Zaily (receiver) and Lotus (giver) (c) Ketzio11 & Gothbunnyboy
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Awoken from her peaceful sleep, a teenage Corsac fox gently silences her alarm clock and arises robotically; her long hair tangling and flopping over her face as she blindly searched for her glasses. Lotus, the fox in question, yawned and stretched as she checked her schedule for the day which was posted on her calendar adjacent from her bed. With groggy eyes, she zeroed in on the day just to be informed that she would have a new temporary tutoring student.
She was already tutoring many girls, specifically in English, but it seemed this girl needed help with math and had some sort of medical condition that prevented her from attending classes. Easy enough. Plus, Lotus thought, this girl is also a mouse if she remembered her school's description correctly. She wouldn't be getting paid for this job, but rather, it would go towards extra credit. It was very helpful considering how little time she had to study for herself what with her job at her parents' Chinese restaurant, college prep and her tutoring job.
Lotus, even as she was bombarded with so much to do during her days, swiped her pillow from behind her and hugged it in joy anyways. She was excited because she always loved meeting new students... especially if they were small and cute. Though, the little detail about the medication condition worried her as to what she was getting into. Surely it would do no good to worry about that now, though... after all, if it was something contagious, they would have to tell her.
Speaking of small and cute, Lotus continued with her morning rigmarole as she then reached for her cell phone on her nightstand just to see a long list of text messages from one of her other students, the little tibetan fox Cammy.
"hope ur sleepin well ;)"
"i had a dreem bout u~ <333"
"i cant sleeeeep TwT but i no u need to sleep ^/w/^"
"i <3 u anastacia :D" she always had to call Lotus but her actual name.
All of that was followed with a poorly lit image of Cammy's face, complete with her huge oval glasses, tiredly smiling and showing her little fangs.
"I love you too, Camcam <3" Lotus texted in response. It was a Saturday morning so there was no way Cammy was going to see that message until... probably 1 or 2 pm. Oh well! It was time for Lotus to focus on the girl she was going to meet today but perhaps she'll take Cammy out for ice cream the next day or something.
There was also another text from her jackalope friend, Midian. "Hey, Lotus," he always texted so efficiently. "So Rachael from my animation class said 'yes' to meeting up with you some time soon. I bet you two will get along very well."
Yikes, Lotus completely forgot about all of that. Oh well, as much as she appreciated Midian's friendship, she didn't much appreciate him playing matchmaker. She wasn't interested in this... woman her own age. Just another thing to worry about for later, Lotus guessed.
As Lotus cleaned herself up, she curiously wondered what kind of family the student had. Their attendance tended to be the deciding factor as to how much 'romantic intimacy' she could show the student... that is, if she could even get in the girl's good graces. Admittedly, it sometimes didn't work and Lotus was too much of a chicken to outright be blunt with her advances but, luckily for her, she was subtle enough where if the girl didn't notice, then she probably wouldn't be willing anyways. Plus, if she did accuse Lotus of anything bad, there was an easy way to deny any allegations.
Dang, meeting new girls was so exciting but also so full of uncertainty. The only things Lotus knew about her was that she is a mouse and her name is Zaily.
The last thing on her list to do before leaving her home was to wake up her little sister, Liena. Lotus was in a hurry, so Liena's inability to wake up in the mornings to start helping their parents with their restaurant was a detriment. She was their tiny child labor law exception that always waited tables with over-enthusiasm, after all.
Lotus gently bonked Liena on the forehead several times, reveling in just how weirdly similar they looked to each other even if her dad was different than Lotus' dad. "I'm leaving in 5..." Lotus counted down.
"Okay, okay, okay!" Liena groggily swiped at nothing.
"4."
"I'm uuuuuup!"
"3."
"Anastaciaaaaa!!"
"2."
Finally Liena stood up from her reclined position; groaning with distaste for her big sister's firmness specifically with her.
"Okay. Have a good day." Lotus smiled as she trotted out the bedroom door.
