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you get in another fight at
school?” Of course, it had to be me that was hurt. I squirmed to get around
Damian.
    “You can’t go out there,” he whispered
     “I have to. If I don’t they might hurt her.” I started trying to
squirm around him again.
    He pushed me against the wall. “Stay here!” He growls, “I’ll make sure
she’s safe. I mean it Sara, don’t move! I’ll be back.” It was like he was
yelling at me, but in hushed tones. I could barely hear him, but he knew I
understood. He quietly opened my closet door and left me there as he closed it
behind him.
    I was so scared, I couldn’t feel my legs. I quietly crouched down until
I was sitting on the floor. I couldn’t hear Damian’s footsteps in the hall. Was
he still in my room? I heard my bedroom door creaking open and I would have
thought it was Damian sneaking out, but I heard a small whimper that I assumed
had to have come from Aunt Lynn.
    I pulled my knees up to my chest and waited. The door opened and the
footsteps entered my room. Damian had gone to make sure Aunt Lynn was safe and
now I was here by myself. The footsteps came towards the closet and stopped. I
heard the sniffing again.
    Suddenly it sounded like two dogs fighting. I heard whimpering and
yelping and I didn’t know what was going on. My closet door was made like
venetian blinds. I crawled to the door and peeked out. I couldn’t believe my
eyes. There were two dogs fighting in my room.
    I picked up my dad’s hockey stick that I kept in my closet as I stood
up. I managed to sneak out of it, but one of the dogs jumped at me. The other
one head butted it just before it bit.
    The second one turned and glared at me as if to say get back in there.
That cost him though because the other one grabbed his leg and tossed him
across the room.
    The first one turned to me again and I swung dad’s hockey stick just
like he showed me when I was little. Smack! Yelp! The first dog hit the wall.
He didn’t get back up. The other one started toward me slowly and I raised the
hockey stick. It lay down as if to say “I won’t hurt you.” I put the hockey
stick down slowly and the dog, no wait, it was a wolf. The wolf came over to
me. It grabbed my shirt in its teeth and pulled me back in the closet. He
looked at me again like he was telling me to stay put. I nodded and shut the
door. I heard whimpering again. I didn’t try to peek this time. I heard someone
or something dragging what I assumed was the other wolf out of my room and down
the hall. The front door shut and I heard the locks engaging. Then I heard
someone running down the hall from the kitchen.
    Aunt Lynn burst into my room. “SARA?” Should I answer?
    More footsteps came down the hall. “Sara, it’s me, Damian. You can come
out now.”
    Damian? “Is it safe?”
    He comes to the door and opens it. I’m huddled with my knees against my
chest again. He crouches down and takes my hands. “It’s okay. He’s gone.” I
jump into his embrace and he holds me tight against him. “Can you stand up?” I
felt kinda shaken, but I tried anyway and fell. “Whoa, we keep meeting like
this.” He laughs. “If I didn’t know any better I would say you were falling for
me.”
    Aunt Lynn just looked at me with huge eyes. “Will someone explain to me
why a huge dog was just drug out of my apartment and while you’re at it, why
don’t you throw in why there is a teenage boy in your room?”
    Busted, what could I tell her. She wouldn’t believe me if I told her
the truth and I can’t lie to her. “If I could try to explain Mrs.? What did you
say your aunt’s name was again?”
    “My name is Lynn Thielman. I’m a therapist.”
    Here we go. “I just started school with your niece today. I saw her
walking in the rain on the way home from school and thought I should pick her
up. When I stopped someone tried to grab her off the street and I fought them
off. I got a nice mark on my arm here to prove it. So she invited me up to look
at