Bruno:
“Bruno, have you seen my shoes?”
“Under the bed, Blue!” I called back to her, not even looking up from the book I was reading. She asked the same question every morning, and the answer was always the same; I put her shoes under the bed to stop me tripping over them when I got up. Her parents glanced at me but said nothing; they were evidently just impressed that I tidied her pit of a bedroom once and a while.
A couple of weeks had passed since Inga had intruded on our lives, and so far, her threats had been empty; all I’d had to worry about was the clumsiness that came with living with Blue and her mad ideas. Other than that, life was pretty safe-
Well…apart from the fact that I could no longer shift back to a wolf.
But really, I wasn’t that fussed; being a human all the time meant that I could spend time with Blue and actually speak to her. I loved it; people took the art of conversation completely for granted, but I could think of nothing better than just sitting down with Blue Hart and talking about the most obscure things. At least that way, I could take in her face without looking completely strange; the way her lips curled upwards when she was about to prove a point, or how her nose scrunched when I said something she didn’t agree with. Little things like that…they made my head spin and my heart lurch into the unknown.
Maybe the whole getting kicked out of The Realm was a blessing in disguise; as a human, I didn’t have to worry about offending people and ending up dead. Well, within reason. It wasn’t like I was going to spark off a war as a teenage boy.
“Bru- Phil, I’m going!” Blue shouted through the house. I got to my feet, waving jovially to her family before bouncing out of the door behind her, tickling her stomach when we got out of eye range of her parents prying eyes. Her giggle sent ripples of happiness through me, sparking up all the adrenaline I had in my body.
“You’re in a very good mood this morning,” she laughed, rolling her sleeves up in the warmth of the rising sun. “Good night sleep?”
I nodded evasively; she didn’t know that I’d woken that morning with my head nestled on her chest. There were just some things that a woman didn’t need to know!
We walked towards the park, absently chatting about her week; she’d had exams, which had meant late nights revising and countless cups of coffee served by yours truly. Hopefully, she was finished for the time being so we could return to our much loved routine of doing absolutely nothing.
“I was thinking about leaving for University this morning,” she told me, resting her elbows against the wood of a small bridge we’d stopped on. The birds were chattering in the trees surrounding us, the rustling of leaves rolling along the ground in the light breeze contrasting against the faint chirps. But despite the beautiful setting – the sun was just coming up over the leaves above our heads, the light casting shadows dancing against the grass, and the river ran innocently beneath our feet, the water falling over the rocks as smooth as glass – there was nothing to detract the sinking feeling that came whenever Blue brought up University.
There was a part of me which had always known that she wouldn’t remain in the family home for the rest of her life, but at the same time, I had always hoped that she could take me with her. Leaving for University would mean that I would have to find somewhere else to stay; I doubted that I would be welcome to stay in the Hart house without Blue there.
“Were you?” I replied weakly, gazing down at the water.
I caught her nodding in the corner of my eye.
“And?”
A faint sigh escaped her lips.
“I don’t think I want to go,” she breathed, pushing back her newly-dyed red hair.
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