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Hope you enjoy this story.
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I'll have another document up at some point with all of Katia's courses and shit... FUCK THAT GOD DAMN SPREADSHEET!!!! Fucking 4+ months working on that fucking spreadsheet... This is one reason why I'm so burned out on writing anything. The document will be a link to Google Docs since the image would be way too large to post here.
Anyway, enjoy college age Tib and Katia! :D
Note: The Sabre-toothed cat/Sabertooth Tiger is and has teeth like a Smilodon that you seen in pictures of them.
Please add keywords that I missed. Thanks! :)",
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Her eyes scanned the black lettering of the first page, keeping the others in suspense until…\n\t[b]AIIIIEEEEEE[/b], she screamed for joy and leapt to her feet and bounced around like a hyper six-year-old on a sugar rush after two cans of coke, two candy bars and an energy drink. She caused Fang, Tib and Skyler all to jump in their seats.\n\t“What has made you so happy?” Fang asked.\n\t“I CAN’T believe it! [b]This is NOT happening! FANG![/b] Is this real? I’m asleep aren’t I?” She asked, after she stopped bouncing around.\n\t“Uh, no, you’re awake,” he replied, “and probably everyone in a five mile radius of the house.”\n\t“This can’t be happening! Can it?” She asked wide-eyed staring at the papers in her paws.\n\t“KATIA! What is it?” Tib hissed.\n\t“I was accepted to Princeton!” She replied with a wide bright smile.\n\t“Pr-Princeton? I. I thought… I thought we were going to apply to the same places?” Tib asked.\n\t“Tib. I’m sorry. But Princeton was my first choice. You know I want to go there,” she replied lowering her paws and the acceptance letter and packet to near her thighs.\n\t“I didn’t even know you applied there,” he replied.\n\t“Tib, I told you multiple times that I was and had applied there,” she replied.\n\t“Congratulations on getting in there,” he replied then walked out of the living room.\n\t“Tib,” Katia said slowly and sadly.\n\t“Did you really tell him or not?” Fang asked.\n\t“I did. A lot. During our eleventh and twelfth grade years. Weeks before I applied, then again while I was filling out the application, then again when I was typing up my entrance letter and then once after submitting it,” she explained.\n\t“I’m sure he knows that you told him. I’m sure it’s just shock and happiness for you,” Fang replied.\n\t“Yeah,” she replied.\n\t“Are you going to live there or fly back often?” Fang asked.\n\t“Flying back and forth would be more than a few thousand dollars more costly for travel, so no. I’m going to live on campus and come back during long breaks and certain holidays,”\n\t“Okay,”\n\t“I’m going to go talk to Tib,”\n\t“Go easy on him Katia. You two have never been away from each other like you will be soon,”\n\t“I know,” she replied and started walking away.\n\t“Hey Katia,”\n\t“Yeah?”\n\t“Congratulations, I’m extremely proud of you and happy for you,”\n\t“Thanks Fang,” she smiled brightly then continued walking away.\n\n\tKatia opened their bedroom door and stepped inside and then closed the door behind her. She leaned backwards against the door and looked at Tib sitting at his computer desk. He had a paper in his paws, an acceptance letter to the University of Colorado.\n\t“Tib! What are you doing?” Katia asked after he crumpled the paper up and tossed it in the trash bin that sat in between their desks.\n\t“Throwing away acceptance letters for colleges and universities that we applied to together,” he replied and picked up another letter.\n\t“Tib stop that,” she hissed after he crumpled another acceptance letter for the University of Orion City and tossed it away.\n\t“Katia, I’m happy that you got into Princeton, but…” he sighed and rotated on the chair. He closed his eyes and exhaled, “… where does that leave us? You’re going to be like two-thousand miles away. We won’t see each other for a long time.”\n\n\tKatia walked up to him and kissed him, “I know,” she replied.\n\t“Did you do this as a way to get away from me?”\n\t“No, of course not Tib. I promise. You know that I’ve wanted to go to Princeton since ninth grade,”\n\n\tTib looked up at her, his paws holding hers. He hugged her stomach and rested his head between her breasts.\n\t“I’m going to miss you Katia,”\n\t“It’s not forever Tib. Just a few months, twice a year. But I’ll miss you too little bro,”\n\t“I’m not little,” he whined while she wiped the tears from his eyes.\n\t“Tib, I love you so much and we’ll be together even when I’m not here. We’re mates after all. But I really wanted Princeton’s Anthropology class and their Ecology and Evolutionary Biology. Princeton has the best courses and professors for those,” she explained.\n\t“I know Katia. You’ve told me and bored me to sleep probably a thousand times talking about those two courses,” he replied and chuckled.\n\n\tShe sat down on his lap and wrapped her arms around his neck then kissed him, sending her tongue into his mouth. Katia lifted up, pulled her panties off while Tib pushed his shorts to his paws. She then took her brothers now erect dick then positioned it while she lowered down. She moaned into his mouth and blushed for some reason. She gently lifted up and lowered down. Their tails twisting around each others to their side. Within a few minutes Tib squeezed his sister in a hug while the first shot of semen shot out and splashed inside.\n\n\tKatia smiled as she felt his warm seed fill and warm her insides. She rested her forehead against his.\n\t“Please don’t go, Katia,” he said.\n\t“I’m sorry Tib. I want to. I have to,”\n\t“I know. I love you,” he replied.\n\t“I love you too brother,”\n\n\tAfter a few more minutes Katia stood up and smiled at him.\n\n\t“Everything will work out Tib. I’ll come home for Spring break and Winter break and then during the summers. It’ll feel just like a week or two before we see each other again,”\n\t“Yeah,” he said and smiled melancholically.\n\n\tKatia caressed his face and kissed him once again then headed into the bathroom. She opened the medicine cabinet and took a birth control pill. She shivered as a glob of his semen leaked out. She took a few sheets of toilet paper and wiped it away, then tossed it into the toilet.\n\n\t“Hey Tib,” she said walking out of the bathroom, “We’ve got a few months before I have to leave. We can do almost anything you want to.”\n\t“Thanks. But almost anything?” he replied.\n\t“No getting me pregnant,” she chuckled.\n\t“Yeah, I know,”\n\t“I promise you we’ll have kittens after we both graduate. It’s just going to take some time before then though. It’ll be worth the wait though,”\n\t“I know Katia. We both decided to try to get a nice career and not rely on mom or Fang and Vapor,”\n\t“Yup. They’ve done so much for us already and I just don’t feel right asking for money to buy a house and supporting us all of our lives. It seems to be working well for Pepper and Shade so far,”\n\t“Yeah, they’ve been great,”\n\t“Remember how scared we were when we first arrived and the garage door shut? We both thought they were going to kill, skin and eat us,”\n\t“Oh yeah, I forgot about that. What about when we sat out at the Koi pond talking about them. How weird of a family they were to just bring home two kittens they didn’t know-”\n\t“And then I started playing with your dick and I told you that if you, oh what was it? Ummmmm-”\n\t“Squirty,”\n\t“Ah yeah that’s right! I told you that if you squirty I’d bite your wiener off and feed it to the fish,”\n\t“Oh jeez Katia,” he replied and started tearing up.\n\t“What about when Fang and Vapor cleaned us. It took them four hours or longer to just to get to our fur. They thought we were black kittens until the end,”\n\t“Yeah that was funny. We didn’t want to spoil the surprise so we had them face away from each other and us during that time. We made them feel weird and awkward though,” Katia said and laughed.\n\t“Yeah we did. Did you ever figure out why Fang and Vapor swapped out and she started washing you off?” Tib asked.\n\t“We talked about that with them. Remember? It’s because Fang and Pepper mated once. It nearly pushed Fang and Vapor apart,”\n\t“Ah yeah that’s right. I forgot. I’m glad they didn’t split. They’re amazing together. Though I do wonder what life would be like if they didn’t end up together?”\n\t“I don’t know, but I know we wouldn’t be living in this house,”\n\t“Yeah, it’s sad that Vapor’s parents died like that, but I wonder if it was for the best though? Like what would have happened if they didn’t die in the fire or if there wasn’t a fire?”\n\t“No idea, maybe they didn’t die in an alternate reality,” Katia replied, still standing at the bathroom door.\n\t“I can’t believe that you believe in alternate realities and the multiverse theory,”\n\t“I believe in one of two, but kind of both, realities that there are infinite universes. The one that we live in and what we can see, all 13.7 Billion years worth. Past that is the start of another universe, where I could be dead or a CEO or both of us are still living on the streets, it’s almost unlimited possibilities there. Then there’s the Parallel universes. Each one just out of reach of our own, just like how the infinite universes are done but a bit differently. You know I could go on for hours with this, but I won’t,”\n\t“Thanks! All that astronomical math stuff gives me a headache,”\n\t“I know it does. Speaking of which,” she replied and pushed herself from the door opening.\n\n\tKatia walked over to him and bent over and pulled out the two acceptance letters. After unfolding them she handed him one. “I think you should go to UoC, University of Orion City. That way you’ll be close to mom, Fang and everyone. Plus you’ve been on the campus grounds multiple times with Onai and his electronics stuff when he shows them off during those open house presentations for future electrical engineers and whatever else,”\n\t“Yeah, I had already decided to go there,”\n\t“Hey speaking of electronics, you’ve been hanging out with Onai down in his lab. You learning stuff from him?” Tib asked.\n\t“Yeah, I wanted to learn some of the basic electronics, especially since some of the courses that I’ll be taking requires some electronic skills,”\n\t“Ah okay, I see. Is he a good teacher?”\n\t“Yeah, he’s pretty good at it. I picked up the basics fairly easily,”\n\t“Oh okay,”\n\t“Hey, I’ll be back in a few minutes. Hang out here, okay?”\n\t“Sure,” Tib replied confused.\n\n\tKatia slipped back into her short skirt and rushed out of the bedroom and downstairs.\n\n\t“Hey Fang,” Katia said.\n\t“Hey. How did it go with Tib?”\n\t“He’s okay. Hey, umm. Would you do something for me?”\n\t“Hmm? With what?”\n\t“Umm, you know those little bottles of alcohol that you have. The little one-ounce Vodka bottles,”\n\t“Yes? Why?”\n\t“Could I get like four or six of them please? I want to celebrate with Tib,”\n\t“Katia, you’re 19,” he replied.\n\t“I know, but a few isn’t going to hurt us. Right?”\n\t“Hmm, I don’t think so Katia. I don’t want to hear it from mom about supplying minors with alcohol,”\n\t“I understand, thanks anyway Fang,”\n\t“Hey Katia, if a few does go missing, I’m sure I wouldn’t notice,” he replied and winked.\n\t“I would never steal,” she replied, winked and smiled before rushing off.\n\n\tLater that night the two siblings were in the hot tub. Both had a shot glass in their paws filled with vodka. After a short congratulation to each other they both took a big drink, taking about half of the vodka from each. \n\n\tAfter their soaking and illegal drinking session in the hot tub, they hit the bed. Tib was above his sister, his half limp dick pushing against her mound. Both of them drunk from the vodka.\n\t“Tib, whas chu ‘oing?” she drunkenly asked.\n\t“Oooh, tha feshs ‘ood,” she purred after he finally managed to bury himself into her. It didn’t last long though, both had drunk an ounce or two too much. Tib’s eyes closed and his body dropped down onto Katia. His weight and warmth quickly made her fall asleep.\n\n\tThe following day they both woke up to minor hangovers that quickly went away after breakfast. No one seemed to be wise of their late night drinking party.\n\n***\nFriday January 25, 2030 \n\n\t“Here’s the last box Katia,” Tib said with Willow and Jaden following closely behind.\n\t“Thank you,” she replied taking the box of pictures and other memento’s from home. She sat it on the bed and looked around again.\n\n\tThe room was outstandingly small at only fourteen foot by fifteen foot excluding the bathroom. The bedroom packed in two twin XL beds, two desks and two small nightstands. Near the main door was a double closet at four feet by two-and-half feet. The room was just 237 square feet, roughly 22 square meters, including closet space. At the back of the room was a single three foot window in between the two beds. There was a single small refrigerator in the room that Katia requested, costing an additional two-hundred dollars per year. The bathroom has a single toilet, two sinks and a single shower, all had to be shared by four students. The bathroom is shared between two bedrooms, both of which houses two students each.\n\n\t“So, you’re now in one of the best ivy-league universities, how does it feel?” Willow asked.\n\t“I uh, I don’t know yet. Ask me after this semester ends,” she replied.\n\t“You’ll do just fine sweetie,”\n\t“Thanks mom. I hope so,” she replied then hugged her.\n\n\tAs they stepped away from each other the room door opened. The four of them turned around to see another female walk in after picking up a box from the floor. The female sheep stopped when she noticed that she was being watched by the unknown family. Behind her from out in the hallway a voice broke the silence.\n\t“Go in, this box is heavy,” the female voice said.\n\t“Y-yes mother,” the teenage sheep said quietly and timidly.\n\n\tShe set the box on the desk and turned around to get out of the way.\n\n\t“You want me to get that box for you?” Jaden asked.\n\t“No thanks. I’ve got it,” the adult female replied.\n\n\tThe pair quickly made their way back out of the room and returned about five minutes later. After a few minutes of them talking to each other in the hallway the mother left without saying anything to the Wolfe family. The sheep, whose fleece was white as snow, walked in and shut the door behind her. She stared at the floor for a moment then looked up before proceeding into the room.\n\n\t“Hi. I’m Katia. Your roommate,”\n\t“Uh. Um. Hi. I uh. I’m Sally,” she replied timidly.\n\t“Nice to meet you. This is my brother Tib, our mom Willow and her boyfriend Jaden,”\n\t“Uh. Hello. Nice to, uh, meet you all,”\n\t“Hello Sally,” they replied.\n\t“Ex-excuse me I have to unpack,” she said then turned around to her belongings. She wasn’t trying to sound or be rude, she was just awkward around strangers, and being in a new location made her shyness even worse.\n\n\tAfter another fifteen minutes the Wolfe family headed out of the room and down the six floors and out into the front area of the building.\n\n\t“You think you’re going to be okay Katia?” Willow asked.\n\t“I think so, but it’s a bit too late to back out of it,”\n\t“Yeah it is,” Willow replied and chuckled.\n\t“Katia…” Tib said sadly.\n\t“Tib,” she replied as he hugged her.\n\t“I’m going to miss you so much,” he said.\n\t“I’ll be back home for Spring Break. It’s only a couple of months or so. Plus, you’ll be busy with your own classwork as well. The time will pass by really fast,”\n\t“Please be safe Katia,” he replied ending the hug.\n\t“I will be,” she replied and kissed his muzzle.\n\t“You all take care,” Katia said taking a few steps backwards.\n\t“You too sweetie,” Willow said then hugged her.\n\n\tJaden gave his goodbyes and hugged her. All that remained was her brother. She pulled him into a hug and hugged him tightly.\n\t“I’ll see you in a few months, okay?” She said.\n\t“Y-yeah,” he replied.\n\n\tShe pulled away from the hug then kissed his lips.\n\t“I love you Tib,”\n\t“Love you too Katia,”\n\n\tKatia waved as Willow, Jaden and her brother pulled away. The four of them drove from Colorado to Princeton, New Jersey. It was a long trip but due to the seven boxes, suitcases and containers, they were unable to fly. Willow was unable to get permission to use Wolfe and Fox’s private jet to make the trip, Mr. Fox citing, “That he, Abby and two others have to fly to Dubai in two days to look at another location for their thirteenth headquarters, five of which are international. I’m sorry Mrs. Wolfe.” Willow understood and left the idea alone.\n\n\tKatia walked back into her sixth floor dorm room and looked out the window that faced a large treed area and behind that was dozens upon dozens of buildings for food, shopping, drinking and more.\n\n\t“How are you doing Sally?” Katia asked while she sat a few pictures on the small nightstand.\n\t“I. Um. I’m o-okay,” she replied.\n\t“You seem pretty shy,”\n\t“Oh, uh, sorry,”\n\t“No need to be sorry. So was that your mom?”\n\t“Y-yes,”\n\t“She left pretty quickly. I guess she had to get to work?”\n\t“Yes,”\n\t“What does she do?”\n\t“Oh, a law-lawyer’s aide,”\n\t“Okay. What are you taking?”\n\t“Oh, uh, busi-business law. Mom wanted me to get into law,” she explained.\n\t“Sounds like a good plan if you like it,”\n\t“Y-yeah, I guess. Wh-what are… are you taking?”\n\t“I’m taking a double major. Anthropology, specifically Socio-Cultural Anthropology, and the other is Ecology and Evolutionary Biology,”\n\t“S-S-Sounds like a lot of work,”\n\t“Maybe, but your classes sounds like a lot more work than mine will be,”\n\t“Maybe? It’s eight years minimum, most likely twelve years for everything,”\n\t“Jeez. A lot of time. How old are you by the way?”\n\t“Eighteen, just out of high school. You?” Sally asked and readjusted her glasses, pushing them up her nose against her face.\n\t“I’m twenty. Been out of school for a couple of years, wanted to rest up and really make sure that I wanted what I’m going for, along with looking further into my options for universities and areas of study,” Katia explained then plopped down on her bed. With what little she had brought, even though it was a lot of boxes and stuff, she had put it away fairly fast.\n\t“So um. Uh, nevermind,” Sally said and looked away towards the window.\n\t“What?” Katia asked.\n\t“It’s nothing, forget I said anything,”\n\t“Well, okay then,”\n\n\tKatia exhaled and looked over at her desk. Her laptop and a stack of books sat on it. Along with those, there were a few dozen spiral notebooks and a few dozen composition books, in six different colors. There were lots of packs of Pilot Precise V5 gel pens, in blue and black ink, and a few pack of #2 pencils. She hopped off the bed and walked over to the desk. She picked up the notebooks and stacked them in a corner on the desk then put the pens and pencils in the drawer. She picked up one of the class books and opened it to a random page. Her eyes widened for a moment until she realized it was just calculus. She had easily passed it in high school and could probably pass it here too. After a few moments she had all sixteen books placed on the bookshelf above her desk.\n\n\tA few minutes later the silence of the room was broken when a door opened. It was the door to the shared bathroom between the two rooms.\n\t“Hi,” a Sabre-toothed cat said.\n\t“Um, hi,” Katia replied while Sally remained silent.\n\t“Uh, sorry, I didn’t think about others being over here. I was just checking the place out,”\n\t“It’s okay, this time. Just knock the next time please,” Katia replied.\n\t“Yeah I will. I’m Kyung BTW,”\n\t“I’m Katia. This is-”\n\t“S-Sally,”\n\t“Nice to meet you both. TTYL,”\n\t“Uh yeah,” Katia replied.\n\n\tA few seconds after Kyung left Katia looked over at Sally and chuckled. She walked over and locked the bathroom door. The bathroom could only be locked and unlocked from the door side, there is no keyhole on the bathroom side.\n\n\t“Lets make sure we keep that door locked, especially when we’re not here,” Katia suggested.\n\t“Yeah, good idea,” Sally replied while nodding.\n\n***\n\n[b][center]DOONG DOONG DOONG DOONG DOONG DOONG DOONG DOONG DOONG DOONG DOONG DOONG[/center][/b]\n\n\tAn hour later Katia picked her phone up and looked at the time, while the large bronze bell on the campus tolled twelve.\n\n\t“Hey Sally, you hungry?”\n\t“A little,”\n\t“Want to walk to the shops and get a bite to eat?”\n\t“I uh, I don’t know. I’m looking over my course books,”\n\t“Sally! You’ll have enough time to do that during the semester, which hasn’t started yet. Come on, lunch will be on me,”\n\t“Um, I don… Okay, uh um… Katia,” she said, changing her mind after seeing Katia’s warm, friendly smile.\n\n\tThe two walked down the sidewalk to the buildings just off campus, where there were food, bars, clothing shops, electronics stores, game stores, arcades and more.\n\t“What kind of food do you want to eat?” Katia asked.\n\t“I don’t know. I’ll eat anything I guess,”\n\t“How does Chinese sound? I’m craving some Orange Chicken,”\n\t“Sure,”\n\n\tFifteen minutes later the two of them walked into the Chinese restaurant, Flying Dragon’s Chinese. Sally stood there looking at all the different options. She’s never had Chinese before and had no idea what any of it tasted like. Luckily for her, the restaurant chain gives customers a taste when asked for. After taking nearly ten minutes, she finally decided. A side of Chow Mein, an entree of Wok-Fired Shrimp, another entree of Mushroom Chicken and then a third entree of Orange Chicken, two Veggie Rolls and a large Dr. Pepper. \n\n\tKatia ordered a double entree of Orange Chicken, in lieu of two different entrees, a side of Chow Mein, two Chicken Egg Rolls and a large Coke. Katia paid the $32.36 and the two sat down at the table near a window.\n\n\tAfter a few bites Sally looked up and smiled, “this is really good,” then took another bite.\n\t“You’ve never had Chinese before? I thought you were joking just wanting some free samples,” Katia replied with a short chuckle.\n\t“No. Mom only cooked for us, we never dined out not even restaurants. About the only fast food we had was pizza delivery. That was maybe twice a year though,” she explained.\n\t“I see,” Katia replied, “if you ever want to get food sometime, just ask. Okay? I like stuffing my face,” she chuckled.\n\t“Okay,” Sally replied then went back to eating silently.\n\n\tAfter their lunch, they were heading back to their dorm room and looking around as they walked. The trees swayed calmly in the breeze. The green grass was evenly cut on both sides of the concrete walking path. After a few minutes of walking in silence, Sally looked over at Katia.\n\t“Are you okay?” Sally asked.\n\t“Yes? Why do you ask?”\n\t“You’re breathing really, really hard,”\n\t“Am I?” Katia asked and stopped walking. After a few seconds she noticed that she was indeed breathing hard.\n\t“I don’t know why I’m doing that. I feel fi-”\n\n\tA bit later Katia opened her eyes and stirred around in a bed. Her head was pounding. She pushed herself up on her elbows and shook her head and looked around as her vision cleared up.\n\t“Katia, you’re awake!” Sally said.\n\t“Wh- Where am I?”\n\t“The medical building on campus,” Sally replied.\n\t“What? Why? What happened?” She asked taking off the oxygen mask.\n\t“You passed out,”\n\t“Oh, wow. Okay,” Katia replied as a nurse walked through the privacy curtain.\n\t“Katia Wolfe?” The rhino asked.\n\t“Yes. I’m Katia Wolfe,”\n\t“What’s the first four digits of your SFIN?” (Social Fur Identity Number)\n\t“840-8”\n\t“Ah good. There are two Katia Wolfe’s on campus, the other Katia Wolfe is a Junior. I’m Nurse Joy. How are you feeling?”\n\t“I feel like my skull is being ripped apart by lumberjacks,” she replied while Nurse Joy gently pushed her back to the bed and put the oxygen mask back on.\n\t“I’m not surprised. Other than that, any other pains? Easy to breathe? Hard to breathe? Chest pains, back, arms, anything?”\n\t“I feel good, other than the splitting headache. It seems like it’s easy to breath but I can’t though?”