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“Talking
in third person definitely isn’t
going to work. Come on. You have to get up. Kotohime has breakfast
ready and we’ve
got our first day of school to attend since its reopening.”

“Lilian
won’t
wake up until she receives a kiss from her mate.”

Kevin
sighed. He really didn’t
mind kissing her awake, the same way he didn’t
mind when she kissed him awake, but they had school today and, well,
nothing they did ever ended in a single kiss. Lilian never allowed it
to.

“Lilian…”

“Nope.”

“Ha…”

Another
sigh. Lilian could be really stubborn when she wanted to be. Knowing
the vixen like he did, Kevin knew that she really would just lay
there until he gave in.

He
smiled. Just a bit. There were worse things he could think of doing
than kissing his mate-slash-girlfriend.

Leaning
down, Kevin let his lips caress Lilian’s
with the softest of touches. His plan was to give her a small peck
and nothing more. He might not have minded kisses, but he didn’t
want to be late for school, or be forced to skip breakfast so they
wouldn’t
be late. That would have sucked, especially because his workout with
Kiara had left him starving.

His
plan to just brush lips ended when delicate, feminine fingers wove
into his hair, grasped the back of his head, and pulled him down.
Kevin, in his surprise, opened his mouth to release a yelp. A tongue
pushed its way into his mouth, leaving him with no time to fight back
as it began exploring, like a excavator journeying deep into an
unexplored cavern.

Kevin
groaned as his mouth was filled with a most pleasurable sensation. He
could feel Lilian’s
small tongue rubbing against the inside of his mouth in all sorts of
mind-blowing ways, as if it was intent on sending him into a euphoric
state of rapture.

If
asked, he would never be able to adequately explain what it felt like
to kiss Lilian. Words would never be able to accurately describe the
feeling of her lips on his, of the wet heat generated from their kiss
as his mouth became filled with her tongue and saliva. He could say
it was passionate, or that it was hot, sexy, or any other number of
words, but they would have been misleading simply because her kisses
were all that and more.

However,
he would easily tell anyone who asked that Lilian was the best kisser
in the world, even if he’d
never kissed anyone else and therefore had no frame of reference to
back up such a claim.

This
would be, of course, after he stopped blushing and stuttering from
being asked such a personal question.

The
world suddenly spun around. Kevin felt a disorienting sense of
not-quite-vertigo, and then something soft pressed against his back,
while something else just as soft pushed down on his front.

It
didn’t
take long to realize he was lying on his bed, and that Lillian was
now on top of him. He could feel her breasts smashing into his chest
as she rested against him. Her legs became entwined with his, skin on
skin action that created a delicious friction as her shapely calves
and thighs caressed him. Her hands were still buried in his hair.
They made a mess of his blond locks, nails scraping against his skin
and leaving a pleasant tingle.

“Lilian…”
Kevin
mumbled breathlessly as Lilian went from kissing him to sucking,
nibbling and licking his neck. He’d
found out early on in their relationship that Lilian, for whatever
reason, loved licking him. Consequently, she also loved being licked
in return.

She
pulled back to stare into his eyes. They were incredibly clear;
bright green orbs more beautiful than any emerald could ever hope to
be, shining with an effervescent luster akin to the light of twin
celestial bodies. Her nose grazed his, and he could feel her hot
breath caressing his lips. It was enough to make him shudder, and his
need to feel those lips back on his became almost overpowering.

“I
love you so much, Kevin,”
she
told him, and the earnestness in her voice made his heart melt and
his body quake with an emotion that vaguely resembled awe.

Kevin
still didn’t
know how she could say something so easily, but then, maybe he wasn’t
supposed to understand. She was a kitsune and he was a human. Hers
was a mind that couldn’t
be fathomed by someone with his mortality.

“I
know,”
Kevin
whispered, “I…
I
l-love you, too.”

Lilian
closed her eyes and arched her back like a cat, a sigh of bliss
escaping her delicately parted lips. She wasn’t
wearing a bra, so the action did some wonderful things to her chest.

She
opened her eyes again, capturing him with her viridian gaze. As she
leaned down and claimed his lips once more, Kevin forgot about the
reason he’d
come to this room. His hands settled on the small of her back, still
too shy and embarrassed to place them anywhere else. Lilian didn’t
seem to mind. She moaned into his mouth, a delightful sound that was
muffled by their passionate, if inexperienced, kisses.

One
last thought came to him before he succumbed to raging hormones.

Deciding
to become Lilian
’
s
mate was the smartest choice I
’
ve
ever made.

***

Nearly
half an hour later, Kevin and Lilian sped down the bike lane like a
pair of young fox kits being chased by a boarhound.

“We’re
so late! Dang it! You see, Lilian? This is what happens when I let
you have your way!”

They
were, quite obviously, running late. After their
gods-only-know-how-long makeout session, Kevin had realized how late
they were and made a frantic effort to get Lilian ready for school.
He’d
practically shoved her into the shower, chosen her clothes while she
washed up, and then forced them both to eat breakfast posthaste
before dragging her out the door.

Lillian
didn’t
seem upset by his words, despite their harshness. Giggling, the
redhead kept her arms wrapped tightly around his chest as she pushed
her bosom into his back. She giggled even more when his spine
stiffened like a metal rod.

“You
weren’t
complaining before you found out we were running late.”

Kevin
nearly crashed into a light pole when he momentarily lost control of
the bike. “Y-y-yes,
w-w-well, w-who would complain about something like that?”

Lilian
just smiled while nuzzling his back with her nose. She inhaled his
scent. She loved his scent, and the warmth his body emitted, which
had become her bastion of warmth in Phoenix’s
increasingly cool weather.

