Stranger Part 3
#3 of Stranger
Standard disclaimer: Blah blah blah gay, kissing, etc. Warning, there is some violence and homophobia (in a flashback)
Enjoy!
"And here we are!" Jav turned the wheel and put the Mini into a parking space. The lot was next to a sandstone building, with a sign above it reading "Amanti's".
Kit looked at the sign as he got out of the car. He had been invited to come along and eat with Jav's family for the first time since meeting them. He wondered what Atticus was going to try and pull, knowing Atti had something for him. 'Mostly just horniness, though...' Kit thought to himself.
When Jav opened the door, they were bombarded by a wave of conversation and the smell of food. It was packed, as most Italian restaurants are on weekends. "Do you want a table?" the hostess behind a desk asked. "No, we're having dinner with some others. Where's Marie Chalfant's table?"
Kit smiled pleasantly as he smelled the food being cooked from the kitchen, his tail wagged a little at the smell as well. He was excited to have dinner with them all; he finally felt accepted for who he was.
"Oh, right over there." she pointed at cluster of tables at the other end of the place. "Thanks." Jav said, and looked in the direction pointed out. He spotted Marie and Atti's table and started walking toward them.
Kit looked around for a second before realizing that Jav was walking away without him, and he had to rush a little to catch up.
Jav sat down on one side of the table. "Hi guys." He waited until Kit sat next to him, and then picked up his menu.
Kit looked through the menu silently, his mind kind of shooting back to the moment at the park. 'Haa...' he simply thought to himself as he squirmed a little.
Jav glanced at Atticus, who was unusually silent and looking down. "Hey, what's up?" Atti's head shot up. "Nothing's up, I'm just reading something!" "I thought you had too short of an attention span for that." Atticus giggled. "Not when it's something I like..."
Kit looked up at the two of them talking and chuckled at them. "You definitely act like brothers!" He smiled slyly.
Jav rolled his eyes. "That's for sure. Hey, what're you reading?" Atticus smirked. "Nothing..." "Tell me!" "Nope." Jav reached under the table and grabbed the book.
Kit, knowing Atticus, could only guess what the "book" was and smirked at the thought of what was going to happen next. He looked over at Marie, giggling a little "This might not end well" he muttered aloud.
Jav's face reddened as he looked at the book, the title being 'CockTales Vol. 2' He looked at Atticus, who was laughing silently. "I told you to stop stealing my porn!" He said, and immediately clapped his hand over his mouth. 'Oops...'
Kit laughed heartily as he saw the book. "I thought as much!" He said after calming down. What he hadn't been expecting was that it belonged to Atticus, which made him blush a little. "I-it's yours?" He laughed again, lighter this time.
Atticus put his hand back on the table. "Yup!" He said proudly. Marie put her hand on her forehead and laughed. "Like I said...he's a raving sex hound." "And proud of it!"
Kit giggled in aftershock at the scene as he looked over at Marie. "Haha... A sex hound, but still a great person, right? It's all that really matters." He stuck his tongue out a little and giggled again.
"That's what I tell myself!" she responded. Atti grinned. "So, what do you two want to order?"
Kit grinned in response and simply said "Chicken Marsala sounds interesting to me." Being from the country they didn't have many restaurants, so it was a mystery to him as to what it really was.
"I'll have the tortellini." Just then, a young waiter came up to their table. "So, are you ready to order?" He said, and then looked warily at Atti. Marie repeated their orders to him. "Okay, your food should be ready in a short while." The waiter turned and walked away, oblivious of Atticus ogling his rear.
Kit only grinned devilishly as he looked at Atti ogling the waiter "Calm down, horndog." He whispered at him and chuckled as he looked at Jav and winked slightly.
Atticus made a mock offended face. "Hmph!" Jav just giggled. "How are you two getting along?" Marie asked, casually leaning on her arm.
Kit smiled broadly as he pulled Jav into a hug and wagged his tail a little. "Jav's being so nice to me! He even got a two person apartment just because I'm here!" He was proud and happy to say it.
"That's good of you, Jav. It's nice to see you finally have someone to be with." Marie replied. "And I know Kit appreciates it."
Kit nodded with a grin on his face as he began to take a drink of water. He was absolutely jovial about his life in the new city.
Jav followed Kit's lead and sipped his drink as well. "So, have you two had sex yet?" Atticus asked bluntly. Both Jav and Kit suddenly spit out their mouthfuls of water and choked a little. "*gak* What's it to you?!" Jav demanded, while Kit just burst out laughing.
"Ahahaha!" He was blushing while laughing, which would be a dead giveaway but he couldn't help himself.