\n\t“You passed out, as your friend mentioned. Your student record says you’re from Colorado, correct?”\n\t“Yes ma’am,”\n\t“I think you’ll be fine. You’re not used to the thick, dense heavy air here, so you were breathing as you normally would back in Colorado,”\n\t“What do you mean?”\n\t“In Colorado you’re over a mile above sea-level. Here, it’s only 135 feet above sea-level. The air is much thinner in Colorado, so you have to breath in deeper to get the correct amount of oxygen, whereas here you need to take shallower breaths or you could pass out, like you did,” Nurse Joy explained.\n\t“Huh, wow, never knew that could happen. Shallower breathes needed here, gotcha ya.” Katia replied and chuckled then removed the oxygen mask again.\n\t“I’m going to take a few vitals in about ten minutes and if they’re good, I’ll release you. In the meantime, keep using the oxygen mask,” Nurse Joy replied while placing the oxygen mask back on her. “Keep using this and don’t take it off, it’ll help you acclimate to the atmosphere here just a little easier, but not fully.”\n\t“Okay. Thanks for the help,” she replied while the nurse headed back out of the little makeshift room.\n\t“You okay Sally?”\n\t“Yes. But are you really okay though?”\n\t“I am. Thanks. Did you carry me or what?”\n\t“No. Uh, someone else saw you collapse. He carried you here,”\n\t“He? Who?”\n\t“I, uh, I don’t know. He was big though. A Gorilla. I think one of the, um, football players here. I think. I think he said he was a Freshman too,”\n\t“Oh. Well, this is just great. My first day on campus and I pass out because I took in too much oxygen and had to get saved by a raging hormonal, stinking football player that just tackles whatever is in front of him,”\n\t“Kat-” Sally stared but was interrupted.\n\t“Well, that’s just not nice to say to the guy who probably saved your life,” a male voice said from behind the curtains, “may I enter?”\n\t“Sure,” she replied, “Who are you?”\n\t“I’m Konji, the raging hormonal, stinking football player that carried you here. Just so you know, the proper position I play is the quarterback, I rarely tackle other players,”\n\t“Sorry about that. I’m … sorry,”\n\t“It’s okay, no hard feelings. I just wanted to check up on you before I leave,”\n\t“I’m fine. Thank you for rushing me here,”\n\t“Good to hear. See you around, and take care of yourself, Katia,” he said with a smile.\n\t“Bye,” Katia replied.\n\n\tHalf an hour later the two girls walked into their dorm room and Sally locked the door and headed to her bed.\n\n\t“How long was I out for?” Katia asked.\n\t“Maybe fifteen minutes once you got to the hospital,”\n\t“Okay,” she replied and checked her phone. Ten missed text messages and four phone calls; “Mom” and “Tib”\n\t“I guess the hospital called my mom?”\n\t“Yes,”\n\t“I guess I should call her back,” she said flipping the phone lid open.\n\t“Thank you Sally,”\n\t“For what?”\n\t“Being there with me,”\n\t“Oh. Yeah, no problem,”\n\n***\nSunday February 3, 2030\n\n\t“You ready Tib?” Willow asked cracking his bedroom door open.\n\t“I guess,” he replied, a bit less enthusiastically.\n\t“You okay?” She asked opening the door completely.\n\t“Yeah, I’m okay,” he sighed.\n\t“No you’re not. What’s got you down?”\n\t“You can always see through my lies. Anyway, I’m having second thoughts about college,”\n\t“I see. Want to talk about it?”\n\t“I guess I’m just nervous… and sad that Katia isn’t here to cheer me up or cheer me on,”\n\t“Aw Tib. You’ll do fine, I promise. Katia is probably on her way to her first class for today as well. Actually, since she’s four hours ahead, I’m sure she’s on her way to her second or third class. Anyway, I bet you she’s really nervous as well and worried about you too,”\n\t“Thanks mom,” he replied then smiled.\n\t“You going to be okay?”\n\t“Yeah, I think so,”\n\t“Good. Hurry up or you’ll be late,”\n\t“Thanks. Bye mom. Love you,” he said, kissed her cheek then grabbed his backpack and car keys.\n\t“Hey Tib, call me when you get out for lunch. We’ll grab something together. It’s been quite sometime since you and I have had a day out together, just the two of us,”\n\t“Sure. Can’t wait. I’ll call. Love you mom,”\n\t“Love you too honey,”\n\n\tTib headed downstairs and into the kitchen to get a drink for the road and saw Fang sitting on the counter eating some peanuts from the jar.\n\t“Hi Fang,”\n\t“Hi Tib. Heading out for classes?”\n\t“Yeah,” he replied pulling a coke and water bottle from the fridge.\n\t“You driving your Corolla?”\n\t“Well, yeah. It’s the only car I have,”\n\t“You want to drive the 2020 STI?”\n\t“You’d let me drive that?” Tib asked, surprised and intrigued.\n\t“Yeah. It needs to be driven a bit more than it has been recently. Longer than the few miles to town anyway,”\n\t“Yeah, I’ll drive it. Thanks!”\n\t“Okay. The keys are hanging up. You know where they’re at,”\n\t“Awesome. Thanks Fang!” Tib replied happily, his tail happily swaying.\n\t“No problem. Just be careful driving it,”\n\t“I will,” he replied then headed out.\n\n\tNearly two hours later Tib pulled into one of the entrances of the University. He dropped into second gear from third, the engine revved up a little bit and the exhaust sounded out, deeply, catching the ears and eyes of other students. He drove around a bit and found a parking spot that was in view of multiple security cameras. Parking in view of camera’s is something he’s done since he got his own car and after the window was smashed out and his receiver, CD’s other stuff was stolen from his car. He had hoped that parking in view of cameras would prevent that again.\n\n\tAfter hiding everything and locking the center console and the glove box he left the car and headed to his first class, “Economics of Modern Day Corporations”, a class that Willow talked him into taking. It’s not that she wanted him to work at Wolfe and Fox or some other large corporation but it would give him a good amount of credits, six actually, in math and business courses, more than double credits than a normal math course and business course, which was just two each.\n\n\tHis first two course were okay for the first day. They didn’t do much other than talk about what the course would be about, talking about the grading system, getting to know their instructor, teachers aides and in the Economics course goofed off looking at meme’s and YouTube videos for the last two hours.\n\n\t“Hey honey, how are you feeling?” Willow asked.\n\t“Ready to go home and take a nap,”\n\t“Oh come on now, it’s not that bad,”\n\t“No it wasn’t bad, just long classes,” Tib replied and held the door open for his mom. The pair decided on “Wingstop”, a restaurant that serves mainly chicken wings. It’s a little messy but they had some really good wings in all different kinds of flavors. After being seated they made their order.\n\n\tWillow ordered a mix of wings, five being Hickory Smoked BBQ and five Dragon’s Breath, an extremely spicy flavoring. Willow ordered an extra bowl of Atomic Ranch, it’s even more spicy than Dragon’s Breath wings.\n\n\tTib on the other paw, not being able to deal with spicy food ordered ten pieces of Hickory Smoked BBQ wings, and both asked for bowls of ranch, a coke, seasoned fries. \n\n\tAfter the waiter left, the two settled in and began talking quietly to each other, but loud enough to be able to hear each other over the drone of the other lunchtime patrons in the restaurant.\n\n\tNearly twenty minutes later the waiter sat their meals down and asked if they needed anything else. With a “no and a thank you” from both he left them to their food.\n\n\t“That smells really, really spicy from here,” Tib said.\n\t“I’m sure it is,”\n\t“You haven’t eaten those before?”\n\t“Nooooooope,” Willow replied while picking one up. She exhaled with a cheeky, yet nervous smile. She braced herself for the onslaught of fire from the Dragon’s Breath. She took a bite and chewed just a couple of times until she stopped. Tib burst out giggling as her eyes teared up and face turned bright red. She exhaled and took a breath in from her nose and swallowed. After a moment to recover she wiped her mouth and sat the napkin back down.\n\t“That wasn’t too bad,” she replied.\n\t“Yeah, sure mom,” Tib said as he continued eating.\n\n\tTen minutes into eating Tib stopped paying attention to what he was dipping his wings into. As soon as he took a bite he knew he fucked up. He yowled loudly and started crying. He had accidentally dipped his wing into Willow’s Atomic Ranch instead of his, which was sitting fairly close to each other. Willow jumped from his scream as did many other patrons of the restaurant. He grabbed his drink and started guzzling it as the burning continued to get worse. The waiter walked over to see what was wrong and instantly knew. He quickly left and then returned with a glass of milk.\n\t“Drink the milk, it’ll stop the burning,” the Pufferfish stated. Tib quickly grabbed the large glass and down it in just mere seconds. He exhaled and slouched into the bench. Tears stained and matted his face under his eyes. His mouth still burned horribly but the milk was slowly working. Willow all the while began to eat again while giggling at him.\n\t“Pay back is a bitch,” Willow said.\n\t“For what?”\n\t“Laughing at me earlier, of course,”\n\t“Oh shut up. Seriously though, how do furs eat such spicy food?”\n\t“We start either fairly young or start with mild spicy food and work up our tolerance until we find out what we can handle,”\n\t“I don’t think I’ll ever be able to eat spicy food,”\n\t“Shade was just like you, he couldn’t even eat the spicy mustard, but you can though,”\n\t“He was?”\n\t“Oh yeah. I remember once that he ate a jalapeno from the garden and he just, it was crazy. Actually that wasn’t too long after you and your sister joined the family. Anyway, he’s able to eat jalapenos now. After he asked the same question as you, we started him off slowly and building up his tolerance,”\n\t“Oh okay. Well, I don’t want to try, too much pain,”\n\t“Yeah, Shade, that poor boy, he kept at it until he was able to. Oh look at the time, we best hurry up. We’ve got 25 minutes until I have to get back to the office and it’s a ten minute drive,”\n\n\tWillow paid for the lunch and they headed out. She kissed his forehead and told him to have a good day. He told her the same and they then headed off in different directions.\n\n\tThe rest of the day for Tib was the same. The professors talking about the course, what to expect, the syllabus, test days, office days and time and more.\n\n\tHe finally arrived back at home just a little after seven PM. He hung the keys to Fang’s car up on the holder and headed inside. He was barely keeping his eyes open as he walked by the dining room. Everyone was seated and already eating. He looked over and said hi.\n\t“You want to join us?” Willow asked.\n\t“I don’t think so. I’m exhausted,” he replied.\n\t“Okay. I’ll make you plate and put it in the fridge for you if you get hungry later,”\n\t“Thanks mom,” he replied.\n\n\tUp in his bedroom he plopped down on the bed and took a pillow and squeezed. By the time he had slowly exhaled he was out cold. He wasn’t used to not being able to take a nap or two during the day. He thought he would be able to get a small nap in while at university but he had little free time between each class. The longest free time he had, with the exception of lunch, was thirty minutes.\n\n\tHe woke up two hours later and slowly dragged himself downstairs to heat up his dinner. After finishing he went back to his room and quickly fell asleep for the entire night.\n\n***\n\nWednesday February 6, 2030\n\n\t“I’m not really sure what got me to take Anthropology, honestly. Maybe it’s my wanting to know what makes some furs do things to others. I’m only here because of a lucky chance. A lucky chance that two young teenagers happened to decide to cut through an alley instead of walking the sidewalk. I was on the…” Katia said with a sigh and stopped speaking for a moment. She looked up and exhaled then looked back at her classmates. “I was on the ground, my elbows scratched up from the concrete. The concrete was cold, sticky, wet, dirty. The smell wasn’t good either, horrible actually, being just feet away from a dumpster full of trash. I was whimpering, scared, crying and begging. Standing above me was a doberman and another kneeling beside me. He had ripped my tattered clothes off, what little clothing I had. They were going to rape me. They had tried it before but was run off by another homeless fur a year before this time. I was saved by two young wolves. Fang and his mate actually, they decided to cut through that alley at the right time. I most likely wouldn’t be here. My twin brother, he probably wouldn’t be alive either. They probably would have raped then killed me. Probably would have just up and killed my brother too. My brother was in the dumpster trying to find clothing, food, money, anything to help us out. We were starving. Those two that saved us, we owe our lives to them. Fang, he’s now my brother, and his mate, Vapor, my sister-in-law. Without those two and Fang’s mom, my mom, I wouldn’t be telling this story. So, I guess that’s why I decided to take Anthropology. To find out what makes furs tick like we do, but I honestly don’t know,” Katia said then sat down to a silent room.\n\t“I’m sorry that you went through that and I’m glad that you survived and that your brother and sister-in-law happened on you,” the professor said.\n\t“Thanks. I don’t tell that story often. Very rarely actually. I think since we were saved and adopted, I’ve told only three others. They were all very close friends,” she explained.\n\t“I can understand why. Thank you for sharing that with us. They do say that talking about a terrible situation is the first step in recovery, however it seems that you’ve recovered fairly well, or at least you don’t show it well,”\n\t“I think about that day often and thank whatever made my brother and sister-in-law decide to take that route. I’ve talked to our mom about it and she’s helped me get over the fear of that and some other things that happened while my twin and I were living out on the streets,”\n\t“Good to hear. Okay, who’s next?” The professor asked. Katia looked down at her composition notebook and stared at it. The words of the boy talking was drowned out by her thoughts. Should I have shared that story? What will they think of me? Does it even matter what they think? Why is this bothering me and why do I care what they think? I’ve never let that bother me before.\n\n\tKatia shook her head and let out the breath that she was unknowingly holding. She instinctively took a few deep breaths of air. “Oh shit…” she only managed to say before her vision blurred and she hit the floor.\n\n\tAn hour later she woke up back in the hospital. She opened her eyes and looked around. Next to the bed, in a chair, was her backpack. She moaned from the headache and sat up.\n\n\t“What another great first impression,” she said out loud.\n\n\tAfter a few minutes the dividing screen was pushed open slightly and a nurse walked in.\n\t“Ah good you’re awake Miss Wolfe,”\n\t“Yeah I am. Passed out from breathing too deeply again,”\n\t“It appears so. How are you feeling?”\n\t“Other than the headache, I’m good,”\n\t“Good to hear. How’s your breathing right now?”\n\t“It’s good,” Katia replied while the nurse moved the stethoscope around her chest and then her back.\n\t“Breathing sounds good and heart rate is good. Like the first time I want you to use that mask until I come back, maybe fifteen minutes,” the nurse said. Katia looked at her watch then shook her head.\n\t“I can’t, I’m going to miss my next class,”\n\t“If you die then you won’t have anymore classes. So lay back down and relax. You can explain and give a note to the professor that you were here,”\n\t“Okay,” Katia replied.\n\n\tBy the time she left the hospital her next class was just about to end. She waited outside the door until the rest of the class left. She headed in and greeted the professor and explained what happened. The professor seemed to be easy going, a mallard duck, Professor McCage. This class is her Freshman required writing class. Because she loves food so much she decided to take FRS108 [i]Cuisine: Reading, Writing, Cooking, Eating[/i]. It’s all about food, cooking, eating and of course writing about it. After spending a few minutes with the professor she thanked him for being kind to her.\n\t“Hey, no problem Katia, things happen. Thank you for coming to class and letting me know. I’ll mark you as attended, I usually give a day or two before I mark anyone absent. Anyway, I’ve got to head out for my next lecture. See you during the next class and try not to breath so deeply, eh?”\n\t“Yes sir. Thanks again,” she replied. They headed their separate ways.\n\n***\nWednesday, February 20, 2030\n\n\t“In [i]“Anthropology from a Pragmatic Point of View”[/i], Kant claims that [i]“Desire, appetitio, is the self-determination of a subject’s power through the representation of something in the future as an effect of this representation.”[/i] Your homework is to specify in your own thoughts what Kant means by the [i]“subject’s power.”[/i] Minimum of two pages and no more than three. You should have it uploaded and submitted by no later than twelve midnight by this Friday. Remember to properly cite your papers, I will be marking twenty-five points off if you do not. Good luck and see you all next week,” the professor, for “The Foundations of Psychological Thought” course, stated.\n\n\t“Hey, you’re here,” Katia said walking back into their dorm room.\n\t“Ah, um, yeah. Yeah, I’m here,” Sally replied.\n\t“Don’t you have a class starting in like ten minutes?”\n\t“Uh, a lab, but it was canceled for the day. Something about, uh, what did the email say? … “Oh, construction just outside of the building, replacing a gas pipe to the building. So they have to keep the building empty. I guess in case it blows up or something,”\n\t“Okay. That makes sense. So what’s your plans now?”\n\t“Just studying,”\n\t“Okay. That’s what I was going to do for an hour until my next class,” Katia replied sitting at her desk.\n\t“Hey um, Katia, would you want to get some lunch?”\n\t“Yeah, we can do lunch. I haven’t had time to stop and eat yet,”\n\t“You’ve got a lot of classes Katia. Are you going to be okay?” Sally asked picking up her ID and some money.\n\t“I’ll be fine, it’s just four classes and three labs each day,”\n\t“That’s a lot though. You usually don’t get back until ten PM, then you go out and run for one to two hours then come back and study for an hour. Sleep until five or six AM then study for an hour then go to your first class,” Sally explained as they walked out of their dorm building.\n\t“Sally, stop worrying. I’m fine. I promise. It’s tough but I can do it. I have to do it since I’ve got two majors at the same time,”\n\t“Okay Katia. I just don’t want to see you stressed out or anything,”\n\t“Thanks Sally. You’re a great friend!” Katia said then pulled her over and hugged her.\n\t“Um, Katia, can you stop please? This is embarrassing, you a girl hugging me,” Sally said as a couple of other students looked at them.\n\t“Aww. I’m sorry. I’m a hugger in situations like this. Actually, come to think of it, I’m a hugger at most times,” she said then let out of the hug.\n\t“It’s okay. I’m just not used to being hugged by others, I guess,”\n\t“I see,”\n\n\tThe two of them headed down the walking path through the university campus to their favorite Chinese restaurant.\n\n***\n\nSaturday, February 23, 2030 \n\n\t“Hey Sally, I’m going into town. You want to go and get the lay of the land?”\n\t“I guess if I say no, you’ll say that I should go, right?” Sally replied.\n\t“No, not really. I wouldn’t force you to go anywhere you don’t want to or do anything that you don’t want to do. But! You should go and see where things are, you never leave campus other than when we go eat lunch,” she replied.\n\t“I suppose I can go,” she replied getting off her bed.\n\n\tThe two girls walked out of their dorm building and headed down the walkway.\n\n\t“Where are we going?” Sally asked quietly.\n\t“What?” Katia asked.\n\t“Where are we going?” She asked a bit more loudly.\n\t“Ah, into downtown proper. I want to look at a different laptop and then a pet shop for some fish and of course any place you want to go,” she explained.\n\t“Oh okay. Fish huh?”\n\t“Yeah, I’m missing the fish at home. Didn’t think I would miss them this much. So I’ll just have to buy a few to deal with that,”\n\t“I see, but why fish?” Sally replied.\n\t“We have multiple aquariums at home, including a large 200-gallon aquarium in my bedroom. It’s at the foot of my bed so I’m used to watching fish swim as I fall asleep. I just miss that, even though it’s been just a couple of weeks since moving here,”\n\t“I see. I’ve never had an aquarium so I’m actually excited for this. What size are you getting? The max 10-gallon tank?”\n\t“No, I talked the building manager into letting me buy a tank no larger than 100-gallons. I’m surprised they went with a semi-bribe of two-thousand dollars to repaint the stairways in our building,”\n\t“Oh, okay. I was wondering why the maintenance guy was measuring the area of your desk sits. I guess that’s got to do with this aquarium?”\n\t“Yes. One of the conditions is that I move my desk out from the wall to fit the aquarium there. I lose my bookshelf completely though. I’ll have to buy storage containers that fit under my bed to store books and whatnot. The other condition is that if anything happens, such as a leak or total breakage and flood, I have to pay for all damage and the repair of any room and items that’s damaged.\n\t“Ah okay, so that’s what that paper was about earlier this week. I signed it without reading it,”\n\t“SALLY! You should know better than that. Read all papers before signing. But yeah, it’s just saying that you’re okay with having an aquarium that large in your room,” Katia replied.\n\t“So, uh, Katia. How? How are you going to get something that large back here?”\n\t“Oh. Good idea. I didn’t think about that. Hmm… I wonder how large a 90-gallon tank will be?” Katia asked as they reached the public bus stop.\n\t“No idea,”\n\t“Well, lets see what and how much I’m going to get. I’ve got an idea of who I can call to get us back home with everything,” Katia replied after a bit of silence.\n\t“Who would that be?” Sally asked quizzically.\n\t“You’ll find out if we need them,” Katia replied with a smile.\n\t“Oh. Okay,” Sally replied.\n\n\tNearly two hours later and two different bus changes the two girls walked into Great Buy, a consumer electronics store that sells computers, laptops, tablets, TVs, washers, dryers and other house electronics and items.\n\n\tKatia followed Sally around while she looked at the various electronics, mainly tablets. She, Sally, tapped the screen of a 17-inch tablet to turn the screen on. She tapped on an icon and opened the document editor. “CASEY K. LOVES DICK” was shown in large, bold lettering. She shook her head and deleted the words before typing a short sentence on it. After a few minutes she closed out of the app and sighed.\n\t“Nice tablet,” Katia said.\n\t“I guess. I’m not all that fond of tablets though. I’d prefer a physical keyboard,”\n\t“Yeah, me too,”\n\t“We can go do what you needed to here,” Sally said.\n\t“Okay, don’t let me drag you around. If you want to go look at other stuff I’ll find you when I’m finished,”\n\t“Okay,” Sally replied then walked beside Katia.\n\n\tAfter nearly an hour of testing out the different laptops, the two girls walked out empty pawed and headed to their next stop, PetBuy.\n\n\t“So what are you going to get?” Sally asked highly enthusiastically.\n\t“Hmm, I don’t know. I can’t make up my mind. The 90-gallon tank will hold quite a bit of fish,” Katia replied.\n\t“There’s so many fish here,”\n\t“Yeah, that’s why I can’t make up my mind. I want Glo-Fish, that’s for sure, but I want coral, shrimp and hermit crabs too,”\n\n\tThe two of them stared at the fish and walked down the long wall of fish tanks when a guy walked up to them.\n\t“Hey Katia and … Sally, right?” He said.\n\t“Yes,” Sally replied.