"Humphrey wait up!" Kate hollered out as she zig zagged through the parked cars in the school parking lot in an attempt to catch her best friend's attention. Humphrey though kept walking but slowed his pace some as he reached his car and turned around to see who it was that was hollering his name. As he fumbled slowly for his car keys, he never took his eyes off the girl of his dreams as she quickly walked up on him and his car. "Hey." Kate said between breathes. "I need to talk to you or did you forget?"

Humphrey quickly got that oh fuck I forgot look on his face before responding to her question. "Yeah I'm sorry Kate, I just forgot about it with all the junk I had to cram in my mind today. "A slight smile broke as he stared her in the eyes. "So do you want to talk here or somewhere else?" His stomach knotted up some in nervousness as if he were asking her to go on a date or something.

"I doesn't matter Humph, but I just need to take Lilly home first and see if Mom has anything for me to do first." Kate replied as she gently sat on the edge of the fender on the Camaro which in turn made Humphrey cringe some. That was one thing he never understood because they're not park benches. Before he could respond though, Kate quickly realized what she was doing and leaned up off of it. Seeing this made Humphrey crack a small smile, "Kate, its ok you know." He responded as he proceeded to insert his keys in the door to unlock it. Kate slowly eased back down onto the fender and was slightly sitting on it and the very edge of his hood. "Well I know how people get about their cars and I just had a blonde moment."

Humphrey laughed a little and replied as he opened the car door and leaned in to put his book bag inside. "Kate there is instances where it is ok and there are exceptions to the so called rules you know. I tell you what, take Lilly home and I'll pick you up from your house." He stepped out of the doorway of the car and walked over to stand in front of Kate. "Deal?" Kate pulled him into a hug and whispered "Deal" Humphrey reciprocated the hug and squeezed her tightly and picking her up off the ground that her feet were dangling in the air slightly.

As he put her back down and released from the hug, his phone quietly vibrated in his pocket. Kate looked at him suspicious in a joking manner and said "Tell your girlfriend she can wait, right now you're spending time with your best friend." She laughed and playfully punched his arm.

"Who ever it is can wait, but how about you shoot me a text when you get done doing whatever it is you have to do and maybe we can go grab a bite somewhere or something afterwards." Humphrey replied as he moved back into the open doorway of his car. 'Truth be known it is Salty trying to get a hold of me.' He silently thought to himself.

"That sounds great, see you soon. " Kate said as she turned away to walk to her car. Humphrey on the other hand stood there and watched her as she went only to holler out right before she disappeared between some cars. "By the way, who is my 'Girl Friend'?"

Kate turned around and gave him that 'Oh you know look' and Humphrey just rolled his eyes in response before sitting down in the driver's seat and closing the door. He thought about pulling over there to her, but decided against it for some dumb reason. He pulled his phone out of his pocket and sat it in the cup holder in the console before inserting the key into the ignition to turn it on.

While the Camaro came roaring to life, the blue notification light blinking on his phone caught his eye. "Probably Salty wanting to know where I am at." Humphrey said quietly to himself as he turned the radio up and rolled down the windows, before easing the shifter into gear and slowly easing the Camaro through the parking lot to the awaiting street beyond the bushes.

As he pulled out onto the street and slowly headed towards the awaiting traffic signal that so happened to be red, he wondered what to do to kill some time before meeting up with Kate. The light turned green and Humphrey eased out of the clutch and headed down the street aimlessly to kill time. The light on his phone continued to blink blue as a reminder that there was a notification that needed his attention. Humphrey continued to ignore it, not really caring as he figured it was his best friend wanting to pester him some more.

It wasn't long before his screen lit up with a phone call and Claw's name across the screen to indicate it was her that was calling him. He leaned up some and turned the radio volume down before answering it. "Hey you" Humphrey responded.

"Hey stranger." Claws jokingly said. "So what are you doing my sexy school boy?" Upon hearing this, a smile came across Humphreys face as he replied. "Nothing much really, although I'm about to go hang out with a few of my friends for a bit. How about you?"

"Well I was going to see if you wanted to hang out but since you already have plans, I suppose I can find something else to do." Claws replied with some sadness in her voice. "I mean it's not like we are together or anything, but I still enjoy hanging out with you Humphrey." Humphrey really didn't know how to respond. On one paw he wanted to hang out with his best friend and on the other hand here was his friend with which he had sex with and if they hung out he probably with have sex with again like Saturday night. Humphrey gave it a quick thought before responding. "Babe we can still hang out tonight after I get done. I just promised my friends I'd hang out today after school."

