Chapter 2- Happiness

Over the next few weeks I tried to give Tsume a chance. A chance to get to know me and so I could get to know him, maybe he wasn’t as perfect as I thought. It was weird to hang out with him in almost all of my classes, and almost every girl talked bed about me to my face or behind my back. Some days I felt mad at him because if I didn’t hang out with him then I wouldn’t be pushed around. But whenever someone seemed like they would seriously hurt me he stepped in and would protect me.
It was Saturday, I was sitting at my kitchen table eating a bowl of cereal when I realized something- I knew nothing about Tsume’s home or about his parents. ‘I don’t like him so why should I care?’ I reminded myself silently. I had stopped eating and was staring off into space, but when the phone rang I came back. I ran to the phone and answered it,
“Hello?” I asked, it was Tsume,
“Hi, Kira?” he asked. I told him yes, he said something but I didn’t hear. “Hey are you listening?” He asked, I snapped to attention,
“N-no, sorry could you say it again?” I said now embarrassed,
“I asked,” he began, “if you wanted to go somewhere, or go do something, because I’m bored and I figured you would be to.” I thought about this for a while.
“Well I guess we could go out, I did want to check some places out…” I trailed off waiting for his reaction. He replied calmly,
“Ok, I’ll meet you at the school and then we can go from there.” I nodded, then realized that he couldn’t see me and I quickly uttered a yes. He said goodbye and hung up and I did the same. I stared at my cereal a moment longer then went upstairs. I got dressed slowly, thinking carefully about how I was going to tell him where I wanted to go. I picked a white beater with brown polka-dots. I was looking through all my pants and realized, they were all in the laundry hamper. ‘I really have to do laundry.’ I said not too happy with myself. I opened my next drawer; it had only one idem in it- a brown miniskirt. I groaned but put it on. I looked outside and went back to my dresser. I picked out a half sweater that tied in the front, also brown. I tied two long light brown ribbons in my hair, each on one side of my head. I looked at myself in the mirror and looked uncertain, but I was running out of time. I put on my socks and slipped on my dark brown shoes. I grabbed my keys and left, locking the door behind me. It took me three minutes to hide my keys in the bushes outside my house then twelve minutes, running, to get to the school. I sat down to catch my breath. I eventually stood up waiting. I stood facing to the left of the school, the way I had come. I suddenly felt a hand on my shoulder, no sound of footsteps or his breath. I whirled around and Tsume was there. He smiled, I shivered. He looked at me,
“Not the way I thought you would look on a Saturday.” he said. I was blushing gently,
“W-well you look different too.” I stammered. He was wearing dark blue jeans and a long black shirt with a white panda head on it. He was also wearing a black hooded zip up jacket.
“So where are we going?” He asked me. I tilted my head to one side,
“Well I wanted to go to the park.” My voice dwindled down to a low whisper. Tsume looked at me then blinked,
“Fine, but why?” he asked. A blush steadily crept across my face.
“Because I’ve haven’t been to a park before.” I explained sheepishly.
“Never.” He said staring at me,
“Well once when I was little but I don’t remember it.” I looked away, and I didn’t want to look at him.
“Then come on, lets go.” He said, he grabbed my hand and started to lead me in the direction of the park. I twisted my hand out of his and sprinted ahead. I looked back, he looked confused, but then he understood that I was challenging him to a race. I saw a gleam of adventure in his eyes as he sprinted forward and caught up to me easily,
“You can’t beat me, I’m a wolf.” He told me, he said the word as though it were obvious. I just panted.
“We’ll see!” I exclaimed and ran ahead but he caught up again, he wasn’t even out of breath yet. He started to pass me but I couldn’t catch up. He slowed down and grabbed my hand to pull me along. We reached the park and I collapsed on the ground. I let go of his hand panting for breath. The park looked deserted; there was no one in sight.
“There’s no one here?” he said simply, I shrugged,
“I’ve passed this place a lot and normally there are tons of kids here, but whatever.” I got up and brushed myself off. I started walking, he fallowed me. We came to a swing set, I sat down, he blinked.
“Do you want to swing to?” I asked him pointing with my head to the other swing beside me. He nodded,
“I guess so.” He said, and then he sat down on the swing to my right. I started to swing he did the same.
“When I was in grade school I used to swing all the time, I would swing high then jump off.” I told him, “It was really fun.” He smiled and jumped; he was really high in the air then came down again, landing neatly on his feet. I slowed my swing down and jumped off, jumping forward.
“Wanna swing again?” Tsume asked me, I nodded. When I went to sit down Tsume was there, I squeaked in alarm. He wrapped his arms around my waist and started swinging. I was blushing violently now, struggling with something to say,
“S-so do you turn into a wolf often?” I asked the first thing that came to mind. I felt his hands stiffen. I turned around slightly his smile faded.
“Whenever I feel like it,” he said, I nodded in acknowledgement. “Lets not talk about it again.” I nodded again. I rested my hands on his, and enjoyed swinging in the breeze. To someone like me it was pure happiness.

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