“Dang… she left her scent everywhere.” He wandered around my room and walked into my closet.
“Fuck, dude. She touched all your shit in here too.” I jumped up and ran over. He was right she had touched my clothes hanging up. Her scent stronger on some. I shoved Ranger.
“Get out, I don’t want your shitty scent on it all.” I didn’t want it to leave, I knew it wouldn’t last forever, but I would rather not be smelling Ranger mixed with my Ada. He laughed and didn’t move, so I shoved him again and growled. He got the hint and put his hands up.
“Hey, I’m going. I’m trying to be good and not shift and fight. You’re making my wolf all twitchy. I just wanted to smell this for myself.”
My wolf was past twitchy, he wanted to attack Ranger and that was new. Maybe it was because I had her scent all in my head last night as I dreamed, but I didn’t like him being in my space. Ranger left, I was glad.
I should shower, but I could smell her on me. I wanted everyone to know that I was claimed… kinda.
“Noah, hurry up already.” Pa called out. Ugh… I sniffed my armpits, not too bad. I grabbed some deodorant and gave a quick spray under each. I grabbed the pig and rubbed it on my clothes and face. Inhaling deeply at the amazing scent she left behind and grabbed my phone
It wasn’t until I was downstairs that I saw I had a message. My heart started to race at her name on my screen.
I opened it to see she had sent me emojis… a lot of them. Pa looked over my shoulder and looked at them as I tried to decipher what they meant.
Wolf, pig, dancing girl, a green sick face and a winking face.
“I don’t get you kids, why don’t you actually say what you mean?” I laughed and pushed him away and called him an old man. I smiled putting my phone in my pocket.
“Pretty sure she is telling me the wolf, the toy pig that she touched, she danced last night, now she is sick and the winking face… ’cause she likes me?” That one was a little confusing. I hope that’s what it meant.
Pa just shook his head. “Okay, whatever you say. Here, have some breakfast before school. And have a great day, son.”
School was lonely without her,she didn’t come. But Huxley looked just as sad. He would have seen her heaps at the wedding, and I heard he was taking her to prom. He asked and she said yes. That’s what Ranger had told me. I was happy for them, they deserved to go together. But why was I a little sad? Because I wished I could have been her date too?
Lexi’s mates were all going, even Galen. So, what was the big deal if I went with Ada? I had to ask her first. I knew the guys were planning something special for Lexi on Saturday night. The traditional Kiba Lovell party was back on again, and they were going to claim Lexi in from of the whole pack. Well, most of the pack. And do some prom asking thing for her. It was a big secret, but Ranger had told me.
I didn’t have anyone to tell, I was a little frustrated with Luca and his lack of support with me being into Ada. Wasn’t your best friend supposed to help you, or at least be encouraging? The only thing Luca had against Ada was that she wasn’t popular. That was all could figure out from him.
I thought maybe I could ask Ada to the prom on Saturday night too, maybe I could do something special for her. I would have to ask mom when I got home. She would know what to do. But first… I needed to speak to Huxley. We needed to really talk.
After school I ran after him as he was headed for the parking lot. He was with other Rawlins wolves but when they sensed it was me, they stopped.
“Hey, Noah.” Kenton waved, “you here to talk to Hux?” I nodded.
Kenton had never spoken to me before; we shared some classes together, but I kept to myself mostly. Kenton didn’t go fighting the other packs, not like Ranger and River always did. I liked him. Respected him for that.
“Yeah, I was wondering if maybe we could go for a drive? Maybe sit down and chat over coffee or something?”
If he said no this was going to be hard with Ada. I wanted to make this work, we needed this to work if we both stood a chance with her.
“Yeah, we need to chat.” He replied.
Why did that make me a little nervous?
