Bullshit. This was complete and utter bullshit.
Bradwick's leg bounced against the cheap office chair causing the synthetic leather to squeak with each and every agitated movement. His coyote ears lay flat against his skull, twitching occasionally at the muffled sounds of students passing in the hallway outside. The clock on the wall ticked with agonizing slowness—3:47 PM. Chad's stream started at 4:15 and he absolutely had to be there, no question. If this mandatory "peer counseling" session didn't wrap up in the next twenty minutes, he'd miss the opening where Chad always acknowledged his top donors from the previous week.
The office smelled like linen air freshener trying desperately to mask the underlying scent of anxiety and institutional paint. Motivational posters lined the walls—"You Matter!" with a kitten hanging from a branch, "Talk It Out!" with diverse cartoon students holding hands. Bradwick's lip curled, it was all propaganda. The kind of normie shit that people who'd never experienced real rejection plastered everywhere to feel good about themselves.
His thin tail flicked sharply to the left, then right, betraying his irritation despite his attempt to look unbothered. His arms crossed tight over his stained hoodie, the one with Chad's logo, but it had faded from too many wears without washing. The artificial beer-and-ammonia mixture he'd sprayed on it this morning was probably overwhelming in this small space, but good, maybe it would make this go faster.
"Peer counseling." What a fucking joke. Like he was going to spill his guts to some random student volunteer who probably only signed up for college application clout. Chad had a whole stream segment about this kind of performative empathy—"Normies Pretending to Care: A Study in Virtue Signaling." Bradwick had donated thirty bucks during that one and Chad had read his username twice, it had almost been better than a gooning session.
The administration was just covering their asses after the Cross incident years prior that permanently shut the pool they share with Breaker Bridge College down and that whole sports club mess with all those drugs, mocking bible verses and guns. It was apparently easier to throw some half-baked student program at the problems than actually address the systematic hierarchies that caused all of these easily preventable bullying incidents.
The bang of the door as it slammed open broke Bradwick’s internal doomposting in half immediately. Fear causing his ears to shoot up involuntarily, his rehearsed slouch faltering as his amber eyes tracked the figure entering the cramped office space. His tail went rigid, standing almost straight out behind him.
Oh.
Oh fuck.
That was... that wasn't what he'd been expecting, not at all. His brain stuttered like a buffering screen when his mother cut the internet mid Chadwick stream. The faltering forced him to take in the details of his every wet dream in fragmented bursts.
Heat crawled up Bradwick's neck, spreading across his cheeks in a flush he couldn't control as his mouth went dry. Suddenly he was painfully aware of the stale smell clinging to his clothes. Of the patchy stubble he'd been trying to grow out, and the way he was sitting with his legs spread wide in that exaggerated masculine pose Chad always used.
A question finally broke through his short circuited brain – had they asked something? Fuck, they'd definitely asked him something. He'd been too busy staring at them like some kind of degenerate simping beta cuck.
"Ghk—" The sound that escaped his throat was less a word and more of a strangled noise. His tail tucked slightly, then overcorrected into a wag before he forced it to still.
Bradwick straightened up far too quickly, forcing the chair to squeak again. His hands uncrossed, recrossed, then gripped his knees instead. Words, that’s what he needed, to actually speak. Incel words, the kind of based, redpilled shit that would make it clear he wasn't interested in this touchy-feely bullshit and get him out of here faster because he makes more of an absolute ass of himself.
"I—uh—" His voice cracked slightly. He coughed, trying to drop it lower. "Look, this whole thing is just cope, okay? Like, I-I don't need some... some mandated social interaction because Mr. Henderson can't handle facts and logic about... about f-female nature and hypergamy and shit..."
The stutter on 'female' made him wince visibly. His fingers drummed against his thigh. "I was just explaining basic evolutionary psychology and – and he got all triggered about it, which is like, totally proving my point about how society can't handle the blackpill truth..." The words tumbled out faster then he could moderate them, it was a memorized script he only half-understood. "So this is basically just thought-policing and I have... I have stuff to do. Important stuff. At four-fifteen. I mean, generally at four-fifteen. Not like anything specific..."
His tail betrayed him with yet another small wag before he consciously tucked it against the chair leg. Fuck. Fuck fuck fuck. Why was his heart beating so fast? Was he having a heart attack?
