The Big Bad 'Fox' just doesn't have the same ring to it as The Big Bad Wolf -- but then again, Lotus isn't going to eat this girl.
Err...
Lotus (dominant) and Cammy (submissive) (c) Gothbunnyboy & Ketzio11
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It was a fairly calm day as Lotus sat bundled on her jackalope friend, Midian's, eldritch sofa. The teenage corsac fox lied down with her tablet resting on her knees as she finished some reading for college prep. It was late in the afternoon, about 4pm, and -- with both windows opened in the studio apartment-- it had grown very chilly.
Beside the door was where a huge bowl of festive candy rested; full of three bags-worth of treats. The peanut butter ones had all been strategically picked out and collected away by Midian's roommate, the petite and impetuous Samoyed, Lumina.
Lumina was currently 'preparing' for their anticipated evening company. Her preparation consisted of sitting cross-legged on the coffee table; grasping and rapidly tapping an Xbox controller while four large bags of chips sat unnoticed beside her and a pack of pumpkin napkins sat opposite her.
Lotus anticipated the evening would be fun as their mutual friends, Mason and Parfait, were going to come over for a marathon of Italian horror duds. It was nice to be around her own age group like this as she had grown so accustomed to tutoring the young and working for the old -- so much so that it felt like there was an embargo on anyone over 12 and under 30.
She grinned widely as she heard Midian shuffle in from outside having hung the ceremonial plastic skeleton on the door.
He stared at Lumina lazily slouched over the coffee table -- the entire thing still as disorderly as it was when he went outside. "Good work cleaning that table, Lumina. You're the best." Midian sighed and flicked back his pink bang. "By the way, did your little brother call you back yet to say if he needs a ride tonight?"
Lotus' ears perked as she looked at the Jackalope from the couch -- she wasn't privy to whatever this conversation was before.
"His friend is taking him," Lumina answered without looking over. She noticed from her peripheral vision that Lotus looked perplexed. "My brother and his friends are going to a party and they wanted Midian to taxi them"
"...yeah, and I would've missed 'Vampyros Lesbos'. I'm glad he got a ride." Midian added; plopping on the couch with a bottle of root beer.
Lotus meant to contribute but, as her lips parted, her phone chirped rudely. It was a call coming from an unfamiliar number.
"H-hello?" she answered hesitantly as she expected solicitation.
Silence.
"Hellooo?" Lotus raised her eyebrow and sat up more.
Nothing.
"Okay, I'm hanging up now -- Happy Hallowee-"
"Anastacia...?" a soft, familiar voice spoke sadly.
"Cammy?" Lotus sat up properly on the sofa. Not many people were allowed to call her by her real name besides her family. It must have been one of the girls she tutored: a little fox.
"Can you- Would you... pick me up from school?" The tiny voice squeaked.
"Cammy, it's almost 4! Why in the world are you still at school?" Lotus queried with a maternal tone that made Midian and Lumina take curious notice.
"Well," Cammy started. "I guess uh... my dad forgot to ask one of the neighbors to pick me up today."
~~
Lotus had met Cammy's father almost a year ago; being a regular in her family's Chinese Food Restaurant. He was a stocky and dense Tibetan fox of similar lineage to her parents and quickly became friends with them. His voice boomed and he spoke openly in badly broken and often illegible English but he was easily one of the sweetest and most caring adults she had met -- if not extremely tired and forgetful most of the time. Lotus was thrilled when she met his young daughter, Cammy, with whom she had immediately taken a fancy to.
Cammy was a strange one. She sneezed and sniffled often but spoke rarely; however, her voice was soft and sweet. She wasn't fully acclimated to English but was leagues better than her father. She looked up to Lotus -- so when her father approached Lotus about a job babysitting and tutoring Cammy, both girls were thrilled.
Lotus had not anticipated that it would be such a meaningful job.
Cammy's father worked late and frequently; managing and operating some store that seemed to be unable to hold employees -- so when he was at home, he slept; this was okay though, as Lotus really loved being around his young vixen daughter.
Lotus was deeply saddened that Cammy had no friends and no one to care for her. Other girls her age were desperate to grow up, while Cammy was underdeveloped and child-like. Her tastes also deprived her of many social graces as she loved cars and machinery but also acted girly and loved to play with teddy bears.
