Burdens - Chapter 70: Day Off
Chapter 70: Day Off The knock on the door came as a surprise, but it was not out of the ordinary. Packages being delivered was not something that should come across as abnormal, and it was about that time. He did not hear a mail truck, however. Was it...
Burdens - Chapter 69: Tired
Chapter 69: Tired Roger woke up that morning to the faint sound of his alarm. He remembered it being much louder, but for some reason it was softer this morning. He found himself on the floor and figured that it made sense it was softer: the distance...
Burdens - Chapter 68: Cascade
Chapter 68: Cascade The fox woke up first for once. He nuzzled into the wolf's chest instead of moving away. Hunter's breathing was heavy and slow since he was still asleep. the fox attempted to nudge him awake and move him, but he did not...
Burdens - Chapter 67: Gifts
Chapter 67: Gifts Class had gone by for Roger like everything else had in the week - it was short, quick, and he was soon to forget it. He met with the wolf after class, but this time he had his bag with him. They were to walk back to the wolf's...
Burdens - Chapter 66: Pieces
Chapter 66: Pieces Roger blinked and it was a day away. They had headed back to study, and the lack of anything out of the ordinary seemed to cause his mind to meld the time together. It began to do so with the school days, as well. What was once the...
Burdens - Chapter 58: Free Flow
Chapter 58: Free Flow It felt to Roger that fate was conspiring against him. Everything that lead up to this point seemed to be for naught; that it created a situation that merely taunted him with his desires dangled in front of him. It was...
Burdens - Chapter 57: Catalyst
Chapter 57: Catalyst The movies were over. The two groups met each other in front of the theater. Roger was first to spot them, since he had been looking that way, and since it seemed the other two were preoccupied. Anything to distract himself, he...
Burdens - Chapter 56: Predict
Chapter 56: Predict Mary was the first to initiate conversation. She greeted them, introduced her friends, as well as herself formally. She informed them of the movie they were to watch, which confirmed Roger's prediction. It gave him the chance to...
Burdens - Chapter 55: Distractions
Chapter 55: Distractions Their time in the park was limited, despite their desire to stay. Roger felt it would be rude to not show up for the movie when they had made the plans. He was only half looking forward to it, the other half of him wanted to...
Burdens - Chapter 51: Bed
Chapter 51: Bed It had gotten late. The sun had disappeared from the sky and all that was left were the stars. A moonless night. It seemed as if their contact had lasted but only a second and the fox felt that it was hardly enough. Any moment where...
Burdens - Chapter 50: Close
Chapter 50: Close The passing of the days had been relatively uneventful. Roger had not seen much of Mary and the skunk had not requested anymore meetings. The change of location for their study session was nice, he thought, but after reviewing the...
Burdens - Chapter 49: Positive
Chapter 49: Positive Hunter was still not present, so Roger figured that he was still at practice. In reality, his meeting with the teacher did not actually take very long, so it made sense to him. He wandered off toward the small stadium that they...