We're Only Animals: Book 2 - Part 1: Building the Tower

Chapter 39 - Boys' Night 5: Return of Boys' Night

Louis and Legosi arrived at the park to find Dom and Kai already there. The two perked up when they saw them and all four, even Kai, smiled as they ran to greet.

    "Hey, guys!" Legosi contained himself as much as he could, despite wanting to hug the both of them. He knew how touchy the small carnivore was.

    "Sup, dudes! Nice to see you again, finally! Your scars look better!" Kai gave them each a strange jostle of the arm as he spoke.

    Legosi rubbed at the long sleeves of his shirt, remembering where they were going tonight. "Ah, y-yeah."

    Dom crossed his arms. "Yeah. You look a lot better since we saw you in the hospital after the Riz incident." He was wearing a black dress with wrinkled sleeves, a white design with a blue background on the front, a white band around the waist, and a gradient from black to white on the bottom half of it.

He had thought about wearing makeup for the outing, but considering where they were going, decided against it. His shoes were the simple tennis shoes that he always wore with black knee-high socks.

    Kai noticed the couple's stare. "Heh, like it? I helped spruce it up. Ain't that right, Dom? It was just a plain black and white dress before we got to it. It was like...our little project!" The mongoose's excitement over a dress seemed totally out of character from the Kai they knew just a year ago.

    Louis raised a brow. "Wow, you really went all out! I'm guessing you must have been super excited to show it off today, huh?" He grinned. They had all talked about dressing nicely for the night.

He decided to do what he did for the roof party, except a little differently. This time, he wore the same pants as then, and instead of Legosi's pink button-up, he wore his black floral print shirt. It was tucked in so it didn't look too big on him. And for a little golden touch, he added his star earring. It had taken him a while to find it, so he didn't care how mismatched it looked. He was just having fun.

    Legosi was the one wearing the pink shirt now, along with one of his dress pants, but since he didn't have any dress shoes he wore his old Cherryton shoes.

    Kai just wore the same tuxedo-print black t-shirt he did at the dance along with some black jeans. None of the animals were lost on the irony of him gushing about the dress just a moment ago when he was wearing something so casual.

    The bird's hands went behind his back and he swayed. "It's a restaurant we heard about in Kai's club. Apparently a lot of LGBT couples go there and it's kind of hidden. Makes sense, huh? Even if it sucks."

    Kai literally jumped at the mention of the club. "Ooh, you guys! You guys don't even know yet! Okay, so the drama club kinda died? So I started an LGBT alliance club despite segregation. Everyone is required to have good grades to stay in it. I'm surprised I was able to even form it but it was Gon himself who approved it, so it makes sense. It's small right now and we've gotten some shit from students, but I think it'll do some real good!"

    Louis raised a brow. "How is Gon? He visited in the hospital as well, but we haven't seen or heard from him since then."

"Ah, he's doing good!" Dom explained. "He even sits in on the club meetings sometimes. I don't know what his sexuality is, but it's nice to see him be so supportive. We even have some straight animals in there who are just allies."

"Yeah. It's clear as day that Gon doesn't support the segregation, but he had his hands tied." Kai crooked his mouth to the side after saying that.

The bird sighed. "Clear? He said it out loud himself."

"Yeah, that's why it's clear as day! Not my fault you literally don't have ears, Dominic." Dom's small boyfriend tugged on his dress playfully.

Legosi let himself laugh at the antics, enjoying his friends' company again after so long. He and Louis kept their mouths shut about already knowing about the club from Pina.