…Once he got back home from school, he went to his room and took the invitation that the fox had handed him and looked at it. It was for tomorrow in the afternoon and he just wanted to go to it. He decided that he was going to talk to his parents about it and ask them to take him to it.
He waited in his room because both of his parents were still working at that time. He tried to think about every outcome possible and get ready for the interrogation that maybe could take place. After having everything planned, he took out his phone and searched in the contact list for Ethan’s number. He found it as “foxy” and tried to write a message to him. His message started as an apology but after a couple of words drifted in confessing what he felt around the fox. The cub just scraped the message and started again. He tried again but got the same result leading to confessing his feelings to the little fox. He got frustrated with it every time and just settled on saying “Sorry, I will see you tomorrow." After pressing the send icon, he took his pillow and screamed at it, how pathetic one must be for him not to write a simple apology. He felt like he was in a romantic drama where the protagonist always looked silly talking to the girl he liked. How can a feeling be so complicated and yet so simple at the same time?
He waited there for the reply of the little fennec fox but the more he waited the more it looked like the fox was avoiding him.
He heard his dad’s car and went downstairs to wait for him to enter the house. When he did, the older wolf found surprisingly to see his son waiting for him in front of the door. “Oh, hello champ, what are you waiting here for?”
“I need to talk to you” was all the cub could muster to say.
“Of course, help me and your mother take the groceries bag from the car, and we can talk afterwards.”
The cub complied with the request of the older wolf and helped them to put everything in the kitchen.
His mother looked at him and noticed that he was acting strange. “Well, he has been acting strange for a whole week now” she said in her mind.
Once everything was place on the kitchen table he waited for his father.
“Hey, honey what do you wanted to talk with your father about?” his mother asked.
“I….” he stopped and started to think what he wanted to say next “I need to talk to dad about something.”
His mother understood and didn’t press the issue anymore. When his father came into the kitchen he said to his son. “Do you want to talk here or upstairs?” He knew that he probably needed privacy and thought that maybe a male-on-male conversation was going to be the focus of the topic.
Sebastian just looked at him shyly and said, “Can we talk in my room?”
“Yeah, no problem” The cub led the way to his room. Before leaving the kitchen, the older wolf looked at her wife and just giggled a bit while shaking his head. Her mother did the same.
The cub was nervous about what was going to happen and decided to move at a slow pace. He started to think about everything that wanted to say to the older male, but he was so nervous that he forgot it every time and started from the beginning.
Once they reached the bedroom his father went in, and the cub closed the door behind him. His father noticed this and felt like this was going to be a serious talk. He decided to sit on the bed and stared at the younger wolf.
Sebastian tried to speak but words didn’t come out of his mouth. When the older canine saw this he patted the spot next to him and told his son to take a seat. The cub complied and sat down next to him. He was shivering a bit.
“You know Sebas, there was a time when I was your age and remember going to the same things you are going through. But in my case, I didn’t have a father who I could rely on. Your grandfather was an alcoholic who never was there for me when I needed him the most. Because of that I did everything that you could think is wrong to do. I started to drink at a young age, go to parties, smoke weed, hanging out with every girl that I could think of.”
The cub was so focused on every word the older male was telling him that he started to forget why he was there on the first place.
The older male saw that his son wasn’t shivering anymore before he continued. “I started to question who I was. So, I experimented with everything that I thought would feel good. I tried to come up with answers to questions that I didn’t know. Until one of my best friends from school told me if I wanted to try It out with him. And so, I did, he introduced me into this new world, and I felt somewhat allure to it and in that searching for answers I discovered what I was missing. A companion, someone who could take my hand and never let go.
I wanted someone who was on my side through thick and thin, someone who could call mine and they could call me theirs. But it didn’t work with him, after some time I discovered that, what I wanted was not what he wanted. So, we parted ways, and I was devastated by that. I felt lost, empty, like someone had taken something from me and stole it away. That was when I started to fall into despair, by the time I went to college I started to stay with everyone who gave me a little bit of attention that I desperately needed. Male or female. It didn’t matter to me as long as I had someone next to me. Until I found your mother, she was there for me in my lowest points and knew everything about me until that point. She didn’t reject me or left me. She stuck with me and made me feel needed, like I had to do my best in order to give it back what I had received from her. I stopped going to parties, I stopped hanging out with my so call “Friends.”
