Chapter 1: Rude Awakening
It was raining. Yanjing was always raining, or at least seemed like it. Bodi sat up on the bed, his blue hat falling of the back of his head, he quickly pushed it back onto his head. His fur was all ruffled and stunk of the night before. Everything smelled like Dharma, when they had sex she would sweat and stink up the room, the room would smell even stronger after she would light up her cigarette. She was sleeping soundly, the large neon sign from outside beautifully made her fur shine a reddish purple. She almost seemed divine as he looked over her body, he smiled before standing up.
He would go into the living room, the phone must've rung when he was sleep or with Dharma because the voicemail machine was blinking. It was the dead of night and he hadn't cared about what the message was or whom it was from. He wanted a snack, peanut butter would serve him well. The counter was covered in musical sheets and notes, the latest album had been pretty hard to come up with. It seemed at every angle Angus wanted the show to be about him. "Glorious" had set himself, Dharma, and Germur to stardom and they had all gotten rich off the name. And the band had been drawn together because of that song but Angus thought he was the band and everyone was secondary.
The half gone peanut butter jar sat in the fridge, Bodi dug his spoon into the peanut butter and started to eat it out of the jar. Going over to the messy living room with chinese food and magazines littering the coffee table. The red sofa stood out in the dark room and could allow Bodi to navigate it easily. He half laid down on it and turned on the large TV. First was some cartoon channel showing a group of dogs fighting great monsters with weird weapons, the next channel was the ZNN Tech with some news story from Sancta Caecilia about a new technology boom happening in the city with "Dot Com", it seemed like just a fad. ZNN had a news story about growing unrest in Germaneigh over old political grudges. JCTV had a news story of the first Food Donkey opening up in Yanjing, Bodi was glad the old grudge between Zootopia and Yanjing were finally coming to an end. The music channel had an interview with the great musical singer "Nana" releasing her final album "Strangers in the Night", she was a friend of Angus and she seemed like a nice woman. Finally he got to MTV, the more pop-culture song channel. Suddenly the phone rang, it was loud and boomed through the house. "God dammit." Bodi said to himself as he went over to the phone "Hello, this is Bodi if you're looking for-"
"Bodi! Fucking help me man!" Angus was clear over the other line, there seemed to be a commotion.
"Settle down Angus, what's is-"
"Don't you fucking tell me to settle down, you don't know what I have to deal with!"
"Angus, Angus settle down, what are you dealing with?"
"My cousin, he's in town."
"You have a cousin? You have family?"
"Yes! That's not the point, he's the worst person to the family!"
"C'mon, he can't be that bad. You exist."
"THIS IS NOT THE TIME FOR GAMES BODI!" Angus screamed into phone. "Ozzie! Keep the door barred."
"Why do you care? Just set him in an open room and lock your doors Angus, anyways what would I do?"
"I tried that Bodi, do you take me for a bellend? I was thinking you and Dharma take him out."
"Do you not know what time it is?"
"He comes from the Sancta Caecilia area! He just flew in and is on their time, this is noon for him!"
"Just lock your doors."
"What do you think I asked Ozzie to keep a door barred for? Santa is here to give me fucking presents?"
"Dharma is still sleeping Angus, I don't fucking care if your cousin is in town and is annoying you I am not waking her up for that."
"What about Germur then?"
"I don't fucking know Angus, you call him." Bodi hung up and sighed, going back to the peanut butter. "God damn that fukcing cat." he mummled to himself as he ate thinking of the conversation. "How bad could he really be?" he whispered to himself and turned around to a sleepy Dharma.
"Hey Baby, what's up?." She said, sitting down at one of the stools across from Bodi. "Oh crap, did I wake you up with that?" Bodi replied concerned.
"You did wake me up by getting up." She leaned her head against her arms.
"Oh crap, I am sorry baby."
"It's good, who called?"
"Angus, something about his annoying cousin. Not our problem."
"You seemed angry."
"I was angry that he called so late. It's like 3 in the fucking morning."
"Actually two."
"Still doesn't excuse it."
"He's still our friend though."
"He's my bandmate, not friend."
"Still, you need to work with him."
"No, he needs to work with us. He's been trying to be a glory hog like he did with my first song."
"Yes but our other single was properly credited."
"Still." Bodi replied and went back to eating. "How was your sleep?"
Dharma chuckled slightly, "You mean how was my sleep before you got up?"
Bodi smiled and looked over to her, "Yeah, how was your sleep before I got up?"
"It was good, I always sleep after we do that."
"Point taken, I love being able to get you to sleep like that."
"Yeah?" Dharma sat up and smiled. "What else do you like to get me to do."
"Sleep, do I get you to do anything else?" Bodi actually wondered. Dharma started to crawl over the counter and kissed Bodi before sticking her finger in the peanut butter, "Oh yes you do, now come on. We need to get showered." Before smiling and getting down from the counter and walking towards the bathroom.