Alex's Life Trials Thursday...

Story by kaleemmcintyre on SoFurry

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"So this is why people say recessions suck..." a large muscular jet black wolf with a golden mop top sighed in anguish as he killed the engine on his 2008 town car while leaning his head back over the head rest looking up at the blank ceiling hoping for answers that wouldn't come.

Alex Crenshaw grunted after he finally found the courage to step out of his vehicle and then walk despondently up to the quiet two story house that he and his wife were still trying to pay the mortgage off on. His golden bush of hair did nothing to shine down on Alex's demeanor as he trudged up the walkway like a prisoner on death row. Alex didn't know how he was going to be able to walk through the door as his paw clutched onto the envelope inside of his left pants pocket. Getting fired today had not been what he was expecting when his boss had called him into his office. At thirty-one years old Alex was a very bright but naïve individual with his background in accounting and business micromanagement so when the older white ram than ran over his department sat him down and chewed over the facts of life with him Alex felt like he could have been knocked over with a feather.

Apparently quota was down and the company he was working for was getting rid of certain departments, how fortunate it was that one of the departments just happened to Alex's. The black wolf was handed his last paycheck along with his pink slip and then politely asked to get his shit out of his office before the night shift came and cleaned out his office. Getting back to his small little sanctuary Alex had grabbed his computer and few personal items before walking the long mile with a few others from his department down the hall of the Henson and Trenton Accounting firm with heavy hearts. Most of them were decent white collar workers who were just trying to make a living but now it seemed that their lives were about to get a might bit more complicated. Alex remembered the look on Terrance Caldwell's muzzle when the forty-six year old fox was walking by his size down to the parking garage. Alex made a mental note to call the other as he knew that Terrance would need a friend and maybe a stiff drink very soon.

Thinking about his own problems made the black wolf ran a hand over his face before putting on a smiling mask over his almost teary eyed face and then called out for his children after opening the front door to his home. The sounds of charging feet hitting the stairway to the first floor made Alex forget why he was so downhearted as two little wolf pups bound up to him and then flew into the older wolf's open arms. Tackling their dad down onto the carpet Alex laughed as the combined force of two hundred flying pounds of fur that his boys made up sent him to the floor. His long, fluff tail wagged behind him as he nuzzled Jamey and Alexander, his seven and ten year old pups respectively while the two talked incessantly about their day at school. Alexander getting and 'A+' on a test he had to take in math and Jamey making a picture of his family in arts and crafts that the teacher put a smiley sticker on to show approval of his work.

"Ok, ok now. Let daddy get up off of the floor so he can come and eat." A silky voiced wolf spoke making the two pups lift their ears and then wag their tails as they turned to see their mother coming out of the kitchen with a towel in her wet paws.

"Hello Christy, how are you doing my darling?" Alex asked as he slowly got up off of the floor with the faux aid of his boys before watching the two pups run off to the kitchen.

The silver female walked over to her mate and hugged him tightly before pressing her lips into his. The two shared a heated kiss with tongue licking over teeth and tails whipping slowly behind them as they basked in their love for one another. So far it's been eleven long years together and going strong. Who said you couldn't marry your high school sweetheart and stay married?

"I'm fine, just a little tired from work and picking up the kids. I brought takeout tonight since I really didn't feel like cooking. Is that alright?" Christy asked while looking into her husband's warm sun kissed yellow eyes. Here own hazel orbs danced as she took in the sight of her strong and caring mate holding her so close.

"Of course, I'm so hungry right now I could eat that rag in your paws." Alex growled in show as he raised her hands and then nibbled on the rag in between them.

The silver wolfess giggled and took the rag away before he husband could chew through it and then took his right paw and lead him into the kitchen. At the table Jeffery and Alexander were busy talking to each other and making faces trying to get the other to laugh when they noticed their parents come in. Christy led Alex over to the table and then brought over the plates of food she had dished out herself before placing one in front of each of her three male wolves. The boys both cheered as they looked and scent chicken teriyaki from Grand China Restaurant down the streets. Alex himself fought not to drool as he noticed the steaming plate of rice, chicken and greens on his plate. When Christy sat herself down Jeffery said grace and then the four wolves dug into their dinner with gusto.

When the food was devoured completely some thirty minutes afterwards Christy took up the plates and set them in the sink for Alex to wash as was their usual way of doing things in the kitchen before the silver wolfess brought over four fortune cookies and then sat them down on the table in the center. When she was seated again all four wolves looked at each other then smiled deviously before four paws reached out snagging one cookie a piece. Opening the wrapping and then breaking open the sugary sweet snack Alex pulled out the fortune and then read it to himself,

"Good fortune will come when you give something of value to another." The jet black wolf wasn't sure but he guessed he was going to be doing charity work soon, given his unemployed state. Raising his eyes up to look at his wife Alex made up his mind not to tell Christy until he had found another job. Looking around the table at his most precious pack, he resolved himself to not let them be without.