It was at that point that I knew she was the one I needed in my life, the one who wouldn’t leave my hand even if I tried to. The one who would tell me everything was okay when I wouldn’t even ask if it was. She knew me and understood me. So, I decided to be with her forever. We married after a couple of years dating and decided to have you. It was the proudest moment of my life when I saw your little face, it made me understand that everything that I have lived until this point was worth it. You were the one who made me realize what is worth living life for, so I made a promise at that moment. I would never be like my father and neglect you when you need me the most. I decided to always be there for you and never let go of your hand. And so, I did, watching you grow was the happiest memories of my life, always putting a smile on my face when I needed the most. Thank you for being my son and you should always know that I would never not love you. Remember that.”
The cub started to cry right there, he was so overwhelmed with emotions of love from his father that he couldn’t contain himself and started to pour a river down his eyes. His father just hugged him tightly for a couple of minutes. The cub started to calm down and breathe slowly, until he wasn’t crying anymore. He was there in his father’s arm feeling safe and secure. Now it was time. Now or never, he thought.
“Dad… I am gay” he said. He clutched his eyelids tightly waiting for something to happen. When it didn’t, he opened his eyes and looked up at his father’s eyes. The older male was just smiling at him, he proceeded to kiss the cub above his head, between his ears.
“Thank you for telling me this and trusting me. I kinda knew that this could be a possibility in my head I was ready for it to happen.” The older wolf said to his son.
“I don’t know if I am 100% or not. I like girls, I know that for a fact but….” He just stayed there in silence.
“You like a certain boy more I believe.” His father said.
The cub just nodded, and the father laughed above him. “Like father, like son.” Was all the male canine said.
“You aren’t disappointed in me?”
“Disappointed? No, never. A little sad maybe because I wanted a grand son later on, but that was my selfish desire, and it doesn’t have to involve your decisions after all.”
“It doesn’t have to be that way, maybe I could adopt or maybe have one of my own later on.” The cub said.
His father just laughed at the words that his son had said to him. “You don’t have to worry about that now, just live your life how you want and worry about that later.”
“Now the elephant in the room is. Who is this mysterious boy that has stolen my baby’s heart?”
Sebas looked at the floor and took the invitation letter from his pocket. He gave it to his father and the older wolf took it and started to read it.
“I see, maybe you already have stolen his after all.”
“I don’t know, I told him some things that I didn’t mean to. I was frustrated and didn’t know my feelings, so I just took it out on him.” The little wolf said with a sorrowful tone.
“Well, what are you going to do to fix this?”
“I already sent him a text, but he hasn’t replied yet, I think he is angry with me.”
“Are you going to give up chasing him then?”
The cub felt like a blade had torn his heart apart.
“NO! never.” The cub said now looking at his father’s eyes. The male just had a big smile on his face.
“Well, go chase him and don’t let go champ.”
The cub nodded and they got up from the bed. The older wolf started to go towards the bedroom door and stopped before exiting. “Once you have made up with him, invite him to our house. I want to see firsthand who is this mysterious boy who have managed to steal my own son from me.” He left the room after saying that.
The cub just lay on his bed and started to think about everything that had happened a couple of minutes ago. He was excited to see Ethan again and ask for his forgiveness.
After a troubled and long night of trying to sleep, the cub got up at 7:00 AM he felt exhausted like never before, he couldn’t sleep at all because of the uncertainty of his thoughts.
He got up and went to the bathroom, he took a long cold shower before calming down and started to think rationally. He felt a little more awake after the shower and went downstairs, he found his parents there in the kitchen. His father was sipping coffee, and his mother was sitting next to him on her phone.
“Morning Sebas how are you feeling” His father asked.
“Fine, couldn’t sleep much but I feel better after taking a shower.”
His mother wanted to say something but didn’t know how to start a conversation after her husband had told her everything.
“Can I have coffee?” He asked.
His father looked at him warily because his son has never liked coffee before but he knew that after what he had told him yesterday he probably needed a cup.
“Sure, why not” His father said.
Her mother got up and went to get a cup from the cupboard and started to pour coffee in it.
The cub took the cup when his mother put it in front of him and started to sip it slowly. “Bleww” he said after tasting the coffee. “It is so bitter. How can you drink this?” He asked his father.