\n\t“Hey Konji. Thanks for coming down here,” Katia replied.\n\t“How are you two doing?” Konji asked.\n\t“Good,” both replied.\n\t“So what is it that you need help with?” Konji asked.\n\t“I’m buying fish and I can’t take everything on public transportation. So, I figured you could help out with your truck,”\n\t“Yeah, I can do that. So what are you getting?”\n\t“A 90-gallon tank and lots of fish and other stuff,” Katia explained.\n\t“Ah cool, if fish are your thing,”\n\t“They are, I’m in Ecology and Evolutionary Biology after all,”\n\t“You have everything yet?”\n\t“Nope, been trying to figure out what fish I want for the past two hours. I have most everything. Just need to decide on the fish, coral and plants,” she explained.\n\t“How are you going to get a 90-gallon tank in? That’s nine times more than what’s allowed,” he asked.\n\t“I talked them into letting me have it. Especially since I mentioned that the acrylic is over an inch thick and is basically bullet-proof. But if anything happens I have to personally pay for all repairs and damages,” she explained.\n\t“Ah cool,” he replied.\n\n\tAfter spending another hour figuring everything out, Katia, Sally and Konji walked out of the store. Konji was pushing the flatbed trolley with everything on it. The fish were in 21 different temporary reusable plastic containers. Along with the fish there were other types of creatures. One-hundred gallons of distilled water and other chemicals to deal with pH and other stuff.\n\n\tKatia pulled the receipt through her paw while she looked at it, quickly reading everything.\n\n\t“Katia, is it wise to spend that much on this?” Sally asked.\n\t“It’s okay. It’s my money that I’ve saved over the years,” she replied.\n\t“But it’s nearly $5,700 though,” she replied.\n\t“Yeah I know. You’ll understand why after it’s all set up,” she replied.\n\t“Well… okay then,” Sally replied.\n\n\tAfter getting back to the dorm, Konji helped the two girls carry everything up to their room. The plans were put on hold for nearly an hour. The dorm RA, Residential Assistant, a Senior student, was blocking them from bringing everything in, even after Katia showed her the letter to allow her to have the much larger aquarium. Katia hissed at the Dragon, Rajah, a stickler for rules. Katia pulled out her phone and called the building manager and explained what was going on. He showed up twenty minutes later and got everything settled, explaining that he allowed Katia to have the larger aquarium. Rajah stomped off in a huff, leaving a trail of smoke from her nostrils lingering behind in the air. Katia thanked the building manager and headed into the dorm room.\n\n\tAfter a bit everything was carried up to the room, she thanked Konji who then left, on the promise to see it later. Katia got busy putting the stand together which took her more than four hours of frustration.\n\n\tThe two girls stood there staring at the filled and decorated fish aquarium. Both of their eyes glistened from the soft blue light. The Glo-Fish glowing under the light. The hermit crabs were getting to know their new place. All the fish and creatures seemed to be happily swimming, crawling or skittering in their new house. The plants slowly and peacefully waved in the soft current of the tank.\n\n\t“It’s really beautiful Katia,” Sally said smiling.\n\t“It really is. Thanks. I’m glad that you like it,” Katia replied.\n\t“Think this will help you to sleep better?” Sally asked.\n\t“Yeah, hopefully. Let me know if it bothers you at night. I’m sure I can put something up to keep it light down,” Katia said.\n\t“I will. Thanks,” she replied.\n\t“It’s so cathartic,” Sally said a few minutes later while still watching the Glo-Fish swim around.\n\t“They really are. It’s why I bought them. I missed watching them while I fell asleep at night,” Katia replied.\n\n\tThe two girls laid on their stomachs watching the fish for almost two hours.\n\n***\n\nFriday March 15, 2030 \n\n\t“KATIA!” Tib screamed and ran up to her and pounced on her, hugging her tightly as they both hit the grass.\n\t“Tib, how’s my lovely brother doing?” She asked after she managed to suck air back into her lungs, after he knocked it out of her.\n\t“I missed you and glad that you’re back,” he said then pulled her up from the ground.\n\t“I missed you too Tib,” she replied. She dusted herself off and knocked some dirt off of her skirt and then headed inside. She hugged Willow, Vapor, Fang and the others.\n\n\tAfter a couple of hours talking about Princeton and how her studies were going and what she’s been doing, Katia yawned and stretched.\n\n\t“I’m going to go take a nap. Wake me up for dinner please,”\n\t“We will. Have a nice nap sweetie,” Willow replied.\n\n\tKatia walked upstairs and entered their bedroom. She fell backwards onto the bed and stretched her body out fully, splaying each arm and leg outwards. When she opened her eyes Tib was between her legs. He smiled and leaned down and kissed her.\n\t“Glad that your back home,”\n\t“Don’t even try anything. I’m exhausted,” she replied then moved backwards on the bed.\n\t“I wasn’t, just a kiss,” he replied.\n\t“It’s nice to be back home. It’s so different being in such a small dorm room. I miss my… our giant room and bed,” she replied and yawned again. Tib moved up next to her and laid down. Katia was soon in dreamland. A few minutes into it she rolled over and hugged Tib’s arm. He laid there staring at her for a few moments, his pants tight due to his raging boner.\n\n***\n\nMonday March 18, 2030\n\n\t“Calm down Tib. I told you we’ll go out on a date. I just want to relax after a stressful half-semester,”\n\t“How are you stressed?”\n\t“Really Tib? I’ve got four classes and three labs everyday. I’ve told you that,”\n\t“I know. Sorry Katia. It’s just so lonely without you here,”\n\t“And you don’t think that I feel lonely too? You have mom, Fang, Vapor and everyone else here. I’m almost two-thousand miles away from home. All my long time friends are here in Colorado. You’re here in Colorado. Everyone I know and love is here. Don’t fucking tell me that you’re lonely here,”\n\t“I… I’m sorry Katia,”\n\t“It’s fine Tib. I know you didn’t mean it in a hurtful way. Give me another day or two and we’ll go out. Okay?”\n\t“Okay. Sorry,”\n\t“You’re fine lover kitty,” she said and kissed him.\n\n***\n\nWednesday May 15, 2030 \n\n\t“UGH!” Katia exhaled loudly and dropped her head down to her desk.\n\t“What’s wrong Katia?” Sally asked then looked at her watch, 7 AM.\n\t“Just ready to get these tests over with. I’ve had three and still have six more to go. You know how it is,” she replied.\n\t“Yeah it’s a lot of studying. Hang in there and we’ll be done in short time,” Sally replied.\n\t“Thanks Sally. You’re an awesome friend!”\n\t“Am I?”\n\t“Yes Sally you are!”\n\t“Th-thanks,”\n\t“No problem,”\n\n\tKatia looked back down at her CHM201 course; General Chemistry II. Her eyes were nearly double crossed from all of the formulas and molecule strings that’s needed to know for the finals. Another book sat to her left was her ANT300 course, “Ethnography, Evidence and Experience” course final’s requirements. A typed 2000 word paper. Along with those two classes there were four more course finals requirements…\n\tANT219: Catastrophes across Cultures: The Anthropology of Disaster\n\tFRS108: Cuisine: Reading, Writing, Cooking, Eating\n\tPSY210: Foundations of Psychological Thought\n\tEEB211: Life on Earth: Chaos and Clockwork of Biological Design\n\n\tANT219 is a typed 2000 word paper.\n\tFRS108 is a typed 1000 word paper, at least it was on food.\n\tPSY210 is a minimum of 10 pages, expected to be 15 and not more than 25 pages, at least there is no word count requirement.\n\tAnd finally, EEB211, yet another 2000 word paper. All due by 11:59:59PM on May 23, the final day of finals.\n\n\tA few hours later Katia gasped a deep breath of air and leapt from her chair, grabbed her backpack and rushed out of the door startling Sally. She had fallen asleep while studying. She had just ten minutes to make it to the far side of the University grounds, usually a twenty minute walk. Luckily for her she’s a fast runner. She made it to the classroom door in just seven and half minutes. She took a minute to catch her breath before walking into the classroom and taking a seat. As soon as the class started the professor and teacher aides passed out the tests. Katia inhaled deeply then exhaled at the packet in front of her. She filled out the information on the front, her name, class block and time, date, student ID and a couple more required items. She opened to the first page and silently sighed. She stared at the very first question out of one-hundred plus the lab test.\n\n\t[i]“A quantity of 85.0 mL of 0.900 M HCL is mixed with 85.0 mL of 0.900 M KOH in a constant-pressure calorimeter that has a heat capacity of 325 J/°C. If the initial temperatures of both solutions are the same at 18.24°C, what is the final temperature of the mixed solution? The heat of neutralization is -56.2 kJ/mol. Assume the density and specific heat of the solutions are the same as those for water.”[/i]\n\n***\n\n\tTen hours later Katia walked into the silent and empty bedroom dragging her bag behind her. She released the bag handle loop near her desk and face planted onto her bed. She let out a scream that was luckily muffled by her pillow. She turned her head and looked over at Sally’s bed and desk. It was empty.\n\n\t“I guess Sally is still doing her English finals,” she thought to herself. She yawned hard causing her ears to pop. She could hear distant music blaring from some frat party going on down the road, just off of campus. “Ah shit, I was invited to one of those parties by Konji,” she thought to herself again. She grabbed her phone from the small nightstand next to her bed and pressed the power button, “14 text messages.” She unlocked her phone and scrolled through them. Multiple from her brother and a few from classmates and one from Konji.\n\t“Hey Konji. 2 ded 2 party. Sry,” she replied.\n\t“Its cool, no woris. Myb in the fll,” he replied a few minutes later. She chuckled at his drunken text as the door opened. Sally walked in and sat her bag on her desk.\n\t“Hey Sally,”\n\t“Hi Katia,”\n\t“Long day huh?” Katia said.\n\t“Yeah. Really long,”\n\t“I don’t think I’ve ever been so tired nor mentally or physically exhausted,” Katia said.\n\t“Are you okay?”\n\t“Yeah I’m okay. Just that the Chemistry test and four hour long chem lab wiped me out. Not to mention my other final I had,”\n\t“Oh,” Sally replied while pulling her shirt over her head. Katia smiled at Sally who quickly blushed bright red.\n\t“Sally, you gotta stop getting embarrassed so easily from me seeing your breasts,” Katia said.\n\t“I’m still not used to others seeing me like this,”\n\t“Sally, we’ve taken a few showers together. Me seeing you in your bra shouldn’t embarrass you now,”\n\t“Sh-shut up,” Sally replied quickly and now even more embarrassed.\n\t“Come on, what are you going to do when you start making out with a boy and he takes your shirt off?” Katia asked with a wide grin.\n\n\tSally’s eyes widened at the thought, sitting on her bed, then pressed her hands against her groin and between her thighs. That movement was a tick from being highly embarrassed. It was a coping mechanism more than anything else. She stared at the floor thinking about Katia’s question.\n\t“I. I’m a virgin,” Sally said.\n\t“I figured as much, but there’s no need to be embarrassed about that. I’m sure many here are,”\n\t“Are you?”\n\t“No. Far from it actually,”\n\t“What do you mean by that?”\n\t“I’ve had sex with a few but I’ve got a mate you know,”\n\t“You never talk about your mate though,”\n\t“Maybe next semester I’ll talk about him. Okay?”\n\t“Sure,” Sally replied standing back up. She bent over and pulled her pants down then took them off. Katia grinned then whistled sexily at her.\n\t“K-K-K-KATIA!” Sally replied and pulled her pants back up.\n\t“I’m sorry. I’m sorry. Go on and finish doing whatever you were. I need to take a shower before I pass out,” Katia replied chuckling then pushed herself up on the bed.\n\t“Okay,” Sally replied shaking her head but smiling and highly embarrassed.\n\n***\n\n\tTib sat silently in his English class, he was chewing on the end of his pen, staring at the test in front of him. He knew it all but drew a blank for a few things. He looked around, just ten students remained out of 150. He only had two questions left and only ten minutes left to turn it in. He closed his eyes and thought. Thought hard trying to remember. His concentration was interrupted as two students on opposite sides of the room got up and turned in their papers and left.\n\t“Come on Tiberius, you know this shit. Why can’t you think of it?” he thought to himself. A drop of sweat rolled down his forehead and dripped onto his arm. He exhaled and looked back at the paper.\n\t“Screw it. Two wrong answers won’t hurt my grade too much. It is a two-hundred question test,” he thought to himself and jotted down a note to the instructor on both questions.\n\t“Sorry, I just couldn’t remember this for some reason. I really enjoyed your class! Have a great summer!”\n\n\tHe stood up just as the professor called out that there was less than five minutes left. He handed her the packet and left the classroom. After a bit of walking he arrived at his car and headed back home.\n\n\tAs soon as he got home he plopped down on the couch and sighed loudly.\n\t“What’s up?” Fang asked.\n\t“Just finals are getting to me,”\n\t“Ah. Are they really that difficult in college?” Fang asked.\n\t“Yes and no, just depends on the subject. I had my English final today and it was a lot of questions, two-hundred actually, that ranged from the start of the semester to the end,” he explained.\n\t“Jeez. I’m sure you did amazing on it as well as all your other finals,” Fang said and smiled.\n\t“I hope so and thanks,” he replied and smiled.\n\t“I wonder how Katia’s finals are going?” Fang asked.\n\t“I don’t know, we haven’t really talked in over two weeks. I know she has at least double the classes than I do,” he replied.\n\t“Yeah. I think she’s a bit insane for doing a double major but it was her choice,” Fang replied.\n\t“Yeah I know. I told her it wasn’t a good idea to do that but she scoffed at me and said she’d be fine,” Tib said with a chuckle.\n\t“Well, she’ll either pass or fail. She has to learn on her own about how much she can take on,” Fang explained.\n\t“Yeah, I hope she does good though,”\n\t“She best, she’s using my money for that expensive university,” Willow said walking into the living room.\n\t“Hi mom,” both Fang and Tib said.\n\t“Hi kids,” she replied and sat down.\n\t“Mom. You’ve never said how much that school is costing Katia to go,” Tib said.\n\n\tWillow smiled for a moment. \n\t“How much?” Fang asked.\n\t“None of your business, nor Tib’s,” she replied.\n\t“Okay, sorry,” Fang replied.\n\t“Let’s just say that if she drops out during her eighth year and never finishes her two degrees, she’ll be working for probably ten lifetimes to pay me back,” she said.\n\n\tBoth Tib and Fang looked at each other then back to their mom and back at each other. Both rushed out of the living room and upstairs.\n\n\tHalf an hour later both came back down. “Are you CRAZY! JUST FUCKING WHAT?!” Fang said.\n\t“Like I said, education is important,” Willow replied with a smile, she then returned to looking over some documents for Wolfe and Fox.\n\n***\n\nStory skips all of Fall Semester directly to the end.\n\n***\nSaturday January 25, 2031 \n\n\t“How could you do something so stupid?” Sally’s mother scowled.\n\n\tSally sat on her bed and just stared at the floor silently for a moment. “I’m sorry,” Sally replied.\n\t“I bet YOU put her up to it, didn’t you? Trying to ruin my daughters career before it even starts!” She scowled, turning around to Katia and pointing at her.\n\t“What? No! I was just a party. Get over it. She wasn’t charged and it’s not going to be on her record or anything. The cops only broke the party up because it was too loud. No one was charged for underage drinking,” Katia replied.\n\t“Don’t you dare tell me to get over it. You are trying to ruin my daughters life. You’re just a slut who is trying to turn my innocent baby into yourself,” she scowled.\n\n\tKatia looked up at her and narrowed her eyes, “what makes you think I’m a slut? Huh?” Katia hissed.\n\t“Look at the way you dress, all black, no business dress or anything. SLUT!” She scowled.\n\t“Yeah, sure lady. Me wearing black and red punk clothes makes me a slut. Once again, get over yourself you stuck up entitled bitch. Sally is an adult and should be able to make choices on her own without your input. She went to the party on her own accord. All I did was ask if she wanted to go. I didn’t pressure her into it.” Katia replied.\n\t“She is NOT old enough to make choices of her own. She’s just a child and not an adult,”\n\t“Mom. Stop. Please,” Sally said quietly.\n\t“No I will not stop. You are a child, my child, and you will listen to what I tell you and you will do it,”\n\t“You know what mom? No. No I won’t. Not anymore. I’m tired of being under your control. I’m tired of having to call you three, four times a day to check in. I’m tired of you telling me how to live my life. I’m tired of you controlling everything that I can or can’t do. I’m not going to do it anymore. I’ve enjoyed being here without you around and sticking your nose into everything that I do. For now on, YOU can call me if you want to know how I’m doing and I’ll answer it IF I want to. Katia has helped me out a lot this first year and I’m happy to have her as a roommate. I’ve opened up a lot since the beginning of the school year. I’m glad she’s my roommate and not anyone else,” Sally said although choosing her words carefully.\n\t“Opening up what a lot? You’re legs? You have turned my innocent and precious daughter into a slut,” she hissed at Katia.\n\t“No mom. I haven’t had sex with anyone. And if I want to have sex, I will as it’s MY life and not yours. Please leave now. I don’t want to see you anymore today. Leave or I’ll call for security,” Sally replied.\n\n\tThis caused her mom to stutter in disbelief then narrow her eyes at both of them.\n\n\t“I’m going to take you out of this school. You’re coming home,” she demanded.\n\t“No. No I’m not. I’m staying at this university that I choose. I love it here and love having Katia as my roommate. You can leave now and just FUCK OFF!” Sally said then stood up and stared at her mom.\n\t“You’ve done nothing but put your daughter down. Telling her she’s not doing good enough in school. Telling her she’s not trying hard enough. You do nothing but make her cry, stressed and depressed. You’re a horrible mother from what I’ve heard and seen. Sally is in her right mind for telling you to do less in her life,” Katia said standing up and standing right next to Sally.\n\t“I’m tired of being told what to do by you, mother. I AM an adult and should be able to choose what I want to do for my life. I don’t like law. In fact, I hate it. I don’t want to be a lawyer or a lawyer’s aide, a senator or anything to do with law. I want to do something fun and exciting, not boring paperwork day in and day out like you. You were rarely around because you were always on a case. Always reading into new laws. I don’t want to be like that when or if I have kids of my own. Go home mother,” Sally said.\n\n\t“You know what Sally? Fine. You can stay but I’m not paying your tuition or anything else. That includes food, clothing and necessities. Good luck at paying your tuition, boarding and food along with clothing, books and everything else that you need. I hope it’s worth all the debt that you’ll pile up,” her mom said and stormed to the door. She looked back at Katia, “if my daughter gets raped or dies or ends up on the street I’m going to sue you until YOU are living on the streets.”\n\t“That’s okay, I used to live on the streets from five years old until I was about nine years old. I can fend for myself. In fact, I’m going to just one up you and pay for all of Sally’s food, clothing and her necessities that she needs. Now leave or I’ll call security,” Katia said calmly.\n\t“I hope you fail. I hope you come crawling back to me on your paws and knees and begging me to let you back into my house. I’m going to laugh when you fail because of this… girl… dragging you down,” her mother said then left the room slamming the door behind her.\n\n\tAs soon as the door shut Sally started crying. Katia walked over and hugged her and rubbed her back.\n\t“It’ll be okay. I promise,” Katia said.\n\t“Wh-What just happened?” Sally asked through sobs.\n\t“Your adult freedom just happened. That and you’re out of your mom’s control now,”\n\t“What am I going to do?” Sally asked placing her paws on her forehead, “I have very little money. Mom always sent me fifty dollars a week for food and stuff and that wasn’t ever another for hardly anything.”\n\t“We’ll figure that out. Come on and sit down and clear your head. Like I told your mom, I’ll pay for your food and anything you need. I wasn’t joking about that,” Katia said pulling out of the hug.\n\n\tShe took Sally’s paw and led her to the bed and sat her down. Sally sat down and started bawling about the entire ordeal. Katia sat next to her holding her paw and comforting her for the next half hour. Sally wiped her face and looked over at Katia who chuckled.\n\n\t“Come on, lets get you a shower. It’ll help calm you down,” she said. Sally nodded silently.\n\n\tAfter the two girls stepped into the bathroom Katia knocked on the other dorm room and waited for an answer. After a short moment the door opened up.\n\t“Hey Layne, Sally and I are going to be in the shower for a bit. You need to use it or anything?” Katia asked.\n\t“No. Are you okay Sally? I heard what happened. I’m sorry, but I’m happy to hear that you’re out of her control now. It was super brave of you to stand up like that,” Layne, a female Leopard, asked.\n\t“Yeah, I guess so, and thanks,” she replied with a small smile.\n\t“Okay. I’ll be here if you want someone else to talk to. I can help you with some money too. If you need laundry detergent or anything like that just ask, okay? My mom owns and operates a large laundry cleaning business and I can get all that we need.”\n\t“T-thanks,” Sally replied.\n\t“Really? Why didn’t you say something before?” Katia asked and chuckled.\n\t“You never asked. Anyway I’ll pay for everything that she needs,” Layne replied with a silly laugh, “anyway. You two take care. Let me know if I can help in any way.”\n\t“Thanks Layne,” Katia replied, stifling a laugh and shaking her head.\n\n\tAfter a shower the two girls sat down on Katia’s bed and began talking about what to do next. Katia grabbed a notebook and a pen and opened it to an empty page.\n\n\t“Let’s see here,” Katia said tapping the pen against her mouth then started writing in the notebook.\n\n • Financial Aid\n • Food\n • Clothing\n • Transportation\n • School Books\n • School Supplies. Pens, pencils, notebooks, etc.\n • New Major for school\n • Check to see if any Semester 1 courses can transfer to new major\n • Hygiene supplies soap, shampoo, pads, toothpaste, mouthwash, etc\n • Anything else that you need\n\n\t“Okay. Let’s head down to Administration and see what’s going on. While we’re there we can look into other majors for you,”\n\t“I want to do EEB I think,” Sally replied.\n\t“You sure?” Katia asked.\n\t“Yeah. It sounds awesome,”\n\t“I wouldn’t quite know yet but it does seem fun from what courses I’ve taken so far. You okay doing this?”\n\t“Yes. I feel good. I actually feel relieved. Not having to worry about impressing and making my mom happy anymore,” she said and gave a big smile.\n\t“I’m happy to see you smile like that. You’re super cute when you smile,”\n\t“K-Katia!” Sally replied, while her face turned bright red.\n\t“It’s okay Sally. Let’s head down there and see what we can do about all of this,” Katia said standing up.\n\t“Katia,” Sally said and grabbed Katia’s arm gently.\n\t“Yes?”