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A silly/serious story. It involves some Rene torture (of course) but also has a heart-to-heart with a good friend about his relationship. Includes massive cameos and guest stars!
Category Story / Pokemon
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File Size 99 kB
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A Stroll in the Park
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It all started with a sunny day in the park. The weather was so perfect that Rene could hardly turn down a walk with his latest girl Rene had befriended and the second to share his bed.
She let out a whine as Rene dragged away from a bush that smelled of feral zigzagoon. “Rosa, no. No, c'mere girl!” He tugged on her leash, causing the growlithe to pad away from the bushes. He smiled. “That's a good girl!” He rubbed her head. “Yes you like that, don't you? Aww, whose a good puppy girl!” Rosa let her tongue loll out of her mouth as he patted her head. Rene's mom had promised him a puppy when he was seven, not long before her accident. Now that she was back, she saw fit to make good on that promise. Better late than never after all.
Rene had named her Rosa, the same name he'd given to the growlithe plush he'd slept with since the time he was seven until he gave her to Maggie as a going-away gift....back when he thought he was going away to Johto that is. Even though he hadn't, he still didn't want to ask for it back. But Vera had made good on her old promise, thus solving two problems with one at once.
As Rene continued to walk Rosa through the park, she stopped suddenly and started sniffing around. “What is it girl?” She growled as she suddenly lunged at a bush, scaring a tiny feral pichu out of it. Rene held on the leash and tried to bring her to heal, but to no avail. “Rosa! No! No, leave it alone! It just---whooooa!” The pichu started to run. Rosa darted after it, almost jarring Rene's arm from his socket as she dragged him along in her wake. “Rosa! Nooooooo--!” He shouted as he tripped over a tree branch and went sprawling, dragged along the ground by the leash he stubbornly held in his hands. Twigs and leaves and dirt on the ground tore and or clung to Rene, ruining his clothes and getting him so coated with dirt his usual reddish fur was darkened to a brown.
Just as it seemed like Rosa had the poor pichu right where she wanted it, a sudden voice called out: “Circuit, where have you been?!” Rosa stopped short as the pichu ran up the leg and onto the shoulder of a tiny parchisu girl who had taken up a position right in her path. The madcap chase finally stopped, Rene managed to lift his head off the ground.
“Oohhh....Headlight?” He coughed. Sure enough, the scrappy little parchisu stood over him and Rosa, Didectic and Null—now joined by Circuit—scampering about on her shoulders. “What're you doing here?”
She leaned down to help Rene to his feet. “Apparently, saving damsels in distress...pichus too.”
“Yeah...sorry about Rosa and Circuit.” He apologized. Headlight kneeled down and stared Rosa in the eye. Then she suddenly hugged the growlithe. Rosa's tongue hung out and her ears perked at the hug. Her tail started wagging.
Headlight giggled. “Awww, she wasn't going to hurt Circuit. She just wanted to have fun, isn't that right silly puppy?” Rosa barked in what sounded like clear agreement. Undaunted, the pichus climbed down her shoulders and started sitting on Rosa's back. She didn't seem to mind their presence; in fact, she just liked Headlight's face. Wiping her cheeks, the parchisu looked up at Rene. “Yeesh. You really need a bath, brother.” She said, using her odd nickname. “You look like you just went a round with Mary-anne.”
“I feel like it too.” Rene coughed, expelling a small wisp of dirt. He wiped his soil-covered glasses on his torn and filthy shirt, which made cleaning his glasses much more difficult than it should have been. Twigs and leaves were caught in his fur, his hair and his tails were a bristly, tangled nightmare.
Rene let out a moan as he thought about the work he'd have to spend this evening getting his tails back into shape. Headlight giggled, covering her mouth. “Do you want to come over to my place? Maybe Mary-anne can give YOU a bath this time!”
“Er, thanks Headlight, but no.” He shook himself, ruffling his fur and his tails to dispel as much dust and dirt as he could. That proved to be less than clever as he soon found himself surrounded in a dirt cloud. “...magnificent.”
Headlight took a half step back, Rosa following her. “So....what're you up to Rene?”
Coughing out an answer, Rene stepped out of the dirt cloud. “Well, I just came home from helping Penny with an experiment of hers; and after I did I thought it was a nice day to give Rosa a walk....and here we are.” He coughed out another bit of dirt. “Fun day. You?”
“Oh, I was giving my new friend a tour of the park.” Headlight explained.
“...I don't see anyone.” Rene said slowly, looking around.
As if on cue...“HIEEEE!”A very relaxed and happy sounding leafeon bubbled as she suddenly appeared next to Rene. The fox stumbled on his own two feet as he tried to get a little personal space back; he fell on his backside on the ground.
“-ooof!”He grunted as he hit the ground. The lefeaon giggled. “...Minty?” He asked, recognizing her as one of the Swirl Sisters, Mint. She giggled.
“Um...yep, that's me!” She plucked a flower from her hair and put it in Rene's. “There you go!”
“...Thanks.” Rene stood wobilly, then looked at Headlight. “...I feel I should've seen this coming.” He commented dryly as Mint started patting Rosa's head. Rosa thrived on the attention....though she could have gone without the bubbling stream of happiness that poured from Mint.
Headlight shrugged, making her way over to Rosa too. “I like her. She's....groovy.” She buried her face in Rosa's neck fur. Rene could hardly argue with that. He shrugged, dislodging several twigs from his form.
Headlight looked at him, then smiled suddenly. She whispered something in Mint's ear, the pichus listening on...and then in Rosa's. Rene suddenly felt an icy chill as six pairs of eyes focused on him in a very sinister way.
“Wha...what are you girls thinking?” He asked, backing up a half-step.
Headlight and Mint looked to Rosa. “Sick 'em.” Rosa grinned and bounded forward, nipping and biting at Rene's trousers.
“--HEY!” He grabbed at his waistband. “No! Bad dog! Bad dog, bad! Don't listen to those two!”
“Can you taste the freedom, brother?” Headlight laughed. “Down with oppression! Down with clothing! Down with pants!”
“CHU!” Agreed Null, Didectic, and Circuit. Mint giggled. Rene took that as an ideal time to leave.
“Oh look, I think I hear mom calling me, gottagobye!” He zipped off, Rosa in hot pursuit—as avid in her pursuit of Rene's trousers as she was of Circuit. “Down Rosa! Heel! HEEEEEEL!”
Rene ran as fast as he could, zipping past trees, benches, and people. Some of them were familiar faces. Rene and Rosa zipped past a young couple, a beedrill and an albino vulpix as they were attempting to enjoy a quiet romantic picnic together. This was until a red-brownish blur in a vulpix shape ran right in front of them, followed closely by a growlithe. They blinked.
“...Was that Rene?” Faith asked.
“Running around like a maniac, screaming for his life? Ruining a romantic moment I've been planning for a week? Yes, I'd say so.” Pike answered wearily.
“....Shouldn't we help him?”
“No.” Pike held up a pie. “Leppa crumble?”
Rene's life was not as easy as pie, though as Rosa finally caught up with him. The vulpix looked around just in time to see Rosa, her jaws gaping wide as she caught up to him; her teeth clenching down on the back of Rene's pants. SHRRRRRRRIIP!