"Really?" Claws smiled as she responded happily. "That would be great as I have been missing my Humphrey time." Humphrey could feel his skin getting red under his fur as he knew what her intentions were now. He laughed and asked "So I guess I'll hit you up after I'm done?" to which Claws replied "If not the consequences will be dire." With that Claws hung up the phone and Humphrey just laughed as he clicked the button on the side to black out the screen, as this was one phone call to make the school day better until he gets home to Salty.

There was just one other phone call though that he was waiting nervously on, the call from Kate. He knew she wanted to talk and talk alone, but wasn't sure exactly what it was that she wanted to talk about. 'I just wonder what it is Kate wants to talk about.' He thought to himself silently in his own head. 'Surely nothing out of the way I wouldn't think… no not Kate. It's probably something she needs help with but is too scared to say something in front of everyone else. She could be wanting to….' Suddenly his thoughts were interrupted by the sound of his phone ringing and as he looked down a picture of him and Kate from a few years ago filled his screen.

"Kate, what's up?" He inquired as he answered the phone and put it on his shoulder so he could slide the shifter into the next gear.

"I wanted to let you know that I am home and waiting on you to come get me." Kate replied.

Humphrey smiled and said "I'll be there shortly so just be waiting outside." Humphrey hung up the phone and sat it back down into the cup holder in the console. He then grabbed the shifter, pushed in the clutch and slides the shifter down to second gear before releasing the clutch and pressing into the gas. As he did so, the Camaro responded eagerly and pressed Humphrey backwards into the seat and had every intention of keeping him there until he let up off the gas.

About an hour later…

"So what was it that you needed to talk to me about that we couldn't talk with everyone else around?" Humphrey inquired as he adjusted himself to a comfortable position on the grass below him. He was nervous and he had every right to be in his own mind. He wasn't sure what she could be asking but wanting some privacy it could be the thing he dreamt of yet feared at the same time. She could be doing the one thing he never had enough guts to do. 'I can see it know.' He thought to himself. 'So Humphrey finally grew the balls to ask you out eh Kate? Then she would be like 'Na I got tired of waiting too long so I asked him out. Then everyone would be giving me hell for bitching out… ugh.' As he racked his brain over thinking and his stomach was doing somersaults, Kate responded with the one way to really wrench his guts up even tighter.

"Humphrey we have been friends since we both can remember right?" Kate asked softly with nervousness in her voice. Her tail swayed slowly offering no hint to the impending question that loomed ahead. This didn't help Humphrey out one bit mind you.

Humphrey swallowed the lump in his throat before responding. "Um… ye... yea"

"What do you think about you and me going to Red Deer Park for a weekend?" Kate asked rather shyly. "They have a water park that's opening up this summer and it may be good to get away from everything and just have some fun."

Humphrey breathed a sigh of relief however his butter flies didn't slow down the least bit. If anything, they were going harder than before at the thought of her and him being alone for a weekend. Then he got to thinking about Eve, what she would say and how she would kill him if she even thought something fishy happened. His tail stopped wagging in the partially tall grass and his ears dropped at the thought of her mom ripping off his tail and shoving it up his ass, or worse. "Um… Kate. That sounds awesome and all but what about your Mom? What is she going to say about me and you running off for a weekend together alone?"

This thought never crossed Kate's mind when she had been thinking about it in her bed the past few nights. However Kate wasn't dumb and she knew there were ways around it, even if it meant Lilly had to tag along as usual. "Well surely Mom would understand as we are just friends and we have been friends since way before either of us could remember. If no then I'll just ask Lilly to go with us or I will tell Mom that I am staying with Candy and Sweets for a slumber party." Kate took a seat beside him while resting her head on his shoulder and looking out at the town below them.

That seemed to cheer him up a little, but there were one word in there that cut through him like a scorching red hot knife slicing through a stick of frozen butter, friends. He let out a heavy breath and nodded as a way to convey that he understood. Deep down though he was hurt and crying on the inside as he was friend zoned. He always knew that's the way it was, but deep down he always hoped that he could been with her, but now he knew for sure it would never happen. "Yea that will work and I think I could use some time away from here, but it has to be warm as I am not getting in cold water." He replied with his ears slightly perked up. He slowly wrapped his arm around her and surprisingly to him; she burrowed into him some and sighed. He looked down at her with a perplexed look on his face and asked "Everything ok?"

Kate gave him a serious look and replied "It just isn't the same you know."

