Stings Like A Bitch (Book 2)

Dante

"His just cruel!" Lisa sobbing on her pillow. Her face into it as I hold her ring in my palms.  It's a beautiful sliver ring; it's not to heavy and it feels smooth even with the engraved words inside it. The circle where a light purple diamond sits pops up slightly outside of the ring; in the middle are two little white gems on both sides. "Why did you give this back to him?" I only asked because it did feel as if she wanted to hurt him as well.  She moves her head to face me showing me her red rare wet eyes. "Its stupid" She pauses taking a exhale sighing out of her mouth. "I'd thought he would get his money worth on that ring, We were together and it was fun at first but real and bad shit happened around our lives that we just couldn't"  Three tires fall down her cheeks  as she inhales in fresh breath. "It wouldn't workout " She looks at me this time. "We've been through things and his a great guy but I cant...its just not the same anymore" She shakes her head like she is disagreeing with her words. "Do you love him?" my voice breaks at the end of the question.   I wipe her left cheek as another tire falls down. "I do but" She stops talking looking out our window. "But not in that way" She nods in agreement but still remains looking out the window.  "What to you want me to do?" I am her friend after all. Friends help each other. "I just want him to leave me alone; so that way we can both stop hurting" her voice is so blunt and soft. I get my phone and text Peter but all I get was that she was the one to blame. He sounded pathetic and so I got angry;  "Your heartless" I backspace it and send something else relating to Lisa and Him.  Lisa take's a shower as I go over my morning class lectures which is Music, I put my headphone on my head; listening  to smooth piano and drum music. They actually go well together as I notice my head nodding slightly.  "Goodnight" Lisa says getting into her bed.  I feel my eyes getting heavy around One am in the morning  but my skin starts to itch for the transformation. I turn off my lamp on my desk but our room shines. The full moon is awakened and so does my bones cracking in my legs. I open the window jumping out feeling my paws lead onto the soft grass beside a tall, thick oak tree.  My speed takes over  feeling my fur  brush away through the wind, my tongue hangs out enjoying it too as my nose becomes wet of delight reaching into the woods that has no scents of wolves rumoring around. The trees are thick with vines crossing each other and the sky has clear stars in them tonight. Every step the green grass turns into more of thick dirt as I go deeper into the woods. I stop my track's seeing a purple pathway leading to steps. The steps have yellow and pink flowers with green stems along it. Five Fireflies past my way in different directions giving more night beauty to these woods.  The air becomes even and some birds chirp that it echo through the trees but a tree branch breaks its unique rhythm and the fireflies disappear into darkness.  "Drake?" I send through our bond; within a few seconds he response. "Yes I'm behind you" I turn around seeing his dark wolf shadow. The moon is bright but it can never lighten up his wolf fur. "What are you doing?" I sniff my nose upwards to him. "Just making sure your not doing anything silly" His voice is in absurdity grinning at me. "Heyy" My voice sounded shy but flirty at the same time. Drake walks past me sliding his back on mine like a lover does but I push him off making his bottom side flinging out. He runs into me with his head knocking me down onto my side. His teeth are on show as if his ready to  Challenge me but it changes when his long pink tongue slides out of his mouth; huffing and puffing in a playful mood. I bite at his ear lightly shuffling around trying to get up on my paws but his weight get heavy on me. My throat sends a low growl at Drake signing for him to get out but his weight gets heavier. "Make me" He sniff and chuckles. I shuffle again founding a grip of Drakes front leg. He yelps as the weight lets loose setting me free off the ground; my body jumps into a sprint race ahead; I feel Drake's steps, his five steps behind. Either his letting me win or his not what he'd his to be with his speed. "Getting tired?" I send it through the bond. The orange smoke tangles through the woods and then disappears when Drakes in view. "No never" he gives me a sweet grin that reminds me of the young Drake. "Did you found what you where looking for? You know after I left?" Drakes eyes remained Dark and his mouth no longer opened with no emotion on them.  He squeals slightly looking down "I wasn't an easy kid; I guess it was enough at that time; but  it had changed after" He didn't have to mention Max's name. The feelings we had is an understanding. First child born by different blood and then another little human comes and steals the spotlight from you.  I did  have  that experience the same thing with my little brother but I overcame it and now I love him like his mine. My true little brother like I'm his older sister no matter how many fights we used to have.  I felt an apology coming to the surface but instead "Do you think you could forgive?"  Drake chuckles shaking his fur all over his body and then stretching putting his bottom in the air. "I think we've gone past that" I turn around pasting him. "Where are you going?" He runs stopping in front of me blocking my way to the university campus.  "I'm going back" I walk around him avoiding from tripping on little peddles randomly spread out onto the grass and winding through the thick trees up ahead.  I don't feel Drakes presence anymore as I enter through the girls dorms. The transformation was quick and easy with a click of a few muscles and rolling motions.  "Fiona is that you?" Lisa's voice is dazed still in bed as I open our door. "Yes it is, I'm going to shower up" I whisper to her  closing the opened window. I get undress and get into the steaming hot shower. I don't know what time I'd feel asleep when I got onto my bed.  My body relaxes  and everything in the room goes black. I hear Lisa's sleepy breathing throughout the night and the tree branches hitting against the window. My eye opens to life as my alarm clock beeps waking Lisa up too. I'd forgotten that Lisa didn't have a morning class this morning. I press the button on the alarm as Lisa cover's her ears with her bed sheets. It's seven O'clock  normal time on a Thursday morning. I make my bed and get changed into a  blue dress that my Mother gave me last Christmas with my casual black flip-flops. Class didn't really start this early ever but I'd make it a routine on Thursdays.  Dante and I go get coffee's by the corner café called "Cherry O"  we normal stay there for an hour or sometimes take a go cup and head to our French Class when we accidentally sleep in.  One of a few subject's to not mention around him his ex-girlfriend Linda who has dump him after five years of being engaged and anything with cheating sets him off with anger.  It been a few months now and he hasn't moved on to any other girls; not even a fling. So I hope that our friendship we have remains as it is.   I walk in opening a light brown wooden frame door waving at Dante.  He waves back sitting at a table he must gotten for us.   He puts his murder crime  book down closing it face down. "Did you order?" My voice is in cheerful mood. Dante has style better then Daisy and Lisa put together; his  brown hair is long but its pushed back seeing a few blonde shade through it. He wears a white T-shirt and some casual blue jeans. "No, I always wait, I have manners"  His voice is deep leaning on his chair in a manly way. The waiter comes to the table, he orders a Carmel Latte with a ham and cheese croissant, Cherry spread on the side and cream for our scone that we always share. I order the same as always an almond Latte with two sugars in it.  The waiter walks away picking up our menu's off the table. "So I need to tell you something, its something I'm well...that I don't understand myself just yet" He itches is right thick eyebrow. "Just say how it is; you know us, no judge" I cross my hands in my lap holding my nervous; hopping it isn't what I think is it. "I went out with someone; group of friends at a night club and things got strange but a good strange " My hands uncross underneath the table as I drop my shoulders. "How strange?" I nod my head. " We made out" I felt my lips turn up but the sight of Dante's face expression didn't seem like he was proud of it. "That's a good thing Dante" I reach across touch his hands but I slide them back to my chest allowing the waiter to put our food on the table. "Its a he though" My eyebrows go up and my lips spread apart clearly shocked. "Oh my .. well Dante if that makes you happy then I am happy for you" I let out a half cheerful sigh out taking a sip of my coffee that had been place a few seconds ago. "So who's it?" I ask taking another sip of my rich coffee. "That guy with that sliver Mohawk...umm " I cut him off. "Him! Charlie?"  I almost choke on my scone. "Be careful, are you sure his just playing with you?"  Dante knows I am sometimes blunt to the point with him and he doesn't seem to mind it. "And who care's maybe I want to discover new things" His deep voice betrays him. His so manly that no one  would assume that his gay or has gay fetishes.  He shrugs his shoulder finishing the last bite of his croissant.  "Just please wear a condom" My voice is almost a whisper.  We walk out the shop ten minutes earlier then normal taking the longer route to French Class where waterfalls and a side park is. Bonum amicum tuum Dante say's while reaching out for a hug. Translation:- Your a good friend. I thank him back in Latin with a bold voice "J'essaie" Translation:- I try.   We enter through the open doors of our class entering the fourth row in front taking the two sits on the right side on the room. The Teacher walks in with a red hat on her head, a strip black and white top with short red dress on with shiny high heels. She hold a brown bags of Bread in her right arm. This must be her tenth time dressing up in costumes to teach us the languages in the French world; which is Latin, German, Spanish  and Arabic. She greets everyone in her French accent and then ask us how do you say bread in German. A  few hands goes up but she always picks some who hadn't had there hands up. I had my hand up but Dante didn't. She of course picks him. All the hands go down as everyone starts staring at him.  I write on my notepad Kehabaz nudging his elbow to glance down on my page. He clearly had forgotten it. The eyes that stared our way looks away now at the front. "Thank you" Dante whisper into my ear. The teacher takes off her red hat; off of her head and throws it high leading into a students notepad. The guys face seemed annoyed  but then amused. The teacher points to him asking  him to speak in Latin to her about her hat.  " Iactis insanis vestra bona proni in turbam incideris"  Translation:- Throwing your hat into a crowd is brave especially when it's beautiful; But not at beautiful as you are. Latin is such a romantic language that the teachers response was priceless that leaves half of the class in laughter and the others where making boo sounds.  The class felt like it was taking  longer then normal  today. The Teacher writes on the white board and then she checks her clock on her wrist; she takes off her high heels off saying something in Spanish; she dismiss us and then heads out a paper that is the French news ladder.  No one declines it and other two in front take two just incase.  