“You get used to it and start to like it” he said while drinking his.
“Why would you do it?” the young wolf asked.
“Sometimes you do things even when you don’t like them, but later on you start to appreciate and understand why. You will understand when you grow up.”
“Honey, would you like some sugar and cream? That will make it tastier.” His mother said.
“Sure” Sebastian replied.
The mother poured some French vanilla creamer and sugar on his son’s cup, she started to mix them up and told his son to try it now.
“Better?” His father asked.
“Yeah. Thanks.” He started to fidget with his fingers and tried to have the courage to ask. “Dad, can you take me to the store to buy a gift for my friend.” He said.
His father chocked a little bit after hearing that “Sure... No problem.”
“Thanks dad.”
He finished his breakfast and coffee and went to change clothes to go to buy the present for Ethan.
“He is acting like he is doing something forbidden” his mother said.
The male canine just laughed. “Yeah, it’s gonna be a little while until he feels confident around us.”
Sebastian finished preparing and went to the front door. They started to put their shoes on before exiting the door and went for the car.
The cub was getting into the back seat, but his father told him to get in front, and so the cub did. “Isn’t mom coming?” The cub asked.
“She has something to do. I hope it doesn’t bother you if I take you to it.” His father said.
“No, I don’t mind. Thank you, dad.”
“No problem champ.”
They started going to the mall because that is where all the big stores were and he thought that maybe his son would want to buy something from one of them. Upon arriving he parked the car, and they got out. “Where do you want to go?” The older canine asked.
Sebastian had to think what was going to give Ethan for a present. He started to think but realized that he didn’t know anything about the little fox. What does he like? What does he dislike? How he was before he met him? He started to question everything until now.
“I don’t know.” He said in a low voice.
“Uhmmm” The older wolf was thinking in order to help his son. “Do you share any hobby with him? Has he given you anything that he likes to you?”
The cub was thinking and remembered that time when they were in the literature club and how Ethan had lent him his comic. “Superheroes. He likes superheroes comics” he said sounding excited about it.
“Alright let’s go to the bookstore.”
They started to go there. At that point it was already past 10 and the bookstore was already open. They went there and started to look for the comics section. A Squirrel man with a monocle was standing there looking at the books and Sebastian touched his shoulder and asked. “Do you work here?”
“I certainly do. Who do I owe the pleasure in meeting this beautiful morning.”
“Sebastian is my name.”
“Hello, Sebastian what can I help you with?”
“I wanted to buy a comic for a friend of mine, can you tell me where the comics section is and where does the superheroes ones are?”
“For sure, no problem follow me.”
The older and younger wolf followed him, leading them to the comics sections. He tried to look for the superheroes part of the bookshelves “Superheroes. Superheroes. Aha, here it is.” He pointed at them. Sebastian just thanked him, and he went his own way.
“Which one are you going to buy son?” The older canine asked.”
“Should I go with the most popular one?” Maybe one from Marvel?” he asked.
“I think you should buy what you think he will like. A gift is not about the gift itself but the intention behind it.” His father advised him.
The cub didn’t understand all that the older canine said to him. After thinking about it he decided to give him the latest Avengers comic he could find. “I think this is it.”
“Great. How much does it cost?” he asked.
“20 dollars”
“Cool, you can ring it up at the register and pay for it.” His father teased him, knowing well that he would have to pay for his son’s gift. His son has never had any allowance before and he seldom asked them to buy him anything, so he decided to joke with him.
“I don’t have any money. Can you please buy it for me?” He asked.
“Sure, I will buy the gift for your little boyfriend.” He said with a jokester tone.
“Dad… He… Is… Not… My….” his voice was lower and lower until he couldn’t finish the sentence.
His father just laughed at seeing his son red like a beet and blushing like he had never seen before. “ha ha ha. I am sorry Sebas, I am joking.” He ruffled his son’s head, making his son fur dishevel.
They went to the register and bought the comic. “Can you wrap it for me to look like a gift?” The young wolf said to the cashier. He noticed a bookmark for books that had a wolf in its design. It looked a little bit like him but older, he picked it up and asked his father if he could buy that too.
The older male wolf just nodded and paid for everything. The cashier wrapped everything up and handed it to him.
