7. Chewbacca
1205 Words
KATARINA
I woke up the next morning to my legs being completely numb.
I looked down and noticed the dog from last night was sleeping over both of them. After seeing that, I tried to shoot off the bed, but he was heavier than me so I failed.
The dog woke up and was suddenly alert as he stood up.
He was pretty damn big for a dog. He couldn't have been homeless for long, if at all, it looked like he was well taken care of.
"It's ok," I held my hand out in front of me and waited for him to calm down.
He relaxed and sat down on the very edge of the bed, as far away from me as possible.
What was I going to do with him? I had plans today. Plans that didn't involve a stray dog. I could leave him with my dad...but then I'd get lectured for brining an animal into the house and I didn't really feel like dealing with that.
And I definitely wasn't about to kick the poor little thing to the curb. What if he died? I doubted that some other animal would try to attack him because he was so massive, but what if he was dumb enough to run out in the road and get crushed by a car?
That would be sad.
"I bet you're probably, hungry," I said while getting up to close my bedroom door. I needed to get dressed and ready for the day.
I pulled my tank top over my head, my upper half now totally exposed. The dog started to whine and look frantic so I quickly put on a purple tee shirt and a pair of ripped skinny jeans. He was probably just anxious for some food, but he stopped as soon as I was dressed.
Pervy dog.
I patted my leg and turned to walk out the door, "Come on."
I left my room and walked out into the kitchen to grab myself a banana or something, half expecting my dad to still be asleep, but no, he was wide awake and sitting at the table with his phone in his hand.
"I can explain," I said to get his attention as the dog walked into the room behind me. "I found him on the side of the road. Normally I would have tried to track down its owner, but he has no collar so I figured he was homeless. How was I supposed to say no to him?" I lied before I got down on my knees and pulled the dog closer to me, trying to show my dad that he was friendly enough. An unfriendly dog would have bit my face off by now, right?"
My dad looked over at me, his eyes widening as he shot out of his chair, "Katarina Marie!" He yelled. "That's not a dog!" For a brief second I almost thought he was scared, terrified even. "He sure as hell looks like a wolf."
I shook my head. He was way too mellow to be a wolf. I honestly just figured that he was some weird husky and bigger dog mix. It could happen, right?
I stood up and snatched my car keys out of the bowl on the counter, "Ok...well me and...Chewbacca here, are gonna run some errands. Some friends want me to help them figure out what to plan for school's winter formal."
"I'm calling animal control, Kat," he said but I took it as a joke. The man wasn't going to make more phone calls than he already needed to. "Be safe," he knew he had been defeated. "And be good, Chewbacca."
Huh. The name fit him.
COLTON
Fucking Chewbacca Rufus Lennox.
That was the "official" name Kat gave to me. She bought a stupid collar and name tag just to make it more real to her.
It was annoying as hell and I couldn't help but try to scratch the stupid thing off me.
I found myself in the second worst place I could think of right now: Sadie's house. Her and her entire family were considered traitors in my pack. I knew that she knew it was me, but knowing her, she wasn't going to say anything. She just gave me bad looks and I retaliated by throwing myself all over Kat just to piss her way the f**k off.
It seemed to be working too.
Some other girl was here too. Her name was like Rae or something. I didn't know her personally, but I've seen her around school before.
"You said you found him on the side of the road?" Sadie asked whilst eyeing me evilly.
Kat nodded even though it was a complete lie, "Yeah. I couldn't not help him. He's too cute."
"I so totally agree," Rae added.
Such ego boosters.
Everything was silent for a moment as I felt all three pairs of eyes on me.
"Have you guys ever had crushes that keep you up at night?" Kat's voice was quiet, almost like she was embarrassed to be asking such a question. My ears perked up at the words and I suddenly paid way more attention to her than I have recently. "It's really stupid because I really only just now started paying attention to the guy, but like, I can't stop thinking about Colt."
Ooh. I liked the sound of that.
"Well, couldn't at least. Chewbacca here," she said as she ran her hands through my fur, "As weird as it may sound, makes me forget all about him. Usually by this point in the day I would have already thought about him a million times, but I haven't until just now as I'm talking about this. The dog's like magic and I love it."
Sadie looked totally disgusted and I took that as a small win over her. Rae, on the other hand, looked as though she had just heard the best story in her life.
"Kat, you really need to let that go," Sadie barely got the words out. She was one big triggered mess and I loved it. "You don't know him like I do. He's a...man w***e. He'll literally f**k anything that has a pulse."
We both knew that wasn't true.
Hell, Kat didn't know anything about me and I could see that she knew none of that was true.
"Can you please tell me what happened between you two?" Kat begged. "Did you secretly date him and it went bad or something? Do you have a crush on him so you're jealous? I'd like to know. Maybe it'll help me get over him even more."
I cringed inwardly.
I'd rather die than be stuck with Sadie.
I wish my wolf could throw up on command. I'd vomit all over Sadie just so I could laugh at her misery.
"We used to be neighbors," Sadie said. I mean, it was sort of true. She lived in my pack, but on the completely other side of where I lived. She shook her head, "I can't talk about it right now, Kat. It's still hard for me."
Wrong.
She couldn't talk about it because then she'd have to tell Kat that she was a wolf.
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