While listening to Britney Spears, Anna reflected on her previous relationships. She had no idea what she was even thinking when she dated them! All her dates ended with the guys ignoring her, or treating her like shit. All of the ghouls seemed to have boyfriends that adored them. Even Cleo had a boyfriend who idolized and catered to her! Anna couldn't stand Cleo, while Anna admired her fashion sense, she thought Cleo was a selfish, conceited, awful person. She was even warned about Cleo's snottiness and demanding demeanor on her second week of school! And she was warned by Cleo's own friends! Cleo always was ignoring Anna like a bloody snob. Deuce seemed like such a sweet guy, why was he even with her? It seemed everybody in Abbey's friend group dating somebody, (well, except for Clawdeen). Anna began to feel a lump in her throat thinking about all of this. She tilted her head back and tried to focus on something else.

Clawdeen laid down on her creaky, metal bed. She was instant messaging Lagoona. Lagoona had just sent her a few paragraphs explaining what happened when she talked to Heath about Anna.

Clawdeen reflected for a few moment on what Lagoona had explained to her. She typed out with her long fingernails, "And how did Heath handle this news?"

"He pretended to be all concerned , but I don't think he actually cared," Lagoona's responding message read.

Clawdeen was herself beginning to think that they were overreacting about this. Lots of normie teenagers did the same stuff, right? Plus, she noticed that Abbey and Anna seemed happy and even closer friends than before. She was about to reply to Lagoona that she thought they were overreacting about this entire situation, but she stopped herself. Normally Lagoona wasn't the stubborn type, but when it came to her friends she was very defensive. Lagoona felt that this situation was dire and a danger to Abbey, and there was no point trying to convince her otherwise about this. Clawdeen just messaged Lagoona saying that she was going to bed, and she pretended to log out of Frightbook. Clawd and her younger brother were downstairs growling at each other and it sounded as if a fight was going to start.

Soon a physical altercation began between her two siblings. Clawdeen was about to go down and watch, but then she smelled a familiar scent of a certain werewolf walking up the stairs. He tapped on her bedroom door three times. Clawdeen could smell that it was Romulus. He'd been a family friend for years, but recently the two of them had been talking a lot more lately. She'd discovered a more warm, humorous side to him in the past few months, she had to admit it was fun discovering this other side to him. She got up and invited him in, hoping they could talk for a bit.

"So, what are they fighting over this time?" Clawdeen asked him.

Romulus scratched the back of neck and chuckled, "Oh, Clawd lost his basketball and he thinks your brother chewed it up. They got in this stupid fight about it."

The two of them laughed together.

"Oh, so ya went up here to escape from it all huh?" Clawdeen asked him. He snickered in response and nodded his head.

The two of them spent some time just talking together. They were both laughing nearly the entire time. It was normally hard to make either of them laugh, but the two of them seemed to know how to crack the other one up. Clawd barged in.

"Yo Rom, I found another basketball buried in the backyard," Clawd said.

Romulus got up from the bed. "I guess I'll see you later," he told Clawdeen with a smile. The two werewolf boys left to go play basketball.

She thought of all the funny stuff Romulus said earlier, and smiled. She hoped that he would stay for dinner. She looked into the mirror and realized that her makeup looked like crap, she opened her makeup drawer and touched it up.

"Wait Clawdeen, are you gettin a crush?" the werewolf thought to herself and she reapplied her eyeliner.

"Nah, no way. He's a FRIEND. You're just getting ready for dinner. Besides, he ain't my type, way too serious for me... Well actually, he is pretty funny, and tall and cute-NO, no, he's just a friend! Well, he's my brothers friend actually. You can't date your brothers friend! BUT WAIT, Clawd's with Draculaura. Ooh, that'd be funny if I started dating Rom. It'd be like revenge! AAAHH, stop thinking about this!" she thought in response to her own question.

Her mom called for dinner. She went down and looked at the large table filled with werewolves, but Romulus wasn't there. He must've already left.

"You're not bummed out that he left, are you?" Clawdeen thought to herself. She pulled out a chair and sat down.

Howleen shot her a puzzled look from across the table. "Why are you all dolled up?"

Clawdeen rolled her eyes and ignored her. They continued eating dinner, and Clawdeen hoped that she would see Romulus at school tomorrow.