“GAAH! ROSA!” Her tail wagging happily, the growlithe lifted her head as she held up Rene's pants in her mouth. “Give me those!” Rosa easily sidestepped Rene's attempts to grab her and started running off. “ROSA!” Now Rene ran off chasing Rosa.
Adin LeFue and his little sister Oni had decided to go for a walk that same fine day. Oni let out a squeal of laughter as she saw pantsless Rene chasing after his trousers. Adin just rubbed his eyes. “...Remind me to have dad post a 'no pants, no service' sign at our bakery, Oni.”
Down by the lake, several students had decided to take opportunity of the weekend to swim and sun themselves and generally mill about and relax in the tranquil and peaceful setting. So OF COURSE, that's where Rosa led Rene.
Weaver was laying under the shade of a large tree with her Ishtar, feeling a bit drowsy, when her was suddenly snapped wide awake when a growlithe bounded onto her ample stomach and then off again in the next leap. Her eyes snapped open as she sat up, waking up Ishtar too. “--Huh?! What?” Her jaw dropped as Rene ran past a half moment later, sans pants and flashing her with a simple pair of cotton panties covered in strawberries and ledybas that Rene's girlfriend Nicole had described as the “girliest of girly panties in the history of girldom.”
The drowzee clapped her hand over her eyes and wondered if she could erase her own memories. Rosa then dashed past the sunbathers, getting their attention just in time to see Rene as he ran past in hot pursuit.
Katie looked up, then after seeing Rene shook her head and laid back down again. No comment was necessary.
“Manybutts?” Shaharazad asked as he zipped past. “...Is being no pants a game?”
“Only to someone who enjoys seeing firefluff suffer.” Ruby opined, sun tanning next to the lucario.
“...” Raanee the raichu turned to her sunbathing neighbor. “Want to see who can shock him the most from here?”
Sherilyn offered a very Gallic shrug. “Eet gets old if done too often, no?”
Raanee crossed her arms and mumbled. “...Can't ever happen too much for me.” She said gruffly, trying to hide her fondness for the confused fox...if not his hugs.
Suni raised a brow as Rene ran past, seemingly oblivious to anything but his dog and his pants—though the redness of his ears indicated that he was very aware of what was going on around him—and chuckled slightly. “For someone so fond of clinging to others, he sure has a hard time holding onto things he already has. Don't you think?”
Sticking her tongue out in thought, Mitzi pondered. “Um....maybe he should get a belt? Or one of those...whaddya call them....jumpsuits?”
“Actually not a bad idea.” Suni admitted. Mitzi beamed. Licorice looked up to see what the hubub was about, and covered her mouth to hide a laugh as Rene went running past. Then she stiffened. “Hey!” She whirled around at Tabi. “Did you just pinch me?”
The weavile's face was a look of pure innocence. “Would I do that?” She thought for a moment. “Hmmm, you know if you wanted to join Tails in his fun I wouldn't stop you.” She grinned as she reached for Licorice's bathing suit bottom. A swift hand smack stopped her then and there. Skylar whistled as she sat up, her top conveniently missing. “Yeah, foxy! Take it off! Whoooo!”
Neve, sat up from her own sunbathing on a towel next to Skylar. “...I gotta cousin like Rene. Can no keep her pants on. 'Cours, that her job. She's a stripper.” Neve looked at Skylar in annoyance as she looked at her. “Sky, you really gotta take it down a notch.”
Sky scratched her chin. “Take it down a notch? Okay!” She reached over and pulled Neve's top down.
“AAAHHH!!!!! Besa mi culo, puto! Yo mataria tu!” She cursed at her in Spanish as Skylar flew off for the safety of the tree branches above them.
Jenny the glaceon fell about, holding her stomach and laughing till the tears came. Admittedly, seeing Rene in his underwear was nothing new, the look on his face as he chased after the growlithe....it was too much. Flo clamped her hands over her mouth and giggled as well as her boyfriend Eli mentioned something about Rene having a harder time keeping his clothes on than Eli himself did...and Eli came from the Safari Zone!
Eric, who was busy rubbing sunscreen onto Gabby's back, looked up as Rene ran past them. “...And this is the kid Nikki's taken an interest in.” He shook his head, trying to wrap his mind around it.
“...If I ever wear anything that awful, I'd want you to shoot me.” was Gabby's comment. Dawn forwent a comment as Rene rant past the ponyta. She had already seen more of Rene than she had wanted to...and that was quite sufficient for her, thank you kindly. Anastasia looked baffled, but shrugged and decided not to let it ruin her day. If she did, she'd probably never have a good day again.
In the lake, Azura was floating lazily on her back when she heard the barking...both Rosa and Rene's. She sat up and looked to the shore....promptly turning red when she was Rene's attire. Jenn, who was much more used to this sort of thing, took it more in stride. “Well,” she said. “Browser's at least getting some exercise out of it.”
Tam shook her blond hair, sprinkling water droplets onto the lake's surface. “That is one odd boy. Panty wearing aside.” Rahne Lapries, Rene's lapras teammate blushed red and looked down, turning half-away. “Shouldn't you be used to that by now?” Tam asked her.
Rahne's only answer was to blush some more.
Only the top of Zeni's head broke the surface of the water, leaving her mouth and everything below it submerged. Thus, what she had to say was....a little difficult to hear, to say the least. But the eye roll was eloquent enough in its own right.
“ROSA! If you don't give me back my pants right now you'll be sleeping the dog house until your pups have pups!” Rene yelled as they ran off, down the park's path.
They passed Nigel whose eye immediately developed an annoyed twitch as he reached for the bottle of aspirins he now carried around with him at all times.
Myra blinked as Rene ran past, chasing after the dog with his pants. “Hey nene! Put some pants on! Yeah, I'm talking to 'choo!”
Rene's face flushed...which only got worse when he had to run between Meghan and Vosa. “Sorry!”
“...” The two lovers shared an identical flat expression at the sight they just witnessed. Vosa said. “...He's the kind of mon that can make one doubt one's faith in Arceus...or at the very least, the law of probability.”
“Amen.” Meg replied numbly.
Rene ran on, Rosa and his pants dancing just out of reach. He heard giggling as he ran past a gaggle of girls. “Fuzzbutt?” Crys and Missy giggled. “Fuzzlebum?” Krissy chortled as he ran past. “Love the undies!” Sasha Crane and Five fell against one another, uncontrollably giggling. Fiver couldn't resist getting in a word. “Hey foxy! I keep telling you! Black and red are your colors! Black and red! Don't make me pick out your undies myself!” Lorissa blinked, clearly at a loss.
Rene continued his flashing run, idly glad that Tessa, Zap, and Maggie had him run all those laps during his training sessions. He ran past Tori and Nixxus, ignoring her croaking laughter and his dumbfounded look; he ran past Jewel and Rio—leaving them both blinking. Nubia, who had been jogging from the other direction, almost missed a step as Rosa and Rene went past her. “....so lucky he's not a typical guy.” She muttered. If it were any other boy running around her in his underpants...then they'd be in an ambulance within the next five minutes.
Rene ran past the French eevee, Neena La'Ve, giving his team's alternate a more revealing look at him than either of them had planned on. “Sacre bleu!” She gaped. A shopping buddy, Grace, merely giggled at his attire. “Nice undies! Were they on sale?” She giggled.
