Hey guys, I promised to make a character description since I forgot to originally.
Name: James
Age: 17
Height: 6'1
Weight: 182 ib.
Skin color: your average white guy gamer
Hair: short light brown
Eye color: jade
Outfit preferences:
Tee shirt
Sweatshirt
Sweatpants
Shorts
Home: Minnesota
Current time: winter, middle of December (I am planning on some Christmas antics)
Special skills: winning. Tends to move on to something else when no one else can perform as well as he does, so if it's a game, he probably could win.
Really clever when it comes to getting around something he doesn't want to do.
High hand eye dexterity due to his overwhelming skills with a controller and shooting contests with Kyle using BB guns.
Weaknesses: uncomfortable in an unfamiliar area
Tends to panic when things start going south, becoming less coordinated.
Job: Walmart (welcome to hell, life is great here. Pull up chair, have a cold beer)- I have indeed played minecraft at one point of time if you recognize the song.
Well, that should be everything. Now on to the story!
hardly a few days had passed since Ahri joined James in school, and the publicity had died down in the school a bit as they got used to her presence. However, the opposite was happening out in the world. It was no surprise since most of the teens in school had snapchat or whatever social media they used, and the image of the nine tailed fox spread across the internet like fire. Just three days after she stepped into the school, the news was pulling up in front of their house. Under James support, Ahri had an interview with a fox 9 news caster.
"The more people who like you, the more that are willing to let you stay in this world." James had told her. "If you have a majority of the public know about you and accept it, the less likely anyone is going to pull something." He conveniently forgot to mention it would also raise her value for kidnapping.
Things only got dangerous when the woman asked her age, at which James stepped in and told her off for asking a girl her age. Little did the woman know that James just saved her from some kind of injury.
Ever since that day the house received constant phone calls from news stations, television companies, and the "adult industries". James didn't even need to tell Ahri to turn those down, which surprised him since she had such a sexual tendency to begin with. When questioned, she merely smiled and walked away.
"Well if you're going to play this game, I might as well play to." James told her, confident that he could tease a confession out of her before she could get one out of him.
"Good luck with that." James almost jumped when he heard his mom from behind him. "Mind games are a woman's natural playing field."
"Just means I'll have fun." James replied with a devilish grin. "It's always more fun when I'm on square one."
"Not even you could become a professional sweet talker in a day." Marry shook her head, betting against him. "No matter how good you are at learning quickly."
"I wouldn't put your money on the table yet." James said. His mom clicked her tongue and went back to the her seat in front of the TV. James hadn't told anyone, but he had secretly been studying on the Internet on the art of romance and had started to ask some of his female friends for help. They had been willing to help because they knew him well enough he wasn't just going to seduce her to get her into his bed (a few minutes with Ahri told them he could do that whenever he wanted, but still he hadn't touched her.)
200 or so fanfictions later and a few hours with Krisha, James felt pretty good that he could out speak just about anyone if he put his mind to it. From a video gamer, to a battlefield commander, and now to a sweet talker. So many changes, so little time. So little sleep.
James entered his room and found Ahri in front of his computer, looking through his browser history. "You've been working hard." She said, not looking away from the screen. She was slowly going through the list of fanfics he had read, a mischievous grin played on her lips. "So you've spent each night sneaking out of bed and leaving little old me to shiver in the cold to read smut on other girls?"
"Well, as you can see," James said, walking over and taking the mouse and scrolling through the list. Ahri let him do whatever and waited for his answer. With a few deft motions, however, he deleted the browser history. "There's nothing here." He smiled pleasantly at her face of surprise, quickly giving her a peck on the head.
"That's cheating!" She exclaimed, having a hard time keeping a smile off her face. He chuckled at her reaction, pleased at the outcome. Ever since Ahri started to only consider him, it had become a game between them to make the other one give up and confess first.
"All fair in love and war." James walked around her and threw himself onto the bed, rolling in the air to land on his back. The bed swayed beneath him, reminding him of a hammock.
"I'm willing to bet I can win at both now." James narrowly caught the controller that Ahri threw at him, quickly switching it on and signing in. He checked his battery and set a fresh pair next to him.
"Getting a bit high on yourself now, huh?" James said jokingly, expertly firing up halo with superhuman speed. "Let's see how you have improved, little one."
