My Unique Boyfriend

-Eduardo POV-

"Nope, haven't seen anyone today, you guys are the 5th customer I've had all day" Anthony would say to the men and to my surprise, they bought it and left soon after

I arose from behind the counter and peered my head out the window, seeing the men walking away from the store, I stood up entirely in relief  "How did you know that they were bad people?" 

"I just felt it in my gut?" he seemed confused but also confident. "who were those guys? why did they want you?"

I looked back out the window and watched the men enter a different store across the street "i dont think its important right now.. so where are we gonna go?"

The confusion on his face was immediately replaced with a big smile as anthony stood up once more "a nice place i eat at when we reach a goal here at the library, but first"

He threw a giant hoidie on me which almost made me collapse, it may have been thin but he's still way taller than me and this thing was big "whats this for?"

"I doubt those guys bought what I said entirely so maybe you should wear some disguise" Although I would look fairly odd with this hoodie, he is right, to a strangers point of view i look like his kid. with some hesitation i slipped into the sweater which smelled of coffee and cake. 

Anthony smiled and started to walk me out the store before someone wearing the same clothes as him walked in and sat where he did "whos that?" 

"co-worker, he's taking the shift for me until I get back tonight" with his big hands he pushed me forward gently out of the store before we started walking down the side walk. Once I thought about the nice place again I started to think, gosh I was really hungry right now, bit more importantly its a bit odd how a stranger is taking me out to eat.

He led us down an alley way as he hummed a bit before I saw a can on the floor. "whats this thing?" The can had a weird thing at the top and some colorful string printed onto the front

"oh crap, silly string" he yanked me behind a dumpster as he pulled out a suitcase from behind it before opening it, filled to the brim with similar cans to the one we just saw "more cans?"

he pulled one out before slipping the case back while shaking the can "its a prank thing, harmless but also fun" he aimed it at me and sprayed me with the string, it shot out blue then white and green making me look weird not to mention it was a bit sticky. "Ahahahah, got you" he gave a hefty laugh as he gave me the can.

I shook it like he did and shot him with it, making it spray white then blue. this little can thing was kinda cool "this is fun!" he smiled with me as I sprayed myself and him making string fly everywhere

"I thought you'd like it" he stood up while taking me up too as he looked around with confusion written on his face "its odd, my friend would hove gotten me with a prank by now but, not even a sound... she is probably busy" he grabbed by hand and started to walk us through the alley once more as I threw the can to the floor.

we finally reached the building with a large sign on it that read 'Shakes Buffet' wondering what a buffet was, we walked in the building which smelled of many wonderful foods that I had never smelled before 

"You ever been to a buffet before? they are kinda good" he slipped his card to the woman behind the tall desk as he ordered a table for 2 adult and a child. rude.

"whats a buffet?" I've never heard or bean to one before but the name sounds fun so maybe the food will be too? 

"a buffet is a restaurant that serves all kinds of food but, you get to pick what and how much of it as you want, I think you'll like it" he gave me a wide smile as a man in a white shirt and vest led us over to a small table near the entrance. "so Eduardo, I never got to learn much about you. where ya from?"

This felt more intimate than he explained it "well I'm not actually from the continent.. born somewhat else, small country" I dont remember much about home since I was only born there and apparently moved a few months after "my clan is probably looking for me right now"

"clan? like a group or something?" I hadn't thought about if outsiders would know what I mean "yeah like a group but a really big one" with that I started to wonder when we could eat and I guess my face said it because Anthony grabbed my hand and pulled me off to the rows of food ready for grabs. I patiently watched Anthony collect what he was gonna eat, a triangle thing with red circles, some strings with sauce i believe, and some potato sticks that looked weird. 

"uh, aren't you gonna grab some food? need help deciding?" Me? eating food that isnt scraps? I must have actually fallen because i don't eat anything other than scraps
"uh I thought I was gonna eat your left overs?"

Anthony gave me a weird look before giving me his glass circle with food on it and going off to recollect some more. once he finished he pulled me away to the table and sat us down
"so what did you mean by you expected to eat my left overs?"

"in my culture i have to eat the scraps of those above me, what they dont eat i do" I said it as if it was nothing because to me, it was. Eating scraps wasn't anything crazy to me but this? the giant circle of foods, was extremely unordinary. Anthony gave me a weird piece of metal with prongs but I've never used one so decided against it.

-Anthony POV-

This guy is extremely... odd. first these big guys are looking for him? then he says he only eats scraps? now he just threw his fork. I guess i can't judge though, i am the stranger librarian who is taking him out to eat after i pulled him off a shelf and called him a child. His confusion worried me though, was he treated like this all his life? like a servant? a peasant? a sacrifice? Whatever the case was, I wanted him to atleast enjoy this at once. I should add i dont believe in love at first sight but when I found out he isn't a child I got an immediate attraction to him so hey maybe i can ease into it. 

After about an hour of eating and picking at my 4th plate I heard the bell to the buffets entrance ring. Those same big burly guys from the library were here and it looks like they knew I was lying because they were baring knuckle rings. 

They barged past the woman at the front and walked over to us and grabbed Eduardo.
"Hey! back off" I wasnt gonna let some weirdos take Eduardo away? who knows what they will do.

One of them looked at me with his rage filled eyes, why was he so mad. "Back down, this has nothing to do with you" his voice was demanding and deep but I wasnt one to just do whatever someone says.

"Yeah but it has something to do with me when we are on a date, you can try and get him when we finish" Im trying my best not to just run off but they look like they were ready incase of anything, but not everything

"Anthony please just do what they say, you'll get hurt" Eduardo was pleading to me to allow them to take him? was he insane or did he just not care?!

"if they want you, they will have to try to go through me.."

-Eduardo POV-

As I watched Anthony smack the guards hands off me I watched the his arms get engulfed by dark brown fur, his hands turned into paws and claws shot from his fingers. Did his arm just turn into a humanoid bear arm?!?!?

"Bear arms huh?" the two guards suddenly turned into 4 then 8 then 16 "we were ready incase you tried something special. and we are lucky because you seem VERY Unique"