Marie snorted, trying to pretend it didn't strike her as funny. Jav coughed and then cleared his throat. "I don't have to answer that." He said, teasing Atti.
Kit almost had trouble talking after laughing for as long as he had. "Heheheh... maybe we have and he's being shy...!" Kit was still giving it away by the look on his face even though what he had said was just as taunting as what Jav had said.
"Oh, so you have!" Atticus said triumphantly. "Is that true?" Marie asked, not so much concerned as curious.
Kit giggled as his blush deepened. "Y-yeah it's true..." He didn't feel like going into detail as he hadn't spoken with the two well enough to get very comfortable with how much they would want to know. 'Atticus probably would want to know every little thing about it, but something tells me Marie might be a little more reserved about it...'
Marie addressed Kit. "You've only been together for a couple days and you already got him into bed?!" Noticing his confused reaction, she simply held up her hand. "High five! That's an accomplishment!"
Kit looked concerned at first about Marie's reaction, but as soon as she had said "High five!" he giggled as he clapped his hand to hers. "Really? An accomplishment? Is he really that hard to get most of the time?" Kit asked genuinely curious.
"Oh, I wouldn't really know..." she said, implying that she obviously did know. "Well, now I'm the minority here!" Atticus said, being the only virgin at the table.
Kit looked over at Atticus with a devilish grin on his face. "Ah, just hold out hope... you never know what the future brings! I mean, look at me and him as an example..." He trailed off a little, realizing what he was about to say.
"Kit, I believe you just owned yourself." Atti remarked. Before anything else could happen, the food arrived. "Oh, great!" Jav said, and started to attack his pasta with a fork.
As the plate was set down in front of Kit he inhaled deeply at the scent coming off of it. "It smells great!" He picked up his fork and dug in.
Jav savored the taste of the pasta. "Ah...nothing like good food after a long day..."
Jav pointed at Kit's plate with a forkful of pasta. "Don't eat too much...you won't be able to move!" Atticus broke in. "And we all know why that would be a problem..."
Kit only giggled at Atticus' remark and nodded at Jav. "Okay, hun." He had said it without thinking about it as he focused on slowing down on his eating.
Jav cheered inside at what Kit called him, realizing that there was nothing left between them. Marie playfully knocked Atticus on the head. "Stop teasing them and eat your food," she said. "Kit, you never told us about your family. What're they like?"
Kit eyes dulled almost instantly at the mention of Family. He was fighting back tears as hard as he could as he looked up at them all. He slowly started to recount the story to them.
-The Story of Kit's Past-
Kit walked through the threshold into his home of 17 years as he trembled with fear. He now knew beyond a shadow of a doubt that there was a big secret that needed to be told. He heard his parents in two separate rooms, his mother in the kitchen making supper and his dad in the study typing away at the computer.
"Welcome back, Kitsune, dear." He heard his mother say as she peeked out of the kitchen door. "I trust you had a good time at school today? Find your mate yet?" A pang of guilt flew through his mind at the speed of light as he dropped his book bag on the floor with a dull thud. His father looked out the study door, the epitome of silent anger and poise as he stood up from his chair and walked around the desk out the hallway and towards his son.
"Pick that up and put it away properly." His father commanded as he slowly picked up the backpack and placed it on a peg on the wall. He looked up at his father's face and grimaced as he began the decent to hell that was coming out.
"I need to talk to the both of you..." He simply said, all the light gone from his eyes as he walked towards the living room, waiting for them to follow. As the two of them finally sat down there was a long period of silence, in which his father cleared his throat and his mother simply smiled half-heartedly. It seemed to be a big mystery to the both of them what Kit was about to say, but Kit already knew the result.
"I'm... Never going to find a mate... At least... not the way you think." His mother's smile dropped as she looked cautiously over at her husband, who only smirked maliciously as his eyes glinted. He stood up from the couch and looked down at his son, a sadistic smile on his face. CRRRAAAACK! A humongous fist flew out of nowhere and pummeled Kit in the face, sending him spiraling away from his father landing haphazardly on the chair directly behind him. He stood up shakily spitting blood out of his mouth as he looked up at his father with a glint of fear in his eyes.
"Are you trying to tell me... that MY son... the child I RAISED and CARED FOR for his entire 17 YEARS OF LIFE... IS A HOMO?!" CRACK! Another fist landed in Kit's stomach, causing him to arc over in pain, his ears flat against his head.
