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Chapter 2
Z’s POV
Why do I keep hiding? Half of me is glad that Mars and Foxy burst in before I could admit anything, but I really needed to let my feelings out. I never actually talked about my feelings to anyone except Marissa….only because she begged me to tell her about it. Fell though...he is actually different. He seems to understand more than he lets on, I honestly love Foxy, he's the best thing to ever happen to me. Our past isn't the best but we were always best of friends until stuff happened..That was the worst day of my life when I hurt him. Only because I wanted to be cool, to be popular. I hurt my best friend for that and he ended up on top of the school. I’ll explain later, but we are about to go to the park. Today I plan on telling the guy I love my deepest feelings for him, I can only pray he’ll accept me. If nothing goes wrong. I don’t know why but I got a feeling something is gonna go wrong. Something always goes wrong, one time for Foxy’s birthday I tried surprising him but everyone ruined it. I was so mad I didn't talk for two weeks to anyone. Especially Marissa and Jaden. They ruined it the most, I just locked myself in Foxy’s room. I must admit...I did try on some of his hoodies but that's not important. What's important is today, what's important is the boy, the boy i have loved for so many years becoming mine, becoming all that i want him to be and so much more, for me to be there for him when he falls, and help him stand. I know I sound corny and all, but it's true. So finally done talking about him, I got in the shower, i needed to wash the scars off from trying to restrain Foxy. The shower felt so good, i feel like i almost fell asleep till i hear a knock on the door “Dude!” It was Jaden and Foxy “What?” I yell back.
“Get out of the shower!” They reply, obviously annoyed.
“Go use the other bathroom guys!” I reply, getting annoyed as well, I'm literally just trying to take a peaceful shower. “Come on your taking forever, you get in, you wash your hair, wash your body then get out. Even shaving doesn't take this long.” Foxy explains about to come in but i stop him. “But im gay..” I say ina serious tone but in reality i was about to start laughing “Dude...I am also gay..” Foxy says
“You gay too?” I ask him
“Yeah man, we aint mad cause your gay, were mad cause you keep picking on me” Foxy says back.
“Well it’s kinda obvious since you two always pick on eachother!” I heard Marissa yell. Well I guess she is awake now. “ Just amit it already that you, Foxy, and Jaden are all gay!!”
“I'M NOT GAY!” Jaden yells down at her.
“Ya sure, cause i never seen you have a girl~”
“..No girl likes me…” He says blushing shyly away.
“OKay Z, it's been like 35 minutes, get out now or I'm burning your pink socks...i'm serious..”
“Fine...go ahead” I say as I look down and realize I had them on, I guess I was so exhausted I kept them on in the shower. But fine with me, he’s not gonna burn them if they're on me. I take a moment to enjoy the shower before finally getting out. I dry myself off and get dressed in the hoodie that was really special to me. It was Foxy’s old one that he gave to me when I was cold, I just kept it since then. I come out of the bathroom and call everyone to the front door to leave.
“Why~” I heard Marissa whine. I sigh in annoyance, I've been planning this for a month, i won't let it get ruined now. “We barely ever see the sun, lets go to the park” I say giving her a look.
“I like the dark though.”
“Oh really?” I looked and saw Fell had said this and was holding Marissa. Marissa blushes, she looked like a freaking tomato, or like she got hit with one. I laugh nervously “Can we please just go?” I ask looking down, I don't let my alpha male side down most times but it was time to put it away and let a different side show.
“Y-yeah...c-can we g-go?” Marissa stuttered. I know she stutters when she is around the guy she likes, but jeez this is different. “I'm tired…” Foxy says coming down from his room and literally sliding down the stairs. My heart sank in multiple ways.
“Ok, so everyone would you rather go to the park or spend a day in the house with Micheal Myers?” I said. Everyone looked at me, now showing interest in going to the park now. Foxy jumps up and runs to the door. “Okay Everyone! Out the door lets go lets go!” He says like a drill sergeant.
“Ok, Forrest Gump,” Marissa said, running after him.
