Animagus

Chapter 3: Convincing Ashton

  "Hey! Wren! Wake up you loser!" Ashton yelled at me. I grabbed my blanket and pulled it over my head with a groan. Why did Ashton have to wake up so early all the time?

  "Go away Ashton!" I yelled. I flipped over and burrowed into the blankets.

  "Come on Wren! I'll make breakfast today," Ashton said. I could hear the smile in his words.

  "When you say breakfast do you mean cereal or eggs and bacon?" I grumbled.

  "I know that you only want bacon so if you want I'll make bacon," Ashton said. It kind of sucked that the animal part of us practically took over our diets. Ashton and I usually only ate meat. Not very many fruits or vegetables.

  I sighed. "Fine. Let me at least look somewhat decent," I said sitting up. I looked at the clock that was on my bedside table. Of course it was only 6:30.

  "It's breakfast! You don't need to look decent for that!" Ashton said. He practically ran out of my room and down the two flights of stairs.

  I shook my head and followed him. God he was annoying sometimes.

  I got down to the kitchen. Ashton had a pan on the stove with bacon cooking in it. I breathed in deeply. There was nothing better then meat. Especially bacon.

  "So what are we gonna do today. It's Saturday, we got all day to mess around," Ashton said, flipping the bacon over.

  "I have to run some errands. You can tag along or you can go check on the twins," I said.

  "Ew shopping? No I think I'll go hang out with the twins," Ashton said.

  "Who said that I had to go shopping?" I asked. Ashton walked over to the fridge and opened it. He motioned to it and gave me the "You're out of food" look.

  "Oh come on! There is still a lot of food in there!" I said with a laugh.

  "Yeah but nothing good!" Ashton whined. I could almost hear his inner wolf when he whined.

  "Fine! I give in! I will go shopping you baby," I said with a smile.

  "Thank you!" Ashton yelled.

  "You don't even live here!" I said.

  "No, but you have food. Henceforth I am going to act like I live here," he said smiling.

  "Can't you hunt in your wolf shape?" I asked. Ashton kind of just looked away and took the bacon out of the pan.

  "Oh my God! You can't hunt!" I yelled. I jumped up and down where I was standing.

  "Yeah so what? You can't fight!" Ashton said back.

  "How about this, I'll teach you how to hunt if you teach me how to fight?" I proposed. Ashton kind of looked at me weird at first but finally sighed.

  "Fine," he said.

  "Yay! Thank you! I said grabbing some bacon and running back upstairs. I got dressed in a pair of blue jeans, a bright blue tee shirt, and a black zip up hoodie over it. I put my hair up in a pony tail. Since my hair was naturally curly it looked pretty cool in a pony tail. I had one strand of hair on each side of my head that weren't long enough to tie back so they just hung freely by the sides of my face. I threw on my tennis shoes and ran back down the stairs.

  "Where you going?" Ashton asked.

  "Errands! The sooner I get done, the sooner we can train!" I yelled and ran out the door.

  I jumped into my truck and started the engine. For some reason I was kind of excited to be able to teach Ashton something he didn't already know.

  I got to the store and walked to the back where the meat was. Ashton wanted me to get some steaks for him. I grabbed a package that looked and smelled really good. I turned and put it into the cart I had grabbed.

  "Hey Wren!" Brooke yelled running up to me.

  "Oh hey Brooke. Where's Brendon? Ashton was going to go see you guys," I said.

  "Brendon is with Carlo. They were training the last time I saw them," Brooke said.

  "Oh. Well hopefully Carlo won't rip Brendon to shreds," I said.

  "Wouldn't that be a good thing?" Brooke asked with a smile.

  "How old are you?" I asked teasingly.

  "I'll be 15 in two days," Brooke said.

  "Brendon doesn't act like he's going to be turning 15. He acts like he's going to turn 7," I said. Brooke laughed and I joined her.

  "Hey well I have to go, Ashton is supposed to teach me some fighting moves," I said.

  "Yeah I should probably get back and watch Brendan," she said. She turned and walked away.

  I walked to the checkout line and put all of my stuff I had up onto the conveyor.

  "That'll be 35.67" the woman said. I took out my wallet and gave her the money.

  "You have some beautiful eyes you'd lady," the woman said.

  "Thank you," I said. Oh God. I had to bail before she started asking questions.

  "Very unique. I've never seen anyone with such blue eyes," The woman said. I grabbed my bags and nodded.

  "Yeah not many people in the world have eyes like this," I said. I turned and walked towards the exit. That must have been the third person this week to do that to me. My eyes had been brown before I became an Animagus.

  I got back to my house. Ashton was sitting on the couch watching Tv.

  "So," I said putting away all of my groceries. "Are you ready to train?"

  "Let's get this over with," Ashton said standing up. Wow, wasn't he being enthusiastic about all of this.

  "Come on you wimp! Are you just angry cause I know something that you don't?" I teased him.

  Ashton folded his arms. "No, I just..." He stuttered. He finally threw his hands into the air. "Let's rock this thing!" he said running out the door. That was much better.