and you're just making up excuses, aren't you", Fay answered back, seeing right through Andrew's story before she cuddled against him some more. "If you're too scared of going to the dance together, maybe we can find something else to do next Friday", she continued. That was when Fay's natural instincts started to kick in. She had an idea of what she wanted to do with Andrew and she knew she'd have a golden opportunity for that next weekend.

"My parents won't be home next weekend. They're going out for a romantic weekend together and they're leaving me home alone. If you'd like, you could come over to my place next Friday and spend the night with me", Fay suggested to Andrew, doing so in a slightly more seductive tone as the barely legal mousette was getting interested in what Andrew had inside his pants. It was only natural for Fay to feel like this. After all, Kapernians often showed their love for one another through sex, and Kapernian mice were notoriously horny.

Andrew was very surprised by Fay's behavior. He could tell what she was getting at from her demeanor and never expected Fay to come on this strongly to him right away. "I don't know...don't you think it would be better if we waited a while before getting to that? We barely even know each other", Andrew replied, thinking that it would probably be best to wait a bit before having his first sexual experience with Fay.

Fay listened to Andrew's suggestion and then backed off a little bit, letting him go in the process. "I'm sorry if I came on a bit too strongly. I forgot that I was talking to a human for a moment", Fay commented. While she was well aware that males often had strong sexual urges, she was used to going out with other Kapernians. This was her first time she showed interest in a human male and she realized that things were a bit different.

"How about we do this...you can come over to my house next Friday evening and we'll watch a movie or something together. Then, if you're feeling comfortable around me, we can take things from there. I'm not going to force you into a situation you're not comfortable with", Fay suggested after she backed down a bit.

Andrew took a moment to think about it and figured that Fay was trying to be sincere towards him. He still had a feeling that she wanted sex, but he also felt as if she would only want to do it if he felt the same way about her as she did about him. "Well, I suppose we could give it a try", Andrew answered back, deciding to give Fay a chance as she gleefully squealed and kissed Andrew on the nose.

"Great! Mom and Dad will be leaving around 6 PM next Friday, why don't you come over around then", Fay suggested.

Andrew soon agreed, and Fay gave him another hug and then touched her pink nose to his, nuzzling it softly. "I'll see you soon, cutie. I've got to get home before my Dad wonders why I'm late", Fay mentioned while hugging Andrew in her arms. He returned the favor, keeping his arms around the upper part of Fay's body before she let him go. Then, the playful mousette started to walk down the sidewalk from the football field back to her house.

He watched for a couple minutes until he could no longer see Fay, feeling strangely warm on the inside. He could detect a very soft aroma of perfume on his body, having come from Fay when she was embracing him. It was sweet, and it made the inside of his nose tingle a bit as he stood by the school spirit rock for several more moments. Little did Andrew realize that the tingling in his nose was being caused by pheromones that it detected while Fay was around him. While Kapernian pheromones can affect humans, their effects are usually not as pronounced as they would be on other Kapernians. Plus, Fay's body only released a small amount of her pheromones from her scent gland, which was located just above the root of her tail. If Fay wanted to, she could've given Andrew a full dose of pheromones, which would likely be enough to sexually arouse him, but since he preferred not to jump right into that, she held back.

The pheromones were strong enough to effect Andrew's thinking, though. He started to think about how cute and cheery Fay was, seeing the love in her blue eyes. Andrew was warming up to the idea of dating a Kapernian female, but before his date with Fay there was work for him to do. He needed to know more about Kapernians...particularly Kapernian mice. Fortunately for him, he had a good idea of who to talk to on this particular subject...

To Be Continued...

*: Buck teeth in Kapernian rodents work much differently than those of Earth rodents. For one thing, Kapernian rodent teeth do not constantly grow and are much more solid than their Earth counterparts. In addition, the two incisors that make up the buck teeth are fused together at the bottom, strengthening both teeth and giving them more biting power (should they ever need it).

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