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“Jenkins.” I smile, looking over at him longingly. The massive amounts of alcohol and drugs I took blur the image of him. Has he always been so hot? Without thinking I lean across the couch and our lips meet. 

There is a moment of bliss before he pulls back. He looks at me, concerned.

“Are you sure about this?” He asks.

“I’ve never been more sure of anything.”

He starts by taking out a pineapple. He cuts it in half before putting the insides into a blender. He adds yogurt and milk along with other fruits and turns the blender on. While the blunder whirs he looks at me, seductively. He takes out a cup and pours me the drink looking me directly in the eyes. I take a sip. 

“Wow, you’re really good at this,” I say breathlessly as I take another gulp.

We keep our eye contact.

He leads me to the bathroom.

He takes off his shirt. Wow I’m drunk because I swear he has boobs right now. Jenkins sees me staring at his man tits and says, “you like what you see?”

“Yeah,” I barely mutter before he turns into a pterodactyl, “oh….. I’m not really into furries.”

Jenkins reverts back into a human. “Sorry that was just my….demon self…I’m sorry you had to see that. You don't want to see me when I'm…..really excited.”

Fuck this is weird dude Im out

I leave the bathroom with a weird feeling, furries are such a turn off. 

I leave with my clothes still off. Stephanie, who was right outside the door, sees me naked and the devastated half dinosaur man inside. 

“What the fuck happened in there,” she asks. I walk past her to the bedroom and put some clothes on.

When I go back downstairs I am greeted with panic downstairs. I ask what happened and they say that Stefanie left in a hurried rage. 

“Fuck.” I say going towards the door.

“Me, please.” I hear a small whimper from the bathroom. The naked Jenkins bird sitting on the floor in a pool of tears.

As I storm outside I see Stefanie sitting on the sidewalk smoking.

“You said you were going to quit,” I say, walking up and sitting beside her.

“Yeah, well I didn’t expect you to fuck my brother.”

“Nothing happened you know,” I explain, trying to save what little dignity I have left, “he made me smooth and then turned into a bird. We only got to second base.”

“Oh yeah some people don’t go for the bird”

I left that night. Andy was still asleep in our bed. It doesn’t feel like our bed anymore, not since Thanksgiving Dinner with my brother. He pleaded to me that nothing happened and he was weirded out by Jenkins transforming into a pterodactyl, but that doesn’t change anything. He still would have cheated on me. He, also, shamed my brother! Jenkins has always been half bird. How dare Andy hold that against him.

I took the car. Andy can’t drive anyways. He’s always been my ‘passenger princess’ and I have to take him everywhere. Not anymore. He can go hitch hiking for all I care. I’m going to see Brian.

Brian and I are childhood friends (I’m the only person who knew him when he was Briana). He said if I ever needed a place to go I could go there. 

I knock on the door. Brain answers the door. He rubs his eyes as if he thinks he’s still dreaming.

“Stefanie?!” he exclaimed, “What are you doing here?”

“I’m leaving Andy,” I say as I step into his house.

“Excuse me?” he closes the door, “It’s impolite to enter someone's house uninvited. I drop my bag and step close to him and look up at his face. He’s surprised and I can hear him holding his breath.

“Cmon brian i know you've always had a massive boner for me so let's just get this over with. You can be my rebound while I get over andy. ”

“You’re drunk,” he says. He’s not wrong. I might have had a little bit of gin before leaving the thanksgiving dinner. And by a little i mean a whole bottle my life is ending give me a break guys sheesh.

“That's not an answer,” I responded. I feel so confident.

“No I won’t fuck you. Here let me make you something so you can sober up.” He walks to the kitchen.

“You didn’t respond to the part about you having that massive boner for me.”

He avoids my eyes and dodges the question. 

“What flavour milkshake do you like?”

“Vanilla, with extra cream,” I reply, “Can’t stand that coppery stuff.”

I sit at a stool at his kitsch counter. As he gets all the ingredients and starts making the milkshake and lie my head on the cool surface.

“Andy fucked my brother.”

“What?”

“During Thanksgiving dinner. With some sort of smoothie thing. And then he left when Jenkins revealed his true inner pterodactyl self. That fucker isnt in to furrys i guess.”

“Oh yeah, some people don’t go for the bird. Oh, umm, I don’t need to make you a Milkshake if that's too triggering.”

“No, it kind of turns me on.”

“Oh.” The blender wirrs. I think about Andy, is this what he felt. Did he do this with Jenkins? Ew, imagining him being gay with my brother makes me want to vomit. I sit up straight in my stool. I don’t want to think about them. Screw this.

I get up and walk over to Brain, who is adding the ice cream to the top of the milkshake. I pull him to me and kiss him. I remembered thinking about it growing up. I thought I was gay for wanting to kiss him. Then he came out and it all made sense.

We break. He stares down at me.

“Are you sure you want to do this?”

“I'm drunk and horny, yes.” I lead him to his bedroom. Hes so lost in my eyes that he doesn’t realize he’s still holding the milkshakes in his hands. He sets them on the table beside the bed. He takes off his shirt and I do the same. We climb into bed. He hands me the milkshake. I slurp it up while staring at him.

“Mmmmmm,” I say ,taking a big gulp “it’s really good.”

“I think I added the right amount of cream this time.”

“Yeah the white stuff is greatBrai

I hand him.his milkshake and force him to take a sip. “Oh yeah you like it” 

“I like it sm that i want to turn into a pterodactyl, you into that?”

“Hell yeah”

After: 

“Wow that was great” Brain says to me.

“Yeah, it was fine. Hey make me another milkshake please, I never got to finish that first one and now its all gross and melted.” 

He goes back into the kitchen and makes me a milkshake. Andy never would get into the kitchen and make me things, he always told me men don't belong in the kitchen. But this man, brain, belongs in the kitchen. He notices me watching him make my milkshake and give me a big grin. I come over and take a big gulp of the milkshake he made me while staring him right in the eye. I can't tell if he looks uncomfortable by that or turned on. 

“Ok i'm leaving now brain”

“What but I thought you could stay awhile and maybe we could….make more milkshakes together if you know what I mean” he gives me a suggestive wink. 

“Sorry I’m kind of tired, that was a lot.”

“Oh yeah, but I'll turn into a pterodactyl again, don't worry I get it.”

He’s so much more understanding 

He does his pterodactyl call, and leads me back into the bedroom. dy was, i think.

He slaps me.i like it. Too much.he goes full pterodactyl, something Andy hasn't been able to do in years. andy's pterodactyl is so small and fragile. Brains is strong and manly. Brains pterodactyl milk tastes so much better