Once they were done, they went to the car and back home. It was already past 11 AM and that meant almost time to go to the fox’s birthday. The cub was nervous like never before. When they arrived home, he took off his shoes and went to his bathroom. He started to groom his fur trying to look the best he could.
“Hey Ethan, how are you? I want you to know that I didn’t mean what I said before and the truth is I like y…” The cub said in front of the mirror without finishing his sentence.
“Hello foxy how are you doing, you look cut… he stopped before finishing again.
He started to bump his head lightly against the bathroom tiles.
“Stupid wolf, calm yourself down and be yourself.” He said to himself.
“Sebas is time.” His father said from outside the bathroom door. The cub got ready and exited the room. He went downstairs where he found his father and mother waiting for him. They got their shoes on and went to the man’s car. He got in the backseat and fastened his seatbelt.
All the way to Ethan’s house the poor cub had butterflies on his stomach, he felt like he could throw up at any moment. It was only 10 minutes from his house to the foxes, but he felt like it was the 10 longest minutes of his life. When they reached Ethan’s house it looked like the typical suburban house. Mowed grass, white porch, double floor house. Everything looked normal. The only thing that surprised him was that behind the house there was a forest.
The cub got out of the car, and he decided to go towards the door.
“Aren’t you going to give any advice to your son?” his wife said.
“Already did. There is nothing else to say.” The male canine told her. They saw their son greeting a fennec man fox on the other side of the door and waved at him. Before the cub got in and disappeared behind the door.
“Fennec foxes uh?” the father asked with a playful tone.
The woman looked at him and said “Like father, like son. Right?” They both laughed and they went their way.
Sebastian took off his shoes at the door. Following the cream fennec fox in front of him and stopping in the living room. 3 more foxes were there. Every one of them was older than him.
“First guest has arrived, didn’t think people could still be punctual these days.” The male fox said.
Everybody looked at the wolf and he felt so out of place at that moment. Surrounded by Foxes and being the only wolf there.
He handed his present to whom he assumed was Ethan’s dad, the male that he had met at the door.
“He must be one of Ethan’s friends” A older male fox said. He looked like he was 16
“Our little bro is so cute, inviting a wolf to his birthday” A similar age female fox said.
“Angela, our guest has a name” The older female said.
Angela got in front of him and asked “What’s your name little guy?”
“Sebastian.” That was all the all he could say.
“He looks like Liam but without the talking part.” The young male fox said.
Liam? The cub had heard that name before, but he couldn’t remember where it was.
“What are our manners oh my” The woman fennec fox said. She got up and started to introduce everyone.
“This is William. Ethan’s older brother.” The fox just waved.
“This is Angela, the oldest and Ethan’s sister”
“You don’t have to say oldest. Sounds like I am much older than what I actually am . I only am 17.” Angela said.
“This is Robert. Ethan’s father. You met him when you walked in.”
The older fox just nodded at him.
“My name is Sophia, and I am Ethan’s mother.”
The cub already had forgotten every name already. He wasn’t good at remembering names.
“Thanks for having me” he said.
He tried to look for Ethan but couldn’t find him there. “Where is Ethan?” he asked.
“He is probably in his room waiting for everyone to arrive. You can go to his room until everyone arrives.”
The cub started to feel the same butterflies from before after hearing Ethan’s mom say that.
“If you don’t mind. Excuse me” he went up the stairs.
“Is that who Ethan was talking about?” Ethan’s brother asked.
His sister looked at him before saying. “I think so, he seemed different from every of his other friends. Something tells me that the ship has already sailed.” She just laughed.
When Sebastian was looking for Ethan, he tried to go room by room looking for him. First entering the master room. He knew that it was his parents’ room. Going through the next room he found posters of famous pop artists and some plushies with hearts on the bed. He assumed it was his sister’s room. The next room was full of games posters; it had a PlayStation next to the Tv and a computer that had RGB in it. It couldn’t be a room for a cub Sebastian thought, probably his older brother. When he was closing the door, he heard a young voice from the last door of the hall. It was like he was saying something but he couldn’t hear it. Upon putting his ear next to the door, he heard the little fox yelling in a low voice.
“Stupid. Stupid wolfy. You are too stupid to realize it.” It sounded like he was hitting something.
