Romance Fan Fiction / Original Stories Fan Fiction ❯ College Life ❯ A Boy Named Sue ( Chapter 3 )
[ X - Adult: No readers under 18. Contains Graphic Adult Themes/Extreme violence. ]
By: Tiek Mo Shet 
Settling down in Vegas.
Miscellaneous: Romance Fan Fiction / Original Stories Fan Fiction | Genre(s): Drama / Hentai / Fantasy / Romance / Supernatural | Type: Other | Uploaded On: 07.18.2010 | Pages: 9 | Words: 10.8K | Visits: 422 | Status: Completed
Settling down in Vegas.
Miscellaneous: Romance Fan Fiction / Original Stories Fan Fiction | Genre(s): Drama / Hentai / Fantasy / Romance / Supernatural | Type: Other | Uploaded On: 07.18.2010 | Pages: 9 | Words: 10.8K | Visits: 422 | Status: Completed
College Life
By: bsmart
Disclaimer: Rated NC-17 for the good stuff, you’ve been warned. If the idea of sex with a catgirl disgusts you then walk away. If not, read on.
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Chapter 3: A Boy Named Sue
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Nevada Gaming Commission Formalizes New Rules
Associated Press
By Josiah Bartlett, Associated Press Writer Josiah Bartlett – 55 mins ago
8/17/2010
Today the Nevada Gaming Commission formally put into effect a new set of regulations governing the running of casinos in the state of Nevada. The new regulations mandate that casinos code gaming chips to individual players, minimize the amount of cash on hand, institute new standards covering the hiring of juujin employees, and a slew of regulations governing the design of gaming equipment to prevent tampering by juujin. Several industry analysts have noted that the new regulations replace nearly every existing regulation but without the exhaustive detail of the former rules. This has led to some concern about casinos liberally interpreting the rules to benefit themselves.
Thomas Nguyen of the Digital Gaming Association, a firm specializing in the design and distribution of electronic gaming surveillance, a system that will allow casinos to track gaming results for unprecedented lucky streaks, the tell tale marker of a human or juujin influencing the odds, was quick to defend the new rulings. He stated, "These new regulations have to be flexible as much of the equipment that will be needed to comply with them is still being designed. No one knows exactly what it's going to take to comply with them in a manner that meets both the customer's and the casino's needs. I'm sure that as the industry goes through this evolution we'll find things that don't work and those that do allowing the laws to be fine tuned."
The Gaming Commission was forced to re-evaluate the gaming regulations in the wake of the casino crash of 2004. Juujin were found to be influencing the outcome of games and in some cases robbing the casinos directly of their large on hand cash reserves. Several struggling casinos such as the Aladdin were forced into bankruptcy after a series of particularly brazen robberies that stole an estimated quarter billion dollars of hard cash from several casinos along the strip.
The Gaming Commission has set a compliance date of June 30th, 2011 but most surviving casinos have already been upgraded in ways to ensure compliance with the new rulings. The Gaming Commission announced in early February 2005 that it would be drafting new regulations for the gaming industry in Nevada but efforts were stalled by multiple special interest groups such as the Casino Gaming Manufacturers Association who were seeking to protect their current stock of gaming machines, or the Community Action League of Las Vegas who were seeking to greatly reduce the legality of gambling in Las Vegas. Due to the delay in drafting new regulations the Gaming Commission quietly suspended many of their rulings about cash on hand requirements and game designs, allowing the casinos to remain in operation even as they incorporated new technology that previous regulations wouldn't have allowed.
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"Oh fuck no!"
Kelly blinked as the short black girl put her hands on her hips and glared at him defiantly. When she'd asked what he was doing in her apartment and he'd told her it was his apartment to he hadn't quite expected that violent a reaction.
"Someone has the wrong damn apartment," she said.
Kelly held up his key. "Yeah, well my key works just fine in the door so I don't think it's me."
Charlene came up beside him holding out the copy of their lease she had. "See, we've got a lease for this apartment," she said defensively. No wonder given that she'd taken care of most of the work for it.
"Yeah well I don't care about you," the girl said as she stabbed a finger at Kelly's chest. "I just don't want him here."
"Hey, what the hell did I do?" Kelly asked defensively.
"Girls only apartment asshole!"
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Kelly stood beside Suarah, he'd been able to get her name out of her as she'd stormed her way to the office, waiting for the office staff to find the time to talk to them. Charlene had come with them and was busy thumbing through all the documents she'd kept relating to their apartment. He knew she had everything from the lease to every e-mail that was sent back and forth between the broker, the apartment complex, and herself. She didn't do anything halfway.
Suarah looked positively pissed off but Kelly's judgment might not be that good, she'd been wearing that expression since she'd first laid eyes on him. Lips drawn thin in a scowl, her brows low, eyes narrow, nose scrunched up, she looked ready to bite his head off. It might have been humorous if the girl wasn't trying to get him kicked out of the apartment. Truth was he certainly wouldn't have minded sharing an apartment with her, she was actually quite beautiful with her mocha colored skin and her reddish brown hair pulled into tight little corn rows on top of her head, bushing out into a big round bun behind her head. She looked to have a pretty nice figure as well but her baggy red t-shirt and loose khaki cargo pants made that determination hard.
"My name is Becky, how may I help you today?" A pleasant woman asked from one of the office desks. She couldn't have been much older than Kelly and Suarah were but her hair was steel gray. She smiled sweetly but there was something off about her movements, just a little sway in her body like she was bouncing up and down and side to side slowly and gently in her chair.
"Yeah, you put this guy in my apartment," Suarah said quickly, taking the initiative.
"It's the apartment we were booked for," Charlene stated flatly.
The woman nodded diplomatically. "Names please?"
"Jones, Suarah Jones," his apparent roommate said.
"Kelly Chambers," Kelly said.
Becky blinked and looked between him and Charlene before on Kelly. "And you are?"
"It's my apartment, well, my room in it anyways," Kelly explained.
"And she...?" the silver hair girl asked gesturing towards the bunnygirl.
"She's my..."
"I'm his roommate," Charlene said quickly.
"Oh, of course," Becky said. "The ears."
"The what?" Charlene asked tersely.
"Your ears," Becky stuttered. "I mean with you being a juujin and Mr. Chambers a human the apartment would have obviously been in his name."
"Obviously?" Charlene snarled.
Kelly took a half step towards her and placed a hand on his girlfriend's arm. "Not the time," he whispered.
Charlene swallowed once and choked down whatever it was she was feeling. "Fine, yes. The room is in Kelly's name."
Becky was obviously a bit flustered and turned back to her computer, entering Kelly and Suarah's names and starting to look through screens quickly. She scribbled a few things down on paper as she went.
Charlene turned towards Kelly and glared at him.
"Hey, not now," he said defensively. "Let's get this figured out then you can bite her head off, deal?"
"Why is the room obviously in your name?" She hissed at him. "Because I've got weird ears I couldn't sign a contract?"
"Don't stress about it Char," Kelly urged her.
"Easy for you to say," Charlene snapped softly. "You don't have every human treating you like you're some kind of concubi..." Charlene's voice drifted off as her eyes snapped back to the receptionist.
Kelly turned his head to see what was going on to discover Becky uncoiling herself from behind her desk, literally. As her torso rose a foot into the air Kelly could see a solid tail of lime green scales emerging from what on a human girl would have been a mini-skirt.
"Give me a moment to go check the records in the back," Becky said calmly as her body bent below her skirt and she picked up the piece of paper she'd been writing on. "Be right back," she assured them before she slithered out from behind her desk.
Kelly could only stare as Becky headed for the back room like some kind of medusa come to life, her perfectly normal looking torso blending into some kind of fifteen foot long snake tail that she was balanced on. As she slipped into the back room Kelly could note the diamond shaped pattern of orange scales that wet down her back bone, or dorsal,... hell he didn't know what to call it. He knew that there were girls like Becky in the world, even seen some pictures on the internet of them, but it was the first time he'd ever come into face to face contact with a snake girl. The experience was all a bit disconcerting.
"What's the matter," Suarah snarked as she crossed her arms over her chest. "Never seen a real juujin before?"
"Not one like that," Kelly answered distractedly.
"Where'd she hide that tail?" Charlene asked.
A few minutes later Becky returned holding a pair of file folders and a pensive look on her face. She slid up to her desk and sank back down to sitting height behind it. "I think I found the problem," she said as she opened up one file folder and laid it down in full view. Inside were several sheets of paper but the one on top was stained, wrinkled, and half torn. Most of the writing was unintelligible.
"What's that?" Charlene asked.
"Your personal information form," Becky explained.
"Did the dog eat it?" Kelly asked as he checked the form out. Aside from his name there was little legible on the form.
"Someone spilled their coffee on it and it was almost thrown away. I managed to snag it out of the garbage before that but..." her voice trailed off as she gave them all an apologetic look.
"So what?" Suarah asked. "It's still a female apartment and he's not." She glared at Kelly as if to emphasize the point.
"Well, we decide on which apartment to put you in based off the information in this form and this one was ruined," Becky explained.
"So why didn't you get another?" Suarah demanded.
Becky sighed and composed herself. "There wasn't time. We have limits on when we have to assign rooms to people and we were up against them. Besides," she glanced at Kelly. "At the time we didn't think anything important was missing."
Suarah's eyes snapped to Kelly. "Are you kidding?"
"The name on the form was Kelly," Becky explained, shifting her eyes to Charlene, "and the voice I spoke with on the phone was always female."
"So you just assumed?" Suarah spat.
"Yes, and it seemed entirely reasonable," Becky explained curtly.
"Oh lord," Charlene moaned beside Kelly as she brought her hand up to her face and hid behind it.
"Well, I'm not," Kelly said.
"Obviously," Becky said.
Suarah bent over and put her hands on Becky's desk, bringing her face closer to the snakegirl's level. "So fix it."
"I can't," Becky replied.
"What?" Kelly and Suarah said at the same time.
"I can't fix it, we're full up. The school's managed to turn its enrollment around and every apartment and every room is spoken for. There's no where for me to move Mr. Chambers too," Becky explained.
"Well he can't live with me!" Suarah said.
Becky spread her hands wide. "Well what would you have me do? I have no where to move him to and unless a woman was put into a man's apartment and wants to be moved out I have no one to switch him with."
Kelly looked back and forth between Suarah and Becky nervously. They'd picked Mas Verde apartments because it was close to campus, allowed juujin, and most importantly it was pretty damn cheap. The only other places that were as cheap and allowed juujin were clear across town. He'd have an hour long commute just to get to school.
"Not my problem," Suarah said in a sing song voice.
"It's a big one for us," Kelly said. "I don't have anywhere else I can stay."
"Well you can't stay in my apartment," Suarah snapped.
"Look, we both got into UNLV and we're both starting there in a week. There aren't any other apartments around that allow juujin and we can afford. If we can't stay here we've gotta pack up and head home for Texas," Kelly pleaded.
"As far as management is concerned there's no issue with him staying in the apartment," Becky explained. "In fact we don't promise unisex apartments. We make the effort and usually succeed but its not policy."
Suarah huffed. Her scowl was softening slightly but she wasn't happy.
Charlene walked past Kelly to stand beside Suarah. "Please, we need this place to live. We'll keep him on a short leash. We promise."
Suarah considered Charlene for a moment, then glanced over her shoulder at Kelly. She glared at him before going back to Charlene. "You'd better damn well make sure he keeps his dick to himself. He so much as gives me a look and I'll call the cops on his ass."
"Promise, we'll keep him confined to the bed at all times," Charlene teased.