Finally, feeling tired and frustrated and mammothly embarrassed, Rene went into a leaping dive, managing to grab his pants leg and snatch his pants from Rosa's mouth! “A ha!” Rene crowed, scrambling to his feet and raising his prize above his head...and out of Rosa's reach as she sat at his feet, wondering if they would play some more. Rene looked down at her. “NO Rosa, NO. You may NOT take my pants, I--” Rene's ears twitched at the sound of a strangled-snort of laughter, prompting him to look up...and find Cinnamon Swirl standing in front of him.
“Nice panties.” She smirked. Rene flushed and hiked them up, they'd dragged down a bit when he dived at Rosa. “So, how's things? Busy flashing half the school yer panties again?”
Blushing so badly that the red shone through his brown-dirt covered cheeks, Rene coughed. “...Well....it's not like they haven't seen them before.” He gives a weak laugh. “I mean, what's new about that?”
Cinny pointed. “Um, that they're inside out?” Rene looked down and flushed even harder. Sure enough, they were indeed inside out.
“...Can you turn away from those bushes for a minute?” He asked in a strangled tone of voice. Unable to help giggling, Cinny did at least turn away long enough to let Rene hide in the bushes and remove his underwear, put them back on the right way and then put on his pants....shuddering at the doggy drool. Of course, she couldn't help peeking from time to time.
When Rene emerged a moment or two later, she let out a laugh. “All settled?”
“Yeah, yeah.” Rene waved her off, still embarrassed and making sure to hold on securely to Rosa's leash. “So....you here with Saul? I saw a lot of couples here.” She shook her head.
“Nah, he and Selena had something ta do.”
“Ah.” Rene said, all he could think of. Then came an awkward pause. Rene and Cinny had first gotten to know each other, talk to each other, when they were marooned on an island out in the middle of the ocean with other students from the PCA. But with all the fear and tension and pressure going on at that time, Rene and Cinny did more than just talk. One night when everyone else was asleep they found themselves talking about everything they missed....baths and pizza and toilets and beds....and even though they both had significant others back home—Nicole and Saul, respectively—they felt so alone and scared that they couldn't help sharing a kiss.
Compared to what several of their classmates did during the same period, what Rene and Cinny did was tame. Both felt bad about what they had done and did their best to put it behind them in the interest of becoming and remaining friends—which they had done to a remarkable degree—and deepen their relationships with their significant others (ditto). Still, every now and again...less and less often to be sure, but once in a blue moon there would be that awkward lull in the conversation that showed they were both thinking of that moment.
The two were not interested in one another romantically, but it was hard to not think about that kiss. For Cinny, it was her first kiss. At least, the first kiss she could give without fear of hurting the boy she was kissing. She had a problem controlling her fire ability and ended up hurting Saul—a grass-type leafeon—before the marooning. After the island, Cinny could control her fire abilities more. But Rene was the first boy she could kiss without fear....being a fire-type and a vulpix besides, she knew her flames wouldn't hurt him. That was no small thing. (She'd also told Rene he was a good kisser; flattering but awkward in retrospect).
And Rene, for his part; had given Nicole Zuna his mother's PCA ring as a promise ring (an idea he'd shamelessly stolen from Nigel) not long before the boat trip that ended up with them getting marooned. Being the type who delights in seeing girls happy, Rene felt horrible that he ended up hurting Nicole (though he never told her about the kiss) and Cinny at the same time. Despite Rene actually encouraging Cinny not to give up on Saul—she feared hurting him more, she confessed to him on the island—he still felt as if he'd hurt Cinny. Hence the guilt and awkwardness on the occasions when they were both thinking about it.
“....Rene.” Cinny started. “You're dwelling on it again, aren't you?”
Rene shifted guiltily. “Yeah...sometimes. You?”
“I sorta just try not ta think too much about it if I can, ya know?”
“...Ah.”
“Oh hey.. I didn't mean it in a bad way or nuthin.” Cinny said quickly. “I just, don't wanna get you in trouble or hurt nobody.”
“That's sweet.” He smiled thinly. “Thank you.”
Cinny smiled a little, blushing. “Thanks.. yer sweet too, Rene. Trust me, when I said I try not to think about it.. I didn't say it was easy.”
The vulpix shuffled his feet. “Cinny, I have a problem and you're the only one I can talk to about it.”
That clearly surprised her. “Um, okay. Shoot.” He nodded gratefully.
“Well....after we, um, you know....kissed and stuff...I've been going through some things that me, well, think about my relationship with Nicole.” He waved his hand forestalling her. “No, not like that. I'm not about to break up with Nicole. Even if you were available....I like you, but I love Nicole. But....”
Cinny gulped nervously. “But...”
“But...” Rene sighed. “I'm afraid that someone's going to get hurt.”
“....Well, you ARE dating a nidoran.” Cinny suggested helpfully. “And I'm sure Blueberry could give you the fine points of First Aid for puncture wounds...”
“Cinny,” Rene said, contriving to sound rebuking, but the smile ruined it. “That's not what I meant.” His face fell again. “I just...” he sighed. “After I gave Nicole that promise ring it seems like the world is out to mess me and Nicole up! I mean, after the island....”
He clumsily referred to their kiss. “A clefairy girl, a friend of mine named Treble Mustaine, confessed that she liked me...she didn't know about me and Nicole. And I felt like such a heel for telling her that I was already seeing someone and breaking her heart....and then Stormy--” Seeing Cinny's look of nonrecognition he elaborated. “Um, Alicia Softsong. She's an altaria, part of Team Rebel. She'd gotten a crush on me, even took me out to dinner—not knowing Nicole and I were already a couple. Well,” he said, looking at Cinny's incredulous face. “I didn't think it was a dinner 'date' at the time!” He protested. “I told her and she seemed to be okay....though she and Nicole developed something approaching a hate-on for each other. Finally, Stormy told me to my face that she 'would really like it if we could be more than just friends.' Then she tried to kiss me. And once again I felt like the biggest creep in the world having to shoot her down and stomp on her hopes.” He groaned. “And don't even ask about Diana!”
“...Who?”
“I did say not to ask.” He replied drolly, waving his hand. “She's a ninetails from the same dojo Nicole goes to. She's a shameless flirt and, according to Nicole, several other things not worth repeating.”
“Ah.” Cinny asked, seeing but not seeing. “....when did you get so popular with the girls anyway? I mean, sure you're cute and fuzzy, but...oh come on don't give me that pouty puppy dog face!” Cinny held her hands up at Rene.
“Well, I happen to be very good with ladies. Especially the hard to reach ones!”
“Um, given how short you are most girls are of the 'hard to reach' variety.” Cinny pointed out. Despite being two years older than her, Rene wasn't any taller than Cinny.
“Not what I meant. I happen to have a good rapport with girls that most people write off. “I mean, look at me and Nikki! She takes an interest in me, even tries to help me. And Suni? She hugged me on the island after I tried making her feel better and thanked me for trying too hard. And after she fought with Charla a while ago she called me 'a true friend.' And Charla—it wasn't easy but I became friends with her too. Nubia...Nubia actually lets me TOUCH her—” Cinny snorted. “--I meant like hugs and patting her shoulder. Considering she hates males, that says a LOT. She even apologized to me once for snapping at me, calling me by my name. And Sherilyn? Even though she says she hated hugs and even though she once ran me up a flagpole in my underwear and stuck me to the top with static electricity....”