"Have a..." Liena flopped back back onto her bed the moment Lotus was out of sight.
It was after that whole thing that Lotus departed her home with the intent of either stress relief or just... getting that extra credit.
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Arriving at the destination given to her by her school, she witnessed the slow deterioration in quality of homes with each block she progressed through. Sure, her neighborhood wasn't full of saints, but the neighborhood her student was located in is the kind of neighborhood where you see bullet holes in walls. That was the first thing that came to her mind because she actually did see bullet holes in the walls of Zaily's home, though, there was no way to tell how old they were.
Lotus apprehensively straightened her over-shirt, adjusted her sweater and handbag with all of her tutoring-supplies, and rung the doorbell.
She waited there with the stench of dead leaves becoming more and more prominent as time went on. She impatiently tapped her foot at the passing of each car on this through-street because she believed something bad was going to happen to her.
"Hunter, I swear to g--" Lotus was caught off guard at the sound of a teenage mouse throwing the door open in a huff just to freeze and immediately compose herself. "Oh!" the teen nervously chuckled. "I'm so sorry, I thought you were someone else."
Weird. Lotus knew a boy named Hunter. It was her samoyed friend Lumina's brother. Surely, this girl wasn't talking about the same person. (despite the fact that he lived nearby)
"It's okay, it's okay." Lotus reassured as she gripped her handbag; wanting to jump straight to business because of her growing discomfort for being out in the open. Given the girl's age, this should be her student for the day. She eyeballed the girl before her; focusing on her loose pajama pants that sagged asymmetrically and teased the hem of her underwear. Her spaghetti strap tank top, with one of the straps loosely flopping over her shoulder, also served to excite Lotus as it almost seemed like a beckoning call. "I'm uh... here to tutor Zaily? Is that you?"
The mouse furrowed her brow; glaring blankly at Lotus until her eyes brightened up. "Ah! Right, right. I totally forgot, I'm sorry. I'm Lana, Zaily's twin, it's nice to meet youuuuuu...?"
"Lotus." she answered; extending a hand to politely shake. The mouse girl took her hand and shook it roughly; almost as forcefully as a man would. Lotus immediately didn't find this girl attractive specifically for that reason. Twin, huh? That was foreboding.
"HEY ZAILY!" Lana cupped her hands over her mouth and squealed towards the upstairs bedroom. "YOUR TUTOR IS HERE!"
"Would you mind sending her up?" a frail-ish voice responded. "That would be very sweet of you, oh dear sister."
"Uugh..." Lana rubbed her temples. "The Princess of Pomposity is upstairs in the room with the pink and flowery door. Sorry for her being rude."
"No, no, not rude at all!" Lotus cautiously stepped foot in the house; firstly noticing the amount of clutter that seemed to be covering what would have been a quaint home of a grandmother. Various China hutches filled with trinkets, ornate knick-knacks, and very country-styled wallpaper was overwhelmed with layers of old shopping bags, moving boxes and random thrift store items placed haphazardly on the floors and corners. Though, before seeing her student, Lotus decided to take a another quick look at the mouse girl in front of her.
She was a little slender and slightly toned with unkempt, short spiky copper-red hair, buck teeth, had freckles with brown eyes that looked like they haven't fully closed in a long time. She was also accessorized with a pair of... air force goggles strapped to her head? By the color of her fur, Lotus assumed she was a field mouse but the scraggly cheek fur drove home that point.
"So," Lana started; running a hand through her crazy hair. "I'm actually going out to hang with my friends in a few minutes but if you need anything my mom is uh..." she peered into the living room to see a mass of blankets on the couch that slowly rose and descended. "Never mind. I imagine if you get thirsty, Zaily will get something for you. So no worries. Go teach my sister how to math, kay?"
"That's uh... that's what I'm here for." Lotus reassured with an uncomfortable smile as she slowly ascended up the rickety stair steps as Lana strode into the kitchen. Lotus reassessed her chances with Lana for a brief moment with that loose spaghetti strap really calling out to her as she dreaded the unknown; fearing opening the door and seeing a bed-ridden, obese version of Lana.