"If it becomes a problem, and both of the roommates have issue with Mr. Chambers then the two of you can file a complaint with the office and have Mr. Chambers removed if there's just cause," Becky assured Suarah.
Suarah's nose flared as she huffed again. "Fine, but consider me already ready to file one of those complaints. Piss off Angelique and I'll be happy to sign that paper with her."
"Best behavior, promise," Kelly assured her.
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"A snake, are you shitting me?" Kaitlyn asked.
"Boa constrictor I think," Charlene confirmed.
"Don't you have some snakegirl pictures like that in the porn stash," Georgia asked Kelly.
"What?" He stuttered.
"I think he does," Kaitlyn said.
Kelly glanced around at all the girls, they weren't kidding. It was an honest question. "Yeah," he said. "I do."
"Thought so," Georgia said. "This girl didn't have the big round cobra thing though did she?"
"A hood, no," Kelly said as he turned and found putting his socks into his dresser absolutely fascinating.
"He likes that though, most of the snakegirls had one," Kaitlyn chimed in.
"Fucking A, does everyone know about that?" Kelly snapped.
"Pretty much," Kaitlyn piped up.
Kelly glared over at Charlene and she just blew him a kiss with a wink. She got serious quickly though. "The important part is that one of our roommates is already in a bad mood and ready to kick us out. If we piss off the other one we're out on our asses with no where to go."
"What's this Suarah girl's problem anyways?" Kaitlyn asked. "Kelly doesn't look like a rapist."
"Not like you can rape the willing anyways," Kelly said.
Kaitlyn blew him a kiss and moo'd.
"Probably likes walking around naked," Georgia offered. She picked up a box of books and tossed it on the bed before starting to unload it onto the book shelves that had been put up. The box was filled to the brim and weighed easily eighty pounds but Georgia had tossed it like it was full of pillows. Some things still amazed Kelly when he saw them.
"I wouldn't mind that," Charlene said. She looked at where the movers had left the desk and pushed it to the side a few more inches. "But it doesn't matter one way or another. We can't piss them off alright?" She turned and looked right at Kaitlyn. "So be on your best behavior."
Kaitlyn tossed her arms wide. "What the hell?" she demanded in a hurt voice.
"Best. Behavior," Charlene emphasized.
Kelly chuckled as he put the last of his clothes in the drawer.
"That goes for you too Mister," Charlene declared.
"Hey!"
"Just act like an adult, if the little cow comes onto you at least make it back in here before you fuck her."
"Spoilsport," Kaitlyn complained.
"Who's this other room mate?" Georgia asked as she piled the books onto the shelf. Kelly frowned, he'd have to reorganize all of them when she finished.
"Someone named Angelique," Charlene said as she started to pull cables and devices out of a box labeled 'computer.'
"She cute?" Georgia asked hopefully as she broke down the box she'd just unloaded and picked up another.
"Haven't seen her yet," Charlene said. "I was hoping maybe you two had while we were gone."
"Nope," Georgia said as she picked up another eighty pound box like it was nothing. "I hope she's cute," she said with a lecherous smile.
"Hey!" Kelly protested.
"You said we're one dick juujin, you never said anything about pussy," Charlene teased.
"Yeah well... take pictures," Kelly said.
Unpacking lasted most of the next hour, even with the amount of stuff they'd brought along with four people unpacking and organizing it things went quickly. The room was about the same size as their old one, which was a god-send because with four people living in it if it was much smaller it'd be unlivable.
The apartment itself was surprisingly spacious for what they were paying for it, but like many universities UNLV had taken it in the shorts with enrollment in the last decade. Where as ten years ago Mas Verde might have been able to cherry pick residents and charge whatever they pleased now they had to cut their prices down just to fill the place up. They'd signed their lease at just the right time though. UNLV's enrollment was on the upswing. In fact anything at all to do with Las Vegas was on the upswing. Most people attributed it to Vegas and Nevada's stance on juujin which was about as liberal as you'd find in the country. Charlene could attend college, no questions asked, and there were no local Jim Crow laws that would prevent Kaitlyn and Georgia from finding jobs. Juujin were actually treated like people in Nevada and much to the chagrin of everyone who wanted to treat them as slaves Nevada was absolutely booming economically.
So they'd gotten a spacious apartment at a hell of a deal. The entrance was on the south side of the apartment and it opened into a hard wood floored hallway. On the left a little ways in was a utility room, washer and dryer with the water heater and not much else. Plenty of space to store things. On the right was Suarah's room, at least Kelly assumed it was. That's where she'd stormed into and slammed the door when they'd gotten back to the apartment. On the right was a spacious kitchen with a big fridge and even a pantry in the back. Kelly was glad for the space because he knew they'd need it with Kaitlyn's appetite. It was tiled and like every kitchen in the last decade it seemed had stainless steel appliances. From there the hallway opened up into the living room/dining room. The kitchen had a pass through to the living room and the apartment was at least semi-furnished with a surprisingly nice large table on the right hand side of the room and a row of barstools at the counter to the kitchen. A sitting area had been arranged with a couch and several love seats all facing a stunningly large LCD TV. Off to the left was a decent sized porch that looked out to the west and the pools at the middle of the complex. On either side of the TVs were the doors in Kelly's and his other, hopefully more pleasant, roommate's room.
As for his room it was pleasantly surprising how large it was. 'Thank you crappy economy,' he thought. Sixteen feet by twelve the room was large but even with its size once you packed in all their furniture it was stuffed. Their king sized bed on the left wall under the pair of windows with their nightstands on either side. The north wall held his book shelf on the left and their desk in the middle. There wasn't a lot of room between the desk and the bed so if anyone was at it there was no getting by on that side. The south wall had a recliner in the south west corner and one of the girl's big dressers on it taking up most of the wall. The entrance door was also on that wall in the opposite corner from the recliner. His dresser was on the right wall and the space between it and the south wall dresser made it a small passage into the room but they didn't have much choice. On the other side of his dresser was the door into the bathroom and beyond that another big dresser for the girls.
The bathroom was a decent sized, fairly normal except for the over sized shower/tub on the north wall. In the bathroom was the entrance to their small walk in closet. For one person it would have been incredibly roomy, for four it was going to get filled up fast.
Kelly flopped down on top of the bed as Kaitlyn and Georgia unloaded the last of their clothes into the closet. Charlene crawled up with him and took his head in her lap. He smiled up at her upside down face and blew her a kiss.
"Now what?" He asked.
Charlene looked at the windows where the setting sun was turning the shades golden. "Sleep?"
Kelly snorted. "Too early. It's only what, seven?"
"About," Charlene said.
"So tomorrow's Wednesday. Classes start next Monday right?"
Charlene nodded as she stroked his hair. "Yup."
"That means we need to buy books, school stuff, all that in the next couple of days," Kelly said as he relaxed in his girlfriend's lap.
"It does, but we've other things to do," Charlene said.
Kelly tilted his head back to look her in the eye. No mean feet with a chest like her's. "Like what?"
"How about some food?" Charlene said with a smirk.
"Oh yeah, that," Kelly said, suddenly acutely aware of how hungry he was.
"And some TP too. This place is empty," Kaitlyn called from the bathroom.
Kelly snorted. It was still a bit of a trip to get used to just how acute the girl's senses were. He'd thought he'd been sharing a quiet moment with Charlene but more than likely both of the other girls had heard everything. "So I guess we're going to the grocery store tonight?"
"Dinner first, groceries next," Charlene said. "Last thing we need to do is go to a grocery store with Kaitlyn hungry."
"Ha ha ha," Kaitlyn said dryly from the bathroom. "You're so funny."
"And while we're there maybe ya can look fer ah job ya little freeloading heifer," Charlene snarked. Kelly could look up and see the grin on her face in spite of the vitriol in her tone.
"Hey, I do stuff around here!" Kaitlyn piped up to defend herself.
"Whoopty do," Charlene drawled. "They sell milk in stores now."
"Hey!" Kaitlyn squealed. She stomped out of the bathroom and glare at Charlene. "My stuff's better than any old stupid cow's!"
Charlene waved her hand dismissively, "Eh."
Kaitlyn's mouth dropped open in shock. "What!? Fine, see if I let you have any tomorrow!"
"More for me!" Georgia chirped from the bathroom.
Kelly couldn't contain it anymore and started to crack up.
"You...," Kaitlyn started. Then Charlene's facade crumbled and she started to laugh too. "Oh screw both of you! See if either of you get any tomorrow!" Then it was Kaitlyn's turn to squeak as Georgia pressed up against her back and reached around to cup both of Kaitlyn's huge tits.
"Mmm, all mine!"
Kaitlyn actually managed to turn beet red to Kelly's surprise. The girl didn't usually have any shame.
"Just teasing Sugar," Charlene said smoothly. "But you have worked in a grocery store before."
"Yeah and it sucks," Kaitlyn replied, untangling herself from Georgia. She walked over to the recliner and flopped into it. "What about something on campus?"
"Maybe," Kelly said. "But do you want college guys staring at you all day as you work?"
"What, as opposed ta the one 'at stares at her at home?" Charlene prodded. Kelly could tell she was relaxed and happy the way her natural accent was starting to slip out.
"Har har," Kelly droned.
"It'd be different, ya know?" She said. "Maybe in a restaurant or something."
Kelly sat up out of Charlene's lap and pulled himself up to the top of the bed so he could sit up and talk to his cousin. Charlene followed, laying next to him and draping herself over him. "Well, we gotta get books and get oriented so I was figuring on going to campus tomorrow anyways. We can look then."
"What about you sis?" Charlene asked.
Georgia had come out of the bathroom so silently that Kelly had completely missed it. She didn't have any pads on her feet, and he'd checked every inch of her body quite extensively, and yet when she walked she didn't make a sound unless she meant too. "Maybe a casino or something. I'd rather work a bar in a casino than another restaurant."
"We'll you've got plenty to pick from," Kelly said. "Hell, there are two on this street. Hard Rock by the school and that juujin place just up the road on the strip."
"The Wildcat?" Charlene asked dubiously.
"That's the one," Kelly said with a nod.
"I dunno about that," Charlene said nervously.
"That's the one owned by a juujin right? Has almost nothing but juujin working in it?" Georgia clarified.
Kelly nodded enthusiastically. Any time he'd mentioned moving to Vegas on the JJDepot it had been accompanied by a throng of guys telling him he had to go. If even half the stories they told were true he knew he'd have to stop by, even for just a peek.
"Sounds perfect to me," Georgia said with a smirk.
"Yeah, if you wanna start turning tricks," Charlene snarked. "That place is bad news."
"Come on sis, so what? Plenty of vertical jobs there, it's a hotel and casino."
Charlene frowned, "It's just a bad idea. They glorify the idea of juujin as mindless sluts."
"Yeah well we're not," Kaitlyn piped in.
"I know that," Charlene said. "Doesn't help bozos like this one," she said jerking a finger at Kelly, "that you can spot a girl you like in that place and take her back to your room for a screw."
"It's not like that...," Kelly started to say, then he felt all eyes, including Charlene's less than pleased ones, on him. "...at least that's what I hear."
"Uh huh," Charlene said dubiously.
"Can we talk about this later?" Kaitlyn asked. "I'm hungry and it's not getting any brighter outside."
"Sounds good to me," Kelly said getting up off the bed. Charlene and Georgia had the look in their eyes that signaled this could get ugly. Most of the time Georgia, like Kaitlyn, was fine to let Charlene take the lead in just about every thing. From dinner plans to sleeping arrangements to sexual activities they were usually fine with her taking charge and going along with it. Once in a while though something sparked up between the sisters and Georgia told her just where to get off. Charlene didn't take well to having her presumed authority challenged. The last time they'd had an 'argument' about something like this Kelly had managed to wind up soaking wet and electrocuted when he'd tried to break it up. He'd promised himself to stay out it from then on.
