Sydney [01]: A Persistent Rodent
#1 of Sydney
Giving this a try. What you're seeing right now is a quick draft that I'd like to revisit with more colorful details and dialogue, but what you can't see is all the mechanics I've developed behind the telling of this story. A whole world has been created, and every action is given to chance. The lead character is a randy young rat who over the next 18 years of his life will try to get as much tail as he can. It's up to a roll of the dice to see how every advance turns out.
It was the first week of school. Sydney hated his class. He was stuck all year with old ugly Mr. Shefi the tapir. There were only maybe four cute girls. He wished he was in Mrs. Carthage's class. Other than the bear club (twin black bears and one brown), which was alright by Sydney, Mrs. Carthage's class had a couple cute ferret sisters, and a smoking rare silver fox. Even Mrs. Carthage was a young sleek-furred puma. He would have to look forward to lunch and recess every day to get to know them better.
He sat next to a girl named Mariam. She was a marten. He thought she was some kind of rodent, but even then he thought her sharp little face was weird. She just seemed so high-strung and it made him nervous the way she darted her head around at whatever she looked at.
He had caught the eye of a pretty cute raccoon named Gen and he took every opportunity to smile at her and make her feel like she could come to him if she ever needed any help with anything. She sat in the next row and ahead of him.
There was a dog named Eva who was already acting playful with him. She sat somewhere behind Sydney's desk and his long pink tail seemed to excite her. He often felt little tugs when others weren't looking.
And then there was an otter, Cath, who was a little odd to Sydney, but better than the others: newt, bison, reindeer, gazelle, zebra, shrew. There was a tigress who sat in the back row. She was beyond hot, but she made Sydney a little nervous.
He had also noticed (in the other classes) a beaver, goat, wolf, squirrel, coyote, and lioness among his grade's potential targets of flirtatious advances over the course of Sydney's fifth year under the roof of Carthmyr's Elementary. He was going to see just how this whole game worked for a growing young rat buck.
He was a little unsure of how it all worked. He gave some attention to Eva because she seemed interested already. Though maybe not in the same areas Sydney was. Of course, as soon as he showed interest back, Eva put all her attention on her subjects.
Deciding to try with someone new, Sydney tried flirting with the marten since she was so close by. This turned out to be a worse idea. Only two weeks into the year, and the girl sitting next to him greeted him with a frown whenever she saw him.
Confidence was a little depleted with the heat of late August, and so his advances toward Cleo were at most half-hearted. And yet, to breed confusion in the young rodent's mind about what worked with girls, the zebra was very taken by him. She even let him rest his paw on her back when they partnered up for a class project.
At the end of August, Sydney tried more moves on the zebra girl who seemed to feel comfortable with her new group-leader, Sydney the rat! And Sydney thought her markings were actually pretty cool now. He thought he'd move in for a kiss, but just as his muzzle brushed Cleo's face, she jumped back with a whinny and Sydney fell forward, scattering their books to the floor and causing everyone to stop and turn to look at him.
So when September came, Cleo's big striped snout was firmly wedged in her books. About fed up with girls already, Sydney hardly noticed how naturally he began to joke with Esther. Maybe it was because he didn't ever consider her a possible partner in any way, but they ended up getting along just fine!
Sydney was thinking he would just like to have Esther around as a good friend, but he couldn't help wondering what it would be like to feel those scales under his own pink paws. She looked so amazingly slick! He dared to brush his palm along her shoulder, but she didn't react. She was still behaving friendly to him, so the rat tried again. There must have been a signal he had missed. When he tried to put his paw on her again, Esther quickly walloped Sydney back with her thick science textbook. Again, the entire class saw Sydney in a suddenly awkward circumstance. He was starting to have a pattern with his classmates. Cleo for August and Esther for September. And he didn't even want to bother with them in the first place!
He was getting too much focus from the whole of Mr. Shefi's class, so as the Fall weather started to slip into their days, Sydney decided to try his luck with someone at recess. Caroline, the beaver from Mrs. Topper's class sat near him quietly one day and Sydney tried a line he had heard on TV. It didn't work so well in real life though, he found out. Caroline immediately jumped up and wiggled over to some other girls. From their big-eyed glances back at him, he figured his line was a huge hit with Caroline's clique.
He was starting to see himself as a tormented young romantic. Every time he got any wind in his sails it was flushed out of him. He almost wanted to turn away from everybody completely and just do like they did to him: ignore them all and focus on schoolwork. But he couldn't help checking out Gen. That bushy tail. The furry curves of her hips and rump. He wanted to rub that rump. He wanted to draw up behind her and get his paws all over that beautiful raccoon body.
