The Summer of a life time: Chapter 2 - Dreams Of A Nightmare
Inside James's house both furs lay asleep in bed, nestled under the covers, hiding in the dark, hidden warmth of their beds. Tom was sleeping heavily, like he always did, lying on his chest face down into the pillow. He was snoring lightly, with his feet hanging just over the edge of the bed. Until his foot and leg twitched at the sudden light touch of a finger, gently tracing it's way up his foot pad, and along the back of his leg. After getting just over half way his eyes slowly crept open as he started realizing there was something gently stroking up the length of his leg. In a sudden movement he flipped his whole body over to and before getting a chance to react to what he saw, the naked wolf that lay just over him reached out to his head and pulled him into a deep, passionate kiss. Holding his head still he arched his back and moved in closer to the stunned tiger. Locking there muzzles together, letting tongues loose to roam free, twisting and twirling in passion as the two furs lock arms around each other in a loving embrace. Until they slowly broke off from the kiss and stared into each others eyes, watching each other stare straight back.
Tom wanted to say something too the wolf lying over him but he just couldn't bring himself to say anything from being stunned by the sudden attack against his lips. The wolf looking down at him suddenly grinned, with a look of fire upon his eyes. And within a sudden movement the wolf thrusted his mouth onto the tigers open neck, biting hard stabbing his teeth into the skin. Tom screamed out with pain as the wolf lying over him continued biting down hard against his neck. Tom was sent into pure agony from the vicious wolf atop him biting down into his neck with such a force as to rip his way in. After getting just enough into his muzzle, the wolf above him quickly lifted his head fast ripping up the skin and fur on Tom's neck tearing it off in one vicious movement. Tom fell flat under the wolf not being able to move or even think from pain.
With one last motion Tom raised his whole body up and screamed out waking the wolf lying in the bed just on the other side of the room from Tom. As he saw nothing in front of him and looking around, his whole body shook with fear as thoughts and images of the Horrible Dream he'd just had flashed through his mind. For reassurance he instantly clasped his hand at his neck to feel if it was still there or not.
"What's the matter? What's wrong? Tom!? Are you ok?" James quickly jumped out of bed rushing over to the distressed tiger that was still full of fright and fear with what had just happened...... or, at least what he'd thought had happened. Within seconds the wolf was at his side holding him in a tight embrace, trying to calm him down.
"Shhh, its ok, its ok......" After things got a little bit calmer James looked into Toms eyes. "Are you alright now?" James asked Tom, who was still clinging on to James out of fear.
"Yea..... Yea, I... I'm ok." Tom managed to get out, panting heavily as his heart raced.
"I... I'm sorry I woke you." He said as he looked down from the wolf slowly with a sad expression on his face.
"No, no, don't be, it's quite alright. You had a bad dream; in fact from the sounds of it I'd say you were having a nightmare." James said, speaking out softly as not to startle the already confused, scared and upset tiger sitting next to him.
Tom sighed with comfort and happiness as his friend held him close, speaking in a soothing gentle tone to him. And if he had his way, he'd never move from that spot ever again. But knowing in time that they were gonna have to, made him feel a down a little bit.
After hearing his sight, James hugged him a little bit tighter at the hopes of helping his friend feel better, and having Tom reach round to hug him straight back was a sure sign that it had worked.
"Right, well it's still kinda late.... We should probably be getting back to bed." James said slowly releasing his grip and pulling his arms away from the tiger.
Tom felt cold again as James's arms left his body, and as much as he hated to admit it, he sorta liked having James holding him close and keeping him warm.
"But.... What if I have another one?" He asked shyly, like a frightened little kid who just had a bad dream.
"Uhh.... Well, if it makes you feel any better, you could.... Well, sleep next to me." James was feeling a little stupid after saying that to Tom. Thinking Tom might ask him if he was gay or something, and as much as he didn't mind it. James wasn't ready for people to find him out yet. Well, not after last time anyway.
"Well, if you don't mind me...... Uhh, you know." Tom stood facing James with another nervous look.
"Yea, I won't mind if it'll help you get some rest, you don't have to if you don't want to, it was just a suggestion." James said hesitantly hoping that Tom doesn't ask if that's the full reason he said it.
