That morning, Dan had to forcibly pull me from my sleep because I slept passed the captain's wake up call.
"Damn you were sleeping heavy," he said as I dressed myself.
"Did you get good sleep last night?"
I simply shrugged and together we jogged down to our first training session and started the day.
Today's assigned training by Captain Hodkins was stamina training, so the group of recruits ran three miles, making large laps around the training courtyard.
Reece was perceptibly avoiding any contact visual or physical with me.
But it was a different story with Edan.
Running our laps, on several occasions I accidentally met eyes with him. He would immediately look away, but what had been in his eyes wasn't his usual glare of indignance, it was something else entirely that I struggled to comprehend.
Jace was clearly confused by the behavior of his friends.
By the time everyone had finished their three miles, everyone's suit and skin was drenched with a shiny glaze of sweat, and was ready for the showers.
"You've been unusually quiet today, has something happened?"
Dan asked as we open our lockers and get ready for a shower.
"I-uh- I don't know,"
I say sheepishly.
"Guess I'm feeling a bit off today."
I turn away from Dan, and peeled off my shirt that stuck to my skin with sweat.
As I was about to throw my pants and underwear down, I get the sense that someone was watching and look up.
Edan stood a few feet away in nothing but a towel, paused in his walk to the shower room.
He had been looking in a daze at my bare upper body, looking at my hands posed to bring my pants down.
He's checking me out.
We meet eyes and I was about to turn my back to him, but I stopped myself.
What the hell, why not give him a show.
I pull down my pants, and my junk falls free into the steamy air.
His eyes immediately fell to my cock. Watching his gaze, I sense his pulse quicken. He runs a tongue over his dry lips, and looks up to me.
He pulls his towel from his waist, exposing his cock to me.
His thick shaft and head was slightly swollen more than half hard, hanging heavily at seven inches, his uncut foreskin tucked around his head delicately.
With a tug of his cock in my direction, and one last glance to my package, he quickly turns and heads into the shower, disappearing into the fixture of steam and hollow echo of voices.
My heart beat thrummed at a slightly elevated pace, jolting in a small tremor in my throat.
Dan suddenly appears at my side, naked with a towel ready in his grip.
"Damn, must be happy to see me."
He chuckled, nudging my cock swollen to chub lightly.
With a wink, he strolls towards the showers, whistling.
I sit down naked on the bench in front of the set of lockers, running my fingers through my gnarled and sweat soaked hair.
Just when my feelings for Dan couldn't become more complicated, Edan was now checking me out, and flirting with me.
And I flirted back.
But I couldn't get his body out of my head. My body yearned to return to the scent of his horniness, the musky aroma that filled my being and drove my cock mad.
I remember when we brushed shoulders on his way out of the shower room. I remember feeling his heart quicken, the overwhelming scent that lingered after his climax.
I groan, pushing away the thoughts, because my cock was threatening to become a full on erection, a swollen more than half-hard slump that splayed over my thigh.
I was attracted to him.
Nonetheless of how my mind screamed in protest, I couldn't deny what my body was feeling.
He publicly humiliated you, ridiculed you for being an inbred Therian.
My thoughts exclaimed at me.
But he no longer looks at me like I'm a freak. When he looks at me and my body, all I see in those jarring green eyes is that he likes what he sees.
Suddenly Dan struts naked out of the shower room, his short blond curls draped darkly over his brow, his body sopping wet.
"You won't believe this- Alex. But Edan in there has a hard on. In the shower, in front of everyone. He is sure sporting a donkey cock under that suit, you're just a little short of him, how embarrassing-"
He looks down and sees me sitting, my cock uncontrollably fully erect, arcing over my stomach.
"Yeah,"
I reply.
"How embarrassing."
. . .
"What's with you two?"
Jace says, as Reece and I headed back into the barracks after dinner to hit the sack.
"Nothing."
Reece snaps back at our friend.
Jace wasn't convinced, his skeptical glare at Reece and I showed it.
We shoulder passed the lines of bunkbeds, trying to find ours.
Jace had known the two of us since we were children learning to summon our powers.
We had grown close, because our fathers are high ranking officers, and friends, in the Therian army.
"'Nothing' my ass. Whenever you get anywhere near that inbred and his friends,"
He points exasperatedly to Reece.
"You shrink back like a kid who's gotten scolded, and you-"
He points to me and I flinch away, like his finger was a slash of a knife.
"You can't take your eyes off of him."
Reece looks to me suspiciously, having not known that piece of information.
Suddenly Reece joins in and as we reached Reece and I's bunk bed, I felt cornered.