It was no surprise when Lotus started getting more phone calls from her being as lonely as she was. They would sit up at night and Lotus would read to her over the phone. On many nights, Cammy would wake Lotus with a call; saying she was scared something might be under her bed and Lotus would talk her gently back into sleep. The sad truth was Cammy only had one number on her phone: Lotus'. Though, that 'sad' truth was something Lotus found very charming.
Their phone conversations would vary from many topics -- but the one that caught Lotus' ear the most was when Cammy confessed to thinking she was gay. In earnest; it was a confession that she had no interest in boys, but Lotus quickly ascertained that the answer 'I dunno' to the question 'how do you feel about girls?' meant that she was most likely a lesbian.
The longer they would talk and the more Lotus would visit her -- the more apparent Cammy's crush on Lotus was.
Still, Lotus utterly loved her but never acted on those subtle hints because she didn't want to tarnish their relationship with assumptions. They, however, continued to spend nights together watching movies, doing homework, and Cammy always intentionally slept in Lotus' company; curled in the older fox's hilarious parody of a fluffy tail.
~~
Lotus pulled up to the school. Only a few stray cars left in its massive parking lot and a little fox girl all alone on the front curb dressed as Little Red Riding Hood. She pulled her truck up and Cammy quickly got in the passenger side; looking dejected under her red hood.
Immediately, Lotus was drawn to a big, ugly bandage on Cammy's right cheek. "Oh dear! What happened to your face, sweetie?"
"I walked into a thing." she mumbled.
"And, why didn't you call me from your phone instead of the school's phone?" Lotus spoke in her soothing voice; a few red and gold leaves gusting in front of the truck as it idled.
"I broke my phone when I walked into the thing." she huffed; folding her arms.
"Well, you're normally excited when I have to pick you up... what's wrong?" Lotus spoke in her cautious way -- trying not to harp too much on the bandage and her phone.
Small, sparkly tears fell from behind Cammy's awkward and over-sized glasses.
"It was the worst thing ever, Anastacia!" She started in her soft voice a little harsh as she sniffled. "The teacher handed out candy bars to everyone, but not me. She forgot me. So everyone got a bunch of candy for Halloween and I didn't even get one... and uh... and then people didn't like my costume because I'm not that idiot jerk from 'Frozen'!"
"Why didn't you ask the teacher for some candy, then?" Lotus smiled sweetly.
"She was super busy and I didn't want to... umm... umm... uh.." she sniffled thinking hard. "What's the other word you taught me for making a mad person madder?"
"Frustrate?"
"Yeah, that!"
"You are such a cutiepie." Lotus giggled.
"No, shut up!" Cammy always froze up when Lotus said things like that. She tried to shake it off as to not embarrass herself further; stifling that feeling of her face burning up. "But, yeah! I didn't want to 'frustrated' her.... even though I really wanted candy too." Cammy sniffled and hugged her backpack. "And of course my dad forgets to ask someone to pick me up today because he hates me."
"He loves you but it is Halloween. He probably got really busy, and besides, I'm going to take you to the bakery." Lotus said grinning with support. "Your classmates may have gotten smelly old teacher candy, but I'm going to get you anything you want from the bakery."
Lotus was a master of immediately thinking of ways to cheer Cammy up; and taking her to the bakery was always the first thing she tried. It almost always worked.
Cammy sniffled as her lips slowly curled into a smile from the passenger's seat.
~~
As they returned to Cammy's house later at 5, Cammy ran up to her room after recently finishing a donut Lotus has bought for her. Her father was asleep on the couch, his fuzzy belly hanging out. As Lotus walked by, he made a few wet smacking sounds with his mouth and sat up; suddenly awake.
"LOTUS, my girl!" he warmly exclaimed with his arms outstretched in that weird neighborly way. "You have come just in time! Ehh! I need for you to get Cammy for me from school."
"Already got it done, sir." Lotus matched his neighborly enthusiasm with her own collective demeanor.
"Good! This is, ehh, how you are like family for me! Tell your momma and papa I had food at The Panda Depress for lunch and it was --" he made an exaggerated spit sound and gesture toward the floor. "I will business with them soon! The food your parents make cannot be beat! Also, Lotus, my girl, I need for you to favor me and take my little Cammy out Trick or Treating, this is a danger town!"
"Well, uh, you see, I sorta had plans and--"
"I knew you would do me well! Thank you!" He cut in. "I must work very late to keep kids out of my shop."
