"C'mon, I just want you to meet him. In and out real fast. Greyson took me under his wing last year and is probably one of my best friends on campus. We'll hang out later, but we have time before the dining hall closes." Guy was begging, pulling William towards one of the freshman dorms, which was getting harder to do. William had started filling out, putting on some real bulk. He went from sickly human to on his way to being a stout boar in just over a day, and he even had tusks coming in, too, though they had yet to peek past his lips. "I bet you and his boyfriend will get along, too. He's a beaver. You can bond over having long teeth."
"Fine, in and out. I'm starving, this.." William pounded on his chest. "Didn't come from no where." Guy smiled and yanked William into he dorms. "Now, have to remember what floor he was on? Third?" The trudged up the stairs, which William was excited to find wasn't nearly as exhausting as he had once found it, the the hooves were still an awkward mess.
"What's that smell?" William asked as he sniffed the air, wrinkling his nose.
"Freshmen still figuring out proper grooming. Sorry. It's a hazard of this school." Guy opened the stairwell door and popped into the hallway. He headed right for the rooms closest to the common area as William trailed behind. "Oh! Stripes! This is your floor? Where's Greyson?" William kind of tuned them out as he looked around the common area, then came face to face with a pair of familiar tusks.
"Milo!" He said, cheerily. The other boar gave him a curious look. "Remember me, William, we talked by the fountain first night here."
"I.. remember.." Milo began, though the words came out slowly, maybe a bit confused. Maybe Milo didn't remember him.
Guy came up to him, looking a tad sheepish. "Sorry, wrong floor, he's down one."
"Guy, this is my brother Milo, Mi..." And William's brain short-circuited then and there. "I don't know why I said that." But it didn't feel wrong to say it either. Except, William didn't have any brothers, or even sisters. Except.
A snug bedroom with a bunkbed. He lay on the bottom bunk, reading one of his books. A young, excited face popped into view upside down from the bed above. "Will! Check this out." He opened his mouth. "My tusks are coming in!"
William grinned, setting his book aside and crawling off his bed. "C'mon. Let's go show dad. He'll be excited." Milo practically jumped off the bed and into William's arms, the two brothers exchanging hugs before heading off to hunt down their father.
"William didn't tell me he had any family on campus. I'm Guy, his, uh, roommate." It was obvious Guy wasn't sure what word to use, but William was still momentarily frozen in shock until a pair of strong arms pulled him into a hug. "Am I missing something?" Guy asked as the younger boar hugged the older who was still processing the new flood of memory. "Stripes! I think my roommate is broken!"
William barely noticed the zebra poking his head out of one of the rooms, but heard Milo calling over. "It's okay, I think he's just dealing with some new memories."
Slowly, William found the ability to move again and immediately did what felt the most natural to him. He hugged Milo back. "Nice to see you, too, squirt, but you're bigger than me now, and I need air." Milo eeped softly and loosened his grip on William taking a step back. Both Guy and Stripes were watching the two boars, one with concern the other with mild fascination.
"First new memory?" Milo asked softly, as he took another step back, getting a good look at his brother.
"No, but the other one wasn't that, um, intense." William reached up and wiped some tears from his eyes. Where had those come from? He sniffed softly and looked back over at Guy. "Sorry, was not expecting that. Like being hit with a truck full of bricks."
"Not the worst I've seen." Stripes muttered, then looked to Guy. "Remember those roommates that ended up becoming identical twins last year?" Guy nodded after a moment's thought. "They looked confused for a week. Started forgetting which one was which. Anyway. Congratulations." A sudden squeal and crash from down the hall had Stripes sighing as he went to check on what chaos was being wrought this time.
William watched Stripes wander off with a curious arch of the brow "Where were we? Right. Milo, this is my boyfriend Guy." It was Guy's turn to look a little poleaxed at the choice of words that William decided to use, but the feline was grinning like, well, the proverbial cat that got the cream.
"Boyfriend?" Milo said, looking the cat up and down with a critical eye. "I guess he's pretty cute. And the accent is amazing. Approved." The younger boar said, as if they had been family forever rather than just the last two minutes.
"Thanks." William said, a note of sarcasm entering his tone, but paired with a cheerful smile. "Um. We were going to get dinner." The now older brother turned his head to look at Guy, "Mind if Milo joins us? I suddenly need to catch up on a bit."
Guy offered a small smile and a nod. "I'd love it if he did."
"Mind if I see if my roommate Dare wants to come along? He just ran off to get some drinks he should be back any.." Milo's words were cut off by a rather loud exclamation from a part-changed skunk walking into the common area.
"Oh, fuck. There's two of 'em." At least the sodas he dropped were in bottles and didn't burst open.