{"sf1_id":45977,"sf2_id":"rnaw6EXe","title":"Chapter 1: Even if it Kills Me.","author":"MixedUpPup","words":4167,"posted_at":"2008-03-17T00:25:00.000Z","tags":["Angst","Canine","Character Development","Intro","M/M","Near Future","No-Yiff","Plot Development","Teenagers"],"url":"https://fse.anthro.fr/stories/45977-chapter-1-even-if-it-kills-me","original_url":"https://sofurry.com/s/rnaw6EXe","image_url":"https://cdn.sofurryfiles.com/submissions/thumbnails/3a/9f/3a9f2141-9eb5-491f-91c3-5329eb8cc981","description":"#1 of Caught Up in the Moment/But not in the Right Way.(INCOMPLETE)","content":"~Stupid disclaimer thingy~ Ya adult content blah blah blah. If you read this and your not old enough. try not to get caught. if you aren't held back by any of those silly laws then your good too. Also... M/M Here, so... Not your bag? Then exit now. Otherwise Enjoy!  \n\\*\\*\\*  \n  \n~(Psst. You there. Yes you...  \nI have a story for you, if you have time.  \n  \nAll I ask is that you sit back and picture your vision start to blur as infamous relaxing  \nmusic plays.  \n  \nYep. We're goin' on a flashback.  \n  \nIt all started the way any mistake starts.  \n  \nWith sex.)~  \n  \n  \n  \nAdrian \"Magic-Paw\" Wolfchester was an average Aussie Shepard, stout, tall, and  \nstrong. He worked as a locksmith down on Piccadilly Street where everyone came with  \ntheir lock and key problems. He always sighed, gave a smile, and fixed them in record  \ntime, thus earning him his nickname of \"Magic-Paws\".  \n  \nLife was always fruitful down at the locksmith's place, what with the fire he kept  \nstoked 24/7, the full-fridge he always stocked, and the black and white picture TV he  \nhad up in his loft on the second floor. To him, life was a sweet as it got, until that  \nfaithful day, March 10th, 1995, when Margaret Dnindis, an Irish Setter, stepped paw into  \nhis shop.  \n  \n\n\u0026nbsp; \"I simply must get a new lock for my front door,\" She spoke with words of silk. \"You  \nsee, my husband has just left me and he's taken his key with him...\"  \n  \n\"Fear not, ma'am,\" Adrian replied with casual manor. \"Old \"Magic-Paws\", at your  \nimmediate service.\" He then took a bow, offered the female some of his sandwich he  \nhad just made for himself, which she declined with a giggle, and then told her to return  \ntomorrow.  \n  \nThroughout the whole night, the Shepard's work was stifled by the thought of the most  \nbeautiful woman he ever did see. He wanted to impress her, but how?  \n  \nThe following morning, she returned, just as she said she would, to notice the  \nlocksmith out cold on his desk. He went to tap him on the shoulder, but stopped  \nmidway, noticing the newly fabricated lock in one of his paws, and a couple red roses in  \nthe other.  \n  \nDelighted, she woke him up, kissed him on the cheek, and set a plan for a date,  \nchoosing to go out for an old fashioned dinner and a movie.  \n  \n  \n  \nThree years later, after going on too many dates to count, Adrian popped the  \nquestion, handing the love of his life a ring that took him three years to save up for. She  \nthen replied yes, embraced him in her arms and got married to him four months later,  \nhappily together forever.  \n  \n\n\u0026nbsp;  \n  \n~(Here's where the fairytale ends.)~  \n  \n  \n  \nOn their honeymoon, they figured that, because they were married now, they didn't  \nhave to bother with protection anymore. That basically, they were together forever,  \nwhich earned them some godly insurance that covered them for never having to worry  \nabout accidentally conceiving a pup again.  \n  \nAfter a week of paradise that seemed almost too good to be true, they made it home  \nagain, back to the locksmith's shop on Piccadilly Street.  \n  \nMargaret had moved in by now and went about cleaning, dusting, and rearranging  \neverything in the shop, which Adrian found nice at the beginning, but as time went by he  \ngot increasingly embittered about it.  \n  \nAs time passed on, things started to change. Margaret was becoming increasingly  \nbitchy, and morning sickness ensued everyday. All the while, Adrian somehow kept up  \nhis shop, which flowed in a little more then a trickle to get them by.  \n  \nThen the agonizing day of September 19th, 1998 floated along, normal as usual.  \n  \nArian was servicing a bike lock from one of his regular customers, when his wife came  \nrushing in with her pants down to her ankles. In her paw she held a stick with that  \nunholy plus symbol etched into the screen, which caused the Shepard to close up shop  \nearly that day.  \n  \n\n\u0026nbsp; \"How could this happen!?\" He shouted in the loft living room. A brand new color TV  \nwas playing another episode of \"Friends\" as Margaret lay down on the couch, feeling her  \nstomach.  \n  \n\"It must have been on our honeymoon,\" She sighed, sweat slipping down from her  \nheadfur. \"What are going to do?!\"  \n  \n\"What can we do?\" Adrian shouted, pacing back and forth now. \"We have to have it...\"  \n  \n  \n  \n~(Nine months later, they end up with me, a bouncing baby mutt, by the name of Wyler  \nWolfchester-Dnindis. I can't really tell you much about my childhood, seeing as I don't  \nremember most of it, but I guess I could start with...)~  \n  \n  \n  \n\\*\\*\\*  \n  \n  \n  \nIt was a clear autumn night of August 13th, 2006. A young pup, no older then six, lay  \nunder his sheets, staring intently at his babysitter, James, who was in the heat of telling  \nhis favorite story.  \n  \nJames, a stork, made a living as a children's storybook writer and was a very good  \nfriend of the family's. Partly because of his helpful kindness, and partly due to many  \nvisits on account of lock troubles.  \n  \n\"...and that's how the beggar boy made his way to become king.\" James concluded,  \ntucking the sheets under the child. He tickled him on the way, making the pup squirm  \nand giggle. \"The End.\"  \n  \n\n\u0026nbsp; \"I like your stories, James.\" The pup yawned.  \n  \n\"They teach you the most important lesson, child\" James said, sitting on a small stool  \nbeside the pup's bed. He ruffled the boy's headfur. \"Anyone can change the stars...\"  \n  \n\"Stars...?\" And before the pup could finish, he was out cold, cuddling his favorite teddy  \nbear.  \n  \nJames quietly left the bedside, tiptoed out of the room with his long spindly legs, and  \nshut the door behind him, only to catch the boy's parents slowly creeping through the  \nfront door. The stork held a finger-feather up to his beak and quietly made his way over  \nto the couple.  \n  \n\"He's out for the night,\" The stork smiled, waving goodbye to them as he grabbed this  \ncoat by the door.  \n  \n\"Thanks again,\" The two parents said, slipping the bird a ten dollar bill. He gladly took  \nit and closed the door behind him, walking down the steps that led him into the shop.  \nOpening the front door, James looked back into the fire that was kept up in the corner.  \nHe smiled and left, as the crisp autumn air greeted him.  \n  \n  \n  \nThe couple years that followed worked in this way. Wyler's parents would go out on  \nWednesday nights, leaving the kid in James' care, which was like a vacation in itself.  \n  \n\n\u0026nbsp; \"What made you wanna become a writer?\" A nine year old Wyler asked on one of  \nthese Wednesday nights. He sat at the dinner table that stood beside the kitchen as he  \nate his microwaved Chef Boyardee.  \n  \n\"Well...\" The stork said in thought as he sat next to him. \"I guess it's because I always  \nloved words. In English class I always wrote little stories that came to my head, and one  \nday it just hit me.\"  \n  \n\"What did?\"  \n  \n\"That I want to entertain pups like you with my books.\"  \n  \nThe stork then frowned. \"Wyler, what are you doing?\"  \n  \nThe pup then looked at James with an awkward giggle. Beside his bowl lay a mountain  \nof meatballs slopped in tomato sauce.  \n  \n\"I like to save the meatballs for last...\" He smiled.  \n  \n\"Well you're making a mess!\" The stork chuckled as the grabbed the mass of meat and  \nslopped it back in his bowl. \"Now give me your paws so I can clean them.\"  \n  \n\"Okay,\" Wyler said as he stuck out his red stained paws, which James attacked with a  \nrag. The pup then looked at the meat in his bowl, licked his chops and threw his face in,  \nsending more meat off the rim then into his muzzle.  \n  \n\n\u0026nbsp; \"Ugh...