Lotus sighed and nodded and as she walked towards the stairs; deciding to give a sympathetic text to Lumina to excuse herself. Lumina probably never received the text considering how entranced in her video game she was by the time Lotus has left.
~~
Lotus was stunned at how bad this holiday had become; few houses even participated in Halloween in Cammy's neighborhood and fewer gave any candy. Her heart broke watching as Cammy went from house to house to get toothpaste, plastic fangs and some light reading on religion.
"This sucks," the little fox said as she got into Lotus' truck. "I dunno how many Halloweens I have left but I got nothing. Plus, there aren't very many kids out either."
"Probably just a bad neighborhood," Lotus offered; sadly looking at Cammy. "However!" she immediately perked up the tone of her voice. "I will buy you candy! That is, if you promise to share."
"How come you're uh... uhm... the only person who's... what's the word?"
"What are you trying to say?"
"Kind?"
"Kind works."
"Nice!"
"That works too." Lotus was flattered by Cammy's compliments... but she just couldn't resist how cute the little fox was when she forgot what words to use.
"How come you're the only person who's nice to me?" Cammy spoke softly. "You are the only person who remembered my birthday, I had to remind even my dad like a lot. You also know all the uh... uhm..." she stopped to make an abstract hand gesture that resembled swallowing something.
"Medications?"
"Yeah! Those! You remember all of the medic... me-- meds I need. You even take me to the doctor when I'm out of them." she rushed the last few words out of that sentence before she covered a sneeze with a loud squeak sound.
"Oh, well, because you mean a lot to me, sweetie."
"Anastacia, sometimes when I call you at night, I'm not really scared of the dark, I was just looking for a reason to call you... because I really like hearing you talk." She spoke in a soft tone -- shyly avoiding Lotus's eyes.
"I know that, it's okay" Lotus replied. "How about 2 bags of candy and a horror movie."
"No!" Cammy jutted back in her seat -- her weird half-confession to Lotus halted in its tracks.
"Oh? What's wrong?"
"You know I don't like horror movies."
"Yeah, I know, but it's Halloween!" Lotus playfully elbowed Cammy in the rib. "Besides, if you get scared, you can just hold on to me and I'll protect you."
"Pssh. I'd be scared the whole time, though!" she was already shivering at the thought of what nightmares would arise in her sleep that night.
"Then you could hold me the entire time, sweetie. Or I could hold onto you -- your choice."
That seemed to shut Cammy up as she looked off at the houses bereft of candy; drowned in contemplation.
Lotus' heart fluttered at that reaction -- it had to mean something. "I'll take that as a yes?"
Cammy stubbornly shrugged and sniffled; keeping her answer ambiguous.
"It's a yes, then." Lotus smiled. "No worries, I'll give you a fun Halloween."
~~
After stopping at their local grocery store to pick up loads of sweets, the two vixens returned to Cammy's home -- pitterpattering up the stairs passed Cammy's sleeping father. Lotus guessed he forgot that entire thing about keeping kids out of his store or some crap.
They stepped into Cammy's room only for Lotus to respectfully stand and wait for her host to allow her to sit on the bed. Her host, then, began to sadly remove her Halloween costume; starting from the hood. It was a safe removal of clothing because the Red Riding Hood getup was simply an outer layer of fabric.
"Whoa, wait a second!" Lotus interjected with an outstretched hand. "Why are you taking off your costume?"
Cammy froze up -- almost forgetting every word of English she had ever learned in that one moment due to her surprise. "Well, uhh... no one at school liked it and it's the only costume I have and uh..." she was rambling at this point. "I figured you didn't like it as well because you didn't say anything about it."
"I assumed you wouldn't appreciate getting comments on your outfit," Lotus nervously chuckled, "Considering all I'd have to say about it is how it makes you the cutest thing ever. I'm a reserved and dignified tutor and babysitter. You wouldn't want me just calling you 'cutiepie' over and over again, right?" she adjusted her glasses.
Cammy wanted so badly for Lotus to refrain from using words like 'tutor' or 'babysitter'. It made her feel younger and, worse yet, it made it seem like Lotus was only there because it was her job. She wanted Lotus to see her as less of a dumb kid that needed tutoring and guidance and more as an equal. Maybe even being someone Lotus would consider dating.
