Manipulation

Ch 16 The smell of him

The next day was weird. Every class i went into i was trying to sniff everyone. Yes, it sounds weird, but we needed to know who had stole my keys and broken Angels stuff. So whenever i was near another wolf I would being seeing if they smelt like Cinnamon and garlic. By the time it was lunch my nose was stuffed, going around smelling everyone was making the scents cloud my head. Angel sat down next to me. "I found the scent" she says taking a bite of her hot-dog.

"Really? Who was it?" i asked cocking my head to the side.

"I don't know" i stared at Angel confused. She put her hand over her mouth and whips away some mustard. "It was in the hallway, i couldn't tell who it was though,it was just.....the smell. It was just there" she glared at her hot-dog before biting at it like it was the one who had recked her stuff.

"Don't take your anger out of the hot-dog" i smile at her making her glare at me before taking a huge bite and screwing her face up at me. I laughed and shook my head.

"So, have you changed yet?" Angel says around her food.

"Nope, i think i keep rejecting myself" i frown. That sounded so confusing but Angel understood what i was saying. Or, i think she did by the way she nodded.

"Don't worry, you'll get it" Angel takes a drink of her apple juice then suddenly stops and leans across the table. Her face goes as hard as rock and her eyes fill with seriousness. She looks around as if looking for someone then, in a low voice whispered to me. "Are you going to eat or not?"

I relaxed and glared at her. "For a second i though you were going to say you knew who it was".

Angel sits back grinning and winks. "Gotta, but seriously, are you going to eat?" she looked down at my plate, her eyes filled with the look of hunger.

"Eat your hot-dog" i laugh. She pouts then ripes into the hot-dog, the whole time giving me puppy eyes.

When W-Studies came up i was pumped to change for my first time. I did everything i was told to do, yet the Wolf inside me ignored me. Until i got angry that is, then it would lower it's head and freeze, like it was hunting me. "I can't do it" i groan sitting down. By now more then half the class had changed and Miss Hervena had taken everyone who had changed for a walk...run...whatever. They were trying to get ahold of how to walk on four legs and not trip over the own feet. It was funny to watch the just changed, they stumbled after everyone else looking drunk.

"Hay, you'll get it" Heath says easily.

"When?" i ask bitterly and shake my head.

"Eventually" he says smiling at me. He then turns just as someone changes and grins at them. "Nice work!"

I roll my eyes at him and close my eyes. I could see the wolf again, it's cold eyes watching me. Come on, i want to change. my own voice rang though my head as i pleaded. The wolf let out a soft growl and blinked at me. Something in my stomach stirred, like something was trying to crawl out but it didn't hurt, it was more a weird feeling as if someone was pressing the inside of my stomach. Suddenly i smelt something and my eyes snapped open.

The wind played with my hair and i looked around trying to see though the darkness of night to see the person. The faint smell of Cinnamon and garlic was hanging around, just enough to smell. The only people around was a few people still trying to change a 3 colder students.I pushed my hair from my face and looked again. A forest lines one side, a fence lined the strait drop toward the oval and on the other two sides was the school grounds.

No one was on the path but their was a bunch of people on the oval. Though they all looked older, 4th or 5th years maybe. I didn't see any that i noticed though. I frowned and looked along the trees, they looked empty and still, but that didn't mean a thing. I had seen some of the wolves freeze on the spot, instantly looking like a statue. My eyes scanned the bush's and the shadows though i saw nothing.

"Whats wrong?" Heath asks from were he was a few meters away. He still hadn't turned around but his ear twitched like he was listening to me. "Kat?"

"Do you smell that? Cinnamon and garlic?" i ask not looking away from the trees.

I hear Heath take a deep sniff then he looks at me over his shoulder. "Yeah, why?"

"Someone wen't into Angel's and my room the other night and broke some of her things. We could smell someone in there, Cinnamon and garlic" i say glancing around again, i still couldn't see anyone. Heath says nothing for a long while and i turn to him wondering what he was thinking.

Heath was biting his lip and looking at the trees behind me. I fought off the urge to turn around cause i knew no one was their. Then Heath released his lip and looked at me. "I don't know anyone, but i can sniff around the boys dorm for ya"

I stare at him for a while before i smiled at him. "Thanks Heath"

"No problem kid" he grins and turns away from me and walked toward some kid still trying to change. I glanced around feeling uneasily suddenly. There was still no one around so i sighed and went back to trying to change.