Manipulation

Ch 16 Scent in the air

The hallway was quiet and very few lights were on it the dorms, lit slits of light poking out from the bottom of a few door.The door was unlocked and the light was one, the door opened a crack. I pushed my bedroom door open and saw Angel sitting on her bed typing away. "So you know where the room is then. I saw starting to think you got lost" she says not taking her eyes off the screen.

"Angel, you got to believe me when i say i didn't break your stuff" I drop my bag on the floor and sit on my bed facing her.

She paused then started writing again and shook he head. "I though we were friends"

"So did i. I swear i didn't do anything to your stuff, i would never" i say trying to reason with her.

"You are such a lier" she whispered and stopped typing and her fingers moved over the mouse. She then sat the laptop at the bottom of her bed and stood up. "Maybe...you should move out" she whispers and walks over to he draws and pulls out some pj.

"Angel..." i watched as she turned away from me and walked into the bathroom. A thought then struck me. Angel nearly always kept the door unlocked.

"Angel!" I say and bang on the now closed door. "When you walked into the room yesterday, the door was unlocked wasn't it?" i ask though the door.

"Yeah" she calls back then opens the door. He blond hair was pulling into a messy bun, parts of her hair falling around her face.

"Well when i come in the door was unlocked, l locked it when i left" i says

"What are you saying?" she watched me suspiciously. "Your not making any sense" She walked past me and closed her laptop and pushed it under the bed. Must be a new laptop. I shook my head Off track Kat.

"I'm saying, you always leave the door unlocked. Did you come in after me and not lock it when i left?"

"No, i came in only minutes before you and everything was already smashed." she glared at me from her bed.

I stood their for a while then something crept into my head. You havn't needed your keys have you....I then turned on my heels and walked over to my bag where i had last seen the rooms key. I turned my bag upside down, everything fell onto my bed and i quickly searched though it. "My keys are missing" i mutter to myself.

"What?" Angel sat up on her bed and looked at me. She had hear what i said, cause shes a Wolf.

"I havn't needed my keys cause you always keep the door unlocked. Someones taken my keys" i turn to Angel who was suddenly out of her bed which she had crawled into but was by my side. "I think someones trying to frame me"

Angel glared at me then everything on my bed. "You probably just dropped them somewhere so you could try and get out of the running you have to do tomorrow"

I had forgotten about that acutely. "Angel, i didn't lose my key on peruse....it was in gym" i groan.

Angel threw me a weird look.

"When i was going to the toilet everyone was outside waiting. I was in the bathrooms alone. I though i heard someone in there with me. But i shrugged it off thinking it was the tap dripping. I had my keys before that and ever since i havn't needed them so i havn't seen them. Someone took them from my bag, came in here and destroyed your stuff"

"Okay, lets say i believe you, why would someone destroy my things and not yours" Angel watched me.

"Maybe they thought it was your stuff..." i say frowning.

"Or maybe they wanted you to run for 3 hours" Someone says from the doorway. I jump and bite back the yelp that tried to escape.

Lucas stood in the doorway, his shoulder leaning against the door frame and his hands in his jeans pockets. "What are you doing in here?" Angel narrows her eyes on Lucas.

"Had to talk to Damian. yous have a good point, but who would go to the trouble of stealing your keys Kat, then came here and maybe get caught breaking everything?" he raises a black eyebrow at us.

We're quiet for a while. "It could have been you" Angel says narrowing her eyes on him.

"It wasn't him" i state staring at Lucas. He raises an eyebrow at me like a question.

"And how do you know that little wolf?" he asks.

"Your scents not in the room" i say easily hoping i didn't sound like a stalker cause i knew what he smelt like- which just so you know is an amazing scent (now, i sound like a stalker)

Lucas nodded and smiled slight, one corner of his mouth high making it almost look like a smirk. Almost. "And who's scent was in here then?" Again we're both quiet. Then Angel tilts her head to one side.

"I don't know who, but it did smell like a Werewolf....and not like you" she glanced at me.

"Find out who's scent it was, and you find who did it" Lucas smirked then pushed off the door frame and walked away leaving me and Angel in silence.

"Cinnamon and Garlic herbs" Angel whispered into the room. "The scent, Cinnamon and garlic" she then closed the door softly and turned around. "I'm going to bed" she says, turns off the lights and walks over to her bed in the low light. "Goodnight.....and i'm sorry" she whispers.

"Goodnight Angel. And don't worried about it" i say to her before crawling into bed not caring that i was wearing jeans and a school shirt.