The Cameron Hotel Chapter 15
The Cameron Hotel Chapter 15 -- Sandcastles
With Sirrus at his heels, Matt made his way out and into the living room in a pair of brand new swimming trunks. And around the room, Chris, Riddick, Luke, Jasyn, and Alex all watched as he strolled out into view.
"How do they look?" The ottercoon spread his arms.
Riddick was on the floor, his back against the couch between his father's legs, "They look fine," he smirked, "...though, I was expecting you in a Speedo!"
Chris sat on the couch behind his son, his arms hung over his legs as he lightly poked at one of the panthion's ears, "Yeah! After all of those nice little thongs I found in your dresser, so did I!"
Sirrus stopped and looked up, tilting his head, "What's a thong?"
Matt looked down, "It's nothing to concern you boy."
Chris grinned and continued poking at his son's ear, chuckling at its automatic twitches, "Awww...put one on, Matt! I think it'd be cute!!"
"Yeah!" Jasyn jumped in, sitting on the far side of the couch from Chris, his arm slung over the back behind Luke, situated in the middle, "We can all take a nice picture home with us, to boot!"
"I don't think I look that good in them..." Matt looked right at Chris, "Though I know someone who might."
Riddick craned his neck back up at his dad, "I think he means you."
Alex chuckled from the recliner, "I definitely wouldn't mind seeing that."
Matt raised an eyebrow, "Frankly, I'm surprised you're not wearing one, seeing as you found them..."
Chris smiled his big toothy grin, and rubbed the back of his neck, "True...I would look good in them...but hey..." He began flicking Riddick's ear again, "You get the tiniest bit sand in 'em, and you're screwed."
Riddick shook his head, and scooted over by Luke's legs instead, to get away from his dad's poking, "Are we all ready then?"
Matt stretched and popped his back, looking around the room at everyone, "Are we? We've got the cooler and stuff in the back of your truck, right Jasyn?"
Jasyn nodded, stretching too, before hopping up and giving the small of his back a nice scratch, "Yup! Everything's set."
Alex stood up as well, moving to the wolf's side, "I'll be riding with Jasyn, who all will be riding where?"
Matt pointed at himself, "I can drive me, Chris, and two other people. I guess that'll be Riddick and Luke...that ok with you three?"
Riddick looked up and back at Luke, "Fine with me."
Luke just smiled and nodded, his feet gently swaying back and forth.
"That means..." Sirrus looked up again, "I ride with Jaysn and Alex?"
Matt looked down, "Either that or you can try and squeeze in with the four of us. That's up to you."
Sirrus smiled and shook his head, "That's okay!" as he hopped over to stand by Jaysn, smiling up at the wolf giddily.
Alex smiled down at Jasyn's feet at the little dragon, "More room with us, anyway!"
Riddick pushed himself up and turned around to Luke, holding out a paw, "Come on! Let's head on out to the car!"
Luke smiled and pulled himself up by the paw, "Okay!"
Riddick gripped the raccoon's paw immediately, and tugged on him, dashing out and into the kitchen, toward the Garage.
Matt smiled at Chris, "Too bad you don't want to wear a Speedo..." He flashed his doe eyes, "...everyone would love the view."
Chris grinned, cocking an eyebrow, "Don't worry: I'm sure, later, you'll get an eyeful. And wouldn't I cheapen that by showing off to everyone else?" He hopped off the couch, put his paws in his pockets, whistling lightly as he walked to the kitchen.
"I'm a generous guy!" Matt followed along behind, "I don't mind if other people see!"
"Ha!" Chris's voice carried back into the living room as Jasyn and Alex watched them disappear, "You just wanna' make them jealous."
Jasyn cocked his eyebrow, "What do you think he was talking about?"
"I dunno," Alex shrugged, "That sounded like they're...but...I mean, Chris isn't gay, is he?" The fox shook his head, and started walking toward the kitchen too, "Come on! We need to get on out to your truck or we'll get left behind."
Jasyn followed along, putting his arm over the fox's shoulder as they walked. Alex smiled up at the wolf, who smiled back as Sirrus totted along at their heels to catch up.
