Swan Goin' Wolf

Thick Skull

Jared POV:

I phased out in the trees next to the library. I can't believe that Sam imprinted on Sunny. Of all the girl in Washington that he could possibly imprint on, he imprinted on one of my best friends, the one that happened to be a girl? The girl that happened to be the closest the thing to a sister I've ever had? At first Paul and I had been pissed and plotting how to kill him without too many questions being asked, till we came to the realization that Sunny would be allowed to know the truth now. We no longer had to keep this secret from her and everything could almost be normal again.

I walked acrossed the library parking lot and up the stairs. Paul and I had avoid this place since our phase and finally going back to school. Our first semester projects had been a bitch without coming to the library. We had been forced to use the school's shitty library that had little funding and little resources. I walked up to the desk that Sunny was sitting behind and scanning books. She knew I was here, I saw her look up as the door shut and then force herself to keep her eyes down and focused on her task. I moved so that she could see me above the computer screen. When she refused to talk, I took the first step.

"Things are changing, Sunny." I said and she scoffed looking around the room before she looked up at me. I knew a smart ass remark was coming by the pain that showed in her green eyes.

"No shit." She spat.

"One of my best friends ran off to college to hide from past memories. Then, the only other friends I have ditch me for the rez' s loner. I know things are changing." She said glaring up at me and went back to scanning the books.

"That's not what I meant, Sunny." I said as I felt the tremors travel down my arms. I clenched my fists to try to stop the tremors and calm myself down. My temper had gotten bad with the phase and I was pissed that everything she was saying was true. We were causing her pain with not being in her life and making it worse with her not having an explanation for why we were doing it.

"Then what did you mean, Jared?" She asked exasperated with a sigh. She set the books aside before crossing her arms across her chest and leaning back into her chair to stare up at me, waiting for me to explain.

"I mean that things will somewhat get back to normal, just with some changes to the term normal. Paul and I have gone through somethings that only Sam can relate to and staying away was for your safety." I said trying to plead with her through my eyes to believe me, but she scoffed and looked up at me in disbelief.

"My physical safety or my mental safety? Cause I think you just might have failed a little on the mental part." She said and I could feel my heart tighten at the thought of hurting her, Paul and I had always been the ones to protect her since first grade, we beat the shit out of her ex for hurting her like he had.

"Mainly physical safety and a little mental, but you'll learn why eventually." I said and she looked up at me with almost hatred in her eyes.

"If I'll learn eventually, then why don't you just tell me now? We haven't kept secrets from each other since Paul got laid for the first time." She said and I cringed at the memory. If only she knew that I got to see all of Paul's escapades now when we were on patrol in the pack mind.

"It's not my right to tell you." I sad wishing that I could just tell her and we could go back to being the same Sunny, Jared and Paul that we had been since we were eight. She laughed at me, I thought through what I had just said and couldn't find anything funny about what I had said.

"Then who's is it? Paul's?" She asked and I shook my head wishing that Paul could tell her as much as he wanted to.

"Sam's?" She asked and I hesitated before I nodded.