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"Dude, I'm soooo fucking hungry and we have legit nothing left in the fridge." I said frustrated and sprawled out over our couch.
My roommate, a large rhino named Hutch, was getting on his signature, black, leather jacket as he got ready. As he adjusted the jacket on himself and took one final glance into the bathroom mirror, Hutch turned around to me and gave a friendly smirk.
"Look Jerry, you just made it through a whole week of recovering from your break up and you made it out mostly alright. How about I help you celebrate a week survived with just what you need?"
Hutch pulled out his smartphone from his pocket before pausing to give me a much warmer smile. He rubbed his teeth across his lower lip as he looked at me on the couch. Sitting up, I gave him a questioning glance. "What's with that face?"
Hutch looked down at his phone and scrolled through contacts.
"How about a pizza on me? That will get you right back into the spirit."
After a moment of disbelief, I almost jumped off the couch when he said pizza and couldn't believe this. Rushing to Hutch, I hugged him tightly while he continued to scrolled through his phone for the number. "Hutch, you always know just how to cheer me up."
As he reached his thumb on the contact for the pizza place, he got a slightly sinister grin. "That I do. I'm heading over to Shannon's house for the night, but I will be back tomorrow."
I pulled away and looked at him to see he was back into his regular tough guy mode. He put the phone to his head before I could say another word.
"Hello Tiger Castle's Pizza? I'd like to make an order for delivery."
He looked at me with a devious look in his eyes. Taking the phone from his face, he covered up the mic and whispered strongly to me.
"How about you have yourself a fun night?"
I hardly realized what he meant before he put the phone back to his ear.
"Slow night? Oh that's just perfect. How about you send Danny over for his last delivery of the night? I got a friend wanting a large..."
He accentuated his next words while locking eyes with me.
"... meat lovers pizza."
My face went pale and I realized what was going on.
"Yes, same address as before. Yeah, I got a buddy that just got out of a rough breakup and was just telling me how hungry he was. I'm going to head out, so he's home alone and free for the rest of the night. Yes, that's the right address you got on file. 30 minutes? That should be perfect. Okay, bye."
I gulped as Hutch looked at me with the smuggest grin.
"Danny is a good friend of mine. Tonight is gonna be a lot of fun and it will be a good pick me up for ya..."
He turned to a serious tone and loosened up.
"Look, I know I sprung this on you. Tell Danny when he gets here if you aren't up to it and he will understand. If he really can't take a hint, the safe word is green pepper. He's a super nice guy though and he'll make your night I bet."
Hutch put a hand on my shoulder while I was blushing speechlessly.
"Lube is in my nightstand. Have a good night. See you tomorrow in the afternoon or night. Thank me later."
He started walking out the door with his bag and I began to talk. "Hutch, I uh, don't think I really want-"
*SLAM*
The door shut before I could try to reason with him and I looked at the clock to see it was 7:30PM. At 8:00PM, this Danny guy would be knocking on my door and I will just tell him no and then tell him green pepper. I will go eat my pizza alone and Danny will just have to deal with it. There is no way I do anything tonight.
Still, I shouldn't be in pajamas for the delivery guy, especially if it's a friend of Hutch. Getting on some jeans and a t-shirt, I freshened up before realizing that I might as well take a shower. I need a shower anyway. This isn't for Danny, I just am doing this because he's a friend of Hutch and I need to shower anyway. At least, I think it's not for him.
Mid shower, I realized my cock was getting hard. I thought of what Danny would look like. Hutch knows my type by the guys I have dated, so I knew it was a dominant top probably packing a bit of muscle and packing a bit of something else. I wonder what species this guy was? Would he actually be into having sex? Shit, what am I thinking? Living in some sort of dumb fantasy. Bet it's just some nerd that Hutch set me up with who can't get any himself. I am sure it's nobody.
Turning off the water, I realized I was breathing a bit heavier with my cock fully erect now. Checking my phone after quickly drying off, I realized Danny was around 5 minutes away. There was no time to take care of my little problem here. I will just have to take the pizza and kick Danny out.