"Well I don't mind, m... may I?" Tom was beginning to feel nervous about asking at this point.
"Sure you can" James smiled at him, trying to seem as nice as possible to make Tom feel a little less awkward about it. Well, the way James saw it was. If it's perfectly normal for two guys to sleep in the same room, then what's wrong with sleeping in the same bed?
And with this they both went over to James's bed and each climbed in, curling themselves back under the covers. Tom felt much more content and relaxed when he was with James, and being under the warm covers of a double bed with him only made him feel even closer to him. If only he knew how Tom felt about him. But how would Tom tell him? What would he say? He thought to himself.
"Hey, you can move further into the bed you know, you don't have to hang off the edge." James spoke out to him, "What's the matter? I don't bite." James said with a chuckle. Tom however was not laughing at this, but stared at him with a look of horror.
"What?" James said as his laughing slowly came to a stop. After realizing that Tom was still in slight shock, probably from something he'd just recently said, he reached over and placed his hand onto gently his shoulder.
"Tom, it's ok, alright?"
After snapping out of his thoughts and back into reality, Tom stopped staring and realized that James had his hand on his shoulder.
"Yea... Yea I'm ok I guess."
"Are you sure everything's ok, it seems to me that something's troubling you."
Tom was hoping that he wouldn't ask if there was anything else.
"Yes, I'm fine, let's just got to sleep for now, ok?"
"Sure" James said not wanting to upset the already distressed tiger anymore than he had been.
And with his final words they began to rest once more, and went back to sleep.
*The Next Morning*
Waking up after a good nights sleep. (Well, after having a dream where someone you have feelings for bites your neck open anyways.) Tom stretches lightly before realizing that he and James are lying next to each other, arms locked around on another. As much as Tom didn't want to move, he couldn't let James wake up to see that he'd clung against him in his sleep. But before he had a chance to try and sneak his way out from James's grip he began to wake up. Tom quickly placed his arms at his sides and began to think of a plan to get him out of it. And with a light yawn James woke up, looking directly into Tom's beautiful crystal, ice eyes as his own eyes opened and adjusted to the morning lights.
"Morning, James, you have a good sleep?" Tom asked with a cunning plan to make James feel more embarrassed than he was already beginning to feel.
Smiling lively James answered. "Yea, I slept well thanks."
"Yea, I thought you might have, Ohh.... By the way, you can let go at anytime you know." Tom said smiling widely with what he'd said.
"Huh?" After thinking about what Tom had said, he noticed that his arms were wrapped around his chest and sides, with his hands locked together behind his back.
Pulling away quickly, James began to rant on till he could find some way of explaining this. "Ohh God, Shit, I'm so sorry about that, I... I... I don't know what happened, I..." James stammered to find an answer to why his arms were wrapped around Tom's chest.
Tom Chuckled in delight watching the young wolf struggle to find a reason as to why he was holding him, but decided to not take it far enough to make him feel bad, after all, he did help him calm down from last night after he had the dream about him. Only, James didn't know that it was him Tom was dreaming about.
"James..... It's ok, I don't mind, there comfy, and they kept me warm during the night." Tom smiled to him.
"WHAT!? YOU WERE AWAKE WHEN I PUT MY ARMS AROUND YOU!?" James began to feel even more embarrassed knowing that Tom was awake when it happened. And with that he lowered his head in shame.
"Awww..... James...... Its ok, don't feel bad about it. If I'd not wanted your arms holding on to me like that I'd have gently woke you up and asked you to move them?" Tom spoke out to him, trying his best to make the wolf feel better.
James looked up at him again, staring into his eyes with a still depressed face. Tom Just smiled and hugged him, like James had done in the night.
"There, feel better?" Tom asked
"Surprisingly, yes? Yes I do feel much better."
"There, you see? It's nothing to get embarrassed about, besides, it made me feel like I had nothing to fear, and helped me relax, and eventually fall asleep. And I was only awake when it happened because I couldn't sleep from fear that I'd have another bad dream." Tom said looking right into the wolfs eyes with his paw holding his muzzle up so he'd be looking back and not look away again.
Feeling Toms hand against his muzzle, and having him hold him close like he did a moment ago was beginning to make him blush from feeling so close to him. After thinking over his feeling's he was beginning to think he had fallen in love with his friend, and the worst part about his feelings was that he couldn't tell him.