“....and?” Cinny asked, waiting for him to continue.
“I lost my train of thought.” Rene admitted sheepishly. “Oh right! Well, she kissed me in a bar once, full on the lips, and shoved my head between her breasts at Jenn's naked party.”
“--What was that like?” Cinny couldn't help asking.
“Um, she tasted like...blue.”
“...How could she taste like my sister? How would you even KNOW what my sister—oh. The color.” Cinny laughed awkwardly. “Sorry, never mind. Go on.”
Rene nodded. “Right. Well, even girls who act all tough and strong—even they got to like me! Neve, Charla....even Myra! And heck, on the island Tenebra actually spoke to me (and Kai) in full sentences for a couple of minutes! She actually opened up a bit!”
“...I got ta stand on Tenebra's shoulders and hugged her.” Cinny bragged. “She's cool.”
“...Braggart.” Rene muttered, clearly a bit envious. Then he shook his head. “See? That's what I'm talking about. I like making girls happy; even the ones who like to act tough and serious. Seeing girls happy....it makes ME happy. When they're not happy, I'm not either. And now....now I HAVE made girls unhappy and if Nicole ever finds out about...well, what happened on the island....SHE'LL be hurt too.”
“Rene...”
He pressed on, afraid that if he didn't continue, he'd never finish. “I'm just....I hate seeing girls hurt. I hate seeing friends hurt even worse. What if....I do something to hurt them even more? Or hurt someone else? Or you? Or....Nicole?” The vulpix looked down. “I don't want to hurt people...”
Cinny fidgeted, “Hey dude..c'mon..it's okay.” She said as comfortingly as she could, feeling horribly awkward in this situation. Dating was still a new thing to her and relationships a near total enigma. “You don't hurt people....you hug them.”
Rene let out a sniffle mixed with a giggle. “Yeah, but....some girls are going to feel bad because I'm dating Nicole. It's like, I made them feel good and that made them feel worse in the long run than if I'd never met them at all.”
“I don't know if they'd feel that way.” Cinny pointed out. “What, you wish you could be every girl's boyfriend?” Rene fidgeted. That struck too close for comfort.
“No....but I would like to be all their friends.” He said. “I like them all....but Nicole is the only one I love, like I said. I mean, LOVE, love you know? Cuz I love my friends but Nicole I love different and—”
“I THINK I get it.” Cinny pulled a face at him. “Rene, you're just getting scared because you and Nicole are getting so close. That's all.” At least, that's what she HOPED it meant. If her sisters' sitcoms were right than that's what it meant. If they weren't....well, what can you do? “You and Nicole were made for each other. Everyone knows it. I mean, they're taking bets on who'll be the stay at home mom, how many kids you'll have....and who'll wear the bride's gown and toss the bouquet.”
After a moment Rene giggled. “...I guess you're right.” He said. Cinny sighed in relief, then tried to pretend she hadn't when Rene glanced her way. “I just....having other girls admit to liking me THAT way really threw me. And....what if I do something to hurt Nicole? I---I just can't stand seeing people hurt.”
“That's what makes you a good mon, Rene.” Cinny nudged him with her elbow. “Just do your best to make the world full of sunshine and rainbows and hugs and girly panties, and the rest of us girls will be just fine.” That 'rest of us' comment was exactly the right thing to say, for it included Rene as 'one of the girls.' Rene beamed and gave Cinny a hug.
“Thank you Cinnabon....you're a great friend.” She squeezed him back.
“Heh, anytime.” She squeaked as he mussed her hair. “Come on....why don't you go home and shower before your growlithe decides to bury your clothes next?” Rosa barked, giving the unsettling impression that she was considering it.
Rene chuckled. “Aheh....I'll go do that.” Securely holding Rosa's leash, he started to walk off, waving good-bye. “Bye! Thanks Cinny!”
“Bye! Take care!” She waved back. “Give Nicole a hug for me!”
“I will! You're an awesome friend Cinnabon.”
“You too Rene. You too.”
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THE END
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Dramatis Personae:
Headlight, Didactic, Null, Circuit, Mary-anne ｩ to Crossdog
Blueberry, Mint, Licorice, and Cinnamon Swirl ｩ to SadFatDuck
Pike, Penny ｩ Chupitheterrible
Adin LeFue, Oni ｩ Circuit
Faith ｩ Jazzfoxrules
Weaver, Ishtar ｩ KaeMantis
Tabi, Tam ｩ Vjohnson
Gabby, Ruby, Jenn, Katie ｩ AubriGriffon
Nicole, Diana, Shaharazad ｩ Asuraludu
Dawn, Anastasia, Tessa, Nikki, Tenebra, Lorissa, Eric, Sherilyn, Mitzi ｩ Carlito
Raanee, Azura ｩ Blink
Nubia, Zap, Suni, Zeni, Tori ｩ EbonyLeopard
Myra, Flo, Nigel, Charla, Meghan, Maggie ｩ Ceegee/Kompy
Vosa ｩ Melfice
Jenny ｩ KDRaccoon
Eli, Kai ｩ RikMach
Crys, Missy, Krissy ｩ RyuenTran
Five ｩ Darkheart
Sasha ｩ Kuwabara
Jewel, Rio ｩ da-end
Nixxus ｩ Natsuki
Neena ｩ Telkat
Grace ｩ AngelicImpurity
Treble ｩ Colley
Stormy ｩ LordJaguar
Rene, Rahne, Rosa ｩ me
A Stroll in the Park
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It all started with a sunny day in the park. The weather was so perfect that Rene could hardly turn down a walk with his latest girl Rene had befriended and the second to share his bed.
She let out a whine as Rene dragged away from a bush that smelled of feral zigzagoon. “Rosa, no. No, c'mere girl!” He tugged on her leash, causing the growlithe to pad away from the bushes. He smiled. “That's a good girl!” He rubbed her head. “Yes you like that, don't you? Aww, whose a good puppy girl!” Rosa let her tongue loll out of her mouth as he patted her head. Rene's mom had promised him a puppy when he was seven, not long before her accident. Now that she was back, she saw fit to make good on that promise. Better late than never after all.
Rene had named her Rosa, the same name he'd given to the growlithe plush he'd slept with since the time he was seven until he gave her to Maggie as a going-away gift....back when he thought he was going away to Johto that is. Even though he hadn't, he still didn't want to ask for it back. But Vera had made good on her old promise, thus solving two problems with one at once.
As Rene continued to walk Rosa through the park, she stopped suddenly and started sniffing around. “What is it girl?” She growled as she suddenly lunged at a bush, scaring a tiny feral pichu out of it. Rene held on the leash and tried to bring her to heal, but to no avail. “Rosa! No! No, leave it alone! It just---whooooa!” The pichu started to run. Rosa darted after it, almost jarring Rene's arm from his socket as she dragged him along in her wake. “Rosa! Nooooooo--!” He shouted as he tripped over a tree branch and went sprawling, dragged along the ground by the leash he stubbornly held in his hands. Twigs and leaves and dirt on the ground tore and or clung to Rene, ruining his clothes and getting him so coated with dirt his usual reddish fur was darkened to a brown.