It was August now: only two Saturdays from the end of the summer vacation, and Chris & Matt decided to treat Riddick to a real, full, and planned day at the beach before he got enrolled into his new school. Riddick, of course, wanted his only real friend here, Luke, to come along, and since Luke was coming, Matt decided it best to invite Alex & Jasyn as well...
...the whole 'family' as it were.
It was a relatively short drive from Matt's house and down to the beach. The seven furs were tired from the months behind them -- trials, secrets, unwanted truths, and unrequited love -- and they were ready for a break from their lives. At once, they spread out across the beach, Chris, Matt, & Sirrus breaking off in one direction, and Riddick & Luke in another, while Jasyn & Alex stayed back with the truck.
Chris padded down to the beach, paws behind his head, "So, Sirrus...you ready to have some fun and play, today?"
Sirrus perked up, looking between Matt and Chris, "Play??"
"Chris!" Matt waved his paws, "Watch it with that word! You should know better." The ottercoon smiled down at Sirrus, "No, boy...we can't play here."
Chris laughed aloud, "Sorry."
Matt smiled softly and stopped beside Chris, just staring out at the water, "So, why were you so adamant about not putting on a nice, tight, little Speedo?" He reached over and tapped the lion's ass gently, "Afraid you'd look too gay in it?"
Chris grinned and reached down, pulling down the back of his shorts, "Not quite..."
Matt looked down, his mouth slightly agape as he saw what he thought was Chris starting to bare his ass, "What are you doing? This isn't a nude beach, Chris." He looked around, "At least wait until we're ready to leave, before you make them ask us to."
Chris just ignored him and chuckled as he pulled them down the rest of the way. As the shorts dropped, they revealed below his tail a pair of tight, red, low rising Speedos. He stood back up, his shorts under his arm and grinned, cocking his eyebrow, "Happy now?"
Matt smiled wide, not caring if anyone could see the bulge growing in his shorts. Besides, it's not that they'd be looking at him anyway, "Quite! I only wish the kids hadn't run off," He winked, "They'd've liked to see too." The ottercoon looked over at Sirrus, "How do you think he loo...err, never mind..." He knelt down by his pet, finding it hard not to look at Chris as petted the dragon, "...you can barely tell the difference."
Sirrus just fell over, rolling around in the soft sand, and paid entirely no attention to the fact that almost everyone nearby was gawking at the small group: Matt, his barely dressed, muscle-bound friend...and whatever each they'd each decided for themselves Sirrus was. Pet? Adopted son?
The dragon giggled as he buried his front legs under the warm sand, and Matt smiled at him.
Trying so hard not to turn and stare at Chris, the ottercoon, too, was all but oblivious to the furs staring at them, "We should have come here sooner."
Back up and just off the beach, in the gravel 'parking lot' area, Alex & Jasyn sat on the tailgate of Jasyn's truck, staring out at the beach.
Alex reached into the cooler sitting between the two of them as he watched the other five wandering about. He pulled out one of Chris's beers by accident, and, hating the taste of beer, put it back and started digging for a coke, "You know Jay...I haven't been here, once, all summer?"
Jasyn reached into the cooler, too, pulling out a random soda and almost choking on it as he downed the entire thing. He coughed a little and wiped his mouth, smiling, "Yeah--same here," He looked out over the water, his arms hung loosely over his legs as he watched the many furs wandering about, playing, swimming, or just laying in the sand, "It's nice..."
"The last time I was here was spring break..." The fox sat his coke on the tailgate and looked down at his swinging feet, "...we came together."
Jasyn looked up and over at the fox next to him, "Yep..."
Alex smiled softly, looking back at him, "You too?"
The wolf tilted his head and smiled, not saying anything. After a moment, he leaned across the cooler quickly, and kissed Alex on the cheek. Before the fox could react, Jasyn sat his empty can down and hopped off into the gravel, a few meters away from the sand.
Alex put a paw on the side of his cheek and smiled, "Brings...brings back some of our better memories," He hopped off too and brushed his paw against Jasyn's, "doesn't it?"
Jasyn looked at his friend, and ran his fingers over his paw in return, "Yeah."
The fox rubbed his arm, feeling really awkward, and not knowing what to do or say. He leaned up, though, and kissed Jasyn back on the on the cheek, whispering, "Thanks..."
