Small edits in Chapter One (11/22/2015)

Enjoy Chapter 2 of Feral Creatures!

CHAPTER TWO:

Happy's bike pulled up into an off white 2 story house with blue shutters. The only sound that echoed in the silent neighborhood was the sound of the engine blazing in to the drive way. The smell of winter was seeping in to the warm town of Charming. It would never get cold like the midwest for the cities in the east but at night the California weather would drop a decent amount. Some native Calies would call it cold.

Cutting the engine Happy's foot hits the ground as the heavy ride was being held up by his legs.

Lennox unlinks her arms from Happy's waist and places her hands on his shoulders as she lifts herself off. Pullinh off the helmet she hands it to the man taking out a smoke from his kutte.

Happy takes the helmet with his right hand and hangs it on the bike's handel. She waits a moment thinking Happy had something to say. Normally he would drop her off and just back out of the drive way. This smoke break was a new develpoment to Lennox.

She watched his lighter flicker on and burn the tip of his smoke as he inhaled.
Lennox took a small step back.

"You really shouldn't." - Lennox

Happy finally turned his head towards her and lifted his brow... questioning what he shouldn't be doing. Sometime Happy was a bit dense.

He wasn't clueless or unintelligent just sometimes the tall dark and handsome man was dense.

"Smoke."- Lennox

He blew the smoke away from Lennox but continued to burn the stick.
Lennox rolled her eyes a little and moved towards the front door digging out her keys.

The house was actually really nice it had a reasonable sized backyard, high ceilings and large windows. It was the type of house most women cut out of a magazine and paste to their wish list.
This house she was living in was not hers. She had come to Charming about 4 months ago. It was a sudden and quick move. But everything seemed to fall in to places as soon as she stepped in to Charming. She had been working as a part time home nurse for a woman named Huguette Lowman that turned in to a full time position.

The elderly lady was on a black list on all the In Home Nurses at her company. It had nothing to do with Huguette herself because she was and still is just so lovely to be around but rumors ran around the nurses that Huguette's son was some what unpleasant and had a background filled with stories from horror shows. But to Lennox a rumor was just a rumor.

Due to the fact of Huguette's non-cooperative son ... none of the senior nurses wanted to take care of Huguette. So with out a choice... 1 month newbie Lennox Rhee was give the grave task of dealing with THE SON as the other nurses liked to call him.

Thinking about it now as she was unlocking the door to the house she was 'house sitting' for ... it was the best thing that had ever happened to her. She had met Huguette's son Happy and the rest was history.

He had found her a job with Tara here in Charming when Huguette had to move in to assisted living a few months back. Tara was looking for a nurse nanny for her son Dean who was born with a heart condition and that lead to Tara finding her this amazing vacant house to sit for while the owner was away on personal business. Not only free rent but she got paid to simply live there.

And she had never thanked the man who had set it all up. HAPPY. He didn't have to but he did.

She hadn't heard his bike leave her house so she quickly turned around. A thank you was definitely necessary here.

"Happy?" - Lennox ran in to a hard wall like chest. She hadn't noticed Happy had walked up behind her as she was again monologueing to herself while opening the door.

Lennox looked at the his large hands on her arm steadying her from falling over due to the sudden impact.

From his perfect hands her grey eyes looked up to his soul sucking black orbs. It was just the 2 of them. Outside a beautiful house with the night sky as a backdrop. She was some what in Happy's arms as she watched her refection in his eyes.

She then opened her mouth to speak...

"Did you need to use the washroom?" - Lennox mentally shot herself for asking such a question at a time like this. Stupid Stupid Stupid.

Happy just moved past her and entered the ownerless home as if was his own. Turning on the light and making his way to the refrigerator.

Scolding herself Lennox followed Happy inside and closed the door behind her.

SOA SOA SOA

It was an odd sight to see. Happy was in her living room, leaned back on the leather couch with his feet up on the matching leather ottoman as he scrolled around the channels.