Just as it seemed like Rosa had the poor pichu right where she wanted it, a sudden voice called out: “Circuit, where have you been?!” Rosa stopped short as the pichu ran up the leg and onto the shoulder of a tiny parchisu girl who had taken up a position right in her path. The madcap chase finally stopped, Rene managed to lift his head off the ground.
“Oohhh....Headlight?” He coughed. Sure enough, the scrappy little parchisu stood over him and Rosa, Didectic and Null—now joined by Circuit—scampering about on her shoulders. “What're you doing here?”
She leaned down to help Rene to his feet. “Apparently, saving damsels in distress...pichus too.”
“Yeah...sorry about Rosa and Circuit.” He apologized. Headlight kneeled down and stared Rosa in the eye. Then she suddenly hugged the growlithe. Rosa's tongue hung out and her ears perked at the hug. Her tail started wagging.
Headlight giggled. “Awww, she wasn't going to hurt Circuit. She just wanted to have fun, isn't that right silly puppy?” Rosa barked in what sounded like clear agreement. Undaunted, the pichus climbed down her shoulders and started sitting on Rosa's back. She didn't seem to mind their presence; in fact, she just liked Headlight's face. Wiping her cheeks, the parchisu looked up at Rene. “Yeesh. You really need a bath, brother.” She said, using her odd nickname. “You look like you just went a round with Mary-anne.”
“I feel like it too.” Rene coughed, expelling a small wisp of dirt. He wiped his soil-covered glasses on his torn and filthy shirt, which made cleaning his glasses much more difficult than it should have been. Twigs and leaves were caught in his fur, his hair and his tails were a bristly, tangled nightmare.
Rene let out a moan as he thought about the work he'd have to spend this evening getting his tails back into shape. Headlight giggled, covering her mouth. “Do you want to come over to my place? Maybe Mary-anne can give YOU a bath this time!”
“Er, thanks Headlight, but no.” He shook himself, ruffling his fur and his tails to dispel as much dust and dirt as he could. That proved to be less than clever as he soon found himself surrounded in a dirt cloud. “...magnificent.”
Headlight took a half step back, Rosa following her. “So....what're you up to Rene?”
Coughing out an answer, Rene stepped out of the dirt cloud. “Well, I just came home from helping Penny with an experiment of hers; and after I did I thought it was a nice day to give Rosa a walk....and here we are.” He coughed out another bit of dirt. “Fun day. You?”
“Oh, I was giving my new friend a tour of the park.” Headlight explained.
“...I don't see anyone.” Rene said slowly, looking around.
As if on cue...“HIEEEE!”A very relaxed and happy sounding leafeon bubbled as she suddenly appeared next to Rene. The fox stumbled on his own two feet as he tried to get a little personal space back; he fell on his backside on the ground.
“-ooof!”He grunted as he hit the ground. The lefeaon giggled. “...Minty?” He asked, recognizing her as one of the Swirl Sisters, Mint. She giggled.
“Um...yep, that's me!” She plucked a flower from her hair and put it in Rene's. “There you go!”
“...Thanks.” Rene stood wobilly, then looked at Headlight. “...I feel I should've seen this coming.” He commented dryly as Mint started patting Rosa's head. Rosa thrived on the attention....though she could have gone without the bubbling stream of happiness that poured from Mint.
Headlight shrugged, making her way over to Rosa too. “I like her. She's....groovy.” She buried her face in Rosa's neck fur. Rene could hardly argue with that. He shrugged, dislodging several twigs from his form.
Headlight looked at him, then smiled suddenly. She whispered something in Mint's ear, the pichus listening on...and then in Rosa's. Rene suddenly felt an icy chill as six pairs of eyes focused on him in a very sinister way.
“Wha...what are you girls thinking?” He asked, backing up a half-step.
Headlight and Mint looked to Rosa. “Sick 'em.” Rosa grinned and bounded forward, nipping and biting at Rene's trousers.
“--HEY!” He grabbed at his waistband. “No! Bad dog! Bad dog, bad! Don't listen to those two!”
“Can you taste the freedom, brother?” Headlight laughed. “Down with oppression! Down with clothing! Down with pants!”
“CHU!” Agreed Null, Didectic, and Circuit. Mint giggled. Rene took that as an ideal time to leave.
“Oh look, I think I hear mom calling me, gottagobye!” He zipped off, Rosa in hot pursuit—as avid in her pursuit of Rene's trousers as she was of Circuit. “Down Rosa! Heel! HEEEEEEL!”
Rene ran as fast as he could, zipping past trees, benches, and people. Some of them were familiar faces. Rene and Rosa zipped past a young couple, a beedrill and an albino vulpix as they were attempting to enjoy a quiet romantic picnic together. This was until a red-brownish blur in a vulpix shape ran right in front of them, followed closely by a growlithe. They blinked.
“...Was that Rene?” Faith asked.
“Running around like a maniac, screaming for his life? Ruining a romantic moment I've been planning for a week? Yes, I'd say so.” Pike answered wearily.
“....Shouldn't we help him?”
“No.” Pike held up a pie. “Leppa crumble?”
Rene's life was not as easy as pie, though as Rosa finally caught up with him. The vulpix looked around just in time to see Rosa, her jaws gaping wide as she caught up to him; her teeth clenching down on the back of Rene's pants. SHRRRRRRRIIP!
“GAAH! ROSA!” Her tail wagging happily, the growlithe lifted her head as she held up Rene's pants in her mouth. “Give me those!” Rosa easily sidestepped Rene's attempts to grab her and started running off. “ROSA!” Now Rene ran off chasing Rosa.
Adin LeFue and his little sister Oni had decided to go for a walk that same fine day. Oni let out a squeal of laughter as she saw pantsless Rene chasing after his trousers. Adin just rubbed his eyes. “...Remind me to have dad post a 'no pants, no service' sign at our bakery, Oni.”
Down by the lake, several students had decided to take opportunity of the weekend to swim and sun themselves and generally mill about and relax in the tranquil and peaceful setting. So OF COURSE, that's where Rosa led Rene.
Weaver was laying under the shade of a large tree with her Ishtar, feeling a bit drowsy, when her was suddenly snapped wide awake when a growlithe bounded onto her ample stomach and then off again in the next leap. Her eyes snapped open as she sat up, waking up Ishtar too. “--Huh?! What?” Her jaw dropped as Rene ran past a half moment later, sans pants and flashing her with a simple pair of cotton panties covered in strawberries and ledybas that Rene's girlfriend Nicole had described as the “girliest of girly panties in the history of girldom.”
The drowzee clapped her hand over her eyes and wondered if she could erase her own memories. Rosa then dashed past the sunbathers, getting their attention just in time to see Rene as he ran past in hot pursuit.
Katie looked up, then after seeing Rene shook her head and laid back down again. No comment was necessary.
“Manybutts?” Shaharazad asked as he zipped past. “...Is being no pants a game?”
“Only to someone who enjoys seeing firefluff suffer.” Ruby opined, sun tanning next to the lucario.
“...” Raanee the raichu turned to her sunbathing neighbor. “Want to see who can shock him the most from here?”
