You walk back around the building and find the car the Bears were driving. The two of them are leaning against it, talking quietly one's drinking a beer and the other is busy messing with a black leather ball cap with a bear flag paw on the front, neither of them pays you any notice yet.
You get within 30 yards or so and the one with the beer looks away from his friend and notices you.
"Hey stud, couldn't get in?"
You're slightly peeved at being called 'stud' and at the same time somewhat flattered, which confuses you.
"What the hell is going on?" You retort as approach and come to within an arm's length of the pair.
"Whaddya mean?" The one messing with his hat says.
"Arctos is supposed to be open and I want answers." You say, your hand going to your hips. Your right hand brushes against the leather cap that was tossed to you, it feels nice.
"Well we sure as fuck don't have any; we're as in the dark about this as you are. We decided to come check out the store 'cause we got an invite to the grand opening. It's supposed to be today at noon." the one with the beer says. He lifts it to his lips and chugs the rest of it down.
Checking your watch you notice its 1 pm.
You look at the two of them, they're gorgeous. One a fiery auburn and the other honey blond, both fully bearded and quite hairy from what you can see. The blond tosses his beer can on the ground and crushes it with his engineer boots.
"So, can I look at this invite?" You ask.
"Sure!" The auburn Bear says. He puts his cap on and hands the flyer to you.
****Arctos Outfitters Grand Opening****
******Friday June 28th at Noon!*******
We carry everything a Bear could want!
Check out our various departments:
* Clothing
* Camping Gear
* Leather Goods
* Motorcycle's and Riding Gear
* Sports Equipment
* Weights and Strength Training
* Adult Entertainment Videos, Supplies and Toys
If we don't have it, we'll order it for you.
We want to be your one stop shop for the Bear Essentials
and Luxuries too!
Be here for the grand opening and receive a door prize and
be sure to register for the Bearribian Cruise vacation prize.
Three weeks on a luxurious SeaBear Cruise ship to the
Caribbean and Bahamas
You hand the flyer back.
“So… you two came to check this out, why?” you ask.
The blond responds, “Well, see… something odd happened to us.”
“Odd?” Your eyebrow arches.
“Yeah.” The one in the hat responds, “See… before about two days ago, we didn’t look like this… not that we’re complaining. Jim here was something of a bean pole and I was in pretty good shape, but nearly as beefy. I mean, look at the muscle on these arms!”
He flexes and you can hear the material of his t-shirt stretch.
“It happened when we, got the box of clothes.” Jim says. “Andy opened up the box and I just had to try them on… like I was drawn to them. Neither of us were into Bears before, but now, well, I just can’t get enough of lookin’ at my hairy man!” He says and Andy reaches over and pet’s his partner’s blond furry arm.
“Or lookin’ at ANY hairy man.” Andy laughs and Jim blushes. “It’s OK to look lover and maybe a little more if we agree.”
You clear your throat in an attempt to get the pair back on track.
“And that’s why you’re here?” You say.
“Yep! I suppose that’s why you’re here too.” Jim says.
“Yes. But it doesn’t seem we’ll get our answers today, let me look at that flyer again.” You say.
Andy hands you the flyer again. You look it over and realize that there has been a mistake. The date is correct but the day is a typo. It should read Saturday June 28th, 2008 not Friday June 28th.
The three of you feel stupid that you hadn’t caught the error before.
“Well, I suppose we go home and check this out tomorrow.” You say, your hand brushes against the leather cap again and this time, unconsciously, you take it out of your pocket and put it on. You feel a bit dizzy, you stumble a bit as the world spins and suddenly find yourself in the arms of Jim, the broad shouldered, sexy blond Bear. You look up into his blue eyes and feel so very strange… you want to kiss those golden-fur framed lips.