The answer to if she had improved was yes, but nowhere enough to take down a professional. James found it awfully adorable whenever she got a kill because her ears would twitch ever so slightly. Her tails also wrapped around her shoulders and cushion her head, so when the ears twitched she literally began to tickle herself with the end of her tails.
"So, I was thinking of meeting up with some friends tomorrow." Ahri said after another fight between her tails and her ears. "Is it okay if I come home a bit late?"
"Yeah, that's fine." James said, not getting distracted as he dispatched one of the enemy players. "When are we meeting them?"
"That's the thing. This would be a, how should I say it, a girls outing." James looked away from the screen right after a sniper round was sent through his head. Ahri was in the middle of a fire fight herself, so her attention was still focused on the screen. "They told me no boys allowed. Is it still ok?"
James hesitated for a second before answering. "I guess it's fine. Just be home before dinner." They returned their full attention to their game just as their team won by a land slide.
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James was packing up his bag at the end of the school day when Ahri departed to hang out with her friends. He waved as she left, shouldering her bag along with his own. "Have fun, and make sure there are no witnesses!" He called as she reached the door, getting a laugh out of her as she waved back.
James hung around for a minute or two to chat with Kyle before he boarded the bus to go home. Once, he found himself turning to Ahri to point out something interesting on the way home when he remembered that for the first time in the last few days that she wasn't with him. It felt weird, but it also felt a bit nostalgic.
I forgot what it's like to be alone. James thought to himself, stretching his back as if a heavy weight had been removed from his shoulders. He then slumped again as he shifted Ahri's bag onto his back as he got off the bus. To be honest, I didn't miss this too badly.
He walked down the street to his house and opened the door, calling out a greeting as he dropped the bags at the base of the stairs. His mom called back from the living room, greeting him in a friendly manner. That wasn't going to last long though.
"Ahri won't be home for awhile. She is meeting with a few friends." He sensed a shift in his mothers position as he walked past. "She has my phone, so we can still contact her." He kept his voice even, not letting her catch on that he could tell he was treading on dangerous ground.
"Are you sure it's wise to be without her? What if someone tries to grab her?" James took note of the edge in her voice, adjusting his speech appropriately.
"If someone tries to grab her, I'll only get in the way." James stated calmly. "She literally spent most of her time on the battlefield for a good part of her life. Besides, their going to be in public. The more eyes on her, the safer she is." He left the room before she could scrape up an argument to prove him wrong, heading to his room and putting the bags on the desk. He then pulled out his homework and started to finish up what he didn't complete in school. He had to keep reminding himself to not turn around out of suspicion from a silent fox.
After he finished he stashed his papers in his bag and switched on his computer, thinking he could probably get done a game of LOL (my favorite abbreviation of league of legends) before Ahri called for a ride. Off a whim, he chose Ahri to be his champion and constantly laughed to himself while thinking it was great that she listened to him. He then thought about it and realized that she rarely didn't listen to him unless she was actively causing him trouble (which happened quite often.)
As the fight dragged on, he got increasingly frustrated that the Ahri in game wasn't moving as effectively as he wished. He found himself trying to order her to pull of moves that weren't possible in game, such as evasive moves that Ahri pulled when he shot at her. He just couldn't pull off those pin point moves with a mouse and keyboard that she could easily pull off on him.
In the end they won the battle, but James was starting to miss his foxy companion. He even did something rather unusual of himself and did laundry, making sure to grab her red dress. She hadn't worn it since she got normal clothes, but James secretly liked the sight of her in it. He'd never tell her though, or else she would have an upper hand on him.
He had just switched the clothes to the dryer when his mom called him from upstairs, her voice unusual sharp.
"What's wrong?" James said, jogging up the stairs. His mom just handed him her phone, crossing her arms in a manner that said I told you so.
SOS. That's all the text said. James reread the three letters five times before he shot back a text. Where?
the minute and a half it took for the her next message to appear were the longest moments of his life. When he heard the ping, it took him less than a second to read the words before he ran out the door, throwing the devise on the couch as he passed.
To be continued...
Hey guys, it's the author. This story is by far the fastest growing story I have wrote, and it makes me proud so many of you enjoy my work. Next chapter will be an important one, where they step out of the playful friends and into new territory. Note, I won't be adding a lemon till the end because I prefer to do this properly but I will stay with Ahri's nature as best as I could tell.
