What was she expecting of him? They were just friends, best of friends since her potty training days but now that they are older, feelings start to develop and him; being so oblivious, moves on with someone else. rated M for future chapters, maybe some violence and language RomDeen

"I got Dougie on my team, let's switch this up for once." Clawd tossed the ball into Romulus court, beginning the game. It would begin on a slow start before the inner wolf got the better of Clawd, plummeting Romulus/Deuce team.

It would be about late evening now; the sun took refuge amongst the hills and four sweaty guys relaxed on the provided bench to cool off some.

"I haven't played that hard in a long time. Good game though, Clawd." Deuce bellowed as he now stood up, looking to his Icoffin to see some messages from his girl, Cleo.

Clawd ran a dry towel over his forehead and smiled to his friend, panting a little from the intense, yet passionate Casketball game between friends. "As long as I have my wolf, Dougey on defense we are unstoppable." He laughed as he gave Dougey a manly slap on the shoulder.

Romulus sought refuge on the bench next to Clawd, lapping water from the water bottle before he looked to his friend. A few times his phone would vibrate but he thought nothing of it.

"Well, I'm going to head off. Cleo and I have a date. Dougey, you need a lift?" Deuce asked Dougey as he got off the phone and gathered his things.

"Yeah, I have some homework to finish up anyway. I'll see you in school dudes." He motioned farewell to his friends before leaving with Deuce, now it was only Romulus and Clawd.

Clawd looked to his friend for a few moment before taking a deep breath as his muscles relaxed; retracing back to his earlier woes of his younger sister. "I really don't want to go back home.."

Romulus looked to his friend, a little concerned as to the reason was. "What is going on now?"

Clawd shrugged before his attention turned to his friend, he cocked a brow as he couldn't come up with any reasons, "It's Claw-"

Again Romulus' phone went off, this time it rang and rang until he eventually picked it up. "Hello?"

Clawd looked to the trees overhead and the falling sun, taking a deep breath as his mind went back to Clawdeen and her emotional breakdown she seemed to be going through. When Romulus answered his phone, he couldn't help but listen and on the other end was a ghoul with a slight accent.

Romulus listened to the girl, nodding some with a gentle smile as he answered briefly. "I have to say it right now?" A slight ting of red came to his grey cheeks, he tried his best to hide it but it was too late, Clawd caught it.

He laughed silently to himself before almost losing it.

"…Iloveyoutoo!" Rom said it quickly before taking a deep breath, glaring over at Clawd who was just losing it; running around laughing hysterically. "Hey look babe, let me call you back when I get home."

It would be a few more moments on the phone before the grey male would chuckle and grin. "B-babe.. I-I'll call you back in a few, ok?" With that he hung up before looking down at his feet, placing his phone in his duffle bag next to him and looked to the grinning Clawd. "Shut it Clawd!" He jabbed him in the side.

"Well, well, well Rom… who is this mystery ghoul you are into now?" He nudged back finding that Romulus had the biggest grin on his face. Clawd stood up as Rom did so as well, tossed the ball at him and began free throwing with his friend.

Romulus was indeed grinning at the thought, not so much of being embarrassed or anything about who he was talking to but just for the simple fact that the ghoul wasn't known to be the nicest to Clawd's girlfriend, Draculaura. "It's just some ghoul who I found a small interest in…" Romulus shrugged at him as he made all of his shots from the free throw line, making every basket skillfully.

"Just some ghoul huh? And Iloveyoutoo? Is just to some ghoul? How long has this been going on for you to finally say those words? You guys smashed huh?" Clawd could only laugh.

Romulus couldn't deny or lie about anything, he would have to admit that those three words shouldn't have been tossed around so carelessly to just anybody and in all honesty he didn't love the girl but was completely interested in her.

Clawd watched Romulus for a moment before he smirked and shook his head. "Well, even if you don't tell me who she is I'm glad nonetheless that you found some happiness for the time being… assuming you are happy?"

"Yeah, for the most part… She likes me and I like her. She isn't bad on the eyes either." The grey male grinned. "If you must know, I've seen her around school before and she said hi to me when I transferred to Monster High. At the Justin Biter concert that you dragged me to; we bumped into each other again and just started talking… end of story." He sighed as the ball hit the rim and the game was Clawd.

"Really now? You sleep with her yet?" he cocked a brow as he went to retrieve the ball and went to sit down. He could only burst into laughter when Rom didn't even attempt to deny it. "Wow! The sly wolf who I happened to recall saying he would wait for the right girl." Clawd mocked only to get an elbow in the side.

"Don't portray me as a bad guy… I am a guy and maybe I felt she could be. Maybe we both just wanted to do something spontaneous…" He bit the bottom his lip, just thinking about the past few encounters of the ghoul.

"So, you going to tell me about her or what?" Clawd asked with a chuckle seeing Romulus face of the thought.

Romulus took a breath, green eyes seemed to envision her. "She can be a little much at times but she has cute tendencies. She is better at Clawculus then I would ever be so that is a plus… Long legged smart ghoul, dark furred, curves that can go for miles, gorgeous- you know, let's just stop talking about this." The grey male attempted to just wave off the subject but Clawd was persistent.

"Ok, ok… but I'll find out who it is sooner or later. I'm sure Clawdeen knows who it is… Unless you didn't tell her and that is the reason why she was so pissy today." Clawd chuckled but became silent when he saw the look on Romulus face.

"W-wait… what?" The grey male went over to Clawd, shifty and a little perplexed about the whole thing. "Clawdeen? Why would she be upset if she didn't know?"

Clawd shrugged, "Well you know she confines in you with her issues at times because she had known you since she was a pup. She considers you a brother, I can't hide anything from her. But like I was saying before you got your phone call, she came home so angry. Like really upset but she wouldn't tell me what. She didn't want anything to do with me.

Romulus thought about it for a moment, looking down at his feet for a few moments. "I've been trying to talk to her ever since this morning…" He sighed before giving his signature smirk. "Well I am sure she will snap out of it soon, you know how she is." Rom looked to his watch before gathering his things. "I'll talk to you later bro, I need to get going."

Clawd nodded before high fiving the other and they both went their separate ways.

With a deep sigh Romulus looked to his phone once again, seeing a few missed messages but not from the one person he was kind of hoping would send one… even if she hated him. The gray male closed his eyes for a moment as he continued to walk home, wanting to get his mind of things. After a few moments he dialed a number, waited for the other end to pick up.

"Hey… Something came up all of a sudden with my folks, I'm not going to come over tonight. But I will see you tomorrow at school for sure…"

r/r please! Thanks, sorry for the long delay