1 Chapter 1-A Mask to Hide the Pain-Theo & James
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On a cold night, police sirens blare as they approach a burning house engulfed by the warm fire, neighbors stood and watch in horror as they wait for the police & fire department to arrive & hopefully save whoever was trapped inside but the house was burning for a long time, in the middle of everything there stood a small white dire wolf pup no older than twelve was staring at the house with silent tears as he watched his house burn, knowing that his parents had perished he had just come back from choir practice. The poor pup could only stand & watch unable to do anything he wished this was a dream but not, a realization came to him & he clenched his right paw that was holding his teddy bear arm, raising his arm & staring up at the flames in a silent rage, know full with tears of anger instead of sadness then came the pain in his heart, before anyone could approach him & stop him, he runs towards the forest disappearing into the woods & the search party couldn't find him as blizzard will fall into the town of Winter Peak.
Theo
The morning sunshine through the window of a dorm of Winter Peak University waking up its inhabitants one of them was a twenty-two brown timber wolf with a muscular build, who had the boys & girls of the academy drooling for him, his name was Theo Heart he was the star captain of the football team, confident, arrogant & cocky but in reality, he was a broken mess after he had known of the incident that had claimed his aunt & uncle along with the disappearance of his cousin, despite not knowing them since he had seen them only two times, since his parents were always busy with work & with college getting in the way, it still hurt him to know what happened to them all of his confidence & arrogance was just a mask to hide the pain, there was some truth to his personality but mostly had washed away & the mask was there to still show who he was & how he is supposed to act as the tough jock that he was known for.
"Man, I'm so glad we start the holiday breaks today. Am I right Theo?" Theo heard one of his roommates call to him, he turned to address the hulking bull that was getting dressed for the upcoming roundtrip that they will all take to a remote hotel exclusively for young adults & adults, that caters towards sex, drinking & partying the hotel was known as "The Love of Winter." it was popular in the winter where young adults & adults like himself will go to have a good time, especially after the stressful championship that they had to go through, they hadn't had sex for a while it was driven him & his entire team crazy.
"Yeah, you could say that again Mark, I've been fucking dying of boredom, plus maybe we find a slut to get our cocks wet." Theo grinned at his friend who grinned & chuckled back at him, Mark was the quarterback of the football team he was just as muscular as Theo & the rest of the football team.
"Well, you better not fucking jack off in my truck, you horny bastards." A white tiger said as he was changing into a fresh pair of clothes while giving them a friendly glare as he knew the wolf & bull will do it just to mess with him & piss him off, last time the bull did jerk off in his car it took him a while to clean it, that was the last time he allowed them to bust one in his car at first it was fine but then it got annoying.
"Relax, Jacob, we can hold it, there's no need to give us that glare," Theo said with a friendly mocking smile as he could only hear the tiger murmur to himself about having to clean the sits, while the rest of their roommates laugh, Theo smiled softly his roommates were good people, he wondered how the rest of the team members were doing in their dorms, they probably were just as restless as him.
James
In a cozy home just outside the town like all the other houses, a young eighteen old German Shepard with a feminine build that will get him mistaken for a girl & targeted by bullies in Winter Peak High for being weak & shy was packing for his stay at the famous hotel "The Love of Winter" now normally he wouldn't attend a hotel such as that but his parents & older siblings told him that it could be an experience to boost his confidence & socialize, he sighed softly he couldn't believe his parents were encouraging this, it didn't help that they were sex maniacs almost everyone in his family were sex maniacs, while he was the timid shy pup of the family, it didn't help that he was a virgin "I hope their right about this." He said to himself as he was blushing as he packed some skimpy clothes his parents had gone to visit some family members in Montana & his older siblings were in Idaho, they will be home for the holidays along with their kids.
"Hopefully I won't bump into Sean, I still haven't healed the wounds he gave me yesterday," he said sadly as his ears lowered, he had put on a mask pretending everything is fine when his parents & older siblings will notice his bruises & lie about them, he would pretend everything is fine with a fake smile to hide the pain Sean & his cronies had given him the bullying was so bad that they treated to really hurt him & possibly kill him if he either utter a single word, he felt tears building up but he shook his head "NO! Everything will be fine James Growly! This is a new opportunity for me!!" James scolded himself for being weak, today was going to change he will become confident & open even if it was by sex & hopefully some of his embarrassing fantasies will come true.
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The fire in a fireplace will warm the cabin in the woods well-kept a figure will work in nutcrackers in a workshop with calm eyes, with a calendar with a big circle on the 25th of December an important day, that day will be the day that the Legend of Jolly will come back again, the town had completely forgotten about Jolly but they will remember, they will make history his white fur as snow will blend perfectly in the snow they will soon see that snow can be beautiful when it's painted red, with the skull of his mentor helping him along the way as "deck the halls" will play in his mobile speaker.
