A Paw Behind You

Clubhouse

I was tired, exhausted.

Further more when I remembered about yesterday's untimely message from someone 'close', I had no intention or energy to even touch it. It's... something people wouldn't normally understand...

But right now, I was just dreaming for some admittedly well-deserved afternoon's rest on a sun-warmed bed, inside a comfortable atmosphere, on a warm summer day... Oh, I was virtually drooling for a good nap!

"Don't you have any clubs to go?"

Of course, all of this needed to be derailed by an unexpected character that popped out of nowhere from their bed.

And my mood was similar to death, completely rendered useless to deal with a bugging Noah at the bed from the opposite wall. Ugh...

"You do know participating one would be benefiting your curriculum points right?" 

"I don't see you going for any," I flung my drawstring bag towards the bottom right corner of the wooden bed frame. As if it wasn't obvious, my sluggish, bent-back motion was pretty much 'showing-off' my lazing mood. (And also boredom towards the other wolf)

"I have matters to attend, you should be grateful that you can even sleep on this bed for ten minutes," he grumbled with his eyes barely pulled away from the book.

"You really need to chill some day..." I nose-dived down the springy bed, heated up by the sun shining through the non-tinted windows. Of course, as I had said, I was not in the fighting spirit to retaliate whatever I wanted to towards the wolf, since anyhow, he would similarly attack back.

That aside, the day was not as bad overall. In an unexpected and unscheduled switch, Mrs. Arilese had transferred me off whatever classes I had, and overhauled onto an Art-structured syllabus (surprising, but in the same time, oddly expected). And honestly... I was much more motivated to study now.

But... the exhausting fatigue I feel after those classes are still... *death sounds*.

"Take a bath, Sky," Noah suddenly spoke when he lowered his book to reveal a... weird look, "you stink all the way here."

"E-excuse me? I don't stink!" My body practically jumped from the soft bed and into a straight, upright position, before giving a wide-eyed, stupefied look at him. 

"Uh, yes you do, I kid you not. Now, get yourself into the bathroom before I clean you myself."

Huh?

Wait, did he just...

Did he seriously offered to bathe me!?

I mean, personal privacy being broken aside, the help I could get to scrub off all the annoying sides...

"Okay, let's go!"

"Finally."

"You're suppose to help me!" I was hands-on-hips when noticing the wolf now presented a squinted-one-eye bewilderment,  You offered!"

"W-what!? That was just... to push you into the bathroom!"

"Then I'm not going."

"FINE! LET'S GO THEN."

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"Put your name here, and you should be all good to go!"

After getting 'escorted' out of my dorm by an insistent wolf mate, I was locked out of my room until the condition of me joining a club was accomplished (Damn this place having only one key for each room). And after an exhausting hour-walk, crossing a bunch of hallways and practically hiking upwards and downwards stairs, I approached a potential interest...