A/N: A new year and a new chapter for your eyes to read, as well as a bump in the rating from T to M. Nothing major so don't get too awful excited, but there is a little teaser for your pleasure. Honestly I kind of lost feeling for it for a little while and never made much progress on it until about two weeks ago when I started writing about 1000 words or so a sitting. Don't worry though as I will complete this story and maybe even start a second one that I have been playing with for a few months now. PBJNAchos, the "nameless" guest that left a review, as well as everyone else, thank you for taking time to write a review for the last chapter. It has been a long enough wait without my rambling, so on to the next chapter in this story...

"Kate you know you don't have to stay and help, as we have a dish washer in front of you." Humphrey said as he motioned with his paw over to the square white door that was positioned underneath the counter top beside her, while putting the last of the uneaten food away for later. The dishwasher seemed out of place as it was the only appliance that didn't have stainless steel covering its exterior, and stood out like an eyesore sunk in between the dark maple stained cabinets that surrounded it and the dark mahogany wood floor that swept across the entire kitchen floor below it and into the living room as well. His father had been planning on buying a different one to match the rest of the kitchen, but Fenrir had other plans for him in mind. "Humph, it's not that big of a deal and I'm not the type to make a mess and not help clean up afterwards, Mom taught us better than that." Kate responded as she put the last clean dish onto the drying rack and turned around to face him with her soft hazel eyes locking in with his, her back pressed softly against the counter and her tail slightly swaying side to side. "I do have a question though, but I didn't want to ask it in front of the others."

Hearing this sent the butterflies into a crazed fury inside his stomach, almost to the point of doubling him over. He looked at her while trying to hide his nervousness and leaned against the bar top behind him. "What's up?" Humphrey asked as he played with his car keys.

"Well you know we have been friends since, well forever." Kate responded.

"Yea" he replied as a knot formed in his throat and the butterflies went into hyper drive. 'Oh fuck, she's about to ask me out' he thought to himself as each breathe got shallower and his mouth went dry. It was getting harder to hide his nervousness with each passing second and Kate was starting to pick up on it as she leaned up off the counter top and stood up straight.

"I was wondering how well you know Garth and what kind of guy he is?"

Humphrey breathed a sigh of relief hearing this, knowing now where she was headed with the conversation and replied. "Well not good enough to tell you what color underwear he has on, but good enough to know that he's a decent guy, a jock none the less but a decent guy. Why the sudden interest in him? You have a date with him?" He already knew the answer, but wanted to play dumb for the minute to see how she reacted. Kate's eyes got big as she was shocked that he would ask such a question and her eye brows narrowed as she reached for the nearest thing to her to throw at him. Which just so happened to be a small hand towel. As it flew through the air toward him, Humphrey hollered out "LILLY!" Hearing this made Kate leaped across the room towards him, effectively knocking him off his balance and onto the floor with her landing on top of him with her paw over top of his muzzle. His attempt to scream came out as muffled nothingness as Kate glared at him from her position on top of him. She lowered her head down really close to his, to the point that her nose was mere inches away from touching the back of her paw that was covering his muzzle. "Lilly isn't going to save you this time, because if you remember she went with Salty to take Sweets home." Kate reminded him as she held her paw on his muzzle and punched him with the other in the shoulder. "How dare you ask if I have a date with him Humph? You know me better than most and egotistical football players are not my type. I may be a cheerleader, but there is no way in hell I would date one of those meat heads." She was about to let go of his muzzle when all of a sudden she felt him stick his tongue out and lick the palm of her paw in an attempt to get her to go, which worked. She quickly let go and pulled her paw away in fake disgust as she exclaimed "REALLY HUMPHREY?!" He let out a laugh as she got up to wipe the saliva off her paw and he stood up himself, dusting his jeans off. "Well... are you going to answer my question?"

"Will you grab me an Mt Dew out of the fridge in the garage and meet me in the living room? I'll tell you everything you want to know" Humphrey replied as he made his way into the living room. "Grab yourself one as well if you want." Once in the living room, he plopped down on his favorite spot on the couch, proceeding to turn on the T.V. and start channel surfing to find something to watch. "I guess so" She said as she walked across the kitchen floor towards the door leading into the garage. Upon entering the attached garage and turning on the light, she made her way to the fridge and grabbed the last two Mt Dews from within.

