The next day we all decided to skip school, in order to show Arthur around Beckley. Okay, fine, I did so to show him around Beckley; Warren, Stefan, Catherine and Axel just didn't want me to stay alone with him, so they made an excuse to hang with us pointing out that even I was fairly new to the town and didn't know about most of the 'cool' places. I guess they all were somewhat afraid I'd try to run away with him, but I wasn't that stupid. I was going to attempt to escape again, but not with him. I was going to try after he left. There was no way I was going to endanger Arthur's life, and that too at the hands of wolves.
"What's wrong?" Axel asked me, snapping me out of my thoughts.
"Nothing," I replied, almost too quickly and then immediately regretted it. "I'm just a bit tired," I sa
