Riana's friendship with Wolfe grew rapidly throughout the weeks, they've been spending with each other, and her father dropped her punishment but told her that she must come home earlier. Riana didn't mind, all she cared about was the fact that she made a friend, whether or not it was human or animal she made a friend.
Riana has seen less of Jacob lately, after the English homework, she hasn't seen him, only passing by in the corridors, but she couldn't help feeling watched everywhere she went. Like someone was lurking in the background.
It was in the beginning of 2nd period.
Riana was walking over to her desk but stopped when I saw 3 pair of feet standing in front of her. When she looked up, Riana saw it was none other than Amy, Olivia and Leslie.
"Hey Riana, where's your friends? Oh wait you don't have any." Amy sneered, causing Leslie, Olivia and a few others students in the room to laugh. "Those boys must realised what a complete loser you are." she finished, smiling triumphantly. Riana sighed inwardly and tried to walk around them but Olivia blocked her way.
"Oh, don't go so fast, I have a little warning for you...stay away from Jacob. He's mine."
"But wait, I thought he was mine," Leslie said, looking confused.
"No, you'll get him after me Leslie," Olivia mumbled harshly.
"Why do you get him first?" Leslie asked.
"Because I saw him first!" Olivia snapped. Amy rolled her eyes at them both arguing and tried to break them up.
As they were preoccupied with their argument Riana tried to walk around them to get to her desk. Unluckily, Riana felt someone grab her hoodie and yank her back so fast that she fell to the ground.
"I'm not finished!" Leslie yelled, "If we catch you with him again, you will regret it."
"Miss Stone," Mr. Stanley said. Riana groaned from the after pain of falling on the ground.
"But sirrr-"
"No. There was no need for pushing Riana, now help her up and apologise." He ordered, sneaking a wink at Riana. It's a good job that Riana was friends with nearly all the teachers or she wouldn't be able to survive in this school.
"Sorry Mr. Stanley," Leslie said, and then she leaned down, sticking her manicured fingers in front of Riana's hand. "Here." She offered sweetly.
Pfft, whatever.
"Come on, take it," she said.
Riana put one hand on the ground so she could get up, without her help. When she got up onto her legs, she looked up and saw the scowl on her face. She recovered though and slapped on the sweet look.
"I'm sorry for pushing you Riana." she said and stepped toward and pulling her into a hug, making Riana tense in her arms as she did the last thing I would have ever expected.
She felt her turn to her ear did something that was a little more obvious.
"Watch out after school freak," she whispered in her ear, "Amy isn't too happy about what happened between her boyfriend and Jacob."
Then she shoved Riana away with a disgusted look on her face. She started brushing her clothes and arms off like she was going to catch "germs" or something.
Riana rolled her eyes before turning around and starting walking to her seat but as she was, a face caught her eye and she looked and it was a guy staring at her, unfamiliar his brown eyes showed pity but Riana quickly looked down and sat down in her seat.
She had the urge to look back at the guy at the back of the room.
"Class as you may have seen, this is Tyler Redwood. He is new in our school, so please welcome him." Mr. Stanley told the class. Everyone murmured a 'hello' to him, whilst Olivia and Leslie waved at him seductively. Riana turned and looked at him, he was already staring at her and he gave her a smile, which made Riana turn and hide her face as she felt a blush coming.
It was lunch and Riana was sat down in the library by herself, eating her sandwich and reading her book, in the seating area. It was quiet and peaceful in the library, just how she liked it. It was her only comfort from all the bullying and everything.
"That's a good book."
Riana jumped at the sound of the sudden voice, she looked up and up, and up.
A guy was standing in front of her; he looked easily around 6"3 and a little bulky. He was wearing a light brown sweater over his muscles and light blue baggy jeans low on his hips, showing off his long legs.
Riana looked at his face and even his features looked strong although his face had some teenage boy qualities that, if looked closely enough, would give away his real age.
It was Tyler.
"W-What?" She managed to say nervously, after looking him over.
