Chapter 13 (Wendell)

Story by houndlover56 on SoFurry

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#13 of First Steps


I'm getting worried. Who knows where Todd is? I look at my phone. Still no word from Todd and it's 4:36. The party's already started, there's a lot of furs here in Jodi's house, and the music's cranked up too high for me to even think.

"What's wrong, W?" Sarah scares me.

"First off," I have to yell, "Don't ever scare me again. Second, don't call me W. Third, I can't find Todd."

"I think he went into that creepy looking door behind the stairs."

"Where's Bruno and Jodi?"

"Bruno's upstairs, Jodi's... I think she's in the TV room over there." she points behind her. I push my way through the crowd towards the stairs. When I look behind them, Sarah was right, that is a scary looking door. Why did Todd go in here?

Before I can have second thoughts, I walk through it myself. There's a few dim lights in this room, but you can tell that this some kind of bar. There's a few furs in here, but I'm wondering where Todd is. There's some dark on the left side of this room, but there's no wall here. When I walk over there, I'm in the complete dark, with only light from that room in here, but there's nothing else.

But, I do see a square of light ahead of me. Wait a minute, is that a... video game? Like the one from Zuma? In that square of light, I see the outline of a fox. Hold on... that is Todd! Before I can even think, I run towards him. When I reach him, turns out that square of light was a doorway and this is a smaller room.

"Todd?" I say. He doesn't respond. I think he's too busy playing pac man to notice me. I shake the thought away. I gently shake his shoulder.

"Todd." Again, no response. He must've been here for about three and a half hours. I pick him up off the seat and carry him out of the room. In seconds, I think I hear Todd snoring. I carry him back through the bar and go to find Sarah. I manage to find her upstairs in what I think is Jodi's room.

"Sarah?" I open the door and I see her with Bruno and I immediately close it. That was something I did not want to see tonight. I hurry up and get both me and Todd downstairs. That's where I bump into Jodi.

"Jodi!" I yell over the music.

"Wendell?! What's up?" she says. Thankfully I can read lips in case I can't hear.

"Well, I found Todd." I show her the sleeping fox in my arms, "And I also found Sarah."

"Where is she?"

"Uh... having sex with Bruno upstairs."

"What?!" With that, she storms up the stairs to find them. Pretty sure there's going to be fireworks going up stairs. I carry Todd throughout the house to try and find somewhere I can rest him. Eventually I set him down on a red leather couch in another room. I don't have time to observe since there's too many furs in here. I sit next to Todd, letting him rest his head on my lap. Gently, I caress his head.

***

I get beer accidentally spilled on my fur from a rabbit. I'm in the bathroom scrubbing it off, but no matter how much soap I use, I can still smell booze. When I'm done, I quickly dry myself off and head back to Todd. Hold on! Where is he? Did he finally wake up? He better not've been dragged off for sex because then I'll be pissed. Either way, he's not on the couch where I left him.

Just when I'm about to find Jodi or Sarah, I hear something in the distance. "WENDELL!!!" That's definitely Todd's voice. But I think it's coming from outside. I run up to the window and in the distance, I see Todd running like hell away from something. Shit! I run for the front door. Whatever it is, he's in danger. I'm surprised no one has noticed that I'm all of a sudden going crazy, but then again, this is a college party.

When I get to the door, I immediately throw it open and start running towards Todd. We accidentally bump into each other and knock each other on the ground. "Todd, what the hell is happening?" I ask.

"Wendell, we have to get out of here." Todd's breathing heavy. His clothes are a bit torn up, some revealing his rainbow fur. Plus he's got a few scratches on him. Wait a minute... those are... cat scratches!

"Oh no. Don't tell me-" I start out, but I'm interrupted.

"Don't tell you what, Wendy?" Allan appears from behind us, along with his two henchmen: Ray and Steele. Crap! I thought we were gone seeing those bastards.

"How the fuck did you find us?" I say through gritted teeth.

"How? We honestly didn't know you were here. That is until we saw you park here and go inside."

"What the hell do you want from us?"