Lotus approached the aforementioned pink door and, with a gulp, slowly opened it to weirdly be bombarded with the scent of... counter top medicine? The scent, however, could not describe the room she had just entered. "S-so... cute." Lotus thought as she entered a space of dolls, Disney posters and pink. So much pink. And blue. But mostly pink.
"I deeply apologize." Zaily, sitting on her bed, greeted. She was dressed the polar opposite of her sister with a shirt and skirt with polka dotted leggings. "I figured it'd be a waste of energy for me to go downstairs just to come right back upstairs. I hope you don't mind."
Getting a good look at Zaily, Lotus was simultaneously relieved and stricken with some sort of guilt. This girl was so demure and adorable... but in the same breath, Lotus could say that this girl looked to be sickly.
She had the same brown eyes as Lana, the same red hair with a hint of burgundy to it, the same freckles, the same buck teeth, and the same field mouse fur... but the biggest differences were the deteriorating redness of her sclera, the deep bags under her eyes, her long and flowing hair strapped behind a polka dotted bow complimented by headgear braces that circled around her face and her fur that seemed less colorful than her sister's.
Was she... dying? This was way more dire than she was informed.
"Oh, uh... no, it's no problem." Lotus apprehensively approached the sickly girl; wary of making any sudden movements in the fear that Zaily would have some sort of panic attack.
"Please, do sit down." Zaily spoke in an oddly refined manner. "On the bed, that is. The chair in my room is most 'discomfortable'."
While wondering why Zaily didn't need an English tutor after hearing that, she redirected her attention to the shabby computer chair with a ripped up underside. Surely she was telling the truth about it and that wasn't even mentioning how out of place it looked in this pretty little room.
"So, uhm." Lotus placed her handbag down and pulled out a few pieces of notebook paper. "I will uh... be your tutor for today. My name is Lotus and I believe your name is Zaily?"
"I like your 'askent'." Zaily giggled; referring to the leftover traces of Mandarin left in Lotus. "It is very charming. And yes, that is my name."
"Huh... well I uh... I appreciate you saying that." Lotus kept her distance; feeling too much guilt to even approach this girl. She figured she should get to business and just leave it at that. "So uh... what is the math you need help on?"
Zaily was already prepared with a sizeable book blocked from view with her body. She reached behind her and weakly lifted an Algebra I book; plopping it down on the bed with an audible thud. "It is this monstrosity. I simply cannot understand it!"
The more Lotus studied Zaily's mode of speech, the more she concluded that she sounded like some sort of cartoon portrayal of a princess... and judging by the amount of Disney paraphernalia, Lotus was probably correct in that assumption.
"It is on this page here," Zaily said; flipping to page 240. "Intro... duction to.. hmm... 'slops' and 'fun-shuns'."
"Slopes and functions, huh." Lotus thought; not even daring to correct her with the same ferocity as she did with her other student, Cammy.
Lotus prepared for a long day of work as she stretched and tried to make herself as comfortable as she can next to this frail creature.
Zaily's bed quickly became messy with eraser shavings and discarded pieces of paper as they progressed through her homework. Lotus was very careful with her words; staying on point and making sure not to give the subtle hints she normally did with her student.
Lotus couldn't help but feel an oppressive hopelessness to all of this. Zaily wasn't the fastest to grasp anything she was saying, and, as Lotus occasionally glanced about her room; her eyes continued to fall upon emptied bottles of pain killers and sedatives. Elixirs for the truly dying. Worse, Lotus couldn't help but be bombarded with the feeling of trying to dry up an ocean with a sponge with the amount of futility emanating from this study session. What was Algebra I going to do for this girl? She looked like she could drop dead any minute.
There was something else Lotus began to appreciate as well: Cammy, her little sister, and Lana all have a scent to them. It was something Lotus could only now identify as 'life'. Zaily, however, had a scent similar to... a doll or something plastic; very artificial.