\" James sighed as he wiped Wyler's face, once again cleaning the table. \"You're  \nan interesting kid, you know that?\"  \n  \n\"I am?\"  \n  \n\"Yeah? How many other kids do you know that would do that?\"  \n  \n  \n  \n~(That was the last night I talked with James, though. I remember it like it was clear as  \nday. It was one of those rare nights that he decided to drive, which makes him an idiot,  \nseeing as one of the worst rainstorms I've ever seen welled up during that day.  \n  \nMy parents told me he moved to Paris and became a famous writer, but I knew darn  \nwell he lost control and ended up in a ditch just five blocks away from our loft on  \nPiccadilly.  \n  \nWeird enough, I'm pretty sure I felt him die somewhere near my heart that night. It  \nwasn't one of those things you notice in the heat of the moment, but now that I look  \nback on it, it was as clear as a gunshot.  \n  \nI'll spare you all the details of it all, but rest assured... It was probably the worst  \ntimes of my life, which, oddly enough, brings us to the starting point of my story, which  \nfast forwards almost eight years later.  \n  \n\n\u0026nbsp; Don't worry, you didn't miss much, except my father, Adrian, picked up a slight  \ndrinking habit that my mother could barely handle, which set the whole household on  \neven more of an edge. Other then that you're pretty much up to speed. Except the part I  \nforgot to mention about yours truly.  \n  \nYou would think life would be hard enough in the boy's locker room, what with me  \nhaving to hide my mutt fur, but one unlucky day came when I caught a glimpse at the  \nother boys, which sent wild, unclear thoughts through my head.  \n  \nA couple self-hating months later, I finally accepted myself as whom I was. A gay  \nmutt. Societies worst nightmare.  \n  \nNow, having said that... I think a Once Upon a Time is in order.)~  \n  \n  \n  \nOnce Upon a Time...  \n  \n  \n  \n~(No... That doesn't really fit does it? Crap... and I already used \"It all started...\" How  \nabout this for a starting...)~  \n  \n  \n  \n\\*\\*\\*  \n  \n  \n  \nSunday night, September 1st, 2017, there came a knock at the front shop door. Adrian  \nand Margaret were busy reading completely different materials beside the fire when they  \nperked their ears at the noise.  \n  \n\n\u0026nbsp; In unison they looked at each other before grunting as they helped each other up, and  \nthen headed for the front door, where another knock rang out.  \n  \nThey opened to see their seventeen year old son with his eyes glued to the doormat.  \nBehind him stood a bulldog dressed in a police officer with his hat already in his paw.  \n  \n\"Evening Mr. and Mrs. W.D.\" He said as the rain tipped on his balding, canine head.  \n\"How are we this evening?\"  \n  \n\"Wyler!?\" His mother said as she grabbed him by the shoulder.  \n  \n\"Is everything alright officer?\" Adrian said as he glared at his son, who didn't dare  \nreturn it.  \n  \n\"Well...\" He said as he looked around. \"Umm... No... I'm afraid. Wyler, here has been  \ncausing trouble out in the retail district...\"  \n  \n\"What has he been doing?\" His mother asked, now putting her own glare on him.  \n  \n\"He's been riding his gas... foot thing again...\" The officer said as he pointed back into  \nhis cruiser.  \n  \n  \n  \n~(It's the year 2017. Gas had been considered \"Too dangerous to use\" by this time, and  \nwas made extremely illegal by the Government and the World Care Organization.  \n  \n\n\u0026nbsp; That didn't mean you couldn't get it, though. It came cheaper then the ionic gel crap  \nthat everyone went to. I thought it was quite interesting how it could explode so readily,  \nand by the time my father taught me basic mechanics, I fiddled around and invented my  \nown way of getting around.  \n  \nThat \"gas foot thing\" was a mountain-board hooked up with a small engine. Nothing  \nspecial, but it was still mine...)~  \n  \n  \n  \n\"We've impounded his vehicle,\" The officer said, taking out his notepad. \"And as you  \nknow this comes as a direct violation to his probation. He SOULD be on his way to juvie  \nright about now...\"  \n  \n\"Say no more, Officer,\" Adrian replied, ripping his son away. \"We'll take care of him...