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I got out and stretched after the three hour car ride. My neck was aching a little from resting it against Seth's. I briefly wondered if his did too, before I realized how big the area around us was. It took Seth's parents waking us up to get out of the car, so I missed seeing how long the drive way was, but it went up over a hill and was half hidden behind a forest of pine and alder. I think. I was never good with trees.

Looking around, the house was huge. Pretty sprawly, but still stood a couple floors tall. There was a porch lifted a few feet off the ground, but I guessed there was a crawl space since no windows could be found. The walls were painted a plain white with light gray trims. There was at least thirty feet of cleared space around the house, and I was amazed by how clear the sky was. I mean, sure the skies were always clear in Amberstone City, but this was further north, closer to my old home, where it always rained.

Seriously, there were only two seasons there, Cold-and-Wet and Warm-and-Wet. I guessed this place must've been far enough south that there were the normal four seasons. I took a step and slid a little, realizing we were on gravel, but a weird, white-silver gravel. I took another step, getting myself used to the gravel.

I felt Seth grab my hand and we walked off the gravel and onto the brick walkway. The place was over decorated, but I liked it, noticing the hand prints in a few of the bricks, all labeled with the residents of the house. Logan, Markus, Claire, Grenda, and Hector.

Inside I had to make sure my jaw hadn't dropped from how big it was. Seriously, I only saw the front of the house, and that does not provide any depth. Upon entrance I found myself at the end of a hallway, with two archways on either side. I didn't pay attention to those and just followed Seth down the hall into what I guess was the main family room from how big it was. The ceiling about double in height from the hall way, and it reminded me a little of Daniel's house, with the normal ceiling for the kitchen off to the side, but then completely open for the main room.

Of course, Daniel's house didn't have a rail running along the edge for the floor above those side rooms, mostly because there weren't open walls. There was a massive TV mounted on one wall, and a few guys were watching a football game. I didn't pay much attention to them, and was a bit more distracted by being pulled alongside Seth upstairs, down a hall, and into someone's room. He dropped his stuff in there and I followed suit.

It wasn't until I heard the raspy, reptillian voice that I realized someone was in there, "So I see your markings filled out a bit."

I turned around to see a... I don't know. He looked like a husky, but he had larger, rounder ears, a fluffier fox tail, and horns sticking out of his head and bone-like bars running along his arms, sunk into his fur. There was a plate of scales on top of his head and the backs of his hands and feet. His finger nails were made of bone, and I noticed his unusually large feet, not that every other aspect of him wasn't unusual. Actually, the only normal thing was the coloration of his fur, which reminded me of a fox's, but his back color was a bright green, his chest a mustard yellow, and his hands and feet a glowing scarlet. He was laying back on his bed, starring up at the DS in his hands.

"Yeah. I see your spines are getting bigger." [Seth]

"Spines are on the back, nimrod. These are fins." He gestured to the bones sticking out of his arms.

"Fins made of bone?" [Me]

He sat up and gave me a confused look, "... I have no idea who you are."

Seth grabbed my are and pulled me to his body, "This is Alex, my boyfriend."

The... whatever-the-fuck-he-was started laughing, almost maniacally. He stopped after a minute, and when he did, Seth punched him in the shoulder.

"Ow! Okay, I'm sorry, but that just fits. I mean, I remember when you met my last girlfriend, Seth... Woo, you should've been there Alex."

"Why? What happened?" [Me]

"Don't tell him." [Seth]

"I'm gonna tell him."

"What happened?" [Me]

"So, Shantelle was this super sweet hyena, and she complimented everybody, just because she was that nice. And then when she compliments Seth, saying the stars on his face looked cool, he lashed out at her for mocking him and his abilities to get a girlfriend."

"What... Why did you lash out at her about a girlfriend?!" [Me]

"I thought she mockingly hitting on me! God, you've had that hanging over my head for three years now. You'd think Mark'd have dropped it by now." [Seth]

"Four years, actually." [Mark]

"So... now that I know your name is Markus... What the heck are you?" [Me]

"Oh, right. I guess you do look pretty weird." [Seth]

"Oh, ha ha, you don't look any better starboy. I'm a Drafusket. Dragon, Fox, Husky, Ferret." [Mark]

"But, you don't have wings." [Me]

"I do too." He crossed his legs and leaned forward so that his head was on the bed, showing off the lime green wings curled up against his back. He unfurled them a just a little, but I realized how big they were from that, being that "just a little" made their span at least six feet. I noticed the spines running down his back, thick blades protruding from every vertebrae.

"Man, those must be huge." [Me]

"They are, and he's a fast flyer." [Seth]

"Yeah I am. And don't forget it, so you won't go hitting on my girlfriend." [Markus]

"Hey, I got the best boyfriend ever, and I'm a little heterophobic, so..." [Me]

"Heterophobic, what? Is that like homophobic, but against straight people?"

"Yup, except it's more like a minor disgust at seeing scenes in movies and stuff where a guy and a girl are in bed, or talk about straight sex at all, it's... it's gross."

"Wow, you really are gay. That's... That's weird."