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"Ya know, if they're going to call it 'All You Can Eat,' where do they get off giving me the evil eye for eating everything I can?"
"You were on your fifth plate," Georgia said as they all trudged up the stairs, arms full of numerous grocery and shopping bags.
"Then they should call it, 'All a Human Can Eat,' or something like that," Kaitlyn complained.
"Five pounds of shrimp, three of crab legs, and two lobster tails. Where the hell do you put it?" Charlene asked as they got to the top. The girls waited as Kelly fumbled with the keys and got the door open. He held it open for them as they went inside. Each girl was carrying more than he could have in three trips and he figured it was the least he could do.
"My tits, duh! Where do you guys think all that milk comes from you suck out of me each morning?"
Kelly let the door shut behind him and headed for the kitchen where he dumped his bags on the counter half a second before he froze. They weren't alone.
Sitting at the kitchen counter was an attractive latina girl, leaning forward on her steepled hands and staring at them intently. "Now that sounds like a wonderful breakfast."
"Uhhh, hi," Kelly stammered. Their usual breakfast wasn't exactly public knowledge and he was more than a little embarrassed for this girl to have heard it.
"Hi to you too," she said with a smile.
"I'm Kelly," he managed to get out before his mind shut down again. He was far too busy taking in the sight before him to really waste mental horsepower on talking. The girl was cute, her face was oval and thin, her features defined without being sharp. Her hair was a shiny obsidian black but a wide strip of it on her left side was electric blue. Kelly wondered for a moment if she was a human or a juujin. Hair color might have been a dead give away if there weren't a sizable number of women who'd taken to dyeing their hair impossible shades that only a juujin could have. Whoever she was she seemed to like having holes poked in her. Her right eyebrow was pierced with a hoop and a small stud poked out the left side of her nose. Another hoop hooked around the left side of her bottom lip. Both her ears had multiple piercings though most were small, tasteful studs and hoops but on the left ear she'd had a few hoops put in at the top of the ear right through the cartilage while on the right a long silver bar pierced the bottom rear side of her ear right up to the top front part of it.
"I'm Angelique," she said in a bubbly voice that made Kelly think she might actually be happy to see him. She slipped off the stool and Kelly realize that she was only about an inch shorter than him, which was new after being with Charlene and Georgia who's long ballerina bodies were actually a little taller than him, and Kaitlyn who was a half a foot shorter. She came around the short wall that capped the end of the kitchen and came in. She was wearing a tight white tank top and a pair of cut off jean shorts with no shoes. "You must be our room mate," she said as she offered him her hand.
"Yeah, I am," Kelly said, taking it and shaking it.
"Suarah told me all about you," she said. Then she chuckled, "Well, most of it was in four letter words but I got the gist of it."
"She didn't seem to care for me that much," Kelly said, not letting her hand go. Her skin was a dark bronze that was more than natural tone but most likely the result of a lot of time in the sun.
"Don't let Sue bother you, she hates everyone with a penis," Angelique explained. "She's just mad she can't walk around starkers anymore."
"Well don't let us stop her," Kaitlyn piped up.
It was then that Charlene gave Kelly a polite but forceful shove to the side, breaking his contact with Angelique. "Hi, I'm Charlene, Kelly's girlfriend."
If Angelique got the subtext she didn't let it phase her. "Nice to meet you," she said. She held Charlene's gaze for a moment before her eyes made a quick up and down appraisal of Charlene. "If you don't mind me saying, you're gorgeous. I love your ears. Kelly is a lucky man."
"Georgia," his catgirl said stepping next to her sister.
"Twins?" Angelique looked at Kelly, "even luckier." Her eyes returned to Georgia. "I've always liked cat juujin."
"And I'm Kaitlyn," his cousin said, squeezing in between him and the counter, molding herself to his side possessively. "His cou...OW!" She squeaked as she hopped up half an inch. She turned her head and starred daggers at Kelly.
"And you must be breakfast," Angelique said.
That made Kaitlyn smile and forget about Kelly pinching her ass. "Yes I am."
Angelique took a step towards Kaitlyn and ran a finger across the forearm she had curled around her cousin. She traced one of the brown spots that dotted her pure white skin before rubbing against it hard, testing the supple leather that covered Kaitlyn's body. Then she glanced up and blushed slightly. "I'm sorry, but whole body transforms are fascinating to me."
"Mmm, don't be," Kaitlyn purred. Her long tail coiled around Kelly in a manner he knew meant she was getting turned on. However jealous she might have felt was long gone. Kelly could feel the nymphomaniacal side of his cowgirl emerging as she looked Angelique over.
"Angel, who's there?" Someone called from the room next to Kelly's.
"Our new roommates!" Angelique called back. "Come out you two." She turned back to look at Charlene in the eye. "So the four of you will be living next door?"
"Yes we will," Charlene said. She crossed her arms under her chest. "And there's three of you?"
"There are," Angelique said. "If they'd get out here."
"Eight people in one apartment? That's kind of crowded," Georgia said as she reclined back against the stove.
"Nine actually," Angelique corrected. "I guess Sue didn't introduce you to Candy?"
They all shook their heads no.
"Figures. Well Candy is her juujin. Believe me, you'll know her when you see her. Lots of ink and more piercings than even I've got," She turned her head towards her room. "'Bout damn time."
Two girls walked into the kitchen to stand next to Angelique. The first reminded Kelly of a younger Charlene, much younger. Her face had the soft round features of a girl of fifteen or so. She was short and petite with a slender body and pale skin that matched the white summer dress she wore. Her hair was surprising though, it was stark white and in incredibly tight little curls. It covered her head, poofed up several inches before being pulled back into a short fat ponytail behind her head. The kicker though was the two short round ears that poked up through the curls. They were covered in the same white curls as the rest of her head and bright pink inside. She considered them all with a look of mild disdain on her face.
It was the second girl who commanded all the attention though. Standing well over six feet tall she was everything the small girl wasn't. She had hispanic features like Angelique but that was all they shared. The new girl's hair was black and long but messy. It was all back and out of her eyes but there was no consistent cut line, and yet Kelly thought that must be the way it was supposed to look given how it laid. That was as normal as she got though because as Kelly's eyes headed south the rest of her was brought into focus. The girl was wearing a simple red t-shirt that was stretched tight across her chest, not because of the size of her chest, which was still pleasantly full, but just because of the size of her. Nothing seemed out of proportion but just looking at her shoulders and upper arms Kelly could see cords of dense muscle moving under the soft copper skin of her body. Her wide shoulders and strong arms pulled her shirt to the point where it looked liked she would rip right out of it if she tried to do anything strenuous. Her khaki colored shorts covered most of her upper thighs leaving only a few inches of skin exposed over her knees and that was all the skin they exposed because starting a couple inches above her knees the rest of her legs were covered in a charcoal gray fur. They weren't human legs either, both had an extra joint which made a little sense given that instead of human feet she had paws, not unlike a dog's. They might have seemed out of place, except that the same pattern was repeated on her arms. Charcoal fur from just above her elbows right down to her hands, which were a little more human, if you ignored the long sharp claws tipping each finger. So engrossed had Kelly been in looking at her that he only noticed the long triangular ears that poked up through her black hair after it all and when they twitched nervously.
"This is Doris," Angelique said pointing towards the shorter girl, "and Lupina," she said indicating the amazon next to her. "My little lamb and my big strong wolf."
Doris 'Hmmph'd at that, turning her nose up at the collected group. Lupina's reaction was the opposite, a wag of her apparently long slate gray tail and a smile. Which was disconcerting since her canines were elongated to the point of being wicked looking fangs.
"Wow," Kaitlyn said softly with her eyes still locked on the wolfgirl.
"Umm, hello," Kelly said. He was suddenly acutely aware of the fact that the only way out of the kitchen was by the big predatory juujin.
"Well, aren't you the eloquent one," Doris sniped. "I can see why Suarah was so smitten with you."
"Doris!" Angelique hissed. "Behave."
"Hmmph," Doris snorted before turning and walking back to her room. Kelly could see something moving above her rear under her dress and he suspected she had a tail.
"You're not what we were expecting," Lupina said. Her voice had a smoky growl to it, sexy and a little threatening all at the same time with a bass rumble that emanated somewhere in her upper chest. "You'll have to forgive her."
"Doris the bitch," Angelique muttered.
"Well to be honest we weren't expecting this either," Kelly explained.
"Sue told me about it," Angelique said. "Happen to you a lot with a name like that?"
Kelly shrugged, "Not as much as you'd think but when it happens it always happens big."
"Well that's what you get for having a girl's name," the latina said with a grin. "You guys need any help unpacking?"
"No, we already took care of it," Charlene said. Her long ears started to perk up as Lupina walked away.
Lupina backed away from Angelique and headed after Doris muttering something about "Cheering her up."
"Damn, and I was hoping to get a peek in your underwear drawers."
Kelly snorted. "Boxer briefs."
"Not your's, their's," Angelique responded with a wink and a meaningful glance to the girls.
"Waste of time," Kaitlyn said as she bounced on her toes making the most prominent parts of her anatomy jiggle for their roommate's benefit.
"We don't wear any," Georgia said as she scooped up a few bags destined for their room and squeezed past their roommate with Kaitlyn in tow.
Angelique watched them leave then turned back to Charlene and Kelly. "Ohhh, I am going to like living with you guys." Charlene took Kelly's hand in hers. "I'll let you guys unload your stuff and get it squared away. We need to get Ms. Panties-in-a-Wad out here after that and set some ground rules, kay?"
"Sounds like a good plan," Charlene said.
"Course it is, I'll be back in what, fifteen minutes?"
"See you then," Kelly said. His eyes watched Angelique walk back to her room right up until she disappeared inside, then Charlene punched him in the ribs. "Oww!"
"Eyes front pervert!" Charlene snapped as she handed him a gallon of juice to put away.
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"So, ground rules?" Angelique offered up. They'd all gotten together to talk later on that night and right now they were sitting at the big table in the dining area. Kelly and Charlene had sat down on one side with Suarah and Angelique on the other. Doris and Lupina were no where to be found and Kaitlyn and Georgia were sitting on the couch with the latest addition to their roommates, Candy. The new girl was tall, she had a few inches on everyone else in the apartment except Lupina, and she was fit. Unlike Lupina who's muscles were deliciously understated if every present Candy had apparently gone farther, working off the little bit of padding she had left to expose the strength in her arms and her toned abs. Kelly wasn't normally one for the look but he could certainly appreciate on Candy. Her bright red hair spilled of her head, curling this way and that into subtle waves that hung over the back of the couch. All that though paled compared to what she'd chosen to have done to herself.
Angelique hadn't been kidding. Intricate colorful tattoos festooned either of Candy's upper arms. Her tiny jean skirt and tight t-shirt bared a lot of skin and Kelly could see a line of stars on the side of her belly disappearing into her skirt. Every piercing that Angelique had Candy did, with quite a few more, so many in fact that Kelly really wanted to see her in the buff to look for more.
Georgia was sitting next to Candy, idly chatting with her about life in Vegas and anything else that came to mind. It was pleasant if noncommittal talk, Candy had only come into the apartment ten minutes before hand and no one really knew where she stood on them yet. Kaitlyn on the other hand was squeezed up against Candy on the couch, looking her tattoos and piercings over with intense interest.
