The next day, Anna and most of the group seemed to be attached at the hips. Though Lagoona didn't loathe Anna like she had before, she was still very wary of her. She hoped that the whole getting drunk was just a one time thing. While she no longer viewed Anna as a despicable, friend-endangering being, it would take some more time to warm up to her. Lagoona was very protective of her mates, and one sleepover wouldn't change that.
Now that Anna was more comfortable around the group, she was beginning to bring out her sense of humor around them. She would occasionally offend a few of them with one of her cheeky remarks, and she was warned a couple of times to watch what she said. She always apologized and tried to be a bit more careful, but after a while, she always managed to slip.
Clawdeen waited by the water fountain that Romulus often stopped at.
"Come on, don't run away this time. He's just Romulus."
She saw him walk down the hallway towards the fountain. She took some deep, subtle breaths.
"Hey Clawdeen," he greeted her.
"Hi," she said, nervously twirling a piece of her hair. She hoped that Romulus didn't notice her blushing like this. Anna could spot her by the water fountain, with her cheeks a shade of deep crimson. Anna remembered Clawdeen was talking at the sleepover about what boys she thought were cute, was this guy one of them?
She figured that Clawdeen would just scream at her if she asked Clawdeen about her crush again. Anna decided to talk to Clawdeen's best friend, Draculaura. She approached Draculaura in the hall, and quietly asked to speak with her privately.
"What's going on?" Draculaura asked Anna.
Anna looked around cautiously to see if anybody they knew was close to them. Anna whispered to Draculaura, "Lala, you see Clawdeen over there talking to that guy?" Anna pointed to the two werewolves talking by the water fountain.
Draculaura looked on over. She gasped excitedly.
"Who is that? It looks like she likes him..." Anna whispered.
"I know! She's blushing like crazy! It's Romulus, Clawd's friend."
"She didn't mention him at the sleepover?"
"She must've talked about other boys on purpose to cover it up. Oh my ghoul, I cant believe she likes him!" Draculaura exclaimed.
"Haha, it's like revenge for you dating her brother," Anna teased.
Draculaura giggled.
"But we've also got to keep it on the down low until we find out more. Remember, we don't know for sure yet," Anna noted, "Lala, don't tell anyone!"
"I won't," Draculaura replied smiling. She then strutted giddily down the hallway. Anna just laughed and headed to her Freakanomics class. Anna secretly was hoping that nothing would come out of this. She didn't want to be the only single girl in the group.
From behind the wall, Spectra Vondergeist had heard everything. She heard everything Dracualaura and Anna had said, except for the part about keeping it on the down low until they knew for sure. By the time Anna had mentioned that, Spectra was already busy typing up the juicy story on her blog, "The Ghostly Gossip".
After school, Abbey met up with Heath next to the gym. She leaned against the scratchy, brick wall, worrying. She had so much going on at the moment, it was far too much for her. She saw her boyfriend approach her, normally her eyes would've lit up upon seeing him, but she was far too stressed out to be excited about anything, even seeing Heath.
"Hey baby, what do you need to talk to me about?" His smile soon formed into a frown once he noticed Abbey's stern expression.
"Heath, science lab want to be studying our unhurt water. They want everyone else to be having it," Abbey told him, grasping both of his warm hands.
"That's amazing Abbey! Why are you so upset about it?" he asked her, confused as to how this could possibly be bad.
"It powerful water. If everybody have it so do bad people. It upset life circle, it lead to too many people in this world. Also people may try to be harming us to retrieve more of the unhurt water," she explained.
Heath let go of her hands, ran his fingers through his fiery red hair and he looked down at the stone ground. "I guess I never thought of it that way."
"Makes this very hard decision," Abbey said, placing her hand on Heath's shoulder.
"Very, very hard. We'll have to think about it," Heath said.
Abbey nodded her head in agreement. There was something else she wanted to tell him about, but she still hadn't acquired the strength to bring herself to do so. She gave Heath the number for the science lab, and she went home with Anna.
Clawdeen was walking out of the school with her mom's car keys in hand. Her mom said that she wouldn't be at home all day for some kind of convention or something. Clawdeen figured that her mom wouldn't find out if she took her car that day. She caught Clawd sneaking out the other day in the middle of the night, so now she officially had something to black mail each of her siblings about, so none of them would snitch on her.
She opened the car door and stepped in. She put her key in the ignition, the engine hissed for a few seconds, and then a few second later the hissing stopped. She put her key in again, and the car turned on for a second, then it turned off. The engine would rev up for a second but then die down. Clawdeen began to panic.
"Oh no, oh no, oh no..." She put the key in again, but the engine simply died down just like before. She was panicked, her mom was gonna kill her.
"ARE YOU FUCKING SERIOUS? FUCK, FUCK, FUCK, FUCK!"
Clawdeen continued to swear very loudly. She furiously got out and scratched the side of the car. She kicked the side of it hard, managing to leave a small dent. Once she saw the damage, she panicked even more. She continued cussing, she was even more angry now that she had damaged the car.
Clawd and Romulus showed up behind her.
"Oooh sis, you're so dead!" Clawd said.
"Shut up!" Clawdeen hissed back. She then took out her cell phone, and called up a repairman.
Clawd walked off, shaking his head and chuckling at his sister's stupidity. Romulus stayed next to the ruined car.
"Want me to drive you home?" he offered.
"Sure," Clawdeen replied.
Clawd who over heard the conversation stopped laughing and looked back at them horrified. Was Romulus making a move on his little sis? What the?
As Romulus drove her home, the two of them had another laughter-filled conversation. The radio was on, but neither of them were paying attention to what was on the radio. Romulus had them go on a random drive around town. Clawdeen had forgotten her worries about getting into trouble with her mom. Their howls of laughter drowned out the music.
Once Clawdeen got home, she was shocked to hear her mother inside. What was she doing here? Clawdeen immediately ran up to her room, ignoring her nagging mother who was scolding her about taking the car. She flopped on to her bed, and put her headphones in her ears and drowned out her mom's demanding yells. She checked the time on her iPod. It was evening! The car ride with Romulus must have been a lot longer than she originally thought!
She checked Romulus' twitter.
"Okay girl, you've gotta crush, admit it honey! Now we've just gotta figure out how to hide it!"
She breathed a sigh of defeat. She then decided she was just gonna keep it quiet for the time-being.
Her mom used a pick to unlock her door and barged in, absolutely furious. A screaming match went on between her and Clawdeen. Clawdeen was then grounded for three months. Her mom didn't trust her anymore, so she had Clawd go out to retrieve the repaired car. It still had large scratches on the side of it though, and the dent was even worse than Clawdeen remembered. Clawdeen was going to have to do a load of babysitting to be able to pay this off. Oops...
"What could make my life any worse right now?" Clawdeen said to herself after her punishment was announced.
Meanwhile, Spectra was busy finishing up and adding the final touches to the story about Clawdeen's crush. She was now just putting in the finishing touches. The story would be posted the following morning.