"What is not the same Kate?" Humphrey asked as he stared into her eyes and was totally clueless to what she was talking about. They sat there like that for a minute or two until Kate rolled her eyes and looked back out across the city that lay out before them from their view point from the edge of the overlook. Humphrey sat there dumbfounded and looked back out while wondering to himself what she was talking about.

"The view Humphrey… The view from here just isn't the same." Kate responded sarcastically exasperated almost as if she had read his mind. Humphrey on the other hand still took another minute to catch on to exactly what she had said. "Oh yea it's really not is it?" He asked still not completely sure what she had meant by her statement but he figured that he would soon.

"Not really, I mean look at it." She pointed out to the city below them before continuing. "I mean the first time we came up here it was… picture perfect and almost romantic. Now though, it's just like watching ants move about." She let out a small laugh as she closed her eyes.

"Yea I see what you are saying" Humphrey replied as he finally realized fully what she meant. He sat there looking down at his tan furred friend with a stupid grin on his face. 'I could get use to this you know' He thought to himself. 'The girl of my dreams sitting here with me and my arm wrapped around her. Only thing that would make this better is if we were making out as the sun set and the stars above shone brightly across the midnight sky. 'He let out a small sigh as he tried not to get lost in his thoughts.

The air around them was starting to chill as the sun slowly went down in the distance. It wasn't uncomfortable but it wasn't the way most would like. They didn't seem to be bothered though as they sat there and talked with each other. It wasn't long though before a cold wind went ripping though and sending chills through Kate's fur to her skin. She snuggled into Humphrey for warmth without really giving it any thought. Humphrey didn't mind as he pulled her closer against him and moved his paw down until it rested on her hip.

"Kate if your cold, I can run back to my car and get you my hoodie." Humphrey offered. Kate let out a long slow breath before responding "No I think I am good right now, thank you though." She moved her head to his chest and listened to his heart beat with her eyes still closed. They didn't really speak as they just sat there watching the sun slowly disappear behind the mountains in the distance and the city below them slowly lit up from the street lights.

"Why is your heart racing?" Kate enquired.

Humphrey's skin turned a bright red underneath his grey fur and he really was unsure how to answer that. He knew he couldn't answer it the way he wanted to as he was afraid she would push away as she already said they were just friends earlier. "I don't know, I guess I never even noticed." He replied as he tried to play it off.

"Does sitting here with me like this make you nervous Hump?" Kate teased as she pulled back enough to be able to look him in the eyes. Humphrey on the other hand turned a bright red that was visible through his fur. His cheeks were hot and he was so nervous that he really didn't know how to respond. He knew that if he tried to talk his way out of it that he would dig himself deeper and if he denied it or changed the subject, she would know what she thinks she already knows. Kate sensing his nervousness decided to prod a little more.

"Aww Humphrey why are you so quiet?" Kate asked playfully with a huge grin on her face.

"I'm not nervous." Humphrey responded as he tried to scoot away from his aggressor.

Kate sat back and put her weight onto her paws and looked at him with a shit eating grin. "Aww Humphrey do you wanna hug me?" She teased him playfully. "Do you wanna kiss me?" She teased a bit more in a playfully seductive tone. Then she leaned forward toward him and asked "Do you wanna…" but before she could finish what she was saying, she was interrupted by her phone going off in her pocket. She laughed as she sat up straight and pulled it out only to see that Lilly was calling her.

Humphrey was the brightest red that any wolf had ever been by now and was glad that her phone rang when it did, because he was sure her next question would've been 'Do you wanna fuck me?' Oh how he did. He just had a dream earlier that morning about doing it that she herself had interrupted by calling him. Humphrey was breathing rather hard by now and his stomach was in knots so tight that he was sure there was no way that they could be undone.

"Humphrey?" Kate asked in a more serious tone than just a few minutes ago. "I really hate to cut this short but do you think we could get going soon? Lilly just called and said that Mom was bitching about something that apparently I had forgotten to do before leaving."

Humphrey looked over at his friend who one minute friend zoned him and the next minute was teasing him about hugging, kissing and he can only imagine how far the next one was going before she got interrupted. "Yea we can. It's starting to get a little chilly now that the sun is going down."

"Ok" Kate replied with a bit of disappointment in her voice as she watched him get up and then walked over to over to her to offer a paw to help her up. As she took it, she noticed something different about him. Like something was off that wasn't off before now. The walk back to the Camaro was a silent one, as well as the start of the drive home. This didn't settle well with Kate. As she sat there thinking about things, she looked over at Humphrey and it was almost as if he was hurt by something she said. So she decided to speak up and break the silence.