Grabbing some clothes and quickly pulling them on, I realized I didn't know where the money for the guy was. Hutch probably plopped it on the counter or something. As I struggled to zip up my jeans with an erection, I heard a knock at my apartment door and my mind immediately thought about what Danny would look like. Shit, I can't get my boner down. I just have to try to put my t-shirt over it and quickly get to the door. Everything is under control, I think.
I took a deep breath. As I opened up the door, I saw a very muscular, handsome Hyena with medium length black hair, black spots on his brown fur, and he was probably a foot taller than me. He wore a red shirt with the name of the pizza place and with three buttons at the top. Each button was undone and underneath of it was a white t-shirt. He wore Grey khakis with a black belt and black vans to match his belt. Through his shirt, you could tell he had some muscle on him and his arms were rather thick. I tried to avoid staring as he stared at me with a big ol' smirk and a pizza in hand.
"Special delivery for Jerry."
I nearly lost my breath. He had to have known he was hot as he saw how my mouth hung open. I knew Hutch was going to get someone a bit attractive, but this hyena was a straight up male model. My heart raced as I realized my erection was still in full swing. "Uhh... thank you," I said nervously reaching for the box and, as I did so, Danny pulled the box away before I could grab it.
He chuckled before he spoke.
"Hold your horses there, buddy. You usually need to give the pizza guy some money for the pizza before you just take it."
He held out his hand to me and had this look on his face like he was up to something.
"Right. Right. Let me go grab it, uh, Danny was it?" I said idiotically.
Danny nodded and looked to be analyzing me like I was his prey.
"The one and only. Say, does your tail always wag like that for strangers?"
I wanted bury myself alive. I quickly grabbed my tail and tried to conceal a blush. He was playing me like a deck of cards, but I wasn't going to let this continue. Money, Green Pepper, bye bye. "Hahaha. I, uh, wag my tail a lot."
Before I dig my own grave, I rushed to the kitchen counter where Hutch set the cash only to realize it wasn't there. Looking around wildly, my heart began to race before I saw the cash on the ground in a bundle. Thank god! Bending over, I went to pick up the cash before I heard Danny's voice once more.
"So hey, Jerry. Hutch is an awfully good friend of mine and, you being his roommate, I have a lot of respect to you to. Now, do you wanna cut the whole 'I am wagging my tail, pitching a tent, and I am bending over for the cash but I just want some pizza act?'"
Quickly picking up the cash, I realized Hutch put it there intentionally. Danny was leaning against my door frame looking at me with a sly grin and I felt my heart race. No, he's just getting the wrong idea here. I'm just gonna say no. I can't do this. It's too soon. Weakly, I placed the cash on top of the box and was slightly hunched over trying to not meet his eyes. He paused for a second as if to call my bluff and started counting the dollars.
"Green pepper," I said weakly to him.
The sound of bills going through his fingers stopped.
"Sorry, didn't hear ya there, Jer Bear."
I struggled for the words and realized I was all sorts of flustered right now.
"Green pepper."
Danny continued counting the bills before shoving them into his pocket and walking right past me into my apartment. I was dazed and I had no idea what was going on. Green pepper was supposed to be the safe word unless Hutch played another dirty trick on me.
Danny set the pizza down on the kitchen counter and turned to look at me with his grin returned.
"You know, I believe people are much like pizzas. Call me crazy, I know..."
I walked over to him while keeping a distance between us as he leaned against the counter top next to the pizza.
"... everybody went through the same process of being finished in the big, old, brick oven, but we all have some... spices and toppings to us which make us unique with our own flavors. For instance, Hutch told me your ingredients over the phone on the way to fuck his girl. Onions, garlic, bacon, and mushroom, but he didn't tell me the last ingredient to me. He said you'd probably tell me when I first opened the door and I couldn't wait to figure it out..."
I got closer, more intrigued to what he was saying and leaned against the counter opposite to him.
"...but now I know. Green pepper is one of my favorites. There is a sort of language within the toppings. Mushroom meaning gay man, bacon is for bdsm, onion is for virgin, and garlic for paw worshiper. Usually, people just try to use these toppings over the phone to be discrete, but Hutch is too ballsy for that."