“FOXY YOUR FORM!” I yell after him before he can look around at me he trips sliding down the sidewalk but he transforms midway down to the ground. He laughs as I run over to him sliding on my knees to his side. “Are you okay?!” I ask frantically.
“Yes, I am.” Foxy says smiling up at me, his smile was so cute, I blush a bit and help him up. We kept walking and I looked back at everyone, Fell was back in his human form. Everyone seemed happy. I like to see the group like this, happy. We finally got to the park and everyone spread out. I stayed by Foxy’s side, his smile was bright as he watched everyone. Suddenly I hear a gust of wind and look up and see a girl flying down and landing right in front of me, she splashes up some mud when she lands, splashing me with it. I was okay with it I guess till I realized I'm still wearing Foxy’s hoodie. I stand there, in complete shock and pain. a“Oh, Hey!” She turns around and greets me. I stare at her in complete rage.
“WINTER!!!” Marissa yelled as she ran to that girl, hugging her tight.
“OMG MARS!!” The girl named Winter says, hugging her back, “It's been so long!!”
“I know! Like 3 years?”
“Feels like an eternity!” Winter says looking around
“I know!!!!”
“So who are these whackos?”
“My family and..uhhh” She looks back at Fell, blushing” one of them is more than that though.”
“You're married?”
“WHAT?!?!?” She screamed, breaking the hug,” I’m 16 lady!!!”
“You said your family!”
“You knew what I meant!!!”
“I've been away for four years! I don't know what happened!” Winter says, i was still staring at her in pure rage.
“They're my friends that are like family to me, and one is more than a friend to me.” She said, glancing over her shoulder at Fell.
“Who is that then? The ‘ more than a friend’ guy.”
“Uhh...w-well...you have to find out”
“And why is this guy staring at me like I killed his parents or something?” She asks, pointing directly at me.
“Oh that’s Z. He’s like a big brother to me and he’s protective and gets mad easily…”
Marissa walked over to me hugging me,” Z, she has had a rough past like all of us, so don’t do anything bad.”
“She...ruined...my comfort item…” I say looking back down at the hoodie.
“Remember when you ruined mine and I got pissed?” I nod but was still staring at her, a huge part of me just wanted to full on punch her in the face.
“What did I do?” Marissa said, still hugging me.
“I do not remember..” I say lowering my head.
“I basically kept calm and later after everyone was gone I let my anger out. We can wash it, it’s just mud.” I do not know why this happened, I guess it's just like when Foxy goes to child mode..but right then, I felt like Marissa, even though she is younger than me, after all the fights and conflict we've had, she felt like a pure mother to me right then. That moment, that comforting moment I knew I could let it out, all of the past, all of the present, my anger, my sadness, everything. I just hugged her back and sobbed till I felt I had no tears left in me.
“Thanks M.” I whispered.
“Hey, it’s no big deal.” She says letting go of me as I wipe my face on any trace of my vulnerability. Marissa smiles at me and I look behind us. Foxy is looking at me confused and Winter just stands there smiling sympathetically. I suddenly remembered the whole reason I wanted to come to the park..I went up to Foxy, I grabbed him lightly by the shoulders, he seemed surprised by the action and I looked him in the eyes softly. “Foxy..What am I to you?” I ask him, looking at him nervously, he blushes and looks away for a second, “Foxy, I want the whole truth..” I tell him anxiously about what he’s about to say.
“Z...You’ve been my crush since 5th grade…” Foxy says looking deep in my eyes and smiles at me nervously. I blush strongly and pull him into a hug, “Well pup, you're the light of my whole life...I want to spend forever with you.” I feel Foxy squirm away and look up at me, his whole face is red. “D-does t-this mean w-were a t-thing?” He stutters. I laugh at his attempt to talk. “Yes pup, it really does.” I say smiling down at him, did I mention i'm one of the tallest in the friend group? It is quite annoying to be honest. But everyone looks up to me...literally. Me and Foxy go to sit down and I pull him into my lap enjoying his company. I knew soon his toddler side was gonna peek out so I needed to get him asleep or under control fast.