Sherilyn offered a very Gallic shrug. “Eet gets old if done too often, no?”
Raanee crossed her arms and mumbled. “...Can't ever happen too much for me.” She said gruffly, trying to hide her fondness for the confused fox...if not his hugs.
Suni raised a brow as Rene ran past, seemingly oblivious to anything but his dog and his pants—though the redness of his ears indicated that he was very aware of what was going on around him—and chuckled slightly. “For someone so fond of clinging to others, he sure has a hard time holding onto things he already has. Don't you think?”
Sticking her tongue out in thought, Mitzi pondered. “Um....maybe he should get a belt? Or one of those...whaddya call them....jumpsuits?”
“Actually not a bad idea.” Suni admitted. Mitzi beamed. Licorice looked up to see what the hubub was about, and covered her mouth to hide a laugh as Rene went running past. Then she stiffened. “Hey!” She whirled around at Tabi. “Did you just pinch me?”
The weavile's face was a look of pure innocence. “Would I do that?” She thought for a moment. “Hmmm, you know if you wanted to join Tails in his fun I wouldn't stop you.” She grinned as she reached for Licorice's bathing suit bottom. A swift hand smack stopped her then and there. Skylar whistled as she sat up, her top conveniently missing. “Yeah, foxy! Take it off! Whoooo!”
Neve, sat up from her own sunbathing on a towel next to Skylar. “...I gotta cousin like Rene. Can no keep her pants on. 'Cours, that her job. She's a stripper.” Neve looked at Skylar in annoyance as she looked at her. “Sky, you really gotta take it down a notch.”
Sky scratched her chin. “Take it down a notch? Okay!” She reached over and pulled Neve's top down.
“AAAHHH!!!!! Besa mi culo, puto! Yo mataria tu!” She cursed at her in Spanish as Skylar flew off for the safety of the tree branches above them.
Jenny the glaceon fell about, holding her stomach and laughing till the tears came. Admittedly, seeing Rene in his underwear was nothing new, the look on his face as he chased after the growlithe....it was too much. Flo clamped her hands over her mouth and giggled as well as her boyfriend Eli mentioned something about Rene having a harder time keeping his clothes on than Eli himself did...and Eli came from the Safari Zone!
Eric, who was busy rubbing sunscreen onto Gabby's back, looked up as Rene ran past them. “...And this is the kid Nikki's taken an interest in.” He shook his head, trying to wrap his mind around it.
“...If I ever wear anything that awful, I'd want you to shoot me.” was Gabby's comment. Dawn forwent a comment as Rene rant past the ponyta. She had already seen more of Rene than she had wanted to...and that was quite sufficient for her, thank you kindly. Anastasia looked baffled, but shrugged and decided not to let it ruin her day. If she did, she'd probably never have a good day again.
In the lake, Azura was floating lazily on her back when she heard the barking...both Rosa and Rene's. She sat up and looked to the shore....promptly turning red when she was Rene's attire. Jenn, who was much more used to this sort of thing, took it more in stride. “Well,” she said. “Browser's at least getting some exercise out of it.”
Tam shook her blond hair, sprinkling water droplets onto the lake's surface. “That is one odd boy. Panty wearing aside.” Rahne Lapries, Rene's lapras teammate blushed red and looked down, turning half-away. “Shouldn't you be used to that by now?” Tam asked her.
Rahne's only answer was to blush some more.
Only the top of Zeni's head broke the surface of the water, leaving her mouth and everything below it submerged. Thus, what she had to say was....a little difficult to hear, to say the least. But the eye roll was eloquent enough in its own right.
“ROSA! If you don't give me back my pants right now you'll be sleeping the dog house until your pups have pups!” Rene yelled as they ran off, down the park's path.
They passed Nigel whose eye immediately developed an annoyed twitch as he reached for the bottle of aspirins he now carried around with him at all times.
Myra blinked as Rene ran past, chasing after the dog with his pants. “Hey nene! Put some pants on! Yeah, I'm talking to 'choo!”
Rene's face flushed...which only got worse when he had to run between Meghan and Vosa. “Sorry!”
“...” The two lovers shared an identical flat expression at the sight they just witnessed. Vosa said. “...He's the kind of mon that can make one doubt one's faith in Arceus...or at the very least, the law of probability.”
“Amen.” Meg replied numbly.
Rene ran on, Rosa and his pants dancing just out of reach. He heard giggling as he ran past a gaggle of girls. “Fuzzbutt?” Crys and Missy giggled. “Fuzzlebum?” Krissy chortled as he ran past. “Love the undies!” Sasha Crane and Five fell against one another, uncontrollably giggling. Fiver couldn't resist getting in a word. “Hey foxy! I keep telling you! Black and red are your colors! Black and red! Don't make me pick out your undies myself!” Lorissa blinked, clearly at a loss.
Rene continued his flashing run, idly glad that Tessa, Zap, and Maggie had him run all those laps during his training sessions. He ran past Tori and Nixxus, ignoring her croaking laughter and his dumbfounded look; he ran past Jewel and Rio—leaving them both blinking. Nubia, who had been jogging from the other direction, almost missed a step as Rosa and Rene went past her. “....so lucky he's not a typical guy.” She muttered. If it were any other boy running around her in his underpants...then they'd be in an ambulance within the next five minutes.
Rene ran past the French eevee, Neena La'Ve, giving his team's alternate a more revealing look at him than either of them had planned on. “Sacre bleu!” She gaped. A shopping buddy, Grace, merely giggled at his attire. “Nice undies! Were they on sale?” She giggled.
Finally, feeling tired and frustrated and mammothly embarrassed, Rene went into a leaping dive, managing to grab his pants leg and snatch his pants from Rosa's mouth! “A ha!” Rene crowed, scrambling to his feet and raising his prize above his head...and out of Rosa's reach as she sat at his feet, wondering if they would play some more. Rene looked down at her. “NO Rosa, NO. You may NOT take my pants, I--” Rene's ears twitched at the sound of a strangled-snort of laughter, prompting him to look up...and find Cinnamon Swirl standing in front of him.
“Nice panties.” She smirked. Rene flushed and hiked them up, they'd dragged down a bit when he dived at Rosa. “So, how's things? Busy flashing half the school yer panties again?”
Blushing so badly that the red shone through his brown-dirt covered cheeks, Rene coughed. “...Well....it's not like they haven't seen them before.” He gives a weak laugh. “I mean, what's new about that?”
Cinny pointed. “Um, that they're inside out?” Rene looked down and flushed even harder. Sure enough, they were indeed inside out.
“...Can you turn away from those bushes for a minute?” He asked in a strangled tone of voice. Unable to help giggling, Cinny did at least turn away long enough to let Rene hide in the bushes and remove his underwear, put them back on the right way and then put on his pants....shuddering at the doggy drool. Of course, she couldn't help peeking from time to time.
When Rene emerged a moment or two later, she let out a laugh. “All settled?”
“Yeah, yeah.” Rene waved her off, still embarrassed and making sure to hold on securely to Rosa's leash. “So....you here with Saul? I saw a lot of couples here.” She shook her head.
“Nah, he and Selena had something ta do.”