He paused to gauge my reaction as I felt my palms sweat against the counter top behind me. Within just a couple of words, Danny took control over the situation once more. He started again with more enthusiasm as he saw he was getting at me.
"In my business, pizza is a sort of therapy. You see, I free people from their minds with my friends at the shop working as therapists. I specialize in green peppers especially. People too timid and bratty to accept something fresh and new into their home. So, I will ask again, Jerry, when will you drop this act?"
Hutch gave him a whole book on me practically and he knew all my little kinks and buttons. Danny looked incredibly hot and I was almost salivating over him. I didn't know how to hide my lust. My heart was racing, my tail was wagging again, and I felt I got stuck in checkmate. I took a slow step towards Danny as he locked eyes with me for my next move.
His ears perked up at me moving towards him, but I suddenly remembered what I was doing. No, I am not doing this. I'm kicking him out. I became dead serious.
"What will it take to get you out of here?"
Danny rolled his eyes and smiled again. He walked over to my oven and put in 30 minutes into its digital timer.
"If you are still sure in 30 minutes, then I will be out the door without another word. Sound good, waggy?"
Grabbing my tail again, I felt irritated with it. It didn't help that I was still horny and that he was just so... so... fuck. I am not falling for it.
"Deal. I am going to enjoy some pizza and watch some television. You're welcome to join me on the couch, but not a finger is allowed on me. I'm serious about wanting you gone."
He nodded and still seemed to be analyzing me for the slightest bit of doubt.
"Fine by me. You must stay within my sights though. I can't have you rubbing one out in the bathroom.... but you're always welcome to lay a finger on me before the timer runs out."
Just like that he had me where he wanted me again and by the smug look on his face, he knew this all too well.
"I'm calling your bluff though, sugar. I know a bitch in heat when I see one and I got allll night."
My heart pulsed at how dominate he was through words alone. He was melting away at my resolve slowly, but I knew pizza and television could distract me. I gathered my resolve back up with more confidence.
"I won't be making any bathroom trips here. You're welcome to some pizza. Heck, you can take the rest with ya after the 30 minutes are up."
He nodded.
"Sure. Got beer by the way? I will pay back whatever it costs."
I rolled my eyes.
"It's in the fridge. You can't miss it."
Dishing up three slices onto a plate, the pizza looked amazing. I rolled over onto the couch and set it down on the coffee table. Reaching for the remote, I heard Danny chime in again.
"Want a beer?"
I looked over to him and couldn't help but to smile.
"You trying to loosen me up? You are gonna have to be a bit less obvious. Thought you were the pro at this."
He got a super wide grin and chuckled.
"Bud Light or Heineken?"
Danny had the most hungry eyes and looked to be daring me with all he had.
"You know what? I can have a damn beer and not fall for this dumb operation. Heineken."
He plopped the bottle on the coffee table next to my plate of pizza and sat down next to me, but not too close or too far. I picked up the remote as he took a swig of beer.
"Okay so I am done bullshitting. Technically off my shift anyway. How was your week? Hutch told me you had a rough breakup and I know that shit sucks."
I looked at him, looking for some sort of scheme to be had, but realized he was being serious. Popping off the cap of my beer, I took a big swig and took a deep breath.
"It sucked alright. Dating for 2 months and I was the one to break it off. He treated me like shit and then made me feel bad for breaking it off after I couldn't take it any longer."
Danny nodded and looked towards the television as I put on some random action flick.
"Sounds like a dick. Honestly, you should have thrown a party for dumping him."
I nodded and found myself smiling with having someone to talk to. Hutch was not very sociable most of the time and wasn't really an emotional guy.
"Exactly. Damn, he legit slashed my car tires after I broke up with him and called me all sorts of stuff. I can only imagine his face when he was about to slash open my third tire only to find the sheriff next door behind him. Fucker got what he deserved. I put on those rose colored glasses though around him. I trusted him and even trusted what he said about me. How I was ugly, unwanted, pathetic, and how I can't shut up. It's a miracle we made it past the first month. He was such a cool guy at first, but I should have trusted my gut and listened to my friends when I told them about him."
