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I got home and made my way upstairs as quickly as possible. I packed up my laptop and headed downstairs to find that my parents weren't even home. I pulled out my flip phone and hit the speed dial for dad's cell.

"... Hello?"

"Hey, uh, where are you guys?" [Me]

"At the hospital. Your mother's closing in on the labor date, and the doctors identified the infants as triplets, so they wanted to keep her here until they're born."

"Oh, woah, that's... uh... something."

"Yeah yeah, I know you're not very excited about this, and honestly, I don't know how we're gonna take care of three babies and you at the same time. You might need to get a part time job, Alex."

"Umm... Something tells me that won't be necassary."

"Why?"

"Just a hunch. Um, is it okay if I go over to a friend's house today?"

"Since when do you need permission to go to Seth's place?"

"I'm not going to Seth's."

"Oh, are you.. having troubles with... that?"

"No, I'm not, Mr. Homophobe. Don't sound so cheery about it."

"Sorry, just... I can't understand how you can turn your back on us and go off to be a completely different person."

"Correct me if I'm wrong, you got a degree in mathematics, after your parents demanded that you go to art school or some carpenter's school or something, right?"

"That was my future, not some high school relationship."

"Well Seth feels like more, and the same hunch as before tells me he'll be more."

"Right, is that hunch Seth himself?"

"No, it's logic and some stuff that a friend at school's been saying."

"The same friend who's house you're going to?"

"Eh, he agrees with it."

"You'd think being... like that wouldl make it harder for you to talk to men."

"Nope, men are always uncomfortable talking to women, gay or straight."

"Is there a single girl you know?"

"I've heard of this chick named Kiari, but I have no idea who she is or what she even looks like."

"Right, of course you don't. Well, have a good time at..."

"Tanner's house."

"Tanner? Wasn't he a Christian you went to school with last year?"

"Different Tanner, and I hated that kid. Tanner Icer's-"

"Icer?! ... Sorry, I... I had a friend in college with the last name Robert Icer. I think he died a few years ago."

"Well that'd fit, Tanner lives with his brother since their parents died like ten years ago or something."

"Yeah. Tanner and Kyle, right?"

"Yup."

"Of course. Before, well... the car crash, I remember talking to Robert, and him saying his oldest son, Kyle, turned into a faggot and-"

"Dad."

"Oh, sorry, just slipped. He, uh, started working at some strip club."

"Yeah, so I heard. Apparently after their parents died there was some issue with the insurance company and they had to keep paying for their parents' insurance until the sorted it out, and got a ton of compensation money for it."

"Nice. So, is Tanner gonna join in your weird foursome?"

"No, Tanner's got a boyfriend and-" I was cut off by the door bell ringing. "Oh, I guess X is here. Gotta go, later."

"Bye. Love you!"

"Love you too, dad." I closed the phone and opened the front door to see X and Jeran, with X wearing a collar hooked to a leash.

"Hey, you're... what the hell?" [Me]

"Turns out he's a bit of a masochist. This is all he had, though." [Jeran]

"A bit?" [X]

"Uhh..." [Me]

"Well, he's also got a toy, so-" [Jeran]

"Ew! I didn't need to know that! God, just take me to Tannner's already!" [Me]

"You say it like we're not gonna be there." Jeran turned around and headed down the steps towards the car, tugging a little on X's leash, who's tail wagged as he was pulled along. I followed them and got in the back of Jeran's car, having to move the opened box of "Beak Guards", or so the box read. A quick glance at the picture of an avian sucking a toy on the back weirded me out and my fingers recoiled in aversion to it so quickly that I half threw it at X's head as he climbed over the driver's seat so that Jeran wouldn't have to let go of the leash.

"Oh, sorry." [Me]

"It's okay." He looked down at the box and smirked,"especially now that I see what Jeran does with his free time."

"Wha- oh. No, those don't work. They're uncomfortable and too small and thin to work well. Be glad you're a total sub or you'd feel my beak every time I-" [Jeran]

"Let's not talk about this." [Me]

"I was going to say pleasure him, but you seem to hate the topic itself, so..."

"Well sorry, but I'm apparently the only one around here who isn't constantly thinking about sex."

"Which is funny, because you're the one who got the cutest boyfriend last year." [X]

"Yeah, because I wasn't making dick jokes and talking about sex every time we weren't talking about our feelings or lives." [Me]

"Or trying to commit suicide-" [X]

"Not funny!"