“Ah.” Rene said, all he could think of. Then came an awkward pause. Rene and Cinny had first gotten to know each other, talk to each other, when they were marooned on an island out in the middle of the ocean with other students from the PCA. But with all the fear and tension and pressure going on at that time, Rene and Cinny did more than just talk. One night when everyone else was asleep they found themselves talking about everything they missed....baths and pizza and toilets and beds....and even though they both had significant others back home—Nicole and Saul, respectively—they felt so alone and scared that they couldn't help sharing a kiss.
Compared to what several of their classmates did during the same period, what Rene and Cinny did was tame. Both felt bad about what they had done and did their best to put it behind them in the interest of becoming and remaining friends—which they had done to a remarkable degree—and deepen their relationships with their significant others (ditto). Still, every now and again...less and less often to be sure, but once in a blue moon there would be that awkward lull in the conversation that showed they were both thinking of that moment.
The two were not interested in one another romantically, but it was hard to not think about that kiss. For Cinny, it was her first kiss. At least, the first kiss she could give without fear of hurting the boy she was kissing. She had a problem controlling her fire ability and ended up hurting Saul—a grass-type leafeon—before the marooning. After the island, Cinny could control her fire abilities more. But Rene was the first boy she could kiss without fear....being a fire-type and a vulpix besides, she knew her flames wouldn't hurt him. That was no small thing. (She'd also told Rene he was a good kisser; flattering but awkward in retrospect).
And Rene, for his part; had given Nicole Zuna his mother's PCA ring as a promise ring (an idea he'd shamelessly stolen from Nigel) not long before the boat trip that ended up with them getting marooned. Being the type who delights in seeing girls happy, Rene felt horrible that he ended up hurting Nicole (though he never told her about the kiss) and Cinny at the same time. Despite Rene actually encouraging Cinny not to give up on Saul—she feared hurting him more, she confessed to him on the island—he still felt as if he'd hurt Cinny. Hence the guilt and awkwardness on the occasions when they were both thinking about it.
“....Rene.” Cinny started. “You're dwelling on it again, aren't you?”
Rene shifted guiltily. “Yeah...sometimes. You?”
“I sorta just try not ta think too much about it if I can, ya know?”
“...Ah.”
“Oh hey.. I didn't mean it in a bad way or nuthin.” Cinny said quickly. “I just, don't wanna get you in trouble or hurt nobody.”
“That's sweet.” He smiled thinly. “Thank you.”
Cinny smiled a little, blushing. “Thanks.. yer sweet too, Rene. Trust me, when I said I try not to think about it.. I didn't say it was easy.”
The vulpix shuffled his feet. “Cinny, I have a problem and you're the only one I can talk to about it.”
That clearly surprised her. “Um, okay. Shoot.” He nodded gratefully.
“Well....after we, um, you know....kissed and stuff...I've been going through some things that me, well, think about my relationship with Nicole.” He waved his hand forestalling her. “No, not like that. I'm not about to break up with Nicole. Even if you were available....I like you, but I love Nicole. But....”
Cinny gulped nervously. “But...”
“But...” Rene sighed. “I'm afraid that someone's going to get hurt.”
“....Well, you ARE dating a nidoran.” Cinny suggested helpfully. “And I'm sure Blueberry could give you the fine points of First Aid for puncture wounds...”
“Cinny,” Rene said, contriving to sound rebuking, but the smile ruined it. “That's not what I meant.” His face fell again. “I just...” he sighed. “After I gave Nicole that promise ring it seems like the world is out to mess me and Nicole up! I mean, after the island....”
He clumsily referred to their kiss. “A clefairy girl, a friend of mine named Treble Mustaine, confessed that she liked me...she didn't know about me and Nicole. And I felt like such a heel for telling her that I was already seeing someone and breaking her heart....and then Stormy--” Seeing Cinny's look of nonrecognition he elaborated. “Um, Alicia Softsong. She's an altaria, part of Team Rebel. She'd gotten a crush on me, even took me out to dinner—not knowing Nicole and I were already a couple. Well,” he said, looking at Cinny's incredulous face. “I didn't think it was a dinner 'date' at the time!” He protested. “I told her and she seemed to be okay....though she and Nicole developed something approaching a hate-on for each other. Finally, Stormy told me to my face that she 'would really like it if we could be more than just friends.' Then she tried to kiss me. And once again I felt like the biggest creep in the world having to shoot her down and stomp on her hopes.” He groaned. “And don't even ask about Diana!”
“...Who?”
“I did say not to ask.” He replied drolly, waving his hand. “She's a ninetails from the same dojo Nicole goes to. She's a shameless flirt and, according to Nicole, several other things not worth repeating.”
“Ah.” Cinny asked, seeing but not seeing. “....when did you get so popular with the girls anyway? I mean, sure you're cute and fuzzy, but...oh come on don't give me that pouty puppy dog face!” Cinny held her hands up at Rene.
“Well, I happen to be very good with ladies. Especially the hard to reach ones!”
“Um, given how short you are most girls are of the 'hard to reach' variety.” Cinny pointed out. Despite being two years older than her, Rene wasn't any taller than Cinny.
“Not what I meant. I happen to have a good rapport with girls that most people write off. “I mean, look at me and Nikki! She takes an interest in me, even tries to help me. And Suni? She hugged me on the island after I tried making her feel better and thanked me for trying too hard. And after she fought with Charla a while ago she called me 'a true friend.' And Charla—it wasn't easy but I became friends with her too. Nubia...Nubia actually lets me TOUCH her—” Cinny snorted. “--I meant like hugs and patting her shoulder. Considering she hates males, that says a LOT. She even apologized to me once for snapping at me, calling me by my name. And Sherilyn? Even though she says she hated hugs and even though she once ran me up a flagpole in my underwear and stuck me to the top with static electricity....”
“....and?” Cinny asked, waiting for him to continue.
“I lost my train of thought.” Rene admitted sheepishly. “Oh right! Well, she kissed me in a bar once, full on the lips, and shoved my head between her breasts at Jenn's naked party.”
“--What was that like?” Cinny couldn't help asking.
“Um, she tasted like...blue.”
“...How could she taste like my sister? How would you even KNOW what my sister—oh. The color.” Cinny laughed awkwardly. “Sorry, never mind. Go on.”
Rene nodded. “Right. Well, even girls who act all tough and strong—even they got to like me! Neve, Charla....even Myra! And heck, on the island Tenebra actually spoke to me (and Kai) in full sentences for a couple of minutes! She actually opened up a bit!”
“...I got ta stand on Tenebra's shoulders and hugged her.” Cinny bragged. “She's cool.”
“...Braggart.” Rene muttered, clearly a bit envious. Then he shook his head. “See? That's what I'm talking about. I like making girls happy; even the ones who like to act tough and serious. Seeing girls happy....it makes ME happy. When they're not happy, I'm not either. And now....now I HAVE made girls unhappy and if Nicole ever finds out about...well, what happened on the island....SHE'LL be hurt too.”
“Rene...”
He pressed on, afraid that if he didn't continue, he'd never finish. “I'm just....I hate seeing girls hurt. I hate seeing friends hurt even worse. What if....I do something to hurt them even more? Or hurt someone else? Or you? Or....Nicole?” The vulpix looked down. “I don't want to hurt people...”