With the thoughts disturbing her greatly, she quickly shoved them into the back of her subconscious. Surely, that was was 'professionals' were meant to do. However, Lotus was beginning to realize that this was less of a tutoring job and more of a hospice kind of thing. She just needed to make Zaily feel normal, perhaps.
Despite the unsettling things, such as Zaily's frailty and slow movements that reminded Lotus of the elderly, Lotus couldn't help but cling to Zaily's... well... frail body. There was something very attractive in the slenderness of her form and something oddly endearing about her headgear braces and girlygirl attire. She found Zaily's attempts at 'sounding' demure and princess-like to be adorable and certainly fitting of her style; all of it being very alluring.
Through a long while of seemingly getting nowhere in Zaily's homework, Zaily put her hands up as to say 'enough for now' and made uncomfortable eye contact with Lotus.
"Dear Lotus," she spoke. "You are so easy to talk to."
"You think so?" Lotus smiled. "I appreciate that."
"And I feel like I've made a bond with you right away!"
"Oh! I uh... I appreciate that too." Lotus nervously responded.
"So, Lotus." Zaily began. "Do you have a boyfriend?"
Lotus couldn't help but choke on furiously gasped-in air. "E-excuse me?"
"My apologies." Zaily delicately placed a hand over her chest as she intently stared into Lotus' eyes. "Was I being too forward? My sister tells me I do that sometimes."
"No, no, it's okay." Lotus coughed. "It just caught me off guard."
"Well?" Zaily smiled; her headgear adjusting with her lips. "I simply must know, then!"
"I uh..." there was no way Lotus could tell her anything about her private life. Lotus could formulate some sort of lie, after all she does have one male friend, the jackalope Midian, but she feared that it would be easily seen through. And, worse yet, what if she missed some sort of opportunity. (Oh? You have a boyfriend? Okay, never mind) "No, no boyfriend." Lotus offered an incredibly apologetic smile after that.
"My lord! That is 'preposteriouse'!" Zaily gasped; fingers from both hands resting on her bottom lip. Briefly, Lotus considered correcting her but, once again, she couldn't bring herself to do it like she does with her other students. "Well, I simply find that difficult to believe. You are such a beautiful thing! I, frankly, must ask you how you get your hair so shiny!"
"I uh... use shampoo?" Lotus' discomfort was very evident as her face turned redder than a tomato. "Your hair is very pretty too. I love your ponytail."
"Heee. Thank you so much!" Zaily squirmed around with delight. "My boyfriend likes it too. But I think he'd like it if it were in a bun like yours as well!"
Lotus' heart dropped when she heard 'boyfriend'. There was no way! Immediately Lotus zeroed in on that topic. She briefly thought about going back on what she said before, admitting to a fake boyfriend just to not feel so vulnerable but decided against it. "So," she disregarded Zaily's last comment. "What's your boyfriend's name?"
"Jack!" Zaily responded with a satisfied smirk. "He is such a sweetheart. Always says the sweetest things to me. Oh, how I love him so."
"Does he uh... go to the same school as us?"
"Why yes he does!" Zaily responded; wiping something out of her eyes. "He is a senior at my school and I am a freshman! But, we didn't actually meet at school so that doesn't count. He used to be the only boy who visited me at the children's hospital. He was there was a broken leg and that's how we met." she blushed and covered her face. "Oh, but look at me. I am rambling on and on. Do forgive me! I don't even go to the school that much anyways, returning to our original topic... I mostly just have my sister or Jack pick up homework packets for me and stuff."
"Oh, I see." Lotus nervously chuckled; having no clue where this conversation was even going but feeling a cold dread as she was a senior at the same school as well. Perhaps she has seen this guy before and didn't notice. "So uh... how long have you guys been going out?"
"For a while now... it is a shame though!" Zaily put a bookmark on their current page and closed the math textbook; making herself comfortable on the bed across from Lotus. "He takes me all sorts of places and we have so much fun!"
