{"sf1_id":93630,"sf2_id":"ZmMEGvzm","title":"What is love anyway? ch.2","author":"Seiji Hashimotto","words":2541,"posted_at":"2009-07-06T23:16:00.000Z","tags":["Badger","Canine","Highschool","No-Yiff","Story Progression","Various Species"],"url":"https://fse.anthro.fr/stories/93630-what-is-love-anyway-ch-2","original_url":"https://sofurry.com/s/ZmMEGvzm","image_url":"https://cdn.sofurryfiles.com/submissions/thumbnails/7c/21/7c211527-7913-4167-b938-ade02b2daf37","description":"#2 of What is love anyway?","content":"Just so everyone knows, all the characters in this story are copyright of me, Comatose Huskey, but I'm willing to share, just ask first please. Now, enjoy the story!!  \n\\_\\_\\_\\_\\_\\_\\_\\_\\_\\_\\_\\_\\_\\_\\_\\_\\_\\_\\_\\_\\_\\_\\_\\_\\_\\_\\_\\_\\_\\_\\_\\_\\_\\_\\_\\_\\_\\_\\_\\_\\_\\_\\_\\_\\_\\_\\_\\_\\_\\_\\_\\_\\_\\_\\_\\_\\_\\_\\_\\_\\_\\_\\_\\_\\_\\_\\_\\_\\_\\_\\_\\_  \n\n* * *\nWhat is love anyway? Chapter 2\n* * *\n  \n  \nSteven set his alarm clock for five thirty instead of his normal six o'clock so he  \nwould have extra time getting dressed and brushing his light blue and white fur. Even  \nthough he was just going to meet up with a friend before class, he wanted to make a good  \nfirst impression so not to repulse Mikey before even truly meeting him.  \n  \nSteven picked put a light-sky blue T-shirt, with a crackled black and white  \nAeropostale logo on the front, and a pair of black jeans, along with a pair of blue, black,  \nwhite DC's with red heel accents to match the jeans and shirt. The huskey was just a little  \ntoo excited to be meeting a guy he had only met on Myspace -never the less- a few hours  \nearlier.  \n  \nAt around eleven fifteen, sleep finally overtook the huskey, and he slept soundly  \nuntil his alarm clock started blaring \"Get Stoned\" by Hinder.  \n  \n\n\u0026nbsp; \"Lets, go home! Get stoned! We could end up making love instead of misery! Go  \nhome! Get stoned! ‘Cause the sex is so much be...\" At that point the turned off the alarm,  \nand -quite literally- jumped out of his bed and headed straight for the bathroom, two  \ndoors down from his room.  \n  \nThe huskey took his time and toughly washed every part of his body, scrubbing his  \nfur down to the sensitive flesh beneath it. He wanted to make sure there was no dirt or  \nanything in his fur, so to impress Mikey with his cleanliness. Thou what teenage guy really  \ncares about being as clean as possible? After rinsing the suds out of his fur, Steven first  \ntowel dried his fur to get most of the water out, then used his blow dryer to completely his  \nsoft white belly and his blue back and leg/arm fur. Then smoothed it down so it didn't  \nstick out or look puffy anymore. Finally, he turned around to get his clothes from the rack  \non the wall when he realized, that in his haste to get clean, he had forgotten his clothes in  \nhis bedroom. With a sigh, Steven wrapped a towel around his waist and walked back to  \nhis room, bumping into his mother on the way.  \n  \n\n\u0026nbsp; \"Oh! I'm sorry mom, I wasn't looking were I was going.\" Steven apologized while  \nhis ears drew flat against his head in embarrassment, as his cheeks flushed pink.  \n  \nGiggling, Christina replied, \"It's okay. I was just coming to make sure you were  \nup. But, as I can see, you've already been awake for a while.\" she said, giving Steven a  \nonce over before adding, \"What's the occasion? You never get up this early to -dare I say  \nit- primp, before going to school?\" She asked with honest curiosity in her voice.  \n  \nSteven blushed harder, not wanting to tell his mother the truth, he made up a quick  \nlie, \"I... uhhh... no real reason, I just woke up early and thought I'd make myself look  \nnice.\" Steven tried to lie as convincingly as possible.  \n  \n\"Mmhmm... so, whose the lucky girl your gonna ask out, hmm?\" Christina asked,  \nseeing right through Steven's façade. As she asked she folded her arms around her chest.  \n  \n\"N-no one, I-I-\"Steven tried to lie but was cut of by his mother saying,  \n  \n\"Hehe, It's okay, Steven, relax. You know that as long as you're happy, I'm  \nwilling to accept anyone you bring home.\" She stated, unfolding her arms, and a grin  \nsplitting across her muzzle.  \n  \n\n\u0026nbsp; \"Thanks, mom. I love you\" Steven said, his ears perking up again, and a smile  \nmatching his mothers was appearing on his muzzle.  \n  \n\"I love you too, sweety. Now go get dressed, and I'll go make breakfast, okay?\"  \nSteven looked down, embarrassed that he had forgotten that he was in still just a towel.  \nThen looked up, smiled apologetically, and nodded. With that, Christina gave her son a  \nhug and headed off toward the kitchen, while Steven went back in his room to get dressed  \nfor the day.  \n  \nChristina made bacon, eggs, and toast for her family. Steven was the first one into  \nthe dinning room only because he was already awake, but soon after followed Alex, Tyler,  \nand Steve respectively. Each of them woke up in turn when the smell of breakfast  \npermeated into their rooms.  \n  \nSteven wolfed down his share in a hurry to get out to the bus, because the little  \n\"encounter\" with his mother, he was now running late, even with the extra half an hour he  \ngave himself. As he ran out the door, he shouted back to his family \"I'll see ya later  \nguys!!\" and was responded with a chorus of ‘see ya's and ‘have a nice day's.  \n  \n\n\u0026nbsp; The bus ride was nothing out of the normal. Steven sat with his feline friend,  \nSabrina. They talked about how much their parents got on their nerves, how they hate to  \nbaby-sit their siblings, and how they did not, in any way, wanted to go to chemistry this  \nafternoon. The bus ride always seemed to fly by when the two of them chat sit next to  \neach other and make idle chit-chat. When they got William Floyd High School, the duo  \nentered the building from it's north entrance, and went their separate ways. Sabrina went  \nup-stairs to get to her locker, while Steven headed for the music rotunda to meet his  \nfriends, and his one new friend.  \n  \nWhen Steven got to the rotunda, he saw a group of his friends, all of various  \ndifferent species. Standing there were his friends Bianca Bondo (cheetah), Mary Elise  \n(Siberian tiger), Ashleigh Meyer (kangaroo), Heather Romano (fox) and Daniel  \nEngelmann (dalmatian). Steven greeted them all in turn, starting with his best friend  \nAshleigh ending with Dan, and they all returned the pleasant good morning gesture. After  \nthat, they all resumed there conversations except for Ashleigh, who turned to Steven to  \nstart talking but was cut off when Steven asked, \"Hey Ashes, do you know a guy named  \nMikey? He said he also goes by Mikeycorpse.\"  \n  \n\n\u0026nbsp; Ashleigh thought about it for a second and shook her head. \"No, Sorry, I can't say  \nI've ever herd of him. Why do you wanna know?\"  \n  \n\"Well, it's cuz he found me on Myspace, and wants to meet me this morning' here  \nin the rotunda.\" Steven replied, frowning a bit that his best friend couldn't help him figure  \nout if this guy was for real or not. \"I was just hoping you might know him, and could tell  \nme something' about him.\" Steven sighed, and looked around him to see if the badger had  \narrived yet, but had no luck in finding him.  \n  \n\"Sorry, Steve. I wish I could help, but I've never herd of him.\" Ashleigh said, a  \nsimilar frown spreading across her muzzle. Ashleigh hated not being able to help her  \nfriends whenever possible, especially Steven, seeing as Steven is her best friend in the  \nwhole world.  \n  \n\"Herd of who?\" Heather chimed in, since she had been half listening to the  \nconversation her friends were having. \"I might be able to help, a know a bunch oh people,  \nand if the furson is a freshmen, than I Should defiantly know him, seeing as I'm a freshy.