The Blood of a Wolf

Study Break

After what seemed like forever of tutoring Cody which was only about 45 minutes most of which was him complaining about having to do this much work and jokingly saying I could do it for him I decided it was time for a break.

"You want something to eat?" I ask putting my pencil down and moving the multitude of textbooks aside.

"You never have to ask me that I could always go for some food."

"Alright let's go raid the kitchen." we walked downstairs and to the kitchen, I looked through the fridge and took out a few drinks and then moved to the cupboards.

"What would you like to eat? We have some crisps, biscuits, candy."

"How about you say those first two in America so I can understand."

"Chips and cookies as you strange Americans call them," I say pulling the bags out.

" If anything it is you who are strange who calls cookies biscuits, biscuits are made of bread." I glare at him.

"Do you want to eat anything or not."

"Yes, I do."

"Well then tell me who the weird one is." He takes a step closer to where I stood making me back into the counter.

"Still you." he says with a smirk plastered on his face."But I will take these." he says snatching the bag of crisps from my hands. I try to get them back from him but it is fatal without using my powers.

"Too slow," he says at one of my failed attempts to get the bag back from him. He steps around to the other side of the counter and waves the bag back and forth. "You want them come get them." He says mockingly. It was at that moment that I decided to use the smallest amount of my wolf strength and agility to basically leap over the counter and tackle Cody.

We fall back as I tackle him and end up rolling over the back of the couch and onto the floor. I land on top of him as his back hits the floor and he groans in pain.

"Well that was fun he says sarcastically."

"Really Cody you do not have to narrate how you say what you say."

"No, but I wanted to." It was at that moment that my mom had chosen to walk through the door.

"What is going on here because this does not look like revising." I push myself off of Cody and stand up.

"Mum It is not what it looks like whatever it looks like," I say as Cody stands up next to me.

"Yeah Mrs. Reid we were taking a break and your daughter here tackled me over a bag of chips." My mom gives me a confused look at first before raising her eyebrow at me asking the question 'did you use your powers' without even saying it.

"Well, he called me weird and stole my crisps. So really he brought it on himself," I respond without giving anything away.

"How about you take your crisps and get back to revising for a little bit before dinner and Cody you are more than welcome to stay if you would like."

"I'd love to, thank you for the invite," Cody smirks as he speaks looking at me.

"That is if I don't kick you out first," I add.

"Ouch, that hurts princess." Cody mocks pain putting his hand over his heart.

"Get upstairs." I shove Cody in the direction of the stairs. "I'll join you in a minute." Once Cody was upstairs and out of earshot, I turned to my mother as she spoke.

"You should not have used your powers, you are already using them for lacrosse you don't want him getting suspicious."

"I know mum but since I am already using them for lacrosse he shouldn't think anything is off because I jump over a counter."

"Just be careful I know that you don't want to move again and neither do I but one person already knows about you we can't risk anyone else knowing."

"I know mum I will be careful. I promise."

"Good now you should get upstairs before he eats all of the crisps." I head upstairs taking them two at a time. I enter my room to see Cody lying on my bed stuffing his face with crisps.

"You better not be getting crumbs on my bed," I say as I walk in and plop down next to him.

"Don't worry I'm not," he says as he wipes crumbs off the edge of my bed onto the floor. He holds the bag out to me indicating that I take a handful which I gladly do. We get back to studying as we stuff our faces with the crisps until we have had enough.

After a while, we give up on studying and just start talking about random nonsense until my mum calls up to us saying dinner was almost ready and it was time to set the table. We didn't talk much when we started eating but after a while, my mum started asking Cody different questions about different things including why he started lacrosse and he was happy to answer them.Once we finished Cody helped clean up and get everything taken care of.

"Well it has been fun we can continue with the studying tomorrow," Cody says as I hand him his backpack and other stuff that had been abandoned on my bedroom floor.

"How about we meet at the clearing around noon and we can go from there."

"Okay sounds good to me but I am taking you to lunch if we are meeting at noon."I am about to object to the idea but he continues talking. "Do not try and abject I am doing this for you since you are trying to help me out," he gives me a look that says 'end of conversation no arguments.'

"Okay, fine see you then." I walk with him out of my room and down the stairs to the door.

"I'll see you tomorrow then."

"Yup," He walks out to his car and I watch as he drives away.

"You're meeting again tomorrow?" my mom walks up behind me once I shut the door.

"Yeah our teacher wanted us to do a few times a week but during the school week we have practice so we can't do it then."

"You do realize what day it is tomorrow." I grab my phone and open the calendar app.

"The full moon is tomorrow!" if I take the pills when I get up they won't be working by noon I will have to have it be a little later."

"Are you sure it is a good Idea to still do it?"

"I'll be fine I just have to take the pills right away when I get up in the morning no big deal."

"Okay just remember our talk from earlier."

"I know I will be careful." I go back up to my room and text Cody.

A: Hey, I just realized that noon isn't going to work for me.

C: You better not be saying this cuz you don't want me to buy you lunch

A: No it's not that I just forgot I had plans, we can meet at 6:30 then you can take me out for dinner if you insist on doing it.

C: Okay that works for me see you at 6:30 sharp

With that, I went to bed worried about the events that would take place tomorrow.