"That's... a shame?" Lotus questioned; finally noticing a framed picture on the wall behind her with Zaily and her boyfriend at Disneyland. No, she didn't know who this guy was. He was a brown-furred hare, it seemed.
"Well..." Zaily leaned in; lowering her voice to a whisper. "...There's something missing and I'm not quite sure what it could be."
"Something missing, huh..." Lotus knew it was very unprofessional, but technically they were both high school students so she didn't see the harm in asking the obvious question. "...is there any intimacy in your relationship?" she treaded carefully.
"Intimacy... intimacy..." Zaily picked at her headgear a bit; a dumbfounded look plastered on her sickly face. "We kiss a lot. My headgear always makes it hard, though."
Lotus giggled at the innocence; Zaily was such a dear. "No, sweetie." Lotus lowered her head. "Are you two... uh... doing... more than that?" Lotus jumped when she heard the downstairs front door slam with the strange image of Zaily's boyfriend rushing up the stairs and demanding an explanation for this private talk. Wow.
"Oh dear me, no!" Zaily waved her hands frantically in fear; not even noticing the commotion downstairs. "There's no way! I would die!"
"Wait, really?" Lotus' heart sank.
"Well... no. But I feel like I can't!" Zaily nodded reassuringly. "I must be too frail! Or inexperienced or I might do something embarrassing and he'll never talk to me again! There's simply no way."
Lotus had thousands of responses to what Zaily just said... but she could not easily pick a single one to save her life. She wasn't sure if she was being a horrible person but... oh well! She went for it.
"Perhaps... I... could show you... how to do... safe things... that won't kill you?" it was as if speaking those words was like prying a rusted clamp off of something.
"Really?" Zaily's tail came to life; wagging around erratically. "Oh, please show me! I am sure Jack must be rather bored of me and my frail body so there must be something we could do together. We have been going out since I was 10 and he was 14! And all of this time my eldest sister would tell me how... never mind, I'm rambling again!"
"Awww..." Lotus put a hand on Zaily's shoulder; a little taken aback with just how cold she was in this warm room. "You can keep talking."
"Well, that I would die!" Zaily's frightened tone was too much for Lotus to handle. It was too cute. "It is why Jack and I haven't done the slightest of..." she leaned in to whisper. "...sexual things... I haven't even seen his member and glands yet!"
Member and glands, huh? Despite the fact that Lotus was heavily batting for the 'all-girl team', there was something inherently arousing about imagining this demure and naive girl being introduced to her boyfriend's... glands.
"Well, surely he must care about you a lot if you two have been together for so long without... doing anything like that." she was spewing random things at this point; not having a single clue of what this 'Jack' was like, but she just wanted to see Zaily smile at this point.
And smile she did. "Oh, I hope you're right." Zaily sighed with relief; pausing for a few moments before nearly shouting: "But yes! Please show me this thing you speak of!"
"Shhh, quiet!" Lotus gently shushed; the commotion downstairs finally dying down but there was still leftover tension. "It's uh... a thing your boyfriend can do to you... and I'm sure he'd really enjoy it. But first!" Lotus stood up and locked the door. "You need privacy."
"Privacy! Yes." Zaily took imaginary notes.
"So uhm..." Lotus climbed back onto the bed. "...how far have you two gone, actually?"
"Hummmm..." Zaily stared at the ceiling. "...we kissed a lot. Ooh! We made out once!"
"Did he... touch you anywhere?" Lotus slowly scooched behind Zaily; lying on her side as she entered the mouse's blind-spot.
"He hugged me. Does that apply?" Zaily asked. "Oh dear me. When I say this stuff out loud, it really makes me feel like a lost cause!"
"Has he ever asked to touch you anywhere?" Lotus could feel her own heartbeat rising and that particularly straight image of Zaily and Jack relaying in her mind.
"Yes he has but I said... oh." Zaily sighed.
"What did you say?"
"I said I was scared because I thought I'd die..." Zaily fiddled with her thumbs. "...I've sort of accepted it now, though."
