“Vy don’t you mind your own business, Amy?” Mikhail, the Russian exchange student, fired back in defense of his blushing roommate.
“Eww, looks like Dracula here has got some animal parts too! What the heck are you? Half vampire and half werewolf?” mocked Ashley Donalds, the brunette in Amy’s “meangirl squad," who was at the moment making fun of the Russian’s heavily accented English and obvious furry bits. The assembled seniors began to giggle. Mikhail’s puff of beige chest fur peaking out of the “V” in his shirt may have been possible to chalk up to the boy’s Slavic heritage but the stubby dark brown tail sticking out from the back of his shorts was impossible to ignore.
Mikhail unconsciously bared his fangs and let lose a low angry growl that echoed through the lobby, leading the giggling to fall silent. Right at that moment, the elevator gave a cheerful “ding” and the doors opened revealing…