"NO... SON... OF... MINE... IS... GOING... TO... BE... GAY..." He said, striking Kit over and over again in between each word. His mother only sat stock still, afraid to do anything short of yelp when she saw her son getting abused. Kit looked over at her with a look of hatred as she continued to do nothing to help him. His father stomped on his back and side while he was on the floor, only eliciting a scream of pain from Kit and a shudder from his mother.
The next day at school was no better, as more and more people crowded around him. They all knew what the marks and bumps were from.
"Faggot."
"Homo."
"Cock-Sucker."
"Fairy!"
The insults kept flying from all directions until finally he couldn't take it anymore. He literally howled with fury, his eyes gleaming silver as he launched into the crowds around him, tearing into them with his claws and throwing punch after punch after punch. CRACK CRACK CRACK the fists and claws continued to fly as he pounced out the doors of the school with nothing but the clothes on his back and the book bag full of his everyday items. He whimpered as he realized what he had just done, and knew that there was no way he could stay in the town any longer... His parent's disowned him; he had just fought his way out of having a boarding room at the school... The only other option was to leave. He walked out past the town a while until he found that the highway was more populated with cars. He stuck out his thumb until a trucker pulled over.
He was a snow tiger, colored black and white stripes dressed in jeans, a black shirt and a red stitched vest. He looked down at the teenager with a somewhat sad look on his face as he opened the cab door.
"Metro City's the stop I'm making... you're on your own from there." He said solemnly as Kit climbed up in the cab, tear stains obvious on his face. The cab rumbled away as they made their way to the city.
"So, got any family in Metro?" An ominous sort of angry growl escaped from Kit as he looked up at the trucker with his silver eyes still in place.
"Let's not talk about 'Family' for this entire trip... Okay?"
-End of Flashback-
When Kit was done explaining, there was absolute silence at the table. Marie and Atticus just stared, looking at Kit with sad, concerned faces. Jav gasped, and put his arms around Kit. "Shh...It's okay, it's okay..." he said, as Kit cried into his shoulder.
Kit had tried so hard to stay tough about it, but he couldn't help himself. "I-I don't know why it had to be this way..." He simply stammered-cried as tears were still flowing
Jav rubbed Kit's back to make him feel better. "Nothing's going to happen...you're here now." A few tears leaked out of Jav's eyes as Kit's story and emotions really hit him.
Kit hiccupped a little as he pulled away to look Jav in the eyes as he gave him a kiss on the cheek. "T-Thanks, hun." He said as he pulled back into the hug.
Marie reached across the table and put her hand on Kit's shoulder. "Don't cry...the past is the past. Don't let it hurt you." Atticus sniffed a little, remembering his breakup. "I-I'm sorry...I shouldn't have teased you...you've been through a lot."
Kit shook his head at Atticus "No, don't beat yourself up. I never told you." He looked over at Marie. "Thanks... I'm sorry I ended up messing with our dinner with this." He laughed a little pitifully and wiped a tear away from his face. "You're all practically my new family now anyways." He stated rather bluntly.
"It feels that way." Jav said, and kissed Kit on the cheek. "Let's finish eating." With that, he resumed stuffing his face with pasta.
-Later-
Kit walked through the door to the newly two-person apartment with a contented look on his face. The dinner was great, albeit bumpy for a while, and now he was able to relax with the one he loved in their own home. 'I found a great place to be... My dad kicking me out has to have been one of the best things to happen in my life...'
"*yawn* Italian food always makes me sleepy...plus, it's like 11 PM. Let's go to bed."
Kit looked over at Jav with a sort of amorous grin as he wrapped his arms around him. "Yeah... it's late. We should head to bed." Kit kissed him on the lips.
"Mmmm...and no trying to fondle me in the morning!" Jav said, and then walked upstairs.
Kit played with the idea of grabbing Jav's tail for the fun of it, but just followed him up the stairs to the bed.
Kit disrobed and slid in right next to him, cuddling up as close as he could and smiling as his eyes began to droop closed.
-The Next Day-
Jav's eyes blinked open. "Ah...morning..." he said to the still deep-asleep Kit. Not wanting to wake him up, Jav planted a quick kiss on his cheek and carefully got out of bed. "Hmmm...what to do, what to do." He suddenly thought of a good way to wake Kit up. "Oh, perfect!" He quickly ran downstairs.
After searching around in the fridge, Jav found what he was looking for. "This'll be priceless!" He pulled out a large cucumber and snuck back up the stairs. Making sure that Kit was still asleep, he gently placed the vegetable in his hand and stepped back.
Kit began to mumble incoherently as he licked his lips. In his mind the dream was recounting what had happened in the park as he brought his head down and the cucumber up at the same time and started licking it, and soon began sucking on it.
Jav bent over double, laughing silently. 'This is just too good!' he thought.