After she made her way back in and closed the door behind her, she walked into the living room to find Humphrey still trying to find something to watch. "Here you go Humph" she said as she handed him his drink before sitting down on the other end of the couch while facing him. "So tell me about Garth Humph." He flicked off the T.V. and opened his drink before shifting how he sat on the couch to face her.

"Well let's see he doesn't live around here and he does street race some. Surprisingly though I've never raced him but he's good at what he does, although his Dad would beat his ass if he knew that he did. As a matter of fact that's where I met him at was a street race back in Sept I guess."

"Where was I at when you met him?" Kate asked "I'm usually always out there with you guys"

"Um... that was when I was going out with Claws, you know when we were actually together and you and I wasn't really hanging out much." He said reluctantly, as if he didn't want to, but felt the need not to lie to her. "Anyways he really isn't that bad of a guy, definitely not the typical jock that we go to school with. Think Mooch, but more in shape. Not trying to say Mooch is fat or anything. I mean like I know him and I guess you could say we are friends, but I don't have his number or anything like that. Usually we run into each other in the warehouse district and chat it up. Why do you ask?"

"Well Lilly is crushing on him after she met him last night and of course he drives a Mustang so that's a double win in her eyes." Kate replied. "She said he was up here visiting family and some friends and said he knew you so she was a little more than excited about coming over here today, thinking maybe he would be here."

"I don't think he has ever been over here to the house, but if he has then it would've been with his Dad. Speaking of which, you know his Dad."

Hearing this put a confused look on Kate's face as she took a sip from the can before responding with "Who is his Dad then?"

"Well... promise me you won't freak out when I tell you who."

"Oh come on Humph, unless it's some serial killer or weirdo I don't think I would freak out"

"Just promise me."

"Fine... I promise."

Humphrey took a deep breathe before responding, "Dad's friend Tony."

"You have got to be kidding me Humph, Tony is his father? I didn't even know Tony had a kid much less a son." Kate replied in complete shock.

"Yea I didn't either and it's kind of a long story, but that is neither here nor there."

"Not trying to be mean but who would want to date that, much less sleep with him. Had to be one desperate..." Kate was interrupted in mid-sentence by Humphrey.

"KATE! Really?!" Humphrey couldn't believe the words that were coming out of Kate's mouth.

"Well I'm going to tell Lilly that she can't date Garth. Anything that has to do with Tony has to be a complete asshole just like him" She reached for her phone and unlocked it, before clicking on Lilly's and her conversation to send her a message.

"Kate, chill out ok. Garth is nothing like his Dad or your typical jock and if you're doing what I think you are doing, you are going to break her heart by telling her that she can't chase after him." Humphrey said as he threw a pillow at her, but it went over her head and hit the wall behind her. "Kate?" he said again in an attempt to get her attention from what he knew she was busy doing on her phone. Kate locked her screen and sat her phone down on the coffee table, which was made from an old engine block, beside her before looking up at Humphrey with that "I didn't do anything" look on her face. "Kate what did you tell Lilly?" he asked, hoping it wasn't what he thought she said.

"I just told her that we need to talk when she gets back with Salty and it won't be anything bad Humphrey, I promise. I just want her to be careful, because if I have to be the bigger sister and rip his balls off to prove a point, I will." Kate replied with a smile as Humphrey cringed at the thought of balls being ripped off and all he could really reply with was "Ow...' Kate looked at him and laughed and said "So since it's just us, what do you want to do? Feel like getting your ass handed to you by a girl on Need for Speed again?"

