The placement tests were actually way more difficult than Scarlett had expected. It hadn't occurred to her that her grandma teaching her would leave her at the same level as everyone else. But, much to her relief, she did well enough to make it into her current grade, but just barely.

"Scarlett!" Audrey came rushing towards her new roommate, dressed, as usual, in pinks and blues. A cute little dress that flounced when she walked.

"Hey." Scarlett stopped, she was back in her outfit from the day before, but this time it was clean.

"Ben says you need clothes."

"He's not wrong." Scarlett nodded.

"He gave us permission to go into town to shop!"

"Audrey... As fun as that sound, I don't have any money."

"Of course, Ben took care of that." Scarlett vaguely recalled him telling Fairy Godmother to do something about it the night before.

"I'm not some charity case-"

"No, you're not." Audrey agreed, "But you can't wear the same clothes every day." She pointed out.

"Right..." Scarlett sighed. "Alright, when?"

"Now." Audrey grabbed the girl's hand, dragging her off.

"There was a great township not too far from the school with shops and restaurants, all kind of nice things. Audrey led the way, chatting the whole time about the school and what Scarlett needed to know.

"The children of the Seven Dwarves aren't bad, just... They always tend to be cheerful, except Grumpy's kids, obviously."

"Obviously." Scarlett nodded, walking behind the Princess.

"Then you have my friends, Lonnie, Chad and sometimes Ben and his Villain Kids."

"Chad mentioned them last night-."

"Last night?"

"He walked in on me stuffing my face."

"Ah, well, the Villain Kids are just that, the kids of villains. Mal, Evie, Carlos and... Jay." Audrey smiled softly.

"Jay?"

"Typical bad boy, but so hot."

"Be careful of bad boys, my mom got mixed up with one and here I am."

"I would never allow that to happen. No, I just let Jay endlessly pursue me, hoping one day he'll earn my favor."

"But he never will?"

"Scarlett, I'm a princess. I have to marry a prince. Jay is fun but... He's no prince."

"Isn't that law like, super outdated?" Scarlett asked.

"My grandma is a firm believer in that outdated law." Finally the town came into view and Audrey headed towards one of her favorite stores. "So what is your typical style?"

"Basically, this." Scarlett gestured to her outfit. Audrey actually cringed.

"That won't do."

"Audrey, I'm really not a girly girl. I don't do dressed or skirts or anything like that."

"I can tell. I'm not going to try and make you dress up, but you do nee to wear something nicer to school. No one really wears jeans around there. They're just so rough.. And rough looking." Audrey made another face. "We'll find you something, something that isn't a dress." She promised, heading for her favorite store.

Scarlett followed after her new friend, glancing over her shoulders a couple of times, her shoulders were tense, as if she was looking for someone, expecting someone to jump out of the shadows.

"This is the perfect store, we'll find something for you." Audrey predicted.

"If you say so..."

Almost an hour later, Audrey was still picking out outfits for Scarlett to try on. Scarlett had given up and was just sitting in the dressing room, waiting for Audrey to come back with another pile of clothes. There had only been a few arguments, things that Audrey thought Scarlett had to buy and Scarlett wanted nothing to do with them, but she was thinking about buying a couple, just because Audrey did have good taste and knew better than Scarlett what was considered 'in fashion'.

"Audrey, do you have more clothes? I'm kind of tired of sitting here." Scarlett stuck her head out of the dressing room and sighed, the girl wasn't there Scarlett closed the curtain and reached for her pants, she could only take so much before she lost her mine. She had never been a big shopper. She stopped when she heard someone walking up the little hallway filled with dressing cubicles.

"Audrey?" She called out, holding her pants in her hand. She didn't get a response, so she started to step into the pants, freezing as she realized it definitely wasn't Audrey in the hall, and it definitely wasn't a girl. She quickly wriggled into her pants, grabbing her hoodie, forgoing a shirt, but before she could get it zipped, a folded up note slipped under the curtain into the cubicle. She could hear the person's footsteps as they left. She pressed against the back of the dressing room, staring at the note. She quickly grabbed it as she heard Audrey coming up and shoved it into the pocket of her hoodie.

"Let's go." Scarlett said stiffly as soon as the curtain opened. "This is more than enough." She nodded at the pile of clothes.

"It's really not-"

"It'll do for now, we can come back later if we have to. I'm just... I'm sick of this. I'm not a good shopper." She rambled.

"Alright..." Audrey trailed off. "Do you at least feel like getting ice cream still?" Scarlett took a deep breath, looking for any sign of the person who left her the note. When she felt fairly confident they were gone, she nodded.

"Y-yeah, let's get ice cream." She confirmed.

"Great! I'll take these to the register and then we'll indulge."


That night, while Audrey was in the shower, Scarlett finally got up enough nerve to reach into the hoodie pocket and pulled out the little note. She slowly unfolded it, her hands shaking as she smoothed out the paper, obviously torn from a notebook, it still had the little tabs on the side.

You thought you could hide from me, Little Wolf?

It wasn't signed, it didn't need to be. She jumped up, balling it up. She walked over to Audrey's side of the room, digging up a pack of matches and she set the piece of paper on fire, her face stark white.

She watched the note burn, closing her eyes as she heard the unmistakable sound of a wolf howling in the distance.


Alright, sorry this took like, forever to put up. Basically the W,E,R and Y keys on my old computer stopped working so I had to buy a new computer because... Well... It's impossible to not use those keys. Anyway, I have a pretty new laptop and I will hopefully be doing a lot more writing, since it has all it's keys in proper working order.

Anyway, Here is chapter three. Reviews would be awesome, so would Favorites and Follows. Chapter four should be coming soon.

Quixotic.