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 Posted: Fri Mar 02, 2007 4:02 pm
"It's not something I told anyone about till after I'd been on the island. I didn't want to bring it up, but this jerk Freddie.." he grrrrrrrr'd, clenching his paws as he steadied himself on his haunches. "She pressured me until I had cornered myself and it just came out. Oh, that embarrassment wasn't enough. She had to pour salt in the wound and berate me about it!" he shook his lowering head. "I even tried to help her after she'd been so nasty to me.. long story short.. I was kicked in the crotch in the middle of the jungle and just left there cringing in pain as she walked off saying some rather nasty comments.."
Jordan sat down on the rocky floor, scooting himself up against the rock. "I've been gun-shy about saying anything about my sexuality since.. it's gotten me into trouble a second time recently.." he rested a paw on his cheek as it wasn't that long ago the event he spoke of was what resulted in Kim hating him. "..I did something stupid.. and misled someone.. a friend.. she'd changed in my arms a week after my own first change, leaving a trauamtic memory fresh in mind.. it wasn't love, but the bond people experience out of empathy for the painful changes.. and I wound up leading her on.. I threw her a birthday party and we even spent Valentine's together.. but it was a lie and I knew it. When I confronted her about it, I expected her to be furious, to hate me.. she'll never forgive me and I can't ask her to forgive me.. I lost a good friend-to-be because I wasn't honest about my sexuality upfront.. I just wanted her to know she has friends who care for her, but it got out of control.."
Jordan couldn't believe he'd just confessed that to her. He'd had the sense not ot name names, but still.. "I'm a monster for what I did.. and I'm so sorry.."
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Posted: Fri Mar 02, 2007 4:11 pm
At the mention of the name Freddie, a twisted smirk came onto Shenzi's face. Pig-person. Oh, she hadn't seen her for awhile, not that she particularly cared to. Her face was a little too butch to look at and stay polite. Ignoring the fact that she had a detestable personality.
When he started talking though, she gave him a sympathetic look, and a quick hug. "Yeah, I can underrsstand that. I mean, I didn't go thrrough it, but an old frriend of mine did. Sshe came out to be a lessbian when we werre frresshman, and two of herr besst frriendss altogetherr sstopped talking to herr, sso sshe's kinda hard to get closse to now. But we talked often enough before I got dumped herre." She said, finishing on a sour note, but giving him another hug.
"Jusst trry not to worrry about it, it'ss not ssomething everryone acceptss. My grrandparrentss want me dead becausse of how I've "sshamed" them, sso you'rre not too bad off." Shenzi said, flashing him an encouraging grin.
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Posted: Fri Mar 02, 2007 4:18 pm
The hug came as comfort. He was able to talk to Shenzi on a level he hadn't been able to talk to anyone else. It was nice. Knowing someone who could relate to the issues of sexuality made him feel less guilty about what he was and what he'd done. "So I guess we'll have sleepovers now and dish about all the cute guys on the island." he laughed, hugging her titghtly, rubbing his paws along her back as he clung tightly. Beneath the laughter he was hurting.
"I'm sorry that your family treated you like that.. my family never knew and I'm afraid to think how my dad would have taken that.. he was also my high school coach for three years and I was on the football team. You can imagine the scandal that would have caused."
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Posted: Fri Mar 02, 2007 4:24 pm
She tightened her arms around his shoulders, getting the idea that he definately needed some comfort right now. Some of her friends had had problems with this, but living in New York tended to broaden your views.
"In some ways, I guess you were worse off then I was. My parents didn't care, my dad at least. My mom was a little uncomfortable at first, but my grandparents, on my mom's side, were totally dead set against it, since they didn't want my mom marrying an american. But I can see why there might be just a little bit of scandal in your predicament with a football team."
She grinned though at the sleep over joke, laughing. "Sure, why not." She doubted he was being serious, but she didn't mind if he was. She'd had gay friends before, had done as much before. Not that there were that many cute guys she'd seen around.
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Posted: Fri Mar 02, 2007 4:40 pm
He'd always hidden himself under the stuffy exterior of a young man striving to be a professional, which left little time to explore who was deeper and come to terms properly with that. He needed to give himself some time to be less of a stick in the mud and let himself be a bit more free. After the pact that he’d made with Lauren about not denying your desires and ignoring inhibitions, this –as he rationalized- met that qualification.
“I went to school in a little redneck town in Tampa, called Seffner. It was bad enough the others went out of their way to torment those weaker and who were different, especially if they weren’t their definition of people. I was an important player, so I had to think about the team, as well as not making my dad look bad. No pressure.” He scoffed mockingly.
“Cool!” he responded happily to the comment about getting together from time to time. “I’d really appreciate that. I need someone I can talk to and let loose around, who’s cool with me being gay and all. I’m usually putting on the suit and tie routine and well… I think I’ll lose my mind if I can’t vent once in a while.” He smiled brightly, definitely feeling better them ore he talked to her.
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Posted: Fri Mar 02, 2007 4:46 pm
Shenzi gave him an enouraging smile and another hug. "Venting is a good thing. Keeping all the s**t inside isn't good for you, makes you go nutty. Though I think you'll just get nuttier when you let loose." She said teasingly, poking him in the side. "Maybe we just needa get you a boyfriend." The blueberry said, laughing.
