Zuri, Abby, Strips ~ Private

[petdr89]

Abby's tail wagged and a big grin came across her face. "I love it!" She reached a hand out to pet the soft fabric, smiling and purring softly. "Funny thing is, Strips and I were just talking about how much we both like that band. 'Course, he also said he liked Rob Zombie, which I don't particularly care for. But, that's beside the point." She paused, allowing her eyes to wander across the sweatshirt once more. "Yes, I like it, very much," she concluded.

[zash]

"Alright, I think I'm gonna get it. If you want you could get one too. There over there in the middle of the other sweatshirts, there are various ones over there." Zuri pointed in the direction of the sweatshirts. "And don't worry, I'll pay for it." Zuri smiled. "And now I need to find a pair of shorts and pants and a T-shirt." Zuri already had a sweatshirt so he wouldn't need a long sleeve shirt. He was also just gonna go ahead and get a pair of shorts and pants, that way if its cold or warm he'll be prepared.

[petdr89]

Abby smiled softly, walking over to Zuri with her tail swishing behind her. When she was right in front of him, she stood on her toes and kissed him lightly on the cheek. "Thanks for the offer, but I have no use for a sweatshirt." And why would she? She couldn't feel hot or cold; she could run around naked in a snowstorm if she wanted. And although it was a stinking awesome sweatshirt, in her opinion, she didn't want Zuri to waste his money.

She walked away from Zuri, and over to the pants. Occasionally she would pet one or two of them, but they weren't as soft as the sweatshirts. She personally liked the one with a dragon embroidered up the side, but she didn't think Zuri would. She figured Zuri would like the pair of just plain blue-gray jeans.

[zash]

((Heck no, Zuri would love that.))

Zuri would like a pair like that. He wasn't much for a plain pair of anything, other than sock and underwear. But yeah, Zuri just kinda froze as a chill went up his back. "Ooooo yeah, that was nice." Zuri thought to himself as he stood there. "I wonder what's up with her. First she was angry and now she is being all sweet and nice to me, hmmmmm. But I like it this way." Zuri thought as he smiled.

Eventually he snapped out of it and, "Ah, I'll go ahead and get her one. I can tell she'd like it. And its not a waist, nothing wrong with wearing something stylish, plus I'd imagine she'd like to wear a nice big sweatshirt and be able to sink into it, well atleast it looks like that." So Zuri went back over to the sweatshirts and found another "Linkin Park" sweatshirt. It was a medium, large enough to be worn and engulf but small enough not to suffocate. Zuri's was an extra large so a medium would probably fit someone as small as Abby and be able to allow her to snuggle up with it. But the sweatshirt Zuri got for Abby had "Linkin Park" on the front in white letters and on the back the picture of the lead singer animated singing the song "Breaking the Habit" on the back of the sweatshirt. And yes Zuri did know it wouldn't have a warmth purpose for Abby, it'd just be something nice to wear.

Zuri just grabbed it and kinda stuck it in with the other and walked over to Abby. "Thats a cool pair of pants." Zuri said as he looked at the one Abby was looking at. It was a pair of "Jynco" jeans, it had the logo on the back and a picture of a dragon running down the side of the pants. It was as I said before, Zuri wasn't much for a bland pair of pants, not unless he was working with them or he needed to look professional, which never really happens.

[petdr89]

Abby smiled, looking up at Zuri. "I liked that one too. Well, for a guy, anyway." On her own body she preferred tight, seductive pants, but she thought this pair of "Jynco" jeans would look good on Zuri. She didn't notice Zuri had picked up another sweatshirt; she wasn't really looking at his arms.

Her head turned back to look through the pants hanging on the rack, a small sigh escaped her mouth. She suddenly felt depressed again, hanging out with Zuri. She couldn't explain what it was, but she felt alone even though he was standing right next to her. She had a pang in her stomach again, too, but luckily she didn't throw-up.

“But do you think that’s the pair you’ll get?” She asked after a long pause.

[zash]

"Ah sure. It looks like a cool pair, why not?" Zuri said as he walked over and put his arm around Abby. "I mean, if someone as smart and stylish as you likes it then yeah." Zuri thought it was a cool pair of pants so might as well. Now all he had to do was find a T-shirt and a pair of shorts. "So I'll get that, this sweatshirt, and then grab a nice T-shirt and a pair of shorts and we can be on our way." Zuri looked down at Abby with a smile. "And maybe grab a CD while we're here too. You know, just grab a cool one so we could listen to some good music at Strips' house. So......sound good to you?"

[petdr89]

A quiet, drawn out, pathetic, squeaky sigh escaped Abby's throat when Zuri put his arm around her. She longed for someone, anyone, to wrap their strong arms around her small frame and completely engulf her; it didn't necessarily have to be Zuri. Zuri's compliment to her amplified her feelings. Though, with the way things were going, if someone tried to hug her she was liable to rip their heads off.

She replied quickly to Zuri, though. "Yep, that sounds good to me. I think we need some good music to listen to. I don't know what all he has, but I didn't like that last CD he put in." Without looking at Zuri, she pulled away from him and went to look at the T-shirts.

[zash]

"Zuri just continued to smile. Alright, I'll leave it up to you to find an awesome shirt."

Zuri was getting tired of his plain T-shirts. He never had any with a design on it. It was sad, he preferred a nice T-shirt with a design and he doesn't have one. Zuri really liked the ones with either a cool picture on it, or a nice shirt with something cool or funny written up. "Maybe you could find one with a cool picture on it or maybe a funny lymeric." Zuri still smiled, he was really enjoying being with Abby and not getting his head ripped off. "Hey Abby, I'd like to thankyou for coming with me today, I really love hanging out with you, and its nice to be around you, I really enjoy it."