Dante stays at my side while we walk into the cafeteria but we divide going to our tables where our group of friends  are at; Dante waves me off walking to the  right direction and I go to the left side where I see Daisy and Lisa in line picking food onto there trays. "Hey" I line behind Daisy as she puts Greek salad onto her tray. "Losing  weight is so depressing" she sighs rolling her eyes.   Daisy has a more meat on her then Lisa but I'm the biggest one out of us three. "Who told you need to lose it?" My voice is in a high pitch, sounding offended.   "No one" she shrugs her shoulders looking at my tray as I put a  plate of creamy pasta onto it  as if I needed to change my eating habits. "Your perfect they way you are, stop worrying" Lisa  puts a orange fizz drink  on her tray trying to push it along her full tray and pays the casher lady.  "Thank Lisa" They both walk off  leaving me behind slightly a few steps to our table. "Hey Fiona how are you? Hannah taps onto my elbow as her long Hazelnut hair swings loosely on her back as she invites me to a bond fire she's having tonight.  I didn't answer how I was but I just said "Sure" Giving her a small smile. "Bring some of your friends along yeah?" Her skin on her face becomes thick around her cheeks  transforming  her little button nose into a wolf nose  and then back. Suggesting our kind. "Sure" I nod slowly as I call Drake through our bond. "Awesome Peter will send you the details" Peter walks by us with Hunter there both had a  surprised expression on their faces.  Hannah and the two of them walk to there tables as I take a sit next to Lisa who is now picking at coleslaw with her fork. Tingles on my spine tells me Drake is near "I got invite to a thing tonight with Max's group, could I bring Nancy with me?"  No response comes through twisting my the pasta around my fork and into my mouth. "No she's to young"    In other words she'll spill like a can of beans under pressure if Max  or the rest of the pack tires to get anything information out of her.  "Who can I bring then?" I send a pinching pins through the bond sending waves of frustration. " Fine Nancy  can come but I'll be on watch" his voice is a whisper. "You now that you can't follow me all the time, they will be able to smell you"  Leading to our cover being blown. "Nancy and I will be okay"  The tingles on my skin sets at bay while the sire goes silent. "So are you and Dante finally together?"  A burst of laughter escapes as I nod my head. "No, were just friends"  Feeling like a broken record. Daisy pouts her lips and frowns. "You two would make a great couple"  Lisa  holds her mini mirror in her right palm applying her pink lipstick on but she pauses. "You said that about Peter and I, look were we are now"   She close's her mini mirror and set her lipstick aside onto her tray. "Oh whatever" Daisy rolls her eyes putting an  olive into her mouth with her fingers.  The subject stopped but we did talk about other things that made us laughs and forgets about dating dramas.   After lunch the sky becomes darker with the clouds hiding the sun, Peter's text message comes through about the details for tonight as I make my way to Sculpture Art class with Dante meeting him half way past the science lab.  "We'd be the greatest couple"  Dante  voice sounds sarcastic. I give him a light laughter trying to ignore the embarrassment pit in my stomach. I'm the only person who knows about his shape shifting  powers; well yes his Ex-Girlfriend  had known too  about it but she had moved back home in New Zealand.   We all have secrets and this is Dante's one. Great hearing comes from his fox jeans but down side to it is that he always heats  up; always keeping a safe distance is not rude in Dante's eyes. The first time I saw him transform his whole body went on fire burning his clothes  into ash leaving him into a complete nude.  The heat was unbearable even through I was standing a few feet away from him; the little hairs on my arms smelt like they had been burnt and my arms felt very warm. The heat had stop once the transformation was done. His little cute orange fur body but don't fool him, his pointy teeth are not cute and small.  That's when I'd told him mine; minus the Drake part and other wolf packs.  I am much taller and bulky then him in the Canis family. Dante can change into basically anything that is bigger like a bear or smaller then a lizard. "So I'm going to a bond fire tonight did you want to come?" He pushes his hair off his face frowning. "I might of found a pack within this Uni" He cuts me  off "Really!? more like you" Once again in a sarcastic voice. We take a seat in the front row onto the right side of the room. "Maybe there could be more like you" my voice  is in a whisper. "I hardly doubt it" He takes out his art sketchbook out place it onto his lap. I was about to question him again but he nods his head seeing my mouth open slightly. "Fine; I guess when your ready" I give him a soft smile as I take out my sketchbook out. The teacher comes around the room with a few colors of  large size block  of clay putting on each table as she passes. "Thank you" Dante say's grabbing the block of clay. Not sure if he was referring to me or the teacher.  "I'll Think about it" Dante bravely responds finishing his draft in his sketchbook and then opens the wrapper to the clay.  After ten minutes had past I'd started on my clay of a penguin on a small ice block; The subject of  our class of the Clay is, What global disasters  will face in the Future.  It's a bit of a bleak subject that had been picked by the teacher but I guess it helps us get aware of helping the earth for the future.  Mine is an obvious art of clay, The Antarctica is slowly melting away leaving a penguin alone one an ice cube because the earth line zone is getting thinner due to our contamination from air fuel, noise pollution and light pollution.