"Not really, Salt and me spent a lot of the morning battling it out on Call of Duty and I'm kind of not in the mood to play right now. I need to get out there and clean up the garage, but it can wait until another day." he replied as he leaned back against the back of the couch as he thought for a minute. He would kill to take her upstairs and live out one of his many fantasies he has had about him and her getting it on, but he knew that was out of the question as she's not that type of girl. As far as he knew she hasn't even slept with anyone in that manner yet, but that did stop him from wanting to be her first. Then he remembered that he still had homework to do and he had no idea how to do it. "Well, I do need some help with our homework for Mrs. Johnson's class. I haven't even started it yet and honestly I really wasn't paying attention in class."

"Oh I know, I couldn't tell you how many times I looked over at you and you were fast asleep to the point that there was a puddle of drool on the desk." Kate laughed at the thought and Humphrey just rolled his eyes as he replied "Oh I was not drooling, I wasn't that bad."

"Whatever you have to tell yourself, Humph. You're just lucky that I had left my phone in my locker Friday." Kate said as she sat up onto the edge of the couch. "So do you want my help or are you just going to beg the teacher for an extension on typical Humphrey Jackson fashion?"

"Yea, let me run upstairs and get my books and stuff for her class, then I'll be right back down." Humphrey said as he slowly stood up and stretched with a loud yawn before glancing at the clock as he made his way through the living room and towards the stairs that lead upstairs. "It's been a long day, such a long day it feels like it's later than it actually is." Hearing this made Kate glance down at her phone and noticed it was only 6 o'clock or so and was starting to wonder where Salty and Lilly was and what was taking them so long. Just as she reached for her phone to text her little sister, she remembered that Sweets was wanting to show Lilly something on the way home. Remembering this, Kate sat her phone back down and decided that if they wasn't back by 7 or so she would text or call to make sure nothing had happened. Humphrey was taking long as well it seemed, so she decided to go up there and see what was taking him so long. "I bet he left his homework in his locker at school again.' Kate thought to herself as she stood up and made her way to the base of the stairs and giving a quick glance up to see if he had appeared at the top of them. Not seeing him there, she made her way up the stairs and down the hallway to his room and poked her head inside.

"Humphrey?" she called, but there was no answer. She took a few steps into his room while trying to dodge the piles of dirty clothes that scattered his floor to the point that only a few patches of the beautiful mahogany stained floor was visible. "Humph?" she called a little louder but once again there was no answer and still no sign of him to be found. 'Surely to God he didn't fall through a worm hole or something.' she thought to herself as she looked about his room. As she looked about she noticed that besides the random car part or two that adorned his walls, his room was pretty typical of any teenage boy's room that she had ever been in. Not that she had been in very many mind you. Other than Humphrey's abode, there was probably only two others that she had been in and they were pretty much the same way with the dirty clothes scattered about on the floor. Humphrey didn't have band posters lining his walls like she did though. No Humphrey's walls were covered with one or two band posters, a Honda valve cover that he had turned into a coat rack and few random pictures of him and the rest of the people from their little group from over the years. Most of pictures were of them in goofy poses or something of the sorts, as Humphrey always knew how to liven up any situation. Kate laughed quietly to herself as she thought about it while glancing at a few of the pictures. That was one of the things that attracted her to him over most of the guys at school, his sense of humor. She just kind of stood there looking at the pictures when the sound of someone clearing their throat caught her attention. As she turned around, she noticed Humphrey standing there with that goofy smile on his face. "How long have you been standing there and I thought you came up here after your homework?" She asked as she walked over to him.

"Long enough to watch you laugh at some of the pictures. To answer your other question, after I made it up here I remembered I left it in the hatch of the Camaro. So I went out to the garage to retrieve it. When I came back in, I noticed you wasn't in the living room and I heard some noise upstairs. So I knew where you had disappeared to." He replied as he stared into her hazel brown eyes walked into his room, meeting her about half way. "Been some fun times hasn't it?" He asked her as he looked at some of the pictures. Before she could answer, he pointed one of the pictures and said "Remember this one? We were at Silverwood Amusement Park in Idaho and if I'm not mistaken this was taken right before Salty threw up after riding the Tremor Rollercoaster." He let out a small chuckle as he thought about Salty with his head stuck in the trash can right at the exit of the ride.