On reflex, Jasyn ran his muzzle along the side of Alex's before he could pull away, "Any time."
Alex turned around quickly and closed the cooler, "I...I'm gonna' go visit with Luke & his new friend...or boyfriend or whatever, okay?" He picked up the cooler by the handle and turned back, "I uhm...haven't really talked to Luke in a while...o-or Riddick at all." He stopped talking, feeling like he was starting to ramble already, and just held the cooler in front of him as he stood by Jasyn.
The wolf reached down, taking the cooler with a continued smile, "You go ahead, I'll take care of the stuff."
Alex's eyes darted about. A part of him wanted to stay, but he was just too uncomfortable to. "Thanks." He turned and rushed off into the sand towards where Luke & Riddick went.
Jasyn's wide smile faded as he watched the fox run off. His ears flattened as he looked around, not entirely sure where to go. But they perked up again, curiously when he saw Matt and what looks to be...a NAKED Chris.
He tilted his head, "Err...okay then...?" and began to pad off into the sand, cooler in paw.
Matt was on the ground, trying to show Sirrus how to build a crude sandcastle. He sat there, pushing the wet sand into a pile as best he could manage, and tried his best to form it into something...but was really only managing a pile, "Try it, boy."
Sirrus tilted his head, confusion on his face as he silently used his tail to move the wet sand and his claws to shape it.
Feet away, Chris sat back on his towel, leaning back on his paws with one leg propped up on the other, and he watched as the little green dragon fell forward into his 'castle,' and began to cry.
"Awww..." Matt leaned down and lifted Sirrus back to his feet with a nuzzle, "You'll get the hang of it. You're doing good!"
The dragon looked up at him with sad eyes, clawing at the sand as he nodded quizzically, "I am?"
Matt smiled, "Of course!" The ottercoon looked back at Chris, and happened to see Jasyn walking up far behind. He stood up and looked back down at Sirrus, "Keep on trying! You'll get there," then started walking in Jasyn's direction. "Chris, watch Sirrus for me, okay?"
Matt couldn't help but pause to look down at his practically nude friend before continuing, and Chris just smiled up at him when he did, knowing how much Matt enjoyed the bulging speedo. As Matt finally wandered past, the lion pushed up to his feet and padded over, sitting Indian style next to the dragon, "Come on, boy! Let's show this thing who's boss!"
Jasyn smiled and sat the cooler down as he and Matt stepped up to one another, "Hey there, Matt!"
"Jasyn?" Matt greeted him with a nod, crossing his arms, "I thought you and Alex were gonna' stay up by the truck together..."
The wolf stretched his neck and sat down on top of the cooler, "Nah...he said wanted to talk with Riddick and Luke. Said he hasn't seen Luke in a while, and hasn't EVER really talked to Riddick...y'know?"
"Mm-hmm...he got uncomfortable and ditched you, then?" Matt shook his head, "I really need to talk to that kid..."
Jasyn sighed and shook his head too, "Nah...I'm just glad he agreed to come." He perked up, and changed the subject, and looking over at Chris, "So spill it, Matt: what's the deal with Mr. Atlas over there?"
"Well, it turns out he had a Speedo of his own. We really should have expected, right?" The ottercoon chuckled and looked over at Chris, who was having almost as much trouble with the sandcastle as Sirrus, "He was wearing it under his shorts. A surprise for me, I guess."
Jasyn nodded a few times and chuckled, too, as he watched an angry Chris punched over his failed castle, "Not really what I meant." He looked back at Matt, "I meant...I was asking if you two were...y'know..."
Matt was busy staring at Chris's thinly covered ass as it raised a bit with the lion's little fit, and he just smiled dumbly, missing the question, "...huh?"
The wolf laughed and cocked an eyebrow, "Are you two boyfriends?"
Matt coughed and looked back, "Uhm...no? Or...not quite. We're just...good friends." He smiled uneasily, obviously not telling the whole story.
Jasyn perked a single ear with a grin, "You sure?"
The ottercoon looked at Chris again, and then back at Jasyn as his mouth started to form the slightest frown, "Well...I mean: we fool around. Hell, we even share a bed..." He chuckled a little at that, "But no, we're not boyfriends." He let out a slight sigh and looked at his toes in the sand.
