Scarlett managed to tough her way through the rest of her classes, the only issue came when she realized someone had put her in chemistry. She didn't know who had come up with that joke, but she wasn't laughing. It wasn't even a little funny. There was just too much math involved and she wasn't good at that at all. Grandmother's idea of Chemistry was teaching her to bake. Scarlett could do that, she was actually pretty good at that, not as good as Grandmother had been, but no one was as good as Grandmother. She had the magic touch.
But not actual magic of course, that wasn't allowed.
Despite that, the day had actually been pretty good. Scarlett had decided to go for a walk after classes, get use to her new surroundings. She slowed as she heard the barking.
"Dude!" came a cry from somewhere behind the dog. Scarlett turned to see a small mutt running at her, the white haired boy from the cafeteria running after it. Before the boy could get too close, Scarlett growled at the dog, stopping him in his tracks with a whine.
"Hey." The boy slowed to a stop and and picked up the still whimpering dog. "Sorry, are you okay?"
"I'm fine." Scarlett answered, her eyes trailing past the boy to the group running up behind him, it was a fairly large group, including King Ben. "Dogs don't tend to like me… at all. The dog on the farm was worse than this."
"Weird." The boy replied. "I thought Dude liked everyone."
"Scarlett, this is Carlos." Ben introduced. "And Evie, Doug, Jay and Mal."
"Ahh." Scarlett nodded slowly, taking a good look at all of them, especially Jay. "I've heard a lot of vague things about you all."
"From who?" Evie asked, a little defensive.
"Does it matter?" Scarlett shrugged.
"It was Chad, wasn't it?" Mal accused.
"He was one of them, sure." Scarlett confirmed.
"Look, Scarlett, I want to let you know, because he did it to me, Chad uses people, girls. He gets them to do his work."
"His work? Like… Chores?"
"School work." Evie specified. She seemed like she was actually trying to help, worried about her. Scarlett sighed.
"Evie, if Chad is after me for my brains, he's barking up the wrong tree. I'm no genius, I'll be doing good to get my own homework done." She shook her head. "And if it does turn out he's using me, then I'll take care of him like we do in the country."
"How's that?" Jay asked.
"Well, normally my daddy would go after him with a shotgun, but seeing as that's not possible, I'll have to take care of it myself." She shrugged.
"Just… be careful." Evie warned.
"Got it." Dude started to growl again, still in Carlos's arms. Scarlett stared the dog down, quirking an eyebrow and the dog settled, whimpering.
"I really don't know what's gotten into him." Carlos insisted.
"It's fne, really." Scarlett held up her hands. She glanced up towards the tree line, freezing when she saw it, a quick flash of black fur, she was sure that was what she was seeing.
"I have to go." She declared.
"What?" Ben look over his shoulder in the direction she was staring, he saw nothing so he looked back. "Are you okay?"
"I'm great, peachy keen I just… I have to go." She started walking backward, afraid to turn away from the woods until she had moved a good two hundred feet, then kept walking, not running. She didn't want it to turn into a predator and prey moment.
"That was weird to you guys too… right?" Mal asked.
As soon as Scarlett was safely in the school, she ran to her dorm. Audrey was sitting on her bed, writing in a pink journal, but she stopped when she saw Scarlett.
"Are you okay?" She asked, standing up, her friend was stark white, her chest heaving as she fought to catch her breath.
"Are wolves common around here?"
"What?"
"Wolves, are they common, like are there any in the woods around here?"
"No, of course not."
"What animals normally are?"
"Birds, squirrels, probably foxes, I'm not sure. They don't let dangerous creatures in the woods though, not when they're so close to the school. Any dangerous creatures like that are relocated when they're seen."
"How often do they check?"
"When they're called, why, did you see something?"
"Maybe?" Scarlett admitted. "I don't know." The more she thought about it, she realized it could have been something else, maybe a bush in a bad light, maybe it had been a dark colored squirrel jumping from branch to branch, she started to relax a little as she realized she was probably wrong.
"I mean, if you tell Ben, he can have the woods inspected, just in case."
"I might… He did just see me spaz out after all." That would help at least, to confirm that there was nothing out there. "I also met your Jay."
"He's not my Jay."
"He's totally your Jay. He's cute. I can see what you like about him." Scarlett walked to the window, looking out, she didn't see anything to worry about so she sat in the window seat with her back to the woods.
"He is pretty cute, and still not my Jay."
"Suuuure Audrey."
"Anyway, you should definitely tell Ben about what you saw." Audrey changed the subject. "If there is a wolf out there, it needs to be dealt with before it hurts someone. Wolves are dangerous."
"You don't have to tell me." Scarlett muttered, resolving to bring it up to Ben the next day.
I planned out... most of this story. I'm at like... chapter twenty five or something and it's not done so... it's going to be a pretty long story. Which I think is cool at least. Reviews are awesome. Favorites are Awesome and Follows are awesome. And honestly they make my day so if you have a few extra seconds just toss one more more of those my way, thanks!
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