Lotus' encroaching hands halted and pulled back immediately; that earlier guilt assaulting her mind even more intensely than before. She simply had to ask the obvious question again. "May I ask... what illness you have?"
"Oh my. It's not 'count-age-oos'!" Zaily laughed; completely ravaging the word 'contagious'. "But it is improper for a young lady to 'revolutionize' her ailments!" Whatever that meant.
"I'm... sorry." Lotus' heart was still pounding but that terrible guilt was amplified by Zaily's accusation.
"Nooo, it's quite alright!" Zaily coughed and sniffled. "I don't know... there's just something scary about it all! He's a strong man... plays sports and stuff! I feel like if he did anything to me, I'd either die or do something embarrassing."
"Have you ever uh... oh boy, I hope this doesn't make you uncomfortable." Lotus cleared her throat. "Have you ever done anything to yourself?"
"...yeah?" Zaily said under her breath. "I've... poked at it a bit."
"Only poked?" Lotus chuckled.
"It would be improper for me to... fully... do it..." Zaily's statement imploded in on itself; as if she noticed how silly it sounded when she said it aloud. "Perhaps I'm just afraid of him being 'missatisfied' with me. I'm not entirely sure where my train of thought is right now."
"Well, think of it this way..." Lotus adjusted her logic to meet with Zaily's; as flawed as it was. "...perhaps we could practice it and then you could ask your boyfriend if he wanted to take it very slowly. Let's say... start off with the basics and very gradually move up to more things."
"Oh dear... do you think so?" Zaily sighed; placing a hand over her face. "I'm also afraid of making a silly noise or maybe fainting or anything in between... I simply cannot look like a fool in front of him! I'm 'libel' to faint!"
"That's what the practicing is for." Lotus, as much as she wanted to believe she was doing this to help with Zaily's relationship with her boyfriend, was most likely just doing this for self-gratification.
Her fetish is, simply, to pleasure others after all.
"Would this uhm..." Zaily took a deep breath and, though not looking directly at Lotus, had the shadow of maturity cross her face. "Wouldn't this count as me cheating on him, though?"
"Of course not!" Lotus lied through her teeth. "It's just us girls, right?"
"I suppose you're correct." Zaily smiled. "Okay! So all I need to do... is just pretend... you're Jack." Zaily closed her eyes and shook a bit. "Alright. Please start!"
Lotus couldn't help but laugh at how unorthodox this all was. 'Please start'. That one wasn't going to leave Lotus' mind for a long time.
Through the darkness behind Zaily's shut lids, she could feel Lotus' hands pulling up her shirt and ruffling up her skirt simultaneously. She felt cold air brush against her fur as her leggings and underwear were assisted downwards and was soon met with a wave of pleasure; much more intense than her futile attempt at finger-jabbing her neither regions in a sad attempt at masturbation.
Lotus' fingers were sliding and waving around with much more dexterity than Zaily thought was needed for this simple act and, soon, she was met with a shocking epiphony.
"I can do it!" Zaily nearly screamed which resulted in Lotus covering her mouth. "I can do it! I can do it!" she continued to say with her voice muffled by Lotus' right hand.
"Do what?" Lotus whispered.
"I'm not having a panic attack or making silly noises or fainting! And I'm not dead!" Zaily's logic was still as flawed as ever, though she was right about one thing: she was awfully silent. "I simply must forward Jack and I's sexuality the next time we meet!" Zaily was also still as blunt as ever.
"I'm... glad to hear that." Lotus wasn't actually sure how she felt about any of this.
"Oh my. Oh Lotus, you've opened up an entire world for me! I truly appreciate your 'tutoraligizion'."
"I uh.. I guess this could still be classified as tutoring, huh?" Lotus giggled.
"This is... simply fantastic. I must open up this possibility for Jack. I'm sure he'll be very excited... being a boy and all."
"Would you like me to stop then, Zaily?" Lotus gently asked.
"Eh!!" she rose her finger inquisitively but paused. "...no, please continue. I still need to see if anything goes wrong." she continued under her breath.