When Sebastian opened the door slowly, he saw the little fennec fox from his back hitting his pillow with his paws, he looked angry but didn’t sound like one. It was until the door creaked that the fox just turned around and saw the wolf staring at him.
The little fennec fox just stood there frozen looking at the eyes of the wolf in front of him. They didn’t say anything and waited there until the wolf tried to break the ice and spoke. “I hope it isn’t me you would like to hit instead of your pillow.
The fennec fox just blushed and tried to say something, but everything sounded gibberish. It was the first time the wolf had seen him blushing since they met, it was refreshing for once not being on the other side. Sebastian closed the door behind him and sat on the fox’s bed.
“What are you doing here? I thought you liked to be with the border collie?” The fox said.
“I wrote to you yesterday didn’t you see my text?” the black furred boy asked.
Ethan took his phone from his nightstand and looked at it. “Well, I blocked you after what happened the other time.”
He just took a deep breath before saying “I have been thinking about what I said and have realize that deep inside, that wasn’t what I wanted.”
“Then what do you want?” The little fox tried for him to be clear as water.
The wolf just mumbled some words but could not be heard by the fox.
“You need to say it louder or otherwise I would not understand”
The cub was tired of running away and just wanted to accept the truth already. “Ethan… To be honest, since the first time I met you, I have felt things I haven’t felt before. Things started to look different and that unknown scared me. I have never been around people who like the same gender as them, and I felt like I was doing something wrong”
The fennec fox had a slight smirk in his face at this point.
“What I am trying to say is that deep down in me I felt insecure and didn’t know how to deal with these unknown feelings, but I must accept the reality and live my life how I am, not how everyone think I should. The truth is I…”
He stopped before saying it, closing his eyelids tightly. His heart was going to burst from his chest at any moment, and he couldn’t stop it. He could hear his heartbeat and wondered if the fox could do too. It wasn’t until the little fox put his paws in his and squeezed them tightly. He opened his eyes and saw the fox smiling at him. That was all he needed to calm down and take the courage to cross the bridge.
“I like you” The wolf stayed there in silence until he heard the fox speak.
“I know and I like you too.” The smaller boy smiled at him.
“You know? How? Since when? What made you think that?” The cub had so many questions that he couldn’t understand anything.
“I think everyone could figure it out, the way you always blushed when talking to me. I wonder when was the first time I noticed but it was probably when we met at the club later on.”
“I couldn’t read you at all. I didn’t know you like me too.” He spoke.
“The truth is I am gay. I know it since last year and I have already told my parents about it.”
“You are gay? Really?” the wolf cub felt like he could breathe again.
“Yeah, I figure it out when Liam made me question myself.”
Liam. That name again, he had heard it before again and again. “Who is Liam?” He asked.
“Oh, he is my best friend, he is a wolf like you. Cream fur, same age, slimmer, piercing in right ear.”
At that moment, everything clicked, and Sebastian remembered the wolf he met the other day, the same one who was missing when he went to the club that day. Everything felt like a puzzle that was coming into place.
“Is Liam also?”
“Gay? Yeah, he knew it much younger than me. He had been that way since I met him in kindergarten. We have been best friends since”
Everything just felt like it was too much information for the young cub. He couldn’t keep focus anymore. So, he just spaced out.
“y… Fy… Wolfy!” The fennec fox pulled him out of his trance.
“Sorry I started to question everything until now.” He was coming back to his senses.
“You silly wolfy.” He fennec fox said.
When he heard that he felt a burning sensation inside of him and just wanted to calm it down, like a thirst for water in a desert.
“Have you ever kissed someone before?” The fox asked him.
He just shook his head lightly and butterflies started to fill his stomach. The fox squeezed the wolf’s paw with his and started to move his head towards the wolf.
“This is it, my first kiss” he said in his head and was ready to have it. They got their face closer enough that their nose bumped against each other. He felt it was wet like canines always are and tilted his head to seal the deal.
The door suddenly opened and someone said “Ethan, I am already he…” The cream wolf stopped before finishing his sentence. He saw the two cubs almost kissing before they jumped in surprise and went to opposites site of the bed.
“What a timing. Sorry to ruin your moment of happiness with your boyfriend but everyone is already downstairs and waiting for you. You are the party boy after all.”
Sebastian was so red that he could probably faint from all the blood running to his head. “hE iSn’T My… my…” he stayed there looking at the floor.