Cammy had a hard time keeping her balance. "I uh..." she gripped the sides of her hood tightly as she gulped loudly; stifling a small squeak in her throat caused by insecurity. She wanted to say these next words with flirtatious meaning but she still ended up sounding like a vulnerable kid. "I don't mind." she flipped her red hood over her head once again and sniffled loudly -- looking a little pathetic with her almost frightened-looking face.
Lotus felt a playful aura coming from Cammy and decided to play along with it. She sat up and hugged the Little Red Riding Hood; lifting her from the ground with a loud and long "Cuuuutieeeeepiiiiiiiiie!"
The two foxes spent the next few hours watching the clown horror movie, 'IT', on Cammy's desktop computer. Since she had no couches in her room, Lotus opted to sit on the small computer chair with Cammy resting on her lap. The little fox girl felt safe being embraced so closely by her crush; responding by hugging the arms that held her.
It was at this point that she realized that they were at the halfway point of the movie and she was so busy enveloped in snuggling with Lotus that time had escaped her. The candy that Lotus bought was not even touched.
It was also at this point that she noticed that Lotus' hands were very shyly and slowly traveling to places that only a girlfriend would make contact with.
Cammy's heart skipped a beat as she felt a rush of heat explode out of her in one quick second. She searched her mental data banks for something to say, anything to say, in response to Lotus' actions. She wanted to be collective, smooth and sweet like Lotus was -- but the only thing that came out of her mouth was: "ARE WE GIRLFRIEND AND GIRLFRIEND NOW?" at the moment Lotus' right index finger made contact with Cammy's hip.
In surprise, Lotus froze with a half-baked open-mouthed smile on her face and an awkward giggle. "I'm sorry, you're just really soft and fuzzy." she tried to throw out a crappy excuse.
Cammy hopped off of Lotus' lap and turned to face her, "Y-you uh... uhhh!" she focused very hard to find the word she was looking for. "Uuuuh!"
"Think you're very beautiful? Yes." Lotus quickly replied with a confident smirk. It threw Cammy, once again, into a state of silence. "Sorry for getting all grabby, I just do that sometimes. I hope you'll forgive me."
"B-b-but you! Youuuu! Uuuh!" Cammy tried attempt #2 at a response -- searching through her Mandarin and English language data banks for words to use. "I DON'T MIND."
Reusing dialogue is very smooth, Cammy.
There was an amazingly awkward interval of silence between the two as Cammy desperately awaited a response from Lotus who was busy, at the moment, frozen in time with her lip quivering slightly.
"I mean..." Lotus was now searching through her own Mandarin and English language data banks for words to use. "...what do you not mind?"
"TOUCHING." Cammy had devolved into a blunt, short-sentenced, loud-voiced mess of her former self.
"You're saying you wouldn't mind it if I--" Lotus gently extended her index finger and poked one of Cammy's barely existent boobs -- resulting in the little fox recoiling back as if Lotus had straight up jabbed her in the nose. A subsequent, squeaky moan was let out which was quickly snuffed by Lotus who covered Cammy's mouth with her palm.
Before Lotus could berate her for being so loud while her father was sleeping downstairs, she got a good look at Cammy's adorable eyes reveling in the pleasure of a simple poke.
Lotus could no longer control herself. "Uhm. Excuse me a moment, sweetie!" she made her way to Cammy's bedroom door. "I have to get something out of my truck. Haaaaa. Ha." she let out a whine of a laugh and vanished down the hallway.
The horror movie was still playing in the background, and after a few moments, Cammy realized that Lotus was no longer in the room with her -- therefore not protecting her from this scary movie! She immediately shut the desktop off and calmly waited for the older fox to return.
Her heart felt like it was going to explode from her chest. What was Lotus going to her truck to get? Why did she suddenly lose her calm demeanor? Why did that thing that Lotus did to her feel so good?
While these questions ravaged her mind, Cammy's attention was redirected to Lotus' cellphone which was left on the bed. It vibrated with a new message from someone named 'Midian'.
Disregarding Lotus' privacy, Cammy immediately dove for the cellphone and read the message with unhealthy curiosity.
"Mason and Parfait are asking if you're coming back. So. Are you?" the text read.
Cammy stared at it for a bit then, without even thinking about it, responded in Lotus' place.
"Sry. Anastacia is busy with her girlfriend right now ;)" Cammy typed with a cute, victorious smile.