Slipping the fortune into his pocket the thirty-one year old wolf popped the two pieces of his cookie in his muzzle and chewed on them savoring the taste as his mind drifted off to the joy of being with family.

Night came a little too quickly for Alex's taste when Christy came downstairs from here shower to get the pups ready for bed as he sat with Jeffery and Alexander watching TV, the older wolf having decided to watch the cartoon channel with his boys since there was nothing on Alex thought was appropriate for kids their age.

"Alright boys, time for bed." The silver wolfess called to her troupe.

"Aww, but can't they stay up just a few more minutes, mama?" Alex asked cheekily as Jeffery and Alexander chuckled at the older wolf's antics.

"Nope, it's a school night so all good pups go to be at 9:30. Now come on." Christy said as she nodded her head for the pups to come upstairs so she could tuck them in.

"Ok, give me some love you two!" Alex murred when his sons licked him over the snout several times before rushing off of the sofa and upstairs to their bedroom to get ready for sleep.

"Can I give you some love too?" The silver wolfess asked as she loosened the bathrobe from around her naked and wet body.

Alex felt heat rise up into his groin as he caught the sweet aroma of her musk inside of his nose. Getting up from his position on the couch Alex growled softly in the back of his throat as his golden eyes drunken in the sight of such a sweet treasure before him. How much he loved this woman, there was no depth that he could measure it to, but Alex would do anything for her and for his pups. Standing in front of his mate the jet black wolf leaned forward sniffing Christy's wet scent and then licked her over the front and sides of her neck before stepping nuzzling Christy's throat and cheeks gently. She wasn't in heat yet so they had no need for protection tonight and as Alex roamed his paws on her sides up under her bathrobe the black wolf was intent on taking his beautiful mate right there on the sofa...

"MOM!!! Are you gonna read us a story tonight?" Alexander called out from upstairs breaking the mood to which both older wolves groaned and the laughed. The slipping robe around Christy's shoulders snapped back up as the silver wolfess chuckled into her husband's neck while nipping him on the throat.

"I guess I'll see you later?"

"Yeah, I think I now need to work off some stress so I'm going to head to the gym. By the time I get back they should be good and asleep and then," Alex hugged his wife and rubbed his dark paws over her rump playing with the nerve bundle at the base of her tail making Christy shiver and whimper in pleasure. "We can continue this afterwards." To which he got a nod from Christy before the silver female turned away showing off her raised tail to him and wagging it as she climbed the stairs to the bedroom.

Alex cringed as he looked down at himself and the raised tent in his pants. He loved his boys but sometimes he really wish they fall asleep the instant they got into bed. Reaching down and palming over his half hard erection Alex breathed deeply and then dropped his paw to his side. Walking to the front door the black wolf pulled out his door key and then inserted the metal into the lock while resting his head onto the wood. His original problem having never left his mind made Alex even more vexed as he realized that so much was riding on him, much more than he ever gave himself credit to. Closing his eyes Alex beat his head against the door before opening his golden orbs and staring at the barrier before him face to face. Pulling out his fortune cookie again Alex looked down at the fortune before reading it again out loud,

"'Good fortune will come when you give something of value to another', you say. Well I damn sure hope so. I really need it right now. Not just for myself, but for my family as well." Alex growled as he stuffed the thin strip of paper into his pocket again and then opened his front door to the outside world.

Getting into and starting up his car after making sure his gym bag was still in the trunk, Alex drove down through the quiet night of the city to Xavier's Fight Club, one of the best gyms for males and females who wanted to bulk up and were serious about physical fitness. Xavier, a big brown bear who once was a world wrestler in his day, had opened the gym up three years prior offering free memberships for six months to the first fifteen people who applied for them. Least to say Alex had gone and registered and had been there ever since. The price was affordable given his previous occupation and the black wolf found more than enough time to come after work to release a little stress from his hard day's labor. At two hundred and sixty pounds of wolf muscle, Alex was a sight to see as he wore his red t-shirt and blue running shorts while pumping iron on the weight bench. More than a few females had turned a roaming eye his way after seeing the muscular wolf covered head to tail in sweat while his muscles flexed and strained underneath the fabric of his cotton apparel. In return the married wolf had raised his paw up showing off his golden wedding band to the ladies getting sighs of regret in return for their troubles, not that Alex was a saint as he made a good show of tightening certain gluteus muscles whenever he knew some of single ladies at the gym were looking getting giggles of appreciation in return.