\"  \n  \n\"Be sure that you do,\" The bulldog tipped his hat again and turned around, saluting a  \nswift goodbye as he did so.  \n  \n\"Wyler Pullen Wolfchester-Dnindis...\" His mother sighed after she closed the door. He  \nknew she was pissed, seeing as she said his full name. That always means trouble,  \nespecially when you have a name as retarded as \"Wyler Pullen Wolfchester-Dnindis\"...  \n  \n\n\u0026nbsp; \"What are we going to do with you, boy,\" His father said as he rubbed his temples.  \n\"Honestly, this is the third time in two months you've been escorted home because of  \nthat death contraption you ride around on. We even hid it from you?!\"  \n  \n\"Yeah,\" Wyler scoffed as he headed for the stairs. \"Who'd of thought I would find it in  \nthe shed... And besides, it's just gas... It's not as harmful as you think, you know...\"  \n  \n\"Be that as it may...\" Were the last couple words he heard before he shut the door to  \nthe loft behind him. The atmosphere changed immediately from gloomy shop to cozy loft  \nas fire's shadow from the fireplace on the second floor danced on the walls. It was  \nstoked higher then usual as the teenage canine dragged his foot-paws past it with his  \ngaze set to the floor.  \n  \nOpening the side window, he pushed his torso out and grabbed on the pipeline that  \nclung to the side of the building. He then grabbed shingles with his claws, pulling  \nhimself up to the slanted roof, where the view of the rest of London was spectacular.  \nThis was his happy place were he would lay and stare at the stars, but on rainy nights  \nlike tonight he would have to settle for the feeling of droplets soaking into his fur as a  \nwater painting of lights from the city acted like night sky on earth.  \n  \n\n\u0026nbsp; He gave a sigh as he slopped down, his pants and shirt already dripping from the trek  \nup. Gazing towards the sky, he could see lightning spark through the black, rolling  \nclouds, followed by the rumble of thunder that seemed to shake every droplet that  \nfreefell onto him.  \n  \nHe gave a sigh as he started to shiver from the sudden chill of the rain, thoughts  \ncombing through his mind as he sat up, putting his chin to his arms as they rested on  \nhis knees.  \n  \n\"What's a mutt to do...\" He thought as he stared into the city light, which sprinkled  \naround darkness like hundreds of tiny candles, ready to be blown out at any second.  \n\"When he's so bored of an average life...\"  \n  \nThe child side of him waited for an answer. An answer from a guardian angel or an  \nimaginary friend. But, as usual, there was nothing but the pitter-patter of rain, accented  \nby rolling thunder.  \n  \nHe gave another sigh before sliding down slowly, placing his foot-paws on the pipe,  \none at a time. He always checked to make sure it was still stable, remembering the first  \ntime he discovered this fortress of solitude. He tried getting down, putting too much  \npressure on the pipe, which caused it to break. Needless to say he was stuck up there  \nuntil his parents opened the window, only to hear him crying his heart out.  \n  \n\n\u0026nbsp; He made his way back into the window, only to find his parents both staring at him,  \nhis mother looking terrified and his father looking murderous.  \n  \n\"Gad damnit Wyler,\" His father growled as he crossed his huge forearms. \"Do we have  \nto start beating you again? Will that get the point across for you to listen to us?\"  \n  \nWyler just scoffed as he walked, soaking wet, to his bedroom, where he slammed his  \ndoor and locked it just in time. One second later and his father would have grabbed him  \nby the collar, pulling him back out into the den, where the use of a belt might have been  \nimplemented.  \n  \nThe boy just laughed as his father knocked on his door shouting \"Wyler open up this  \nDAMNED door RIGHT NOW!\"  \n  \n\"I can sound scary by SHOUTING TOO!\" Wyler replied as he stood, inches away from  \nthe door.  \n  \n\"NO SON OF MINE WILL ACT LIKE THIS!\" He heard his father shout, backing down.  \nThen nothing but silence, which cued the ending of yet another squabble in the  \nWolfchester-Dnindis household.  \n  \n\"No son of yours, huh...?