"I'll do whatever it takes," Kelly said spreading his arms wide on the table. "I don't wanna make waves I just wanna to go to school."
"Then find a new place," Suarah snarked under her breath.
Kelly's lips drew thin. He knew she didn't want him there but she was starting to just be a petulant brat about it. "Come on Sue," Angelique coaxed. "You know what's going on around here. Even this place is looking for reasons to evict residents to bring in new people who'll pay more."
"How is that our problem?" Suarah said as she crossed her arms and leaned back in her chair.
Charlene cut in before Angelique could respond. "We know you don't want us here and believe me we understand, but we're willing to do what we have to in order to make this work."
"Don't make a big mess, we can either share groceries or we can segregate them but that's a pain in the ass," Angelique explained. "Me and Sue usually go shopping together and split the bill sixty-forty on account of me being with Doris and Lupe' and her only with Candy."
"That seems reasonable," Charlene said. "So do you cook together?"
"Usually," Angelique said. "Easier to fix something nice for a group than solo."
"How much do ya'll eat though?" Suarah asked.
Kelly looked at her quizzically. "What do you mean?"
"I mean how much do you people eat?" Suarah said. "What about," she waved towards the couch, "Kat or whoever. How much does she eat?"
"Suarah, just drop it," Angelique said.
Suarah leaned forward and put her hands on the edge of the table. "No, I'm dead serious. How do we know it'll be even, one of them could eat like a horse or something."
"Well," Kelly said, trying to appease her, "Kaitlyn does eat a lot."
"Hey!" Kaitlyn yelped from the couch.
"But because of her none of us really eat breakfast ever," Charlene quickly added. "It balances out."
"The hell it does," Suarah snapped.
Angelique put her hand on her friend's. "Sue, just drop it ok, it'll be fine."
"I am not underwriting someone gorging themselves at my expense," she declared.
"She won't," Kelly said. "I'll pay whatever the difference is between what the grocery bill is now and what it'll become."
"See, fine," Angelique said.
Suarah wasn't mollified.
"What else," Charlene prodded. "What about chores?"
"Chores?" Angelique asked blankly.
"Cleaning up you spoiled brat," Suarah said.
"Ohh! Right. Well, I dunno, split them up?"
Suarah rolled her eyes, "What the princess means is that we alternate. Whoever cooks the other one cleans up. Sometimes I clean the apartment but usually Doris and Lupe' get it."
"Ok," Charlene said. "What else?"
Both other girls paused for a moment and seemed to think about it. "I dunno, that's all I got," Angelique said.
"Don't worry, I still got some," Suarah said. She fixed Charlene with her eyes and jabbed a finger at Kelly. "I don't want to see his out of his room without clothes on. I don't want to have to see or listen to anything that you all do, got it?"
Kelly wanted to be offended but he spent most mornings in his boxer briefs. If not for living with these girls he had no doubt he still would. As for the rest of it, that shouldn't be too hard. He wasn't looking for an audience and it would mostly entail making sure Kaitlyn knew the limits. Besides, he needed this apartment. "No problem."
"Of course," Charlene echoed.
"I don't wanna come in and find you fucking on the couch or in the kitchen or anything like that, understood?"
"Come on Sue," Angelique whined.
"Fine, you won't," Kelly said wondering what it was going to take to quiet her down.
"And no bringing friends over." Suarah added. "I've got studying to do and I can't do it if you have a frat party in here."
Kelly frowned a bit but nodded his assent. He didn't have much of a choice.
"And if you've got a girlfriend everything goes for her too," Suarah said as she jammed a finger against the table top for emphasis.
"I'm sitting right here," Charlene said testily.
"What?" Suarah snapped.
"His girlfriend. I'm sitting right here," Charlene said crossing her arms over her chest. "If you want to say something to me then say it."
Suarah blinked hard and her eyes shifted rapidly between Kelly and Charlene. Kelly nodded his assent slowly and Suarah cleared her throat. "Well fine, same thing goes for you too, no packs of sorority chicks or anything. Keep it out of my face."
"Anything else?" Charlene asked coldly.
Suarah sat and fumed for a moment, obviously trying to think up some other draconian rule but failing. "Not now."
"Ok then," Angelique said softly. "Come on guys, we're going to be living together. Lets not start off fighting." She turned in her seat and called, "Lupina!? Sweetie, come here."
The tall wolfgirl stalked into the room. A new little detail caught Kelly's eyes, a tight little black collar around Lupina's neck. "Yes Mistress," she asked demurely.
"Can you be a love and get us something to drink?" Angelique asked her with a smile.
"Of course Mistress," Lupina answered before disappearing into the kitchen, her long charcoal tail swishing behind her hips.
Kelly could catch glimpses of her through the pass through working in there but Angelique had his eye. He was trying to imagine asking any of his girls something like that and couldn't. Kaitlyn would just laugh at him, Georgia ignore him, and Charlene probably would get a glass of water and then toss it in his face.
Angelique saw Charlene and Kelly watching her and shrugged. "Doris would have told me to get it myself." They waited in silence for a moment before the wolfgirl returned and deposited several glasses of tea in front of them all.
"I wasn't sure how you would take it so its unsweetened and I brought you the sugar," Lupina explained gesturing towards their glasses and then the small pot she'd brought.
"Thank you," Charlene said. Kelly nodded his assent and both of them took care of their tea quickly. When Kelly took a sip he was surprised, it tasted exceptionally good.
"This is really good," he said.
Lupin blushed slightly and bowed.
"She makes great tea," Angelique explained. "Learned it from her grandmother." She waved Lupina away and gave her a little smack on the rump as she passed. Lupina hopped up slightly and kept going, her tail wagging a bit harder. "So, what brings you two here?"
"My Mustang," Kelly said with a smirk. He suppressed the yelp when Charlene kicked him under the table for his lame attempt at levity. Even a light warning kick hurt like hell when delivered by a juujin.
"Can you think of a better place to study resort management than here?" Charlene asked.
"I guess not," Angelique said as she sipped her tea.
"Orlando," Suarah said.
Charlene's face screwed up in disgust. "Resorts not run by a giant rat."
The mention of Orlando had gotten Kelly thinking. For a time it had been a front runner in their minds. Plenty of resorts and a good local school could have done them well. Regardless of what Charlene had said they'd thought about it. Yet as soon as Stacy had mentioned she meant to head there it had dropped from consideration. Looking back Kelly knew why. Going to the same school as Stacy would have made it too tempting. They were too comfortable together. It would have been too easy to slip back into the old arrangement with her. They both had no illusions about what they had but it was still oh so tempting. They both knew the other deserved better though and had been intent to let one another go so they'd both gone in opposite directions, literally.
"It can't be that bad," Angelique prodded.
Charlene shook her head. "It is. There's one real amusement park there that controls everything. Even if they don't own your company they still tell you what to do because no one wants to piss them off. Here there's competition amongst equals. It's more interesting.'
"Well some are more equal than others," Suarah replied as she took a swig of her tea.
"Animal Farm," Kelly said with a grin.
Angelique looked perplexed. "Huh?"
"It's a quote from a book. 'All animals are equal, but some are more equal than others.' George Orwell wrote it," Kelly explained. "We had to read it in senior English. I liked it."
"I bet you did," Suarah snarked.
"What's that supposed to mean?" Charlene butted in.
Suarah was about to take another drink but paused and looked back and forth between the others at the table before setting her drink down in shock. "You're kidding me right? You all are kidding me. You didn't just see the way Lupina was treated, the way the whole damn world treats people like her, and not get that?"
"Not this again," Angelique moaned.
"Yes this again damn it," Suarah snarled. "Neither of you treat her with any respect AT. ALL. And its the same as the whole damn country."
"You are not going to lecture me, ME, about this are you? Honestly?" Angelique shot back.
"Until you hear it for once," Suarah snapped.
"When are you going to listen to me that she's fine with that, that's what she wants!"
"To be treated like a servant and ordered around?"
"Have you ever seen her unhappy?"
"That's beside the point!" Suarah shot back, her tea forgotten on the table. "This whole damn country wants to treat them just the way you are right now. They want to strip away their rights even if they have to strip them of their humanity first. You should know this, you're supposed to be on their side, and yet at home you do shit like that!"
Angelique shook her head despondently and sipped her tea, unwilling to continue what appeared to be an old argument.
"And uh, I'm here for architecture," Kelly added sheepishly.
"Oh fuck this," Suarah snarled. She got up from her seat and stormed to her bedroom, slamming the door behind her.
Angelique sighed. "You'll have to forgive Suarah. She's not usually like this."
"I hope not," Kelly snorted.
"You've got her more on edge than I've seen her in a long time."
"Well we're not here to cause trouble," Charlene assured her. "We just want to go to school."
"I know," Angelique assured her. "I would just give her her space for now. She'll calm down."
On the couch Candy was disentangling herself from Kaitlyn and headed to Suarah's room.
"Kind of hard when we live in the same apartment," Kelly observed.
"Probably," Angelique agreed. "But what's life without a little conflict right?"
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Dramatis Persona
Kelly Chambers - 19 Years old. Born March 11th, 1991. Freshman Architecture Major at the University of Nevada, Las Vegas
Charlene O'Hara- 19 Years old. Born April 17th, 1991. Twin of Georgia. Freshman Lodging and Resort Management Major at UNLV. Thresholded at age 18 into a bunny-type juujin.
Kaitlyn Chambers - 17 Years old. Born February 15th, 1993. Thresholded at age 15 into a cow type juujin.
Georgia O'Hara - 19 Years old. Born April 17th, 1991. Twin of Charlene. Thresholded at age 18 into a cat type juujin.
Suarah Jones - 20 Years old. Born November 10th, 1990. Sophmore Business and Accounting Major at UNLV.
Candy Holmes - 20 Years old. Born December 12th, 1990. Thresholded at age 16 into a near human juujin.
Angelique Trejo- 21 Years old. Born July 18th, 1989. Junior Art (Sculpting) Major at UNLV.
Doris Lohsher - 18 Years old. Born August 2nd, 1992. Thresholded at age 16 into a lamb type juujin.
Lupina Hernandez - 19 Years old. Born June 6th, 1991. Thresholded at age 14 into a wolf type juujin.
Timeline:
November 2006, (15yo) Kelly meets Stacy and starts to date her.
February 2007, (15yo) Kelly meets Charlene and starts to date her.
December 2008, (17yo) Kaitlyn thresholds at 15. Chooses Kelly to look after her.
March 2009, (18 yo) Kaitlyn moves in with Kelly.
October 2009, (18yo) Georgia thresholds. Charlene convinces her parents Kelly could look after her.
November 2009, (18yo) Amicable breakup with Stacy
December 2009, (18yo) Georgia moves into Kelly's house.
March 2010, (19yo) Charlene breaks down at Kelly's birthday party and thresholds. Moves in with Kelly shortly after.
May 2010, (19yo) Kelly, Charlene, & Georgia graduate High School
August 2010, (19yo) Kelly and Charlene start classes at UNLV.
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Author's Notes (7/10/10)
1) For anyone wondering the Wildcat is a creation of Lighthawk and his property entirely. It's location is at the corner of E. Harmon Blvd. and Las Vegas Blvd. S. Yes, its the site of the Planet Hollywood. In the juujin timeline the old Aladdin casino struggled on for a few more years before collapsing and it was bought out, bulldozed, and turned into the Wildcat Resort Hotel and Casino. If you want to know more about it, bug Lighthawk.
2) Been waiting for a long time to use my lamb and wolfgirls.