Driving up and finding a parking spot Alex was surprised to find the parking area almost empty. Trying to remember if the gym was closed the he didn't seem to recall Xavier saying anything about not opening the gym on Thursday night last week. Opening his car door and stepping out, Alex shrugged and figured that he would find out what was going on when he got inside. Walking around back and popping open the trunk the black wolf hefted up his gym bag and then slammed the back door close before casually walking across the street to the three story building. Stepping through the sliding glass doors Alex found Xander, Xavier's oldest son working the front desk.

"Hey, Xan, what's up for tonight" Alex asked as he got up to the desk and then signed in. Being a regular member meant that he could go without his member's card every once in a while.

"Nothing much but dad's out of town for a while and me and bro decided to do something special to see if we could draw up a different kind of clientele." The brown and black titan of a bear said as he looked down at Alex from where he was sitting. Being eight feet tall meant that the ursine could look down at almost anyone, so Alex didn't feel any shame or inferiority as his six foot six muscular frame stared up at Xander. Being four hundred and ninety pounds of bear muscle Xander was almost the spitting image of his father save for the black highlights he got from his mother.

"Ok, I see. Well what kind of specialty are you doing tonight? The place seems almost empty." Alex inquired out of pure curiosity.

"Well we were going to try for an All Male Thursday and All Female Friday to see who will come and who won't. It'll be easier to separate the furs who are more serious about working out from the more weekenders who just come whenever." Xander said honestly before shrugging his massive shoulders.

"How is it going so far?"

"You are the thirteenth male who has shown up out of the one hundred and eight that signed up and pay the monthly fee." Alex got the subtle context behind that easily.

"Well hopefully Friday will be better."

"I hope so. I wanted to show dad that I could run the place while he's gone." The black and brown bear admitted.

"How about asking Daniel for help?"

"Little brother is upstairs; he was the fifth person to show up tonight."

"Wow."

"Yep."

"Well don't worry about it, something will turn up." And with that Alex nodded to the ursine and then headed for the locker room.

Downstairs the muscular black wolf stripped himself of his work clothes, he hadn't bothered to take off even after he got home and then stretched to his full height while grunting and popping his back.

"Nice body you got there, wolfy boi." A heavy set baritone voice complimented making Alex turn to see one of the gym goers he knew so well stepping down the stairs to stare at him.

"My wife appreciates it, beefcake." Alex defended with a laugh as he watched Derek Goldstein walk up towards him but keeping a distance of about eight feet in between them.

Derek was a tauren meaning that he was somewhere between a Minotaur and a regular bull on the species scale with his thick bovine body having much more toned definition than a regular bull's would have as he stood on feet instead of hoofs. Compared to Xander with the black and brown bear was big and muscular...Derek made him look like a shrimp for lack of a nicer term. The tauren was nine feet tall, a good solid six hundred and ninety pounds of beef with a side order of being one of the up and coming competitors for the Mr. Furry Universe title. The two sharply pointed horns out and upwards on his head at about a foot and a half beguiled the overall nice nature that Derek had as more than a few males were actually intimidated by him save for Xavier, Xander, Daniel and Alex. Not even being close the other's height and body size did little to phase the jet black wolf as he casually tossed on his gym clothes and then opened his locker stuffing his gym bag inside. Shutting the metal door with a quiet slam Alex walked right by the other male without so much as a bat of an eyelid as he patted Derek on the chest and then walked upstairs. Derek snorted and grunted as he tried to flex for the wolf only to get a disappearing tail for his troubles.

"One day I'm going to get that ass. I promise." Ain't it funny when the gods actually start listening to your prayers?

Up in the main hall of the gym Alex had found his favorite treadmill unoccupied and stepped up onto the machine patting the handlebars as he pressed a few buttons and brought her to life. The muscular black wolf grunted as the treadmill slowly started up at an even walking pace letting Alex center and ground himself before the wolf increased the speed by twenty-five percent every ten minutes. As Alex ran faster and faster along the wide belt pushing his legs to the limits beads of sweat began to push out from the wolf's fur as Alex began to feel the burn of exertion coursing through his legs. Sometimes the wolf wondered if this is what his feral cousins felt like when they were in the forests and plains of the world chasing down prey or running after one another in play. Hard pants pushed from between his muzzle making Alex look down to see he was doing forty-five miles per hour on the machine. An hour later after feeling his blood racing through his system Alex reached out and pressed a button slowing his favorite treadmill down until finally the machine came to a dead halt.

