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hallway to our first classes.
    My eyes darted to her curious gaze.
    “ He’s like Blake; he never really talks to anyone outside of his group. What did he say to you?” she asked.
    “ Honestly, he didn’t make much sense,” I revealed. “He said he wanted to talk to me and told me I knew what it was about. I’m not sure he’s playing with a full deck of cards.”
    Keri laughed and I couldn’t help the smile that spread across my face.
    “ Only you would think the hottest guy in school was crazy.”
    She hadn’t known me long, but she knew me well already.
    “ He’s not the only crazy in this school,” I added, remembering Blake’s conversation with me had been just as weird.
    “ Do tell,” she instructed.
    “ Blake also made no sense,” I told her.
    She laughed again as she shook her head.
    “ Let me correct that: only you would think the two hottest guys in this school were crazy,” she restated, trying to keep a straight face.
    “ Maybe it’s something in the water,” I said with a shrug.
    I wasn’t going to waste any more time thinking about those two idiots.
    “ Have you seen any wolves before?” I asked when I remembered the wolf I’d seen watching me last night. Even memories of the dream were still fresh in my mind.
    She stopped for a moment, my question clearly taking her by surprise.
    “ Yeah, I’ve seen a couple. I once saw a huge—and I mean huge—black wolf,” she said as she held her arms out to give me an idea of the size she was talking about.
    “ I didn’t think that wolves could get that big,” she added as her arms fell to her sides and she started to walk again.
    “ I think I saw the same wolf,” I murmured. It was nice to know that the wolf I’d seen last night hadn’t been a part of my imagination.
    “ Did its eyes glow like an amber color?” she asked in a whisper, like anyone who overheard us would think we were nuts, and then we’d be joining those two crazy idiots in the white-padded room.
    My eyes met hers and I nodded. A foreboding feeling settled in my stomach at the confirmation that we’d both seen something that wasn’t possible. Instinctively, I knew that there were too many strange coincidences for all of this to be nothing. There was definitely something strange going on.
    In my first class of the morning, my annoyance grew when Blake breezed into the room and dropped into the seat at the desk next to me.
    I glared at him and he smiled back. He was deliberately trying to annoy me and I could feel my temper spring to life. Not wanting him to get the reaction he was working for, I turned to look out of the window and ignored him as best I could.
    “ Not talking to me this morning?” he asked in a teasing tone. Ignoring him wasn’t helping, so I swung my gaze back to him as I gripped my pen in my hand tightly to try and keep my temper under control.
    He leaned back lazily in the seat, smiling at me when he noticed I was trying to keep my temper under control. I so wanted to wipe that smile off his face.
    “ Leave me alone,” I hissed at him in a whisper, not wanting to cause a scene. The class was starting to fill up.
    “ I wish I could, but I can’t,” he said cryptically as he leaned forward. His smile began to wane. I could see the joking was over and he was very serious.
    “ We can’t leave you alone,” he added.
    I was about to ask him who was the ‘we’ he was referring to and why they couldn’t leave me alone when the teacher walked in the classroom. Blake’s gaze held mine until I turned to face the teacher.
    I wasn’t going to let him say things like that to me without explaining further, so when the class ended I made sure I grabbed his arm just as we exited the classroom.
    “ You need to explain what you meant earlier,” I told him as he turned to face me. His usual light-hearted and teasing look was gone as he looked at me.
    “ I can’t tell you,” he explained and then added, “Just know that Cade and I are the good