Once Doesn't Mean Always (Straight Furry Story)

7: Why Him?

Cloudy

I walk into the Science with Nikita, instantly greeted by the teacher, Ms Beran. Because I'm 'a late edition' and there is still one more lesson on a previous experiment that I missed, I'm given a free lesson. I sit down next to Nikita and start to draw.

Nikita quickly finishes her work , allowing her to speak to me quietly

"so, how has today been going for you so far?" she asks me, I keep my eyes on my drawing as I answer

"not so bad, I started with English then had art" I say as Nikita looks at my picture then back to me

"thought you would have art, you're pretty good" she says, causing me to smile as I add a tree in the background of my picture "so, is that how you met Smoke?" she asks. I finish my picture and hand it to her

"yeah it is, here, you can have this" I hand over my picture, it was a dragon knight standing on a hill, plains stretched in the background and a dead tree can be seen on a distant hill. Nikita looks to me with slight surprise and confusion

"why are you giving this to me?" she asks, not really understanding, I get out a new piece of paper before looking back to her

"it's terrible" I say as i begin a small sketch for a new picture.

"what? No it's not, it looks perfect" she says, sounding a little shocked, I point to the horns of the knight

"the horns are too long" then move my finger to a couple points in the armour "and these parts are wrong, they should be flipped and a little wider" I explain, Nikita examines the picture closely and then looks back to me. 

"It's hardly noticeable unless you point it out" she says, causing me to just shrug

"ok, well still, I want you to have it anyway" I say with a friendly smile "my wall at home is already full of pictures "I add, causing us both to giggle a little.

After I sketch the basic for the picture, I being drawing the real thing until Nikita asks me another question

"so why him?" I look at her a little confused "why Smoke?" she adds, I look back to my page before coming up with an answer

"I don't know, I guess because he looked lonely, he looked sad, or maybe I was just a little curious about him, he was the odd one out, he didn't really react like everyone else did, when everyone moved their bags, he just continued to work in silence" I respond as I look out a nearby window, seeing Smoke walk over to the administration building with Tiana. Nikita noticed where I was looking and joins in

"huh, must be that time again" she says, I turn to her, confused

"what do you mean?" I ask, she looks back to me before responding

"Oh, a couple times a week, Smoke gets called up to see Mr Sutton, that's actually how Smoke and Tiana first met" she says.

I look back with a little bit of worry

"I hope he's ok" I think out loud

"oh, don't worry, from what Tiana tells us, it's nothing bad, he isn't in trouble or anything" she says, I feel some relief as I return to my drawing, however still curious, maybe there is a lot more to Smoke then I originally thought.

"So what was it like?" I hear Nikita ask "I mean your home, if you don't mind me asking" I put my stuff away and turn in my chair, facing Nikita

"well, where should I begin?" I ask myself before I let out a smile "well, the weather was a little unbearable from time to time, summers feel a little too long and too hot while in winter you freeze your ass off" I say before continuing "but that's nothing compared to here" I say, causing us both to giggle

"yeah, welcome to Australia, the equivalent to a sun on earth" Nikita jokes. We continue to talk for the rest of the hour, till the siren sounds, about 15 minutes before the siren for the fourth lesson went, I saw Smoke walk out of the Admin building, he didn't look angry or anything, he still looked like his own quiet self that everyone knows.

The siren goes and I walk out the class and pull out my timetable, my next class is Math at room 207.

Hello, just wanna say that this was a little difficult to write, I never went anywhere outside of Australia (except for Bali) so I had to look up what the weather was like in Pennsylvania, if I'm wrong, I'm sorry, but just for the sake of this story, let's just say I'm right.