"Relax, Wendy. We're not here for you, we're here for the tail-raiser." Allan nod to Todd.

"Don't ever call him that!" I ball up my fists. I'm seriously about ready to twist someone's head off.

"Uh, Wendell," Todd pipes up, "Calm down, there's nothing they can do."

"What do you mean?" I ask. Todd puts an evil grin on and holds up three pocket knives, each with a letter sketched in them: R, A, S. Holy shit! "You sneaky little fox." I take the knife with A on it, flip it open and point it towards the felines. "Now listen here, never, I mean NEVER bother me or Todd again. Or I swear to god I'm gonna regret you ever lived in Knoxville."

"Woah. Don't do anything you might regret." Allan puts his paws up, but isn't backing up. I point the knife at the tip of Allan's nose.

"You better start running." I say. But before I can do anything else, Ray knocks the knife out of my paw and takes it in his own. In a flash, he swings his arms and he cuts open my left arm. I yell out.

"Run!" Todd yells. I try to, but when I do, my arms starts to hurt like hell. I know that those three are going to catch up to us fast.

"Todd, give me one of those knives." I say.

"Why?"

"That way we're both armed." He hands me the S knife. I turn around, aim for Ray's shoulder, then I throw the knife to the best of my ability. Before I can see where it hits, I turn back around and continue running.

"What did you do?" Todd asks.

"I threw a knife at Ray's shoulder."

"Here," he hands me the R knife, "In case Allan or Steele take the A one."

"You're probably right." I turn around to see if either is on our trail, but stop. Todd notices and stops too. I see Allan and Steele in the distance over Ray, who's on the ground. The knife did not go into his shoulder, I must've slipped and it went into his leg. Allan takes the knife out of Ray.

"I'm gonna kill you faggots!" he yells. He takes off full sprint towards us. We run towards the mansion. More specifically, the side of the mansion my SUV is parked. There's no reason to stay here now. Jodi and Sarah can take care of Bruno while we're gone.

When we reach my car, I throw open the driver's side, help Todd inside, lock the door and shut it. When I turn around, Allan puts the knife to my throat.

"Any last words, gay boy?" he says. I take my knife and this time, I get him in the right shoulder. He cries out and drops the knife. I go over to the passenger's side.

"You've got your driver's license right?" I ask.

"Yes."

"Then let's go home." Todd manages to start the car and soon enough, we're on the road. I take a minute on the phone to call Sarah and explain what the fuck is happening. When I hang up, I'm scared as hell. I aimed for his shoulder. What happened? What's going to happen? I've been good at knife throwing since my dad started to teach me two years ago. I never miss when it comes to that.

"Wendell? You alright?" Todd thankfully breaks the silence.

"I don't understand. I aimed for his arm."

"Listen, you didn't do anything wrong. You see what Ray did to you?" he motions to my sliced open arm. "Those three were going to do worse. Plus, you heard Allan, he was going to kill us. I saw him about to slit your throat."

"I know. What the fuck is with those cats? What did we do to them?"

"I don't know."

"By the way, you never told me how you got those knives off of them."

"Oh, I slipped them out of their pockets when they weren't looking. Then when they were fighting about who gets the first punch, I cut the ropes they used to tie me up and then I ran like hell."

"How did they get to you?"

"They must've blended in easily, then when you went to the bathroom, they took me. I woke up at that moment but they covered my mouth before I could say anything."

"What do we do now?"

"I don't know. But, we're not safe in Knoxville. They'll just follow us." True, but, at that point, the only thing we could do is go home. My arm hurts like fucking hell. When we hit a stop light, Todd takes off his shirt, wraps it around my open wound, and tells me to hold it there.

It takes us a moment to get home so, when we get there and we go in, I have to be prepared to explain a lot of things.

"What happened to you two?" Maggie asks when we shut the door.

"What do you mean?" I ask, trying to evade the question at hand.

"I mean, what happened to your arm?"

There's no point in lying, but we have a lot to explain. "We ran into those three cats."

"What cats?"