\n\t“Thank you. I felt f… um. It felt amazing to tell my mother to fuck off like I did. I would have never done that without you here. Thank you,” she said and smiled brightly.\n\t“You’re welcome,” Katia replied.\n\n\tA few hours later the two walked out of the administration building. It wasn’t the best of news but Sally was on her own now. However the issue is tuition. She didn’t qualify for any student loans or grants due to her mother’s high pay salary of $150,000 per year.\n\n\t“What am I going to do for tuition and stuff Katia?”\n\t“I’ve got an idea but it’s going to take a lot of talking to get it to happen. But for now let’s not worry about it. We only have one more day for finals on Monday. Let’s just relax for the weekend, study for the final on Monday. How does that sound?” Katia replied.\n\t“Sounds good,” she replied.\n\t“Good. Now then, you hungry?” Katia asked.\n\t“You really do love food. Sure let’s go,” Sally replied.\n\t“You want Chinese?” Katia asked.\n\t“No, I don’t think so. I want to try something that I’ve never tried before because my mom said I could never handle it,” Sally said.\n\t“What’s that?”\n\t“Hot wings. I want to try them and see if I like really spicy food,” she said.\n\t“You sure?” Katia asked looking scared for Sally.\n\t“Yes. I’m sure,” she replied, “if I try them and I end up rolling on the floor crying, you get to laugh at me.”\n\t“Haha, okay Sally. Let’s hit up Wingstop then. They have a lot of wing selection including some crazy hot wings that I won’t ever try,” Katia replied.\n\n\tAfter taking three different public buses they arrived at the Wingstop. They were seated, given menus and their drink order taken. Katia explained the differences of spiciness to Sally while they waited. Sally had made her mind up. Finally after fifteen minutes their hostess came back up with their drinks. It was super packed in the restaurant since it was a Saturday.\n\n\tKatia ordered the 100 piece pack all in Cajun, one of the spiciest they had at this restaurant, number 7 out of 10 on the top spiciest they offered. She would eat what she could and then take the rest back to the room to save for later. With the 100 piece pack she got to choose a lot of sides and dip. For the eight servings of dip she choose all Ranch. Next to ordered three sides Seasoned Fries and one side of Louisiana Voodoo Fries, which again, were spicy. The next part of the pack was four sets of veggie sticks. She choose to get one set with all carrots, another set with all celery and the other two was a mix of both. More than she’d be able to actually eat. And finally she added six rolls and a large coke.\n\n\tSally ordered 15 pieces of Original Hot, it was the middle of the road for spiciness. Katia had talked her out of ordering all Atomic wings, the hottest they had. She had also talked her into getting only 15 wings of the original hot and adding in mild or some other wing just in case she couldn’t handle the spiciness. She ordered 7 pieces of Mild and 8 of plain which is not spicy at all. She then ordered a side Cheese Fries with ranch.\n\n\t“Ma’am. I’d like one Atomic wing if I can order just one,” Sally said.\n\t“I’m sorry, but that lowest that you can get is a 6 piece,” The hostess replied.\n\t“Ah okay. I just want to try it. Sure, I’ll take a 6 piece of Atomic wings too please,” Sally replied. She ordered a side of Veggie Sticks, more ranch and a coke.\n\t“Bring out a glass of milk for her too please,” Katia said.\n\t“Okay. Is that all for your meal?” The hostess asked.\n\t“A large coke too please,” Sally said.\n\t“The 15 piece comes with a 20 ounce drink already. You want another one?” The hostess replied.\n\t“Ah, no. sorry,” Sally replied.\n\t“That’s all ma’am,” Katia said.\n\t“Okay. It’ll be a bit. Just call out if you need your drinks refilled,” she said then left their table.\n\n\tSally had tears running down her red face just seconds after biting into the first Atomic wing. She was fanning her mouth with her paw without luck to stop the burning. Katia was laughing loudly while handing Sally the glass of milk. She took the milk and drunk about a fifth of it and sat it down. She breathed out hard as tears continued flowing down her face.\n\t“Now you know why I don’t eat those. My brother, Fang, can though,” Katia said.\n\t“They’re super hot,” she said then realized that there were a lot of eyes looking at her. “Uh… Sorry,” she said out loud, causing some patrons to laugh then go back to their own meals.\n\t“You going to finish those?” Katia asked.\n\t“Yes. I hate wasting food,” Sally replied and pressed her paws down between her legs.\n\t“Sally, seriously, don’t force yourself to eat them. I don’t mind if you don’t eat them. You wanted to try them, that’s all. I know you don’t like wasting food, but it’s not worth you being in pain or getting sick due to how spicy they are,” Katia said.\n\t“Okay, I won’t force myself,” she said with a smile.\n\t“Also, clean your fingers before you eat any of the other wings so you don’t get the Atomic sauce on them,” she suggested.\n\n\tThe rest of their meal went pretty well. Sally managed to eat three of the six pieces of Atomic wings. She stopped after drinking all of the milk that Katia ordered for her. She handled the Original Hot wings quite well. They were spicy for her but after about 8 of them she handled them quite well. Katia managed to eat 20 of the wings that she had ordered, two rolls and just a single side of the seasoned fries. Both girls would have left overs for at least a day or two, maybe three.\n\n***\n\nMonday January 27, 2031\n\n\t“You okay Sally?” Katia asked.\n\t“Yeah. Maybe. I don’t think I’ve ever flown in an airplane before,” she replied.\n\t“It’s nothing too bad. Just breath through your mouth as we take off. It’ll lessen the chances of your ears popping,” Katia explained.\n\n\tMany hours later the two girls arrived at Orion City airport. They gathered their luggage and headed through security and out to the road. Katia looked on her phone to find out what vehicle their Uber was. After a few minutes they found it, loaded their luggage into the trunk and got in. They each said their hello’s and was finally on the way back home. It was just before midnight as the vehicle left the airport.\n\n***\n\nTuesday January 28, 2031 \n\n\t“Sally, wake up,” Katia said softly shaking her.\n\t“Huh?” Sally mumbled.\n\t“We’re here. Wake up,” she replied.\n\n\tSally opened her eyes, rubbed them then looked around. She yawned and opened the door.\n\n\t“Thank you,” Katia said to the driver as she got out.\n\t“No problem. I hope the ride was up to your standards,” the driver replied.\n\t“It was perfect. Thanks again. We’ll grab our stuff from the trunk and close it back,” Katia said.\n\t“Thanks again. Remember to rate,” the driver replied.\n\t“I will. Thanks!” Katia replied then shut the door.\n\n\tSally stood in front of the house and looked up, staring it at with her mouth agape.\n\t“Huge house. You live here?” Sally asked.\n\t“Well, if I didn’t we wouldn’t be here, now would we?” Katia replied and giggled.\n\t“I guess not,” she replied.\n\t“Come on. Let’s be quiet just in case everyone is asleep,”\n\t“Okay,” Sally replied.\n\n\tJust as Katia thought, everyone was already asleep. Katia did tell them she would be coming in tomorrow, well today, but she was able to get two tickets for the earlier trip at the last minute.\n\n\tSally followed behind Katia through the house and into a bedroom. It was one of the empty bedrooms, she didn’t want to wake anyone up.\n\n\t“You okay with us sleeping together tonight?” Katia asked.\n\t“Yeah, that’s okay,” Sally replied.\n\t“Okay cool,”\n\n\tKatia stripped down to her panties and pulled the covers back. She headed into the bathroom and brushed her teeth and waited for Sally to finish as well. Back in the room the two girls got in bed, covered up and fell asleep fast.\n\n\tHours later Katia woke up to see that Sally was already awake but just sitting quietly at the desk and reading a book.\n\t“Hey Sally,”\n\t“Ah, morning,”\n\t“Have you been downstairs yet?” Katia asked.\n\t“What? No. Why would I wonder around a house that no one knows me,” Sally replied almost taken back with Katia.\n\t“I’m joking,” Katia said sliding off the bed, “has anyone knocked on the door?”\n\t“No, not since I’ve been awake,”\n\t“Okay. That means no one knows we’re here,” Katia said with a toothy smile.\n\t“Uh oh. I know that smile,” Sally replied.\n\t“You want to take a shower before meeting my family?”\n\t“Uh sure. I guess. But isn’t it going to be cramped?”\n\t“What? No. Come on,” Katia said grabbing her paw.\n\n\tShe pulled Sally into the bathroom who froze and stared at the huge bathroom, completely forgetting that she was in it last night brushing her teeth and using the toilet.\n\t“Okay then. It won’t be cramped. Why did I think it would be? I saw it last night,” Sally replied with a giggle.\n\t“Maybe being in that dorm room for nearly a year?” Katia replied while she slipped out of her panties then bra. Sally followed suit. They spent about twenty minutes cleaning up, drying off and getting dressed.\n\n***\n\n\tKatia held her finger to her muzzle, silently telling Sally not to make any noise as they walked down the stairs. Before they rounded the last turn in the stairway Katia turned to Sally and whispered into her ear, who nodded in reply.\n\n\tThe two made their way out of the stairway and into the guest bedroom and out the double french doors without being caught. They quietly walked across the front of the house and to the door that leads into the garage from backyard. Once inside Katia slowly opened the main house door and hoping it wouldn’t squeak, it didn’t. She and Sally made their way to the corner wall that separated the kitchen, the dining room and the hallway they were in by one of the smaller aquariums. Katia covered her muzzle holding back a laugh. She held her finger to her muzzle once again then proceeded…\n\n\t“[b]HEY![/b]” She screamed and jumped out from the wall. Everyone at the table jumped, dropped their utensils and one dropping a cup of orange juice. Many of the Wolfe family screamed from being scared. Katia stood there with a huge smile on her face and waited for the realization to set in. It took about five seconds. Tib jumped from the table and came running. He latched onto her and down to the floor they went, even though they had seen each other just a couple of weeks before for Christmas break. Before Katia could say anything she was locked into a kiss.\n\n\t“Katia! What are you doing?!” Willow scowled.\n\t“Seriously. What were you thinking?” Vapor scowled as well, starting to clean up the orange juice that she had dropped. Onai, Luna and a few others chuckled but then continued eating.\n\n\t“Sorry everyone. I just had to do that,” she replied pushing Tib off of her. She stood up and helped Tib up. She gave him a kiss and told him to go back eating.\n\t“Everyone, we have a guest staying while I’m here. Come on out Sally,” she said and held her paw out.\n\n\tSally slowly walked out fully embarrassed from her friends actions but gave a smile at the…\n\t“You have a huge family,” she said while wide-eyed.\n\t“I told you that I did. You just didn’t want to believe me,” Katia replied.\n\t“Anyway. Everyone, this is Sally. She’s my roommate at Princeton. Sally this is…” she said and then told her everyone’s name. They all greeted her. After that Katia pulled out a chair for Sally and told her to sit and get some food. Katia sat down next to Tib and dug in.\n\n\t“It’s good to see you again Sally. How was your first year at Princeton?” Willow asked after everything calmed down.\n\t“Oh. Uh. It was… Um, good,” she replied.\n\t“Good to hear. I hope that my good-for-nothing daughter didn’t cause you any issues like she just pulled?”\n\t“Oh, uh. No, I guess not,” she replied then took a bite out of a biscuit.\n\t“What are you studying?” Vapor asked.\n\t“Law, maybe. I don’t know anymore,” she replied.\n\t“I see,” Vapor replied.\n\t“You’re welcome to stay here. Glad to meet you,” Vapor said.\n\t“Thank you,”\n\t“When did you two get in?” Willow asked.\n\t“Around two am last night,” Katia replied.\n\t“Oh. You said you were coming on a flight for today,”\n\t“I was but there was no more seats available for that flight. So I rebooked mine for the flight last night and booked one for Sally too,” Katia explained. “After we got here I just booked an Uber and they brought us here. We slept in the empty master bedroom.”\n\t“Okay. Glad to know that you made it safely. You too Sally,” Willow replied.\n\t“Thank you,” Sally replied then continued eating in silence.\n\n\tAfter each family member finished eating they would get up, put their plates in the sink and then leave to go do whatever they had planned. At the end Katia waited for Sally to finish before taking her plate and sitting it in the sink.\n\n\t“Shouldn’t we clean our plates?” Sally asked.\n\t“No. Laika is to do it. She got in trouble and it’s part of her punishment,” Katia explained.\n\t“Not anymore Katia, but you two run off and have fun on your break. I’ve got this,” Vapor said with a smile.\n\t“You sure?” Katia asked.\n\t“Yes. Now go. It was nice to meet you Sally. We can talk later,” Vapor replied.\n\t“Okay then. Thanks Vapor and I’m really sorry for making you drop your glass. I couldn’t see and just wanted to give everyone a scare,” Katia said.\n\t“I know,” Vapor replied with a malicious smile.\n\n\tA few minutes later Katia walked up to Willow who had just came from outside carrying a few firewood. It had snowed early in the morning and covered the ground now.\n\t“Hi mom,” Katia said.\n\t“Hello,” Willow replied.\n\t“When you get a few minutes or an hour or so, we need to talk to you. Please,” Katia said.\n\t“Okay. If you help bring in more firewood we can get this done faster,” Willow replied.\n\n\tKatia grabbed one of the coats from the closet and started helping, while Sally sat in the living room just watching everyone. She watched as 7 year old Shayla played on the floor with several dolls with 9 year old Bella and 2 year old Skyler. Vapor was sitting in a chair feeding a pup. After about twenty minutes the firewood rack was filled. To be fair, the firewood “rack” was just two walls and the end of the fireplace and all the logs sat on an old carpet to keep from scraping the hardwood floor.\n\t“Now then, what was it that you wanted to talk about?” Willow asked.\n\t“In the office please,” Katia replied and nodded her head towards the office.\n\n\tAfter settling in the office Katia explained what happened at school with Sally’s mother.\n\n\t“I didn’t want Katia to get her family involved in this. But she insisted, saying that it was mostly her fault that my mother dropped paying. Katia wouldn’t take no for an answer,” Sally explained.\n\t“Well to be honest, I did teach my cubs, er, kitten to own up on responsibility if they made a mistake. All you have to do is ask for help Sally,” Willow replied.\n\n\t“I. I, uh … I don’t feel right by asking someone I just met,” Sally replied.\n\t“You don’t have to feel like that Sally. We won’t force you, but remember what your mother said about hoping to see you fail,” Katia replied.\n\n\tSally exhaled and looked down at the desk for a moment, “you’re right. Mrs. Wolfe, could you help me with a loan for my schooling, please?”\n\t\n\t“I’d be happy to. However, first I want to have our family lawyer draw up a document for the loan. It will state something like, as long as you maintain passing grades, stay out of trouble with the law and you meet other criteria, I will continue to pay your tuition, books, boarding and the alike. The lawyer will be a neutral party between both of us. He’ll be your lawyer and I’ll have one of our lawyer’s from Wolfe and Fox as mine. The lawyer will advise you on your rights with the document. We’ll also set up a proper payment plan as well. Is that okay with you?” Willow explained.\n\t“What do you mean by all of that?” Sally asked.\n\t“For example, which will be included in the document, that if you fail more than one class in a semester, or you drop out before you graduate you will have to pay me back for the failed classes or all if you drop out. We’ll set it up for small installments so you’re not living paycheck to paycheck. You have to attend classes and not skip. Pretty much the basics of every school. Keep your grades up, don’t skip and don’t drop out. Do all of that and you’ll be fine. After you graduate and secure a career then you can start paying me back. I won’t make you pay me back while you’re enrolled in school or right after. I’ll give you a year or two to secure a job and get settled in before you start paying. I also won’t charge you interest either,” Willow explained.\n\t“Oh okay. That makes sense,” Sally replied with a smile.\n\t“Are you okay with that? Like Katia said we don’t want to pressure you into anything. I can see that Katia really likes you as a friend, and you seem to be a well mannered and decent girl,” Willow stated.\n\t“Yes. That’s fine. Thank you,” she replied.\n\t“And thank you for being there for Katia during those few times that she was in the hospital after passing out. And being there for everything else for her,” Willow said.\n\t“No problem. I couldn’t leave her on the ground outside or on the floor in our room.\n\t“I’ll let you know when the lawyer arrives. It’ll be a few days though due to the snow storm,” Willow said.\n\t“Thank you,” Sally replied.\n\n\tWillow stood up and headed to the door and waited for the two girls. Katia pulled Sally up from the chair and they walked out.\n\n\tA bit later Katia and Sally was chilling in the spare Master bedroom where Sally would be staying at. Sally turned around from the laptop and looked over at Katia laying across the bed reading a Teen magazine that Sally had bought to read on the airplane flight.\n\t“Hey Katia, can I ask you something?” She asked.\n\t“Yeah, sure anything I suppose,” she replied and flipped to a new page.\n\t“That was your brother right? The other cat,” She asked.\n\t“Yup, my twin brother,” she replied.\n\t“He, uh, he…,” she stopped and looked down at her paws as she pressed them against her inner thighs, “he kissed you like that. Isn’t that a… uh… umm…” She stopped then stared at the floor for a moment.\n\t“Oh yeah. Sorry. Uh, well, Tib is my mate,” Katia said then sat up on the bed knowing she would have to probably explain everything.\n\t“Oh. Your brother?” She asked quizzically.\n\t“Yeah. My mate is my identical twin brother,” she replied then giggled after Sally turned bright red. Katia sat the magazine down and explained their history about losing their parents, being put into the orphanage, being homeless and how they became family members to one of the ten wealthiest families in Colorado. Sally sat there amazed but a little taken aback about the incest but understood they loved each other.\n\t“Sorry to hear that you went through all that,” Sally replied.\n\t“No worries. You didn’t do anything to cause it. Anyway, yeah Tib’s is my brother and mate. I wouldn’t change anything about it. I love him and I can trust and depend on him for anything,” she replied smiling.\n\t“Oh before I forget. If you go to enter any bedroom, knock first and wait for an answer. If after six knocks and you don’t hear a reply slowly open it and just peer in and call out if anyone is in there. You can usually hear if anyone is in the shower once you open the door,” Katia explained.\n\t“Ah okay. Thanks,” Sally replied.\n\n\t“How about you, Tib and I go out to Orion tomorrow night?” Katia asked.\n\t“Uhhh, Katia?” Sally said and stood up.\n\t“What?” She asked.\n\n\tSally walked over to the double French doors and pulled the curtains back, “how do you think we’re going to go anywhere?” Sally asked.\n\t“Ah, yeah. I forgot,” she replied then laughed hard. There was a foot of snow on the balcony alone, on the actual ground was almost two feet of snow thanks to the blizzard that blew in around four AM and had raged for a few hours dropping nearly two feet of snow. Now it was just a slow and calm snow fall. Sally looked out to the woods to see the trees covered in snow, a lot of branches sagging due to the weight. She chuckled as one branch had enough and snapped, dropping tons of snow to the ground. Sally placed her hand onto the door glass.\n\t“Wow, these windows aren’t even cold,” she said.\n\t“Yeah. My brother, Fang, apparently paid a crap ton of money for the windows. Apparently it’s like twenty layers of glass and every window is bullet-proof. Keeps the heat in and the cold out during the winter. Vise Versa for the summer,” she explained\n\t“Why can’t the dorms have these?” Sally replied with a chuckle.\n\t“If I remember correctly, Fang once said that he paid like ten-thousand dollars for just the small windows. The tiny windows in the bathroom were two-thousand dollars each, I think. I think he said that he paid nearly $7000 for each exterior door, $14,000 for the two you see there,” Katia replied. Sally really didn’t know how to reply so she just smiled at Katia and remained silent.\n\n***\n\nThursday January 30, 2031 \n\n\t“Okay Sally. Everything looks good, all pages have been signed and dated,” the lawyer stated, “Willow, you can give the loan to Sally now. I’ll get the documents back to the office, scan them in and send you both a copy through email.”\n\t“Thank you sir,” Sally replied.\n\t“Anytime. It was nice working with you,” he replied, “Unless there’s anything else I’ll be taking my leave.”\n\t“Nothing more,” Willow replied.\n\t“Nothing that I know of,” Sally said and looked over at Katia.\n\t“I wouldn’t know if you need anything else Sally,” Katia replied with a short chuckle.\n\t“Okay then. You ladies have a great day,” the lawyer said then left the office.\n\n\t“Thank you Mrs. Wolfe,” Sally said.\n\t“It’s no problem Sally. I’m more than happy to help,” she replied then stood up.\n\t“Mrs. Wolfe. Will the funds be available for when school starts back up?” Sally asked.\n\t“Yes they will be. As soon as you get back to Princeton you need to go to the appropriate department and set up the bank account information so it can be charged accordingly,” Willow explained.\n\t“Thank you again for the help,”\n\t“No problem Sally. You two enjoy the rest of your break,” Willow said then left the office.\n\n\tKatia looked at Sally, “remember we’re leaving early tomorrow so we can get you setup at school.”\n\t“I know,” Sally replied.\n\n***\n\nMonday February 3, 2031 \n\n\tThe past few days were hectic for the two girls, especially Sally trying to get the new bank account changed over so the tuition could be paid for. Both of them ran around like mad ducks trying to get their new books and supplies ready for their second undergraduate year at Princeton.\n\n\tThe Saturday before school started back up Katia collapsed on her bed with a deep, heavy exhale then flipped over onto her back. She has a few stacks of school books for both of her majors, Anthropology and Ecology and Evolutionary Biology. She has 44 books for her Undergraduate Sophomore Spring Semester. Sally on the other paw has 20 books for her courses which includes EEB and some core classes that is required to take EEB.\n\n\tBoth ladies have their work cut out for them to stay on track and not fail. Both of them set their goal to overcome the odds and prove certain furs wrong.\n\n",
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\t“Katia,” Fang said as she and her brother walked in from the garage after a date. \t“Hey Fang. What’s up?” She asked walking into the living room. Fang was sitting on the couch with Skyler in his lap, both of them watching cartoons. \t“You have mail. It’s on the coffee table,” he said, pointing at a large, thick, white cardboard envelop. \t“Ooh!” She purred and leapt from the steps down into the living room. She grabbed the envelop and dropped down onto the couch. Her skirt fluttering up then settling back down in her lap. Tib walked up behind the couch and leaned over her shoulder as she used one of her claws to tear the top open. \t“Do you mind Tiberius? It’s private and confidential information,” she hissed. \t“S-sorry,” he replied and walked around to the other side of the couch.