"What was with that stiffy in the shower today? I've never seen you with a hard on in the showers, in front of our recruit corps. I didn't see anything, but I saw that you passed right next to Garren. Does he give you the hots ever since last-"
Suddenly Reece stops himself, his face freezing at his mistake. I glare seethingly at him.
Jace did not know of Reece's and I's sexual relationship and we planned on never telling him, in worry that it might make it weird between the three of us.
Jace looked suspiciously between the two of us, and quickly before he his thoughts could ponder further, I jutted in,
"It was just the heat of the shower, my blood was going everywhere after that run."
Jace, unsure of what Reece had meant pushed it off to the side, and snapped back,
"That guy is the reason you won't be under the command of Lieutenant O'Ryan. Don't you care about that at all, our families have been friends for years, Jason was like a brother to you."
I felt the heat rise in my face.
"If you guys don't shut the fuck up, I'll sure as hell make you."
I say, unintentionally squaring up on them, but my body instinctively doing so.
Nonetheless of our friendship, the two of them took a step back, staring up to my face that was tightening in increasing anger.
My body, reacting to chemical charges of my anger, burned with the instinct to transform. I painfully pushed down the feeling, and sat down heavily onto my bed, attempting to calm down.
"So this is how you treat us now?"
Reece says, his face contorted with vexation, as he disappears to his top bunk, and Jace storms off into the entanglement of bunk beds.
I lay myself down, taking in deep breaths.
My rhinoceros form seemed to always become aggravated with my emotions, my parents had seen this and I had to take anger management growing up. It helped, for the most part.
I run my fingers over my brow and eyes.
Jason was like a brother to you.
Didn't he think I fucking knew that?
My sudden intense attraction towards that inbred, Garren, has me disgusted of myself.
I wanted nothing more than to beat him senseless, but ever since last night...
His thick, heavily muscled form, that carved V leading to that fat cock that towered upwards towards his stomach, all finished off nicely with a pair of nice low-hangers sunken in his ball sack.
Smelling the stark and pungent aroma of his arousal, it seemed to fill the damn room.
His body was burned into my mind, his scent all that my body yearned for.
Without realizing it, my cock had developed into an erection, strained past the hem of my suit. I glare around myself, hoping that no one had noticed, and tuck it back into my pants.
It was still fully visible, bulging in the tightness of my suit, so I took to draping myself under my covers.
This damn cock was in total control of my thoughts, driving me towards an inescapable attraction towards that inbred.
Towards Alex...
I close my eyes, and after what felt like hours, sleep finally managed to take me.
. . .
Graduation was only two days away, and with the day of a full moon in our midst, Captain Hodkins allowed a recovery day for the recruits, so that the heightened instincts and behavior that the full moon enticed on all Therians would not affect training that day.
But regardless of my pulse that seemed to be perpetually quickened and the strange chemically imbalanced energy that coursed thickly through my body, I had no intent of wasting an entire day of training. With our last day of physical testing tomorrow, I needed as many points as possible towards my graduating rank. I was almost eligible to join Dan as a part of the top class.
While everyone went off to join their families and continue their afternoon plans, I uttered a quick farewell to Dan and Sal, and head to the training courtyard.
From nearly three months of hard work, my already well defined muscles toned out even more, and has slightly gained more mass, to my satisfaction.
When I stepped into the courtyard, my heightened sense of smell took in a strong aroma of sweat that usually was only barely noticeable.
Several men and women were at work in the weight lifting section, their bodies shone with the glossy surface of sweat, as they busied themselves among the equipment.
More people not wanting to waste an entire valuable day of training.
I focused on upper body and cardio, running sprinted laps around the indoor track, bell presses, tricep workouts, benches and curls.
Even after being among the recruits for a decent sum of time, many people avoided my gaze, or were perceptibly afraid. Dan had said, with his interaction with the general folk, that most people thought of me as dangerous. I had been the man that took on the number one ranking recruit, mostly in human form and managed to win.
I take in deep breaths, and gulp down a hearty swig of my water, my face a bright pink as I head into the locker room.
The locker room was cold and empty, and peel off my clothes, sighing in relief as the cold air flows over my bare skin.
I strut into the shower room, towel in hand, cheerful and satisfied with my work out.
Working my body helped calmed the hyper jittering of my nerves.
I turn the valve all the way to hot, and step into the stream, closing my eyes as steam begins to rise in the air, casting a fog over my surroundings.
Suddenly I heard a locker slam and footsteps nearing the shower room, pulling me from my somnolent daze beneath the stream of hot water.
Great. So much for finally getting some alone time.
A large naked figure steps into the room and my body numbs.
