Love Has No Boundaries (Straight Furry Fanfiction)

Chapter 3: Falling for a Rival

The image above is of Emily
Tom's P.o.V

It had been a week since I started school, and most of it was generally boring. I would usually talk to Ryan in lessons I didn't care about. Emily had kept bullying me but I didn't really care as I was quite chilled out and cool with it. "Hey Tom how's it like on the rugby team?" "Oh, it's fun. I've got training tomorrow and I think a match next Thursday around 2:45ish" I replied. "Cool, do you think you'll be on after school then?" He asked. "Yeah, I should be. I might be off a little earlier, Derek has something special to tell us" I said. "That'll be fine man" Ryan said. I thought about what Derek could have in store for us. I saw Emily and she looked actually quite cute when she wasn't angry at me. "Tom, are you in there?" Ryan said and I phased back into reality. "Yeah, I'm here sorry" I said. "What were you staring at?" Ryan said looking the direction I was looking. "Nothing, Ryan" I said trying to stop him from looking. "Anyway, you gonna get Gorod Krovi anytime soon?" Ryan said. "Yeah, I'm going to get it after school" I said and he smiled. "Finally man you took your sweet time to get that" he said and I hit him gently. "C'mon the bells about to go, let's go to English" I said and he nodded and started walking as I looked back over at the Emily. Why do I keep thinking about her, and why do I feel happy when I see her? I thought. "Tom, you coming?" I heard Ryan call. "Yeah, just a sec, I need my bag" I said and picked it up and looked back over to Emily talking to her friends. I felt my cheeks heating up now and I realised. Oh god, do I like her?! No, we're rivals. Even if she's so cute I thought. Emily looked over to me and I started walking quickly to Ryan. "C'mon, we're gonna be late" he said pushing me gently.

"Blah, blah, blah. Shakespeare, the Globe Theatre, blah, blah, blah" our teacher Mr Jones was saying but I wasn't listening. I was too distracted by Emily. Even if I was looking at the back of her head, she was still beautiful. "Hey, Romeo, nice drawing you got there" Ryan said and I looked down and saw I was drawing Emily in my English book. "Oh shit, thanks for telling me" I said slowly and quietly ripping out the page from my book. "Tom and Emily, sitting in a tree, k-i-s-s-i-n-g" Ryan quietly said and laughed. "Fuck you, Ryan. You know I hate her" I said scrunching up the paper. "That's not what the message on your drawing said" he said grinning from ear to ear. I opened the paper and read the message. I love you with all my heart Emily I read in my head. Once more my cheeks were heating up. "I knew it, you're blushing Tom" Ryan said trying to stop himself from laughing. "Tom, Ryan! You'd better not be talking" Mr Jones said and we faced the front. "No sir" I said. "Alright, let's see if you were listening. How many words did Shakespeare invent Tom?" Mr Jones said and every head turned my direction. I started to blush from embarrassment as I feel embarrassed when people stare at me. "Well? I'm waiting" Jones the old lion said. "Um, 50?" I answered and My Jones shook his head. "You're too much like your brother. Can anyone help Tom out?" He said and a brown border collie shot her paw up. "Yes Sandra?" "Around 1700 common words" she said and Mr Jones smiled. "Well I know you've been listening. Ryan, how many different ways has Shakespeare spelled his name on surviving documents?" Mr Jones asked and Ryan sunk in his seat. "I don't know, sir" he answered. "And why don't you know?" Mr Jones asked and Ryan looked down. "Because I was talking" he mumbled. "Speak up boy!" Jones shouted. "I don't know because I was talking" Ryan said loudly and sunk back down in his seat. "Thank you for admitting Ryan. The answer is-" Mr Jones started before I phased out again and looked at Emily, who was listening intently.

After school I walked down the stairs and got in Derek's truck. "Hey Tommy, good day?" Derek asked. "Sort of, I wasn't listening in English and was singled out by the teacher" I said back to him. "Which teacher was it?" He asked. "Mr Jones" I said and he chuckled. "Ah don't worry, he never liked me either" Derek said starting up the engine. We drove round the school to go home till Derek stopped. "Look Tommy, that's Joe's new car" he said and I could see the devilish grin on his face. He got out and got a type of wrench and ran over to the car. He fiddled around with the tyres and I watched as I'm not a mechanic. When he was done he ran back and got back in. He held his fist up and I fist bumped him. "Okay, let's go" I said but he didn't move. "Look, here comes Joe, Chris and Emily" Derek said and my ears pricked up. Oh no. Emily would be so pissed if she saw me I thought. "C'mon let's go" I said really nervous. Derek looked over and realised I was nervous. "Okay Tommy, let's go home" he said and we drove past them and Joe looked at us. "What did you even do?" I asked Derek who just grinned evilly. "I made it so that the wheels would fall off" he said and chuckled, "I can see it now". "Yeah, sound cool. So what are you gonna tell us tonight?" I asked. "Uh-uh, no spoilers" he said and I giggled. "Fine" I said and sat in silence thinking about Emily once again. "Hey, you're blushing. What are you thinking about?" Derek said. "N-nothing, why" I said my cheeks getting even hotter. "Okay, I can see you're nervous and unsure. I leave you alone" he said and we drove the rest of the journey in silence.

After dinner Derek had us sat down on the sofa and looked really excited. "Okay sweetie what is it?" Mum asked him. "Okay, well last week when I took Rebecca out for dinner, I... well..." he said as if losing what he was trying to say. "What did you do?" Dad asked. "I asked her to marry me" he said and my parents gasped with shock but I knew this would happen. "And?" Mum asked. "She said yes" Derek said and my mum got up and hugged him. "Oh, I'm so proud of you. My little boy's becoming a man" she said. "Hey, maybe you can start a family with her" dad said and Derek smiled. "I would love to but she's not ready yet. I'll wait until she's ready before we try" he said and I just smiled. "What are you smiling about?" Derek asked. "I knew you would ask her sometime" I said hugging him. "Wait, if you have kids, would that make me an uncle?" I asked and he looked down at me a bit shocked. "Yeah it would" he said and we sat down. "My little bro will be an uncle. That's cool. Gives me a place to dump them" Derek said making us laugh. "We love you son, and even if you have your own family, you'll always be that little husky pup to me" my mum said. "Yeah, just don't forget about us" I said and he once again ruffled my hair. "Hey, don't" I whined fixing it. "I'm going to teach them to do that whenever they see you Tom, just because I know it annoys you" Derek said. "Okay you can go back to what you were doing, I'm going over to Rebecca's" Derek said walking over to the door. "Bye sweetie, give her our wishes" mum said as he left. I went back upstairs to my room. I looked over to my door and the picture I drew of Emily was taped to it. I took my hoodie off and hung it in front of it to hide it. "Hey Ryan, I'm back" I said putting my headset back on and picking up my controller. "Hey Tom, so what did he say?" He's engaged to Rebecca and thinking about having kids" I said. "Huh, so you'll be Uncle Tom. I bet that'll make you feel old" Ryan said. "Shut up and let's play" I said and we started up Gorod Krovi with our other friends.

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