\tShe pulled out the stack of papers and placed the envelope underneath the more than dozen sheets. Her eyes scanned the black lettering of the first page, keeping the others in suspense until… \tAIIIIEEEEEE, she screamed for joy and leapt to her feet and bounced around like a hyper six-year-old on a sugar rush after two cans of coke, two candy bars and an energy drink. She caused Fang, Tib and Skyler all to jump in their seats. \t“What has made you so happy?” Fang asked. \t“I CAN’T believe it! This is NOT happening! FANG! Is this real? I’m asleep aren’t I?” She asked, after she stopped bouncing around. \t“Uh, no, you’re awake,” he replied, “and probably everyone in a five mile radius of the house.” \t“This can’t be happening! Can it?” She asked wide-eyed staring at the papers in her paws. \t“KATIA! What is it?” Tib hissed. \t“I was accepted to Princeton!” She replied with a wide bright smile. \t“Pr-Princeton? I. I thought… I thought we were going to apply to the same places?” Tib asked. \t“Tib. I’m sorry. But Princeton was my first choice. You know I want to go there,” she replied lowering her paws and the acceptance letter and packet to near her thighs. \t“I didn’t even know you applied there,” he replied. \t“Tib, I told you multiple times that I was and had applied there,” she replied. \t“Congratulations on getting in there,” he replied then walked out of the living room. \t“Tib,” Katia said slowly and sadly. \t“Did you really tell him or not?” Fang asked. \t“I did. A lot. During our eleventh and twelfth grade years. Weeks before I applied, then again while I was filling out the application, then again when I was typing up my entrance letter and then once after submitting it,” she explained. \t“I’m sure he knows that you told him. I’m sure it’s just shock and happiness for you,” Fang replied. \t“Yeah,” she replied. \t“Are you going to live there or fly back often?” Fang asked. \t“Flying back and forth would be more than a few thousand dollars more costly for travel, so no. I’m going to live on campus and come back during long breaks and certain holidays,” \t“Okay,” \t“I’m going to go talk to Tib,” \t“Go easy on him Katia. You two have never been away from each other like you will be soon,” \t“I know,” she replied and started walking away. \t“Hey Katia,” \t“Yeah?” \t“Congratulations, I’m extremely proud of you and happy for you,” \t“Thanks Fang,” she smiled brightly then continued walking away.
\tKatia opened their bedroom door and stepped inside and then closed the door behind her. She leaned backwards against the door and looked at Tib sitting at his computer desk. He had a paper in his paws, an acceptance letter to the University of Colorado. \t“Tib! What are you doing?” Katia asked after he crumpled the paper up and tossed it in the trash bin that sat in between their desks. \t“Throwing away acceptance letters for colleges and universities that we applied to together,” he replied and picked up another letter. \t“Tib stop that,” she hissed after he crumpled another acceptance letter for the University of Orion City and tossed it away. \t“Katia, I’m happy that you got into Princeton, but…” he sighed and rotated on the chair. He closed his eyes and exhaled, “… where does that leave us? You’re going to be like two-thousand miles away. We won’t see each other for a long time.”
\tKatia walked up to him and kissed him, “I know,” she replied. \t“Did you do this as a way to get away from me?” \t“No, of course not Tib. I promise. You know that I’ve wanted to go to Princeton since ninth grade,”
\tTib looked up at her, his paws holding hers. He hugged her stomach and rested his head between her breasts. \t“I’m going to miss you Katia,” \t“It’s not forever Tib. Just a few months, twice a year. But I’ll miss you too little bro,” \t“I’m not little,” he whined while she wiped the tears from his eyes. \t“Tib, I love you so much and we’ll be together even when I’m not here. We’re mates after all. But I really wanted Princeton’s Anthropology class and their Ecology and Evolutionary Biology. Princeton has the best courses and professors for those,” she explained. \t“I know Katia. You’ve told me and bored me to sleep probably a thousand times talking about those two courses,” he replied and chuckled.
\tShe sat down on his lap and wrapped her arms around his neck then kissed him, sending her tongue into his mouth. Katia lifted up, pulled her panties off while Tib pushed his shorts to his paws. She then took her brothers now erect dick then positioned it while she lowered down. She moaned into his mouth and blushed for some reason. She gently lifted up and lowered down. Their tails twisting around each others to their side. Within a few minutes Tib squeezed his sister in a hug while the first shot of semen shot out and splashed inside.
\tKatia smiled as she felt his warm seed fill and warm her insides. She rested her forehead against his. \t“Please don’t go, Katia,” he said. \t“I’m sorry Tib. I want to. I have to,” \t“I know. I love you,” he replied. \t“I love you too brother,”
\tAfter a few more minutes Katia stood up and smiled at him.
\t“Everything will work out Tib. I’ll come home for Spring break and Winter break and then during the summers. It’ll feel just like a week or two before we see each other again,” \t“Yeah,” he said and smiled melancholically.
\tKatia caressed his face and kissed him once again then headed into the bathroom. She opened the medicine cabinet and took a birth control pill. She shivered as a glob of his semen leaked out. She took a few sheets of toilet paper and wiped it away, then tossed it into the toilet.
\t“Hey Tib,” she said walking out of the bathroom, “We’ve got a few months before I have to leave. We can do almost anything you want to.” \t“Thanks. But almost anything?” he replied. \t“No getting me pregnant,” she chuckled. \t“Yeah, I know,” \t“I promise you we’ll have kittens after we both graduate. It’s just going to take some time before then though. It’ll be worth the wait though,” \t“I know Katia. We both decided to try to get a nice career and not rely on mom or Fang and Vapor,” \t“Yup. They’ve done so much for us already and I just don’t feel right asking for money to buy a house and supporting us all of our lives. It seems to be working well for Pepper and Shade so far,” \t“Yeah, they’ve been great,” \t“Remember how scared we were when we first arrived and the garage door shut? We both thought they were going to kill, skin and eat us,” \t“Oh yeah, I forgot about that. What about when we sat out at the Koi pond talking about them. How weird of a family they were to just bring home two kittens they didn’t know-” \t“And then I started playing with your dick and I told you that if you, oh what was it? Ummmmm-” \t“Squirty,” \t“Ah yeah that’s right! I told you that if you squirty I’d bite your wiener off and feed it to the fish,” \t“Oh jeez Katia,” he replied and started tearing up. \t“What about when Fang and Vapor cleaned us. It took them four hours or longer to just to get to our fur. They thought we were black kittens until the end,” \t“Yeah that was funny. We didn’t want to spoil the surprise so we had them face away from each other and us during that time. We made them feel weird and awkward though,” Katia said and laughed. \t“Yeah we did. Did you ever figure out why Fang and Vapor swapped out and she started washing you off?” Tib asked. \t“We talked about that with them. Remember? It’s because Fang and Pepper mated once. It nearly pushed Fang and Vapor apart,” \t“Ah yeah that’s right. I forgot. I’m glad they didn’t split. They’re amazing together. Though I do wonder what life would be like if they didn’t end up together?” \t“I don’t know, but I know we wouldn’t be living in this house,” \t“Yeah, it’s sad that Vapor’s parents died like that, but I wonder if it was for the best though? Like what would have happened if they didn’t die in the fire or if there wasn’t a fire?” \t“No idea, maybe they didn’t die in an alternate reality,” Katia replied, still standing at the bathroom door. \t“I can’t believe that you believe in alternate realities and the multiverse theory,” \t“I believe in one of two, but kind of both, realities that there are infinite universes. The one that we live in and what we can see, all 13.7 Billion years worth. Past that is the start of another universe, where I could be dead or a CEO or both of us are still living on the streets, it’s almost unlimited possibilities there. Then there’s the Parallel universes. Each one just out of reach of our own, just like how the infinite universes are done but a bit differently. You know I could go on for hours with this, but I won’t,” \t“Thanks! All that astronomical math stuff gives me a headache,” \t“I know it does. Speaking of which,” she replied and pushed herself from the door opening.
\tKatia walked over to him and bent over and pulled out the two acceptance letters. After unfolding them she handed him one. “I think you should go to UoC, University of Orion City. That way you’ll be close to mom, Fang and everyone. Plus you’ve been on the campus grounds multiple times with Onai and his electronics stuff when he shows them off during those open house presentations for future electrical engineers and whatever else,” \t“Yeah, I had already decided to go there,” \t“Hey speaking of electronics, you’ve been hanging out with Onai down in his lab. You learning stuff from him?” Tib asked. \t“Yeah, I wanted to learn some of the basic electronics, especially since some of the courses that I’ll be taking requires some electronic skills,” \t“Ah okay, I see. Is he a good teacher?” \t“Yeah, he’s pretty good at it. I picked up the basics fairly easily,” \t“Oh okay,” \t“Hey, I’ll be back in a few minutes. Hang out here, okay?” \t“Sure,” Tib replied confused.
\tKatia slipped back into her short skirt and rushed out of the bedroom and downstairs.
\t“Hey Fang,” Katia said. \t“Hey. How did it go with Tib?” \t“He’s okay. Hey, umm. Would you do something for me?” \t“Hmm? With what?” \t“Umm, you know those little bottles of alcohol that you have. The little one-ounce Vodka bottles,” \t“Yes? Why?” \t“Could I get like four or six of them please? I want to celebrate with Tib,” \t“Katia, you’re 19,” he replied. \t“I know, but a few isn’t going to hurt us. Right?” \t“Hmm, I don’t think so Katia. I don’t want to hear it from mom about supplying minors with alcohol,” \t“I understand, thanks anyway Fang,” \t“Hey Katia, if a few does go missing, I’m sure I wouldn’t notice,” he replied and winked. \t“I would never steal,” she replied, winked and smiled before rushing off.
\tLater that night the two siblings were in the hot tub. Both had a shot glass in their paws filled with vodka. After a short congratulation to each other they both took a big drink, taking about half of the vodka from each.
\tAfter their soaking and illegal drinking session in the hot tub, they hit the bed. Tib was above his sister, his half limp dick pushing against her mound. Both of them drunk from the vodka. \t“Tib, whas chu ‘oing?” she drunkenly asked. \t“Oooh, tha feshs ‘ood,” she purred after he finally managed to bury himself into her. It didn’t last long though, both had drunk an ounce or two too much. Tib’s eyes closed and his body dropped down onto Katia. His weight and warmth quickly made her fall asleep.
\tThe following day they both woke up to minor hangovers that quickly went away after breakfast. No one seemed to be wise of their late night drinking party.
*** Friday January 25, 2030
\t“Here’s the last box Katia,” Tib said with Willow and Jaden following closely behind. \t“Thank you,” she replied taking the box of pictures and other memento’s from home. She sat it on the bed and looked around again.
\tThe room was outstandingly small at only fourteen foot by fifteen foot excluding the bathroom. The bedroom packed in two twin XL beds, two desks and two small nightstands. Near the main door was a double closet at four feet by two-and-half feet. The room was just 237 square feet, roughly 22 square meters, including closet space. At the back of the room was a single three foot window in between the two beds. There was a single small refrigerator in the room that Katia requested, costing an additional two-hundred dollars per year. The bathroom has a single toilet, two sinks and a single shower, all had to be shared by four students. The bathroom is shared between two bedrooms, both of which houses two students each.
\t“So, you’re now in one of the best ivy-league universities, how does it feel?” Willow asked. \t“I uh, I don’t know yet. Ask me after this semester ends,” she replied. \t“You’ll do just fine sweetie,” \t“Thanks mom. I hope so,” she replied then hugged her.
\tAs they stepped away from each other the room door opened. The four of them turned around to see another female walk in after picking up a box from the floor. The female sheep stopped when she noticed that she was being watched by the unknown family. Behind her from out in the hallway a voice broke the silence. \t“Go in, this box is heavy,” the female voice said. \t“Y-yes mother,” the teenage sheep said quietly and timidly.
\tShe set the box on the desk and turned around to get out of the way.
\t“You want me to get that box for you?” Jaden asked. \t“No thanks. I’ve got it,” the adult female replied.
\tThe pair quickly made their way back out of the room and returned about five minutes later. After a few minutes of them talking to each other in the hallway the mother left without saying anything to the Wolfe family. The sheep, whose fleece was white as snow, walked in and shut the door behind her. She stared at the floor for a moment then looked up before proceeding into the room.
\t“Hi. I’m Katia. Your roommate,” \t“Uh. Um. Hi. I uh. I’m Sally,” she replied timidly. \t“Nice to meet you. This is my brother Tib, our mom Willow and her boyfriend Jaden,” \t“Uh. Hello. Nice to, uh, meet you all,” \t“Hello Sally,” they replied. \t“Ex-excuse me I have to unpack,” she said then turned around to her belongings. She wasn’t trying to sound or be rude, she was just awkward around strangers, and being in a new location made her shyness even worse.
\tAfter another fifteen minutes the Wolfe family headed out of the room and down the six floors and out into the front area of the building.
\t“You think you’re going to be okay Katia?” Willow asked. \t“I think so, but it’s a bit too late to back out of it,” \t“Yeah it is,” Willow replied and chuckled. \t“Katia…” Tib said sadly. \t“Tib,” she replied as he hugged her. \t“I’m going to miss you so much,” he said. \t“I’ll be back home for Spring Break. It’s only a couple of months or so. Plus, you’ll be busy with your own classwork as well. The time will pass by really fast,” \t“Please be safe Katia,” he replied ending the hug. \t“I will be,” she replied and kissed his muzzle. \t“You all take care,” Katia said taking a few steps backwards. \t“You too sweetie,” Willow said then hugged her.
\tJaden gave his goodbyes and hugged her. All that remained was her brother. She pulled him into a hug and hugged him tightly. \t“I’ll see you in a few months, okay?” She said. \t“Y-yeah,” he replied.
\tShe pulled away from the hug then kissed his lips. \t“I love you Tib,” \t“Love you too Katia,”
\tKatia waved as Willow, Jaden and her brother pulled away. The four of them drove from Colorado to Princeton, New Jersey. It was a long trip but due to the seven boxes, suitcases and containers, they were unable to fly. Willow was unable to get permission to use Wolfe and Fox’s private jet to make the trip, Mr. Fox citing, “That he, Abby and two others have to fly to Dubai in two days to look at another location for their thirteenth headquarters, five of which are international. I’m sorry Mrs. Wolfe.” Willow understood and left the idea alone.
\tKatia walked back into her sixth floor dorm room and looked out the window that faced a large treed area and behind that was dozens upon dozens of buildings for food, shopping, drinking and more.
\t“How are you doing Sally?” Katia asked while she sat a few pictures on the small nightstand. \t“I. Um. I’m o-okay,” she replied. \t“You seem pretty shy,” \t“Oh, uh, sorry,” \t“No need to be sorry. So was that your mom?” \t“Y-yes,” \t“She left pretty quickly. I guess she had to get to work?” \t“Yes,” \t“What does she do?” \t“Oh, a law-lawyer’s aide,” \t“Okay. What are you taking?” \t“Oh, uh, busi-business law. Mom wanted me to get into law,” she explained. \t“Sounds like a good plan if you like it,” \t“Y-yeah, I guess. Wh-what are… are you taking?” \t“I’m taking a double major. Anthropology, specifically Socio-Cultural Anthropology, and the other is Ecology and Evolutionary Biology,” \t“S-S-Sounds like a lot of work,” \t“Maybe, but your classes sounds like a lot more work than mine will be,” \t“Maybe? It’s eight years minimum, most likely twelve years for everything,” \t“Jeez. A lot of time. How old are you by the way?” \t“Eighteen, just out of high school. You?” Sally asked and readjusted her glasses, pushing them up her nose against her face. \t“I’m twenty. Been out of school for a couple of years, wanted to rest up and really make sure that I wanted what I’m going for, along with looking further into my options for universities and areas of study,” Katia explained then plopped down on her bed. With what little she had brought, even though it was a lot of boxes and stuff, she had put it away fairly fast. \t“So um. Uh, nevermind,” Sally said and looked away towards the window. \t“What?” Katia asked. \t“It’s nothing, forget I said anything,” \t“Well, okay then,”
\tKatia exhaled and looked over at her desk. Her laptop and a stack of books sat on it. Along with those, there were a few dozen spiral notebooks and a few dozen composition books, in six different colors. There were lots of packs of Pilot Precise V5 gel pens, in blue and black ink, and a few pack of #2 pencils. She hopped off the bed and walked over to the desk. She picked up the notebooks and stacked them in a corner on the desk then put the pens and pencils in the drawer. She picked up one of the class books and opened it to a random page. Her eyes widened for a moment until she realized it was just calculus. She had easily passed it in high school and could probably pass it here too. After a few moments she had all sixteen books placed on the bookshelf above her desk.
\tA few minutes later the silence of the room was broken when a door opened. It was the door to the shared bathroom between the two rooms. \t“Hi,” a Sabre-toothed cat said. \t“Um, hi,” Katia replied while Sally remained silent. \t“Uh, sorry, I didn’t think about others being over here. I was just checking the place out,” \t“It’s okay, this time. Just knock the next time please,” Katia replied. \t“Yeah I will. I’m Kyung BTW,” \t“I’m Katia. This is-” \t“S-Sally,” \t“Nice to meet you both. TTYL,” \t“Uh yeah,” Katia replied.
\tA few seconds after Kyung left Katia looked over at Sally and chuckled. She walked over and locked the bathroom door. The bathroom could only be locked and unlocked from the door side, there is no keyhole on the bathroom side.
\t“Lets make sure we keep that door locked, especially when we’re not here,” Katia suggested. \t“Yeah, good idea,” Sally replied while nodding.
\tAn hour later Katia picked her phone up and looked at the time, while the large bronze bell on the campus tolled twelve.
\t“Hey Sally, you hungry?” \t“A little,” \t“Want to walk to the shops and get a bite to eat?” \t“I uh, I don’t know. I’m looking over my course books,” \t“Sally! You’ll have enough time to do that during the semester, which hasn’t started yet. Come on, lunch will be on me,” \t“Um, I don… Okay, uh um… Katia,” she said, changing her mind after seeing Katia’s warm, friendly smile.
\tThe two walked down the sidewalk to the buildings just off campus, where there were food, bars, clothing shops, electronics stores, game stores, arcades and more. \t“What kind of food do you want to eat?” Katia asked. \t“I don’t know. I’ll eat anything I guess,” \t“How does Chinese sound? I’m craving some Orange Chicken,” \t“Sure,”
\tFifteen minutes later the two of them walked into the Chinese restaurant, Flying Dragon’s Chinese. Sally stood there looking at all the different options. She’s never had Chinese before and had no idea what any of it tasted like. Luckily for her, the restaurant chain gives customers a taste when asked for. After taking nearly ten minutes, she finally decided. A side of Chow Mein, an entree of Wok-Fired Shrimp, another entree of Mushroom Chicken and then a third entree of Orange Chicken, two Veggie Rolls and a large Dr. Pepper.