“Well, well, well. Look who finally admitted their feelings~” Marissa says, smirking. I feel Foxy squirm in my lap and I chuckle a bit putting my head on his shoulder. “Yeah, yeah, it's your turn now.” I say closing my eyes, part of me wanted to stay like this forever, but we all know, Change comes. I hear a scream coming from the side of the park and my fling open wildly looking where the scream came from. I feel Foxy jump up quickly and run over to the situation. All I could see was Jaden hurt on the ground and WInter over him. From someone's perspective, it might have looked like she hurt him herself on purpose. I see Foxy sliding in front of Jaden in his fox form growling at her. Her eyes go wide with surprise but a bright light surrounds her and she turns into a wolf hybrid and growls back. I can tell a fight is about to break out between the two. I walk over there just in case it gets out of control. I see Foxy’s eyes were going a dark red, thats was his fighting mode. I start to get away when i see Marissa get in front of both of them.
“Guys stop!” she yelled.
“And why should I?” Foxy says still glaring at her about to pounce.
“Because I know if you two get injured it takes a while for both of you to heal. Also if you fight people will see and find out both of your secrets!”
“Fine...let's make this fair then..” Foxy says turning to his human form, but it was...different somehow.
“No fighting at all Foxy. She has a similar past like you. Also you don’t want to fight her. I learned that the hard way.”
“Yeah…” WInter says looking down “I was experimented on..” She mutters, I could barely hear it but it was there...I hint on sympathy.
“Doesn’t change why Jaden is on the ground.”
“I tripped.” Jaden said, taking in what happened. Foxy looked up blankly. He looked embarrassed, kinda cute. He looked at Winter and just burst out laughing. He was almost wheezing because of it, he fell to the ground. After a bit of that he gets up still heaving. “I'm so Sorry.” He says laughing a bit.
“See? WInter is harmless.”
“I can still do a ton of damage though” WInter says winking with a big smile. I saw Marissa walk over to Fell. He actually looked worried. She whispered something to him and he just nodded. What else is he hiding? I walk over there a bit just to hear what they're saying.
“When are you going to let them know?” I hear Fell say to Marissa.
“Soon, but not now. I don't think they can handle it, especially of what i am on a power level…”
“I get it..but you cant hide it much longer can you?”
“Yes I can. There is a lot of things no one knows…”
“Yeah...we know” I say coming up to them. Marissa jumps and looks at me. I havent seen her this scared in a long time. I bowed my head in apologies but kept going. “Now what are you hiding from me little sis?”
“nothing”
“Lies….” I say looking down is disappointment...everyone knows I hate lying..I have a bad past with it. I walk away kind of hurt but i just went to Foxy who was sitting down and laid down in his lap. I look to see Marissa coming over.
“Z, I know your mad at me, but i can’t tell you guys yet.”
“But why not?” I say not barely looking at her. Foxy started petting my hair playing with it and i started to calm down.
“Cause...it just doesn’t feel like the right time.”
“Whatever…” I say like a child pulling her down with us, “Hang out with us now..” I say looking at her with pleading eyes. “Okay…” She says laying down with us looking up at the clouds. While we were laying there i started thinking about how lucky i was to have my family like this. I started thinking about the past as well...Let me explain.
It all started on a bright summer day, I was about 9, everything was going okay so far, i mean i didnt have anywhere to live so i live on the streets. They were okay as things were gonna get y’know. I saw this boy, he had the blackest hair ive seen but then again streets y’know. I always wanted a friend and i dont know what made me do this but i went up to him “Hey kid..” I said tapping his shoulder. He jumps a bit and turns to me, “Oh..hey!” He says looking at me up and down. He frowned at my appearance but shrugged. “Come with me…” He says grabbing my hand and pulling me somewhere. I was so confused but he cant do anything else to hurt me more. “W-where are we going?” I ask him as he pulls me into some neighborhood. “My house. You look about my size, then were gonna help you out!” He said as he walks inside this small house, “MOM!” He yells and this woman that looks almost like him but orange hair. “Yes honey?” She says smiling down at him and taking a lok at me. She had one of the most beautiful smile ive seen. It was so bright and lit up the whole room. “I found this boy on the street..can we help him?” He says with pleading eyes. She looks me up and down and kneels down in front of me, “Whats your name child?” She asks.
