I always wondered why they were in detention and why it was only the two of them so...

Chapter 7 - Dark Moon

I jumped down from the tree and started running away.

"Try and catch me!" I shouted at Rhydian, knowing that he wouldn't be able to. I slowed down a bit to let him get nearer so that he could touch the ends of my hair. Then I sped up again just as he shouted, "Ha, got you!" And grabbed at the space where I was just seconds before. I kept running, laughing at the feeling of the wind in my hair and the ground disappearing so fast beneath my feet that it was amazing that I didn't trip. Suddenly, I realised that Rhydian wasn't behind me anymore. I stopped and sniffed the air. Where had he gone?

When Maddy started running I knew that I was never going to be able to catch up with her. Even though I would never admit it out loud, she was a much faster runner than me. So I decided to change tactic. I ran around all the trees, backwards and forwards, making sure my scent was everywhere. That way she would have no idea where I was. Then I climbed a tree and waited.

I retraced my steps back to where I could smell Rhydian again. I looked everywhere and I couldn't find him. We were late for school already and so I just left, thinking that he would be there when I arrived. When I got to the classroom though, he wasn't there and I started to get worried. What if something had happened to him. If we saw a wild Wolfblood a few months ago, who knew what could be out there? More vicious wilds, or even cannibalistic Wolfbloods. I wouldn't put it past our nature. Eventually, I got myself so worried that I told Mr Jeffries that I didn't feel well and left the classroom to call my parents. However, when I was going back to the class I smelt something. I stopped, it definitely was Rhydian but if he had been captured then I had to be careful. I went out the back of the school, following the scent until I got close. I took a deep breath and prepared myself to face whoever was there. I turned the corner and...there was Rhydian walking, by himself, casually towards school. I ran to him and hit him from behind.

"Hey, that hurt!"

"Serves you right."

"For what?"

"Running off, hiding, whatever you did!"

"I didn't do anything - we were just playing."

"Where have you been then?"

"I was just hiding up a tree!"

I hit him again, "Rhydian, you scared me! My Mam and Dad are out looking for you now and I thought you'd been kidnapped or something! Never do that again!"

Maddy shouted at me and then turned and walked away. I just stood there, looking a bit shocked. She must have been really worried about me...and that meant that she must really care about me. Maddy turned the corner of the building and I heard a shout from a voice I recognised far too well.

"Maddy Smith! Rhydian Morris! You're late! Detention! Both of you! Tonight!"

Ugh, Jeffries.

I looked at the clock in desperation. How much longer? It felt like I had been writing this essay for years. Even Mr Jeffries looked bored. He sighed and put his head in his hands.

"Do you know what would make me very happy?" He asked

I said, "no more pupils like us, sir?" Just as Rhydian answered, "no more detentions?"

"You couldn't be more wrong." I rolled my eyes. Not oney of his speeches. Please? He continued, "I know you think that I'm the enemy, that I don't understand, but I do. You're growing up, asserting your independence, discovering who you really are. I just want you both to fulfil your potential instead of testing my patience. That would make me very happy."

Out of the corner of my eye I saw Rhydian raise his eyebrows and then ignore Jeffries, but I decided to play along, just for a bit longer.

"You're very..." I started.

"Perceptive?" He interrupted with that annoying clicking thing that he does with his hands and thinks is 'cool'.

"Yes, sir," I could tell Rhydian was about to burst out laughing.

"Not a lot gets past me in this school, Maddy Smith, you should know that by now," he looked at his watch and made an exasperated clicking sound with his tongue, "I've got to go and see the Head before she leaves. You've got four minutes, so keep working."

I looked cheekily at Rhydian when Jeffies had his back turned, a plan already starting to form in my mind.

"I'll be back." Jeffries said from the back of the hall before he left and Rhydian and I relaxed.

I threw down my pen. If Jeffries left our detention, there was no way I was going to work while he wasn't there.

"I hate it when he does that," I turned to face Maddy.

"Does what?"

"Nothing gets past me in this school," I put on my best Jeffries voice and I made Maddy laugh. I looked down at my paper thinking how proud it made me feel, that I had made her happy.

"Let's put it to the test," she stood and started to walk over to the trophy shelf. I groaned. Not another of her mad plans that were bound to get us into trouble.

"What are you doing?" I asked.

"Let's live a little before we lose the moon." Yep, definitely another mad plan.

"What?" I said as she grabbed the biggest trophy and walked off, "Maddy?!"

She jumped over a piece of gym equipment.

"You coming or what?" She was challenging me now. She chucked the trophy to me before climbing the gym equipment to the window and clambering through it. The she gestured for me to throw the trophy up to her and follow. Once I was up there I told her, "we really shouldn't be doing this."

"Why not?" She asked with a flirty smile and handed the trophy back to me. I watched as she ran on the roof and jumped onto the slightly more raised bit of roof over the sports hall. Mr Jeffries was going to be mad. That made me smile.

"Because it's dangerous," I told her and passed the trophy back.

"You're beginning to remind me of my dad!" She teased. I shook my head and walked backwards so that I could have a run up to do the jump. When I was up standing next to her, we ran over to the edge of the roof and looked at the thin sliver of moon that was left.

"Look," Maddy pointed, "that won't be there tomorrow."

"Neither will our powers," I added. I really wasn't looking forwards to it and I could tell Maddy didn't like the idea of being human for a day either.

Suddenly, it was like an idea had popped into her head. She patted me on the arm and ran over to one of the bollards that were on top of the roof. Then she placed the trophy on top of it and positioned it so that you could read the writing if you were standing at the school entrance and had exceptionally good eyesight. I laughed at her daring and looked down, only to see Mr Jeffries walking out of the school with the Headmistress. I pointed to him for Maddy and we turned and ran. We jumped off the building into the smaller roof and climbed back through the window and down the climbing apparatus. I got back first and Maddy just sat down as Jeffries walked back into the room. He had probably heard her chair scraping in the floor.

"Time's up," he said to us gleefully.

"But I haven't finished sir," Maddy was the picture of innocence.

"Your detention has...toodles!"

A/N: Thank you!