\tKatia ordered a double entree of Orange Chicken, in lieu of two different entrees, a side of Chow Mein, two Chicken Egg Rolls and a large Coke. Katia paid the $32.36 and the two sat down at the table near a window.
\tAfter a few bites Sally looked up and smiled, “this is really good,” then took another bite. \t“You’ve never had Chinese before? I thought you were joking just wanting some free samples,” Katia replied with a short chuckle. \t“No. Mom only cooked for us, we never dined out not even restaurants. About the only fast food we had was pizza delivery. That was maybe twice a year though,” she explained. \t“I see,” Katia replied, “if you ever want to get food sometime, just ask. Okay? I like stuffing my face,” she chuckled. \t“Okay,” Sally replied then went back to eating silently.
\tAfter their lunch, they were heading back to their dorm room and looking around as they walked. The trees swayed calmly in the breeze. The green grass was evenly cut on both sides of the concrete walking path. After a few minutes of walking in silence, Sally looked over at Katia. \t“Are you okay?” Sally asked. \t“Yes? Why do you ask?” \t“You’re breathing really, really hard,” \t“Am I?” Katia asked and stopped walking. After a few seconds she noticed that she was indeed breathing hard. \t“I don’t know why I’m doing that. I feel fi-”
\tA bit later Katia opened her eyes and stirred around in a bed. Her head was pounding. She pushed herself up on her elbows and shook her head and looked around as her vision cleared up. \t“Katia, you’re awake!” Sally said. \t“Wh- Where am I?” \t“The medical building on campus,” Sally replied. \t“What? Why? What happened?” She asked taking off the oxygen mask. \t“You passed out,” \t“Oh, wow. Okay,” Katia replied as a nurse walked through the privacy curtain. \t“Katia Wolfe?” The rhino asked. \t“Yes. I’m Katia Wolfe,” \t“What’s the first four digits of your SFIN?” (Social Fur Identity Number) \t“840-8” \t“Ah good. There are two Katia Wolfe’s on campus, the other Katia Wolfe is a Junior. I’m Nurse Joy. How are you feeling?” \t“I feel like my skull is being ripped apart by lumberjacks,” she replied while Nurse Joy gently pushed her back to the bed and put the oxygen mask back on. \t“I’m not surprised. Other than that, any other pains? Easy to breathe? Hard to breathe? Chest pains, back, arms, anything?” \t“I feel good, other than the splitting headache. It seems like it’s easy to breath but I can’t though?” \t“You passed out, as your friend mentioned. Your student record says you’re from Colorado, correct?” \t“Yes ma’am,” \t“I think you’ll be fine. You’re not used to the thick, dense heavy air here, so you were breathing as you normally would back in Colorado,” \t“What do you mean?” \t“In Colorado you’re over a mile above sea-level. Here, it’s only 135 feet above sea-level. The air is much thinner in Colorado, so you have to breath in deeper to get the correct amount of oxygen, whereas here you need to take shallower breaths or you could pass out, like you did,” Nurse Joy explained. \t“Huh, wow, never knew that could happen. Shallower breathes needed here, gotcha ya.” Katia replied and chuckled then removed the oxygen mask again. \t“I’m going to take a few vitals in about ten minutes and if they’re good, I’ll release you. In the meantime, keep using the oxygen mask,” Nurse Joy replied while placing the oxygen mask back on her. “Keep using this and don’t take it off, it’ll help you acclimate to the atmosphere here just a little easier, but not fully.” \t“Okay. Thanks for the help,” she replied while the nurse headed back out of the little makeshift room. \t“You okay Sally?” \t“Yes. But are you really okay though?” \t“I am. Thanks. Did you carry me or what?” \t“No. Uh, someone else saw you collapse. He carried you here,” \t“He? Who?” \t“I, uh, I don’t know. He was big though. A Gorilla. I think one of the, um, football players here. I think. I think he said he was a Freshman too,” \t“Oh. Well, this is just great. My first day on campus and I pass out because I took in too much oxygen and had to get saved by a raging hormonal, stinking football player that just tackles whatever is in front of him,” \t“Kat-” Sally stared but was interrupted. \t“Well, that’s just not nice to say to the guy who probably saved your life,” a male voice said from behind the curtains, “may I enter?” \t“Sure,” she replied, “Who are you?” \t“I’m Konji, the raging hormonal, stinking football player that carried you here. Just so you know, the proper position I play is the quarterback, I rarely tackle other players,” \t“Sorry about that. I’m … sorry,” \t“It’s okay, no hard feelings. I just wanted to check up on you before I leave,” \t“I’m fine. Thank you for rushing me here,” \t“Good to hear. See you around, and take care of yourself, Katia,” he said with a smile. \t“Bye,” Katia replied.
\tHalf an hour later the two girls walked into their dorm room and Sally locked the door and headed to her bed.
\t“How long was I out for?” Katia asked. \t“Maybe fifteen minutes once you got to the hospital,” \t“Okay,” she replied and checked her phone. Ten missed text messages and four phone calls; “Mom” and “Tib” \t“I guess the hospital called my mom?” \t“Yes,” \t“I guess I should call her back,” she said flipping the phone lid open. \t“Thank you Sally,” \t“For what?” \t“Being there with me,” \t“Oh. Yeah, no problem,”
*** Sunday February 3, 2030
\t“You ready Tib?” Willow asked cracking his bedroom door open. \t“I guess,” he replied, a bit less enthusiastically. \t“You okay?” She asked opening the door completely. \t“Yeah, I’m okay,” he sighed. \t“No you’re not. What’s got you down?” \t“You can always see through my lies. Anyway, I’m having second thoughts about college,” \t“I see. Want to talk about it?” \t“I guess I’m just nervous… and sad that Katia isn’t here to cheer me up or cheer me on,” \t“Aw Tib. You’ll do fine, I promise. Katia is probably on her way to her first class for today as well. Actually, since she’s four hours ahead, I’m sure she’s on her way to her second or third class. Anyway, I bet you she’s really nervous as well and worried about you too,” \t“Thanks mom,” he replied then smiled. \t“You going to be okay?” \t“Yeah, I think so,” \t“Good. Hurry up or you’ll be late,” \t“Thanks. Bye mom. Love you,” he said, kissed her cheek then grabbed his backpack and car keys. \t“Hey Tib, call me when you get out for lunch. We’ll grab something together. It’s been quite sometime since you and I have had a day out together, just the two of us,” \t“Sure. Can’t wait. I’ll call. Love you mom,” \t“Love you too honey,”
\tTib headed downstairs and into the kitchen to get a drink for the road and saw Fang sitting on the counter eating some peanuts from the jar. \t“Hi Fang,” \t“Hi Tib. Heading out for classes?” \t“Yeah,” he replied pulling a coke and water bottle from the fridge. \t“You driving your Corolla?” \t“Well, yeah. It’s the only car I have,” \t“You want to drive the 2020 STI?” \t“You’d let me drive that?” Tib asked, surprised and intrigued. \t“Yeah. It needs to be driven a bit more than it has been recently. Longer than the few miles to town anyway,” \t“Yeah, I’ll drive it. Thanks!” \t“Okay. The keys are hanging up. You know where they’re at,” \t“Awesome. Thanks Fang!” Tib replied happily, his tail happily swaying. \t“No problem. Just be careful driving it,” \t“I will,” he replied then headed out.
\tNearly two hours later Tib pulled into one of the entrances of the University. He dropped into second gear from third, the engine revved up a little bit and the exhaust sounded out, deeply, catching the ears and eyes of other students. He drove around a bit and found a parking spot that was in view of multiple security cameras. Parking in view of camera’s is something he’s done since he got his own car and after the window was smashed out and his receiver, CD’s other stuff was stolen from his car. He had hoped that parking in view of cameras would prevent that again.
\tAfter hiding everything and locking the center console and the glove box he left the car and headed to his first class, “Economics of Modern Day Corporations”, a class that Willow talked him into taking. It’s not that she wanted him to work at Wolfe and Fox or some other large corporation but it would give him a good amount of credits, six actually, in math and business courses, more than double credits than a normal math course and business course, which was just two each.
\tHis first two course were okay for the first day. They didn’t do much other than talk about what the course would be about, talking about the grading system, getting to know their instructor, teachers aides and in the Economics course goofed off looking at meme’s and YouTube videos for the last two hours.
\t“Hey honey, how are you feeling?” Willow asked. \t“Ready to go home and take a nap,” \t“Oh come on now, it’s not that bad,” \t“No it wasn’t bad, just long classes,” Tib replied and held the door open for his mom. The pair decided on “Wingstop”, a restaurant that serves mainly chicken wings. It’s a little messy but they had some really good wings in all different kinds of flavors. After being seated they made their order.
\tWillow ordered a mix of wings, five being Hickory Smoked BBQ and five Dragon’s Breath, an extremely spicy flavoring. Willow ordered an extra bowl of Atomic Ranch, it’s even more spicy than Dragon’s Breath wings.
\tTib on the other paw, not being able to deal with spicy food ordered ten pieces of Hickory Smoked BBQ wings, and both asked for bowls of ranch, a coke, seasoned fries.
\tAfter the waiter left, the two settled in and began talking quietly to each other, but loud enough to be able to hear each other over the drone of the other lunchtime patrons in the restaurant.
\tNearly twenty minutes later the waiter sat their meals down and asked if they needed anything else. With a “no and a thank you” from both he left them to their food.
\t“That smells really, really spicy from here,” Tib said. \t“I’m sure it is,” \t“You haven’t eaten those before?” \t“Nooooooope,” Willow replied while picking one up. She exhaled with a cheeky, yet nervous smile. She braced herself for the onslaught of fire from the Dragon’s Breath. She took a bite and chewed just a couple of times until she stopped. Tib burst out giggling as her eyes teared up and face turned bright red. She exhaled and took a breath in from her nose and swallowed. After a moment to recover she wiped her mouth and sat the napkin back down. \t“That wasn’t too bad,” she replied. \t“Yeah, sure mom,” Tib said as he continued eating.
\tTen minutes into eating Tib stopped paying attention to what he was dipping his wings into. As soon as he took a bite he knew he fucked up. He yowled loudly and started crying. He had accidentally dipped his wing into Willow’s Atomic Ranch instead of his, which was sitting fairly close to each other. Willow jumped from his scream as did many other patrons of the restaurant. He grabbed his drink and started guzzling it as the burning continued to get worse. The waiter walked over to see what was wrong and instantly knew. He quickly left and then returned with a glass of milk. \t“Drink the milk, it’ll stop the burning,” the Pufferfish stated. Tib quickly grabbed the large glass and down it in just mere seconds. He exhaled and slouched into the bench. Tears stained and matted his face under his eyes. His mouth still burned horribly but the milk was slowly working. Willow all the while began to eat again while giggling at him. \t“Pay back is a bitch,” Willow said. \t“For what?” \t“Laughing at me earlier, of course,” \t“Oh shut up. Seriously though, how do furs eat such spicy food?” \t“We start either fairly young or start with mild spicy food and work up our tolerance until we find out what we can handle,” \t“I don’t think I’ll ever be able to eat spicy food,” \t“Shade was just like you, he couldn’t even eat the spicy mustard, but you can though,” \t“He was?” \t“Oh yeah. I remember once that he ate a jalapeno from the garden and he just, it was crazy. Actually that wasn’t too long after you and your sister joined the family. Anyway, he’s able to eat jalapenos now. After he asked the same question as you, we started him off slowly and building up his tolerance,” \t“Oh okay. Well, I don’t want to try, too much pain,” \t“Yeah, Shade, that poor boy, he kept at it until he was able to. Oh look at the time, we best hurry up. We’ve got 25 minutes until I have to get back to the office and it’s a ten minute drive,”
\tWillow paid for the lunch and they headed out. She kissed his forehead and told him to have a good day. He told her the same and they then headed off in different directions.
\tThe rest of the day for Tib was the same. The professors talking about the course, what to expect, the syllabus, test days, office days and time and more.
\tHe finally arrived back at home just a little after seven PM. He hung the keys to Fang’s car up on the holder and headed inside. He was barely keeping his eyes open as he walked by the dining room. Everyone was seated and already eating. He looked over and said hi. \t“You want to join us?” Willow asked. \t“I don’t think so. I’m exhausted,” he replied. \t“Okay. I’ll make you plate and put it in the fridge for you if you get hungry later,” \t“Thanks mom,” he replied.
\tUp in his bedroom he plopped down on the bed and took a pillow and squeezed. By the time he had slowly exhaled he was out cold. He wasn’t used to not being able to take a nap or two during the day. He thought he would be able to get a small nap in while at university but he had little free time between each class. The longest free time he had, with the exception of lunch, was thirty minutes.
\tHe woke up two hours later and slowly dragged himself downstairs to heat up his dinner. After finishing he went back to his room and quickly fell asleep for the entire night.
***
Wednesday February 6, 2030
\t“I’m not really sure what got me to take Anthropology, honestly. Maybe it’s my wanting to know what makes some furs do things to others. I’m only here because of a lucky chance. A lucky chance that two young teenagers happened to decide to cut through an alley instead of walking the sidewalk. I was on the…” Katia said with a sigh and stopped speaking for a moment. She looked up and exhaled then looked back at her classmates. “I was on the ground, my elbows scratched up from the concrete. The concrete was cold, sticky, wet, dirty. The smell wasn’t good either, horrible actually, being just feet away from a dumpster full of trash. I was whimpering, scared, crying and begging. Standing above me was a doberman and another kneeling beside me. He had ripped my tattered clothes off, what little clothing I had. They were going to rape me. They had tried it before but was run off by another homeless fur a year before this time. I was saved by two young wolves. Fang and his mate actually, they decided to cut through that alley at the right time. I most likely wouldn’t be here. My twin brother, he probably wouldn’t be alive either. They probably would have raped then killed me. Probably would have just up and killed my brother too. My brother was in the dumpster trying to find clothing, food, money, anything to help us out. We were starving. Those two that saved us, we owe our lives to them. Fang, he’s now my brother, and his mate, Vapor, my sister-in-law. Without those two and Fang’s mom, my mom, I wouldn’t be telling this story. So, I guess that’s why I decided to take Anthropology. To find out what makes furs tick like we do, but I honestly don’t know,” Katia said then sat down to a silent room. \t“I’m sorry that you went through that and I’m glad that you survived and that your brother and sister-in-law happened on you,” the professor said. \t“Thanks. I don’t tell that story often. Very rarely actually. I think since we were saved and adopted, I’ve told only three others. They were all very close friends,” she explained. \t“I can understand why. Thank you for sharing that with us. They do say that talking about a terrible situation is the first step in recovery, however it seems that you’ve recovered fairly well, or at least you don’t show it well,” \t“I think about that day often and thank whatever made my brother and sister-in-law decide to take that route. I’ve talked to our mom about it and she’s helped me get over the fear of that and some other things that happened while my twin and I were living out on the streets,” \t“Good to hear. Okay, who’s next?” The professor asked. Katia looked down at her composition notebook and stared at it. The words of the boy talking was drowned out by her thoughts. Should I have shared that story? What will they think of me? Does it even matter what they think? Why is this bothering me and why do I care what they think? I’ve never let that bother me before.
\tKatia shook her head and let out the breath that she was unknowingly holding. She instinctively took a few deep breaths of air. “Oh shit…” she only managed to say before her vision blurred and she hit the floor.
\tAn hour later she woke up back in the hospital. She opened her eyes and looked around. Next to the bed, in a chair, was her backpack. She moaned from the headache and sat up.
\t“What another great first impression,” she said out loud.
\tAfter a few minutes the dividing screen was pushed open slightly and a nurse walked in. \t“Ah good you’re awake Miss Wolfe,” \t“Yeah I am. Passed out from breathing too deeply again,” \t“It appears so. How are you feeling?” \t“Other than the headache, I’m good,” \t“Good to hear. How’s your breathing right now?” \t“It’s good,” Katia replied while the nurse moved the stethoscope around her chest and then her back. \t“Breathing sounds good and heart rate is good. Like the first time I want you to use that mask until I come back, maybe fifteen minutes,” the nurse said. Katia looked at her watch then shook her head. \t“I can’t, I’m going to miss my next class,” \t“If you die then you won’t have anymore classes. So lay back down and relax. You can explain and give a note to the professor that you were here,” \t“Okay,” Katia replied.
\tBy the time she left the hospital her next class was just about to end. She waited outside the door until the rest of the class left. She headed in and greeted the professor and explained what happened. The professor seemed to be easy going, a mallard duck, Professor McCage. This class is her Freshman required writing class. Because she loves food so much she decided to take FRS108 Cuisine: Reading, Writing, Cooking, Eating. It’s all about food, cooking, eating and of course writing about it. After spending a few minutes with the professor she thanked him for being kind to her. \t“Hey, no problem Katia, things happen. Thank you for coming to class and letting me know. I’ll mark you as attended, I usually give a day or two before I mark anyone absent. Anyway, I’ve got to head out for my next lecture. See you during the next class and try not to breath so deeply, eh?” \t“Yes sir. Thanks again,” she replied. They headed their separate ways.
*** Wednesday, February 20, 2030
\t“In “Anthropology from a Pragmatic Point of View”, Kant claims that “Desire, appetitio, is the self-determination of a subject’s power through the representation of something in the future as an effect of this representation.” Your homework is to specify in your own thoughts what Kant means by the “subject’s power.” Minimum of two pages and no more than three. You should have it uploaded and submitted by no later than twelve midnight by this Friday. Remember to properly cite your papers, I will be marking twenty-five points off if you do not. Good luck and see you all next week,” the professor, for “The Foundations of Psychological Thought” course, stated.
\t“Hey, you’re here,” Katia said walking back into their dorm room. \t“Ah, um, yeah. Yeah, I’m here,” Sally replied. \t“Don’t you have a class starting in like ten minutes?” \t“Uh, a lab, but it was canceled for the day. Something about, uh, what did the email say? … “Oh, construction just outside of the building, replacing a gas pipe to the building. So they have to keep the building empty. I guess in case it blows up or something,” \t“Okay. That makes sense. So what’s your plans now?” \t“Just studying,” \t“Okay. That’s what I was going to do for an hour until my next class,” Katia replied sitting at her desk. \t“Hey um, Katia, would you want to get some lunch?” \t“Yeah, we can do lunch. I haven’t had time to stop and eat yet,” \t“You’ve got a lot of classes Katia. Are you going to be okay?” Sally asked picking up her ID and some money. \t“I’ll be fine, it’s just four classes and three labs each day,” \t“That’s a lot though. You usually don’t get back until ten PM, then you go out and run for one to two hours then come back and study for an hour. Sleep until five or six AM then study for an hour then go to your first class,” Sally explained as they walked out of their dorm building. \t“Sally, stop worrying. I’m fine. I promise. It’s tough but I can do it. I have to do it since I’ve got two majors at the same time,” \t“Okay Katia. I just don’t want to see you stressed out or anything,” \t“Thanks Sally. You’re a great friend!” Katia said then pulled her over and hugged her. \t“Um, Katia, can you stop please? This is embarrassing, you a girl hugging me,” Sally said as a couple of other students looked at them. \t“Aww. I’m sorry. I’m a hugger in situations like this. Actually, come to think of it, I’m a hugger at most times,” she said then let out of the hug. \t“It’s okay. I’m just not used to being hugged by others, I guess,” \t“I see,”
\tThe two of them headed down the walking path through the university campus to their favorite Chinese restaurant.
***
Saturday, February 23, 2030
\t“Hey Sally, I’m going into town. You want to go and get the lay of the land?” \t“I guess if I say no, you’ll say that I should go, right?” Sally replied. \t“No, not really. I wouldn’t force you to go anywhere you don’t want to or do anything that you don’t want to do. But! You should go and see where things are, you never leave campus other than when we go eat lunch,” she replied. \t“I suppose I can go,” she replied getting off her bed.
\tThe two girls walked out of their dorm building and headed down the walkway.
\t“Where are we going?” Sally asked quietly. \t“What?” Katia asked. \t“Where are we going?” She asked a bit more loudly. \t“Ah, into downtown proper. I want to look at a different laptop and then a pet shop for some fish and of course any place you want to go,” she explained. \t“Oh okay. Fish huh?” \t“Yeah, I’m missing the fish at home. Didn’t think I would miss them this much. So I’ll just have to buy a few to deal with that,” \t“I see, but why fish?” Sally replied. \t“We have multiple aquariums at home, including a large 200-gallon aquarium in my bedroom. It’s at the foot of my bed so I’m used to watching fish swim as I fall asleep. I just miss that, even though it’s been just a couple of weeks since moving here,” \t“I see. I’ve never had an aquarium so I’m actually excited for this. What size are you getting? The max 10-gallon tank?” \t“No, I talked the building manager into letting me buy a tank no larger than 100-gallons. I’m surprised they went with a semi-bribe of two-thousand dollars to repaint the stairways in our building,” \t“Oh, okay. I was wondering why the maintenance guy was measuring the area of your desk sits. I guess that’s got to do with this aquarium?” \t“Yes. One of the conditions is that I move my desk out from the wall to fit the aquarium there. I lose my bookshelf completely though. I’ll have to buy storage containers that fit under my bed to store books and whatnot. The other condition is that if anything happens, such as a leak or total breakage and flood, I have to pay for all damage and the repair of any room and items that’s damaged. \t“Ah okay, so that’s what that paper was about earlier this week. I signed it without reading it,” \t“SALLY! You should know better than that. Read all papers before signing. But yeah, it’s just saying that you’re okay with having an aquarium that large in your room,” Katia replied. \t“So, uh, Katia. How? How are you going to get something that large back here?” \t“Oh. Good idea. I didn’t think about that. Hmm… I wonder how large a 90-gallon tank will be?” Katia asked as they reached the public bus stop. \t“No idea,” \t“Well, lets see what and how much I’m going to get. I’ve got an idea of who I can call to get us back home with everything,” Katia replied after a bit of silence. \t“Who would that be?” Sally asked quizzically. \t“You’ll find out if we need them,” Katia replied with a smile. \t“Oh. Okay,” Sally replied.