Cinny fidgeted, “Hey dude..c'mon..it's okay.” She said as comfortingly as she could, feeling horribly awkward in this situation. Dating was still a new thing to her and relationships a near total enigma. “You don't hurt people....you hug them.”
Rene let out a sniffle mixed with a giggle. “Yeah, but....some girls are going to feel bad because I'm dating Nicole. It's like, I made them feel good and that made them feel worse in the long run than if I'd never met them at all.”
“I don't know if they'd feel that way.” Cinny pointed out. “What, you wish you could be every girl's boyfriend?” Rene fidgeted. That struck too close for comfort.
“No....but I would like to be all their friends.” He said. “I like them all....but Nicole is the only one I love, like I said. I mean, LOVE, love you know? Cuz I love my friends but Nicole I love different and—”
“I THINK I get it.” Cinny pulled a face at him. “Rene, you're just getting scared because you and Nicole are getting so close. That's all.” At least, that's what she HOPED it meant. If her sisters' sitcoms were right than that's what it meant. If they weren't....well, what can you do? “You and Nicole were made for each other. Everyone knows it. I mean, they're taking bets on who'll be the stay at home mom, how many kids you'll have....and who'll wear the bride's gown and toss the bouquet.”
After a moment Rene giggled. “...I guess you're right.” He said. Cinny sighed in relief, then tried to pretend she hadn't when Rene glanced her way. “I just....having other girls admit to liking me THAT way really threw me. And....what if I do something to hurt Nicole? I---I just can't stand seeing people hurt.”
“That's what makes you a good mon, Rene.” Cinny nudged him with her elbow. “Just do your best to make the world full of sunshine and rainbows and hugs and girly panties, and the rest of us girls will be just fine.” That 'rest of us' comment was exactly the right thing to say, for it included Rene as 'one of the girls.' Rene beamed and gave Cinny a hug.
“Thank you Cinnabon....you're a great friend.” She squeezed him back.
“Heh, anytime.” She squeaked as he mussed her hair. “Come on....why don't you go home and shower before your growlithe decides to bury your clothes next?” Rosa barked, giving the unsettling impression that she was considering it.
Rene chuckled. “Aheh....I'll go do that.” Securely holding Rosa's leash, he started to walk off, waving good-bye. “Bye! Thanks Cinny!”
“Bye! Take care!” She waved back. “Give Nicole a hug for me!”
“I will! You're an awesome friend Cinnabon.”
“You too Rene. You too.”
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THE END
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Dramatis Personae:
Headlight, Didactic, Null, Circuit, Mary-anne ｩ to Crossdog
Blueberry, Mint, Licorice, and Cinnamon Swirl ｩ to SadFatDuck
Pike, Penny ｩ Chupitheterrible
Adin LeFue, Oni ｩ Circuit
Faith ｩ Jazzfoxrules
Weaver, Ishtar ｩ KaeMantis
Tabi, Tam ｩ Vjohnson
Gabby, Ruby, Jenn, Katie ｩ AubriGriffon
Nicole, Diana, Shaharazad ｩ Asuraludu
Dawn, Anastasia, Tessa, Nikki, Tenebra, Lorissa, Eric, Sherilyn, Mitzi ｩ Carlito
Raanee, Azura ｩ Blink
Nubia, Zap, Suni, Zeni, Tori ｩ EbonyLeopard
Myra, Flo, Nigel, Charla, Meghan, Maggie ｩ Ceegee/Kompy
Vosa ｩ Melfice
Jenny ｩ KDRaccoon
Eli, Kai ｩ RikMach
Crys, Missy, Krissy ｩ RyuenTran
Five ｩ Darkheart
Sasha ｩ Kuwabara
Jewel, Rio ｩ da-end
Nixxus ｩ Natsuki
Neena ｩ Telkat
Grace ｩ AngelicImpurity
Treble ｩ Colley
Stormy ｩ LordJaguar
Rene, Rahne, Rosa ｩ me
Gaww.... x3 Hee, glad to see Rene finally has his Rosa
And the story itself? Utter chaos at it's best, I was snickering all the while I was reading it! XD
It's cool to see that things on the island kiss seem to have resolved, and that Cinny managed to get Rene through the lil rut there :3
And you've just gotta love the sheer volume of character inclusion you managed here! x3
Great job Gamma!
And the story itself? Utter chaos at it's best, I was snickering all the while I was reading it! XD
It's cool to see that things on the island kiss seem to have resolved, and that Cinny managed to get Rene through the lil rut there :3
And you've just gotta love the sheer volume of character inclusion you managed here! x3
Great job Gamma!
Rene just can't get a break, can he. X3
By the way, not to be rude or pretentious, (especially after you gave Headlight such a nice cameo =3) it's Nullifier and Mighty-anne.
Headlight: Next time, Brother, those pants are ours! And all the other stuff too. >3 You gotta come back and visit us some time. We'll make roasted bluk berries, 'kay?
Didactic: <I'm still mad at him!>
Circuit: <Mad at him, mad at him!>
Nullifier: <I wanna play with Rosa again!>
By the way, not to be rude or pretentious, (especially after you gave Headlight such a nice cameo =3) it's Nullifier and Mighty-anne.
Headlight: Next time, Brother, those pants are ours! And all the other stuff too. >3 You gotta come back and visit us some time. We'll make roasted bluk berries, 'kay?
Didactic: <I'm still mad at him!>
Circuit: <Mad at him, mad at him!>
Nullifier: <I wanna play with Rosa again!>
Rio: *ponders* Do you want the jeans with the cute little clown car on the butt...
Jewel: …or those pair of pants in super bright colors?
Rio: If you choose the bright colored ones it would most likely end up being pink, green, or yellow…
Jewel: …but we’ll bring back a free cup of ice cream of your choice just for you.
Jewel: …or those pair of pants in super bright colors?
Rio: If you choose the bright colored ones it would most likely end up being pink, green, or yellow…
Jewel: …but we’ll bring back a free cup of ice cream of your choice just for you.
Wahahahahaaa! Epic! I was hoping more of a reaction out of my girls but since I don't RP Missy as much but I was hoping that Krissy would wolf whistle at him...that Ryuen would make a cameo as well. I still enjoyed it though just for the cameos! XD
<Krissy> Whoo! Nice panties!
*Crys simply squees!*
<Missy> Hawt!
*Somewhere at home...*
<Ryuen> ...I'm so glad I don't make bets on Rene losing his pants...
<Ryo> Of course! They're sucker bets! Instead, bet on what kind of panties he's wearing that day!
<Krissy> Whoo! Nice panties!
*Crys simply squees!*
<Missy> Hawt!
*Somewhere at home...*
<Ryuen> ...I'm so glad I don't make bets on Rene losing his pants...
<Ryo> Of course! They're sucker bets! Instead, bet on what kind of panties he's wearing that day!
My first offical Cameo! *dances*
You know, I was starting to wonder if Rene would ask for Rosa back from Maggie... but I guess he got an upgrade instead. ;)
I hate to knit-pick on a guest inclusion, but... Oni can't squeal with anything... she has no voice at all, if you recall. :(
You know, I was starting to wonder if Rene would ask for Rosa back from Maggie... but I guess he got an upgrade instead. ;)
I hate to knit-pick on a guest inclusion, but... Oni can't squeal with anything... she has no voice at all, if you recall. :(
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