October
had finally come, and with it, autumn had truly come to Arizona. Many
of the leaves had lost their color and fallen to the ground. The air
was not yet cold, but chilly enough that Lilian could feel the
coolness seeping into her bones. As a kitsune, she was very
susceptible to even mildly cold weather and had a predisposition
towards warmer climates, such as the warm humidity of Tampa Bay and
her clan’s
estate in Greece.

“Ha…
ha…”
Kevin
breathed out deeply as he pedaled down the road. “Almost…
there…”

Despite
how sore he felt, Kevin still managed to haul major butt. One of the
many benefits to Kiara’s
training was that his legs, which had already been exceptional for an
athlete, had grown even stronger than before. He proved this by
making it to school in record time.

Hopping
off and locking down his bike, he and Lillian rushed hand-in-hand to
their first class of the day, bursting into the room with all the
subtlety of a rhino dancing in a ballet.

Kevin
took deep, gasping breaths as he hunched over and rested his hands on
his knees. Lilian only appeared mildly flushed. Then again, she also
hadn’t
done a near suicidal workout routine with a merciless trainer that
morning.

“You
two are both late!”

If
Kevin were not so breathless, he would have sighed. He really wished
he had a different homeroom teacher.

Ms.
Vis stalked up to them, her face scrunched up in a facsimile of
outrage, her outlandish anger appearing almost comical, like some
B-budget horror movie makeup artist on drugs had gone to town.

The
pale woman hadn’t
changed much since the last time they saw her. Her clothes remained
the same, her attitude remained the same, and she still looked like a
Twilight reject. If there was one person he hadn’t
missed during his hiatus from school, it was her.

“Yeah.”
Kevin
tried to play the diplomat. “Sorry
about that. We, uh, got lost on the road of life.”

Kevin
would never make a very good diplomat.

Ms.
Vis’
face
scrunched even more, becoming almost pinched, like a pug with clamps
stuck to its face. It was also beginning to turn a rather repulsive
shade of puce.

“Why
I never! I cannot believe that you, of all people, would arrive late
to my class, interrupt my lesson, and then have the audacity to give
me such a horrid excuse,”
Ms.
Vis hissed, her voice sounding similar to a bed of angry snakes. “I
expected something like this from Ms. Pnevma, but not from you! It
seems that…”

And
that was about as far as Ms. Vis got before Kevin tuned her out. His
eyes scanned the crowd of students sitting at their desks. He
recognized the many faces present, even if he could not recall their
names. Over by his and Lilian’s
assigned seats, he could see Lindsay at her desk, smiling and waving
at him.

“And
you!”
Ms.
Vis whirled on Lilian, an accusing finger pointed at the twin-tailed
vixen. “Do
not think that I am going to let you get away with corrupting my
student! I do not know what you’ve
done to pollute Mr. Swift’s
mind, but if you think I am going to let you cause the degradation of
one of my student’s
intellect, then you are sorely mistaken, young woman!”

“I’m
sorry, but I don’t
know what you’re
talking about.”
Lilian’s
eyes glowed a bright green as she cast an enchantment on the
pale-skinned teacher. “I
have not corrupted Mr. Swift at all.”

Ms.
Vis’
eyes
became dull and lifeless. “You
have not corrupted Mr. Swift at all…”

“In
fact, I have been doing all I can to educate him on all of the
important issues he needs to know.”

“You
have been educating him on important issues…”

“Now,
you will let us sit down and continue your lesson as if we were never
late.”

“Go
sit down. I need to continue my lesson…”

“Oh!
And by the way…”
Ms.
Vis, who had turned around, looked back at Lilian, who waved her hand
in a vaguely mysterious fashion. “These
are not the droids you’re
looking for.”

A
pause.

“These
are not the droids I’m
looking for…”

With
that, Ms. Vis turned and walked up to the front of the classroom.

Kevin
and Lilian shared a quick grin and a high five, before making their
way over to their respective desks.

Or
at least, they were going to, until they noticed how everyone else
was staring at them. No, not just staring at them. The other students
were giving them wide-eyed looks of incomprehensible shock, as if
they had walked into class wearing matching green spandex, orange
leg-warmers, were sporting a bowl-cut hair style, and shouting about
their “flames
of youth.”

“That
was a terrible anime reference.”

…
Sorry.

“It’s
fine, but please don’t
do it again.”

…
Okay.

“Lilian…”

“Come
on, Kevin.”
She
grabbed his hand and, ignoring his “who
the hell are you talking to?”
expression,
dragged him further into the classroom. “Let’s
find a seat.”

Kevin
shook his head in a resigned manner as he and Lilian sat down. He
greeted Lindsay, who appeared both amused and annoyed for some
reason, and then turned to Ms. Vis as she lectured the class on
Differential Equations.

***

Unlike
most of the students who attended Desert Cactus High School, Lilian
actually liked school.

It
had nothing to do with learning, however, and everything to do with
what school represented to her: Freedom. For Lilian, school was the
embodiment of freedom. When she was at school, she could do what she
wanted, be who she wanted, spend time with her friends, and meet
interesting people.

There
were also a lot of kinky scenarios that she and Kevin could get up to
at school. Unfortunately, she had yet to convince her beloved that
mating in the nurse’s
examination room (and also in the school lockers, the gym, and on Ms.
Vis’
desk)
would be fun. Of course, considering she and Kevin had yet to
actually do the deed, perhaps she was asking for too much.

A
lot of people would have called her strange. She had learned from
Kevin that most teenagers disliked school. Even Kevin considered it
an obligation that he could do without.