\"  \nHeather said a smile now creeping on to her face.  \n  \n\n\u0026nbsp; \"His name is Mikey. He never told me his last name, so I can't give it to you even  \nif I wanted to.\" Steven told Heather, a frown still firmly planted on his face. But just then  \nSteven remembered something and snapped his fingers and stood up straight to get out of  \nhis slouching position. \"I just remembered,\" Steven said reaching into his back pocket, \"I  \nprinted out a picture of him last night off his Myspace.\" Steven obviously excited at the  \nlittle tid-bit of information he had. Steven held out the picture then for his friends to see.  \n  \n\"Oh yea, I know him,\" Heather exclaimed pointing at the badger in the picture,  \n\"His name is Michael Labonzza, or just Mikey for short. He's one of my friends. We've  \nknow each other or a while now. He's a really nice guy, and cute to. Too bad he's gay, or  \nelse I would have dated him.\" Heather told everyone, with a small sigh, and turned to  \nDan.  \n  \n\"Hey, that's not even cool Heather. You saying you'd rather date a fag then me?!\"  \nDan barked at Heather. Even though Dan claimed to be straight, he has an abnormally  \nhigh voice, and acted VERY gay.  \n  \n\n\u0026nbsp; Heather was about to rebuttal, when Steven stepped in, \"Hey, you do know I'm  \nhalf gay right? And that if you insult one fag, you insult us all.\" Steven said, obviously  \ngetting mad at Dan for that little comment. Steven turned to Ashleigh for support in this  \nmatter, \"Right Ashes?\"  \n  \nAshleigh turned away and blushed. She had just came out to her friends that she is  \nbisexual, but she was still new to the whole ‘Gay Pride' thing. \"Yeah, I guess so.\" She  \nsaid very quietly, blushing harder as her ears fell against her head, and wrapped the end of  \nher tail around her left ankle. Then she looked up at the two fighting furs and said, \"Why  \nare you guys fighting anyway, it's not like he threatened to kill Heather, Steven. He just  \nwanted to know who Heather would rather date.\" She said turning away again.  \n  \nSteven turned back to Ashleigh, his face now devoid of any anger, so to not hurt  \nher feelings or scare her. \"Still, it's a pretty messed up comment,\" he sighed, \"But I guess  \nyour right, it's no big deal.\" Somehow, Ashleigh always had a way to calm Steven before  \nthings escalated. Steven then turned back to Dan with an apologetic grin on his muzzle,  \n\"Sorry, I shouldn't have flipped out like that...are we cool?\" he said, putting on his best  \nsaid face that he could.  \n  \n\n\u0026nbsp; The dalmatian sighed, \"Sure, no harm done.\" He said, patting Steven on the  \nshoulder, then ruffling his hair, marveling at how soft it was. Then he turned back to  \nHeather, \"Sorry, I tend to jump to conclusions without thinking it through, okay?\" Dan  \nsaid, holding his arms out for a hug from his beloved vixen.  \n  \nShe pretended to think about it, then hugged Dan, and nuzzled into his chest and  \nsaid, \"It's okay. I know how you gat sometimes.\" They stood there for a moment before  \nsaying they had to get to class, said there good byes and left for first period.  \n  \nMary and Bianca just stood there shaking there heads, because they knew that this  \nhappened almost everyday, and was always amazed at how Ashleigh seemed to be able to  \ndissolve any tension that was in the air. Shortly after Dan and Heather left, the two felines  \nsaid they also had to get to class, and left Steven and Ashleigh alone.  \n  \nAshleigh then turned to Steven and said, \"Why don't you call him? He doesn't  \nseem to be around here anywhere.\" That's when Steven remembered that he had a reason  \nfor sticking around the rotunda instead of going to class with his feline friends.  \n  \n\n\u0026nbsp; \"Oh, yea, right. I totally forgot all about him for a minute. Hold on.