I laid in my bed with my blanket up over my head hoping that my blanket would be enough to suffocate me. There was a knock on the my door, but I didn't get up.

"Y/n?" I heard come from the other side of the door, it was Mina.

"Come in!" I called, but I didn't come out from under the blanket.

"Okay, I got you your stuff." She said and I felt the bag hit near my feet. "I also got you some nice treats!"

"I hate you." I told her, and I felt the bed dip near me.

"I love you too." She told me. "Anyway I gotta get going. Have fun~!" She said and heard her leave the room. But the dip in the bed didn't go away. I slowly peaked out from under the blanket and sitting next to me was Sero. I screamed and tucked myself in the corner of my bed.

"Calm down it's just me." He laughed at me, but now was not the time to be laughing.

"Get out." I told him and pointed for the door.

"I just wanted to return this." He said and held up my book bag, I had left it in the classroom when I ran.

"Okay, thank you." I told him. "Now please get out." 

"Mina explained it to me." He told me, and I felt like I was going to have a stroke.

"I'm going to kill her." I said and threw the blanket over my head.

"Hey it's okay." He said and I felt him touch my leg through the blanket.

"No it's not." I said, and kicked his hand away from me. "None of this is okay."

"Why not?" He asked me.

"It's hard to explain." I said. "It's a fox thing." 

"Well I'm pretty sure this whole thing is a fox thing." He laughed, and I couldn't help but growl at him. "Come on you can tell me."

"Foxes. . . . ." I said, and took a deep breath. "When us foxes find a mate we're attracted by scent."

"And you found my cologne attractive?" He asked.

"More than the cologne." I said. I slowly reached my hand out and felt around until Sero grabbed my hand. A tingle ran up my arm, just from his touch. "It's your touch. Your presence. You're scent alone by itself without a perfume to enhance it."

"So you find me attractive?" Sero asked, and I could hear the smile on his face.

"Yes." I said, but I wasn't smiling. I pulled my hand back under the blanket. "And that's why it's so bad."

"How is that a bad thing?" He asked. "I mean you've talked about how you think celebrities are attractive before."

"Yes attractive." I agreed with him. "But not mate worthy attractive." 

We both went silent, and I was getting really hot now under the blanket.

"You, want to-." Sero finally started saying something, but I couldn't let him finish asking.

"And it's bad, because it can't happen." I said.

"Well, why not?" He asked, and it didn't take my fox ears to hear the hurt in his voice.

"Because it's not the fox way." I said. "I have a duty as a fox."

"A duty?" Sero asked, and I could hear he was getting upset.

"My family, is old school." I told him.

"Old school how?" Sero asked me.

"Arranged marriage type, old school." I said, and Sero didn't say anything. "My kind is a dying breed. And we have a duty to do everything in our power to keep our kind alive. I have a duty to-." The blanket was suddenly yanked off my head, and I looked to see Sero angry.

"To hell with your duty." He told me. Sero grabbed my face and kissed me. I immediately melted into the kiss, and I could feel my tail twitching an wagging against my bed. 

I moved forward and crawled into his lap, and straddled him as I kissed him back. I opened my eyes while we kissed and when I looked down at him, my mind suddenly snapped back into reality.

I pushed myself away from him and fell onto the floor. I backed away from him and wiped my mouth, as much as I didn't want to.

"No, this can't happen." I said, and cover my face. "I have to marry another fox! My parents and kind are depending on me."

"And what about you?" Sero asked me and got onto the floor with me. "What are you depending on?" 

"You getting out of my room." I answered.

"Well I'm not going anywhere." He told me. 

"But you need to go somewhere else than here, especially right now." I told him.

"Why?" He asked me and grabbed my face and made me look at him. "What's so bad with me being here? Other than you're getting flustered?"

"Because every second you're here." I said and leaned forward towards him and he kissed me again. "I get more and more wanting, to claim you for myself." I said and without meaning too I crawled back into his lap.

"What's so bad about that?" He asked me, but I didn't stop kissing him as I felt his hands on my back and waist. I kissed down his face and to his neck where when I opened my eyes, I wanted nothing more than to bite down on it, and claim him as mine.

He held his head back, he was so willing. So eager to have me do this, without knowing what it actually means.

I threw myself off of him and I back up against the wall covering my mouth hoping my fangs would go away.

"No! I can't claim you." I said. 

"Why not?" Sero laughed.

"Well it's not like a mating claim. Claiming you now, like this is only temporary as long as the relationship lasts." I said. "But a mating claim is for life, or until a mate dies."

"Then what's so wrong with having a high school fling?" He asked, me and suddenly I had more control over myself.

"A fling?" I asked. "That's what you want from me?"

"No, no, no!" Sero said and tried getting closer to me, but I backed away from him. "That came out wrong. I'm just saying, if you claimed me now and later down the road we change our minds it's not a big deal. Right?"

"That's not the point." I said.

"I know it's not." He said and touched my arm. I tried pulling my arm away from him, but he didn't let me get away. "Look, would claiming me help you while you're in heat?"

I laughed. All I could do was laugh.

"Definitely not." I said.

"Okay, you made that sound like it's obvious." He said, and I gave him a look. "I'm not that smart." I laughed some more, and rested my forehead on his chest.

"Claiming you, especially right now." I said and I moved my head closer to his lips. "It'll only make me want to take you completely for myself." I kissed his throat and his hands slid up my arms. "And that runs the chance of us being in bed together. And me claiming you as my mate for life."

"How does that work?" Sero asked me and kissed my lips, and I had to pull myself away from him. 

"A mating claim, can only happen if we sleep together while I'm in heat." I said and put my face in his neck, and I opened my mouth. My fangs wanting to take him. "And I claim you while we're in bed."

"Well then we don't get in bed." He said, and I rolled my head away from his neck. 

"Sero~!" I whined, and he laughed at me as he hugged me. I took a deep breath, and took in every part of his scent. And when I released it I picked myself off the floor, Sero too, and I took him to my door.

"Wait hold on!" He said and stopped me from closing the door. "If you won't claim me, then can I claim you?" He asked me with a smile on his face.

"What?" I asked, and he opened the door and put his face in my neck and started kissing it. Every second his lips were on my neck, I wanted to throw him on the bed. I held onto his sweatshirt and pulled him to me. He held me in place as I felt his arms wrap around me and my legs went weak. He finally released my neck and looked me in the eye.

"Will you be my girlfriend?" He asked me, and I felt my heart flutter. He laughed and looked behind me, and so did I. My tail was wagging, and right now was not the time for it. I grabbed it and held it.

"I . . . . ." I started to say, trying to get my brain to think clearly.

"You don't have to claim me." Sero told me and made me look at him. "But I do want to be with you, as more than friends."

"I would like that. . ." I said, and I wanted to keep going. I placed my hand on my neck and where he gave me a hickey.

"But?" He asked, and I took a moment to think everything over. I shook my head.

"But nothing." I said. "I'd like to be your girlfriend." He smiled wide at me, and took a step back but didn't let me shut my door. He took his black sweatshirt off and handed it to me.

"This should keep you entertained for a while." He said, and kissed me on the lips before walking away towards his room. I slid his sweatshirt over my head and it was so much bigger than me. I looked down at the sweatshirt and smelled it. That was until I understood what he meant.

"You pervert!"