Jasyn tilted his head, concerned, "I'm assuming that you want more?"
"Heh..." Matt looked up, "Just like you would with a certain fox?" He tilted his ears with his cocky half smirk.
"Well that's gotta' be a little bit different scenario, right?" The wolf raised an eyebrow with a huff, "I mean...Alex has his reasons not to want a relationship, right now. Does Chris?"
"I..." Matt looked away at the sand, "I don't know."
Jasyn recoiled slightly as what that meant registered with him, "You..." He sat up straighter, "You haven't even talked to him about this, have you?"
The ottercoon just sighed and turned away. He set his gaze on Chris, and felt that smile spread on his muzzle again. It was the smile he always got when he looked at the lion: soft, gentle, and completely uncomfortable. He watched his friend carefully construct another little castle, paws moving delicately and deliberately, scared of this one falling to pieces like the rest. And when it inevitably did, Matt's smile only grew wider, watching the lion angrily claw at the uncooperative sand.
"No no!" Jasyn's voice shot up, getting Matt's attention back, "You've been in my and Alex's business, constantly, since March. That's what? Five or six months, now?" He pointed at his older friend as he turned back, "You don't get to deny me my nosiness."
"Fair enough." Matt laughed at that. He glancing at Chris once more, watching Sirrus mimicking the lion's angry clawing now like it was a game, and then he looked back at Jasyn, "It's just...it's not the kind of conversation you have with someone like Chris. He's not one for big emotional talks. He's...straight like that."
"Uhm..." The wolf raised a paw and pointed down at himself, "Coming from someone who was very recently straight, I can promise you: when the conversation is important enough, we'll make the time to have it...no matter the discomfort." He crossed his arms and looked up at Matt semi-disapprovingly, "I'm surprised at you. Aren't you the one that made me and Alex face all our stuff back in March?"
"This is different."
"Is it?"
Matt looked back at Chris again. Now the lion had rebuilt what was nothing more than a mound, and was glaring angrily at its inadequacies. Sirrus, of course, was immensely proud of their construction, and even jammed a stick in the top like a flag. Matt sighed this time.
He turned back to Jasyn, "You know how Chris's job has him travel and relocate a lot, right?"
"Vaguely." Jasyn nodded.
"He got here the day after you and Peter...had your fun." The ottercoon kicked idly at the sand, "He told me that these jobs normally only last a couple of months. I think he said one or two is the average."
Jasyn tilted his head and lowered an ear, not getting the point yet, "Yeah?"
"And what did you say a minute ago?" Matt crossed his arms, "That, that was something like five or six months ago?"
"Oh..." The wolf's eyes widened at that, finally understanding where Matt was going. And he stood up, moving closer with a lowered voice, "So, then he..."
Matt nodded, "Any time now." He looked back at Chris and Sirrus again. Sirrus's stick had destroyed the mound, and Sirrus pouting angrily, but Chris had barely moved from his earlier frustrated glare. "I want more...I really do. And...hell...I think I'll be almost as sad to see Riddick leave as I will Chris...but..." Matt turned back to Jasyn again, "I think it's best I just make sure to enjoy what I've got...while I've got it...y'know? Why make him leaving harder on everyone by making things more...more."
Jasyn just sighed, "Yeah...I guess I can see that."
After a few long moments of silence between the two, the ottercoon spoke up again, "Now I have a question for you, Jasyn..." He put a paw on the wolf's shoulder and lowered his brow a little.
Jasyn tilted his head, "Yeah?"
Matt let out a sigh and glanced back at Chris and Sirrus, "Do you know how the HELL to build sandcastles?"
Across the beach, Riddick sat on one of the towels they brought, sharing it with Alex while Luke laid out on the other. Alex & Luke were in usual, normal trunks, but the panthion was wearing a multicolored pair of the shortest swimming trunks on the beach and had a bright pink earring in each ear.
Alex leaned back on his paws and looked Riddick up and down, "...I never would have guessed you were a flamer when we first met."
Luke giggled and looked over at the panthion too, "Same..." He lowered his voice and spoke very softly, "Not that I entirely mind."
