Nome was covered in ice, it was those days men or dogs would not enjoy. Last night no snow fell, and it was so cold the snow from days ago turned icy, easy to fall and get hurt.

Dogs headed into the boiler room to warm their coats, in those days the boiler room was crowded. In those crowds, a nostalgic lonely heart, Antara, was there as well, warming herself like the others.

Some would ask, why was she so lonely. Loneliness was common for her, she was used to it, everytime. Since a child Antara wasn't given much attention from her parents, she didn't blame them, but still it hurt her to see how they lived, always worried.

As she headed toward the boiler, the silent figure rested near the door, she was not comming, her sister. The one she once had fun with. Southwinder might be from her same litter, but they differ in maturity, Southwinder had a new life next to someone, and Antara was no important matter for her now.

Antara avoiding the looks on some faces, sat on the floor, she didn't liked the place, it was so big, full of scents, Antara felt drowned by such, some were really strong some yet some very sweet, she turned away and looked outside, the sunset made the town look beautiful, sveral of the houses were full of stalagmites, glittering like orange sparks.

"I like the ice" She said to herself, weird enough for some others to look at her with amusement. Antara didn't care, she kept looking outside, daydreaming.

"Excuse me?..."

Antara felt someone aproachingn her, making her dream fade away, as she tried to snap out of her mind.

"Hey um...aren't you cold?" the rowdy male voice made Antara look behind. Whatever reaction was, Antara didn't stop looking at the male's eyes, he himself was really handsome, she suddenly felt warm inside, that guy made her feel that way for sure.

"Um..miss are you deaf or something" By the quick reply to his previous statement, many would say the dog was impatient that day.

Antara finally felt her feet on the ground again, she felt the cold again, amd noticed the male's impatient face.This wasn't one of her daydreams this was reality.

"Oh...yikes, sorry!" She immediatly dipped her head as an apology and embarrasment as well.

The red male had a amused face, that was surely a strange girl, but he remember to be a gentlehound and said.

"Uhh yea my name is John Tom..but please call me JT, you know John Tom is a bit-" JT said

"No...I mean John Tom is nice" Antara interrupted with a chuckle"It is a pretty name...but if JT is how you want to be called, its ok for me, I'm Antara by the way" she smiled.

"Um Ok Antara, so you aren't deaf after all" JT said in a teasing tone, however he soon realized Antara wasn't smiling, he realized she felt a bit unconfortable "Anyway, Angora..."

"Antara" she corrected

"Anyway, Ana, I see you are pretty lonely here, want to join me and some friends" he said

Antara was a bit angry of JT's badass nature, but she calmed down and agreed, besides the offer seemed appealing to her.

Antara followed him, not losing him out of sight in the crowdy boiler room. Just a moment JT accidentally bumped two males.

"Hey watch it, house pet!" One of them snarled. JT just rolled his eyes at the insult, and continued his was, leaving the two males with their fangs bared. Antara just continued, looking at those two "I'm sure he's sorry..." she whispered to one, the male ignored her.

Finally she sat down, they were plenty of other females, some of them already looked at the newcomer in a meanful way, she just smiled at them.

JT sat in front of her, Antara soon manage to recognice some of JT's looks.

"Um...JT, are you perhaps brother of Dinah?" Antara asked, tryingto start  a conversation.

"Yes, do you know her?" he said

"Of course, ha I knew, you shared looks, haha I knew it!"Antara let her excitement rose up a bit, but as soon as she realized, she calmed down.

Antara couldn't stop looking at JT, and looking for a moment to start a conversation with him, she felt annoyed some females were hastier and wanted all of his attention, how greedy. As time continued Antara didn't know what to think of the green eyed male, she liked him, but she didn't know if she would make him happy, he demanded much, he loved attention, perhaps the old saying "Atitude kills the face" was right and she was really starting to reject her feelings for him, but she couldn't do it completely.

"Oh girls, do you know Mountaineer?" A female made a new topic to talk about. Antara looked at the female with curiosity.

"Mountaineer?! That creep" JT answered.

"Yes that little ginger colored freak" The female continued her talking "Yesterday I saw him and I aproached her, well he just started screaming like a pup and ran toward his house in fear!" she started laughing.

JT and some other females had an amused face as well, Antara felt like if she was stabbed, she looked at JT to see his reaction.

