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the fact that it was well past the time he normally ate lunch. Not being one to ignore his stomach, he got up from the couch and walked into the kitchen where he made himself something to eat: a plain ham sandwich with a lot of toppings that he scarfed down like a man dying of starvation.
    Once satiated, Kevin went back to his room to check up on the fox. It was exactly where he had left it, laying on his bed, seemingly still unconscious. Walking over, he noticed immediately that the bandages had bleed through and would need to be changed. Glad that his forethought kept him from putting the first aid kit away, he got to work.
    As he unwrapped the bandages, Kevin saw something that made him pause.
    "Oh...!" he sounded surprised, "So you're a girl." He must have really been panicking if he had missed something like that. Naturally, the fox didn't reply, and Kevin finished unwrapping the bandages. Taking out more cotton-balls and disinfectant he began the task of cleaning the fox's skin and fur of blood again. Once all the blood was cleaned away, Kevin took a glance at the wound. Like last time it was closing up. In fact, it looked like the speed at which it was healing had increased. Where before it looked like the wound was closing in slow motion, now the skin was knitting together at an astonishing pace. The wound itself was almost healed over. The once jagged gash was now just a thin, red line. At the rate it was healing, Kevin doubted the fox would even have a scar.
    With the fox seemingly out of danger, Kevin decided he needed to get out and do something to take his mind off all he had seen. A lot had happened today and he had been hit with quite a few surprises. And in moments like this, there was really only one place he would go to clear his head.
    His decision made, Kevin stood back up and walked out of the room. As he shut the door behind him, he didn't notice the fox raise her head and watch him leave.
    Too bad for him.

    Chapter 3: Love at First Sight?
    Kevin's finger automatically squeezed the trigger to the red, plastic gun he was using to shoot down the baddies on the screen, but neither his heart nor his mind were truly into it. The normally cathartic release that came from blowing the heads off of the zombies in his favorite arcade game was just not keeping his mind off the injured fox.
    There was just something off about that fox. Granted, the super healing abilities kind of made that obvious, but still, he couldn't help but feel there was even more to that fox than he had already seen. Some secret he had yet to uncover, something so incomprehensible that it could cause his entire view of the world and even reality itself to shift in a way that would change his life forever.
    Or he could just be acting paranoid. That was also a possibility.
    "Hey man," Kevin turned his head to see a pair of brown eyes staring at him with brows furrowed in barely concealed annoyance. "Pay attention. You've nearly had your head bitten off by a bunch of zombies in just the last minute, and I'm not going to save your sorry ass every time something tries to kill you.”
    Eric Corrompere was Kevin's best friend since childhood. They had met each other in elementary school and just sort of clicked. The two had been thick as thieves ever since. Or at least, they were, until Eric discovered the wonders of women, but that was a story for another time.
    Eric had a head of short cut brown hair and dark eyes. He was very tall for a sophomore, standing nearly a head and a half taller than Kevin himself, and he was also very lanky. If Kevin was lean then Eric was a twig, with long, gangly arms and legs, and large feet. Like Kevin, Eric was very athletic and was on the Track and Field team with him.
    He was also the biggest pervert Kevin had ever, and likely would ever, meet, and he had no compunctions against proclaiming it to the world. There had been many times when Eric had freely told anyone who was willing listen that he was a proud