"Yea but in his defense, we did just ride the Tilt a Whirl five times in a row before hopping on the roller coaster and he did say he was feeling a little queasy before getting on the ride. We need to go back again sometime as I think we all really had fun there." Kate replied. "Maybe we can get everyone together and go again this summer. What do you think?"

"Uh huh, taking up for Salty huh?" He said playfully with that goofy grin on his face. "That does sound like a good idea. Maybe we can talk about it tomorrow with everyone during lunch at school."

"Sounds great and someone has to as he's not here to defend himself." Kate replied as she rolled her eyes at him, knowing what he was implying. "Are you still wanting help on your homework or are you going to stand around and make jokes about me liking your friends all day. "Humphrey laughed and nodded his head towards the door as he walked towards it. "Well come on then" he said as he walked towards the doorway. Kate's tail wagged slowly as she watched him walk out of the room and disappear down the hallway before she followed him back into the living room. Once they got back into the living room and sat down on the couch with everything in front of them, they started going to work on the homework.

About an hour or so later...

"Salty we really should get going if you don't care. I told Kate that we wouldn't be gone long and it's already after 8, plus it's a school night." Lilly slightly begged of Salty while he and Sweets were busy making out on the couch at Sweet's house. Lilly just knew that Kate was going to jump down her throat for the second time today for being gone so long and she knew that Salty is almost as bad as Humphrey on losing track of time. Luckily though Salty and Sweets broke free long enough for Salty to check out the time on his phone.

"Shit, I'm sorry Lilly, I didn't realize we have been gone that long." Salty apologized as he slid his phone back into his pocket and leaned back over to kiss Sweets one more time. As he brought his muzzle close to hers, he whispered softly "I got to go baby, but I will be seeing you in the morning." He kissed her softly on her lips before standing up and helping her up as well. He gave his keys to Lilly and as he did so he said "Go ahead and go out to the truck, I need to use the bathroom and then I'll be out there so we can go." As Lilly took the keys and walked out the door, Salty pulled Sweets into a hug and grabbed her ass with his right paw as he kept her pressed against him with his left arm. "Salty what do you think you are doing?" Sweets asked with a bit of playfulness in her voice. "You know we don't have enough time to do anything before Mom gets home from work and on top of that Lilly is outside waiting on you to take her back to Humphrey's."

"I know... I know I'm leaving. I just wanted to..." Salty got out before he was interrupted by Sweets as she pressed herself against him, running a paw up the inside of his leg to the bulge that was protruding out. As she did so, she leaned into his ear and gave it a small nibble while at the same time gently massaging the bulging area. "I know exactly what you're doing and its working, but you really need to get home and make sure Kate isn't mad at Lilly. Do this and I promise you next time you come over, the neighbors are going to know my name." She leaned up to his lips and kissed him deeply, sliding her tongue into his muzzle and fighting his tongue for dominance as she softly caressed his bulging package. As they kissed, he gripped her ass with both paws and pulled her tightly against his hips and moaned hard into her mouth. She was letting out some soft moans as well and could feel herself getting wet at the thought of him fucking her from behind again just like the other day, when he had her pressed against the back of the couch as they watched Humphrey and Kate flirt outside while washing the cars. From there her mind floated to the next time they had alone together and the things she was going to do to him. She broke the kiss and let out a couple deep breathes before saying "Go before I tear your clothes off and fuck you right here. Then Mom will come home and I'll be grounded and you won't be allowed over here anymore. Not to mention Lilly would walk in on us, scaring her for life and Humphrey and Kate would be pissed at us." Salty reached down as he panted and adjusted himself so it wasn't as noticeable and nodded his head." Yea I bet Kate is probably pretty mad right about now, but I'm really surprised they haven't texted asking where we are." He reached for the door and started to turn the knob, but as he did he had a finger coated with some succulent juices unexpectantly shoved into his muzzle. As he closed his eyes and sucked Sweet's juices off of her finger he heard her whisper in his ear "There's a taste of things to cum, now get going." She pulled her finger back out and patted him on the ass as he walked out the door and made his way to his truck. Reaching the truck and grabbing the handle, he looked back up at the door to see Sweets standing there and giving him a wink before disappearing out of the doorway and closing the door behind her. As he climbed in and put his seatbelt on, he noticed that Lilly had already started the truck and had the music bumping pretty hard already. He looked over at her and asked "Heard anything from Kate or Humphrey?"

