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I stopped breathing as Dastien walked into the room. Imogene ran to him and put her arms around his waist. He put his arm on her shoulder as she talked to him. He jerked back at something that she said, and then his gaze found mine.
Shit. I sank down in my chair. Being in the middle of a soap opera wasn’t my idea of a good time.
“She’s really pissed. I love being right. I knew I was going to like you,” Chris said. He blew me a kiss.
I pretended to catch the kiss and press it to my cheek, and then I looked behind me again. Dastien stood still, ignoring Imogene. His eyes were glowing, but I wasn’t sure if he was staring at Chris or me. My heart sped up. Was he going to come over here?
Dastien spun on his heel and left the cafeteria, slamming the door behind him. Imogene stood there for a second, staring at the door, before going after him.
I ground my teeth. She was out there alone with Dastien, and I despised her for it.
I was so dumb.
I thought back to the vision I’d gotten from Imogene. It seemed like I heard her current thoughts, which was odd. It’d happened before—when someone was drunk or when it was Mom—but it was rare enough to throw me a little off. If my visions were coming back, I needed to put on my gloves. I leaned in my chair enough to grab the cobalt ones from my back pocket. I slipped them on, trying to make it look casual, and felt instantly more like my old self.
A glance around the room confirmed that everyone was still staring at me, probably waiting for my reaction. I smiled at Chris. “Hopefully Dastien won’t come back to bite me this time.”
Chris laughed. “So I heard you had a little early morning adventure.”
Meredith dropped her fork with a loud thunk. “She didn’t?”
“Yup.” He grinned as he leaned back in his chair. “Brant Thompson won the pool.”
“Damn it. I was listening for the door.”
Good thing I went out the window.
“Window,” Chris said.
How did he know? Oh God. If he knew, then who else knew?
“Again?”
The jerk was enjoying making me squirm in my seat. “Yup,” Chris said.
“If you were going to try to run, why not tell me so that I could win?” There was a hint of whine in Meredith’s voice.
“Uh. Sorry?” I cleared my throat. “Was everyone in the entire school in on this?”
“Yes,” they all answered as one.
“Wow. That’s really embarrassing. Can we talk about something else?”
Meredith crossed her arms. “No.”
“Okay…”
“If you’re going to run away again, you have to make sure it’s next Tuesday during fourth period.” She punctuated her words by banging the table. “It’s the only way you can make it up to me.”
Holy hell. How dumb did they think I was? “I’m not going to run away again.”
“Yeah, you are. Every once in a while there will be a Were who marries a norm and doesn’t tell their partner about the whole going wolf thing. It’s a hot mess when their kids come here. They always run away. And you were an actual norm. So, you’re due a couple more runs at least.” She paused. “Tuesday. Fourth period.”
Meredith had somehow managed to turn something uber-humiliating into something kind of okay. I could’ve kissed her for that. “I’ll see what I can do.”
“Fair enough.”
I tried to bring the conversation back to something normal. “So, what are the teachers like here? Tough? Easy?” I said as I tugged at my gloves.