3) I keep getting self conscious about super long opening chapters and then tailing off in word count as I go. The big issue is the first chapter or two are always set up and launching points. In this case I had a ton of background to lay down. I'd expect most chapters to be between 5 and 8k words normally.
4) The main juujin site is located at: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/Juujin/
Email me if you want at: bsmartfanfic@yahoo.com I'll respond to your email but I don't promise you'll like it.
Thanks as always to Lighthawk who continues to subject himself to my endless stream of consciouness e-mails and rambling discussions about nothing.
By: bsmart
Disclaimer: Rated NC-17 for the good stuff, you’ve been warned. If the idea of sex with a catgirl disgusts you then walk away. If not, read on.
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Chapter 3: A Boy Named Sue
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Nevada Gaming Commission Formalizes New Rules
Associated Press
By Josiah Bartlett, Associated Press Writer Josiah Bartlett – 55 mins ago
8/17/2010
Today the Nevada Gaming Commission formally put into effect a new set of regulations governing the running of casinos in the state of Nevada. The new regulations mandate that casinos code gaming chips to individual players, minimize the amount of cash on hand, institute new standards covering the hiring of juujin employees, and a slew of regulations governing the design of gaming equipment to prevent tampering by juujin. Several industry analysts have noted that the new regulations replace nearly every existing regulation but without the exhaustive detail of the former rules. This has led to some concern about casinos liberally interpreting the rules to benefit themselves.
Thomas Nguyen of the Digital Gaming Association, a firm specializing in the design and distribution of electronic gaming surveillance, a system that will allow casinos to track gaming results for unprecedented lucky streaks, the tell tale marker of a human or juujin influencing the odds, was quick to defend the new rulings. He stated, "These new regulations have to be flexible as much of the equipment that will be needed to comply with them is still being designed. No one knows exactly what it's going to take to comply with them in a manner that meets both the customer's and the casino's needs. I'm sure that as the industry goes through this evolution we'll find things that don't work and those that do allowing the laws to be fine tuned."
The Gaming Commission was forced to re-evaluate the gaming regulations in the wake of the casino crash of 2004. Juujin were found to be influencing the outcome of games and in some cases robbing the casinos directly of their large on hand cash reserves. Several struggling casinos such as the Aladdin were forced into bankruptcy after a series of particularly brazen robberies that stole an estimated quarter billion dollars of hard cash from several casinos along the strip.
The Gaming Commission has set a compliance date of June 30th, 2011 but most surviving casinos have already been upgraded in ways to ensure compliance with the new rulings. The Gaming Commission announced in early February 2005 that it would be drafting new regulations for the gaming industry in Nevada but efforts were stalled by multiple special interest groups such as the Casino Gaming Manufacturers Association who were seeking to protect their current stock of gaming machines, or the Community Action League of Las Vegas who were seeking to greatly reduce the legality of gambling in Las Vegas. Due to the delay in drafting new regulations the Gaming Commission quietly suspended many of their rulings about cash on hand requirements and game designs, allowing the casinos to remain in operation even as they incorporated new technology that previous regulations wouldn't have allowed.
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"Oh fuck no!"
Kelly blinked as the short black girl put her hands on her hips and glared at him defiantly. When she'd asked what he was doing in her apartment and he'd told her it was his apartment to he hadn't quite expected that violent a reaction.
"Someone has the wrong damn apartment," she said.
Kelly held up his key. "Yeah, well my key works just fine in the door so I don't think it's me."
Charlene came up beside him holding out the copy of their lease she had. "See, we've got a lease for this apartment," she said defensively. No wonder given that she'd taken care of most of the work for it.
"Yeah well I don't care about you," the girl said as she stabbed a finger at Kelly's chest. "I just don't want him here."
"Hey, what the hell did I do?" Kelly asked defensively.
"Girls only apartment asshole!"
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Kelly stood beside Suarah, he'd been able to get her name out of her as she'd stormed her way to the office, waiting for the office staff to find the time to talk to them. Charlene had come with them and was busy thumbing through all the documents she'd kept relating to their apartment. He knew she had everything from the lease to every e-mail that was sent back and forth between the broker, the apartment complex, and herself. She didn't do anything halfway.
Suarah looked positively pissed off but Kelly's judgment might not be that good, she'd been wearing that expression since she'd first laid eyes on him. Lips drawn thin in a scowl, her brows low, eyes narrow, nose scrunched up, she looked ready to bite his head off. It might have been humorous if the girl wasn't trying to get him kicked out of the apartment. Truth was he certainly wouldn't have minded sharing an apartment with her, she was actually quite beautiful with her mocha colored skin and her reddish brown hair pulled into tight little corn rows on top of her head, bushing out into a big round bun behind her head. She looked to have a pretty nice figure as well but her baggy red t-shirt and loose khaki cargo pants made that determination hard.
"My name is Becky, how may I help you today?" A pleasant woman asked from one of the office desks. She couldn't have been much older than Kelly and Suarah were but her hair was steel gray. She smiled sweetly but there was something off about her movements, just a little sway in her body like she was bouncing up and down and side to side slowly and gently in her chair.
"Yeah, you put this guy in my apartment," Suarah said quickly, taking the initiative.
"It's the apartment we were booked for," Charlene stated flatly.
The woman nodded diplomatically. "Names please?"
"Jones, Suarah Jones," his apparent roommate said.
"Kelly Chambers," Kelly said.
Becky blinked and looked between him and Charlene before on Kelly. "And you are?"
"It's my apartment, well, my room in it anyways," Kelly explained.
"And she...?" the silver hair girl asked gesturing towards the bunnygirl.
"She's my..."
"I'm his roommate," Charlene said quickly.
"Oh, of course," Becky said. "The ears."
"The what?" Charlene asked tersely.
"Your ears," Becky stuttered. "I mean with you being a juujin and Mr. Chambers a human the apartment would have obviously been in his name."
"Obviously?" Charlene snarled.
Kelly took a half step towards her and placed a hand on his girlfriend's arm. "Not the time," he whispered.
Charlene swallowed once and choked down whatever it was she was feeling. "Fine, yes. The room is in Kelly's name."
Becky was obviously a bit flustered and turned back to her computer, entering Kelly and Suarah's names and starting to look through screens quickly. She scribbled a few things down on paper as she went.
Charlene turned towards Kelly and glared at him.
"Hey, not now," he said defensively. "Let's get this figured out then you can bite her head off, deal?"
"Why is the room obviously in your name?" She hissed at him. "Because I've got weird ears I couldn't sign a contract?"
"Don't stress about it Char," Kelly urged her.
"Easy for you to say," Charlene snapped softly. "You don't have every human treating you like you're some kind of concubi..." Charlene's voice drifted off as her eyes snapped back to the receptionist.
Kelly turned his head to see what was going on to discover Becky uncoiling herself from behind her desk, literally. As her torso rose a foot into the air Kelly could see a solid tail of lime green scales emerging from what on a human girl would have been a mini-skirt.
"Give me a moment to go check the records in the back," Becky said calmly as her body bent below her skirt and she picked up the piece of paper she'd been writing on. "Be right back," she assured them before she slithered out from behind her desk.
Kelly could only stare as Becky headed for the back room like some kind of medusa come to life, her perfectly normal looking torso blending into some kind of fifteen foot long snake tail that she was balanced on. As she slipped into the back room Kelly could note the diamond shaped pattern of orange scales that wet down her back bone, or dorsal,... hell he didn't know what to call it. He knew that there were girls like Becky in the world, even seen some pictures on the internet of them, but it was the first time he'd ever come into face to face contact with a snake girl. The experience was all a bit disconcerting.
"What's the matter," Suarah snarked as she crossed her arms over her chest. "Never seen a real juujin before?"
"Not one like that," Kelly answered distractedly.
"Where'd she hide that tail?" Charlene asked.
A few minutes later Becky returned holding a pair of file folders and a pensive look on her face. She slid up to her desk and sank back down to sitting height behind it. "I think I found the problem," she said as she opened up one file folder and laid it down in full view. Inside were several sheets of paper but the one on top was stained, wrinkled, and half torn. Most of the writing was unintelligible.
"What's that?" Charlene asked.
"Your personal information form," Becky explained.
"Did the dog eat it?" Kelly asked as he checked the form out. Aside from his name there was little legible on the form.
"Someone spilled their coffee on it and it was almost thrown away. I managed to snag it out of the garbage before that but..." her voice trailed off as she gave them all an apologetic look.
"So what?" Suarah asked. "It's still a female apartment and he's not." She glared at Kelly as if to emphasize the point.
"Well, we decide on which apartment to put you in based off the information in this form and this one was ruined," Becky explained.
"So why didn't you get another?" Suarah demanded.
Becky sighed and composed herself. "There wasn't time. We have limits on when we have to assign rooms to people and we were up against them. Besides," she glanced at Kelly. "At the time we didn't think anything important was missing."
Suarah's eyes snapped to Kelly. "Are you kidding?"
"The name on the form was Kelly," Becky explained, shifting her eyes to Charlene, "and the voice I spoke with on the phone was always female."
"So you just assumed?" Suarah spat.
"Yes, and it seemed entirely reasonable," Becky explained curtly.
"Oh lord," Charlene moaned beside Kelly as she brought her hand up to her face and hid behind it.
"Well, I'm not," Kelly said.
"Obviously," Becky said.
Suarah bent over and put her hands on Becky's desk, bringing her face closer to the snakegirl's level. "So fix it."
"I can't," Becky replied.
"What?" Kelly and Suarah said at the same time.
"I can't fix it, we're full up. The school's managed to turn its enrollment around and every apartment and every room is spoken for. There's no where for me to move Mr. Chambers too," Becky explained.
"Well he can't live with me!" Suarah said.
Becky spread her hands wide. "Well what would you have me do? I have no where to move him to and unless a woman was put into a man's apartment and wants to be moved out I have no one to switch him with."
Kelly looked back and forth between Suarah and Becky nervously. They'd picked Mas Verde apartments because it was close to campus, allowed juujin, and most importantly it was pretty damn cheap. The only other places that were as cheap and allowed juujin were clear across town. He'd have an hour long commute just to get to school.
"Not my problem," Suarah said in a sing song voice.
"It's a big one for us," Kelly said. "I don't have anywhere else I can stay."
"Well you can't stay in my apartment," Suarah snapped.
"Look, we both got into UNLV and we're both starting there in a week. There aren't any other apartments around that allow juujin and we can afford. If we can't stay here we've gotta pack up and head home for Texas," Kelly pleaded.
"As far as management is concerned there's no issue with him staying in the apartment," Becky explained. "In fact we don't promise unisex apartments. We make the effort and usually succeed but its not policy."
Suarah huffed. Her scowl was softening slightly but she wasn't happy.
Charlene walked past Kelly to stand beside Suarah. "Please, we need this place to live. We'll keep him on a short leash. We promise."
Suarah considered Charlene for a moment, then glanced over her shoulder at Kelly. She glared at him before going back to Charlene. "You'd better damn well make sure he keeps his dick to himself. He so much as gives me a look and I'll call the cops on his ass."
"Promise, we'll keep him confined to the bed at all times," Charlene teased.
"If it becomes a problem, and both of the roommates have issue with Mr. Chambers then the two of you can file a complaint with the office and have Mr. Chambers removed if there's just cause," Becky assured Suarah.
Suarah's nose flared as she huffed again. "Fine, but consider me already ready to file one of those complaints. Piss off Angelique and I'll be happy to sign that paper with her."
"Best behavior, promise," Kelly assured her.
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"A snake, are you shitting me?" Kaitlyn asked.
"Boa constrictor I think," Charlene confirmed.