Lilly checked her phone before responding with "No not yet, but I hope everything is ok." As she locked her phone and sat it back down in the cup holder, she looked out the window and watched the urban landscape roll by. After a few minutes of the ride back to the house being quiet, she looked over at Salty and said "You don't think they are..." but she just kind of trailed off and hoped Salty would understand where she was going with this. Salty let out a good laugh after hearing this and turned to look at her as he stopped at a stop light. "Really Lilly? I mean its Humphrey and Kate we are talking about. Humphrey doesn't even have the balls to ask Kate to go see a movie, much less anything else." Lilly was somewhat shocked to hear this. "You have got to be kidding me right, I mean I knew that he was shy when it came to things like that, but surely I figured he would have no problems asking a girl to the movies." She replied as she thumbed through Salty's IPod to find something to listen to. "Not kidding you at all, but it's not just any girl as you have to remember about Claws. For some reason it's just Kate that he is like that with." Salty said as he thought about telling her about the bet Humphrey and he had earlier that morning. He talked himself out of it, and decided that it would be best if no one else knew about the bet incase Humphrey really did go through with it. If not though, he was going to call him out like he was a winner on a game show about it.

"That's funny in a way, but you know the feeling is so mutual between them. I'm shocked that Kate hasn't asked him out herself to be honest." Lilly replied as they finally turned onto the street that Salty and Humphrey lived. As Salty pulled into the driveway and shut the truck off, he looked over at her and said "Well don't say anything but that's probably going to be what it takes if I know Humphrey." They both laughed about it as they got out of the truck and made the walk up the walkway to the front door. "True and it looks like all the lights are on, so that's a good sign I guess." Lilly said as they stepped up on the porch and Salty opened the screen door. "Yea unless Humphrey and your sister are exhibitionists." Lilly's eyes got big at the comment and took a step back away from the door and said "In that case, you can go first." Salty laughed at her response and opened the front door only to see a scene he wasn't expecting. Kate and Humphrey weren't on the couch playing PlayStation or zoned out in the television. As a matter of fact the whole house was quiet and neither one was anywhere to be found. Seeing this had Salty worried some as he feared he was going to eat his words about not having to worry about walking in on them doing anything. Giving a somewhat fearful glance back at Lilly, he shrugged his shoulders as she mouthed 'Where are they?' to him. He made his way across the living room floor and leaned his head up into the stairwell in an attempt to see if he heard anything before venturing up to look for them. Not hearing anything, he made his way slowly up the stairs and down the hallway towards Humphrey's closed door with Lilly following close behind. As he reached the closed door, he looked back at Lilly with that 'You don't really think they are" look on his face. She shrugged and motioned for him to go ahead and open the door as she took a step or two back so that she wouldn't see anything if it were to be the case at hand. Salty felt that he should at least knock or call out one of their names, but before he really gave it any thought he was already turning the knob and opening the door. As he walked in he was shocked that the scene laid out in front of his eyes and grabbed for Lilly's arm so she could see as well.

There before both of them was Kate passed out with one of Humphrey's favorite blankets pulled over top of her as she laid on Humphrey's bed and Humphrey was sitting at his desk passed out with his head laying on top of a drawing that he was working on it would seem. As the pencil was still in his paw and he was softly snoring. Salty looked over to Lilly with a smile and whispered to her "You know they look too good to be woken up." Lilly nodded in reply and whispered back "Yea but Mom would kill us if we didn't come home with it being a school night. I just wonder which one passed out first." As she made her way over to Humphrey to see what he was sketching out. "Don't wake him up." Salty whispered over to her as she softly rested a paw on the desk and tried to look at the drawing that he was mostly covering.