Riddick looked at the two furs, "I'm not a flamer..." He raised an eyebrow, legitimately confused that they'd say that.
Alex chuckled, "You're not?"
Luke looked at the earrings and the shorts, and stopped his eyes right on the rainbow tail tip "Could have fooled us!"
Riddick looked down at his short, tight shorts, showing off a bulge even while flaccid, and then looked up with just his eyes, like he was looking at his ears as he twitched them, "So I like to dress like this...and that makes me a flamer?"
Luke jumped over quickly, plopping down on Riddick's stomach, knocking him over, and smiling, "Yep!"
Riddick smiled back and rolled over, rolling Luke off the towel and into the sand, and accidentally knocked Alex off too, making the fox have to scamper to Luke's towel to get off the hot sand.
The panthion laid on top of Luke in the sand and nuzzled his nose, "Well I'm not one. I don't have a lisp OR act like a girl. But if you two want to call me one..." He reached down between himself and the raccoon and grabbed a hold of his friend's package, knowing he'd freak out because they were in public, "I think I'll allow it."
"Ngh!!" Luke twitched, trying to squirm out from under Riddick, and attempting to hold back a soft moan as he did.
Riddick sat back up and let go of him, "Come on, the sand's gonna' burn you." He moved back onto the towel and pulled Luke onto it too by his paw.
Alex smiled as Luke & Riddick clambered back onto the panthion's towel, "I THOUGHT you two were together!"
Luke blushed and looked away, twirling his finger around in the sand...
...and Riddick coughed lightly, darting his eyes about, "We're...we're not. I was just having a little fun with him."
"Oh? So just yiffy friends?" Alex looked the two of them over, not really understanding why they reacted like that, and Luke coughed a few times, continuing to look down at the sand.
"Luke?" Riddick, still holding the raccoon's paw, tried to get a better look at his face.
Luke looked up quickly, wide eyed and blushing more, "N-Nothing!" He laughed nervously and hopped up, "Uhm...I think I'm gonna' go for a little swim!" Stumbling slightly in the sand, he broke off in a run toward the water.
As Riddick and Alex watched the raccoon dash to the edge of the beach...elsewhere, Matt sat with Chris, on their own towel, watching Jasyn having a much better time teaching Sirrus to build his sandcastle.
"Chris..." Matt whined, "We're being shown up by a 17-year-old."
Chris sighed and shook his head, "I really hate sandcastles..."
The ottercoon boldly put his paw on Chris's thigh, just shy of the Speedo, even though they were in public, and turned to look at the lion with a smile, "It was really sweet of you to try and help, though."
Chris smirked as he looked down at Matt's paw, then back at the successful castle, but didn't say anything.
Hearing no complaints, Matt smiled back and looked at the castle too, gently stroking Chris's thigh.
Jasyn patted the top of the sandcastle, "See Sirrus? We did a good job, huh?"
Sirrus giggled and nodded, "Uh-huh!!"
The wolf smiled, "Wanna' knock it down, now?"
Sirrus tilted his head, "Huh?"
"Do you wanna' knock it down? You know: destroy it!" Jasyn threw his paws up like an explosion, "That's the best part of building sandcastles! Or at least it was my favorite part when I was young."
Without answering, the dragon smiled wide and dived in, demolishing all of their hard work in one blow, and then smiled up, with only his head sticking out of the pile of sand that used to be his first architectural masterpiece.
Jasyn just chuckled and brushed some of the sand off of the dragon's nose, "I never did that, though!"
Matt had inched his paw closer and closer to Chris's Speedo, while he watched Sirrus, trying to see how far he'd have to go before the lion would stop him, "Havin' fun Sirr?" He squeezed Chris's thigh a little and touched his pinky ever so lightly against the bulge of the Speedo.
Chris though, pretended to not notice and just smiled, watching Sirrus play.
Sirrus smiled wide and hopped out, covered in sand, "Yeah! Lots of fun! Jasyn's nice! He teaches sandcastles good!"
Matt chuckled, "You're filthy Sirrus! Good thing you don't have fur. God it's hard to get wet sand out of fur..."
"Tell me about it..." Jasyn muttered, trying to brush the sand off of himself that Sirrus knocked all over him.