"Humphrey, I was just picking at you back there and I really didn't mean to hurt you if I said something out of the way." Kate said as she adjusted herself in the seat to look over at him.

Humphrey nodded and replied with "Kate its ok."

Kate decided to change the subject as she could see this one wasn't going to go anywhere and she really didn't want any animosity with her friend over something so trivial. "When do you want to go to Red Deer Park?" She asked.

Humphrey sat there for a minute and thought about it before responding. "You know I am really not sure, but how about the weekend that we start Spring Break?"

Kate perked up with a smile upon hearing this and the part of her tail that she wasn't sitting on wagged slowly as she replied "Sounds like a plan." Then another idea to cheer him up popped into her head.

"Hey can I borrow your hoodie? I'm starting to get a little cold." Kate asked innocently enough.

"I can roll up the windows and turn on the heater if you want?" Humphrey replied.

Kate knew he didn't really catch on so she pressed on a little further. "I really don't think there's a need for all that; I just thought it would be nice to have a hoodie on so I can still enjoy the air in my face."

"It is either behind your seat or in the back of the car if you think you can reach it." He replied and he eased the car around a slight bend in the road, before easing back into the fun pedal to hear the exhaust growl as the car replied happily.

Kate reached back behind her but didn't feel anything. So she un-buckled her seat belt and looked back, only to notice it sitting in the back area under the glass of the hatch. She pondered a minute on what to do and then it hit her. 'I hope he enjoys the view.' She thought to herself as she unbuckled her seat belt, put her knees in the seat and leaned between the front seats into the back seat area to reach the hoodie. Humphrey glanced over just as she had disappeared into the back of the car and all he got was a face full of her ass and tail sitting right beside him. Her purple shirt had ridden up some and was showing off her tan and white stomach, as well as a lime green thong that was sitting slightly above her pants.

As she reached about in attempt to grab the hoodie, she was slightly rocked into the side of the driver seat as the car jerked a little. A smile came across her face as she knew that he would respond the way any typical boy wolf would. So she braced herself against the back seat and body and asked "Humphrey are you ok up there?"

"Yea, I was just trying to miss something in the road." He replied with a slight sarcasm in his voice. It was a lie and he knew that she knew but he didn't care as he was enjoying the beautiful view of her bottom in those tight, faded bell bottom blue jeans that she decided to wear today. Kate tried her hardest but her tail wouldn't listen as it started to wag slowly in excitement. He smiled and was tempted to stroke her tail fur as it swayed to and fro but resisted as he really didn't know how she would respond and wasn't really in the mood to be slapped tonight. Once Kate felt like he had enough teasing for the evening, she sat back down in the passenger seat trying to hold back from smiling while also attempting to put the hoodie on.

Kate was buckling her seatbelt back in when she looked over at Humphrey only to notice the smile on his face. She sat back in her seat smiling as she knew she had accomplished what she wanted to. As they rode along in silence still, Kate looked over at Humphrey to catch him looking back over at her with some nervousness. "Humphrey are you ok?" She asked as she wasn't sure what was going through that dense skull of his.

"Yea, just enjoying the drive back to your house and thinking." He replied with a slight grin.

The grin didn't go unnoticed, which peaked her curiosity even more. "What are you thinking about?" She asked.

He was too embarrassed to tell her what he was really thinking about so he decided to tell her something different. "Just thinking about how we are going to get away from here without your mom trying to kill me." As he finished saying that, he let out a laugh for the first time in a while this evening. 'Fenrir I hope she believes me because there's no way I could tell her I was thinking about what she looks like underneath those jeans, ugh.'

"You're really scared aren't you?" Kate replied with a laugh as if the wrath of Eve was anything short of a category 5 hurricane with F5 tornados waiting within the eye of the storm. "We will figure out something but until then just relax. Mom isn't going to kill you I promise."

Humphrey wasn't the least moved by what she said and was insistent about her Mom. "Kate your Mom makes the Devil run and hide when she gets mad." He slides the shifter out of gear as he pulled up in front of her house and pulled the emergency brake to keep the car from rolling, before looking over at her. He was scared and he had every right to be as she may be like another Mom to him, but that was her daughter and he knew that no one messed with her daughters. 'Not that I really have too much to worry about as nothing will ever happen between us, but still.' He thought to himself as he stared deeply into her eyes with the butterflies in his stomach fluttering about crazily.