"Don't you have some snakegirl pictures like that in the porn stash," Georgia asked Kelly.
"What?" He stuttered.
"I think he does," Kaitlyn said.
Kelly glanced around at all the girls, they weren't kidding. It was an honest question. "Yeah," he said. "I do."
"Thought so," Georgia said. "This girl didn't have the big round cobra thing though did she?"
"A hood, no," Kelly said as he turned and found putting his socks into his dresser absolutely fascinating.
"He likes that though, most of the snakegirls had one," Kaitlyn chimed in.
"Fucking A, does everyone know about that?" Kelly snapped.
"Pretty much," Kaitlyn piped up.
Kelly glared over at Charlene and she just blew him a kiss with a wink. She got serious quickly though. "The important part is that one of our roommates is already in a bad mood and ready to kick us out. If we piss off the other one we're out on our asses with no where to go."
"What's this Suarah girl's problem anyways?" Kaitlyn asked. "Kelly doesn't look like a rapist."
"Not like you can rape the willing anyways," Kelly said.
Kaitlyn blew him a kiss and moo'd.
"Probably likes walking around naked," Georgia offered. She picked up a box of books and tossed it on the bed before starting to unload it onto the book shelves that had been put up. The box was filled to the brim and weighed easily eighty pounds but Georgia had tossed it like it was full of pillows. Some things still amazed Kelly when he saw them.
"I wouldn't mind that," Charlene said. She looked at where the movers had left the desk and pushed it to the side a few more inches. "But it doesn't matter one way or another. We can't piss them off alright?" She turned and looked right at Kaitlyn. "So be on your best behavior."
Kaitlyn tossed her arms wide. "What the hell?" she demanded in a hurt voice.
"Best. Behavior," Charlene emphasized.
Kelly chuckled as he put the last of his clothes in the drawer.
"That goes for you too Mister," Charlene declared.
"Hey!"
"Just act like an adult, if the little cow comes onto you at least make it back in here before you fuck her."
"Spoilsport," Kaitlyn complained.
"Who's this other room mate?" Georgia asked as she piled the books onto the shelf. Kelly frowned, he'd have to reorganize all of them when she finished.
"Someone named Angelique," Charlene said as she started to pull cables and devices out of a box labeled 'computer.'
"She cute?" Georgia asked hopefully as she broke down the box she'd just unloaded and picked up another.
"Haven't seen her yet," Charlene said. "I was hoping maybe you two had while we were gone."
"Nope," Georgia said as she picked up another eighty pound box like it was nothing. "I hope she's cute," she said with a lecherous smile.
"Hey!" Kelly protested.
"You said we're one dick juujin, you never said anything about pussy," Charlene teased.
"Yeah well... take pictures," Kelly said.
Unpacking lasted most of the next hour, even with the amount of stuff they'd brought along with four people unpacking and organizing it things went quickly. The room was about the same size as their old one, which was a god-send because with four people living in it if it was much smaller it'd be unlivable.
The apartment itself was surprisingly spacious for what they were paying for it, but like many universities UNLV had taken it in the shorts with enrollment in the last decade. Where as ten years ago Mas Verde might have been able to cherry pick residents and charge whatever they pleased now they had to cut their prices down just to fill the place up. They'd signed their lease at just the right time though. UNLV's enrollment was on the upswing. In fact anything at all to do with Las Vegas was on the upswing. Most people attributed it to Vegas and Nevada's stance on juujin which was about as liberal as you'd find in the country. Charlene could attend college, no questions asked, and there were no local Jim Crow laws that would prevent Kaitlyn and Georgia from finding jobs. Juujin were actually treated like people in Nevada and much to the chagrin of everyone who wanted to treat them as slaves Nevada was absolutely booming economically.
So they'd gotten a spacious apartment at a hell of a deal. The entrance was on the south side of the apartment and it opened into a hard wood floored hallway. On the left a little ways in was a utility room, washer and dryer with the water heater and not much else. Plenty of space to store things. On the right was Suarah's room, at least Kelly assumed it was. That's where she'd stormed into and slammed the door when they'd gotten back to the apartment. On the right was a spacious kitchen with a big fridge and even a pantry in the back. Kelly was glad for the space because he knew they'd need it with Kaitlyn's appetite. It was tiled and like every kitchen in the last decade it seemed had stainless steel appliances. From there the hallway opened up into the living room/dining room. The kitchen had a pass through to the living room and the apartment was at least semi-furnished with a surprisingly nice large table on the right hand side of the room and a row of barstools at the counter to the kitchen. A sitting area had been arranged with a couch and several love seats all facing a stunningly large LCD TV. Off to the left was a decent sized porch that looked out to the west and the pools at the middle of the complex. On either side of the TVs were the doors in Kelly's and his other, hopefully more pleasant, roommate's room.
As for his room it was pleasantly surprising how large it was. 'Thank you crappy economy,' he thought. Sixteen feet by twelve the room was large but even with its size once you packed in all their furniture it was stuffed. Their king sized bed on the left wall under the pair of windows with their nightstands on either side. The north wall held his book shelf on the left and their desk in the middle. There wasn't a lot of room between the desk and the bed so if anyone was at it there was no getting by on that side. The south wall had a recliner in the south west corner and one of the girl's big dressers on it taking up most of the wall. The entrance door was also on that wall in the opposite corner from the recliner. His dresser was on the right wall and the space between it and the south wall dresser made it a small passage into the room but they didn't have much choice. On the other side of his dresser was the door into the bathroom and beyond that another big dresser for the girls.
The bathroom was a decent sized, fairly normal except for the over sized shower/tub on the north wall. In the bathroom was the entrance to their small walk in closet. For one person it would have been incredibly roomy, for four it was going to get filled up fast.
Kelly flopped down on top of the bed as Kaitlyn and Georgia unloaded the last of their clothes into the closet. Charlene crawled up with him and took his head in her lap. He smiled up at her upside down face and blew her a kiss.
"Now what?" He asked.
Charlene looked at the windows where the setting sun was turning the shades golden. "Sleep?"
Kelly snorted. "Too early. It's only what, seven?"
"About," Charlene said.
"So tomorrow's Wednesday. Classes start next Monday right?"
Charlene nodded as she stroked his hair. "Yup."
"That means we need to buy books, school stuff, all that in the next couple of days," Kelly said as he relaxed in his girlfriend's lap.
"It does, but we've other things to do," Charlene said.
Kelly tilted his head back to look her in the eye. No mean feet with a chest like her's. "Like what?"
"How about some food?" Charlene said with a smirk.
"Oh yeah, that," Kelly said, suddenly acutely aware of how hungry he was.
"And some TP too. This place is empty," Kaitlyn called from the bathroom.
Kelly snorted. It was still a bit of a trip to get used to just how acute the girl's senses were. He'd thought he'd been sharing a quiet moment with Charlene but more than likely both of the other girls had heard everything. "So I guess we're going to the grocery store tonight?"
"Dinner first, groceries next," Charlene said. "Last thing we need to do is go to a grocery store with Kaitlyn hungry."
"Ha ha ha," Kaitlyn said dryly from the bathroom. "You're so funny."
"And while we're there maybe ya can look fer ah job ya little freeloading heifer," Charlene snarked. Kelly could look up and see the grin on her face in spite of the vitriol in her tone.
"Hey, I do stuff around here!" Kaitlyn piped up to defend herself.
"Whoopty do," Charlene drawled. "They sell milk in stores now."
"Hey!" Kaitlyn squealed. She stomped out of the bathroom and glare at Charlene. "My stuff's better than any old stupid cow's!"
Charlene waved her hand dismissively, "Eh."
Kaitlyn's mouth dropped open in shock. "What!? Fine, see if I let you have any tomorrow!"
"More for me!" Georgia chirped from the bathroom.
Kelly couldn't contain it anymore and started to crack up.
"You...," Kaitlyn started. Then Charlene's facade crumbled and she started to laugh too. "Oh screw both of you! See if either of you get any tomorrow!" Then it was Kaitlyn's turn to squeak as Georgia pressed up against her back and reached around to cup both of Kaitlyn's huge tits.
"Mmm, all mine!"
Kaitlyn actually managed to turn beet red to Kelly's surprise. The girl didn't usually have any shame.
"Just teasing Sugar," Charlene said smoothly. "But you have worked in a grocery store before."
"Yeah and it sucks," Kaitlyn replied, untangling herself from Georgia. She walked over to the recliner and flopped into it. "What about something on campus?"
"Maybe," Kelly said. "But do you want college guys staring at you all day as you work?"
"What, as opposed ta the one 'at stares at her at home?" Charlene prodded. Kelly could tell she was relaxed and happy the way her natural accent was starting to slip out.
"Har har," Kelly droned.
"It'd be different, ya know?" She said. "Maybe in a restaurant or something."
Kelly sat up out of Charlene's lap and pulled himself up to the top of the bed so he could sit up and talk to his cousin. Charlene followed, laying next to him and draping herself over him. "Well, we gotta get books and get oriented so I was figuring on going to campus tomorrow anyways. We can look then."
"What about you sis?" Charlene asked.
Georgia had come out of the bathroom so silently that Kelly had completely missed it. She didn't have any pads on her feet, and he'd checked every inch of her body quite extensively, and yet when she walked she didn't make a sound unless she meant too. "Maybe a casino or something. I'd rather work a bar in a casino than another restaurant."
"We'll you've got plenty to pick from," Kelly said. "Hell, there are two on this street. Hard Rock by the school and that juujin place just up the road on the strip."
"The Wildcat?" Charlene asked dubiously.
"That's the one," Kelly said with a nod.
"I dunno about that," Charlene said nervously.
"That's the one owned by a juujin right? Has almost nothing but juujin working in it?" Georgia clarified.
Kelly nodded enthusiastically. Any time he'd mentioned moving to Vegas on the JJDepot it had been accompanied by a throng of guys telling him he had to go. If even half the stories they told were true he knew he'd have to stop by, even for just a peek.
"Sounds perfect to me," Georgia said with a smirk.
"Yeah, if you wanna start turning tricks," Charlene snarked. "That place is bad news."
"Come on sis, so what? Plenty of vertical jobs there, it's a hotel and casino."
Charlene frowned, "It's just a bad idea. They glorify the idea of juujin as mindless sluts."
"Yeah well we're not," Kaitlyn piped in.
"I know that," Charlene said. "Doesn't help bozos like this one," she said jerking a finger at Kelly, "that you can spot a girl you like in that place and take her back to your room for a screw."
"It's not like that...," Kelly started to say, then he felt all eyes, including Charlene's less than pleased ones, on him. "...at least that's what I hear."
"Uh huh," Charlene said dubiously.
"Can we talk about this later?" Kaitlyn asked. "I'm hungry and it's not getting any brighter outside."
"Sounds good to me," Kelly said getting up off the bed. Charlene and Georgia had the look in their eyes that signaled this could get ugly. Most of the time Georgia, like Kaitlyn, was fine to let Charlene take the lead in just about every thing. From dinner plans to sleeping arrangements to sexual activities they were usually fine with her taking charge and going along with it. Once in a while though something sparked up between the sisters and Georgia told her just where to get off. Charlene didn't take well to having her presumed authority challenged. The last time they'd had an 'argument' about something like this Kelly had managed to wind up soaking wet and electrocuted when he'd tried to break it up. He'd promised himself to stay out it from then on.
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"Ya know, if they're going to call it 'All You Can Eat,' where do they get off giving me the evil eye for eating everything I can?"
"You were on your fifth plate," Georgia said as they all trudged up the stairs, arms full of numerous grocery and shopping bags.