One day in October, she caught Sydney's lustful looks when he thought no one even wanted to notice him anymore. Her arm shot up, and as Sydney tried to melt into his desk, the hot dark raccoon he had been eyeing was whispering to Mr. Shefi. The adult tapir went directly over to Sydney and cuffed him by the upper arm, pulling him to his feet and forcing him to the back of the room where he scolded the young rat. Sydney just wanted to stop existing. He couldn't look at his teacher. He had to sit in the back row while the rest of the class wondered in murmurs what it was the bad rat had done. Gen seemed more than happy to let them know whenever they bothered to come and ask.
Everyone was mad at him. He kept to himself. At recess and lunch, he just hung out with his friend Nolan. He asked him if there was something about raccoons he didn't understand and if rats were just hated by everyone. Nolan didn't know what to say; he just hated that his friend was so down.
"You could talk to my sister," he said to Sydney. "She might know something you could do to get Gen to like you again."
Sydney didn't think Gen would come close to liking him, but Nolan's positive attitude made him hopeful at meeting another raccoon girl. And she was a couple years older than them. When Sydney came over, he made sure to check her out. She was certainly hot, and all the better, she had breasts! He itched to meet her and talk to her about anything so long as he could get a better look.
Their past run-ins had been all over the place. Rita had been polite, professional, and downright mean to her little brother and his ratty friend over the years, so Sydney had no idea what to expect. He had never spoken to her directly before. His whole face burned when she told him to come to her room alone. Without the safety of his best friend beside him, Sydney was totally disarmed and helpless.
"My little brother said you're having trouble with the 'coons."
Sydney felt all his blood light up his face, and he grimaced while tugging a sleeve down his left arm. He wondered if he could just curl into a tight ball and implode in on himself.
"Relax," Rita laughed and swatted at Sydney's knee. Her touch was so light, and she was smiling. It made Sydney smile. Rita was so cool! She was in the seventh grade. She took Algebra and use lab equipment in her Science classes. She was the real deal! A middle-schooler.
"Who was it?" Rita asked, bubblegum strings laced from jaw to molar as she talked. "Is her name Genevieve?"
"Gen," he muttered. He had never heard of any Genevieve.
"Yeah, that's Genevieve. I know her sister. Major trash-racc. Her whole family's stuck up. It's a real waste."
Sydney had no idea what anything Rita said to him meant. It all sounded amazing though, and the way she just brushed Gen's whole family down in under two seconds made Sydney feel better. He straightened up more and smiled.
"Don't let those dumb girls make you feel like trash, Syd. You're gonna show 'em someday. You're a real cool rat. In a few years, they're gonna wish they treated you right."
"I don't know. There were a couple other girls. One actually hit me with a book!"
"So!" Rita leaned back with her elbows behind her on the bed. "No such thing as bad press, right?"
Sydney did not agree, but he wanted to.
It was incredible enough to have his best friend's hot older sister talk him back up. Just the words and attitude alone would have been enough of a confidence boost to get Sydney back in the game on Monday, but losing his virginity made sure nothing would keep the young buck from folding anytime soon.
Fuck the rest of them! And he just might do that too...
By the time he got back, he was winking at Veronica and licking his lips at Blue and Bola, waggling eyebrows and not giving in when a flirt went unnoticed or got shot down. It only made him come on stronger. He knew how sweet the end goal could be now, and he needed to get his dick in a pussy again right away!
There wasn't much luck with the tigress in his class, but surprisingly one of the black bear sisters thought the little rat was funny. And when he got back to school after Thanksgiving, he would play with Blue in the schoolyard. His playing turned to toying and teasing and then his dick was inside her. He didn't know how they had gotten there, but after running around the playground a while, they had found themselves in a spot back near some trees where the big bear cub could settle back in the clutch of sprouting tree limbs while Sydney slid his bare rat-cock into her dripping pussy. He kept an eye on the other kids and teachers, panting as he fucked Blue. His legs were shaking as he came inside of her. They kissed a little as he cummed a dozen healthy spats into the bear-girl's snatch, and they rushed to fix their clothing right as Mrs. Blintz was calling everybody back in.
Advances toward Blue's sister Bola were returned viciously cold however, and Sydney was thankful he was starting a two-week vacation where he could hide out from angry ursines that would definitely be finding out about what he had been up to in the playground.
Drama wouldn't leave him entirely alone over the winter break of course. He had two gigantic fights with his little sister Ellie and in the middle of the second he got a call from Rita who told him she was pregnant. He was going to be a dad.