\" Wyler said, stripping down his waterlogged clothes. They  \ncame off with a bit of a wrestle, removing with a satisfying slurp, and after his clothes  \nwere gone he was left naked in the darkness.  \n  \n\n\u0026nbsp; He flipped his light switch and looked into the mirror that mounted into his door.  \n  \n  \n  \nHis fur was quite unique, and was something only he seemed to appreciate, and that  \nwas only when he was alone. His face had white fur on his muzzle that accented his  \norange cheeks, which melded into his black headfur. Down his neck and chest were the  \nsame color white, but further down it faded into a reddish brown, which covered his  \nbelly, crotch, and legs. On his back were splotches of black and brown that seemed  \npainted into his silver gray fur that cascaded its way from his neck to the very tip of his  \ntail.  \n  \nHe admired it within himself when he stood in the mirror, but hated the fact that when  \nhe walked into public he knew all eyes were on him. After all, mutts were considered the  \nlowest of the low, seeing as crossbreeding was almost a social abomination by this  \ntime.  \n  \nBecause of this, he found himself thin on friendship, which was fine, seeing as it left  \nhim with more time in the world to write, just like his childhood Hero, James.  \n  \n\n\u0026nbsp;  \n  \n\"Hey,\" He heard the delicate voice of his mother whisper from the other side of his  \ndoor. \"Can we talk to you, Wyler...? We're worried about you, that's all...\"  \n  \nThe canine just stood in room, staring at his naked reflection. He figured he could  \neither go two ways. Go out there, fall into the trap, and be punished, or he could go to  \nhis bed, take his CD player and listen to music.  \n  \n\"The second sounds nicer,\" He thought with a grin as he took in a breath to shout back  \nhis answer. \"We can talk later! Night!\"  \n  \nHe then jumped backwards, grabbing his CD played from his dresser in midair, and  \nlanded back first on his bed. Pressing \"play\", he stuffed the ear buds into his ears, giving  \na large sigh as he closed his eyes.  \n  \n  \n  \n\\*\\*\\*  \n  \n  \n  \nThe next morning, Wyler woke just as his old alarm clock, dented from all the  \nmornings he smashed on the snooze button, changed from 7:59 to 8:00 A.M.  \n  \nHe debated on rolling over and letting this just be another Monday morning where he  \ndragged his tail into school at lunch time. He always missed his first and second period  \nin this way, seeing as math and science bored him to no end. He might as well get his  \nsleep from his bed, rather then feeling embarrassed about drooling all over his desk.  \n  \n\n\u0026nbsp; That's when he heard the sound of a broken bottle smash on the ground, followed by a  \ngasp from his mother. He floated out of bed, silent as a ghost, until he had his ear  \nfirmly planted against his door.  \n  \n\"Adrian!\" He heard his mother's voice, which sounded more worried then he had ever  \nheard. Then the collapse of something, which thudded slightly on the tiled floor, muffled  \nby the sound of what he guessed as his mother catching him. \"Here,\" He heard her say.  \n\"I'll get you something to eat, just lay on the couch...\"  \n  \nWyler thought about stepping out with a towel, heading groggily and unaware to the  \nshower. \"She would buy that wouldn't she?\" He thought, slipping on some of his boxers  \nthat hung off his dresser.  \n  \n\"Wyler!\" He heard his mother calling from the kitchen, which made him jump  \nbackwards. \"Wyler!? Can you hear me?!\"  \n  \nHe looked around as he debated on answering her. Finally he took a deep breath,  \nslunk his ears to his head and replied with a faint. \"...yeah...?\"  \n  \n\"Could you come out here, please?\" She called over the faint fizzle of something,  \nprobably bacon. \"And get ready, I'll give you a ride to school today!\"  \n  \n\n\u0026nbsp; \"Damnit...\" He sighed. \"There goes this Monday's sleeping in plan...\"  \n  \nHe put on his PJ pants and opened his bedroom door. There, on the living room couch,  \nlay his father with the stupidest expression on his face.  \n  \n\"Wyler,\" He said with a drunken smile, holding out his paw. \"Come 'ere and give yer ol'  \ndads a hug, ya?