I hop from foot to foot in the parking lot waiting for Evan. Where is he? It has been almost twenty minutes since he said he would pick me up from school. I continually check my phone for any sign of him.

That's when it struck me that he could have very easily shifted. We had talked about the fact that either of us could shift at any given moment but it had never truly set in. A small tear escapes my eye as he pulls up. I wipe it away quickly and get inside.

"Clare I am so sorry. Hey, are you okay?" he asks as I buckle my seat belt.

He places his hand on my knee but I continue looking straight ahead. "I thought you shifted." My voice shakes as I speak.

Evan removes his hand and puts it on the steering wheel pulling out of the lot. "I had to do a favor for a friend."

I look at him quizzically behind my hair. "So what you just forgot about me, your girlfriend?"

"Of course I didn't! I just had to help someone with something."
"And you just got carried away?"

"Yes. Look Kelsey just needed some help with-"

I cut him off not wanting to hear anything else. "Whoa whoa whoa you were with Kelsey?"

"Clare, it wasn't like that." He looks over at me and tried to grab my hand but I moved it away.

"So then what was it like?" I stare at him trying to shoot both metaphorical and literal daggers with my eyes.

Evan sighs before speaking. "Look she just needed some help moving some stuff from her car into the school. Like some stuff for Winter Formal or something. It was no big deal." Evan runs his hand through his hair and in that moment I instantly forgive him. But then he continues. "She kissed me first." At first I don't think I hear him right and I am about to ask him what he said when the full weight of what happened hits me.

"You kissed her!" I shout. My insides feel like they are trying to crawl their way out and I feel like I'm going to be sick.

"I turned my head I swear. She caught my cheek instead. Believe me, Clare, please."

For a moment the both of us are in complete silence. I unclick the seat belt and grab the door handle. "Let me out."

"What?" he looks over at me as if I'm the crazy one, as if I'm the traitor.

"Evan, stop the car." Saying his name hurts.

"Don't do this, Clare." Evan pleads but he pulls the car over anyway. I throw myself out of the car finally being able to breath now that I am away from him. "Please, Clare, just stay. I can explain."

I look back at him and for a mere second I think about climbing back into his arms. I think about kissing him until the thought of him and Kelsey becomes a joke and I think about creating my own little world of two with him. But only for a second. I slam the car door shut. And begin running as fast as I can away from him. I run into the woods toward the setting sun.

For once I don't care that it's probably below 30 degrees outside. For once I don't care that these woods are very unfamiliar and that I know that I am lost and alone in the dark. Instead I keep on running until finally everything starts to begin looking more like home. I slow down to a jog and feel the cold tearing at my skin. And for once I don't care that I will become a wolf.