Standing in front of you were two dogs, one looked like a grey husky. He was about your height and had a smooth grey coat of fur. This was covered by a red workout shirt and a pair of dark sweatpants. The second was a golden retriever who stood about a head taller than you. Like his friend the retriever was wearing a workout shirt, though his was blue, and a set of dark sweatpants. The odd thing was that both of their sweatpants seemed to bulge out. It almost looked like they were wearing multiple pairs of underwear.
"Hey, I know it's late with the introductions, it took us longer than planned to get here, I'm Rex and this is James" the husky said offering his hand out to you, not wanting to be rude you take it and shake it "if you ever want to hang out sometime, just come on over, we don't want to interfere anymore than we have of your evening" he said indicating he caught the scent of your dinner.
"Sure, it'll be nice to have some guys to hang out with for a change" you say with a smile, you always hated being out here as the only boy your mother had since most of the people that used to live in this lonely place were elderly couples and people too old for you to really hang out with at that age. You pondered on heading over to their place the next day since your mother was going to be out working, Lucy and Grace would be off to college all day and Zoe would be hanging out around her friends house like she always does since she skipped on college and you had the day off that day.
You watch them close the house door and then proceed to close the front door and return to eating dinner, you didn't explain anything to everyone and just simply mentioned the neighbors swinging by and kept it at that, the rest of the evening ticked by slowly for you as you sat on your computer reading through the various blogs you followed, nonsensical ramblings of people, the house had been fairly quiet for some time so you put it down to Grace and Lucy studying and mum watching TV with Zoe. But without a word of warning Zoe's voice began to ring through the house reverberating of the walls around you this was followed by your mom's voice "great another night of the same shit" you mutter and sigh before looking out your window.
Outside you could see James laying down on a sun lounger wearing a pair of shorts, he looked like he was sleeping and enjoying the weather, although you did ponder on if he had sweat glands or not as he was a dog, before you could turn away you caught sight of James waving to you, this caught you off guard a little as you assumed he was sleeping, you wave back before the sound of a door slamming caught both of your attention and you could see Zoe pissed off walking down the street.
You shut off your computer and decide to head round next door, with the sun still giving off some light you want to apologize for Zoe's dramatic performance, you head into the kitchen and outside to the fence, which you easily hop over, James smiled to you.
"So you came over then" he said sitting up his fur "that sister of yours sure has a mighty temper on her" he said as he scratched his ear, "me and Rex never got sass from the women back home just dirty kinky fun" he gave a wink.
"Yeah I wanted to apologize, Zoe gets into heated arguments around three to four times a week, mostly because mum hates her for skipping over college unlike Lucy and Grace my other two sisters" you say sitting down on a plastic lawn chair.
"It sounds like Zoe is the root of the problem, everyone has a future but her, I'm assuming you are in college too?" he asked
"Yeah going into my second year now, it's boring but my friends there help me through it" you respond your eyes gazing down at the grassy floor.
"Well let me see if I can help out, back home I dabbled in hypnosis for a few years, I helped a few folks with some issues like quitting smoking or cutting down on alcohol consumption, let me speak to Zoe and see if I can't try and alter her mind a little and prevent the arguments, although I may need to hypnotize your mother too" he said almost like he wanted to help out.
"Why my mum too?" you ask curious to what he brought that up.
"Well even if I stop Zoe from being a hot head, your mother will still berate her about not going to college and the cycle repeats" this made you realize that he was spot on, the noise would continue as normal and the work on Zoe would be for nothing.
"Alright I'll mention it to both of them, Zoe and I do get along to a degree and this will more than likely humor her, mum would be all for stopping the arguments, so I'm sure they'll agree" you look up and smile to James.
"Great have them swing by tomorrow evening and I'll work my magic" he said standing up with a grunt before heading back inside to hang out with Rex and so you hurried back home to tell your mum about James offer.
"Hypnosis to fix up our relationship?" your mother Whitney asked as she pondered on the thought "I suppose it could help, it'll be worth a try, I'll just bribe Zoe into it with a couple of new pairs of shoes, that'll get her on board" she said with a smile.
"Great tomorrow evening at their place" you say before kissing your mother on the cheek and heading off upstairs, you were excited at the prospect of getting some peace and quiet for a change, you decided not to be present so as to not interfere with the whole process, this thought was on your mind all evening right up to you getting into bed and drifting off to sleep.