[petdr89]

"That's what I'm here for, "Abby replied. "Apparently," she added softly.

She had no intentions of picking out a plan shirt for Zuri anyway; how boring would that have been. She looked through the novelty shirts but none of them really amused her, and then moved to the shirts that were advertising something. They were all okay, but none of them really grabbed her interest.

Then she saw it in all of its glory; it was beautiful. It was so awesome she almost started drooling over it; it was a gray Miami Ink T-shirt. On the front of the shirt, in addition to the words 'Miami Ink', it had a picture of a tattoo. She picked up an extra large and walked over to Zuri, holding it up to him to see how it would look on him.

"Hehe, that's good... I like this one."

[zash]

Zuri smiled, "Hehe, cool. I like it too. That's awesome." Zuri kinda chuckled as he looked at it, it was awesome. "I really like that." Zuri got a big grin and stared at it. He wasn't sure of what else to say other than that. He really liked it and would thank Abby but that would be odd, for she didn't do anything. "Yeah, I think I'll get that then." He then walked over to Abby and gave her a big hug. He wasn't sure why but ah. "Thanks Abby." He said in a low, soft voice. He held her head in his chest and held her tightly against him. "Mmm."

[petdr89]

Abby gave another quiet, drawn out, pathetic, squeaky sigh when Zuri hugged her. A rush of emotions exploded from her chest; she nuzzled her muzzle in Zuri's shirt, sniffling slightly. The feeling in her chest wasn't just emotions, though; without her consent, several cloudy tentacles grew from her chest and back, and wrapped around Zuri. Her arms were limp, but with the tentacles doing their thing it was almost like she was hugging him back.

After a moment, through, she tried to pull away from Zuri, but she was locked in. She could have pushed away from Zuri if she really wanted to, but apparently she didn't really want to or she would have moved farther than two millimeters.

However, this feeling didn't last. The cloud that fogged her mind was pushed back, and she wrestled her emotions back into the depths of her abyss. She teleported out of Zuri's arms so that she was standing in front of him, and as soon as she did the clouds around Zuri disappeared. "What are you doing?," she asked with an emotionless gaze.

[zash]

At first Zuri was enjoying the hug. Then it got weird, really at first he didn't notice the tenticles until there were more and Abby's arms were limp. "Alright, what in the hell?" Zuri thought to himself. He was gettting kinda freaked out. When Abby finally regained conscienceness and teleported he really had no idea what just happened. "What do you mean what am I dong, what about you?!" Zuri was thoroughly freaked now. "I was just gonna give you a hug and then that happened. What was that? I mean at first it was a nice innocent hug and you were enjoying it then you just went limp. That is weird." Zuri wasn't entirely sure what to do. What was he to do? He was stuck with someone that obviously couldn't control herself and was having some issues.

[petdr89]

"Exactly! How could you do this to me!" Abby snarled and rushed at Zuri, clutched his shirt tightly in her fists. "How could you do this to me?!," she repeated. "How can you keep playing with my emotions?! It's cruel, don't you realize that?" She was holding Zuri tightly while she yelled, but as she continued her grip loosened until eventually she didn't have a hold of him anymore.

Her hands slid down his body as she fell to her knees on the floor; her ears were pinned back and tears welled in her eyes. She buried her face in Zuri's pants leg; her wings unfolded and hung limply at her sides. She sniffled again, and this time cloudy tentacles came from her wrists. They wrapped around Zuri's legs, hips, and then chest, as if they were trying to hug him again. They weren't hurting him, or at least, they weren't trying to. They weren't holding him still, either; it was just dark cloud, Zuri could have walked right through it if he wanted.

[zash]

Zuri hung his head. He gave out a small sigh. Seeing Abby cry made him as well. Tears welled up in his eyes and pain surged through his chest. His mouth shrunk into itself. A single tear dropped from his left eye. "Abby," He said as he knelt down to her and held her in his arms. "I don't want to play with your emotions anymore. I never wanted to." He held her closer to him. This was probably the best time to get anything and everything off their chests. "Abby, I really care for you, I do. I never want to hurt. I'm deeply sorry for what I did to hurt you. All I wanted to do is try to protect you and unfortunantly that was all I could do." Tears began to pour down his face as he held Abby even closer. He pretty much had scouped her up into his arms. He had his arm across her bottom and the other arm across her back. "Abby, I love you with all my heart. I truely do. I know you could never tell me this or even forgive me. I don't blame you. I'm just a hidious monster, that is not worthy of love from such a marvalous woman such as yourself. I don't even deserve to be in the same room as you." By this point in time Zuri was beginning to loosen his grip. He had poured his soul out now. Tears were now just pouring out of his eye relentlessly. "I know there is nothing I could say or do to deserve your trust again."

[petdr89]

As soon as Zuri started really crying, Abby did too; darn him, if he hadn't started crying she would have been fine. It was a pleasant change, though; she had never seen Strips shed a tear in his life, except for once.

She wrapped her arms around Zuri's neck, burying her face again. "You're not a monster," she whispered. But she couldn't tell Zuri she loved him; she did love him, but the words just wouldn't come out. Maybe it was because she was crying so much, or maybe she was just too shocked that he had said it to be able to say it too. "I forgive you, Zuri," she continued to whisper.

The black-ish purple cloudy tentacles had dissipated into the air by now.