"But yeah, we can do whatever, whenever. Long as you promise one thing. Got any problems, talk to me. Got it?" Shenzi said, waggling a finger mock-threateningly at him, as if she'd beat and torture him if he didn't, before breaking out in another peal of laughter.
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Posted: Fri Mar 02, 2007 5:05 pm
He couldn’t help but laugh amusedly with her at the offer of finding him a boyfriend. “I’ll be careful to let go in doses till I’m used to dealing with it. It’s not just an adjustment for me, but for everyone that I’ve met so far. They know me as the stuffy, uptight guy. Won’t they be surprised, huh?” And it’d help him be less of a putz, too. Repressing that part of his life had made him so unhappy and stifled, but now he felt like a massive weight had been lifted from his shoulders.
“You bet, Shenzi.” Jordan mock-saluted her, smiling from ear to ear “Wow.. I feel so good right now, like an entirely different person.” He just couldn’t hide his excitement at that moment. “You’ve really made my day, you know that? Not only did I get some great exercise, but I’ve got a new friend and workout partner, and a confidant.” He wiggled his footpaws happily. He didn’t feel like the grunt enslaved by Feral Labs, but someone who was finding new ways to keep life from crushing him underfoot.
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Posted: Fri Mar 02, 2007 5:15 pm
She smiled brightly at him, tucking a strand of hair behind one of her ears, not without a little bit of difficulty. "Don't worry about it, you'll be fine. Everything always works out in the end, though most of the time it doesn't seem like it." Shenzi said, nodding sagely while carefully standing up, pushing herself up with her tail.
"Assuming these damned wings ever do anything besides look like pre-cooked KCF buckets." She grumbled, giving them another glare, though that was more out of habit at the moment. Turning back to Jordan, she gave him another smile and hug. "I'm gonna head back to my duplex now. I'm in 78, so if you ever wanna hang out, just buzz me or something." She said, giving him a little wave.
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Posted: Fri Mar 02, 2007 5:29 pm
Her encouragement and positive atitude made him feel even better. "You're right. Things will work out." He rubbed the underside of his mini paws, understanding what she meant about appendages growing into something more. "I'm sure everything will make more sense in time."
Jordan waved back to her, noting the duplex number. "It was great meeting you." he called out as she parted company and used the rock as leverage on the bumpy rock beneath him, re-taking his seat overlooking the ocean. Everything would work out. Fin
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Posted: Mon Apr 09, 2007 8:07 pm
New Rp
Emelyn tapped the side of the brown bottle with her claw. A clinking swill of the liquid inside ensued. She swished the contents, as if doubting that there was any left, then wiggled the bottle towards her cave-mate.
"Want this one, too?" She shifted forward on her rocky outcropping of a seat. The opposite wall wasn't too far away from her, and her knee, in its half bend, almost touched it. Were she the type to give over to claustrophobia, the hedgehog woman would have insisted they venture a little higher, where the passageway had been a little more friendly to the encroachment of visitors. As it was, the tightly confined, moist cave was uncomfortable- but not so uncomfortable as the upcoming task.
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Posted: Mon Apr 09, 2007 8:14 pm
Shaking his head, Thom lifted another bottle to peek down the neck, though the darkness made actually seeing anything all but impossible. Still, nothing fell into his eye, and a quick shake of the bottle was enough to prove that it was empty. He shook his head and cast the bottle aside. "I'd better not, keep it for afterward. I'm sure I'll want more then." He paused, groping through the darkness for the flashlight. "Best get this over with."
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Posted: Mon Apr 09, 2007 8:34 pm
Em whuffed a great, almost irritated sounding sigh through her almost canine-like nostrils. It was a strange thing, she thought, once the sound had escaped into the air- for she wasn't irritated at all. Except perhaps a little with herself for agreeing to this- and to believing that maybe Thom had forgotten about this morbid idea.
"I'm assuming you'll be able to...control yourself, if it gets to the point of pain?" She wasn't actually assuming. She was asking. She knew well enough that when she was injured, the hedgehog took over. Emelyn was a creature of defense, however. Thom- was not.
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Posted: Mon Apr 09, 2007 8:40 pm
His hand fell on the flashlight and, chuckling softly, he clicked it on and offered it out to Emelyn. "I'll managed. Might squirm around a bit...cringe and such. But I won't..snap out or anythin'." He cleared his throat, managing a grin. "This can't possibly be any worse than th' last change, an' I managed that alright."
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Posted: Mon Apr 09, 2007 8:49 pm
Emelyn didn't smile. She had a small heap of supplies sitting on a makeshift canvas 'tablecloth' of the bag they had been transported in. The colors of the crude instruments were ill-defined in the nearly perfect darkness, marking themselves only in the light of the flashlight- which she toyed with a moment, wishing to distract herself, then handed it back to Thom.
"I don't need it. ...Shnockered enough yet?"
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Posted: Mon Apr 09, 2007 8:57 pm
He raised a brow, but accepted the flashlight and clicked it off in case they shoudl need it later. He did, however, keep hold of it, nervously flipping it about in his hands. "As much as I'm goin' to get--savin' the alcohol, remember? C'mon then, can't linger for too long in 'ere or they'll suspect somethin'. 'Ave at it."
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