"Hey, I feel the same way." [Seth]

"Ugh... Don't go banging each other while you're here."

"Right, we'll inform Ted and Daniel." Seth smirked when I said this, and Markus just looked confused.

"Ew. So, where you guys gonna sleep?"

"Same place I always sleep." [Seth]

"Wait, both of you? You guys like, sleep in the same bed and stuff?"

"Yeah. One of the plus sides to being gay is that your parents don't worry about you getting your girlfriend pregnant or banging at night, so we've been sleeping in the same bed since we hooked up." [Seth]

"Ugh." [Markus]

"It's nice when Ted and Daniel join, 'cause Ted always has those sleeping bags and pillows and blankets." [Me]

"Wha-"

"Yeah, it looks weird, but it's really comfortable. I was considering doing that myself for a while. You know, without making such a mound out of my bed." [Seth]

"Oh, that's easy, just don't have twelve sleeping bags, fifteen blankets, and seventeen pillows." [Me]

"You counted?"

"No, he told me."

"What are you two even talking about?" [Markus]

"Your girlfriend's cousin." [Seth]

"Wait, that Ted? And... Oh my god... That's ridiculous."

"What's more ridiculous is that we're in a relationship with him. So, who's gonna join your families together?" [Me]

"Dude, let's be honest, Daniel and Ted are just gonna propose to us as soon as we're all eighteen." [Seth]

"Ew, a foursome? Gross... Polygamists..." [Markus]

"Yeah, but we're all gay, so it doesn't matter. Religion can go screw itself." [Me]

"Well, yeah, I'm as atheist as the next guy, but plural marriage is still weird."

"That's Christianity talking. In fact, a lot of things are spawned by Christianity. In older times it was the only religion that abolished use of drugs, plural marriage, and homosexuality."

"What? Bull crap!"

"No it's true, the Spartans practiced homosexuality within their... group, thing. They believed it'd bring them closer together to fight on for each other." [Seth]

"... So what, now you're spartans?" [Markus]

"Actually, if anything we'd by Athenians." [Me]

"Hail Sagan!" I laughed as Markus gave us another confused look.

"Carl Sagan? Get it? It's a pun." [Seth]

"You two are total nerds-"

"Says the guy who introduced me to the Elder Scrolls games." [Seth]

"I wasn't the one who memorized all the Daedric princes and delved so deep into the lore that I went insane."

"Right, like Sheogorath!" [Me]

"Eh, that's an easy one. You know who Namiriel is?" [Markus]

"Uh, should I?"

"No, and neither do I."

"Obviously. It's Namira, and she's the Deadric prince of nightmares." [Seth]

"Heh, your nerdiness is cute." [Me]

"Adorkable is such a stupid idea." [Markus]

"Well I'm not some prep trying to come off as nerdy, I'm a nerd trying to come off as vaguely normal." [Seth]

"Yeah, I was just stating my opinion on 'adorkable', which he reminded me of." [Markus]

"Oh. I don't know that is." [Me]

"What you thought of Seth three seconds ago."

"Oh, it's a pun."

"Yeah. And it was cool at first, but I was so glad when Sapphire got sick of it. Well, more like had a melt down about memorizing stuff I didn't even know. Seth, you should make her feel better and nerdgasm about the Daedric princes."

"No, it's your fault for not telling her." [Seth]

"Please? She bought a dovahkiin helmet and feels bad 'cause she wants to throw it away."

"Oh my god, why do people call it the dovahkiin helmet? It's just an iron helmet with horns." [Seth]

"... Right. Alex, you're less nerdy than him right now." [Markus]

"Oh please, I'm the best at any Halo game you can name." [Me]

"Well there's seven, so I'm more questioning that title of 'best'."

"He's the best. We played a game where it was all of our friends against him and he still won. With a magnum." [Seth]

"Bull crap!"

"That's what I said at the beginning of the school year when he sniped me with one from the other side of the map."

"Well, what map?" [Markus]

"Vortex." [Me]

"Uhh..."

"The snowy one."

"Ah. Wait, holy crap. Yeah, I'm not playing Halo with you."

"Okay. I was expecting to stay up and light off fire works anyways."

"Well that's tomorrow. Today the kids get to wander around while the adults and girls do everything."

"Uhh... Sexist much?" [Me]

"No, seriously, the girls are always willing to help, mostly because once you get enough in the kitchen, there's enough gossip to entertain them and they're all roped in to doing side work while they talk. Anyways, what girl doesn't enjoy putting the fine details on every blasted cookie, and helping to set decorate the tables and cakes and such."

"That... That still sounds sexist." [Me]

"Just wait until you see the food tomorrow, you'll appreciate that the guys didn't touch the kitchen." [Seth]

"Really, last year... when our dads cooked..." [Mark]

"I didn't believe it was possible to mess up on cheese cake." [Seth]

"That was cheese cake? I thought it a pie!"

"Well cheese cake is a pie, so..." [Me]

"True." [Seth]

"Yeah... So. I've got nerf swords." [Markus]

"More like nerf everything." [Seth]