"Allan, Steele, and Ray. They ambushed us and we got into a fight."

"And what happened to your shirt?" Maggie turns her attention to Todd.

"I used it to help stop the bleeding." he says. Todd's mother goes into the other room and comes back with a roll of bandages (the kind you'd see in a hospital, not like the ones in a box). She takes Todd's shirt off my arm, bandages up my sliced arm (it's a bit tight) and tapes it down.

I told her and Joe that I wasn't comfortable talking about what happened the rest of the day since it's too scary to think about, which is true. I just follow Todd to his room and I sit in the bed.

"I'm sorry." I say to Todd, who's getting dressed.

"For what?" he responds.

"For making you go there and for everything that's happened today. I understand is you want me to leave you alone for a while." I pin down my ears.

"Wendell, it's ok. I'm not mad."

"Really?"

"It's fine. I just want to make sure your ok. I mean, seeing something like that, I just want to know your going to be fine."

"I'll be ok. Remember when I was 11 and I broke my leg?"

"Yes I do, and that was scary. But, if you ask me, it wasn't a good idea to jump out of the second floor window to 'sneak out'." It's true. That really did happen.

"Well, either way, I'm going to be fine." I say. "As long as you're with me."

Todd gently hugs me. "I'll always be here." His rainbow tail wags. I feel something poke into me. I hold Todd back and see a tent being pitched in his pants.

"Are you getting aroused?" I ask.

"Maybe... why?" he says.

"Because after everything today, sex was the last thing on my mind." My mind flashes back to when we had sex before Todd's parents came home.

"Well, ever since that day in the woods," he starts out, "I was think about what it's like to receive oral instead of giving it."

I can't help but laugh. After everything that's happened today, I did not expect a conversation to head this direction. "So... what you're saying is that you want to suck me?" I ask.

"Just for a minute, just to see what it's like." Todd starts to blush. It's kinds cute.

"Sure. I guess, but what about your parents?"

"It'll only be for a minute." Before I can react, he locks muzzles with me. I close my eyes and kiss him back. He reaches down and slowly unbuttons and unzips my pants. We both stand up and my pants fall to the ground. Todd slides a paw on my underwear and slides them down, leaving me in the nude. My shyness creeps back up on me as I stand naked in front of him.

He must've known that I'm a bit nervous, because he starts to undress himself. "Lay down on the bed." I whisper in his ear. Todd does just that, facing up, his head at the foot of the bed. I lay down next to him, but I get into a 69 position. I slowly take in Todd's d*ck into my muzzle, gently sucking on it. Todd does the same and I can't help but moan. He tastes exactly the same as he did last time: nice and salty.

One of my paws find Todd's ass and it starts to rub it. After several minutes like this, I taste some pre and literally in seconds, Todd's c*m squirts into my mouth. I'm close to doing the same for him. I howl, but it's muffled, and I c*m down Todd's throat. We hear footsteps when I take his d*ck out of my mouth. Oh god! Please let whoever that is go into another room. I mentally cross my fingers, but before me or Todd can go grab our clothes, Maggie walks into our room. Busted! my mind yells.

"What are you doing?!" she screams. I quickly grab the blanket and cover me and Todd.

"Mom!" Todd yells, "What do you want?!"

"I heard some kind of noise up here. Are you two... yiffing?!" Neither of us can say a word. We're both too scared to say anything. That's when Joe walks in. Gettin' worse!

"Maggie, what's going on up here?" when Joe sees us, his expression changes from concern to anger. "What are you boys doing?!"

"They were 69ing." Maggie says.

"I knew it. I knew that if we left these two in the house together, they would do something like that!" Joe rants. Still, me and Todd can't say anything. "That's it. Both of you, get your clothes on! Wendell, get out of our house! Todd, we will discuss your punishment in the morning."

That's when Todd snaps. "No!" he gets off the bed. He somehow managed to get his underwear back on. "You're not kicking Wendell out! He has nowhere to go! If you haven't noticed, his dad hasn't been the father he should be! And now you want to kick him out again?! I don't think so!"