“He isn’t my boyfriend… Yet.” The little fox said.
Sebastian looked at him and was out of words.
“Let’s go everybody is waiting downstairs.” The fox told Sebastian.
When they went downstairs Sebastian saw a couple of cubs, probably 3 of them, he assumed were Ethan’s friends. He stayed next to the stairs and saw the little fennec fox laughing with his friends.
“Let me properly introduce myself now. I am Liam, Ethan best friend.” The cream wolf next to him said.
“Thanks for what you did the other day; I wouldn’t have confessed to him if it wasn’t for you.” Sebastian said.
“Glad that I was able to help. Just to let you know, if you made Ethan cry again, I will not forgive you.” He warned him.
“Yeah, sorry for that. I wasn’t thinking at that time.”
“Yeah, sure. Give me your number in case I need to talk to you, or you have any questions about him you can call me.” They proceeded to Exchange numbers.
Sebastian noticed that he had a call from the same number already. And when he looked at the date it was the day that he and Tammy had tried to kiss behind the school building.
“IT WAS YOU? You called me and stopped me from kissing Tammy?” He was astonished by the sudden revelation.
“Ups. Busted” he said.
“Thanks for that. It is better for me to not give my first kiss lightly.” The cub felt relieved.
“But you were ready to kiss Ethan a couple of minutes ago from what I could see.” The other wolf just laughed. Sebastian just blushed.
“Okay we are ready to open the gifts.” Ethan’s father said. “Everyone come here next to the couch and Ethan start open them one by one.”
The little fennec fox did and started to unwrap the presents one by one. First from family and continued with his friends. Leaving Sebastian for last.
“This is from Sebastian” The mother read the tag next to the wrap.
The fennec fox was looking with expectation at it. He took it in his paws and with one claw started to rip the wrap until he peeled it off and found the lastest avengers comic. He smiled at him but when he saw the bookmark with the wolf design on it, he felt happier than ever. He ran to hug the wolf almost tackling him in the process. He hugged him as tightly as he could and everyone that was there just stared at them.
“Uhm” Liam made a nose with his throat. “I think it is time to sing happy birthday to the birthday boy”. Everyone just laughed at that moment. Ethan let him go little by little until he was standing in front of the wolf. “Thanks, wolfy, I will always have it with me. Every time I read, it will remind me of you.”
“No problem. Happy 12 birthday Ethan” Sebastian said.
They all went to the backyard and started to sing happy birthday to him. The little fox ate cake, ran around with his friends and played happily with them. It was already past 4 In the afternoon at that point. Everyone was leaving their own way. Parents were picking up their cubs, Ethan’s parents were cleaning everything up and his siblings had returned to their own rooms.
Ethan said goodbye to his friends and went to the backyard again. Reaching were Sebastian and Liam were. They were talking about something. When the fox was in front of them Liam just looked at him before saying. “Happy birthday Ethan.”
“Thanks Liam”
“Just out of curiosity Sebastian” Liam told the wolf
The wolf looked at him before saying “Uh, what is it?”
“Do you happen to have a brother around your age?” Liam asked.
“I don’t have any brothers nor sister that I know of. Why do you ask?” The cub felt curious about why Liam had asked that.
“Uhmm, maybe is just my imagination. Don’t worry about it.” The Cream wolf said.
“Alright is time for me to go, have a good one Ethan. Take care Sebastian.”
“Wait are you not staying?” the fox asked.
“I think I already overstayed my welcome. Something tells me that after what happened in your room you guys are eager for privacy and I don’t want to be the third wheel where I don’t belong.”
Both cubs just blushed when hearing that. “Goodbye see you both at school.” He proceeded to leave.
Sebastian just stood there, he didn’t know what to say. He felt the fox take his paw on his and speak to him “Do you wanna see my secret fort?”
“You have one?” The wolf sounded surprised.
The fox just nodded and led him by the hand through one of the backside doors towards the forest. They walked hand by hand along the path. The wolf took the paw from the fox tightly and started to lead the way.
“Do you know where we are going?” the fox asked.
“Isn’t it this way?” Sebastian asked another question.
