Numbers That Follows

chapter 6

"It was good, I had a good time I guess?" I was unsure what else to say.

"Good, Good" He replied, "when we talked this afternoon you really didn't have much knowledge on how a pack works, I was a little concerned that there may be other things you don't understand."

"A couple" I admitted, "like the card Arrah used today they swiped it and gave Arrah the clothes."

"That would be a debit card that has currency on it when a business swipes it to take some of the money off." Armin explained.

"Okay that makes a lot of things so much clearer about today." I thought back.

"If you would like I can go over rules and other things with you by yourself so it's less in the open." Armin assured.

Armin and I sat for a couple of hours reading through pack laws. He answered every question I had. When it became too late for us to stay up Armin sent me off to bed.

"Get a good night's rest, you may be stronger and faster as well as endure more than a normal wolf but Arrah will drag you all over the world if she has the chance." Armin warned.

I laughed and headed down the hall back to my room. Once in the room I got in the large bed and began to make myself comfortable. This bed was twice as comfortable as the one Armin brought me. And slowly as I layed there I drifted off to sleep.

I looked around, we all stood around the room, some of us were sitting some standing. 2,3,4 and I sat against a wall. 22 came running over and sat down in my lap.

"I hate it here." 3 said, shaking his head. We nodded in agreement.

"Arken owns us, he does what he wants." 4 spat frustrated.

"But we do as we are told or you know." 2 gestured with her head to me.

"Sometimes you need to be reminded of your place One, I don't punish you because I want to but because I have to." I mimicked Arken.

"Don't get caught doing that." 4 warned

"You can't get hurt One please, I don't want you to feel bad," 22 looked up at me.

"It's okay 22, I can take it, I can take it for all of us." I said, pushing her hair out of her face. "You just try to do your best."

"You can't protect all of us, you know?" 2 looked over at me.

"I can and will." I said.

5 comes running over, he slides to the ground skidding right in front of us. He lays with his legs sprawled out and props his head with his arm.

"Are you guys ready for the run tomorrow?" 5 says with a grin on his face

All of us collectively moan. Running was the worst.

I woke up to the sun hitting me on the face. I grabbed the blankets and tossed them off. I turned and placed my feet on the floor. I was extremely excited about today. I went into the bathroom. Now that I could shower whenever I wanted I was going to use it. Looking around the bathroom there was a corner shower to the left. I took my clothes off and left them on the floor. I turned the shower on and the room quickly filled with steam. I hopped in and the water slightly burned my skin.

Looking at my arms they turned a light shade of red. I didn't care, it felt wonderful. I looked at the bottles that Arrah got yesterday. I read the back of each bottle very carefully, I took the one that had shampoo on it and squeezed some into my hand. I rubbed it into my hair and rinsed. Then repeated with the conditioner. I took the body soap and cleaned all the dirt from my skin. Finally finished I turned off the water and stepped out of the shower onto the small carpet.