"Too bad son. I will not tolerate stuff like that in this house!" Joe goes on.

"Well, if you kick him out, you better kick me out with him." Damn! Todd's never been this aggressive before.

"No," Maggie says, "You're staying here. He probably forced you to do that."

"No, he didn't! In fact, it was my idea! I just wanted to know what it's like!" Wow! He ain't holding back, "So either we both stay, or we both go! Your choice."

Joe and Maggie exchange looks and then go into their bedroom. Todd and I get fully clothed, sit on the bed, and we wait for what's to come. I hold his paw as we wait, he squeezes mine. Hopefully that body language means that he's with me no matter what. When Todd's parents come back into the room, they still look pretty upset.

"Todd, you father and I have discussed this, but..." Maggie chokes on the next words,

"We've decided that it's best if you both leave." Joe finishes for her. Todd just lightly gasps, tears coming in his eyes, and grips my paw harder. "You can take whatever you want from this room but you better both be gone in an hour." With that, they both leave and go downstairs.

Todd takes the news badly. He rests his head on my lap and quietly sobs into my thigh. I carefully caress the back of his head to hopefully comfort him. After a few more minutes, Todd goes to his dresser, opens a drawer and pulls out two backpacks. There's still tears coming down his face. He sniffles, but doesn't yell or shout.

Todd hands me one of the bags but I tell him, "There's nothing in here I really want... except this." I reach under his pillow and take out the Paper Towns book. We were a few chapters away from the third part.

Todd spends the next half an hour packing his things. Some of it it clothes, he has some books in there. He even packed the handkerchief we play with all the time. He even puts the three bottles of hair dye in there. We walk down the stairs. Maggie and Joe are right in front of the door. They don't say anything. Joe points at the door, telling us to get out.

I hop off the bottom step and we go out the door. It's dark outside, the streetlights are on. The front door closes behind us and we start walking.

"What do we do now?" Todd says after who knows how long of walking around town.

"I don't know." We sit on a curb to get some rest. I still have my phone, but I don't know how much longer it will last. Mom will probably still want to talk to me so, she's probably paying my phone bill to keep it working. As for Todd's phone, his parents will probably cancel his phone in the morning.

After a few more minutes, my phone goes off. Angie. I answer it. "Hello?"

"Hey, cousin. What's up?" she's still sounds like the bubbly Vixen I knew as a young wolf.

"Actually, things are terrible. Me and Todd have both been kicked out and now we have nowhere to live."

"Oh, I feel sorry for you guys. If you were here, I'd definitely let you stay here."

"With you and Janelle?" I raise an eyebrow.

"Yes. Jani has been wanting to meet Todd since you told me about him." Really now? My brain hatches an idea. The craziest one I've had in years.

"Ok. We'll be there." I say.

"What?"

"Me and Todd. We're coming to LA."

"Really? How're you going to afford a plane ticket?" Angie asks.

"I'm not coming by plane. But, we'll see you in a week. Bye cous."

"Bye Wendell!" she makes a kissing noise and she hangs up. Todd gives me a strange look, especially after I said we'd be there.

"Who was that?" Todd asks.

"Angie. My cousin. She says since we don't have anywhere to live, we can go love with her and her roommate."

"Really? But, how're we going to get there?"

"We're gonna have to go by car."

"But that'll take days!" he whines.

"I don't want to leave it here, knowing that a lot of people in this town are after us."

"So, what do we do? And what's with that strange look on your face? You know that look scares me." He's referring to my I-have-an-idea-and-yes-it's-totally-insane face.

"Well," I start out, "What do these seven people have in common? Michelle Tripp, Richard Tripp, Maggie McCarthy, Joe McCarthy, Allan Grayson, Ray Jones, Steele Hall."

Todd thinks about this for a moment. "What is it?"

"They've all wronged us because of who we are. And I'm not going to tolerate it anymore. We're going to show these people that messing with us was a bad idea. Then, we head for California by tomorrow morning." I say, "It's time for Operation: Revenge."