"I like wine"."I like wine"., he said, I hope that does'nt surprise you. "Uh, not at all", she replied, "I enjoy it too. Are you an....uh....vegetarian also?" "Not really", he said as he sat down beside her on the overstuffed couch. "I eat some chicken or fish once in awhile, but don't really care for much other kinds of meat, so I guess I'm a semi-vegetarian of a sort." She noticed the many potted bamboo plants sitting around the apartment. "Do you eat that stuff, too?", She asked. "Only once in a while, as a snack of sorts. My gut is a little different from my wild cousins'. Actually, I really enjoy rice, cottage cheese, pudding...." he trailed off as he looked at her. His bathrobe had come open, and she could see that he was wearing what appeared to be a giant-size pair (about size 'XXXLLL' she would guess) of men's boxer shorts underneath., around his... well, he really had no 'waist' of sorts, but he was wearing them just the same. She noticed her stare and looked down towards his own lower body. She felt her face flush as she blurted, "Uh, I was noticing how big you are., I MEAN, how big the shorts you are wearing are! I mean, you uh, must be quite heavy?" "Not really", he said in such a nice voice. "actually, I'm overweight". "You know", Karen said, looking now at his black furry arm that was holding his glass of wine, "Until this moment I always kind of thought that this whole animal-men business has been some kind of huge prank with people in costumes or robots or something, but....you're real, ....are'nt you?" His thin, black lips, shiny with wine, curled upwards into a smile at both corners. "Gee, I sure hope so", he giggled. Still looking at the shiny black textured fur on his arm, she hesitatingly reached her hand out, and it hovered in midair. Fingers trembling, she asked, "May I---may I touch you?" "Sure" he replied, whereupon her fingers touched the smooth fur of his arm and, light as a feather, began to slowly stroke up and down. |