Seeing some sadness dwelling within James's eyes he begins to speak out to him. "James? Is there something wrong?" Tom asked him in a quiet, yet comforting voice.
After a moment to regain his thoughts James snapped out of his Zone, and suddenly began rushing everything at 100 miles a minute.
"Yea, I'm ok, do you want breakfast? What time is it? I think we should get up. Do you......"
"JAMES!!!?" Tom shouted out to him.
After jumping at the sound of hearing him go off like that he'd nearly fallen over. "What?" James asked not even thinking about what he was doing.
"Slow Down!" Tom stated, "Why are you rushing everything like we have to be somewhere? Just relax a little and take it slow, ok?" Over all, thinking about it, Tom did have a very good point. They weren't going out anywhere, and didn't have any reason to be rushing, so why not take it slowly.
"Yea... I guess you're right. Well, I'm gonna go make us something to eat for breakfast, what you fancy?"
"You" Tom said without even thinking about what he was saying being too busy staring at James from behind as he started walking off towards his draws.
"What?" James said in confusion as he turned to face Tom.
"Err.... I mean, I'll have what ever you're having." He quickly got out before James had a chance to question what he'd said. James just turned off, looking down again and started rummaging through his draw.
The first thought that came to Tom's mind after that was "Phew! That was close."
Getting up both furs Put on some cloths, Tom just put on the same a yesterdays not having gone home to get a fresh pair of cloths to wear, The one's he had on yesterday were clean on, so they could last another day. Once dressed the two furs went down stairs together to get breakfast and think of something they could do to waste the last 16 hours of the day.
"Ok.... What do you want to eat?" James asked politely
"Anything will do James, just as long as it fills me up" Tom stated with another one of his casual Chuckles at the end of his sentence, as that was the way his humor worked. James on the other hand found his laughter from making jokes towards other people when there around. But the way he gave them all a soft smile at the end of it, they all knew that he didn't mean to have meant anything bad. After all, it's just a joke?
James figured that seeing as how they had all day, why make a quick breakfast. With the amount of time they had, James decided to go for a Big breakfast, just for Tom.
After making breakfast, serving it and sitting at the table with a full plate of food each and toast with butter, jam, chocolate spread and marmite at the side like at a B&B.
"Well, Dig in then?" James said with a grin thinking he'd made a good job of what he'd made for breakfast.
"Wait? You're telling me this is all Breakfast?"
"Yes? What else would it be?"
"Dude, I am so coming to you're house next time you're cooking breakfast." Tom said with a smile that looked almost mystified by the food on the table, as if it was all just some sort of dream. And with the way he felt about James, he was praying that everything was real. "Well, it tastes real" he thought to him self as he ate the incredible meal placed in front him. He was beginning to feel a strange sensation within his chest as he ate, and thousands of thoughts began to flood his mind. But out of everything his head was asking him, about what he was feeling, and what it was telling him. He knew exactly what it was all telling him, about what he thought and felt, together as one. He felt like for once in his life, things were going perfect, and he couldn't get that out of his head until he began to hear a faint voice. After looking up surely enough, James was talking to him, and he soon snapped out of it and began listening again.
"Huh? I'm sorry; I guess I kinda wasn't paying attention." Tom said looking into James's eyes from across the table.
James only sighed hearing this and started again. "I said, What do you want to do today? Like, after you're done with breakfast?"
"I'm not sure, but at this rate, I don't think I'll have finished breakfast by the end of today."
"Tom!!!!! I'm being serious."
"Ok, ok, Hmm......" Tom began to ponder about what they could do today, but the only thing that came to mind was to go Shopping. And not many guys liked doing that as something in a day out with there friends. And then it hit him, there was a new Mall built recently, and it was only opened about 2 weeks ago. He'd heard that it was said to have Everything any fur could possibly want.
(Well, anything you could buy anyway)
"Hey, there was a new Mall opened recently, I haven't been over there yet, we could go and check it out. And don't worry; you don't have to buy anything." Tom exclaimed, thinking that this could be a great opportunity for him and James to have some fun together, and maybe find out what interested him.
"Yea, and don't worry, I've got some money to take, we could share it."
