Part 11:

Tom was so angry with Jenny, but even more so with Julian for coming into her life and taking her away from him. Jenny belonged to him, she was his and that was how it was always supposed to be. She wasn't supposed to go to Julian… after the kiss they had shared…

She had lied to him.

He could still remember the accursed conversation well.

His phone had rang, and he had picked it up. "Tommy?" He knew something was wrong by the way that she said his name. Softly, almost as if she were afraid of what she had to say.

"Yeah Thorny?" He tried lightening her mood by calling her the nickname.

Silence followed for a moment.. "I… hmm…" She sounded so lost and confused.

"Come on Thorny, you can tell me anything. You know that." Of course… he hadn't expected what came next.

"I think that we should— I don't think we— Tom…" She paused, then he heard her take a deep breath. "It's over."

"It… it's what?" Disbelief had traced through his voice. "Jenny… what's over."

"Me… you… Us." Her voice was getting stronger now, her conviction growing.

"Jenny, you can't mean it. You can't do this to me. You're mine." He practically growled into the receiver.

Something about the way that he said that prickled Jenny the wrong way. She answered him curtly. "No Tom, I am not! I don't think that I ever was." She hung up the phone just as Tom threw his against the wall, shattering it.

Julian was so happy. There was no way that this could go wrong now! Jenny had broken it off with Tommyboy and happily pegged herself as his. She had told everyone in their group, then spent the whole day with him on Sunday. At school on Monday, the strange looks they had received were met with her proudly lifting her chin and gripping his arm.

Tom hadn't showed up…

Now Julian sat on his bed, having just come in from school. Jenny was going to call later… He laid on his stomach, petting the Shadow wolfs head. Tom hadn't killed him this time, so he was still alive. Julian was extremely happy when he had discovered this. The Shadow Wolf was his friend and companion.

There is no way that this can go wrong now… I'll get to stay with Jenny. After this day, there was only two more days left until it was permanent. There was no way that it could go wrong.

Of course… whenever anyone says something like that… they are proven terribly wrong.

Tommy knew why Jenny had left him, and he fully planned on killing Julian. He just had to find him first. Using his so called 'charm and good looks' (or for all of the Tom haters: Utter annoyance and inflated ego, topped with arrogance) he found out where Julian was staying from one of the councilors at school. He now stood at his apartment door, which was slightly cracked open. He peeked in.

There was Julian with a… wolf. Yes, it was a wolf that sat beside Julian, lolling it's tongue as if it were only a large dog.

Tom was remembering a nightmare he had… one that had really happened. He was remembering something that he wasn't supposed to remember. It had all started with one game that was never meant to happen, and turned out exactly how it did… Julian was a shadowman!

Julian knew before he hit the stairs that someone had been looking into his room. It was careless for him to have left his door open!

The real question was who had been staring? He went to the door and looked, finding nothing more than a small boy peeking in.

"Were you looking in on me and my friend?" Julian's voice was cool.

"Yes." The boy answered in a rather small voice.

"Well… did you see anything of interest?" Amusement dripped into Julian's voice.

"Only the doggie." The boy gestured to the Wolf who now stood behind Julian at the door.

Julian gave a small nod. "Why don't you run along now back to your mother?"

"Okay." The small boy spun and ran, as if he were grateful for getting off this easy.

Julian gave a sigh and went back into the room, closing the door tightly behind him. If only he had known who had really been looking in… things would not have turned out like they did.