sleepyhead, how did you sleep?” I ruffled her hair some more.
“Best sleep I’ve had in a long time, what about yo-”
A knock at the door interrupted her mid sentence, “Allie?”
Matt. I let out a stream of cuss words in my head. Allie’s blue eyes went wide, realizing that he could walk right in and see us together in bed. Yeah, that wouldn’t earn me any brownie points. I held my finger to my mouth, signaling her to be quiet. I collected all my stuff as quietly as I could and hid in the closest. Seriously? This was just getting worse and worse.
Allie patted down on her bed, trying to even out the dent from where I slept. “Hey Matt, you can come in,” Allie called out.
“Hey,” he tentatively opened the door, clutching a bag of donuts in his hand. He was smiling, annoying dimple making an appearance. “Look, I’m here to apologize. I wasn’t fair to you the other morning and I’m sorry for storming off like that.” Yeah, yeah, Golden Boy and his guilty conscience. He ran his hand through his already disheveled blonde hair. Allie looked like she wanted to be sick, probably because she was lying.
She patted a spot next to her on the bed, the spot where I was a minutes ago, and Matt walked toward her. He ran his hand nervously down his arm, messing up his T-shirt. He sat on the edge of the bed, picking at the purple comforter. From my view through the slit in the closet door, I could see Matt reach out and grab her hand. I had to smother a growl, hands off my girl.
There was an awkward silence as they both thought of what to say. Matt finally picked up the small white bag clutch in his hand. “Chocolate sprinkles and doughnut holes. Your favorite.”
Allie smiled at the gesture, “Thanks, how’s school been?”
“It’s been boring without you. Have you been sick?” Allie flushed, hating to lie, but she nodded and popped a doughnut hole in her mouth. “Oh, then why was Caleb here? He hasn’t been at school lately either.”
Allie hesitated, thinking of what to say. “He came to eat lunch with Brody. He only had my hand because he was dragging me to the door, thinking you were the take-out guy.” Great, now she’s going to hide our relationship. News would go around fast though, especially through the pack. People saw us at the movies last night.
“Oh,” Matt muttered, probably feeling ashamed of his outburst. “Yeah, and what’s up with Brody, too? I know y’all aren’t close anymore, but I asked where you were and he got all defensive of you.” He ran his hand through his hair again. At this rate, he was going to be bald at thirty. “Everyone’s just being really weird lately.”
Allie’s hands twisted in her lap, and I could sense the change in her.
She was going to tell him.
No, no, no. She couldn’t tell Matt. That’s one rule werewolves didn’t break; never tell humans of our existence. I couldn’t warn her without exposing myself, which Allie would hate me for. “There’s a reason to why I’ve been so different lately. I’m sorry that I haven’t told you sooner, it’s just I’m not really supposed to,” Allie said.
She looked down at her hands and then up at Matt again. She opened and closed her mouth without saying anything, maybe she wouldn’t tell him after all. Guess I spoke too soon because next thing I know she blurts out, “I’m a werewolf.”
Well, looks like the wolf’s out of the bag. Matt raised both his eyebrows in question, and let out a nervous laugh. He probably had no idea what was going on, and I couldn’t blame him, that wasn’t exactly the best way to approach the subject. I stood, still in the closet, fuming. Before he accused her of being crazy, Allie jumped in and tried to explain.
“I know, it sounds crazy. I’m not sure if I believe it myself, but you do have to admit there is something weird about this town. The reason I haven’t been going to school is because my seventeenth birthday coming up soon. People like me- my brother, Caleb, Sierra, Chloe, and all those other people we hate-” Hate? “-change on their seventeenth birthday for the first time. Before they change, their emotions are out of control and all this weird stuff that I don’t really understand, so my brother thought it would be best if I stayed