3: shock
"What do you mean? My sister's best friend was a wolf. She loves them! She's not a Surge!" Taylor almost yelled at Ally. No, she wouldn't believe her!
"Was?" Ally asked. She sounded...weird, like she knew the answer.
"Yeah, uh, Josh died about 11 years ago. K was heartbroken."
"How did he die?" she asked stubbornly.
"Someone broke into his house," she said quietly, "he was attacked," Tay finished almost painfully. Josh was her friend too.
"By what?" Ally was trying to pry answers out of her now.
"Don't you mean by who?" Taylor asked, angry now.
"No. I mean what."
"A burglar! Who else would have done something like that? He was stabbed. Whoever did it stabbed him almost 10 times," she said meekly, tears falling down her cheeks.
"It sounds a little more personal than just another burglary. You seriously never thought about the fact that he was a werewolf? You never thought about the fact that a wolf can break a human in half like a tooth pick?"
"Whoever did it obviously snuck up on him!," Taylor hissed, balling up her fists so hard her knuckles were probably turning white. Then something hit her, "Wait. You think," she shook her head, "you think Kadi did that? To her best friend? Why would she suddenly decide to go Surge after like, 15 years of friendship?" she asked.
"Tell me this then," Ally asked, looking over to where the boys used to be, I guess we took longer than we'd planned, she thought to herself. They've already left for football, "you said it was personal, and he was caught off guard. Who was closest to him who could possibly sneak up on a werewolf? Our senses are almost as powerful as your's as you may have forgotten. And I'm betting there was no sign of a struggle," she crossed her arms.
"No," she said slowly, "there wasn't."
Then, suddenly her head whipped around to a nearby student, who obviously was trying to listen in on the conversation between the crying new girl and the angry looking popular girl, "We can continue this tomorrow," she said suddenly, "oh, and before we interrupted you and Conner, he was going to say that your schedule is an exact copy of his."
Taylor raised her eyebrows in disbelief and, shockingly enough, happiness at her statement. Then she quickly composed herself and asked, "Where do you want to meet tomorrow?"
"We'll just talk at lunch, it doesn't have to be hostile like this conversation," she said, untensing her body and laughing. Then, suddenly the first bell rang, "Your first class is right there," she pointed to a class with a plaque next to it reading: Science Lab 4, "Conner's right there and of course he's in all of your classes so he should be able to take you from class to class and he can show you around," she said as a red faced Conner ran over to us.
"Hey girls," he said smiling, looking into her eyes.
"Hey Conner, how was football?" Tay laughed, "You look beat and it's only 7:30."
"Eh, I'm good," He laughed slightly as he rubbed the sweat from his forehead.
"So, how long do we have to get to class here?" she asked, wanting to talk to Conner.
"Uh, we have about 5 minutes, and the sprint bell rings after like 3 and a half," Conner answered, smiling a thousand watt smile.
"Um, I'm gunna go to PE, bye guys," Ally said, waving at us when all her and Conner did was look at each other.
"Bye, Al," Conner said as she waved and said goodbye also.
"So, um," Conner said as Ally left, "you want to go somewhere after school with me? I know you've only been here for a little while but I really like you, Taylor," he smiled, "a lot."
Taylor smiled, "I like you too Conner," she said, "and, um, I'm doing something right after school but maybe at like, 4?" she asked.
"Sounds great," he smiled as the sprint bell rang.