He just stayed behind the bigger boy and let him lead the way. When both reached the end of the path, the smaller boy led the way. When it was a little deeper in the forest Sebastian saw that there was a little fort, it almost looked like a shrine with the way it was built. The fox took Sebastian paw and started walking towards it. When they were in front of it, the fox got in from the front side of the fort and motioned the bigger boy to follow him. It was a simple fort that was built out of wood. When entering, he saw that it was big enough for both to be comfortable. Almost all the floor was occupied by a mattress that was laid under them, and he assumed that the fox sometimes slept on it.
“What do you think?” he asked the wolf.
“Looks comfy” he said. Looking at the floor Sebastian saw that there were things like flashlights, food, walkie talkies and even a radio lying around.
“Take a look at this.” Ethan stepped on a kind of stage that was next to them, one step above the mattress. He picked a hook that was latched on the ceiling connecting it to a rope. He detached the hook on the process and all the front panel of the fort came down. They could see the landscape without restrictions now.
“What do you think” he asked the wolf.
He was just astonished by everything that he had seen. “This is amazing.”
“Yeah, I love this place. My parents help me building it and every time that I just want to unwind or relax I come here to rest and forget about everything.”
“I have slept here before, is not as comfortable but it is fun to see the stars at night.” The fox sat down on the stage and patted the spot in front of him for the wolf to take a seat. Sebastian sat down in front of the fox and looked at him intently.
“Do you want to finish what we started but couldn’t complete back in my room” The little fox asked.
Sebastian felt his face was red. “Yes, I would love to” he said.
“You silly wolfy, you look and sound hornier than usual.” The little fox joked about him. “It’s okay I feel that way too.” He said.
They stared deep into each other’s eyes and before they continue the wolf said “Wait let me make sure everything is perfect.” He made sure there was no one outside of the fort and then put his phone in silence before putting it next to him.
“What are you doing?” the fox asked.
“Sorry too many times now this has happened. I want to make sure this one is as perfect as it can be, cannot wait for anyone to interrupt this moment. Sorry for the wait but I am ready now.”
The fox just smiled at him. He started to caress his paw with his own. The wolf felt tingles all over his body like electricity running through him.
“You seem tense.” The fox told the wolf.
“I cannot understand how you can be so calm about it. Is it your first kiss?” Sebastian asked.
“It is and see for yourself.” Ethan moved Sebastian right paw to his chest just above his heart. The wolf could feel how it was beating at the same pace as his. He was as nervous as him. “I feel really nervous having my first kiss with the boy I like but couldn’t ask to be any better.”
The wolf just dropped his arm between his legs and Ethan sat on his knees. “Close your eyes for me wolfy” he told the black furred cub and Sebastian complied. The fox put his paws on the wolf’s neck and was ready to finish the conclusion of everything till that point in a big finale.
The wolf felt the fox’s cold paws around him and understood that it was the signal for it. They moved their head slightly and in an act of love they kissed under the dim moonlight and the sun that was beginning to come down.
The wolf felt first the lips of the fox and after that he felt the other canine’s tongue trying to enter his. He would never have imagined anything like this in his wildest dreams, but he did not refused the invitation, he opened his mouth a little and they started to intertwine their tongues together. They were so close together that Sebastian could smell the scent of the little fox like it was his. Their saliva was getting mixed between them making him taste the flavor of his little lover, spilling from their muzzle making its way down to the mattress under them.
It felt like an eternity where the only thing both could think of was each other. After that, the fox broke the kiss and parted ways with the wolf. Moving his head back slowly. The wolf opened his eyes and saw his little partner smiling toothily at him making him feel warm and fuzzy inside him.
“How was it?” the fox asked.
“Better than I could have imagined.” Was all the wolf said.
“Same for me. I would love to do it again some other time.” Ethan replied.
“I would love to do it too.”
The fox moved to the mattress that was laid on the floor and made a signal for the other boy to lay with him. When both of them were laying there shoulder to shoulder, looking at the ceiling, Sebastian felt like time was to a complete stop and they were the only ones in the universe. Their own little, small world somewhere in the milky way, away from everyone else and the burden of society.
The fox broke the spell and asked “So, what are we now?”
Sebastian came down to earth and rotated his head to his side to look at the fox. “I think more than friends?” He said.
The fox did the same and stared at him “Are you going to do the same with someone who is “more than friends”?” He tried to drill the statement to the wolf, making clear in his small head.