"Oh Mountaineer is sort of mentally retarded, what could you expect" another female spoke in, JT tried not to laugh, the she said in a very low tone "Too bad he is cute, what a waste".

Antara had it. 

"That does it, don't talk about Mountaineer like that!" She spoke in a high tone, making the females and JT feel startled.

"Sheesh calm yourself Antara" JT chuckled "Even though I don't know the creep, I have been told he's not ok in his head" He chuckled again, making some of the girls giggle.

"Why do you care so much anyway, Antara" A female looked at Antara with curiosity, but the harrier mix was looking at JT with anger.

"He's perfectly fine,  do you hear me!" she scoffed furiously "Besides, glad you asked" she turned to female "I care because Mountaineer is MY BROTHER!"

Then it hit JT it must feel horrible always hearing gossip about your siblings being mentally ill, he was never put through such situation, but looking at Antara and how she reacted. It was surely a very unconfortable situation.

"Nice having a chat with you JT" She looked at him, damp cold blue eyes "But Im outta here!" More than furious, Antara was disappointed. She found JT really attractive and cute, but after all, he was just another narrowminded prep, and Antara didn't want anything to do with him.

She sat behind the boiler room, she could still hear some laughs. She was so upset. Her brothers were really not "ok", and her parents were always worried about them, thats why they didn't pay Antara enough attention, she was the sane one of the bunch, and they didn't care for her as much as the ill siblings, Charles and Amelieh think she was doing fine.

Maybe they were wrong.

"Antara?" A familiar voice made Antara snap from her thoughts, it was JT.

"Oh It's you" she coldly retorted, looking at his eyes.

"Some of the girls told me to go see you" He finaly said, which for his surprise, made Antara upset.

"So others have to tell you to apologize, when you called someones sibling a RETARD?!" She scoffed in a sarcastic tone"What a shame..." she smiled away.

No they...look it's really hard for me to admit things OK" He struggled to talk "I'm sorry for what they said about your brother,same for me...I really do?"

Effort to talk and struggle as well, that was what Antara wanted to notice in his voice, he was sorry, she could see it. She gave JT a weak smile.

"Brrr it's cold" JT said as he stood next to Antara to warm her up. It was already night. Antara blushed, it felt nice, she never had a male's body so close to hers and she enjoyed it, thia wasn't one of her daydreams, this was reality and she was starting to like it. 

"Thank you" She returned JT a smirk of satisfaction.

"Does it matter if I ask...?" JT started a conversation

"About...my brother?" Antara answered and JT nodded in agrement.

"Well we aren't a very functional family to start with" Antara said "My brother Mountaineer barely reached adulthood" she stopped to se JT's face.

"That must have been hard" he said

"I was, and many diseases made Mountaineer paranoic and afraid" She continued "He is not a retard, he's just scared of the world"

"That explains a lot" JT laughed, Antara didn't seem like a sad pityful individual, but she surely had a hard time with her family.

"I never spoke this with someone, JT" she finally said laughing "Feels weird" 

JT just smiled amused, she was indeed  random person, but hey at least she was being herself.

"Well maybe just with my sister" Antara said at last

"And she..." JT asked, regreting such.

"She was my best friend when little, but typical, she got a mate..." Antara sighted "So we don't play like before"

JT was more than amused "Same as I" he chuckled

"OH REALLY?!" Antara espontaneously said "I mean...really?" she finally calmed herself once she saw JT's scared face.

"Yep, me and my brother were really close, and he's got a mate as well" He smirked at Antara "We are not so different"

Antara looked away smiling, it was a long time she didn't talk with someone the way she was doing now. For her amusement she spotted small little glitering snow falling, it was snowing?!

For the harrier mix, snow meant something good for everyone, she liked it.

"The snow is pretty" she suddenly said, JT tried not to laugh at her randomness.

"Good for you" he said trying not to laugh, Antara looked at him.

"Are you making fun of me!?" She said rather amused.

"Pft no..." JT said with a smile and snorting to prevent laugher out

"Oh you-" Antara pushed him, JT looked at her laughing, Antara was really having fun.

"Race to the boiler room!" She said laughing like crazy and starting a little friendly race.

"I'm going to get you! " JT said laughing, running after the little female, thinking on how weird yet nice she was.

"He's quite a ladies man" Antara thought "But he's worth a try" 

Awesome JT (c) Catwhohas14tails

ANTARA IS MINE