Danny looked me in the eye a lot more seriously and engaged. I can tell he was doing this as a friend of Hutch and, by relation, a friend of mine.
"Sounds like a happy ending at least. Fucker slashes your tire thinking he's gangster till he's behind bars. I get it though, I really do. Some people are assholes at their heart and sometimes we accidentally give them the time of day..."
He got a bit uneasy and trailed off.
"...did Hutch mention Margo to you?"
I looked at him intrigued.
"Margo?"
He took a quick sip of beer and finished gnawing down a slice of pizza.
"Margo is.."
Danny swallowed down the bite of pizza and cleared his mouth.
"...his ex girlfriend. Also used to be my best friend. I kinda got caught up into some shit dealing weed as wild as that sounds. Owed some folks some money and Margo helped me deal it out. Margo was a bit shady and I knew she had a screw loose, but I just thought it was something to brush off. When you see a screw loose, run the fuck away because you will often find a couple more where that came from. She started dating this rhino, Hutch, and it seemed she started finally showing some of her true colors."
I was almost in disbelief as Hutch hadn't said a word of this to me.
"Margo stole from Hutch, lied to his friends, and tried to get him fired. She wanted all of him and wanted his life to be centered around her. Went complete cuckoo and that's how I got close with Hutch."
I hardly believed a word from Danny, but I felt his pain a little bit and I knew he wasn't bullshitting me. It started to make sense why Hutch was so compassionate after I told him about my break up earlier this week. Taking another bite of pizza and swig of beer, I heard him out.
"Hutch came to me and told me the truth of what Margo was doing and how he needed her out of his life. He's not a super emotional type as you know, but he was crying and Margo drove him over the edge for a bit there. After some investigation, I took the wool from my eyes and realized Margo was a crook and an insane one at that. The bitch tried to ruin Hutch's life for Christ sake. So we took the risk and got the coppers involved. They found even more shit Hutch wouldn't tell me about. She wasn't a fan of the cops at her house though. Bitch pulled out a gun and tried to shoot Hutch for it, but thank god she had half a brain when it comes to her aim. Hutch got out without a single wound, thank god, and managed to hold her down as the cops put it all together and got her in prison."
I looked at him in disbelief.
"Damn," I mustered.
He nodded and looked off.
"It really messed with Hutch and I, but it also made us friends. That bitch is rotting in a prison cell and Hutch and I started scratching each others back after the fact. Not in the same way I think we should scratch each others back, mind you."
I nearly forgot and started to blush as he caught my eye with a bit of short lived grin.
"With us throwing around ideas and doing some jobs for each other, we got to where we are today. He introduced to me this pizza place that got me interested in the..."
Danny made a point to lock eyes with me.
"...opportunities it gave."
I looked back towards the television as the issue at hand came back up.
"Hutch found himself a good group that kept him grounded, but damn he is a steel cage anymore. Trying to get anything out of him is hard, but he did tell me about your situation. It's probably the most emotion he has shown in awhile. He really meant well by this and I am here to support you man. I don't give a shit if we just talk the whole 30 minutes. Hutch just wanted you to get someone to talk to and have some relief, because he didn't want to talk about this himself. Too many memories for him. I don't do this for just anyone."
My heart warmed up when he said the last part with a sense of compassion. This really was therapy, but I still couldn't believe what happened to Hutch. For a second, my guard was completely down as I looked into Danny's big, brown eyes and felt warm, but then I saw the timer counting down in the background and quickly put my guard up again.
"Thank you Danny. I know you aren't just saying this shit either. Hutch got super weird when I told him about all of this and I really appreciate being able to talk this out. That being said, I am still not doing anything here."
I took a swig of my beer and realized I had drank it all already. Danny smirked at me and then stood up.
"I'm always down to help people out."
Taking off his red shirt, I saw a bit of his abs and more of his body. His muscles showed through his white shirt much more clearly and he looked dreamy as he stared down into my eyes at me staring at him. As soon as I took notice that I was staring at him and that he caught me, I quickly turned away and thought of something quick to distract myself with.
"Hey, could you get me another beer?"
He smiled and shook his head.
"Heineken again, sugar?"
Danny knew how to get me blushing.
"Yes."