Tara :Wolf Chronicles

Monster Meeting: Part 3

I realised my final breath on my flushed face,placed my palms on my denim cladded knees and went towards the doorbell.After a long flight of stairs I foolishly ignored the lift on the ground floor.

I knocked on the door ,stood on my toes then clicked on the doorbell hard.

I began to dwell on all the events that happened a few hours ago :From Thalia's Demon dad doing black magic then him at my doorstep towards this.

At a house of a person I hadn't been in a long while.

My eyes raked the door and the flickering light that bathed the white door and hallway,unlike me Hayley lived in a beautiful, not run down apartment that was white washed not brick like mine.The interior was fresh and new still unlike mine.

Decorated on the midpoint of the door was a tails man both in gold and red.

It buzzed then the door clicked open and stood a shocked Hayley with wide eyes and an agape mouth.

So dramatic.

I resisted the urge to roll my eyes.

"God no.What the heck are you doing here Nathaniel?

A grin formed on my lips,"God yes,It's me."Then I rolled my eyes as obvious and as disrespectful as possible.Then I raised my hands and did the pump dance.

She ran her pink painted nails down her face then waved me inside.

As I walked in,I shot her a glare,"And who the hell still says heck what are we middle schoolers?"

Her flip flops clicked on the wooden ground as her iconic pigtails bounced.The bands both pastel blue and pink sort of like Harley Quin.

My eyes widened into saucers as I took in her house.Hayely and I were never friends or even close to each other but one day,when I was terrorising her boyfriend I caught the address but I removed it mentally.Two weeks after her expellusion,some girls had a conversation about visiting downtown Toronto and after that, It clicked.

She spun on her heels and arched her brows at me,"Don't you have school ?"

I shook my head wildly and waved my arms at my face,redness creeped up my neck,"Ummm,it's not important, not now,not later."

She only arched a brow and muttered an okay and a sheesh.

I scanned the whole house,it was larger and far cleaner than my ran down apartment. It was beige coloured and it was thick with herbs and spices from the kitchen, it had a sharp aromatic smell and it directed my nose towards it.

Hayley snapped her head up and sniffed.She slapped her head and muttered,"Yāy,are you cooking?"She screamed.

I raised a brow. Yāy.

The apartment was decorated with New Year flags on the walls and paper lanterns on the ceiling.

An old radio sat on a table and narrated in Cantonese commentary on something and on the walls,were framed photos of a younger Hayley in a certain South East country, maybe Malaysia or even Thailand, isn't that where she's from? Another was her at a gymnastics competition on a beam and outstretched hands and another with her parents at a funeral.

On the other wall was a glass cabinet filled with delicate China and on top of the vanity was a jade Budda statue.

She gestured towards the couch and let me sit and I awkwardly shuffled my feet and bunched up my jeans.

An old lady waddled in and glared at me dressed in a baggy red floral dress and sweats. In her hands was a wooden spatula and her shoulders sagged and gasped,"Good boy,"Then she looked at me with a disappointed sigh.She waddled away.