\" Steven said,  \npulling out his blue katana (or as many call it, the ‘knock off razor') and dialed Mike's  \nnumber that he had been given the night before. As he called, Ashleigh looked at the time  \non her blackberry, and said she had to go because she couldn't be late to biology. So she  \ngave Steven a hug and waved good bye before departing down the hall.  \n  \nThe phone rang about five times before a groggy voice answered, \"...Hello?\"  \nSteven hesitated a second to long so Mike spoke again, \"Who is this?\"  \n  \nThis time Steven answered, \"Hey, Mike?\"  \n  \n\"Yeah?\"  \n  \n\"It's Steven...\"  \n  \n\"OH, SHIT!!!!!!\" Mike exclaimed jumping out of his bed now fully awake and  \naware that he had over slept. \"Dude, I'm so sorry! My alarm didn't go off, and my bro  \ndidn't wake me up.\"  \n  \nSteven laughed, \"It's okay, it happens, no worries. I was just hoping you didn't  \ndecide to forget about me.\" Steven said Still giggling.  \n  \n\"No I wouldn't do that. I'm sorry. Look, I'll make it up to you, I'll buy you lunch  \nafter school today okay?\" Mike said, now trying to find the clothes which he had laid out  \nfor the day, cursing his brother under his breath, witch Steven could hear clear as day.  \n  \n\n\u0026nbsp; \"Umm, sure...oh wait, I can't today, I have to baby-sit my ‘lil bro after school  \ntoday along with my neighbors kid.\" Steven said, now depressed that he probably wasn't  \ngoing to see the badger until tomorrow. \"Rain check?\" He asked desperately.  \n  \n\"Sure,\" Mike said with a smile, \"Just name the time and I'll pick the place.\" Mike  \nwas also depressed that he was not going to meet his new friend for another day.  \n  \n\"Cool.\" Steven said with a smile on his muzzle, \"How about Monday after school,  \nseeing as today is Friday.\" That realization hurt the both of them, for now they would  \nhave to wait for Monday to come to see each other.  \n  \nMike cursed under his breath that he forgot it was Friday, \"Okay, I'll be in school  \nin about half an hour, so I'll keep an eye out for you.\" Mike replied with a smile, even  \nthough Steven couldn't see the smile, he could hear the joy in Mike's voice.  \n  \n\"Sounds like a plan. But I have to go now, homerooms bout to start. I'll talk to  \nyou later.\" Steven said, not wanting to hang up, but had to.  \n  \n\n\u0026nbsp; \"Okay, see ya later. And again, I'm sorry about this morning'\"  \n  \n\"Again, it's no big thing, I can live. Bye\"  \n  \n\"Bye\" and with that, Steven hung up, and decided to go to choir lessons instead of  \nSpanish II.  \n  \nMean while, Mike was in a mad dash to gat ready for school so he might have  \nsome chance of seeing the cute huskey boy he was crushing on.  \n  \nThe rest of the day went normal for the two of them, nothing eventful happened,  \nand they didn't see each other like they hoped they would. The day eventually ended, and  \nthe two went home without seeing each other even once.  \n  \nMikey didn't do much when he got home, just yelled at his brother, and sat on the  \ncomputer contemplating whether or not to call Steven. While Steven on the other hand  \nwas in charge of watching his brother, Alex, and her neighbor, Alia, a black pantheress,  \nand had to cook dinner and entertain them so he didn't notice when his phone rang on the  \nnightstand in his bedroom.  \n  \n  \n  \n\\_\\_\\_\\_\\_\\_\\_\\_\\_\\_\\_\\_\\_\\_\\_\\_\\_\\_\\_\\_\\_\\_\\_\\_\\_\\_\\_\\_\\_\\_\\_\\_\\_\\_\\_\\_\\_\\_\\_\\_\\_\\_\\_\\_\\_\\_\\_\\_\\_\\_\\_\\_\\_\\_\\_\\_\\_\\_\\_\\_\\_\\_\\_\\_\\_\\_\\_\\_\\_\\_\\_\\_  \n  \n  \n~Author's Note~  \n  \n\n\u0026nbsp; Hehe, I know I left y'all hanging with that last paragraph,  \nBu it mikes you want more so you'll keep coming back.  \nHehe, I promise they will meet soon,  \nAnd yes the yiff is coming,  \nJust chill a little longer  \n  \n  \n~Comatose Huskey~  \n  \n\n","series":{"name":"What is love anyway?","previous":"https://fse.anthro.fr/stories/93628-what-is-love-anyway-ch-1.json"}}