Autumn Woods - Chapter Six
"This is Diamond's Heart?" Rye asked confused. "Yes," Cloud answered. The car idled, waiting in a line for the valet parking. "Same principles and food, but it's all local so it's fresher and a tad bit more expensive." The building was lit with...
Tropical - Chapter Six
Rye and Cloud got out of the car at the same time. "Looks like the whole school is going to be here," Cloud observed nodding toward the parking lot entrance where of the students' cars piled through. "We're lucky to have the pool so big then," Rye...
Tropical - Chapter Two
One hour later, Rye left his school papers scattered on his table as he went back into his bedroom to change into his swimming shorts. Quickly, Rye strips and pulls on his shorts, puts a towel around his shoulders and slips on sandals. Carrying the...
Tropical - Chapter One
"Senior year," sighed an anthropomorphic bat walking down a high school hallway. "This is going to be a long year." Walking beside the bat, a light blue otter named Rye nodded in agreement, but otherwise didn't respond. "One last year and then it's...
Tropical - Chapter Fourteen
Seven-o-clock the next morning, Rye woke up with Cloud still on him hugging him tighter than ever. Rye's heart beat slowly but strongly, and he was sure Cloud could hear it beating as he slept. Rye didn't wake up Cloud, but instead he kept his arms...
Tropical - Chapter Thirteen
The months went by, and the otters' troubled minds didn't lighten up, but only worsened. Their relationship started to fall silent because neither of them wanted to talk about it, no matter how inventible it was. Their friends recognized that Rye and...
Tropical - Chapter Twelve
The drama at school dissolved during the next several weeks, and the two otters kept themselves busy between homework and working at the pool. Cloud moved in with Rye, which Rye was even surprised when Nate, Ariel and Patrick came to help Cloud move....
Tropical - Chapter Eleven
Right on with Cloud's prediction, many more people came up to the couple and asked about, or gave their comments on, the new relationship during the next several days. Diane, and her friends, didn't approach Rye and his friends but there was tension...
Tropical - Chapter Ten
Early the next morning Cloud woke up before the sun rose above the horizon, which left the sky a dull grey-blue, proving that it was only dawn. Cloud looked down at Rye, who was sleeping peacefully in his arms and Rye's own arms lightly around...
Tropical - Chapter Nine
A bird tweeting outside the open window caused Rye to wake. With the haze of the dreams still covering Rye, he felt despair, thinking that last night was all a dream. It only took him a couple seconds to realize that his face was buried in white fur...
Tropical - Chapter Eight
Normally when walking to the pool, their conversations were light and in a joking manner but while Rye and Cloud walked toward the pool, the excitement about the midnight swim alone was easy to detect. Walking at a faster than normal pace, Rye was soon...
Tropical - Chapter Seven
"Wow," Cloud commented looking at the house in front of the driveway that Rye drove into, which was already crowded with parked cars. Rye parked and looked up at the scene. Ariel's house was obviously one of the most expensive in or near the city, and...