Valentine's Day
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This Story involves human females and Furry males engaging in sexual acts, so be aware if that isn't what you're looking for. I've taken a lot of inspiration from Jay Naylor's works, especially his "The Fall of Little Red Riding Hood" series, as well as E.Z. McCain's "Beastiverse" stories, so you may envision the world of these stories in a similar light. In this world, humans live in conjunction with various Beastman races, among other animals and mythical creatures. However, a curse borne by the ancient Goddess Hera has lived in the hearts of women for millennia, making them crave for Beast Cock and sex with Beastmen, Animals, and Monsters.
In this chapter, a pretty high school girl coerces her Bat of a boyfriend to share some love with her two best friends on Valentine's Day.
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Love was in the air, even as a pervasive, cool chill hung right alongside it. It was February, and while winter was still struggling to keep its' final fingers clutched around the town of Odessa, Pennsylvania, Valentine's Day was just a little more than a week away, and was sure to help warm and enliven the cooled hearts of the townsfolk.
At the moment, the Pallid Bat Miri was escaping both the winter chill and any Valentine's stress at his home, and helping him was his recently acquired friend Marcus. Since the two had started hanging out, Miri realized just how much of a relief it was to not only hang out with someone who didn't have him wrapped around her little finger, but frankly was actually a fellow guy. He could shoot the shit, play videogames, and actually indulge in most of the 'boyish' habits that Noelle didn't really promote.
Still, as restrained as Marcus was compared to Noelle, that didn't mean the kid never tried to stick his nose into Miri's affairs.
"So Miri, you have any big plans for Valentine's day?" The olive-hued teen suddenly piped up, even as the two were in the midst of a game.
"What do you mean?" Miri replied curiously, his ears perking slightly as he cast quick glances between his friend and the tv.
"With Noelle. You guys are like, officially a couple now, aren't you?" Marcus explained as he shot the Bat a coy look.
"Well... sort of." Miri mumbled, focusing on the game to hide the slight bashful look he wore.
"What do you mean 'sort of?' Man, I thought she was super touchy and clingy with you before, but since Christmas she's stuck on you like a fly in a spider web. Seriously, if you two are trying to hide the fact that you're dating then I hate to tell you, but no one at school is fooled." Marcus continued to press, punctuating with a triumphant snicker as he pulled ahead in their game.
"Alright fine, yeah, she's basically my girlfriend." Miri uneasily relented, not really having any way (or really any reason) to deny. He was by no means ashamed of Noelle, hell they'd been so close for so long most people probably thought they'd been dating since middle school. It was just something he was... uncomfortable discussing formally.
But that admission really didn't seem to faze Marcus, obviously he was already well past suspicion, and from the way he told it so was most of the school. That was not a particularly pleasant thought for the Bat.
"So, are you going to do something for her on Valentine's Day or not?" The young human simply picked up the conversation, not at all mocking Miri, just acting as if the revelation of him dating Noelle was already a foregone conclusion.
"Y-Yeah, I've got a couple of things in mind." Miri replied simply, a slight tinge of defeat in his voice.
As the two teen boys settled back into their game and left the slightly awkward conversation behind, Miri reflected back on the last couple months. The young Beast supposed that his relationship with Noelle had changed a little ever since that wild December they'd shared, but all in all it really didn't feel to him like things had changed that much. It's just that they had always been so close since they were children.
Sure, now that they were together they'd do things like hold hands, he'd blanket her in his wings as she snuggled with him, he'd get to sneak affectionate little kisses on her and she'd quickly reciprocate with a 'deeper' show of affection... and yes, they'd had sex a good handful of times since they got together. That said, once Christmas had passed it had become a much more properly intimate affair without the... inclusion of Mrs. Klaus.
Still, neither Miri nor Noelle had ever actually flat out stated that they were boyfriend and girlfriend yet. But according to Marcus, that didn't exactly matter to casual observers. Fortunately, Miri had realized that this Valentine's Day presented a perfect chance to remedy that little loophole. The Bat and the Blonde had hung out plenty since December as they always had, they'd gone out together more than once, but so far they hadn't really done anything that Miri would consider a proper 'date.' That was what he planned to change this Valentine's Day.
Miri planned to get Noelle alone, take her somewhere half-decent for lunch, go see a movie, and he'd cap the evening with a good old-fashioned bouquet and gushy card... and if the night led to any other activities, he certainly wouldn't argue. Point being, Miri was ready to 'officially' ask Noelle to be his girlfriend, however necessary that really was. All he had to do was get her by herself, not like that would be difficult at all...
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Meanwhile...
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Noelle found herself in a similar situation at one of her friend's houses (because despite her well known and near-constant attachment to Miri, she did in fact have girl friends of her own). The Blonde was sitting rather stiffly on a beanbag chair, a slightly nervous smile on her face as she just kind of sat and watched the unfolding show.
Olivia was one of Noelle's closest friends that wasn't Miri, and it was her room that Noelle was trapped in. There was little doubt she was the center of attention at the moment, as the girl was ranting and fretting about the room.
"...I mean, can you believe it?! Barely a week from Valentine's Day and he dumps me! How much bigger of an asshole could you possibly be?!" The short girl raved as she paced a rut in her carpet.
"Yyyeeeeaahhh, that's uhhhh... I'm real sorry about that." Noelle weakly offered. She really was trying her best to sound sympathetic, but in truth she found it kind of hard to feel that bad about the whole ordeal, and that made things quite a bit more awkward.
"Haven't you only been dating him for like a month? Is this really something to cry over?" A third voice piped in from the opposite corner of the room, very flat in comparison.
That girl was Charlotte, the third member of Noelle's little girl group she'd formed separate from Miri, although she and Olivia spent much more time together as Noelle was so often attached to the Bat.
But at Charlotte's interjection, Olivia just cast her a pouting look.
"You don't get it! No one's gonna ask me out by Valentine's Day at this point! I'm going to look so fucking pathetic when it rolls around and I don't even have a date, let alone a boyfriend! Goddess, I should just fake mono and skip the next two weeks of school." Olivia continued her little soap drama by dramatically throwing herself onto her bed, as if resigned to her misery.
Olivia was a short girl, shortest of the three, and of obvious Irish stock with her pale skin, freckles that highlighted her petite yet pretty face, and long, bright orange hair that she usually wore in two long pigtails. If Noelle were to describe her honestly, she'd call the girl loud-mouthed and more than a little bratty, but at the same time she had a fiery passion that, for better or worse, was impossible to ignore.
Charlotte finished the trio, and was nearly the polar opposite of Olivia. Taller than her friends, and most of their other female peers at school, with long, raven-black hair that she took pride in keeping as straight and proper as a razor. She was the kind of girl that always kept a very composed demeanor, but Noelle would never refer to her as snobbish or stand-offish. Quiet, but not shy, just very calm and straightforward in her demeanor.
These two were the girls that Noelle considered herself closest to, but funny enough their paths really never crossed with Miri. They admittedly had little interest in the Bat, and when they did have an opinion of him it often wasn't very grand. It's not that they hated him or anything, they just never felt a desire to get close to him like Noelle and become one big happy friend group.
Noelle watched her friends express some of their worse aspects from her uncomfortable spot on the bean bag.
"Hey, lighten up Olivia. You always get your share of cards and confessions every year. It's not gonna be that bad." The Blonde offered her weak assurance to the moping Redhead.
"More likely, no one's going to notice. Or they're just not gonna care." Charlotte added, much more bluntly.