"Then they should call it, 'All a Human Can Eat,' or something like that," Kaitlyn complained.
"Five pounds of shrimp, three of crab legs, and two lobster tails. Where the hell do you put it?" Charlene asked as they got to the top. The girls waited as Kelly fumbled with the keys and got the door open. He held it open for them as they went inside. Each girl was carrying more than he could have in three trips and he figured it was the least he could do.
"My tits, duh! Where do you guys think all that milk comes from you suck out of me each morning?"
Kelly let the door shut behind him and headed for the kitchen where he dumped his bags on the counter half a second before he froze. They weren't alone.
Sitting at the kitchen counter was an attractive latina girl, leaning forward on her steepled hands and staring at them intently. "Now that sounds like a wonderful breakfast."
"Uhhh, hi," Kelly stammered. Their usual breakfast wasn't exactly public knowledge and he was more than a little embarrassed for this girl to have heard it.
"Hi to you too," she said with a smile.
"I'm Kelly," he managed to get out before his mind shut down again. He was far too busy taking in the sight before him to really waste mental horsepower on talking. The girl was cute, her face was oval and thin, her features defined without being sharp. Her hair was a shiny obsidian black but a wide strip of it on her left side was electric blue. Kelly wondered for a moment if she was a human or a juujin. Hair color might have been a dead give away if there weren't a sizable number of women who'd taken to dyeing their hair impossible shades that only a juujin could have. Whoever she was she seemed to like having holes poked in her. Her right eyebrow was pierced with a hoop and a small stud poked out the left side of her nose. Another hoop hooked around the left side of her bottom lip. Both her ears had multiple piercings though most were small, tasteful studs and hoops but on the left ear she'd had a few hoops put in at the top of the ear right through the cartilage while on the right a long silver bar pierced the bottom rear side of her ear right up to the top front part of it.
"I'm Angelique," she said in a bubbly voice that made Kelly think she might actually be happy to see him. She slipped off the stool and Kelly realize that she was only about an inch shorter than him, which was new after being with Charlene and Georgia who's long ballerina bodies were actually a little taller than him, and Kaitlyn who was a half a foot shorter. She came around the short wall that capped the end of the kitchen and came in. She was wearing a tight white tank top and a pair of cut off jean shorts with no shoes. "You must be our room mate," she said as she offered him her hand.
"Yeah, I am," Kelly said, taking it and shaking it.
"Suarah told me all about you," she said. Then she chuckled, "Well, most of it was in four letter words but I got the gist of it."
"She didn't seem to care for me that much," Kelly said, not letting her hand go. Her skin was a dark bronze that was more than natural tone but most likely the result of a lot of time in the sun.
"Don't let Sue bother you, she hates everyone with a penis," Angelique explained. "She's just mad she can't walk around starkers anymore."
"Well don't let us stop her," Kaitlyn piped up.
It was then that Charlene gave Kelly a polite but forceful shove to the side, breaking his contact with Angelique. "Hi, I'm Charlene, Kelly's girlfriend."
If Angelique got the subtext she didn't let it phase her. "Nice to meet you," she said. She held Charlene's gaze for a moment before her eyes made a quick up and down appraisal of Charlene. "If you don't mind me saying, you're gorgeous. I love your ears. Kelly is a lucky man."
"Georgia," his catgirl said stepping next to her sister.
"Twins?" Angelique looked at Kelly, "even luckier." Her eyes returned to Georgia. "I've always liked cat juujin."
"And I'm Kaitlyn," his cousin said, squeezing in between him and the counter, molding herself to his side possessively. "His cou...OW!" She squeaked as she hopped up half an inch. She turned her head and starred daggers at Kelly.
"And you must be breakfast," Angelique said.
That made Kaitlyn smile and forget about Kelly pinching her ass. "Yes I am."
Angelique took a step towards Kaitlyn and ran a finger across the forearm she had curled around her cousin. She traced one of the brown spots that dotted her pure white skin before rubbing against it hard, testing the supple leather that covered Kaitlyn's body. Then she glanced up and blushed slightly. "I'm sorry, but whole body transforms are fascinating to me."
"Mmm, don't be," Kaitlyn purred. Her long tail coiled around Kelly in a manner he knew meant she was getting turned on. However jealous she might have felt was long gone. Kelly could feel the nymphomaniacal side of his cowgirl emerging as she looked Angelique over.
"Angel, who's there?" Someone called from the room next to Kelly's.
"Our new roommates!" Angelique called back. "Come out you two." She turned back to look at Charlene in the eye. "So the four of you will be living next door?"
"Yes we will," Charlene said. She crossed her arms under her chest. "And there's three of you?"
"There are," Angelique said. "If they'd get out here."
"Eight people in one apartment? That's kind of crowded," Georgia said as she reclined back against the stove.
"Nine actually," Angelique corrected. "I guess Sue didn't introduce you to Candy?"
They all shook their heads no.
"Figures. Well Candy is her juujin. Believe me, you'll know her when you see her. Lots of ink and more piercings than even I've got," She turned her head towards her room. "'Bout damn time."
Two girls walked into the kitchen to stand next to Angelique. The first reminded Kelly of a younger Charlene, much younger. Her face had the soft round features of a girl of fifteen or so. She was short and petite with a slender body and pale skin that matched the white summer dress she wore. Her hair was surprising though, it was stark white and in incredibly tight little curls. It covered her head, poofed up several inches before being pulled back into a short fat ponytail behind her head. The kicker though was the two short round ears that poked up through the curls. They were covered in the same white curls as the rest of her head and bright pink inside. She considered them all with a look of mild disdain on her face.
It was the second girl who commanded all the attention though. Standing well over six feet tall she was everything the small girl wasn't. She had hispanic features like Angelique but that was all they shared. The new girl's hair was black and long but messy. It was all back and out of her eyes but there was no consistent cut line, and yet Kelly thought that must be the way it was supposed to look given how it laid. That was as normal as she got though because as Kelly's eyes headed south the rest of her was brought into focus. The girl was wearing a simple red t-shirt that was stretched tight across her chest, not because of the size of her chest, which was still pleasantly full, but just because of the size of her. Nothing seemed out of proportion but just looking at her shoulders and upper arms Kelly could see cords of dense muscle moving under the soft copper skin of her body. Her wide shoulders and strong arms pulled her shirt to the point where it looked liked she would rip right out of it if she tried to do anything strenuous. Her khaki colored shorts covered most of her upper thighs leaving only a few inches of skin exposed over her knees and that was all the skin they exposed because starting a couple inches above her knees the rest of her legs were covered in a charcoal gray fur. They weren't human legs either, both had an extra joint which made a little sense given that instead of human feet she had paws, not unlike a dog's. They might have seemed out of place, except that the same pattern was repeated on her arms. Charcoal fur from just above her elbows right down to her hands, which were a little more human, if you ignored the long sharp claws tipping each finger. So engrossed had Kelly been in looking at her that he only noticed the long triangular ears that poked up through her black hair after it all and when they twitched nervously.
"This is Doris," Angelique said pointing towards the shorter girl, "and Lupina," she said indicating the amazon next to her. "My little lamb and my big strong wolf."
Doris 'Hmmph'd at that, turning her nose up at the collected group. Lupina's reaction was the opposite, a wag of her apparently long slate gray tail and a smile. Which was disconcerting since her canines were elongated to the point of being wicked looking fangs.
"Wow," Kaitlyn said softly with her eyes still locked on the wolfgirl.
"Umm, hello," Kelly said. He was suddenly acutely aware of the fact that the only way out of the kitchen was by the big predatory juujin.
"Well, aren't you the eloquent one," Doris sniped. "I can see why Suarah was so smitten with you."
"Doris!" Angelique hissed. "Behave."
"Hmmph," Doris snorted before turning and walking back to her room. Kelly could see something moving above her rear under her dress and he suspected she had a tail.
"You're not what we were expecting," Lupina said. Her voice had a smoky growl to it, sexy and a little threatening all at the same time with a bass rumble that emanated somewhere in her upper chest. "You'll have to forgive her."
"Doris the bitch," Angelique muttered.
"Well to be honest we weren't expecting this either," Kelly explained.
"Sue told me about it," Angelique said. "Happen to you a lot with a name like that?"
Kelly shrugged, "Not as much as you'd think but when it happens it always happens big."
"Well that's what you get for having a girl's name," the latina said with a grin. "You guys need any help unpacking?"
"No, we already took care of it," Charlene said. Her long ears started to perk up as Lupina walked away.
Lupina backed away from Angelique and headed after Doris muttering something about "Cheering her up."
"Damn, and I was hoping to get a peek in your underwear drawers."
Kelly snorted. "Boxer briefs."
"Not your's, their's," Angelique responded with a wink and a meaningful glance to the girls.
"Waste of time," Kaitlyn said as she bounced on her toes making the most prominent parts of her anatomy jiggle for their roommate's benefit.
"We don't wear any," Georgia said as she scooped up a few bags destined for their room and squeezed past their roommate with Kaitlyn in tow.
Angelique watched them leave then turned back to Charlene and Kelly. "Ohhh, I am going to like living with you guys." Charlene took Kelly's hand in hers. "I'll let you guys unload your stuff and get it squared away. We need to get Ms. Panties-in-a-Wad out here after that and set some ground rules, kay?"
"Sounds like a good plan," Charlene said.
"Course it is, I'll be back in what, fifteen minutes?"
"See you then," Kelly said. His eyes watched Angelique walk back to her room right up until she disappeared inside, then Charlene punched him in the ribs. "Oww!"
"Eyes front pervert!" Charlene snapped as she handed him a gallon of juice to put away.
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"So, ground rules?" Angelique offered up. They'd all gotten together to talk later on that night and right now they were sitting at the big table in the dining area. Kelly and Charlene had sat down on one side with Suarah and Angelique on the other. Doris and Lupina were no where to be found and Kaitlyn and Georgia were sitting on the couch with the latest addition to their roommates, Candy. The new girl was tall, she had a few inches on everyone else in the apartment except Lupina, and she was fit. Unlike Lupina who's muscles were deliciously understated if every present Candy had apparently gone farther, working off the little bit of padding she had left to expose the strength in her arms and her toned abs. Kelly wasn't normally one for the look but he could certainly appreciate on Candy. Her bright red hair spilled of her head, curling this way and that into subtle waves that hung over the back of the couch. All that though paled compared to what she'd chosen to have done to herself.
Angelique hadn't been kidding. Intricate colorful tattoos festooned either of Candy's upper arms. Her tiny jean skirt and tight t-shirt bared a lot of skin and Kelly could see a line of stars on the side of her belly disappearing into her skirt. Every piercing that Angelique had Candy did, with quite a few more, so many in fact that Kelly really wanted to see her in the buff to look for more.
Georgia was sitting next to Candy, idly chatting with her about life in Vegas and anything else that came to mind. It was pleasant if noncommittal talk, Candy had only come into the apartment ten minutes before hand and no one really knew where she stood on them yet. Kaitlyn on the other hand was squeezed up against Candy on the couch, looking her tattoos and piercings over with intense interest.
"I'll do whatever it takes," Kelly said spreading his arms wide on the table. "I don't wanna make waves I just wanna to go to school."
"Then find a new place," Suarah snarked under her breath.
Kelly's lips drew thin. He knew she didn't want him there but she was starting to just be a petulant brat about it. "Come on Sue," Angelique coaxed. "You know what's going on around here. Even this place is looking for reasons to evict residents to bring in new people who'll pay more."
