Frostbite

Frostbite: wolves

Dean's pov

After classes were halfway done Cleo, Noah, and I walked to the lunchroom to go and get some food.

"did you guys hear what happened?" Cleo says as she sips her juice through a straw. 

"no what?" Noah asks with food on his mouth.

"well you guys know about the new kid right?" she asks as she takes a bite from her cookie and drinks more juice.

"yeah what about him?" I ask as she looks at the schools building worried.

"while we were in the middle of class he started to cry. he was panicking while he kept saying that his other half was leaving him." she says looking at the table now. "he looked so sad that he made some of the girls in the class cry as well." she licks her lips deep in thought "you guys should have seen him. it looked as if someone was tearing out his heart and ripping it into pieces right in front of him."

"do you know who he was talking about?" Noah asks intrigued.

"no-" Cleo manages to say before I interrupt her.

"his twin sister most likely left the country by now and that's probably why he was crying." they both look at me with confused expressions.

"What do you know about him that we don't and why?" Cleo asks in a threatening voice.

I breathe in and out slowly as I try to show her the sweetest smile that I can possibly muster. "about that."

after I had told them about me engagement breaking off they were able to understand that Skye had to leave since she didn't belong to this pack. 

"so that means that their bond must really strong if it makes an eighteen year old guy cry like that." Cleo says as she sighs. "poor things... if she asked I would have let her stay with me."

"it's not that easy." I say as I put my food down. "her stepfather's job is in another pack and so is her house. she can't just leave it and run around in a strangers pack forever. the rules are pretty tight around here as well with all of the rogue problems that each pack has. even if she was offered a place to stay she would have had to leave eventually."

"life's a bitch." Cleo says as she looks at her food with an angry expression. "nobody should be facing such decisions at our age. "what the hell is with that?"

Ben's pov

Henry had told me that he would wait for me to come back to the hotel room as soon as school finished so that I would be able to talk to Skye about the situation.

I had told him that I wanted to ask her to stay here with me. 

I was going to convince her to sell the house back in the old pack and to buy a new one here at this one so that we could be together and not get separated.

henry smiled and told me to go ahead and do what I felt was best but he ended up leaving with her before I could say a word to her.

I should have expected it though...

Skye had always hated him, she would tell me that there was no such thing as a person with only good thoughts and I ignored her.

I thought that since I was older than her by a minute that I had the right to be the smart one but in reality I always knew that she was beyond smarter than me.

Skye was intelligent, a walking genius in the body of a five year old.

I hated the fact that she didn't need to read a psychology book in order to read through a person, and I'm sure that ever since we were younger she knew that I hated her at certain moments.

"you know, you are all I have right?" she would say right after a bad thought about her would cross my mind. "I'll protect you" she'd say.

I don't know when she started to change.

all I know is that it was before our parents died. 

she began to hate her hair color and began to dye it the same color as our mothers, a light brown shade.

as soon as she changed her hair color she began to wear black eye contacts in order to look more like me. she hated her eye color and I never actually asked why.

I didn't find it important I guess...

"Skye why did you leave me?" I ask as I stand in the middle of a forest. the fog is its heaviest while it's on the ground. 

I walk towards the trees and I stop when I hear the snap of a twig from behind me. I look at that direction and I see a wolf with dark red fur, he walks towards me and I pat its head. he whines as he looks down at the floor with sad eyes as he sighs.

'my wolf'

without warming the wolf turns to look at the trees intently and I look at the direction that he's staring at wondering about what could be so important that he won't even wag his tail when I praise him.

out of the darkness of the trees I see a wolf with dark blue fur.

"Skye you aren't supposed to show anyone your wolf." I say as I walk towards it but it growls at me.

"it's alright he won't hurt us." I hear Skye's voice as she comes out from the woods. 

her light brown hair is now a dark midnight blue, and her eyes are a dark violet. she wears a black long dress and to my surprise she looks nothing like our parents. Her dark demeanor is confident as she walks towards us with a powerful sensation trailing besides her. I don't see any doubt in her eyes about who she is and how she should look. all I see is the confidence in her eyes that suffocates me.

if Skye looks strong without her original hair, and eye color she would definitely be considered a goddess of war if she were to show herself like this to anyone else.

"Black suits you very well." I smile as she sits on top of her wolf. 

"you don't look so bad yourself with that dark red suit." she says as she looks at me and giggles when I look at myself.

"well at least it's not pink." I cross my arms. "why are these guys here?" I ask looking at our wolves.

"I don't know." she says as she stands. "what if they want us to go for a run?"

"are they getting impatient?"

"most likely." she says as she paces from one side to the other. "we haven't used them since we were five."

"but dad told us to not."

"I know" she says as she stops to look at me. "even if we tried we can't."

"what do you mean?"

she looks at me and then swallows hard enough for me to hear it. "well-"

silence fills the air as she looks at the floor whit her arms crossed above the chest. 

"you tried shifting?" I ask angry. "are you serious?!"

"but I still couldn't okay!" she screams back. she begins to bite her nails and paces again at the same time. "dad did something to us, it's like if he blocked our wolves from us."

"what? dad wouldn't..."

"oh yeah, just like Henry would never lie to you." she says sarcastically. "look, we have to hurry up and figure out how to get rid of this because if we don't, you won't be able to claim your mate."

"what are you talking about?" I ask confused. "Scarlett is already mine."

"the love bite genius." she says as she looks at me "you can't mark her unless you can bring out your wolf." she stops to look at me "and once she enters heat, you won't be able to protect her."

"humans can't..."

she looks at me and smiles. 

'quit mocking me'

"I'm not mocking you" she says as she laughs "I just think that for a guy who reads books you are truly stupid."

"are you doing this because I let him take you?" I ask as I take a step closer to her. "I didn't know. I was going to ask you to stay, to sell the house and come live here with me."

"I can't." she says as she crosses her arms. "father could have left some sort of clue about how to get rid of this disease that he implemented on us, and if he did it's most likely in that wretched house."

"Skye I..."

"I'm not mad at you." she bites her lower lip as she rubs her arm. "I just need some time to figure out how to deal with all of these emotions." she looks at me and smiles "I'll visit you once I find more information about these guys." she says as she looks at the wolves. "so for now I need you to wake up."

"what?"

"wake up Ben, Wake up!" 

I hear her scream before I open my eyes and see Scarlett sitting next to me on a bed. 

"Ben are you alright?" she asks as she helps me sit up on the bed.

"where..."

"the nurse's room. apparently you blacked out in the middle of class. are you alright?" she asks worried.

I look at her dark brown eyes and I blush the moment I realize how close we are. 

I reach out for her long black curly hair and I grab a handful of it and gently pull it towards me as I kiss it. "I'm fine now that you are here. thank you Scarlett." as I smile towards her making her skin turn a light pink.

Skye's pov

I open my eyes and I see everyone on the airplane getting up. 

people all around me begin to stretch as they yawn and smile at their companions. 

"we're here." Henry says as he gets up and waits for me to get up.

"Henry, what exactly do you know about my dad?" I ask him as he looks down at me with a troubled expression on his face.

"Skye are we going to do this right now?" he asks as he begins to get pushed by people with bags on their shoulders as they try to get out as quickly as they can.