"So what are you going to do with him while we rehearse?" Joey asked JC, as he watched Juju curiously bouncing around the dressing room.  

"Rehearsal hell, what about the show? You can't let him run loose back here. God only knows what he'll get into." Lance said, groaning as Juju sat on the floor beside JC's legs and began rubbing against him and whimpering.  

JC rolled his eyes at Lance. "I thought I'd just start asking around for a babysitter for my dog turned human. You know it happens all the time so it's not like anybody would think I was nuts." He said, sarcastically.  

"So he looks good. Just go find some chick that works for the arena and ask her to sit with your friend near the stage so they both can watch. She won't turn down a chance to see the show that close and with JC's hot best friend. Just I don't know maybe mention that he's from another country and is easily confused and has no sense of direction so she should stick with him." Chris suggested, laughing at the horrified look on Lance's face.  

Lance groaned when JC nodded his head in agreement with Chris. "You never agree with Chris. Why do you have to start now?"  

"Shut up, Lance. I'm gonna go find Justin a friend to watch the show with. You wanna come Justin?" JC stood and rubbed Juju's curly head.  

Juju climbed to his feet and leaned over with a wet tongue and licked JC's ear.  

"Yuck, what'd you do that for?" JC asked, grimacing as he wiped saliva from his ear.  

Juju looked down apologetically. "I'm sorry, JC. I always kissed you before when you patted my head."   

"Well that's different. You were a dog then. Human's don't just go around licking each other. That wasn't even a kiss. Not a human kiss at least." JC explained, still scrubbing at his ear and frowning.  

"What do you mean human's don't lick each other? I lick Lance sometimes when he let's me." Chris said, smiling at Lance as if he'd made the smartest argument ever.  

JC chuckled when Lance patted Chris on the head and sighed. "Which is exactly why I say that randomly licking people isn't human."   

"He didn't used to be human, JC. I know he didn't." Juju whispered frantically in JC's ear and tugged on his sleeve.  

JC laughed as he tried to pry his shirt out of Juju's grip before he tore it. "Justin you shouldn't make accusations like that unless you know for a fact they're true." He admonished.  

"But JC, look at him. He didn't used to be human." Juju whined, tugging at JC's sleeve again.  

Lance scooted back across the sofa about a foot from Chris and looked at him warily. "Oh god, please tell me that if you were an animal that you weren't a ferret. Because that's just sick, Chris. I mean that would be like fucking Dirk." He said with a shudder.  

"I wasn't a fucking ferret." Chris shouted, stomping his feet for attention.  

Lance gulped and moved back a little further. "What were you then?" He asked.  

"I was never an animal. I was born human." Chris muttered as he stared at the floor pouting.  

Juju's face lit up as he heard Chris' words. "Well then you're one of those human's that were born with animal behavior and you're supposed to turn into an animal but turn late or something goes wrong and you don't turn at all."  

"I am not!" Chris yelled, nearly vibrating the door.  

"Alright Justin, that's enough. Chris is human. You're mistaken. Now why don't we go find that friend for you to watch the show with." JC said, grabbing Juju's arm and pulling him from the room.  

~*~

"Can I kiss you when nobody else is around?" Juju asked, eyeing JC hopefully.  

JC shook his head. "No you can't kiss me. Besides I told you that wasn't kissing."  

Juju frowned in confusion. "That's how I always used to kiss. You never complained before when I kissed you."  

"That's because you were a dog then. That's expected of dogs. And you didn't kiss me. You licked me." JC said becoming exasperated.  

Juju eyed JC for a moment before smiling mischievously. "How am I supposed to kiss you then?"  

"You aren't supposed to kiss me." JC said, looking around for a person that didn't appear too busy and would be willing to sit with Juju while they did the show.  

Juju pouted. "But I want to kiss you. Tell me how to kiss you."   

"You just like touch your lips to somebody else's. You don't walk up and lick them wherever you feel like. I don't know. I guess that once you actually are kissing someone everything just comes to you." JC shrugged, only half listening as he kept his eye open for somebody to sit with Juju.  

Juju stepped forward and pressed JC back to the wall. His lips descended on JC's slowly. He gave JC time to protest. JC just watched eyes full of fear and what appeared to be lust. Juju's lips touched JC's. He pressed their mouths together for a second before pulling away.  

"I like my kissing better. I can't taste you this way." Juju complained, looking longingly at JC's lips and licking his lips.  

JC sighed and looked back up at Juju. "If you do it right you can taste whoever you're kissing without licking and slobbering all over them."  

Juju?s eyes lit up. "You can?"  

"Of course you can. But don't go kissing people like you just did me to find out. You can't go around kissing people that you don't know." JC said, fidgeting as Juju moved closer to him.  

Juju leaned into JC one hand on his hip and the other on the wall behind his head. "Well then you'll just have to show me how to do it if I can't kiss anyone else."  

JC gulped and for the life of him he didn't know why but he found himself nodding.

TBC