A bottle of water appeared by his face making the muscular wolf turn to see his gym partner smiling down at him while offering the bottle of clear fluids for him to take. Alex nodded and did so, unscrewing the cap and then downing the cool liquid in several heavy gulps, the sight of his Adam's apple bobbing made Derek's sweat pants feel tighter around the waist as he watched the other while trying not to do anything embarrassing. His large tauren hands found the edge of the treadmill and gripped it tight enough to leave his finger impressions into the metal. When Alex was finished he pulled the neck of the bottle from between his lips and then shook himself off letting his sweat fly everywhere before he recalled who was beside him.

"Oh man, I'm sorry Derek!" Alex apologized when he finally noticed the tauren standing beside him with some of his sweat on Derek's face and white t-shirt.

"No problem. So want me to spot you?" The giant bull asked once he wiped his face off with the back of one of his beefy hands.

"Sure."

Alex walked off the treadmill and over to a recycle bin throwing the plastic bottle away before jogging up to where Derek was waiting for him by the weight bench. The tauren already had three hundred and twenty pounds waiting on the rack for the wolf as he smiled at him with a devious gleam. Alex gulped before he resigned himself before getting onto the bench and then looked up at the looming weights above his head. Grunting, Alex put both hands onto the bar and then concentrated.

"Come on wolfy boi, you can do this!" Derek said as the wolf pushed up on the bar lifting the three hundred some odd pounds and then acclimated to the force of it trying to descend down onto his chest. Panting hard and pushing the weight back up Derek watched the wolf as he used all of his arm strength to begin his reps.

"That's one so far." The jovial voice of the tauren echoed making Alex growl in frustration.

"Laugh it up Mr. Furry Olympia, but I am getting better." Alex said as he pushed the weight up and then brought it down again.

"Two. I know, with my training you could be in the competitions if you worked hard for the next eight months."

"No thank you. I like my job just fine...oh shit!" Alex swore as he remembered his reason for being down here tonight.

"Three. What's wrong, wolfy boi?" Derek asked in concern when his partner began to lose his focus.

"I came down here tonight to try and figure out what I'm going to do now that I've lost my job. I nearly forgot. I can't tell Christy and the pups but I really hadn't planned on this in the least." The wolf answered.

"Six. An accountant not planning for the meager days to come, will wonders never cease?" Derek teased getting a sigh for his trouble.

"I know, I know. I've been kicking myself in the tail about this ever since I got fired today. I've got almost nothing in the bank and Christy can't do it on her own and I wouldn't let here but it's gonna take me time to find another place to work at." Alex grunted between reps, his arms straining to push the bar up over himself without wavering as he used his disgust from his situation to further push himself into breaking his previous lifting record.

"Eleven. Sorry to hear that. I know that this recession has been tough but you'll find something. You're a pretty smart wolf, even if you do need to gain some more bulk."

"Hardy har har."

"Twelve. You know though, I could spot you some cash until you get situated. It wouldn't be..."

"No thank you. I'm not going to slum from a friend. I don't care what I have to do I'm not going to be someone who takes advantage of those closest to him." Alex grunted with sheer determination lacing his voice.

"Fifteen. Well if that's the way you feel you could always work for it from me instead." Derek got an idea that he wasn't sure how to play off yet as he looked down at the wolf.

"Work? Like what for example?"

"Sixteen and a half. You come by my apartment this weekend and model for me in your gym clothes and I'll pay you one grand a day for your troubles."

"That's a lot of money just for me to stand around Derek."

"Twenty. I don't think so because if you want to take up my offer I'll need you from sun up to sun down Friday, Saturday and Sunday and believe me you will not be just standing around. I have a visual arts class that I take during the off season so I plan to make you work when you get on my time." The tauren warned as plans formulated into his head at the speed of thought as he looked down at the perspiring lupine.

"Well, I guess so. I mean are you really sure about this?" Alex was humble enough to give his partner an escape in case the other was just being overly generous.

"Twenty- six Oh I'm very sure." Derek said with a sharp gleam in his eyes as he smiled down at the wolf.

"Alright then, I'll take you up on your offer. Thanks Derek." Alex finished his thirtieth rep and then set the handle back in place on the weight bench with the larger tauren's aid before getting a hand up.

Derek pulled his partner up from where he was laying into his personal space getting a cheeky blushing smile from Alex before the sweaty wolf backed up and apologized.

"No problem, now step aside so you can see what real beef looks like laid out for someone drool over." Derek walked over and grabbed two extra two-hundred and fifty pound weights before rolling them setting them on the bar Alex had just been using. When he was done Derek set himself down onto the bench which groaned in disapproval before grabbing the bar and then winking up at the wolf.