"Speaking of canines who've come close to suicide in the past- Alex, go get your boyfriend." Jeran parked the car on the side of the road across from Seth's house.

I got out and turned around before I closed the door, "Wait- are Garrick and Zane getting a ride, too?"

"Does this car look like it can hold eight people?" [Jeran]

"Eight?"

"Daniel and Ted?"

"Oh, right. Well, my logic still applies, I mean, we're all gay guys, it's not too hard to put someone on someone else's lap."

"Fine. I wanted it to just be us six, but..."

"Why?"

"I-... Just go get them. The car's running and gas isn't cheap."

"Oh... 'kay..." I turned around and closed the car door, leaving them alone in the car. I went across the street and up the stairs to Seth's house. As I opened the door and entered, I found Seth writing on a piece of paper with his dad on the other side of the table showing him something.

"Hey, Seth, we're-... What are you doing?" [Me]

"Oh, uh..." [Seth]

"So, you know about magic, too, right?" [Seth's dad]

"Yeah- wait, how do you know about magic?" [Me]

"It's a tradition in my family. Let them wait and find out about magic, and once they do, reveal them to the way we did things in the past."

"Me and dad have the same strength, runes!" Seth held up the paper to show me a weird symbol with a series of other symbols connected by lines.

"Oh, cool. So, we're ready to go to Tanner's." [Me]

"Oh- okay." Seth got up and grabbed his backpack.

"Hey, make sure they don't find out, okay?" [Seth's dad]

"They already know." [Seth]

"Oh, well, in that case, flaunt it and brag. Runes are kind of a lost art."

"And magic isn't?" [Me]

"Not really. Probably about one in ten people know. Population's seven billion, so that means seven hundred million people know. World wide, yes, but still."

"Oh, woah." [Seth]

"Hey, Jeran's probably getting impatient, so..." [Me]

"Oh, right. Go on, have fun." [Seth's dad]

"Oh- Okay. Bye!" Me and Seth headed outside and I gestured to Zane's place.

"Oh, Zane's coming?" [Seth]

"Yeah, and probably Garrick." [Me]

"Okay. I'll just head to the car."

"'Kay- oh, and, X is acting kinda weird, so be warned."

"Okay. See you in a minute." Seth headed across the street as I headed to Zane's place. I rang the doorbell and waited. A moment later, the door opened, and I saw his grandma in the doorway.

"Oh, you must be Zane's friend, here to pick him up. Is there any way you can wait, I think he and his boyfriend forgot to put a sock on the door."

"Uh- uh- what?"

"I may be old, but I'm not that old."

"Oh. Uh... Can I go see them?"

"Do you know what a sock on the door means?"

"In all do respect, I've seen my fair share of gay sex. If they are doing anything like that, I'll just tease them about it."

"Well then, by all means, go right ahead. Second floor, first door on your left."

"Thank you." I walked by her, headed upstairs, and flung open the door to Zane's room. They were under the sheets, pulled close together, but shoved eachother so hard that they both fell out from under the sheets on their way to the floor. I couldn't see Garrick, but Zane definitely wasn't clothed.

"Wow, aren't you guys intimate?" [Me]

"Ugh, Alex!" [Zane]

Garrick jumped up from behind the bed, holding the blanket over himself, "You know, you could've knocked!"

"Your grandma thought you should've put a sock on the door." [Me]

"How- No, not gonna talk about this. Could you get out and let us get dressed?" [Zane]

"Okay, I've seen Seth, Daniel, and Ted naked. In fact, I've seen Daniel and Ted naked more times than I'd like. I know what men look like, get over yourselves." [Me]

"If you say so." Garrick dropped the sheets, exposing his vermillion green crotch.

"Nice dick." [Me]

"You're dead next time you make a crack like that." [Zane]

"Sure I am."

"Hey, he told me about magic and got me ready to use it. I'll kill you in a couple weeks if nessecary."

"Right, you had to have sex to unlock your potential?" [Me]

"What- no, w-we-he had-ed to find a-uh p-pressure point." [Zane]

"Yeah, I'm not as high and mighty as Zane. Unless you wanna know what color I am on the inside, don't look at his rear." [Garrick]

"Wait, wha- oh! Ugh, you say it like it's a different color." [Me]

"... That or it's a chemical reaction with his fur."

"Gross."

"I kinda like it, it's like a branding." [Zane]

"Yeah, if it stains your fur. And if it does, I'm really sorry." [Garrick]

"Okay, I can't listen to this any longer. Just get dressed and come down to the car." [Me]