"How is that our problem?" Suarah said as she crossed her arms and leaned back in her chair.
Charlene cut in before Angelique could respond. "We know you don't want us here and believe me we understand, but we're willing to do what we have to in order to make this work."
"Don't make a big mess, we can either share groceries or we can segregate them but that's a pain in the ass," Angelique explained. "Me and Sue usually go shopping together and split the bill sixty-forty on account of me being with Doris and Lupe' and her only with Candy."
"That seems reasonable," Charlene said. "So do you cook together?"
"Usually," Angelique said. "Easier to fix something nice for a group than solo."
"How much do ya'll eat though?" Suarah asked.
Kelly looked at her quizzically. "What do you mean?"
"I mean how much do you people eat?" Suarah said. "What about," she waved towards the couch, "Kat or whoever. How much does she eat?"
"Suarah, just drop it," Angelique said.
Suarah leaned forward and put her hands on the edge of the table. "No, I'm dead serious. How do we know it'll be even, one of them could eat like a horse or something."
"Well," Kelly said, trying to appease her, "Kaitlyn does eat a lot."
"Hey!" Kaitlyn yelped from the couch.
"But because of her none of us really eat breakfast ever," Charlene quickly added. "It balances out."
"The hell it does," Suarah snapped.
Angelique put her hand on her friend's. "Sue, just drop it ok, it'll be fine."
"I am not underwriting someone gorging themselves at my expense," she declared.
"She won't," Kelly said. "I'll pay whatever the difference is between what the grocery bill is now and what it'll become."
"See, fine," Angelique said.
Suarah wasn't mollified.
"What else," Charlene prodded. "What about chores?"
"Chores?" Angelique asked blankly.
"Cleaning up you spoiled brat," Suarah said.
"Ohh! Right. Well, I dunno, split them up?"
Suarah rolled her eyes, "What the princess means is that we alternate. Whoever cooks the other one cleans up. Sometimes I clean the apartment but usually Doris and Lupe' get it."
"Ok," Charlene said. "What else?"
Both other girls paused for a moment and seemed to think about it. "I dunno, that's all I got," Angelique said.
"Don't worry, I still got some," Suarah said. She fixed Charlene with her eyes and jabbed a finger at Kelly. "I don't want to see his out of his room without clothes on. I don't want to have to see or listen to anything that you all do, got it?"
Kelly wanted to be offended but he spent most mornings in his boxer briefs. If not for living with these girls he had no doubt he still would. As for the rest of it, that shouldn't be too hard. He wasn't looking for an audience and it would mostly entail making sure Kaitlyn knew the limits. Besides, he needed this apartment. "No problem."
"Of course," Charlene echoed.
"I don't wanna come in and find you fucking on the couch or in the kitchen or anything like that, understood?"
"Come on Sue," Angelique whined.
"Fine, you won't," Kelly said wondering what it was going to take to quiet her down.
"And no bringing friends over." Suarah added. "I've got studying to do and I can't do it if you have a frat party in here."
Kelly frowned a bit but nodded his assent. He didn't have much of a choice.
"And if you've got a girlfriend everything goes for her too," Suarah said as she jammed a finger against the table top for emphasis.
"I'm sitting right here," Charlene said testily.
"What?" Suarah snapped.
"His girlfriend. I'm sitting right here," Charlene said crossing her arms over her chest. "If you want to say something to me then say it."
Suarah blinked hard and her eyes shifted rapidly between Kelly and Charlene. Kelly nodded his assent slowly and Suarah cleared her throat. "Well fine, same thing goes for you too, no packs of sorority chicks or anything. Keep it out of my face."
"Anything else?" Charlene asked coldly.
Suarah sat and fumed for a moment, obviously trying to think up some other draconian rule but failing. "Not now."
"Ok then," Angelique said softly. "Come on guys, we're going to be living together. Lets not start off fighting." She turned in her seat and called, "Lupina!? Sweetie, come here."
The tall wolfgirl stalked into the room. A new little detail caught Kelly's eyes, a tight little black collar around Lupina's neck. "Yes Mistress," she asked demurely.
"Can you be a love and get us something to drink?" Angelique asked her with a smile.
"Of course Mistress," Lupina answered before disappearing into the kitchen, her long charcoal tail swishing behind her hips.
Kelly could catch glimpses of her through the pass through working in there but Angelique had his eye. He was trying to imagine asking any of his girls something like that and couldn't. Kaitlyn would just laugh at him, Georgia ignore him, and Charlene probably would get a glass of water and then toss it in his face.
Angelique saw Charlene and Kelly watching her and shrugged. "Doris would have told me to get it myself." They waited in silence for a moment before the wolfgirl returned and deposited several glasses of tea in front of them all.
"I wasn't sure how you would take it so its unsweetened and I brought you the sugar," Lupina explained gesturing towards their glasses and then the small pot she'd brought.
"Thank you," Charlene said. Kelly nodded his assent and both of them took care of their tea quickly. When Kelly took a sip he was surprised, it tasted exceptionally good.
"This is really good," he said.
Lupin blushed slightly and bowed.
"She makes great tea," Angelique explained. "Learned it from her grandmother." She waved Lupina away and gave her a little smack on the rump as she passed. Lupina hopped up slightly and kept going, her tail wagging a bit harder. "So, what brings you two here?"
"My Mustang," Kelly said with a smirk. He suppressed the yelp when Charlene kicked him under the table for his lame attempt at levity. Even a light warning kick hurt like hell when delivered by a juujin.
"Can you think of a better place to study resort management than here?" Charlene asked.
"I guess not," Angelique said as she sipped her tea.
"Orlando," Suarah said.
Charlene's face screwed up in disgust. "Resorts not run by a giant rat."
The mention of Orlando had gotten Kelly thinking. For a time it had been a front runner in their minds. Plenty of resorts and a good local school could have done them well. Regardless of what Charlene had said they'd thought about it. Yet as soon as Stacy had mentioned she meant to head there it had dropped from consideration. Looking back Kelly knew why. Going to the same school as Stacy would have made it too tempting. They were too comfortable together. It would have been too easy to slip back into the old arrangement with her. They both had no illusions about what they had but it was still oh so tempting. They both knew the other deserved better though and had been intent to let one another go so they'd both gone in opposite directions, literally.
"It can't be that bad," Angelique prodded.
Charlene shook her head. "It is. There's one real amusement park there that controls everything. Even if they don't own your company they still tell you what to do because no one wants to piss them off. Here there's competition amongst equals. It's more interesting.'
"Well some are more equal than others," Suarah replied as she took a swig of her tea.
"Animal Farm," Kelly said with a grin.
Angelique looked perplexed. "Huh?"
"It's a quote from a book. 'All animals are equal, but some are more equal than others.' George Orwell wrote it," Kelly explained. "We had to read it in senior English. I liked it."
"I bet you did," Suarah snarked.
"What's that supposed to mean?" Charlene butted in.
Suarah was about to take another drink but paused and looked back and forth between the others at the table before setting her drink down in shock. "You're kidding me right? You all are kidding me. You didn't just see the way Lupina was treated, the way the whole damn world treats people like her, and not get that?"
"Not this again," Angelique moaned.
"Yes this again damn it," Suarah snarled. "Neither of you treat her with any respect AT. ALL. And its the same as the whole damn country."
"You are not going to lecture me, ME, about this are you? Honestly?" Angelique shot back.
"Until you hear it for once," Suarah snapped.
"When are you going to listen to me that she's fine with that, that's what she wants!"
"To be treated like a servant and ordered around?"
"Have you ever seen her unhappy?"
"That's beside the point!" Suarah shot back, her tea forgotten on the table. "This whole damn country wants to treat them just the way you are right now. They want to strip away their rights even if they have to strip them of their humanity first. You should know this, you're supposed to be on their side, and yet at home you do shit like that!"
Angelique shook her head despondently and sipped her tea, unwilling to continue what appeared to be an old argument.
"And uh, I'm here for architecture," Kelly added sheepishly.
"Oh fuck this," Suarah snarled. She got up from her seat and stormed to her bedroom, slamming the door behind her.
Angelique sighed. "You'll have to forgive Suarah. She's not usually like this."
"I hope not," Kelly snorted.
"You've got her more on edge than I've seen her in a long time."
"Well we're not here to cause trouble," Charlene assured her. "We just want to go to school."
"I know," Angelique assured her. "I would just give her her space for now. She'll calm down."
On the couch Candy was disentangling herself from Kaitlyn and headed to Suarah's room.
"Kind of hard when we live in the same apartment," Kelly observed.
"Probably," Angelique agreed. "But what's life without a little conflict right?"
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Dramatis Persona
Kelly Chambers - 19 Years old. Born March 11th, 1991. Freshman Architecture Major at the University of Nevada, Las Vegas
Charlene O'Hara- 19 Years old. Born April 17th, 1991. Twin of Georgia. Freshman Lodging and Resort Management Major at UNLV. Thresholded at age 18 into a bunny-type juujin.
Kaitlyn Chambers - 17 Years old. Born February 15th, 1993. Thresholded at age 15 into a cow type juujin.
Georgia O'Hara - 19 Years old. Born April 17th, 1991. Twin of Charlene. Thresholded at age 18 into a cat type juujin.
Suarah Jones - 20 Years old. Born November 10th, 1990. Sophmore Business and Accounting Major at UNLV.
Candy Holmes - 20 Years old. Born December 12th, 1990. Thresholded at age 16 into a near human juujin.
Angelique Trejo- 21 Years old. Born July 18th, 1989. Junior Art (Sculpting) Major at UNLV.
Doris Lohsher - 18 Years old. Born August 2nd, 1992. Thresholded at age 16 into a lamb type juujin.
Lupina Hernandez - 19 Years old. Born June 6th, 1991. Thresholded at age 14 into a wolf type juujin.
Timeline:
November 2006, (15yo) Kelly meets Stacy and starts to date her.
February 2007, (15yo) Kelly meets Charlene and starts to date her.
December 2008, (17yo) Kaitlyn thresholds at 15. Chooses Kelly to look after her.
March 2009, (18 yo) Kaitlyn moves in with Kelly.
October 2009, (18yo) Georgia thresholds. Charlene convinces her parents Kelly could look after her.
November 2009, (18yo) Amicable breakup with Stacy
December 2009, (18yo) Georgia moves into Kelly's house.
March 2010, (19yo) Charlene breaks down at Kelly's birthday party and thresholds. Moves in with Kelly shortly after.
May 2010, (19yo) Kelly, Charlene, & Georgia graduate High School
August 2010, (19yo) Kelly and Charlene start classes at UNLV.
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Author's Notes (7/10/10)
1) For anyone wondering the Wildcat is a creation of Lighthawk and his property entirely. It's location is at the corner of E. Harmon Blvd. and Las Vegas Blvd. S. Yes, its the site of the Planet Hollywood. In the juujin timeline the old Aladdin casino struggled on for a few more years before collapsing and it was bought out, bulldozed, and turned into the Wildcat Resort Hotel and Casino. If you want to know more about it, bug Lighthawk.
2) Been waiting for a long time to use my lamb and wolfgirls.
3) I keep getting self conscious about super long opening chapters and then tailing off in word count as I go. The big issue is the first chapter or two are always set up and launching points. In this case I had a ton of background to lay down. I'd expect most chapters to be between 5 and 8k words normally.
4) The main juujin site is located at: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/Juujin/
Email me if you want at: bsmartfanfic@yahoo.com I'll respond to your email but I don't promise you'll like it.
Thanks as always to Lighthawk who continues to subject himself to my endless stream of consciouness e-mails and rambling discussions about nothing.