Seth's POV
He expected a strange reaction, but not like that. As he watched the love of his life walk out the door he felt something that he had never experienced before, he wanted to die.
It wasn't just a, 'I failed a really important math test and now I'm going to flunk the class' or a 'I just got embarrassed in front of my classmates by farting' kind of wanting to kill himself. It was real. He knew that he would never be happy again until he had her with him, forever.
Kori's POV
Kori didn't know whether to laugh or cry. What a cruel, mean, joke to play on her. After all that she had been through lately, was it enough just to leave her alone? And what was with the werewolf line, that was just a legend. Werewolves don't exist! That was stupid. If he was going to play a practical joke, he should at least make it realistic!
As Kori walked home she thought of the events of the night. It was surprising that he would even think of something that stupid. She thought that he was smarter than that. How would ANYONE think of something like that?!? It was a tribe secret, so it wasn't like it would be that widespread. When she walked up her driveway she thought that she saw a large dog run by the nearby wood, but when she looked again it was gone.
When Kori walked through the door Lance cornered her.
"Home so soon?" he asked.
"Yes." Kori told him irritated.
"Good." Lance sighed; he obviously didn't want to tell her what he was going to say. "That Seth guy's bad news."
"Okay."
"The guy he 'hangs' with, Sam Uley? He's bad news to. We were in the same class at school; he would miss all the time, skip classes, and a bunch of other crap like that. And I'm pretty sure that his pack of followers does the same thing. I'm not trying to be mean, but I don't want you to get involved with someone who isn't good."
"Okay."
"No fight? Wow. What happened?"
Kori sighed. "He told me that he loved me." She decided to leave out his joke about him being a werewolf; it was just a little too stupid, even to tell Lance.
"Do you want me to go kick his ass?" Lance asked her in all seriousness, he had always been very protective of her, but this was taking it just a little bit too far.
"No, that's okay, I'm just going to go take a shower."
Kori showered and got her phone out to call Lola. She answered after the first ring.
"KOOOOOOORI?" Lola shouted over the phone, she must have been out at a party.
"Yeah, hey. Where are you?"
"I'MMMM AT… HEY!!!! STOP THAT…" Lola giggled for a minute. "AT RICKS HOUSE. HE'S HAVING A PAAAARTAY!" she started to giggle again; she had obviously had a few drinks. "YOU SHOULD TOT-ALLY COME OVER! DANIEL'S HERE!"
That was exactly the reason she needed to not go to the party. "No thanks, I'm super tired." After a few pleadings from Lola and a few more excuses that Lola didn't want to accept Kori was finally able to put down the phone.
Since she had nothing to do Kori decided to work on some homework when she heard a tapping on her window. She looked to see if it was the branches of the tree outside of her room rapping against the glass, but it wasn't. She quickly went back to her computer a little shaken. The tapping continued. She went back over to the window with one of her trophies from some sport that she played when she was little. She quickly opened the window hoping that it wasn't some murderer or rapist.
"Took you long enough!" an exasperated voice told her from the tree's branches. Kori gave a little yelp and hurled the trophy towards the voice. It missed. There was a reason she quit playing sports and switched to acting. "Don't worry." The voice told her, "I'm sorry. Please PLEASE talk to me!"
It took Kori a minute to realize who it was. She grabbed another trophy and hurled it towards the voice, this time it hit her target right on the nose, which coincidentally, was not his nose. "SHIT!" the voice yelled as something large fell through the branches and onto the ground.