\tNearly two hours later and two different bus changes the two girls walked into Great Buy, a consumer electronics store that sells computers, laptops, tablets, TVs, washers, dryers and other house electronics and items.
\tKatia followed Sally around while she looked at the various electronics, mainly tablets. She, Sally, tapped the screen of a 17-inch tablet to turn the screen on. She tapped on an icon and opened the document editor. “CASEY K. LOVES DICK” was shown in large, bold lettering. She shook her head and deleted the words before typing a short sentence on it. After a few minutes she closed out of the app and sighed. \t“Nice tablet,” Katia said. \t“I guess. I’m not all that fond of tablets though. I’d prefer a physical keyboard,” \t“Yeah, me too,” \t“We can go do what you needed to here,” Sally said. \t“Okay, don’t let me drag you around. If you want to go look at other stuff I’ll find you when I’m finished,” \t“Okay,” Sally replied then walked beside Katia.
\tAfter nearly an hour of testing out the different laptops, the two girls walked out empty pawed and headed to their next stop, PetBuy.
\t“So what are you going to get?” Sally asked highly enthusiastically. \t“Hmm, I don’t know. I can’t make up my mind. The 90-gallon tank will hold quite a bit of fish,” Katia replied. \t“There’s so many fish here,” \t“Yeah, that’s why I can’t make up my mind. I want Glo-Fish, that’s for sure, but I want coral, shrimp and hermit crabs too,”
\tThe two of them stared at the fish and walked down the long wall of fish tanks when a guy walked up to them. \t“Hey Katia and … Sally, right?” He said. \t“Yes,” Sally replied. \t“Hey Konji. Thanks for coming down here,” Katia replied. \t“How are you two doing?” Konji asked. \t“Good,” both replied. \t“So what is it that you need help with?” Konji asked. \t“I’m buying fish and I can’t take everything on public transportation. So, I figured you could help out with your truck,” \t“Yeah, I can do that. So what are you getting?” \t“A 90-gallon tank and lots of fish and other stuff,” Katia explained. \t“Ah cool, if fish are your thing,” \t“They are, I’m in Ecology and Evolutionary Biology after all,” \t“You have everything yet?” \t“Nope, been trying to figure out what fish I want for the past two hours. I have most everything. Just need to decide on the fish, coral and plants,” she explained. \t“How are you going to get a 90-gallon tank in? That’s nine times more than what’s allowed,” he asked. \t“I talked them into letting me have it. Especially since I mentioned that the acrylic is over an inch thick and is basically bullet-proof. But if anything happens I have to personally pay for all repairs and damages,” she explained. \t“Ah cool,” he replied.
\tAfter spending another hour figuring everything out, Katia, Sally and Konji walked out of the store. Konji was pushing the flatbed trolley with everything on it. The fish were in 21 different temporary reusable plastic containers. Along with the fish there were other types of creatures. One-hundred gallons of distilled water and other chemicals to deal with pH and other stuff.
\tKatia pulled the receipt through her paw while she looked at it, quickly reading everything.
\t“Katia, is it wise to spend that much on this?” Sally asked. \t“It’s okay. It’s my money that I’ve saved over the years,” she replied. \t“But it’s nearly $5,700 though,” she replied. \t“Yeah I know. You’ll understand why after it’s all set up,” she replied. \t“Well… okay then,” Sally replied.
\tAfter getting back to the dorm, Konji helped the two girls carry everything up to their room. The plans were put on hold for nearly an hour. The dorm RA, Residential Assistant, a Senior student, was blocking them from bringing everything in, even after Katia showed her the letter to allow her to have the much larger aquarium. Katia hissed at the Dragon, Rajah, a stickler for rules. Katia pulled out her phone and called the building manager and explained what was going on. He showed up twenty minutes later and got everything settled, explaining that he allowed Katia to have the larger aquarium. Rajah stomped off in a huff, leaving a trail of smoke from her nostrils lingering behind in the air. Katia thanked the building manager and headed into the dorm room.
\tAfter a bit everything was carried up to the room, she thanked Konji who then left, on the promise to see it later. Katia got busy putting the stand together which took her more than four hours of frustration.
\tThe two girls stood there staring at the filled and decorated fish aquarium. Both of their eyes glistened from the soft blue light. The Glo-Fish glowing under the light. The hermit crabs were getting to know their new place. All the fish and creatures seemed to be happily swimming, crawling or skittering in their new house. The plants slowly and peacefully waved in the soft current of the tank.
\t“It’s really beautiful Katia,” Sally said smiling. \t“It really is. Thanks. I’m glad that you like it,” Katia replied. \t“Think this will help you to sleep better?” Sally asked. \t“Yeah, hopefully. Let me know if it bothers you at night. I’m sure I can put something up to keep it light down,” Katia said. \t“I will. Thanks,” she replied. \t“It’s so cathartic,” Sally said a few minutes later while still watching the Glo-Fish swim around. \t“They really are. It’s why I bought them. I missed watching them while I fell asleep at night,” Katia replied.
\tThe two girls laid on their stomachs watching the fish for almost two hours.
***
Friday March 15, 2030
\t“KATIA!” Tib screamed and ran up to her and pounced on her, hugging her tightly as they both hit the grass. \t“Tib, how’s my lovely brother doing?” She asked after she managed to suck air back into her lungs, after he knocked it out of her. \t“I missed you and glad that you’re back,” he said then pulled her up from the ground. \t“I missed you too Tib,” she replied. She dusted herself off and knocked some dirt off of her skirt and then headed inside. She hugged Willow, Vapor, Fang and the others.
\tAfter a couple of hours talking about Princeton and how her studies were going and what she’s been doing, Katia yawned and stretched.
\t“I’m going to go take a nap. Wake me up for dinner please,” \t“We will. Have a nice nap sweetie,” Willow replied.
\tKatia walked upstairs and entered their bedroom. She fell backwards onto the bed and stretched her body out fully, splaying each arm and leg outwards. When she opened her eyes Tib was between her legs. He smiled and leaned down and kissed her. \t“Glad that your back home,” \t“Don’t even try anything. I’m exhausted,” she replied then moved backwards on the bed. \t“I wasn’t, just a kiss,” he replied. \t“It’s nice to be back home. It’s so different being in such a small dorm room. I miss my… our giant room and bed,” she replied and yawned again. Tib moved up next to her and laid down. Katia was soon in dreamland. A few minutes into it she rolled over and hugged Tib’s arm. He laid there staring at her for a few moments, his pants tight due to his raging boner.
***
Monday March 18, 2030
\t“Calm down Tib. I told you we’ll go out on a date. I just want to relax after a stressful half-semester,” \t“How are you stressed?” \t“Really Tib? I’ve got four classes and three labs everyday. I’ve told you that,” \t“I know. Sorry Katia. It’s just so lonely without you here,” \t“And you don’t think that I feel lonely too? You have mom, Fang, Vapor and everyone else here. I’m almost two-thousand miles away from home. All my long time friends are here in Colorado. You’re here in Colorado. Everyone I know and love is here. Don’t fucking tell me that you’re lonely here,” \t“I… I’m sorry Katia,” \t“It’s fine Tib. I know you didn’t mean it in a hurtful way. Give me another day or two and we’ll go out. Okay?” \t“Okay. Sorry,” \t“You’re fine lover kitty,” she said and kissed him.
***
Wednesday May 15, 2030
\t“UGH!” Katia exhaled loudly and dropped her head down to her desk. \t“What’s wrong Katia?” Sally asked then looked at her watch, 7 AM. \t“Just ready to get these tests over with. I’ve had three and still have six more to go. You know how it is,” she replied. \t“Yeah it’s a lot of studying. Hang in there and we’ll be done in short time,” Sally replied. \t“Thanks Sally. You’re an awesome friend!” \t“Am I?” \t“Yes Sally you are!” \t“Th-thanks,” \t“No problem,”
\tKatia looked back down at her CHM201 course; General Chemistry II. Her eyes were nearly double crossed from all of the formulas and molecule strings that’s needed to know for the finals. Another book sat to her left was her ANT300 course, “Ethnography, Evidence and Experience” course final’s requirements. A typed 2000 word paper. Along with those two classes there were four more course finals requirements… \tANT219: Catastrophes across Cultures: The Anthropology of Disaster \tFRS108: Cuisine: Reading, Writing, Cooking, Eating \tPSY210: Foundations of Psychological Thought \tEEB211: Life on Earth: Chaos and Clockwork of Biological Design
\tANT219 is a typed 2000 word paper. \tFRS108 is a typed 1000 word paper, at least it was on food. \tPSY210 is a minimum of 10 pages, expected to be 15 and not more than 25 pages, at least there is no word count requirement. \tAnd finally, EEB211, yet another 2000 word paper. All due by 11:59:59PM on May 23, the final day of finals.
\tA few hours later Katia gasped a deep breath of air and leapt from her chair, grabbed her backpack and rushed out of the door startling Sally. She had fallen asleep while studying. She had just ten minutes to make it to the far side of the University grounds, usually a twenty minute walk. Luckily for her she’s a fast runner. She made it to the classroom door in just seven and half minutes. She took a minute to catch her breath before walking into the classroom and taking a seat. As soon as the class started the professor and teacher aides passed out the tests. Katia inhaled deeply then exhaled at the packet in front of her. She filled out the information on the front, her name, class block and time, date, student ID and a couple more required items. She opened to the first page and silently sighed. She stared at the very first question out of one-hundred plus the lab test.
\t“A quantity of 85.0 mL of 0.900 M HCL is mixed with 85.0 mL of 0.900 M KOH in a constant-pressure calorimeter that has a heat capacity of 325 J/°C. If the initial temperatures of both solutions are the same at 18.24°C, what is the final temperature of the mixed solution? The heat of neutralization is -56.2 kJ/mol. Assume the density and specific heat of the solutions are the same as those for water.”
***
\tTen hours later Katia walked into the silent and empty bedroom dragging her bag behind her. She released the bag handle loop near her desk and face planted onto her bed. She let out a scream that was luckily muffled by her pillow. She turned her head and looked over at Sally’s bed and desk. It was empty.
\t“I guess Sally is still doing her English finals,” she thought to herself. She yawned hard causing her ears to pop. She could hear distant music blaring from some frat party going on down the road, just off of campus. “Ah shit, I was invited to one of those parties by Konji,” she thought to herself again. She grabbed her phone from the small nightstand next to her bed and pressed the power button, “14 text messages.” She unlocked her phone and scrolled through them. Multiple from her brother and a few from classmates and one from Konji. \t“Hey Konji. 2 ded 2 party. Sry,” she replied. \t“Its cool, no woris. Myb in the fll,” he replied a few minutes later. She chuckled at his drunken text as the door opened. Sally walked in and sat her bag on her desk. \t“Hey Sally,” \t“Hi Katia,” \t“Long day huh?” Katia said. \t“Yeah. Really long,” \t“I don’t think I’ve ever been so tired nor mentally or physically exhausted,” Katia said. \t“Are you okay?” \t“Yeah I’m okay. Just that the Chemistry test and four hour long chem lab wiped me out. Not to mention my other final I had,” \t“Oh,” Sally replied while pulling her shirt over her head. Katia smiled at Sally who quickly blushed bright red. \t“Sally, you gotta stop getting embarrassed so easily from me seeing your breasts,” Katia said. \t“I’m still not used to others seeing me like this,” \t“Sally, we’ve taken a few showers together. Me seeing you in your bra shouldn’t embarrass you now,” \t“Sh-shut up,” Sally replied quickly and now even more embarrassed. \t“Come on, what are you going to do when you start making out with a boy and he takes your shirt off?” Katia asked with a wide grin.
\tSally’s eyes widened at the thought, sitting on her bed, then pressed her hands against her groin and between her thighs. That movement was a tick from being highly embarrassed. It was a coping mechanism more than anything else. She stared at the floor thinking about Katia’s question. \t“I. I’m a virgin,” Sally said. \t“I figured as much, but there’s no need to be embarrassed about that. I’m sure many here are,” \t“Are you?” \t“No. Far from it actually,” \t“What do you mean by that?” \t“I’ve had sex with a few but I’ve got a mate you know,” \t“You never talk about your mate though,” \t“Maybe next semester I’ll talk about him. Okay?” \t“Sure,” Sally replied standing back up. She bent over and pulled her pants down then took them off. Katia grinned then whistled sexily at her. \t“K-K-K-KATIA!” Sally replied and pulled her pants back up. \t“I’m sorry. I’m sorry. Go on and finish doing whatever you were. I need to take a shower before I pass out,” Katia replied chuckling then pushed herself up on the bed. \t“Okay,” Sally replied shaking her head but smiling and highly embarrassed.
***
\tTib sat silently in his English class, he was chewing on the end of his pen, staring at the test in front of him. He knew it all but drew a blank for a few things. He looked around, just ten students remained out of 150. He only had two questions left and only ten minutes left to turn it in. He closed his eyes and thought. Thought hard trying to remember. His concentration was interrupted as two students on opposite sides of the room got up and turned in their papers and left. \t“Come on Tiberius, you know this shit. Why can’t you think of it?” he thought to himself. A drop of sweat rolled down his forehead and dripped onto his arm. He exhaled and looked back at the paper. \t“Screw it. Two wrong answers won’t hurt my grade too much. It is a two-hundred question test,” he thought to himself and jotted down a note to the instructor on both questions. \t“Sorry, I just couldn’t remember this for some reason. I really enjoyed your class! Have a great summer!”
\tHe stood up just as the professor called out that there was less than five minutes left. He handed her the packet and left the classroom. After a bit of walking he arrived at his car and headed back home.
\tAs soon as he got home he plopped down on the couch and sighed loudly. \t“What’s up?” Fang asked. \t“Just finals are getting to me,” \t“Ah. Are they really that difficult in college?” Fang asked. \t“Yes and no, just depends on the subject. I had my English final today and it was a lot of questions, two-hundred actually, that ranged from the start of the semester to the end,” he explained. \t“Jeez. I’m sure you did amazing on it as well as all your other finals,” Fang said and smiled. \t“I hope so and thanks,” he replied and smiled. \t“I wonder how Katia’s finals are going?” Fang asked. \t“I don’t know, we haven’t really talked in over two weeks. I know she has at least double the classes than I do,” he replied. \t“Yeah. I think she’s a bit insane for doing a double major but it was her choice,” Fang replied. \t“Yeah I know. I told her it wasn’t a good idea to do that but she scoffed at me and said she’d be fine,” Tib said with a chuckle. \t“Well, she’ll either pass or fail. She has to learn on her own about how much she can take on,” Fang explained. \t“Yeah, I hope she does good though,” \t“She best, she’s using my money for that expensive university,” Willow said walking into the living room. \t“Hi mom,” both Fang and Tib said. \t“Hi kids,” she replied and sat down. \t“Mom. You’ve never said how much that school is costing Katia to go,” Tib said.
\tWillow smiled for a moment. \t“How much?” Fang asked. \t“None of your business, nor Tib’s,” she replied. \t“Okay, sorry,” Fang replied. \t“Let’s just say that if she drops out during her eighth year and never finishes her two degrees, she’ll be working for probably ten lifetimes to pay me back,” she said.
\tBoth Tib and Fang looked at each other then back to their mom and back at each other. Both rushed out of the living room and upstairs.
\tHalf an hour later both came back down. “Are you CRAZY! JUST FUCKING WHAT?!” Fang said. \t“Like I said, education is important,” Willow replied with a smile, she then returned to looking over some documents for Wolfe and Fox.
***
Story skips all of Fall Semester directly to the end.
*** Saturday January 25, 2031
\t“How could you do something so stupid?” Sally’s mother scowled.
\tSally sat on her bed and just stared at the floor silently for a moment. “I’m sorry,” Sally replied. \t“I bet YOU put her up to it, didn’t you? Trying to ruin my daughters career before it even starts!” She scowled, turning around to Katia and pointing at her. \t“What? No! I was just a party. Get over it. She wasn’t charged and it’s not going to be on her record or anything. The cops only broke the party up because it was too loud. No one was charged for underage drinking,” Katia replied. \t“Don’t you dare tell me to get over it. You are trying to ruin my daughters life. You’re just a slut who is trying to turn my innocent baby into yourself,” she scowled.
\tKatia looked up at her and narrowed her eyes, “what makes you think I’m a slut? Huh?” Katia hissed. \t“Look at the way you dress, all black, no business dress or anything. SLUT!” She scowled. \t“Yeah, sure lady. Me wearing black and red punk clothes makes me a slut. Once again, get over yourself you stuck up entitled bitch. Sally is an adult and should be able to make choices on her own without your input. She went to the party on her own accord. All I did was ask if she wanted to go. I didn’t pressure her into it.” Katia replied. \t“She is NOT old enough to make choices of her own. She’s just a child and not an adult,” \t“Mom. Stop. Please,” Sally said quietly. \t“No I will not stop. You are a child, my child, and you will listen to what I tell you and you will do it,” \t“You know what mom? No. No I won’t. Not anymore. I’m tired of being under your control. I’m tired of having to call you three, four times a day to check in. I’m tired of you telling me how to live my life. I’m tired of you controlling everything that I can or can’t do. I’m not going to do it anymore. I’ve enjoyed being here without you around and sticking your nose into everything that I do. For now on, YOU can call me if you want to know how I’m doing and I’ll answer it IF I want to. Katia has helped me out a lot this first year and I’m happy to have her as a roommate. I’ve opened up a lot since the beginning of the school year. I’m glad she’s my roommate and not anyone else,” Sally said although choosing her words carefully. \t“Opening up what a lot? You’re legs? You have turned my innocent and precious daughter into a slut,” she hissed at Katia. \t“No mom. I haven’t had sex with anyone. And if I want to have sex, I will as it’s MY life and not yours. Please leave now. I don’t want to see you anymore today. Leave or I’ll call for security,” Sally replied.
\tThis caused her mom to stutter in disbelief then narrow her eyes at both of them.
\t“I’m going to take you out of this school. You’re coming home,” she demanded. \t“No. No I’m not. I’m staying at this university that I choose. I love it here and love having Katia as my roommate. You can leave now and just FUCK OFF!” Sally said then stood up and stared at her mom. \t“You’ve done nothing but put your daughter down. Telling her she’s not doing good enough in school. Telling her she’s not trying hard enough. You do nothing but make her cry, stressed and depressed. You’re a horrible mother from what I’ve heard and seen. Sally is in her right mind for telling you to do less in her life,” Katia said standing up and standing right next to Sally. \t“I’m tired of being told what to do by you, mother. I AM an adult and should be able to choose what I want to do for my life. I don’t like law. In fact, I hate it. I don’t want to be a lawyer or a lawyer’s aide, a senator or anything to do with law. I want to do something fun and exciting, not boring paperwork day in and day out like you. You were rarely around because you were always on a case. Always reading into new laws. I don’t want to be like that when or if I have kids of my own. Go home mother,” Sally said.
\t“You know what Sally? Fine. You can stay but I’m not paying your tuition or anything else. That includes food, clothing and necessities. Good luck at paying your tuition, boarding and food along with clothing, books and everything else that you need. I hope it’s worth all the debt that you’ll pile up,” her mom said and stormed to the door. She looked back at Katia, “if my daughter gets raped or dies or ends up on the street I’m going to sue you until YOU are living on the streets.” \t“That’s okay, I used to live on the streets from five years old until I was about nine years old. I can fend for myself. In fact, I’m going to just one up you and pay for all of Sally’s food, clothing and her necessities that she needs. Now leave or I’ll call security,” Katia said calmly. \t“I hope you fail. I hope you come crawling back to me on your paws and knees and begging me to let you back into my house. I’m going to laugh when you fail because of this… girl… dragging you down,” her mother said then left the room slamming the door behind her.
\tAs soon as the door shut Sally started crying. Katia walked over and hugged her and rubbed her back. \t“It’ll be okay. I promise,” Katia said. \t“Wh-What just happened?” Sally asked through sobs. \t“Your adult freedom just happened. That and you’re out of your mom’s control now,” \t“What am I going to do?” Sally asked placing her paws on her forehead, “I have very little money. Mom always sent me fifty dollars a week for food and stuff and that wasn’t ever another for hardly anything.” \t“We’ll figure that out. Come on and sit down and clear your head. Like I told your mom, I’ll pay for your food and anything you need. I wasn’t joking about that,” Katia said pulling out of the hug.
\tShe took Sally’s paw and led her to the bed and sat her down. Sally sat down and started bawling about the entire ordeal. Katia sat next to her holding her paw and comforting her for the next half hour. Sally wiped her face and looked over at Katia who chuckled.
\t“Come on, lets get you a shower. It’ll help calm you down,” she said. Sally nodded silently.
\tAfter the two girls stepped into the bathroom Katia knocked on the other dorm room and waited for an answer. After a short moment the door opened up. \t“Hey Layne, Sally and I are going to be in the shower for a bit. You need to use it or anything?” Katia asked. \t“No. Are you okay Sally? I heard what happened. I’m sorry, but I’m happy to hear that you’re out of her control now. It was super brave of you to stand up like that,” Layne, a female Leopard, asked. \t“Yeah, I guess so, and thanks,” she replied with a small smile. \t“Okay. I’ll be here if you want someone else to talk to. I can help you with some money too. If you need laundry detergent or anything like that just ask, okay? My mom owns and operates a large laundry cleaning business and I can get all that we need.” \t“T-thanks,” Sally replied. \t“Really? Why didn’t you say something before?” Katia asked and chuckled. \t“You never asked. Anyway I’ll pay for everything that she needs,” Layne replied with a silly laugh, “anyway. You two take care. Let me know if I can help in any way.” \t“Thanks Layne,” Katia replied, stifling a laugh and shaking her head.