"I won't" she mouthed back as she was unable to see really much of anything on the paper beneath him. To her it looked like he was drawing some kind of car, but there wasn't enough done that she could tell. She looked over at her sister sleeping so peacefully and she really didn't want to wake her, as she knew that she could curl up beside Kate on the bed or even sleep down on the couch. She wasn't sure if their Mom would wig out with it being Humphrey, but you never know with her and as late as it was it would be better to play it safe. As she made her way silently around Humphrey and over to Kate who was sleeping soundly, she looked over at Salty who was busy texting Sweets on his phone she presumed. 'I want love like that. A guy who absolutely adores me and constantly wants to be around me, but at the same time doesn't care if I go hang out with my friends." Lilly thought to herself as she turned her attention back to Kate. She knew she needed to wake her up, but didn't want to wake up Humphrey in the process. Quickly the light bulb came on in her head and she bent down to Kate's only exposed ear and whispered something in it that wasn't loud enough for anyone but Kate to hear. This caused Kate to stir, but not wake up. So Lilly tried it again, but this time she took the back of one of her claws and ran it softly down her sister's side as she whispered in her ear again. Kate stirred a little bit before pawing softly at the air with a grin and said softly "Oh Humphrey I just love it when you run your claws along my side, rawr." Hearing this caused Lilly and Salty both to look with each other with shocked expressions and they both shrugged their shoulders with open paws at each other in confusion. She stirred a little bit more before rolling from her side to her back. Kate then opened her eyes slowly and blinked a few times, as she took a deep breathe while looking around in an attempt to remember where she was at.

As Kate woke up, she was confused as to where she was, why Lilly and Salty were standing there in front of her with a confused look on both of their faces and why Humphrey was slumped over asleep at the desk beside the bed. Then it all came flooding back. After finishing helping Humphrey with his homework, they came up here to hang out while they waited on Lilly and Salty to get back. Humphrey was working on a sketching out an idea and she was laying on his bed talking to him and at some point she guess she fell asleep. As she sat up on the bed, she realized that she had a blanket covering her up. 'Strange, I don't remember having a blanket over top of me.' She thought to herself before looking at Lily and asking her "What time is it?" Lilly put a finger up to her muzzle, motioning for Kate to keep it quiet so as not to wake up Humphrey. Lilly flashed Kate her phone so she could see what time it was and Kate's eyes got big when she saw it was going on 10 pm. "Oh my God Lilly, Mom is going to kill us. Come on, we need to get going and hopefully our parents are asleep when we get home." Lilly nodded and slipped out the door quietly as Kate slowly stood up and stretched really hard and letting out a huge yawn before slowly following the other two out the door. She stopped in the doorway and gave a glance back at Humphrey sleeping. 'He seems so innocent and at peace' She thought to herself as she watched him for a minute. She wasn't sure if she should wake him and get him into his bed or just let him sleep in such a position that he surely would pay the price for in the morning after he awoke. After thinking about for a minute, she walked over to his bed and pulled his blanket back before laying her paw softly on his shoulder. "Humphrey" she whispered into his ear. "Come on let's get in your bed sleepy head." Humphrey mumbled something incoherently as he sat up and with the help of Kate, climbed into his bed and passed back out as if had never he even been awake. Kate pulled the blanket over top of him, just as she assumed he had done her earlier and looked at him with a smile. Leaning down near his ear, she whispered "Goodnight Humphrey" and gave him a soft kiss on his cheek. She then turned off the light over his desk and walked back over to the door way and glanced back one more time with a smile before heading down the hallway and stairs to get Lilly so that they could go home.

Once inside the car and buckled up, Kate started her M3 and let out on the clutch to start their trip across town to home. Lilly looked over at Kate saying "I just hope Mom isn't mad at us when we get home." Kate shrugged her shoulders, "I don't think she will be as they knew we were with Humphrey." Lilly nodded and replied "True, but I still worry." There was a pause of silence between the sisters before Lilly's curiosity got the best of her and she asked "Oh by the way, what took you so long to come down stairs? I figured you would've been right behind Salty and me." Kate glanced over at her sister and replied "I just had to make sure I had everything I had taken over there before we left." As she put her eyes back on the road, a smile came over her face as she shifted the car into the next gear and headed home.