Maddy and Rhydian walked into school to see Shannon sitting by herself. Shannon looked up and smiled with relief as they took their places behind her.
"I'm glad you're here! I thought I would be all by myself today!" said Shannon happily, turning back to her book.
"Where's Tom?" asked Maddy, slightly confused at why Shannon was sitting by herself.
"I don't know, he text me saying he wasn't coming into school today, but he wouldn't reply when I asked why,"
Maddy was about to ask another question, when Mr Jeffries came striding in. There was no way she would let her talk and get away with at as he seemed in a particularly bad mood today.
After school, they all went round to Tom's house, the intention being they could give him the homework he missed, but it was more out of curiosity then anything. When tom had come to the door he smiled happily at Shannon, asking her what she was doing there. Then he looked up from the pile of textbooks that Shannon had got him to see Maddy smiling at him, with Rhydian behind her. Tom quickly looked away, before hastily saying: "I gotta go now, thanks for the Shan!" then the door slammed in their face.
"That was odd," said Maddy, slightly hurt that Tom would treat her like that.
"Don't worry about it, I'm sure it's nothing!" Shannon told her friend as she walked down the road, heading back home. "Are you coming?"She yelled back to them.
Maddy brushed it off, sure that he would turn up at school tomorrow, or at least call her. He didn't
After a few days, Maddy started to come up with all kinds of possibilities why Tom wouldn't talk to her all of sudden, but she kept coming back to one: She's a Wolfblood, Tom knows that. What if he was going to tell someone? What if he didn't want to know her because of it? All of these questions spiralled round Maddy's head. What was Tom thinking? She had to find out!
Maddy ran through the woods at top speed, she didn't want to waste anymore time. She stopped infront of his door, she knocked. It seemed like years before Tom opened the door, just for him to close it in her face. Maddy wasn't giving up...