When I arrived at school the next day, I saw that everything was back to normal. Well, my kind of normal. Everyone was staring at me and whispering about me while they were covering their mouths and whispering to their friends so that I couldn’t hear them. I just rolled my eyes, thinking that maybe they had learnt their lesson about pissing me off, but I guess not. Or I guess they just had something else to talk about today. It seemed to be going around though. I saw Leo walking past with a few of his friends, who seemed to have grown in size overnight. He didn’t have that many friends yesterday. But he was showing them something on his phone and when he saw me he made sure that they hushed their voices. I knew that he was behind this. He was doing something to make everyone hate me again. And I wish I could say that I was surprised. But I’m really not. I did think that people were going to start leaving me alone though. So, I put my things in my locker and I walked off towards the ba
As soon as the teacher arrived Wesley let go of me and he winked at me before he walked off to his class and I made it to my desk. During the whole lesson I was sitting there with my hood up, not looking around, although I could feel people looking at me. But I was too preoccupied by Wesley and that kiss and how he just grabbed me like that. The feel of his warm breath on my face and how soft his lips were. How gentle he was, considering how big he was, I wouldn’t have thought that werewolves would be that gentle while kissing someone. It took my breath away and now I couldn’t think of anything but what happened. I didn’t really want my first kiss to be like that, but I can’t say that I’m really disappointed. I really liked it, but it wasn’t how I imagined my first kiss would go. I tried to get it out of my head and I looked up towards the teacher and he was rattling on with stuff that just sounded like a blur to me. I couldn’t make out anything that he was saying at the momen
I ran out the side gate of the house and I kept running until I was far enough away from the house that I knew they weren’t following me. But even then, I didn’t slow my pace. I kept running at a steady speed until I hit the highway and I was running along the highway. It was getting later in the afternoon and the chill in the air was getting more prominent. But I still had my big hoodie on and my boots. Plus I was running, so I wasn’t too concerned about the weather. The cold didn’t bother werewolves as much as it bothered humans. We had a hotter body temperature to them on any given day. So we were pretty fortunate like that. But when I decided that it was going to take me hours to get back to the cabin like this, I ran until I got to the woods. I got deep enough into the woods and I took my clothes off and I put my phone and wallet in my pocket and I shifted into my wolf. I then picked my clothes up in my mouth and I kept running through the woods. A lot faster than I would
When we got back to dad’s house I got Wesley to park the truck down the road, so no one saw him with me and I got out and started walking towards the house. But I heard his car door open and close as well. “Ava. Can we talk?” Wesley asked. “What about?” I asked, turning around to look at him. “About what happened today. I know that you’ve got a lot on your mind with your mother and everything. I just need to say what I have to say.” He said. “Alright.” I said. “I’m sorry about everything that I did today. I know that I shouldn’t have grabbed you like that, I shouldn’t have kissed you. I shouldn’t have done anything like that...” He explained, and I started looking down at my feet. “But I don’t regret it.” He added, and I quickly looked up at him. “You don’t?” I asked. “No. I wouldn’t have done it if I didn’t want to. I just know that I shouldn’t have done it in front of the entire class. And I’m sorry for that.” He said. “Why do you like me?” I asked. “Because I know
I was glad when school was over that day, Wesley met me at my locker and I saw Leo standing across the hall with his friends. I knew that he was pissed about all the attention that dad was giving me. He had been living with dad for a couple of years before I came into the picture and I know that he definitely thought that he was going to get the pack. I’m not even sure if Sandra and Leo knew about me before he brought me home. But dad was planning a coming out party to introduce me formally to his entire pack. It was going to be a huge affair and it was definitely not something that I was up for right now. I had way too much on my mind, but there was no getting out of it. Dad gave me his credit card this morning, something else that would have pissed Leo off, and he told me to buy whatever I wanted. Even if it wasn’t a party dress. Dad told me that I was still dressing like I was living in the woods, but that’s only because it’s comfortable to me. But then again, I wasn’t us
I stood in the street really awkwardly as this beautiful woman was looking me up and down, while still wearing my rags for clothes. She was shorter than me, but she showed off everything she had. It wasn’t much, but she made me feel insecure with the way I looked at the moment. She saw Wesley holding my hand and I saw a smirk appear across her face. “I thought you were going to call me. Why didn’t you?” “Because I told you that we were over. And I meant it.” Wesley said. “You always say that we’re over. But we always find a way to work it out.” Claire said, stepping closer to him. But he took a step back. “Claire. This is Ava.” Wesley said. “I don’t care.” Claire spat, looking at me. “Well, I do. We haven’t spoken in two months and now I’ve met someone else. So, you need to back off.” Wesley said. “You really can’t be serious. You’re choosing this thing over me?” Claire asked, looking me up and down again. “Don’t refer to her as a thing. But yes, I’m choosing her over y
Wesley wasn’t lying about dinner either. That carbonara pasta was delicious. And the mud cake that he ordered for dessert was just as great. But the night had to come to an end eventually. So we got up and before I could pull out dad’s credit card, Wesley had already paid for it. He insisted and there was no changing his mind on that. He claimed that he was a gentleman and there was no way he was going to let me pay for dinner. We left the restaurant and started walking back to his truck and Wesley put his arm around my waist and we were just talking back and forth. I was amazed at how comfortable I was becoming around Wesley. And how much he had started talking lately. When I first met him, he didn’t talk much at all. He was just the strong silent type that stayed in the back while all the other assholes were giving me a hard time. Wesley drove me back to dad’s house and he actually pulled up to the gate and the guard let us in when they saw that it was me. We pulled up out t
WESLEY POVAs soon as I got home from dropping Ava off, I felt like I was on top of the world. I parked my truck around the side of the house like I always did, and I got out and looked at the scenery of the woods that surrounded our little cottage. I walked inside and saw dad sitting on the couch watching TV with a beer in his hand. “Hi dad.” I said. “Hi. Where’s mom?” I asked. “She’s in the other room sewing up my work shirts.” He said. And I plopped on the couch next to him. “So, how was dinner?” He asked. “It was good. It was really good.” I said, unable to contain the smile on my face. Remembering back to the whole afternoon and evening that I spent with Ava. “What’s that smile for? Don’t tell me that you’ve gotten back together with Claire.” Dad sighed out. “No. I haven’t gotten back together with Claire. I did see her though, for the first time in ages.” I said. And he looked at me out of the corner of my eye. “You were always right about her dad, she’s a real bitch.” I