With a beer in one hand and the remote in the other he looked completely out place yet strangely at home at the same time.

Lennox was in the kitchen cutting up green apples in to slices while spreading a bit of honey apple butter on top of them.

She had made a plate of celery with peanut butter and raisins ... sort of an ants on a log but just like a toddler Happy had just eaten the peanut butter and the raisins leaving to important celery looking sad a unwanted. So she was piecing together his favorite snack.

Huguette had said when Happy was younger he loved honey and green apples so taking an adult approach to the basic snack Lennox had made these honey apple buttered apples before and he seemed to like them. He never said he didn't like it or that it was good but his asking her for more was just the same as a 5 star approval.

As she was finishing up Happy's apples her unflitered mouth worked up again

"Happy? Are you gay?"- Lennox

"What?" - Happy

If she didn't have her back turned away busy cutting apples she would have seen Happy spill his beer on himself as he was in the middle of drinking the crisp drink when he heard the most retarded question that ever entered his ears. He wiped his mouth and got up from the couch.

"It's just... you don't seem to date much females and you have a lot of guy friends with matching vests and go on long road trips with them...is it like a motorcycle club broke back mountain type of thing?"- Lennox turned over to look at Happy but he wasn't there.

Lennox bit her lower lip. Maybe that was the secret to why he didn't want her at his place of work. Maybe he was gay and it was the only place he felt he would be accepted.

If Happy was gay. It would be a difficult fact to face that she had no chance with him because they were somewhat rivals in the mating game. But she would accept him for who his was. And maybe they could sit a watch RomComs and eat ice cream...why not?

"I don't date."- Happy's voice came from upstairs.

Lennox put down her cutting knife and rushed upstairs. Happy had a habit of walking around the house that wasn't his or even hers...just randomly. Sometime rummaging though stuff. But the answer 'i don't date' did really mean 'im not gay"

Lennox walked up to the master bedroom that was unused at the moment because of it's owner's vacancy.
She walked in to find Happy shirtless as he was fishing around the drawers.

Her eyes glazed over his toned body. His jeans hung down low as the band of his boxers poked out to say hello. He grabed a black shirt from the drawer and turned around to face Lennox's stare.

"You can't be in here."- Lennox

Happy moved closer to the small framed girl.

"And you can't steal his shirts!" - Lennox tugged the black shirt in Happy's hands.

And without thinking of course this motion made Happy's half naked soild body move closer to hers. Lennox's breath hitched a little as her face was inches away from his chest.
Happy pulled the black shirt towards him a little harder. With the sudden movement Lennox's hand had let go of the fabric and placed her small hands on Happy's warm chest. His rough hand that hadn't been holding on to the unless fabric was already wrapped around her tiny waist. His towering form came down a little as his face met hers.

"Beer spilled on my shirt. It's wet." - Happy

Lennox quickly nodded her head. Her eyes going to the wet shirt on the floor. Then back up to his endlessly deep eyes

"Unless you want me to walk around shirtless."- Happy wasn't grinning or even a hint of joy in his eyes for making her feel uncomfortable. He was being serious.

Lennox shook her head.

Happy stepped away from the shocked girl and sliped into the black shirt. He walked out of the room.

Lennox gathered herself and the wet shirt that was left on the ground as she walked down stairs to find Happy back at the same postion on the couch. She slowly walked over to the laundry room and put the black shirt in the wash then leaned her hand against the machine.
She took a deep breath as she was trying to calm her racing heart and keep the oxygen flowing from the breath she had been holding.

She shut the lid of the washer and walked back out to the living room. Placing the small apple plater on Happy's lap Lennox sat on the other side of the leather couch. The tv was on but she wasn't really sure what was on the screen... it was just white noise to her. Her eyes were glued to the electoric screen when she heard his voice.

"I'm not gay." -Happy

"Good to know."- Lennox

They sat there in silence as Happy ate his apple and Lennox reminded herself to breath.

inhale exhale repeat

UNICORNIE