========================================== Hearts Entwined: Love begins - By Stephen Alexander 2005 ========================================== Chapter 2 – Mike ============= But all was not happy as the evening came near, for Xingoy at least. He and the gang had returned to an alleyway near to where Xingoy lived. They were all there smoking and drinking. Xingoy hated smoking, he didn’t really like it at all but Mike, who was the leader of the gang, said if he didn’t smoke then he would be their enemy. This gang was not to be taken lightly, they were a terror to the town, vandalising, shouting and causing havoc in the town centre. If they got drunk it usually meant that there was something going on that evening. “Hey Xingoy, wake up you mutt” “Sorry Mike” “So you should be, you ungrateful prick, as I was saying what are we to do about that fox, he has to go or we will be choking on his fat” “Mike…” “What mutt, we have to get rid of him” “…But what about the Bull”? “Oh him, I know him, he is a rich bastard and a goody goody, makes me sick” he spits on the ground “…Where does he work” “Don’t be daft mutt, you must have seen him, all brawn, its obvious he works at the gym, of course he is nothing compared to me” he flexes with cheers from the gang. “My name is Xingoy not mutt” Mike grips Xingoy by the throat and holds him up, gripping tightly “YOU’RE A MUTT AND I WILL CALL YOU MUTT, NOW SHUT IT OR I WILL MAKE YOUR TAIL SUFFER BEFORE I THROTTLE YOU! IS THAT CLEAR?” Xingoy whose face is now turning blue nods and Mike lets go, letting Xingoy drop to the floor, before spitting on him. “Go get us some food and don’t you dare run off, we will find yah mutt, now git!” Xingoy got to his feet and headed out the alley and down into town “This sucks” he thinks to himself rubbing the spit off his head “And that is foul, oh why can’t someone help me be free and happy and…” He looks up and notices the front window of a gym. He peered in and looked about, there were lots of furs in there working out in various ways. “Maybe if I was stronger then I could stop Mike pushing me about” He looks at his arm and flexes it, a small bulge of a bicep forms but it was feeble compared to Mike. He was just about to open the door when someone came into view, his heart jumped for there just settled down at the help desk was the Bull, towel round his neck and cooling down after a work out he guessed. Xingoy couldn’t break contact with him watching the Bulls chest rise and fall slower. “My he is so lovely” mutter Xingoy quietly to himself. “Maybe I should apologise” He opened the door and stepped into the cool room, well conditioned for the hot furs working out. The Bull was now writing something down on a piece of paper. Xingoy walked slowly towards the desk, sweating just as much as the furs working out and stopped at the desk. The Bull spoke but didn’t look up. “Can I help you sir”? “I…I…erm, I wanted to…” The Bull looked up and saw the Dingo standing there sweating and obviously petrified “Well, its you from the beach isn’t it, what do you want?” “I’m…I’m sorr…” a tear forms in Xingoy’s eyes as he sees the Bull looking back with his beautiful eyes. Sacred stood up seeing this but before be could do anything to comfort the Dingo, he has run out of the door and down the street. Several furs looked around but went back to their exercise and workouts. Sacred just stood there looking at the door and sat down slowly. “Oh dear” he said sadly and looked down at his paperwork and took up the pen again, quietly doing his work, with his mind full of pictures of that Dingo looking so scared at seeing him and couldn’t help but form a tear which slid down his cheek. Xingoy ran all the way to the local park and sat down on a bench for a moment to pull himself together. He was too scared to even go up to the Bull. Thoughts swam around his mind of the Bull looking at him, others of him arms wrapped around the Bull, and others still of the gang mocking him for loving another guy, they would kill him if they knew, but Xingoy had never thought about any guy this way before, he loved a guy. He slowly walked to the chip shop got food for him and the gang and headed back to the alleyway where they would be waiting. “Hey mutt what took you so long, I’m starving away here” He snatches the bags of chips out of Xingoy’s arms and ate a few before he and the other gang members started throwing them about, much to Xingoy’s annoyance as of course he has paid for all this food which was being wasted and had just started eating his own when Mike snatched them out of his hand and started eating them with the gang. “That’s for being late back mutt” Poor Xing went without food, he had no money left, the gang had taken it all now except the last few notes he had hidden in his bedroom. He went back to his flat and lay on his bed crying into the pillow, what a day it had been, all seemed to be going terrible for him. He sobbed quietly for a few hours before long it was 7pm and there was a buzz on the intercom “Wake up mutt, time for some fun in town” ============================================================== No part of this document may be reproduced in any form without written consent. All characters and names Copyright © of Stephen Alexander (Sacredbull) and (Syriko) 2005