Rhydian's POV

Jana and Carys are coming back tomorrow, I'm supposed to be excited. I am, but I'm so nervous about this whole new big sister situation. Why wouldn't mum tell me? Maybe she's embarrassed of her. She just showed up at school today and made a huge scene, she's tame but she acted as if she was alpha of a pack who have never even heard of humans. She had everyone staring at us. Jimi was shouting stupid things, the K's were judging her clothes or hair or something. I had to drag her into the dark room. I told her about Carys being in the wild, and she went running off to find her. I tried to chase her, but she's fast. She should have just stayed and waited, but I think a little part of her wanted to see mum too. No matter how much she had 'betrayed' her. They're in Wales, she'll be with the pack by now.

I hear something hit my window. I get out of my bed and look outside. I see Maddy standing there throwing rocks. I open it up. "That's a little cliche don't you think? It's 3am, what are you doing?"

"Ava's turned up at my house. I don't know what to do with her. I've got her waiting outside so she doesn't wake mam and dad." I roll my eyes. Of course this would happen. Ava wouldn't have wanted to stay with mum, and dad wouldn't want her there, why didn't I think about that?

"Well she can't stay here!"

"Rhydian, come on!" She raises her voice a little bit.

"I'll be right down." I quickly throw on some jeans and a jacket and jump out of the window down to Maddy and we run back to her house.

Why the hell has she come back here? It must have gone bad with mum and Carys. I find myself getting really worried about them. Ava's standing outside waiting for us.

"What are you doing here?" I say. "Are they okay? It's the middle of the night, go to B&B."

"Yes they're fine. I have no money on me, I spent it on the train ride back here. I had to run the rest of the way. I don't have anywhere to stay tonight. You said you're foster parents are human, so I came here instead." She can't just show up like this, it's becoming a nasty habit. "Carys told me she's coming here tomorrow with that dirty wild girl, so I need somewhere to stay until then."

"That dirty wild girl is my bestfriend, and she's Carys' girlfriend. Don't talk about her like that." I snap. "You have no right to keep turning up like this."

"Sorry." She hangs her head, she seems pretty immature for her age.

"You can stay in the cellar, I'll tell mam and dad tomorrow. I can't be bothered arguing about this, we all need to get some sleep. Rhydian, just stay here, you can run back tomorrow morning before the Vaughns wake up." Maddy trails off into her house, rubbing her eyes. Ava gives me a smile and follows her. I sigh and go inside too.

I go into Carys' room, because I know if Mr and Mrs Smith found me in Maddy's bed, they'd kick off. It's happened before and they made me shovel the whole driveway back in Canada. Even though they had hired a plough truck. There may be no snow here but it's a risk I'm not taking again.

I'm not tired at all, I can never sleep in my own bed back home because of everything that's going on. I end up walking around Carys' room. All of her stuff is still in here apart from some of her clothes, obviously she couldn't take everything to the wild. I look at all of her books and knick knacks. She has a lot of fantasy books, lined up in colour order on her shelves. She has little statue of three wolves that hold the books upright. You can see her personality just by looking at her room. It makes me feel even worse for the way I treated her. Hopefully when she comes back I can apologize.

Her phone is still here, she knew that the pack would hate her if she brought it with her. I turn it on out of curiosity. It blows up with missed calls and texts from someone called 'Anwen', I think that's what her ex is called. I leave the phone alone and decide to go for a quick run in the woods, no one will be out there at this time of night, and I can easily get in and out without making a sound.

So I thought. I'm about to go out the back door when I see Ava standing in the kitchen. "Can't sleep?" She says, holding a glass of water.

"I was just gonna go for a quick run, to tire me out."

"I'll join you." Great.

I try to run ahead of her, but she thinks it's a race. It was sort of fun to be honest. We stop at the clearing to take a break. I want to ask her stuff, to find out about her, but at the same time I sort of wish she didn't exist.

"So what school do you go to?" She says.

"Bradlington High, it's pretty cool I guess."

"I went to a boarding school, my foster parents' parents own it and we all sort of lived there while I was growing up. That was kind of cool too."

"Do they know about you being a Wolfblood?" She doesn't answer me, she just changes the subject.

"I bet the full moons are amazing here."

"Yeah they are, well Maddy's parents make us go in the cellar. They say it's safer, I suppose they're right. Where do you run?"

"I work for Segolia, we're flown out to Norway. You've heard of them right?" I think about everything that happened with Kincaid.

"Yeah I've heard of them. You know Shannon? She works for them too, alongside school. They're going to pay for university for her. Did you go?"

"Nah, it never really appealed to me. I've worked with Segolia since I was 16, there wasn't really any point in going to uni when I already had a job. I'll race you back to Maddy's?"

She doesn't give me a chance to answer before she sprints off. I follow her and manage to beat her, even though she had a head start. We get inside and both head off to bed.