\tAfter a shower the two girls sat down on Katia’s bed and began talking about what to do next. Katia grabbed a notebook and a pen and opened it to an empty page.
\t“Let’s see here,” Katia said tapping the pen against her mouth then started writing in the notebook.
• Financial Aid • Food • Clothing • Transportation • School Books • School Supplies. Pens, pencils, notebooks, etc. • New Major for school • Check to see if any Semester 1 courses can transfer to new major • Hygiene supplies soap, shampoo, pads, toothpaste, mouthwash, etc • Anything else that you need
\t“Okay. Let’s head down to Administration and see what’s going on. While we’re there we can look into other majors for you,” \t“I want to do EEB I think,” Sally replied. \t“You sure?” Katia asked. \t“Yeah. It sounds awesome,” \t“I wouldn’t quite know yet but it does seem fun from what courses I’ve taken so far. You okay doing this?” \t“Yes. I feel good. I actually feel relieved. Not having to worry about impressing and making my mom happy anymore,” she said and gave a big smile. \t“I’m happy to see you smile like that. You’re super cute when you smile,” \t“K-Katia!” Sally replied, while her face turned bright red. \t“It’s okay Sally. Let’s head down there and see what we can do about all of this,” Katia said standing up. \t“Katia,” Sally said and grabbed Katia’s arm gently. \t“Yes?” \t“Thank you. I felt f… um. It felt amazing to tell my mother to fuck off like I did. I would have never done that without you here. Thank you,” she said and smiled brightly. \t“You’re welcome,” Katia replied.
\tA few hours later the two walked out of the administration building. It wasn’t the best of news but Sally was on her own now. However the issue is tuition. She didn’t qualify for any student loans or grants due to her mother’s high pay salary of $150,000 per year.
\t“What am I going to do for tuition and stuff Katia?” \t“I’ve got an idea but it’s going to take a lot of talking to get it to happen. But for now let’s not worry about it. We only have one more day for finals on Monday. Let’s just relax for the weekend, study for the final on Monday. How does that sound?” Katia replied. \t“Sounds good,” she replied. \t“Good. Now then, you hungry?” Katia asked. \t“You really do love food. Sure let’s go,” Sally replied. \t“You want Chinese?” Katia asked. \t“No, I don’t think so. I want to try something that I’ve never tried before because my mom said I could never handle it,” Sally said. \t“What’s that?” \t“Hot wings. I want to try them and see if I like really spicy food,” she said. \t“You sure?” Katia asked looking scared for Sally. \t“Yes. I’m sure,” she replied, “if I try them and I end up rolling on the floor crying, you get to laugh at me.” \t“Haha, okay Sally. Let’s hit up Wingstop then. They have a lot of wing selection including some crazy hot wings that I won’t ever try,” Katia replied.
\tAfter taking three different public buses they arrived at the Wingstop. They were seated, given menus and their drink order taken. Katia explained the differences of spiciness to Sally while they waited. Sally had made her mind up. Finally after fifteen minutes their hostess came back up with their drinks. It was super packed in the restaurant since it was a Saturday.
\tKatia ordered the 100 piece pack all in Cajun, one of the spiciest they had at this restaurant, number 7 out of 10 on the top spiciest they offered. She would eat what she could and then take the rest back to the room to save for later. With the 100 piece pack she got to choose a lot of sides and dip. For the eight servings of dip she choose all Ranch. Next to ordered three sides Seasoned Fries and one side of Louisiana Voodoo Fries, which again, were spicy. The next part of the pack was four sets of veggie sticks. She choose to get one set with all carrots, another set with all celery and the other two was a mix of both. More than she’d be able to actually eat. And finally she added six rolls and a large coke.
\tSally ordered 15 pieces of Original Hot, it was the middle of the road for spiciness. Katia had talked her out of ordering all Atomic wings, the hottest they had. She had also talked her into getting only 15 wings of the original hot and adding in mild or some other wing just in case she couldn’t handle the spiciness. She ordered 7 pieces of Mild and 8 of plain which is not spicy at all. She then ordered a side Cheese Fries with ranch.
\t“Ma’am. I’d like one Atomic wing if I can order just one,” Sally said. \t“I’m sorry, but that lowest that you can get is a 6 piece,” The hostess replied. \t“Ah okay. I just want to try it. Sure, I’ll take a 6 piece of Atomic wings too please,” Sally replied. She ordered a side of Veggie Sticks, more ranch and a coke. \t“Bring out a glass of milk for her too please,” Katia said. \t“Okay. Is that all for your meal?” The hostess asked. \t“A large coke too please,” Sally said. \t“The 15 piece comes with a 20 ounce drink already. You want another one?” The hostess replied. \t“Ah, no. sorry,” Sally replied. \t“That’s all ma’am,” Katia said. \t“Okay. It’ll be a bit. Just call out if you need your drinks refilled,” she said then left their table.
\tSally had tears running down her red face just seconds after biting into the first Atomic wing. She was fanning her mouth with her paw without luck to stop the burning. Katia was laughing loudly while handing Sally the glass of milk. She took the milk and drunk about a fifth of it and sat it down. She breathed out hard as tears continued flowing down her face. \t“Now you know why I don’t eat those. My brother, Fang, can though,” Katia said. \t“They’re super hot,” she said then realized that there were a lot of eyes looking at her. “Uh… Sorry,” she said out loud, causing some patrons to laugh then go back to their own meals. \t“You going to finish those?” Katia asked. \t“Yes. I hate wasting food,” Sally replied and pressed her paws down between her legs. \t“Sally, seriously, don’t force yourself to eat them. I don’t mind if you don’t eat them. You wanted to try them, that’s all. I know you don’t like wasting food, but it’s not worth you being in pain or getting sick due to how spicy they are,” Katia said. \t“Okay, I won’t force myself,” she said with a smile. \t“Also, clean your fingers before you eat any of the other wings so you don’t get the Atomic sauce on them,” she suggested.
\tThe rest of their meal went pretty well. Sally managed to eat three of the six pieces of Atomic wings. She stopped after drinking all of the milk that Katia ordered for her. She handled the Original Hot wings quite well. They were spicy for her but after about 8 of them she handled them quite well. Katia managed to eat 20 of the wings that she had ordered, two rolls and just a single side of the seasoned fries. Both girls would have left overs for at least a day or two, maybe three.
***
Monday January 27, 2031
\t“You okay Sally?” Katia asked. \t“Yeah. Maybe. I don’t think I’ve ever flown in an airplane before,” she replied. \t“It’s nothing too bad. Just breath through your mouth as we take off. It’ll lessen the chances of your ears popping,” Katia explained.
\tMany hours later the two girls arrived at Orion City airport. They gathered their luggage and headed through security and out to the road. Katia looked on her phone to find out what vehicle their Uber was. After a few minutes they found it, loaded their luggage into the trunk and got in. They each said their hello’s and was finally on the way back home. It was just before midnight as the vehicle left the airport.
***
Tuesday January 28, 2031
\t“Sally, wake up,” Katia said softly shaking her. \t“Huh?” Sally mumbled. \t“We’re here. Wake up,” she replied.
\tSally opened her eyes, rubbed them then looked around. She yawned and opened the door.
\t“Thank you,” Katia said to the driver as she got out. \t“No problem. I hope the ride was up to your standards,” the driver replied. \t“It was perfect. Thanks again. We’ll grab our stuff from the trunk and close it back,” Katia said. \t“Thanks again. Remember to rate,” the driver replied. \t“I will. Thanks!” Katia replied then shut the door.
\tSally stood in front of the house and looked up, staring it at with her mouth agape. \t“Huge house. You live here?” Sally asked. \t“Well, if I didn’t we wouldn’t be here, now would we?” Katia replied and giggled. \t“I guess not,” she replied. \t“Come on. Let’s be quiet just in case everyone is asleep,” \t“Okay,” Sally replied.
\tJust as Katia thought, everyone was already asleep. Katia did tell them she would be coming in tomorrow, well today, but she was able to get two tickets for the earlier trip at the last minute.
\tSally followed behind Katia through the house and into a bedroom. It was one of the empty bedrooms, she didn’t want to wake anyone up.
\t“You okay with us sleeping together tonight?” Katia asked. \t“Yeah, that’s okay,” Sally replied. \t“Okay cool,”
\tKatia stripped down to her panties and pulled the covers back. She headed into the bathroom and brushed her teeth and waited for Sally to finish as well. Back in the room the two girls got in bed, covered up and fell asleep fast.
\tHours later Katia woke up to see that Sally was already awake but just sitting quietly at the desk and reading a book. \t“Hey Sally,” \t“Ah, morning,” \t“Have you been downstairs yet?” Katia asked. \t“What? No. Why would I wonder around a house that no one knows me,” Sally replied almost taken back with Katia. \t“I’m joking,” Katia said sliding off the bed, “has anyone knocked on the door?” \t“No, not since I’ve been awake,” \t“Okay. That means no one knows we’re here,” Katia said with a toothy smile. \t“Uh oh. I know that smile,” Sally replied. \t“You want to take a shower before meeting my family?” \t“Uh sure. I guess. But isn’t it going to be cramped?” \t“What? No. Come on,” Katia said grabbing her paw.
\tShe pulled Sally into the bathroom who froze and stared at the huge bathroom, completely forgetting that she was in it last night brushing her teeth and using the toilet. \t“Okay then. It won’t be cramped. Why did I think it would be? I saw it last night,” Sally replied with a giggle. \t“Maybe being in that dorm room for nearly a year?” Katia replied while she slipped out of her panties then bra. Sally followed suit. They spent about twenty minutes cleaning up, drying off and getting dressed.
***
\tKatia held her finger to her muzzle, silently telling Sally not to make any noise as they walked down the stairs. Before they rounded the last turn in the stairway Katia turned to Sally and whispered into her ear, who nodded in reply.
\tThe two made their way out of the stairway and into the guest bedroom and out the double french doors without being caught. They quietly walked across the front of the house and to the door that leads into the garage from backyard. Once inside Katia slowly opened the main house door and hoping it wouldn’t squeak, it didn’t. She and Sally made their way to the corner wall that separated the kitchen, the dining room and the hallway they were in by one of the smaller aquariums. Katia covered her muzzle holding back a laugh. She held her finger to her muzzle once again then proceeded…
\t“HEY!” She screamed and jumped out from the wall. Everyone at the table jumped, dropped their utensils and one dropping a cup of orange juice. Many of the Wolfe family screamed from being scared. Katia stood there with a huge smile on her face and waited for the realization to set in. It took about five seconds. Tib jumped from the table and came running. He latched onto her and down to the floor they went, even though they had seen each other just a couple of weeks before for Christmas break. Before Katia could say anything she was locked into a kiss.
\t“Katia! What are you doing?!” Willow scowled. \t“Seriously. What were you thinking?” Vapor scowled as well, starting to clean up the orange juice that she had dropped. Onai, Luna and a few others chuckled but then continued eating.
\t“Sorry everyone. I just had to do that,” she replied pushing Tib off of her. She stood up and helped Tib up. She gave him a kiss and told him to go back eating. \t“Everyone, we have a guest staying while I’m here. Come on out Sally,” she said and held her paw out.
\tSally slowly walked out fully embarrassed from her friends actions but gave a smile at the… \t“You have a huge family,” she said while wide-eyed. \t“I told you that I did. You just didn’t want to believe me,” Katia replied. \t“Anyway. Everyone, this is Sally. She’s my roommate at Princeton. Sally this is…” she said and then told her everyone’s name. They all greeted her. After that Katia pulled out a chair for Sally and told her to sit and get some food. Katia sat down next to Tib and dug in.
\t“It’s good to see you again Sally. How was your first year at Princeton?” Willow asked after everything calmed down. \t“Oh. Uh. It was… Um, good,” she replied. \t“Good to hear. I hope that my good-for-nothing daughter didn’t cause you any issues like she just pulled?” \t“Oh, uh. No, I guess not,” she replied then took a bite out of a biscuit. \t“What are you studying?” Vapor asked. \t“Law, maybe. I don’t know anymore,” she replied. \t“I see,” Vapor replied. \t“You’re welcome to stay here. Glad to meet you,” Vapor said. \t“Thank you,” \t“When did you two get in?” Willow asked. \t“Around two am last night,” Katia replied. \t“Oh. You said you were coming on a flight for today,” \t“I was but there was no more seats available for that flight. So I rebooked mine for the flight last night and booked one for Sally too,” Katia explained. “After we got here I just booked an Uber and they brought us here. We slept in the empty master bedroom.” \t“Okay. Glad to know that you made it safely. You too Sally,” Willow replied. \t“Thank you,” Sally replied then continued eating in silence.
\tAfter each family member finished eating they would get up, put their plates in the sink and then leave to go do whatever they had planned. At the end Katia waited for Sally to finish before taking her plate and sitting it in the sink.
\t“Shouldn’t we clean our plates?” Sally asked. \t“No. Laika is to do it. She got in trouble and it’s part of her punishment,” Katia explained. \t“Not anymore Katia, but you two run off and have fun on your break. I’ve got this,” Vapor said with a smile. \t“You sure?” Katia asked. \t“Yes. Now go. It was nice to meet you Sally. We can talk later,” Vapor replied. \t“Okay then. Thanks Vapor and I’m really sorry for making you drop your glass. I couldn’t see and just wanted to give everyone a scare,” Katia said. \t“I know,” Vapor replied with a malicious smile.
\tA few minutes later Katia walked up to Willow who had just came from outside carrying a few firewood. It had snowed early in the morning and covered the ground now. \t“Hi mom,” Katia said. \t“Hello,” Willow replied. \t“When you get a few minutes or an hour or so, we need to talk to you. Please,” Katia said. \t“Okay. If you help bring in more firewood we can get this done faster,” Willow replied.
\tKatia grabbed one of the coats from the closet and started helping, while Sally sat in the living room just watching everyone. She watched as 7 year old Shayla played on the floor with several dolls with 9 year old Bella and 2 year old Skyler. Vapor was sitting in a chair feeding a pup. After about twenty minutes the firewood rack was filled. To be fair, the firewood “rack” was just two walls and the end of the fireplace and all the logs sat on an old carpet to keep from scraping the hardwood floor. \t“Now then, what was it that you wanted to talk about?” Willow asked. \t“In the office please,” Katia replied and nodded her head towards the office.
\tAfter settling in the office Katia explained what happened at school with Sally’s mother.
\t“I didn’t want Katia to get her family involved in this. But she insisted, saying that it was mostly her fault that my mother dropped paying. Katia wouldn’t take no for an answer,” Sally explained. \t“Well to be honest, I did teach my cubs, er, kitten to own up on responsibility if they made a mistake. All you have to do is ask for help Sally,” Willow replied.
\t“I. I, uh … I don’t feel right by asking someone I just met,” Sally replied. \t“You don’t have to feel like that Sally. We won’t force you, but remember what your mother said about hoping to see you fail,” Katia replied.
\tSally exhaled and looked down at the desk for a moment, “you’re right. Mrs. Wolfe, could you help me with a loan for my schooling, please?” \t \t“I’d be happy to. However, first I want to have our family lawyer draw up a document for the loan. It will state something like, as long as you maintain passing grades, stay out of trouble with the law and you meet other criteria, I will continue to pay your tuition, books, boarding and the alike. The lawyer will be a neutral party between both of us. He’ll be your lawyer and I’ll have one of our lawyer’s from Wolfe and Fox as mine. The lawyer will advise you on your rights with the document. We’ll also set up a proper payment plan as well. Is that okay with you?” Willow explained. \t“What do you mean by all of that?” Sally asked. \t“For example, which will be included in the document, that if you fail more than one class in a semester, or you drop out before you graduate you will have to pay me back for the failed classes or all if you drop out. We’ll set it up for small installments so you’re not living paycheck to paycheck. You have to attend classes and not skip. Pretty much the basics of every school. Keep your grades up, don’t skip and don’t drop out. Do all of that and you’ll be fine. After you graduate and secure a career then you can start paying me back. I won’t make you pay me back while you’re enrolled in school or right after. I’ll give you a year or two to secure a job and get settled in before you start paying. I also won’t charge you interest either,” Willow explained. \t“Oh okay. That makes sense,” Sally replied with a smile. \t“Are you okay with that? Like Katia said we don’t want to pressure you into anything. I can see that Katia really likes you as a friend, and you seem to be a well mannered and decent girl,” Willow stated. \t“Yes. That’s fine. Thank you,” she replied. \t“And thank you for being there for Katia during those few times that she was in the hospital after passing out. And being there for everything else for her,” Willow said. \t“No problem. I couldn’t leave her on the ground outside or on the floor in our room. \t“I’ll let you know when the lawyer arrives. It’ll be a few days though due to the snow storm,” Willow said. \t“Thank you,” Sally replied.
\tWillow stood up and headed to the door and waited for the two girls. Katia pulled Sally up from the chair and they walked out.
\tA bit later Katia and Sally was chilling in the spare Master bedroom where Sally would be staying at. Sally turned around from the laptop and looked over at Katia laying across the bed reading a Teen magazine that Sally had bought to read on the airplane flight. \t“Hey Katia, can I ask you something?” She asked. \t“Yeah, sure anything I suppose,” she replied and flipped to a new page. \t“That was your brother right? The other cat,” She asked. \t“Yup, my twin brother,” she replied. \t“He, uh, he…,” she stopped and looked down at her paws as she pressed them against her inner thighs, “he kissed you like that. Isn’t that a… uh… umm…” She stopped then stared at the floor for a moment. \t“Oh yeah. Sorry. Uh, well, Tib is my mate,” Katia said then sat up on the bed knowing she would have to probably explain everything. \t“Oh. Your brother?” She asked quizzically. \t“Yeah. My mate is my identical twin brother,” she replied then giggled after Sally turned bright red. Katia sat the magazine down and explained their history about losing their parents, being put into the orphanage, being homeless and how they became family members to one of the ten wealthiest families in Colorado. Sally sat there amazed but a little taken aback about the incest but understood they loved each other. \t“Sorry to hear that you went through all that,” Sally replied. \t“No worries. You didn’t do anything to cause it. Anyway, yeah Tib’s is my brother and mate. I wouldn’t change anything about it. I love him and I can trust and depend on him for anything,” she replied smiling. \t“Oh before I forget. If you go to enter any bedroom, knock first and wait for an answer. If after six knocks and you don’t hear a reply slowly open it and just peer in and call out if anyone is in there. You can usually hear if anyone is in the shower once you open the door,” Katia explained. \t“Ah okay. Thanks,” Sally replied.
\t“How about you, Tib and I go out to Orion tomorrow night?” Katia asked. \t“Uhhh, Katia?” Sally said and stood up. \t“What?” She asked.
\tSally walked over to the double French doors and pulled the curtains back, “how do you think we’re going to go anywhere?” Sally asked. \t“Ah, yeah. I forgot,” she replied then laughed hard. There was a foot of snow on the balcony alone, on the actual ground was almost two feet of snow thanks to the blizzard that blew in around four AM and had raged for a few hours dropping nearly two feet of snow. Now it was just a slow and calm snow fall. Sally looked out to the woods to see the trees covered in snow, a lot of branches sagging due to the weight. She chuckled as one branch had enough and snapped, dropping tons of snow to the ground. Sally placed her hand onto the door glass. \t“Wow, these windows aren’t even cold,” she said. \t“Yeah. My brother, Fang, apparently paid a crap ton of money for the windows. Apparently it’s like twenty layers of glass and every window is bullet-proof. Keeps the heat in and the cold out during the winter. Vise Versa for the summer,” she explained \t“Why can’t the dorms have these?” Sally replied with a chuckle. \t“If I remember correctly, Fang once said that he paid like ten-thousand dollars for just the small windows. The tiny windows in the bathroom were two-thousand dollars each, I think. I think he said that he paid nearly $7000 for each exterior door, $14,000 for the two you see there,” Katia replied. Sally really didn’t know how to reply so she just smiled at Katia and remained silent.
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Thursday January 30, 2031
\t“Okay Sally. Everything looks good, all pages have been signed and dated,” the lawyer stated, “Willow, you can give the loan to Sally now. I’ll get the documents back to the office, scan them in and send you both a copy through email.” \t“Thank you sir,” Sally replied. \t“Anytime. It was nice working with you,” he replied, “Unless there’s anything else I’ll be taking my leave.” \t“Nothing more,” Willow replied. \t“Nothing that I know of,” Sally said and looked over at Katia. \t“I wouldn’t know if you need anything else Sally,” Katia replied with a short chuckle. \t“Okay then. You ladies have a great day,” the lawyer said then left the office.
\t“Thank you Mrs. Wolfe,” Sally said. \t“It’s no problem Sally. I’m more than happy to help,” she replied then stood up. \t“Mrs. Wolfe. Will the funds be available for when school starts back up?” Sally asked. \t“Yes they will be. As soon as you get back to Princeton you need to go to the appropriate department and set up the bank account information so it can be charged accordingly,” Willow explained. \t“Thank you again for the help,” \t“No problem Sally. You two enjoy the rest of your break,” Willow said then left the office.
\tKatia looked at Sally, “remember we’re leaving early tomorrow so we can get you setup at school.” \t“I know,” Sally replied.
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Monday February 3, 2031
\tThe past few days were hectic for the two girls, especially Sally trying to get the new bank account changed over so the tuition could be paid for. Both of them ran around like mad ducks trying to get their new books and supplies ready for their second undergraduate year at Princeton.
\tThe Saturday before school started back up Katia collapsed on her bed with a deep, heavy exhale then flipped over onto her back. She has a few stacks of school books for both of her majors, Anthropology and Ecology and Evolutionary Biology. She has 44 books for her Undergraduate Sophomore Spring Semester. Sally on the other paw has 20 books for her courses which includes EEB and some core classes that is required to take EEB.
\tBoth ladies have their work cut out for them to stay on track and not fail. Both of them set their goal to overcome the odds and prove certain furs wrong.