“No, I wouldn’t do this with anyone else, just you.”
Ethan repeated the same question as before “So what are we now?”
Sebastian supported himself in his elbow and looked at the fox. “Ethan, would you like to be my boy…” He could not finish the sentence.
The fox put his paw on Sebastian’s paw, looking him in the eyes and saying “Boyfriends?” he asked.
“Yes, would you like to be my boyfriend?” the wolf said.
He just stuck out his tongue and said, “Yes dummy I would love to be your boyfriend the question is, would you like to be mine?”
“Yes, I would love to be your boyfriend.”
“Then that makes it official we are boyfriends now.” The fox said happily.
Sebastian lay down again on the mattress and closed his eyes. The fox moved up and lay on his chest putting his arms around the wolf’s head and waiting there. Seeing how he breathes in and out, inflating and deflating his chest. He could hear the heartbeat from the wolf under him.
They lay there and Sebastian fell asleep, all the tiredness that he had faced all this time just took a toll on his young body making him sleep like a rock.
After an hour, it was already night, and the moon was already visible, Sebastian phone started to vibrate because he had put it on silence. The little fox didn’t want to wake him up, so he decided to answer for him. He saw that it said “Dad” so obviously it was Sebastian’s father. He picked up the phone and tried to talk quietly to not wake him up.
The wolf’s father spoke on the other side. “Hello Sebastian, I am already outside come out so we can go.”
The fox felt shy about answering but he needed to in order to not wake his little lover up. “Oh, hello mister, I am Sebastian’s boy…………friend and right now he is sleeping with me and probably won’t wake up anytime soon. He is sleeping like a rock.” The fox giggled quietly seeing his boyfriend under him.
“Oh, I see sorry to bother you where you at? I will come pick him up then.” The man could not believe what he was hearing. Today his son confessed to him that he was gay, he had a boy who he likes and now he is sleeping with him? it felt like a déjà vu to him.
“You can knock on my door and ask my father to take you to my secret fort, and I am here with him.”
The older wolf just wanted to scream on top of his lungs; he knew that his son was an eye catcher, but this fast? That was a new record he thought. He facepalmed himself with his other paw and agreed to do what the fox had told him to do.
Before the older wolf could reach them, Ethan kissed the cub head lightly “Have sweet dreams my beautiful prince”
A couple of minutes later his father and Sebastian’s father came looking for them with flashlights in hand. When entering the fort, they saw the young wolf draped over the little fennec fox’s arms. Both adults were on a lost of words at seeing that scene in front of them.
Ethan just moved out of the way and Sebastian’s father carried his son on his arms, essentially lifting him up and carrying him like a princess. They started to return from where they came from.
“He looks like the sleepy beauty, waiting for his prince to wake him up. Probably a kiss on the lips will help” Ethan said.
Sebastian’s father just cursed in his mind. His son had completely bewitched the fox. He knew that the fox was already head over heel for his son and just tried to sound supportive of them.
“Thanks for having my son today.” He said to the little fox.
“No problem, I should thank him for coming to my party. It was much better than I could ever hope to be.”
“I think we are going to see each other from now on” Ethan’s father said to the other adult.
“Yeah, I think so too. I think my son has completely stolen your son’s heart, sorry for that.”
“Oh, don’t say sorry I am happy for him. He found his special someone.”
“What’s your name mister?” The little fox asked.
The wolf looked at him before answering “Michael. You can call me Michael.”
“Can I call you father?” The little fox asked.
The older fox started to choke with his own spit. “Son!” His father said.
“Jesus, mother, Buda, God. What has my son done.”
They reached the house and went to the front door.
“Can I say goodbye to him?” Ethan asked.
“Yeah, sure.” Michael told the fox.
“See you later Sebas.” He kissed him on the top of his head.
The wolf just left with his son in arm, placing him on the car and making sure to fasten his seatbelt on the back seat. Once he did, we went to the driver’s seat and sat there.
“How did it go?” The woman asked.
“You won’t believe it. This little guy has gone beyond our initial thoughts.” The wolf said.
“I hope is nothing bad.” The Siberian husky said.
“Depends on where you look it from.”
The canine male drove back home and once they arrive there, he took his son in his arms and lead him to his bead upstairs. He turned off the lights and closed the door. The cub just slept there soundly and comfortably in his bed.