“...Z” I say just thinking of a random letter, ive never really had a name besides all the rude ones ive been called. Ive always been last so like..why not be the last letter of the alphabet? “Okay Z, lets go upstairs to see what we can find..” She says grabbing my hand and leading me up the stairs and into a bedroom. She opens the closet door and a bunch of really cool clothes were in there. I could feel the expression of shock on my face as i look at everything. I pick out this purple shirt with black jeans. She smiled down at me and called the other kid up here, “Preston! Come show Z his room” She yells down at him, and the Preston boy tells me to follow so i do and i walk into this cool room, there were posters everywhere. It was so cool! After a few months of going to Prestons house almost everyday they just invite me to live with them, but it meant i had to go to school with him. Preston kept begging me to go before but i kept saying no. But finally i had like a real family. So i finally gave in and started going to school with Preston. My first day of school was a bit rough but luckily i had most my classes with Preston so he helped me out a lot with catching up. After weeks and weeks of doing this, hanging out with Preston, going to class, hanging out with him more, and then going home. These kids started coming up to me. They started telling me to come with them, to leave Preston, that he was a freak. But i couldnt believe them, besides, Preston was my best friend! Soon it got so overwhelming and they told me i would be popular..so I decided to join them but not to ever hurt Preston, to at least be with him still. I could tell as the weeks went on Preston got more and more depressed as each day went on. I tried not to hurt him but the peer pressure got to me his one time. He looked up at me in pure terror and whispered “Your...a monster.” and ran for the stairs. All the other guys were laughing as i stood there in pure shock. I shock out of my trance and ran after him i felt my hot breath as i breathed hard getting up the stairs. Me and Preston have come up here all the time when we needed to calm down. We used to leave notes for each other. I found him near the edge, he was on the edge with his headphones on. I started freaking out, i was only 10, I sat down beside him, i stared off the view from here was beautiful. Preston looks over to me and jumps a bit and almost falls off, i catch him before he falls and fling him over to the other side and pin him down. “Are you okay?” I ask frantically. He looks at me blankly and says,
“You shouldve let me go..” He said blankly looking at me. I froze at this, no matter how bad things got he never was this bad. I shook back into the moment and spoke, “Why would i do that?! I care for you too much..” I said. Preston blinked slow..he repeated what he had said downstairs, “Your. a. Monster…”. He squirms away from me and stands up. I could feel hot tears running down my face. Preston stared at my pitiful state for a bit before walking back to the edge of the roof. I get up really quickly and hug him , falling on the ground. “I'm not gonna let you do this Preston!” I cry. I hugged him tightly before ever letting go. “...Z…” He says slowly, “Why...why'd you become one of them?” He asks his voice becoming quiet. “I joined them..so they wouldnt hurt you.” I said looking him in the eyes. I was so scared at the thought of loosing my only real friend. I didnt want to loose the one thing i cared for. I could feel him relax on my chest his breathing slowing down. “Then why did you hurt me today..?” He asked laying his head on my chest. “Because...peer pressure.” I said hugging him closer before getting up once more, “We should head to class.” I say, he nods in agreement. Something weird happened though, i saw an image of Foxy jumping, i started in a cold sweat and I felt something tap my shoulder and i jump, it was Preston, "You OKay Z?" He asks with a worried look on his face.
"Yeah im fine..." I say in reply, thats the most abnormal thing ive ever saw.
So, thats what happened in me and Foxy's past, you may be asking, why did i say Preston instead of Foxy? Thats because when all of this happened his dad hadnt done anything yet. I was there when that stuff happened, Foxy has changed so much since then. Thats why it scares me when he does stuff to harm himself. I love him with all my heart, i did then, and i do now. Foxy will explain the rest of the story in his own timing but for now i must end here.
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