Love Has No Boundaries (Straight Furry Fanfiction)

Chapter 11: First Words

Tom's P.o.V

Emily had stopped breast feeding Jake a few months ago now, so he was round mine. My parents were on a romantic holiday together and Derek was round Rebecca's for the weekend. Jake was sitting on my living room floor with building blocks around him. "Ah" Jake said placing blocks on top of each other. "Hey well done Jake" I said and someone knocked on the front door. I got up and looked out the window to see who it was. I saw Emily and went and opened the door. "Hello beautiful, how are you doing today?" I said and she kissed me. "I'm fine handsome" she said walking in and I shut the door. "How's Jake been?" She said sitting on the sofa watching him. "He's been just fine, had a few accidents and some complaints from the neighbours about him screaming and crying but that's about it" I said smiling and sitting next to her. I had a camera recording Jake as he was learning to build with blocks. "Looks like he's really enjoying himself. It's nice to see him out of a bedroom" Emily said. Jake crawled over to the sofa and I picked him up. "Look Jake, mummy's here" I said and he looked at Emily, then me, then went back to looking at nothing. "Mummy and daddy" he said and we gasped. "Did he just say, mummy and daddy?" Emily said looking at me. "Mummy" Jake said looking at Emily. "Daddy" he followed looking at me. "He said his first words" I said and hugged Jake. "Daddy" he said again and I looked at him. He pointed at me then at his blocks. "I think he wants you to play with him Tom" Emily said and I chuckled. "Sure Jake, daddy will play with you" I said and put him down and sat on the floor. He handed me blocks to hold and I did until he took them and started to build with them, making the shapes, 1 smaller than the others. "Daddy" he said pointing at one. "Mummy" he said pointing at another. "Jake" he said pointing at the smallest one. "Aww, that's adorable" Emily said sitting on the floor. Jake crawled over to her and hugged her. "I love you Jake" she said hugging him, tears of joy in her eyes. He let go and sat between us and grabbed my tail. I wrapped it round him and rolled him back and forth making him giggle. "My family is so cute" Emily said and hugged me as I released Jake and he sat up. I kissed Emily and I felt Jake grab my tail and do something with it. I looked and he tied my tail and Emily's tail in a knot. "Look, we're not tongue tied, we're tail tied" Emily said and we laughed. I undid our tails and Jake was back to building.

4 Months Later

"Daddy, feed" Jake said. He had learned a lot of words in the past few months but didn't know how to form a sentence yet. Me and Emily were trying to teach him to walk. "Here Jake" I said putting a bottle of milk a little bit away from him. He stood up but fell over quickly. "Move cwose" he said. "No Jake, you need to learn to get there yourself" Emily said very strictly. He got up and wobbled a bit and fell on his butt. "Pwease mummy" Jake said starting to cry. I crawled over and hugged him, to comfort him. "Shh Jake, it's alright. You can have your milk, but we try again later okay" I said and he stopped crying and looked at me. "Okay daddy" he said and I got his milk and gave it to him. Emily didn't look very happy so I got up and hugged her. "What's wrong sweetie?" I said kissing her head. "I don't understand why he won't walk, he's 9 months old" she said hugging me. "Well most kids learn to walk about a year old and some don't learn to talk for a few years. The fact that he can talk as many words as he can is remarkable" I said and she sighed. "Yeah, I guess that is true. We are putting a lot of pressure on him" she said looking at him drinking his milk out of his bottle. "It's fine though Emily, in time he will learn walk" I said. We heard a little burp and Jake put his bottle down. "Sweep" he said lying down. I picked him up and took him to his crib. "Goodnight Jake, daddy loves you" I said kissing his head. "Mummy loves you too" Emily said kissing him. He started to snore so we went out of my room and went downstairs.

"C'mon Jake, walk to daddy" Emily said helping Jake stand up. "Come here Jake" I said holding my arms open for him. He took a step forward, wobbled and fell. Emily went to help him but in put my paw up to signal her to stop. Jake stood up and took another few steps before falling again. "Well done Jake, you walked" I said, "Now can you walk to me?" He got up and began to slowly waddle towards me. "Emily are you getting this?" I said and she nodded holding up the camera. He reached me and I hugged him. "You did it Jake, you walked!" I said spinning and hugging him. "Wawked daddy" he said. I tickled him and he giggled. "Emily, come here" I said and she got up and came over to us and joined the hug. "Are you happy now Emily?" I said and she nodded. "I love you Tom" she said kissing me. "Eww" Jake said covering his eyes and we chuckled. "What Jake, you don't like us kissing?" I said and he nodded. "Would you prefer us not to be together?" Emily said. "No" he said and grabbed our tails again. "What's with him and our tails?" Emily asked but I just shrugged my shoulders. "I might try to teach him about our families" I said. "Yeah, we could show him this and tell him who his granny and grandad are" Emily said handing me a picture that I kept in my hoodie. "How did you get this?" I said happy and amazed because I thought I lost it. "Sorry for not giving it back earlier" she said. "That's fine, but I think there is a picture of my parents on the camera" I said putting the picture away and picking up the camera. I found the picture and picked up Jake. "Jake, this is your granny and grandad" I said showing him the picture. "Gwanny and Gwandad" he said touching the camera. "Yes" I said as I heard the front door open. "Tommy, I'm home" Derek's voice said. "Stay up here with Jake" I said and went downstairs.

"Hey Derek, how are you?" I said. "I'm fine Tommy, I've got a poster to put on your wall. It's a Star Wars one, don't worry" he said handing me a rolled up poster. "It's to go over that message" he said and I knew what he meant. "Okay thanks Derek" I said unrolling it. It was a poster for the original Star Wars. "Cool, thanks" I said and hugged him. "Welcome, I also got you that new Bearbourne CD, Breaking Outta Hell(Airbourne)" he said and I hugged him. "Thanks" I said taking it and going back upstairs to see Emily playing with Jake. "Hey, I finally got something to cover up the message on my wall" I said showing her the poster. "That's great Tom" she said standing up. I got some blue tack and put up the poster covering the message. "That looks good" Derek said and I froze. I looked and Jake was sitting right behind him, staring at his tail. "Emily, Jakes going to go for Derek's tail" I whispered and she saw too. "Tommy, are you there?" Derek said. "Yeah, I'm here. Sorry that Emily's here without you knowing" I said. "That's oka-" Derek started before yelping and jumping in surprise. I looked and Jake was holding his tail. "Who's this?" Derek said picking up Jake. He studied him and looked at us. "Is this like Emily's cousin or new born brother?" He said putting him down. Jake got up and waddled over to us slowly and wobbling as he did. "Daddy cuddle" he said when he reached us and looked at me, arms open. I picked him up and cuddled him, with Derek staring blankly at me. "Did he call you, daddy?" Derek said. "Y-yes Derek. This is your nephew, and mine and Emily's son, Jake" I said kinda afraid Derek was going to hit me. "You had a child Tom" he said walking closer to us. "Derek, don't do something stupid" Emily said. "Jake, this is your uncle Derek" I said and he looked at Derek. "Uncwe Dewek" Jake said. "Can I hold him?" Derek asked and I nodded handing Jake over. "Hello Jake" he said smiling. "Hewwo" Jake said looking around. "How old is he?" Derek asked putting him down. "Only 9 months. It's amazing that he knows so many words" I said. "Well I'll keep this a secret don't worry" he said and left.

Sorry if this was bad, as I said I'm running out of ideas.