Fan Fiction ❯ I Know There Is More To You ❯ Take a Bath Already ( Chapter 3 )

[ X - Adult: No readers under 18. Contains Graphic Adult Themes/Extreme violence. ]

Josh sat there for a second and thouht back, even if it was just a house, he'd seen plenty, and although he didn't like to talk, he figured that he wouldn't just avoid the subject for forever. He blushed a little bit and looked back to her, smiling.
"Well, after you left, I went upstairs and looked around there...I went into the first door, and it wasn't locked, so I figured that I could go in. It reminded me a lot of my cage in there, actually, since it was so messy...but it was mostly clothes. I saw clothes on the floor, on the bed, and then I went up to this big wooden thing that was standing on the wall...there were little things you could pull out. They had clothes in them too...I never knew there were so many different kinds of clothes!"
Mary was blushing at this point, figuring that he was a male, and that even if he didn't know much about clothes, he was a teenaged male with instincts...he would figure it out sooner or later.
Attempting to smile, she questioned him, "So...heh...did you find anything else?"
He thought nothing of her blushing, and continued his story, since she really seemed to want to know. "Well, there were a lot of smells...the whole room had this really weird, but really nice aroma...I dunno what it smelled like exactly though...uh...girls, I guess..."
She quickly interrupted him, hoping he might talk of something else. "Any other rooms in the house that you saw?"
"Well, yeah...I found a big tub, it was empty though...I remember at the orphanage, they made us bathe, but only once a week...the one in your house looks so much more big and clean though...I thought it might be for something else."
This gave Mary an idea. "Well Josh...why don't you take a bath then? I'm sure that you need it...you said that you hadn't in a while...so I figure that you should..."
Josh actually liked the idea, he smiled and walked into the bathroom. "Well...yeah. That sounds good, actually."
Mary got a towel out of a nearby cloest and handed it to him. "Hopefully they taught you how to use soap and towels and water?" She was being a bit sarcastic, but at the same time, she had to be careful, in case he'd really forgotten.
By the time he was holding the towel, he was already naked. He hung up the towel and got into the bath tub. "Of course! Its not like I'm stupid or something, Mary..." He reached for a knob and turned on the shower.
Mary stood there for just a split second after seeing him naked, then quickly shut the door and looked away, embaressed. She quickly went down the stairs and back to the kitchen table, where she opened her book bag and got started on her homework, which she had tons of.
"Man, I forgot just how good this feels!" Josh said aloud to himself, greatly enjoying the warm water and fresh-smelling soap, and the fact that his hair was actually managable again. He ran his hands along his arms, the fur moved freely and cleanly, his rinsed and washed until all the dirt was out. Apparently, he enjoyed taking baths much more than he could've remembered. He stood under the stream of warm water and looked up to the ceiling, just taking the time to stand there and think.
Mary, on the other hand, was already starting to feel her good mood slip away as she did her best to breeze through her homework, but that was more like a dream now than a possibility. An overdose of heavy algebra would often take a large toll on her, and tonight was no exception. Considered what had happened in the past two nights, and how fast she was trying to adjust to it all, she couldn't hardly think straight. In truth, she wanted to be taking that bath, but she couldn't look at Josh now, after seeing him naked, an image which she was trying to force out of her head. She dropped her pencil and gently massaged her forehead, which helped her to relax a little, but she still couldn't concentrate on her homework. She gave herself a fifteen minute break to relax, then tried to get back to it. He takes forever in the shower, she thought.
Josh didn't have any intention of getting out anytime soon, he was quite enjoying himself, playing with the adjustable water pressure and temperature, it was a great time for him, he was plenty relaxed by that time, but felt really playful now. After about 20 more minutes of wasting water, Josh stepped out of the shower and wrapped the towel around his waist, water dripped from the ends of his now clean and shimmering silver hair. He looked at himself in the mirror, seeing an older image of the happy, healthy, and sarcastically sexy boy he used to be. He smiled, and walked out into the kitchen, seeing Mary hard at work and studying.
He poked her shoulder, having crept up on her. Her hand jerked on the paper, and her tail stuck straight. "What the?! Don't sneak up on me like that!!"
Josh felt bad at first, backing up a bit, but then smiled softly and looked her in the eyes. "Heh...sorry...erm, what are you up to?"
Mary looked up and down his body, realizing that they now had a problem: He didn't have any other clothes. For the time being, he had a towel. She felt weird staring at a guy half naked in her house, something she didn't imagine happening for a long time. "I was doing homework until you interrupted..." she made sure that there was a note of frustration in her voice as she started to erase the streak on her paper.
"Homework...must not be any fun, you don't seem to happy about it..." He stood there and looked over her shoulder at it, quickly frustrating her more. "Uh...whats that? And how about that?" He was really just curious, but was forgetting his manners, which he did have a few of.
Mary turned back to look at him, more of a glare, and pointed her finger to the living room. "Do me a favor and please, just sit out there and be quiet until I'm done...I really need to concentrate on this!"
Josh felt bad for real this time, figuring he did something wrong, he started to figure it out further as he walked into the living room and sat down there in his towel, thinking over what he had done. He only had to sit there for just a bit, though.
Mary tried her hardest to work on the assignment, but she couldn't do it. Every so often, she would glance at him, and he would always be right there, staring back at her. She started to feel a bit remorseful, she only meant for him to be a bit more polite, she didn't want to hurt his feelings. She put down her pencil quietly, and walked to sit next to him in the living room. Josh gave her an awkward look before he went back to thinking. While Mary had been trying to work, he'd thought a lot about his past, and what normal things he could remember. He'd narrowed it down pretty far.
"Josh, I-"
"No...its ok. I understand...I remember a bit better now...I should've...been more polite. I should've kept quiet. I didn't realize that this...'homework' stuff was important to you...I'm sorry."
Mary was glad that he said that, because it felt really relieving to her. She was going to say close to the same thing...but then she just looked at him with a soft smile, glad that he was being so easy about this.
"Well Josh...I'm glad you figured that out...maybe you can remember more?"
Josh felt a bit awkward saying his next thoughts. Emotions...this emotion...I haven't felt it in so long...maybe ever... "Well...Mary...there are three big things I can remember...I remembered how to behave, I remembered how to treat people...and...I remembered...how to love."
Mary blushed a little bit at that, only to see that Josh was doing the same. "What exactly...did you mean by that last part?"
Josh scratched the back of his head and stood up, blushing more, unsure of what to say. "I...uh...um...nothing. I was just babbling on about nothing...I...think. Heh..." He stayed and stood there, hoping not to have to say anymore.
Mary was curious, but accepted it. She sat there and looked up to his eyes, she knew he was lying, but just to hide something that he would tell her one day. "Well...okay then...I guess I can handle that answer." She didn't want to blush in front of him anymore, and so she went to go take her own shower, making sure he didn't follow her up. He didn't, he'd quickly sat down in his now dried towel and fell asleep just as fast.


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