A/N: Here is chapter5! I hope you like it. Thanks for the suggestions, I did my best take them into account while writing this chapter. Please review with any other suggestions you have or tell me what it is you like/should stay the same or any changes that need to be made.

Note: Just so you know. I am planning to write another fanfic which is this story but from Vivian's POV. That is why I mentioned that Vivian is having problems but didn't go into details. The plot of that story will be hugely different from this one because it will be focusing on Vivian's dilemmas and not Shay's. Shay and ebony will be minor characters similar to how Vivian is in this one.

Disclaimer: I do not own blood and chocolate.

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"Are you up yet?" I heard Ebony yelling from downstairs.

I looked at my alarm clock and it glowed 7:00 in little green numbers. 7:00? I thought to myself, why the hell is she awake? It was not like Ebony to hurry to school on a Monday. I rolled over and buried my head in my blankets. Unfortunately Ebony was intent on waking me up. She came bounding into my room and ripped the blankets off my bed, making me curl into a freezing human ball.

"Hurry up, we're going to be late." Ebony said, rolling my ball like self out of the bed. I landed on the floor with a thump.

I couldn't understand what the rush was for. "Since when do you care about being on time for school?" I mumbled, wanting to back to sleep -even if on my bedroom floor.

"Since the new loup garou is starting school today!"She said, as if it were the most obvious thing in the world. Actually it was the most obvious thing in the world; why else would Ebony hurry to get to school if not for some fresh meat…so to speak?

We were all called to a meeting last night to discuss a new loup garou joining the pack. His name is Calix and he is Ebony and mine age mate. He was arriving this morning and Gabriel had told us he would be starting school today too (which is asking a little too much, if you ask me). So of course Ebony wanted to get to school on time so that, if he ended up being "Ebony material", she could have first dibs.

Very slowly I got ready for school, partly because I was still half asleep but partly just to annoy Ebony. Once I was ready Ebony rushed me out the door.

"What happened to Gregory?" I asked, relived that she had gotten tired of him so quickly. Maybe the five would stop sniffing around now…probably not.

"Well, let me take a look at this guy first and then I'll let you know." She said flashing me a smug smile.

As we got closer to the school Ebony tilted her head to the air and smelled. Although this was not obvious to the surrounding humans it was obvious to me.

"What do you smell?" I asked, knowing that she could smell loup garou because, of course, I could smell it too.

Ebony looked intently over at the school building that where we were headed, "Oh, it's only the five." She said with a sigh.

I looked over to where the five and Vivian were standing; the five were tormenting some year 9 girls and Vivian was looking less than amused. I decided to avoid them by taking the long way to my locker. By the time I reached it, the bell had gone. I pulled by books out and was about to slam it shut when I smelled the unmistakable scent of loup garou. I turned my head to the opposite side of the corridor and saw an unfamiliar guy leaning against a locker, staring at me. I immediately new that he must be the newest member of the pack- Calix.

He was tall with dark brown, floppy hair. He had bright blue eyes and although he wasn't bulky I could still make out the contours of his muscles through his t-shirt.

"You're Vivian?" he asked, smiling furtively.

"I am not." I sounded harsher than I meant to, but his getting me confused with Vivian had offended me- even though it was an honest mistake to make as he had never met either of us.

He smiled and looked me up and down. "You are?"

"Shay." I said tartly. He was not making a good first impression.

"I'll see you around, Shay." He said smiling smoothly before walking off.

As it turned out he would be seeing me around -and very soon- I had the same class as him for first period.

I walked into first period Literature and saw him sitting in the seat next to my usual seat. I growled quietly at him, knowing that his keen hearing would hear it, even if the humans in the room didn't. He looked up and smiled at me smugly, showing all of his pearly whites. I slumped over to the desk, dumped my bag on the floor and banged my books down on the desk.

"Someone woke up on the wrong side of the bed, I think." He said as soon as I was seated.

I snarled in response and turned my attention to the teacher who was now calling the roll.

"Are you going to ignore me the whole lesson?" He asked, trying to catch my eye.

"I'm not ignoring you. When you have something intelligent to say, I'll listen." I said, not once looking at him.

"Fine, if you want to be like that." He sounded hurt but I knew he was just putting it on.

This was not what I needed right now; another horny, arrogant loup garou to make the five whole once again. I wanted a guy who was…I don't know… different.

I walked out of the room as soon as the bell rang and made my way to my locker. As I was getting my books out for the next class I smelt, what had become in the last hour, an all too familiar smell. I turned around to see Calix standing right behind me.

"What now?" I demanded.

My rude manners only made him smile, "Still in a bad mood I see. I bumped into- what was his name- Willem? He asked me to, if I saw you, ask if you were running tonight?"

"No, I am not." I said and walked off towards my next class.

"Pity." He half whispered as I pushed past him.

As I made my way to my next class I was stopped by flustered looking Ebony.

"Did you know our chemistry assignment was due today?" she asked not waiting for a reply, "You have to help me finish it at lunchtime."

We made our way to our seats and spread our books out so we appeared to be doing work.

"More importantly," she continued, "have you seen Calix yet?"

"I have and let me tell you, I was not impressed." I said, writing down the notes from the board.

Ebony feigned shock horror, "How could you not be impressed? He's gorgeous!" she whispered theatrically.

"Ok, he's good looking, I'll give him that. It's his persona that lets him down. I know his type; smug, arrogant and sly. You should have seen the way he was looking at me, it was worse than the five and I didn't even think that was possible." I snarled quietly remembering his supercilious smile.

"Well I don't care if he is arrogant. He's just proud, which every male loup garou should be, especially one who looks like him." She smiled at the thought.

It was true; a loup garou should be proud, male of female for that matter. I myself am proud, but there is such a thing as being overly proud- to the point of egotism.

Later that night as I was lying in bed listening to Courtney Love wail, 'someday you will ache like I ache', the phone rang. I reached over to my bedside table and picked it up, simultaneously turning my stereo down.

"Hello?"

Nobody replied, but I could hear somebody breathing on the other end.

"Hello" I said again, growing impatient.

"Shay" I heard a woman's voice whispered before hearing a loud clunk and the phone went dead.

I knew it was my mother's voice I had heard whispering my name. I would know that voice anywhere. How did she get this number? I thought to myself. Why was she calling me? She had made her decision, not caring how much it hurt me and my father. Was she regretting the choices she had made? I didn't care if she was- there was no way I wanted to speak to her. I would just have to get a new phone number and that would be that.

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A/N: I hope you liked it! R&R please

BTW the truth about Shay's mum will be revealed in the next chapter.