"Now then," The tauren said as he easily lifted up the six-hundred some odd pounds of metal and then brought it down to his chest. "One,"

For the next half hour Alex watched Derek exercise with causal ease before the tauren finished his weight lifting while his sweats were drenched down to his fur tightening the material over his body like a second skin. After Derek got up and flexed himself in front of Alex the two gym partners laughed and went over and worked out on different machines alternating the pressure used on each apparatus in turn since Derek needed almost two times the weights Alex used to even remotely feel a burn in his body. As midnight rolled around,

"Hey Derek I'm going to head down to the showers and then head for home, are you staying?" The muscular black wolf asked as he noticed the time while doing his squats.

"Hmm, yeah. I think it's almost that time again. I'll head down with you, wolfy boi." Derek said as he did the last of his bicep curls with a pair of three hundred pound weights.

Setting his weights back in place the tauren followed his gym partner back downstairs into the locker room before both of them grabbed a respective towel from their lockers and stripped down. Derek made a show of stretching himself and his throbbing muscles for Alex to see but found the wolf completely ignoring him as he walked into the shower room with a flick of his sweaty tail.

"Just you wait wolfy boi. By this weekend I'm going to have you riding the old beef wagon." Derek murmured under his breath as he patted his thick, sheathless cock trying to stick out from between his legs. The hugs tube steak was already seven inches long and not even half hard and as Derek walked into the now steaming shower room he found his waking erection desperately pointing at the unawares wolf who was busy scrubbing himself clean.

"Hey Alex, want me to get you back...I-I mean your back?" Derek asked with as much sincerity as he could after his little slip up.

"Sure! I can't reach back there and I think if I tried today my arms would lock up on me." The wolf replied eagerly totally unaware of his friend's intentions.

As Derek walked up to Alex he seriously had the mindset to do something wicked before he calmed himself down and grabbed the complimentary fur shampoo and start to wash the jet black wolf's back.

"Soon, enough..." He muttered.

"Huh?" Alex asked.

"Oh nothing! Just remember that I expect to see you early in the morning tomorrow."

"Sure thing! 5867 Lester Drive, right?"

"Yep! You remembered!"

The two washed in silence after that with Derek finishing washing Alex's backside and then let the wolf rinse off before starting to wash himself. Alex offered to scrub the bull down but got a 'no thanks' and shrugged before saying his goodbyes and walking out of the locker room to dress and head for home. When he was sure that Alex was gone Derek groaned and reached down to take hold of his fourteen inches of tauren cock that he had been subtly trying to keep hidden as he groaned and rubbed his cock into the wall in front of him underneath the hot spray of the shower. Reaching out and giving himself long, hard strokes with the hard pads of his hands Derek imagined just how many ways he was going to get that sexy wolf's ass around his dick in the next three days. Derek could just imagine it,

In his mind he could see Alex offering himself up to the massive tauren while spreading his legs as he sat on a long weight bench lifting his tail up and flagging it for Derek's approval. Getting up and taking hold of the smaller male's hips Derek could almost smell the scent of Alex's sweaty backside as he dreamt about running his long pole of beef up and down the other's spine making sure to wet it down with his pre cum while showing the muscular wolf who was in charge. The little pink hole between Alex's rump would twitch inviting the tauren to play inside of the field of the black wolf's ass before he drove all of himself inside of the other listening to the pleasing yelp of pain as he spread Alex open like a needy little bitch in heat. There wouldn't be much time for adjustment as all of Derek's pent up need and desire would set his hips underway pounding into Alex over and over again as the smaller male grunted and yowled from the pressure widening his guts to new dimensions. Derek could almost feel his balls as they slapped into the weight bench under his little play toy's chest getting himself close to the first of several climaxes as he,

Without warning Derek mooed into the shower as he came in wet splats onto the shower wall. The entire area getting panted over in bull milk as the gargantuan tauren let loose some of the years of pent of lust that had been brewing over for that sexy wolf. Still cumming but in shorter burst Derek looked to the wall and then chuckled as he imagined that it would soon be Alex's tailhole as he made plans for tomorrow.

Back at home Alex felt loads better as he sneaked into the house making sure not to disturb his wife or kids at such a late hour. Getting out of the clothes he wore to work, since he forgot to bring a change for earlier the muscular wolf had put them back on instead of his smelly gym clothes, Alex stood naked in the master bedroom while looking over his wife before he crept into bed and kissed Christy onto the lips. Snuggling up to her as the silver wolfess groaned and murred in her sleep Alex let his mind drift over Derek's offer,

"Thank goodness for good friends." Alex was completely unaware that the state of his sexuality was going to be in ambiguity in the next eight hours onward 'til 12:00 Monday morning.