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Third Person POV;

It was the first day back of the new term at school. Normally Maddy walked to school with Rhydian, but today, however she didn't. Instead she walked with Conor. She left the house early and ran to see if Conor was ready. When she arrived in the middle of the woods, he stood before her all clean and ready for school.

"Ready?", she laughed.

"Never readier!", he laughed back at her.

"Come on then! Race you!", she shouted to him as she ran.

Conor laughed before sprinting after her.

Rhydians POV;

It was the first day back at school. I left the Vaughan's and headed for Maddy's house to meet her. We always went to school together. This morning however was different. I knocked on the door of the house. Mrs Smith opened the door.

"Good morning Rhydian," she smiled.

"Morning Mrs Smith," I replied.

"Are you looking for Maddy?"

I nodded.

"Well I'm afraid you've missed her. She's already left for school. She said she wanted to be in early," Mrs Smith explained.

"Oh that's okay, I'll catch her at school then. Bye Mrs Smith," I said as I turned and headed for school.

"Maddy early for school", I thought, "No way. Something's not right about this."

Maddy's POV;

Conor and I arrived at the edge of the woods. I could see Rhydian, Shannon and Tom talking in the yard.

"Right you stay here until the bell rings. I'm going to go over to my friends. I want you to come in by yourself," I explained.

Conor nodded.

I leaned up and kissed his cheek.

"Good luck on your first day," I smiled.

"Thanks Maddy for everything."

"No problem. Now I'm going to go. I'll see you soon, stranger," I winked.

I then walked out of the woods and over to my three friends, to join them.

Third Person POV;

"Oh there you are!", exclaimed Rhydian with a sense of sarcasm in his tone as Maddy walked up to the three of them.

Maddy smiled at him.

"For someone who wanted to be early for school and left for school ages ago, you were nearly late," he continued.

Before Maddy was able to reply to his comment, the bell rang. The four friends headed to form class. Maddy, Shannon, Rhydian and Tom walked into the classroom. They walked over to their normal seats. Shannon and Tom sat down and Rhydian sat down at the table in front. Maddy normally sat beside Rhydian, but today was different. Today, Maddy sat at the back of the classroom by herself.

Rhydian turned around to look towards Maddy and was about to ask her why she was sitting at the back. However, before he could, Mr Jefferies entered the class.

"Morning class!"

Rhydian turned around in his seat to face the front again. Confusion swamped his thoughts. He didn't understand why Maddy wouldn't sit beside him. He assumed that it must have been for his comments outside before class. Mr Jefferies brought Rhydian out of his trail of thought and Rhydian soon began to understand why she hadn't and that it had nothing to do with their previous conversation.

"Right class, today we have a new pupil starting. I want to welcome him and show him around."

A tall, thin boy entered the room. His jet black hair shone in the light. He looked awkward, shy. He suddenly smiled when he saw Maddy sitting at the back.

Rhydian noticed this. He also noticed the big smile that spread across Maddy's face as soon as this new boy had entered the room.

Rhydian's POV;

I sniffed the air. Something didn't smell right.

"Wolfblood," I whispered to myself.

I watched this wilds every footstep.

Third Person POV;

"Everyone, this is Conor Kelly. Welcome Conor. I hope you like it here."

"There is a free seat beside Rhydian or Maddy. You can decide which you want to sit beside."

"Thanks sir," Conor replied as he walked and headed to the back of the classroom to sit beside Maddy.

Rhydian watched his every step. He watched as Conor sat down beside his best friend. He watched on as Maddy gave Conor the biggest smile as he sat down.

Rhydian quickly turned his head back towards the front of the room.

Due to his sensitive wolfblood hearing he could hear Conor and Maddy whispering and giggling from the back of the room.

After form class Rhydian left Maddy with Conor and headed to Chemistry with Tom and Shannon.

"What about Mads?", inquired Tom.

"She's probably busy with Conor. Leave her, she'll be fine, she'll get there herself," Rhydian snapped before heading on.

Shannon and Tom looked at each other before following Rhydian down the corridor to Chemistry.

Maddy's POV;

Conor and I were left in the classroom by ourselves.

"Thanks for helping me Mads."

"No problem, Conor! You're my friend of course I'm going to help you!", I smiled .

"That boy sitting at the front seemed to be keeping quite an eye on me," he laughed.

"Who? Rhydian?", I asked.

"I think that's who it is."

"Was he? I hadn't noticed."

"Yeah he watched me the whole way as I walked down to you. Who is he?"

"He's just a boy in my class, Rhydian."

"Oh," Conor smiled. "I saw you talking to him earlier."

"Yeah."

"He's a wolfblood too, isn't he?", asked Conor.

"Yeah he is..."Right come on, we'd better hurry up or we're going to be late for Chemistry," I explained.

"Okay, show me to chemistry then," Conor laughed.

"Come on then," I giggled grabbing his hand and pulling him out of form class and towards Chemistry.

Third Person POV;

In Chemistry Maddy sat beside Conor. After triple Chemistry it was break. Rhydian wanted to talk to Maddy but she raced out of the classroom with Conor.

Rhydian turned to Shannon and Tom.

"Is it just me or are they a bit too close for two people who have just met?"

"What do you mean?", inquired Tom.

"They act as though they've known each other since before this morning," Rhydian explained.

"I doubt you're just being paranoid mate," Tom replied.

"Why would I be paranoid?", questioned Rhydian.

"Because Maddy's your best friend."

Rhydian looked at him.

"Rhydian, we've seen the way you look at her. She means everything to you. Mate you're just being paranoid. Mads will be back with us at lunch time after she's shown Conor around the school. She's just trying to help him fit in. She did that too when you came here. Well okay maybe not right from the beginning", Tom laughed, remembering Rhydians first day, "but she did help you to settle in and now you're her best friend. If she already knew him then she would have said."

"Yeah, I suppose you're right. I'm just getting myself worked up over nothing," Rhydian sighed.