"Ohh... you don't have to lend me any money." Tom was slowly starting to blush at the way James wanted to give him money, and not expect anything in return. It was unusual for people to just give someone something, but in the end, James insisted.
"You don't have to give me anything?" Tom said, feeling slightly bad about taking his money.
"No, it's ok; I want you to have it. You can buy anything you want with it."
"Well, ok." Tom eventually agreed with James and accepted his offer.
"Great, now, I only have one question......"
"Hmm... And what's that?" Tom asked, seeming slightly intrigued, wondering what the wolf might want to know.
"How are we going to get there?" James stated, with a grin on his muzzle. Inside his mind right at that moment he, was trying to guess what kind of a snide remark Tom might come out with, as like a sort of game to pass the time.
"Ohh... Don't worry about that. I'm sure my ride can pick us up." Tom said with probably one of the widest Grin's on his own muzzle James had ever seen.
"Ride?" James looked at Tom with slight confusion.
"You'll see." Tom said, holding his grin, and reaching into his pocket to get his phone. He began pressing a few buttons and with in seconds he'd sent a message off to someone else's phone.
"Hey!!!!! I thought you didn't have any credit?" James looking slightly annoyed.
Tom only chuckled at the look on his face, "I have free texts, but I can't ring with them? Ohh...... And would it be ok if I could have you're...... mobile number?" Tom seemed slightly worried about asking this, incase James said no.
"Sure.... 01723798745" James was good with his memory, so phone numbers were easy to keep track of.
"Thanks, Breakfast was lovely by the way." Tom said, before sending another text out and putting his phone away again.
Hearing this only made James feel incredibly warm inside and he felt like his face was going red.
"Ok.... My Ride's going to be here in 10 minutes, so I think we should quickly clear this all up and get ready."
"Ohh, yea, I'll just take that thanks." James took their plates over to the sink and began washing them up before leaving them on the drainer to dry. Once he'd finished that they went into his room quickly to see if they could get some money that James had. After finding where his dad had placed it, he opened this small metal case and began removing what amount of money he had left in it, it wasn't too much, but it seemed to have quite a bit in there.
"Ok, here, this is the money I'm giving you to spend." James held out his paw with the money in it to Tom, who seemed hesitant at first, but took the money in the end. Suddenly, hearing what sounded like the horn from a car was heard out side. Both furs rushed straight down the stairs, after James had quickly grabbed a chain with a key on the end that was sitting on a small pair of draws next to his bed, so he could get back in once the day was over. Rushing out side they both stopped and looked to the road side where there was a red van parked and another tiger sitting in at the driver's seat.
"Well, what do you think? It looks better on the inside, trust me." Tom lightly nudged James's arm and both furs scrambled into the vehicle together.
The radio was on nearly full blast, and the driver was just another Young adult like James, only a bit older, about 19 or 20. He was Tom's older brother, Scott, and he was also new to town as he used to live with his family. But was kicked out because he dropped out from everything, and even though his parent's didn't want to support him. His little bro did. Every ounce of pocket money or birthday money he got from his family. He gave to his older brother. And once he'd past his test, he paid him to drive him around. But would walk every now and then, as the fresh air relaxed him and the walking helped him to think more.
"So where are you two headin?"
"Just the new mall that was built, you know where it is? Right?" Tom said
"Yea, of course I do? Why? What have you been smoking?"
"Shut Up!!!!!"
James just laughed at this. "Seems your older bro's got the same sense of humor you have."
"Yea, tell me about it."
"Well Anyway, I haven't got all day, so strap in guys, Ohh... and New guy...... when I say strap in, It Mean's, Strap In."
"Yea, Trust Me, You Really Want To Strap In When He's In A Hurry." Tom Said with a smirk.
And with everyone ready to go, Scott Instantly Slamming his foot down on the accelerator and there gone off into the distance and out of sight within seconds.
End.
Well, here's part 2 of my series, Sorry for the wait, I wrote it as fast as I could. I hope you all Enjoy it, And Spelling and Grammar Isn't my best area of English, so please be gentle. *Puts on a cute face*
And I'll try and get part three out as soon as possible, so be sure to keep an eye out.
(The Phone Number In This Story IS NOT REAL, Please Do Not Ring The Number Thinking It Might Work)