Matt took his paw off of Chris's thigh and started running his fingers, one at a time, over the front of the bulge, as Chris let out a steady purr, but tried to not make any notion about it.
"Sirrus," Chris spoke up, voice steady as if nothing was happening, "Why don't you go for a little swim? You'll be able to clean up easier."
Matt nodded, "That's a good idea!" He opened his paw up, placing his flat palm on the bulge, and fully groping Chris now...determined to get a reaction, "I'll be doing that, myself, in a little while."
The lion smirked, still ignoring the advance, as he watched Sirrus run into edge of the sand and splash around in the shallow water.
Jasyn stood up and tried to brush himself off a little more while raising an eyebrow at Matt & Chris, "Yeah...you two have fun with that." He laughed and walked off, "I'm gonna' go talk to Alex."
Matt watched Sirrus wade out in the water, splashing around near the other furs. Slowly, the ottercoon lifted his paw off the bulge and began to snake his fingers under the waist of the speedo, causing Chris to let out a slow, soft moan.
Chris's moans and purrs grew as Matt's touching grew more and more intimate. But after a moment, his face changed and his eyes narrowed, "Matt...?" His voice caught in his throat this time, "Sirrus does know how to swim, right?" He moved his friend's paw and started to stand up.
"Hmm? I..." The ottercoon blinked and stood up too, "Shit! This is his first time here!" He squinted his eyes, checking to see how far out Sirrus was going, but couldn't even see him.
"Fuck! Stay here! I've got it!" Chris broke into a run down the beach toward the tide, stopping ankle deep in the water and looking around for any sign of Sirrus. "Damnit...where'd he..." And after a moment, a ways out, he saw the dragon's limbs and tail thrashing about in the waves.
The lion ran and jumped forward and dove into the water. He sliced his arms through the waves, swimming as fast as he could manage toward Sirrus. The dragon fought against the water, trying to keep himself afloat as he yelled, though muffled by the water, for his master or someone to help.
Just as Chris reached him, Sirrus's muzzle dropped under the water. Chris reached out and under the surface, grabbing the little dragon up in his arm and pulling him up as he swam back, one armed, to the shore.
The lion stood up and jogged ashore, setting Sirrus down on his feet in the sand. Matt & Luke had already gathered there and Jasyn & the others were running up as the dragon landed on his feet and stomach.
Matt knelt down by him as his pet coughed up a bit of water, "Sirrus! God! Are you okay?"
Sirrus began crying softly, and sniffled as he glared off into space. After a moment, he buried his muzzle in the sand, his claws over his head, and whined, "...I hate the beach."
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There we go! The soap opera, Forbidden, continues!!
* Starring: F. R. Borealis as Eric Matthew Cameron Alexander Collin Moen and Riddick Dumar Eden Cecil B. North as Christopher Phillip Eden Jasyn Aiden Fuller Sirrus and Lucas Joseph Trammel *
Cecil was a writer here as well, back in the Yiffstar days. If you want to check out the stuff he wrote back then, go ahead and look him up. His username on here is: Cecil_88
Originally this chapter was called "Unrequited." I assume you can tell why. On the surface, the main cast of Forbidden (minus Rei) just had a nice little day on the beach. Under the surface, though, their problems continue to boil, and all our biggest questions continue to linger. Will Alex take Jasyn back? Will Luke and Riddick ever admit their feelings to one another, and will that stop Riddick's new self destructive behavior? But...a new wrinkle has been added to the stories of Matt, Chris, and Riddick. Already, we had reason to wonder if Matt would be honest with his feelings with Chris...and to wonder how he'd balance his infatuation with the lion against his responsibilities to his pet. But now we have to wonder: how long will Chris even be around? How long until the lion is forced to relocate? And the complications abound: not only will this be a blow to Matt...but how will it affect Luke & Riddick? Find out as Forbidden, The Cameron Hotel, and (soon) Book 3 continue!
SIDE NOTE: This is the last of my series of five little stand-alones. Starting next chapter, be prepared for the return of larger story archs and all of Forbidden's usual cliffhangery goodness!
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See you for the next 24 chapters of Forbidden! ^.^