\"  \n  \nWyler just rolled his eyes and walked right past him, avoiding his depth-perceptionless  \ngrasp at his pants. He then walked into the kitchen, the smell of hamburger filling the  \nair as his mother looked at him with her bloodshot eyes.  \n  \n\"Whoa...\" He said as he sat down at the table. \"You look like you've had a rough  \nnight...\"  \n  \n\"Ya think?\" She snapped as she threw a cooked patty in his direction. Wyler caught it  \nwith his plate and proceeded to pull out some buns that were on the table. \"You sent  \nyour father out to the bars last night, Wyler. I was up all night worrying about him...\"  \n  \n\"I slept great,\" The mutt scoffed as he kept his eyes on his burger. He then heard his  \nmother growl as she wielded a spatula in his direction.  \n  \n\n\u0026nbsp; \"What are you doing, Wyler?\" She said, tears almost forming in her eyes. \"What  \nhappened to the kid me and that drunken buffoon raised, huh? What happened to the  \nWyler that got straight A's in school and acted like he cared for his parents?!\"  \n  \n\"He died,\" The seventeen year old replied, monotone and uncaring. He then thought  \nabout firing back a reason as silence sputtered with the patties on the stove. \"He died in  \na car crash when I was nine...\"  \n  \nWyler kept his gaze on the table, examining the bite he has just bitten out of his  \nfood. He waited for his mother to answer before he looked back up to her.  \n  \n\"I didn't know...\" She spoke softly and stuttered as she kept some her attention to the  \nfood on the stove. \"I didn't know you knew...\"  \n  \n\"I wasn't stupid, mom,\" He said as he got up, scratching his bare chest. \"Whatever,  \nkay? I'm heading to school.\"  \n  \n\"I'll give you a ride,\" She sighed as she went to look for her keys. Wyler just grabbed  \nher by the arm and put the spatula back into her paw.  \n  \n\"Don't worry about it,\" He sighed, looking over to his father, who had passed out by  \nnow. \"See you when I get home.\"  \n  \n\n\u0026nbsp; \"When will that be?\" Was the last thing he heard before he went into his bedroom to  \nget dressed. All he could think of in his mind was how much he didn't want to answer  \nthat question. How much he would rather just find a bunch of money, hire some  \narchitects to build him a tree house somewhere, complete it was electricity and internet,  \nand just live there till the clock stopped.  \n  \n  \n  \n~(23 years have passed since that morning when my father stumbled in wasted. That  \nwas probably the morning where everything started to change. When I first started to  \ncrave escape from everything. When the gears in my head started to churn out new ways  \nof everything.  \n  \nWhen I look back on what all came of it, I would have stopped myself right then and  \nthere, told myself to go to school like every other normal kid and clean up my act.  \n  \nSadly, it didn't happen this way, which is better for you, seeing as it gives me a story  \nto write, and even as I blather on, you're probably debating on skipping ahead to where  \nthe real story resumes, so I will not keep you a moment further.)~  \n  \n\n\u0026nbsp;  \n\\*\\*\\*  \n  \n  \n(8)For the first time in a long time, I can say \"That I want to try\"  \nI feel helpless for the most part, But I'm learning to open my eyes  \nAnd the sad truth of the matter is, I'll never get over it  \nBut I'm gonna try, To get better and overcome each moment  \nIn my own way.(8)  \n  \n\"Even if it kills me.\"  \n-Motion City Soundtrack.  \n\\*\\*\\*  \n  \nBehold... OPTIC BLAST! Ha... Marvel vs. Capcom 2 ![icon_redface.gif](https://www.sofurryfiles.com/static/icons/icon_redface.gif \"Blushing\"). Anyways this is the intro to me new series \"Caught up in the moment, but not in the right way\". I hope you guys enjoyed it, seeing as it stems from a lack of inspiration. I also hope you guys noticed that i haven't set a limit to how long it will be, so maybe this will be another double digit series.  \nAnyways have fun everyone! \\*huggles!\\*  \n=Pup  \n  \n\n","series":{"name":"Caught Up in the Moment/But not in the Right Way.(INCOMPLETE)","next":"https://fse.anthro.fr/stories/46478-chapter-2-jasey-rae.json"}}