Innocent Splashing Fun (Croix)

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Xola paused then put her larger paw forward and whimpered,"What about it? It’s just freakish isn’t it?" she closed her eyes and looked away blushing embarrassed by her obvious flaw. It wasn’t something that happened to her, her paw was just something she was born with, and it’s been a sensitive subject for her ever since she was a young pup. Her ears fell flat and her tail dropped between her legs as she laid down on her stomach. She was worried about what Croix would think of her, and what he was going to say about her deformity thinking that it was some sort of hideous amalgamation of her body, and nothing more.

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“...interesting...” I said softly. “Never saw that before” I tilted my head slightly, noticing her reactions. I was confused why she was so tense and embarrassed by simply having an enlarged paw. It wasn’t hindering or affecting her badly in any way physically from what I had seen since meeting her. “Does it hurt?” I asked. I sat down calmly and didn’t say much else so I wouldn’t be pushing her. I was giving her my full attention though. I thought back to what she said, it didn’t seem freakish, just a little less ordinary and more distinct.

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Xola looked up at him and shook her head then she whimpered and looked away again and said,"It doesn’t hurt, but I don’t like it. It’s my flaw, my own problem and I don’t care for any of your comments about it. I don’t like getting ridiculed, so keep your thoughts to yourself."

She curled up where she was and looked away from Croix yet again, and she continued to blush, humiliated. Tears formed in her eyes as she looked to her paw again, and sighed not wanting to even look at it. It was obvious that she suffered at least some sort of incident with someone who lashed out at her specifically because of her deformity.

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I was rather hurt by how she was suddenly acting towards me, but realized that maybe something in her past related to her enlarged paw was troubling her. I decided that it was better to just give her some space then to keep mentioning it. So I went back outside, sighing. As much as I tried to distract myself, I couldn’t get my mind off of her. I knew something unpleasant must of happened to her, but what it was was something she probably didn’t want to talk about at this moment. Maybe it would be be better off letting her tell whenever she felt comfortable instead of nagging, pushing, or forcing her to say...

Because when I was younger, I was where I shouldn’t have been, and those I was living with weren’t pleasant, but vile...

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Xola looked out to Croix and sighed then looked back to her paw and whimpered. She felt guilty for pushing him away like that, and she wanted to apologize to him, but she still couldn’t find the will to do it right now in her embarrassment. She still liked him, despite everything that just happened, and there was something within him that she somehow just adored but she didn’t know what it was. Maybe it was that such a large and intimidating wolf had such a soft and shy personality, or maybe it was his willingness to open up to her for friendship. She truly didn’t know what to think of him, but as time passed she slowly fell asleep, hoping that tomorrow Croix would still remain here so she could apologize for her reaction.