He let out a laugh before repeating. "I said that's a good book. Wuthering Heights." She nodded.
"You've read it?" He nodded, before sitting down next to her.
"Yeah but don't worry, I won't spoil it for you." He said, playfully winking at her. Riana looked down, not sure of what to do.
"Sorry, I'm not really good with first impressions. I'm Tyler, I'm new here." He said, giving her a smile.
Riana looked up at him, through her lashes, still thinking why, someone like him would be talking to someone like her. "I'm Riana." She replied, shyly.
He smiled at her shyness.
"Let me guess; are you the school freak or something?" He asked, getting his lunch out of his bag. Riana's eyes widened at what he asked but they'd be no point lying to him, they'll find out sooner or later.
"Yes, which is probably why you shouldn't sit with me or be anywhere near me, or people will make fun of you. You don't want to end up like me." She whispered the last part but he seemed to have heard it as he answered.
"Meh, I don't really care what people think about me. And neither should you." He said, looking at her. Riana looked down at her book, thinking about what he said.
He sighed, knowing he's not really making a good start. "So, what do you do for fun around here?" He asked, before taking a bite out of his sandwich.
"Umm...well I don't really go out. I stay home or just hang around in the forest." She answered. Tyler raised his eyebrow.
"Really? The forest?" She nodded. "Isn't there meant to be, like attacks in there or something?" He said, taking another bite of his sandwich. Again she nodded. "Well, that's cool." He commented.
Riana watched his expression and sighed. "You might as well say it." He glanced at her in confusion for a moment before shaking his head.
"Excuse me."
"I know I'm a freak so you can go ahead and-." He reached out and touched her hand.
"I wasn't going to call you a freak or whatever those people call you…I think it's cool you like being on your own, it's peaceful, Riana really I do." He said, and then he threw his rubbish in the bin before standing up from the chair and turning to Riana. "Now, how about you show me around this place." He said with a smile as she looked at him and smiled.
"Okay.."
"So, today, there was a new person at our school, his name is Tyler. He was so nice to me. He even wants to hang about with me at lunch. I mean really, like-" Riana was babbling on about her day when she looked and saw that Wolfe wasn't even listening to her.
"Hey!" She nudged him. He turned and looked at her, looking annoyed. "What's the matter? Why aren't you listening to me?" She asked but all he did was huff and turned away.
"Have I done something? I haven't done anything but tell you my day about Ty- Oh." It suddenly clicked. "Are you upset about Tyler? Look Wolfe, nothing's happen-" But Wolfe growled at her and stood up, moving away from her.
"What's wrong with you, why are acting like this? I thought you'd be happy for me. I'm getting friends!" She yelled. He looked down, not looking her in the eye. Riana felt a tear come fall down her face.
"I thought be glad..." She whispered, and then she turned her back to him. She wiped the fallen tear then looked up at the sky and saw that the moon was coming out. She looked behind her to see if Wolfe was still there and he was sniffing the air, as usual, then he looked at her, with sorrow and devotion in his eyes.
She rolled her eyes before turning back and staring back up at the moon. She started sing 'Talking to the Moon' by Bruno Mars, she relaxed and let the words just flow. As she was getting to the chorus, she glanced at Wolfe and gasped. There was that devotion in his eyes again, and it seemed to make them glow. She tried to look away, but weren't able to. Riana felt her cheeks burn, and turned back, hiding them then she closed her eyes.
Riana felt something heavy in her lap, and saw it was Wolfe. He begged, with his brown eyes big and innocent looking.
"What?" She asked and he wagged his tail, as if saying 'forgive me?' Riana cocked an eyebrow, before letting a sigh out, giving in to his look.
"Oh, you know I can't stay mad at you and neither can you." Riana said, making him bark in response. Riana smiled at him before patting his head.
"Oh wolfe," She said, wrapping her arms around him, rubbing her face into his fur. "If only you were human..." She whispered into his fur.
He sighed, before turning into her head, smelling her hair, then licked her cheek once and closed his eyes.
If you only knew Riana...
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