I saw Kayla outside her Gym Class, so I ran to her side. "We need to talk." Was all I said, Kayla nodded and we walked over to her house.

"Sammy won't be home until 6, so what do we need to talk about?"

"You know what. But, I just don't want to do this, I want to go to school." I said unhappily, slumping down into her couch. Kayla sat down next to me.

"We can still go to school, we just need to be more careful." Kayla said.

"Really, what about the off chance that I have swimming one day and something in Chemistry class the next? What if I get my necklace taken away until the end of class? I'm sure that the changes will come even faster the longer we are like this." I ranted until I couldn't talk anymore. I took the blue heart in my hand. I didn't realize that I was tensing up until Kayla rubbed my arm in encouragement.

"Everything will get better, I'm sure of it." Kayla stopped before continuing, "I wouldn't mind just staying a wolf though."

My eyes widened in surprise, "What?" I exclaimed. Kayla shrugged.

"My 'parents' hate me, my teachers hate me, and I hate people at school; especially Danny." Her eyes narrowed. I sighed.

"Why do you hate him so much? He never did anything to you since I knew you." I asked.

"Well, um, I used to like him in eighth grade, but he asked out another girl while I was going to tell him how I felt about him." Kayla admitted hesitantly.

"Why didn't you tell me about that when it happened?"

She looked at me with those bright scarlet eyes, "Because I didn't know how you would feel about it."

"Well, he obviously didn't know that you would be going to talk to him about that, but you shouldn't have been there while that happened." I murmured.

"Are you defending him?" Kayla sounded offended.

"I don't know, I still like him a lot, and he didn't do that directly in front of you. So he doesn't know he did anything wrong." I looked away from her burning gaze.

"Oh, so it still makes it okay that he hurt your best friend, or sister now?" She asked severely.

I snapped back into attention while looking back at her. Fire and Ice in the rage of battle. "No!" I shouted, but then I added quietly, "It's not."

Kayla looked away from my gaze then, her attention on the clock. I looked, it said 5:54. We got back at fiveish because we walked slowly without talking back to her house.

"Uh, don't we have to pick up your sister at her friends house at six?" I asked, changing the subject.

"Crap! Her friend's house is about fifteen minutes away walking." Her voice gave way to

her irritation.

"Is her house right on the woods?" I asked quietly while looking at her in the eye.

"Um, yeah, why?" She said, having no clue on what I implied. Then her eyes widened.

"Do you know what I mean?"

"Yeah, but where would we change back?" Kayla asked.

"God, don't you know how to use common sense? In the woods, duh!" I exclaimed. I half-smiled at her logic.

I shook my head and grabbed Kayla's wrist before running out the door and across the street and into the woods.

"Now, how do we change, do we just take off the necklace and wait it out or do we just think of our wolf forms?" Kayla asked.

"How should I know, why don't we try just thinking of our wolf forms first?" I suggested.
"That could work." Kayla's face scrunched up in concentration, but then in a blink of an eye, she was in her giant wolf form. Her fur was glowing with the weak sunlight that shined through the trees. Was it just me or was she taking the extra mile to make herself look good.

I snorted, she was so conceited sometimes. I concentrated and soon I was in my new furry form as well.

'Now, where is her house?' I asked her mentally. God, this will be so annoying, her reading my thoughts.

'I heard that.' I could hear a smile in her voice.

'Whatever, let's just go and get Sammy.' I muttered, Kayla took off. I struggled to keep up at first, but then it was like, natural to run like this. I pushed myself to run even faster. I was the oldest, so i would think I would be more powerful.

'You would think.'

I growled, and made myself run even faster in the direction we were going, but then Kayla stopped suddenly.

'You had a head start. I didn't' I reminded her. Her laugh echoed in my head. She changed back and I followed. "What sucks is that we can't run the way back."

"Yeah, but the good part is that we got here in plenty of time." Kayla was looking at her phone. From here I could see that it said 6:00. I sighed in relief and walked towards where Sammy was.

"Where exactly does her friend live?" I asked. Kayla walked ahead of me and across the street to a modest looking house. She ran up to the door and knocked.

"Hello?" A woman with brown hair and brown eyes answered the door.

'Um, yeah. We are here to pick up Sammy." Kayla stuttered. The woman nodded and walked back inside.

She came back with a little girl with blond hair and blue eyes. You could tell that Sammy couldn't live here if she wanted, the difference was startling.

"Okay Sammy, now you come back sometime. Be good." She told Sammy, before she went back inside she stole another curious look at Kayla and I before going back inside.

"Did you guys do something to your hair and eyes?" Sammy asked, curious. I sighed, we can't risk talking about anything while Sammy could hear us.

"Yeah, we just got hair dye and contacts." Kayla rushed out.

"Oh, well it looks cool." She shrugged her small shoulders and walked on down the street. I sighed, Kayla and I can't say anything around her."

"Kayla, we can't talk about anything while there are little ears around." I hissed to my side. Kayla looked at me with wide eyes.

"No duh, do you think I'm crazy?" She hissed back. Then Sammy stopped and turned to give us a big smile.

"What are you two talking about?" Sammy said. I heard Kayla growl faintly by me.

"Nothing-"

"None of your business!" Kayla shouted.

"You didn't need to be mean." Sammy whispered. I sighed and walked to Sammy's side.

"You just can't eavesdrop on people if they are talking about something." I said quietly. I saw Sammy look like she is about to cry.

"Kayla didn't need to be mean though." She repeated.

"Oh, Shut up. Alex, look she's faking it." Kayla said angrily. I looked into Sammy's wide blue eyes and saw a glimmer of mischievous there. I huffed and walked back to Kayla.

Sammy just kept walking until we were at their house. She walked in and we followed. But we just decided to sit there on the couch.

Kayla just sat there thinking. I poked her; nothing. "Kayla, what's the matter?" I didn't hear a reply, so I just left the question hanging.

"I'm debating on leaving to go and live with the tribe after mom and dad get back." She said at last.

I just sat there staring at her, she wouldn't do that. Right?

"But why?"

"Everyone hates me, why else?"

"I don't hate you." I looked at her with my nearly glowing ice-blue eyes.

"Yeah, but I meant everyone else." Kayla reiterated. Her eyes seemed darker with sorrow and they seemed to go on forever.

Kayla got up and walked to her door to her room. "I need to think. I'll tell you my decision tomorrow." And with that she disappeared into her room without another word.

I got up and walked out the house. I didn't know what to expect, I just hoped that it wouldn't be the worst decision that she made in her life. I just continued on home thinking on what it would be.

"Hey Alex, what are you doing home?" Kenny said as he walked into the living room. I just passed him and walked to the stairs.

"Oh, I needed to do homework, and you know how Kayla is." I smiled. He laughed and started to walk out of the room.

"Oh, mom and dad will be home tomorrow." He said.

I nodded and walked into my room. I sat down on my bed and started my homework, but then the phone rang.

Cliffy!