Kit continued to suck on it for a while until he began to wake up. He looked at the cucumber in his hand and then looked up at Jav with a "You're a jerk!" look on his face, soon replaced with a disappointed sigh. "And here I thought I was making you feel good..." He simply said with a sly smile on his face.
Jav burst out laughing again. "I'm sorry if I disappointed you, but this was just too good to resist!" He gradually stopped laughing, and walked over to the bed. "Good morning, honey." He said, and gave Kit a hug.
Kit returned the hug and gave him a kiss on the cheek. He chuckled slyly. "Oh well, maybe later we could get into something..." He hinted as he winked openly.
"Not today, my dear. I have a headache." Jav quoted, and opened his closet.
Kit harrumphed and then giggled as he looked down at the clothes on the ground and realization hit him. "Umm... I've been wearing the same thing three days in a row now..." He stated aloud in a slightly concerned tone
Jav giggled. "I wondered when you were going to realize that." He pointed at his closet. "Take your pick! I have way too many clothes for just me."
Kit grabbed hold of some baggy camo pants and a somewhat dark blue t-shirt with the words "Got Fox?" written on it in a large white font similar to a certain add campaign. He chuckled lightly to himself as he slid the clothes on and stood in front of a nearby mirror looking at how he looked.
Jav walked up behind him and wrapped his arms around Kit's chest. "Oooh...sexy. Nice choice of shirt."
Kit grinned heavily as he craned his head behind him to look at Jav. "Heheh, why thank you!" He pecked Jav on the cheek.
Jav stepped into his closet. "Now, what should I wear?" He turned and looked at Kit. "You decide...pick something sexy."
Kit smiled widely as he dug back into the closet, rummaging around until he found a pair of semi-tight jeans and a slightly baggy black shirt with a white logo printed on the front. He pulled back out of the closet with the clothes in hand and held them up almost triumphantly "How this?"
Jav giggled, for Kit hadn't noticed that the shirt read 'I Give Free Hugs'. "Perfect." He slipped the clothes on quickly.
Kit stopped and looked at his boyfriend and couldn't help himself as he hugged him closely. "Mmm... My Koneko." He simply mumbled.
"What does that mean?" Jav asked.
Kit looked at him and smiled faintly "It's Japanese for 'Kitten'" He smiled peacefully as he giggled.
Jav blushed. "Awwww..." He pecked Kit on the cheek. "And you're my foxy."
Kit squirmed a little as he giggled from the kiss. "Hehe. So Sweet!"
Jav murred. "I can't say how glad I am that we met."
Kit gave out a little playful growl "You and me both, Koneko."
Just then, the phone rang. Jav sighed. "Speaker!" He announced, and the call went through to speakerphone. The voice of Marie came out of the phone and she sounded excited. "Jav! I have great news! Stop banging your boyfriend and listen!"
Kit laughed rather loudly as he shot back "She knows us so well!" in a joking tone towards Jav. He was also waiting to hear the good news.
"I heard that, Kit. Anyway, I got a call from the Gary Markovitch Museum of Modern Art! They said they saw my work at that art fair I was in, and they liked it! I'm going to have my art in a museum!"
"Really!? THAT'S GREAT! I'm so happy for you, Marie!" Kit practically jumped up and down as he grinned ear to ear, as if she could see him smile.
"Awesome! You always said you wanted to have art in a museum!" Jav grinned.
"The exhibit is being opened today, and I got you two tickets. Be there at ten! Love you, Jav! *click*"
Kit's eyes were practically beaming "Wow! Featured in a museum! What an honor!" He could hardly hold his excitement away as he thought about going to the museum to see the artwork.
Jav chuckled. "Easy there. Don't burst your brain!" He squeezed Kit in a hug again, and then started to walk downstairs. "Come on, Amanti."
"Amanti...?" Kit asked, unsure of the answer.
Jav looked back at him. "It means lover." He blew Kit a kiss, and then continued downstairs.
Kit blushed and giggled as he walked down the steps behind Jav. "Aww... Koneko-Kun!" he said as he kissed the air facing him.
A realization hit Jav. He looked around for a clock, and then spotted one. It read '9:25'. "Uhh, Kit?"
Kit cocked his head to the side as he followed Jav's line of vision to the clock and his face fell a little. "Oh... Not a lot of time...!" Kit said uncertainly. "We'd have to get going right now, wouldn't we?"
"Not just would, we have to go!" He grabbed his keys and grabbed Kit, then walked quickly out the door.
Kit yelped in surprise as he quickly pulled the door shut behind him with barely any time to spare.
To Be Continued...