"Oh your crazy Humphrey she isn't that bad, but I am telling you that you have nothing to worry about and I will deal with Mom." Kate replied. She could sense there was something he was hiding but she wasn't sure what it could be exactly.

"If you say so Kate" Humphrey replied with a sense of nervousness in his voice.

"Well I better get inside before Mom does come out here and unleash the fury of Hell on you for keeping me so long." Kate replied while laughing. But as she reached for the door handle, she felt a Humphrey put a paw on her leg to stop her. As she looked over at him, she could see the nervousness in his eyes when she locked into them with hers. 'Oh Shit he's going to do it… he's really going to do it…' She thought to herself as her stomach tightened up in knots like she had never had before. "What's up Humph?" She asked trying to hide her nervousness back as much as she could without it being noticeable.

"Um… Kate" Humphrey barely got out as his stomach was knotted up tighter than a mass of snakes in tangled with each other during mating season.

"Yea?" she responded nervously as she never expected this to happen.

"There's something I really wanted to ask you but I really don't know how to go about it." He got out between his slightly labored breathes that he was trying to hide.

"Ok… what is it Humph?"

"Wi… will you…." He started to stumble over his words before taking a deep breath.

Kate looked at him with a nervousness that was getting hard to hide.

"Kate, will you go to Prom with me in a few weeks?" He finally got out.

Kate sat there in shock as that wasn't the question she had been expecting and honestly it caught her off guard. Her silence though made Humphrey uneasy as he sat there and looked at his friend. The silence between them sent his knotted stomach into acrobat flips as he felt as if maybe he messed up his friendship in that one moment. So in classic Humphrey fashion he panicked and back pedaled. "Kate if you don't want to, I understand completely. I just figured it would be nice to go together as it's our first prom and we always talked about it as kids…" His let his voice trail off as the sadness began to take over in his tone. Kate watched him in silence as he lowered his head and looked down at his shifter.

"Humphrey…" She replied but it really had no effect on him, so she reached over with her paw and lifted his muzzle up so she could look him in the eyes. "Humphrey I couldn't think of another wolf that I would want to take me to my first prom."

Humphrey's heart raced as they locked eyes while leaning into the give each other a hug. 'Fenrir how I would love to give her a kiss right now but I will wait and see how things go.' He thought to himself as her muzzle slipped by his and she rested it on his shoulder. They stayed like that for a few minutes before she broke the hug and eased herself back into the passenger side seat.

"Ok, I have to get inside before Mom blows a gasket about something that I obviously don't remember her telling me to do. " Kate replied as fumbled around for the door handle while looking at him.

"So I guess I will see you at school in the morning?" He asked shyly. As he watched her open the car door and get out.

Kate closed the car door and leaned in the open window. "As long as someone doesn't over sleep again." She replied with a laugh.

"I'll try not to again; I don't want another run in with the five-O." Humphrey replied with a smile.

"You don't need any more run ins with the police. So… I will see you tomorrow morning or you can always text me before then you know Humph." Kate replied before she started her walk to the front door of her house. Humphrey watched her as she walked away with a stupid grin on his face and hormone fueled obscene thoughts running rampant through his teenage mind as he did so. As Kate reached the door step, she turned around to look back at him one more time before opening the door and disappearing inside to do whatever it was she had forgotten to do earlier.

As he turned the key in the ignition to the start position and the Camaro came rumbling to life, the blinking blue notification light on his phone reminded him of the phone call with Claws earlier. He eased the shifter into first gear and slowly let out on the clutch to get the Camaro going without attracting too much attention from Kate's neighbors. Once he was down the road, he put the shifter into third gear and was steadily back into the gas. He picked up his phone and pressed the number two for his speed dial and waited as the phone rang on the other end.

"Hey my sexy school boy" Claws greeted happily on the other end. "I guess you are done hanging out with you friends?"

Humphrey smiled and replied "Well how about I meet you in ten at our usual spot?"

"Sounds good to me and I hope you packed a lunch." Claws said with before hanging up the phone.

Humphrey laughed as he sat his phone back down in his cup holder, pressed the clutch in, jabbed the shifter into second gear and was back into the gas. The Camaro responded with a loud "CHIRP" of the rear tires as they broke loose before gaining traction and propelling him off like a rocket towards his destination. "Looks like today has really shaped up to be a good day after all," he said to himself as he reached down to turn the volume on the radio up and headed home.

Alas another chapter hits the press and I bet you all thoughti have gave up and walked away. Lol. Guess again as im still here plugging away slowly but sure as work and life allow. See you when i post the next chapter... ;)