In the crowd, the applause were immediate. Despite the injured, the townspeople like the idea that one of them is strong enough to bet a wolf master and reckless enough to bring him in the village. Claim the place of FIRST Hunter is an old tradition who was lost. Put it back up to date is popular. Long live traditions! Shawn became the star of the village in a few seconds.

But no one asks him what he really wants. The first hunter has rights. Shawn has requirements. But about who and why? No townspeople asked him. The injured have been brought to the health center. We left the arena.

I have a mountain of questions! However the one who burns my lips right now is: Why the Mouse has her nose in my fridge?

"Diiiane, lovely deeeear BFF! You don't have Cheese cake? No candyyyyy? But noooo! It's impossible!"
"Damn it, little girl! Who are you?"
"Me? I'm Mina but you can call me Mimi! And me, can I call you Didi?"
"Not even in dreams!"
"Not really welcoming you vixen friend, my friend!" intervene the Wolf Master.

He observes the surrounding sitting on the window sill in the living showing me his back.

On the couch, he left his sweater with a black hood.
I look at him: he's wearing a black T-shirt with cut sleeves. I see that his arms are muscular and his skin is dark. On his left shoulder to his elbow goes down a long tattoo made with blue ink.

"Shawn! Who is this guy?

The sheep, at the same time, search in a cabinet in the entrance and takes two blankets out without paying attention to me.

"Why are you taking these blankets?"
"We'll spend the night together," he announce calmly.
"Hihihihihihi," fun the Mouse. "You are so enterprising, Shawnpet! But I'm not this kind of girl. No no no!"

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"You, a girl? You're just a little rat!"grunt the Wolf Master

He turns toward me, his sharp smile and his steel blue eyes are going through me. It gives me a funny feeling.

"You'll sleep in the living room," announce Shawn to Mimi and the guy.
"You're not at your home, the sheep!" I said angry. "By what right do you install these strangers in my little two-room?"
"I introduce you Wolfgang and Mina but you can call them Wolf and Mimi. Now that they are no strangers, let order pizzas."
"Wolf the wolf and Mimi the Mouse? Are you teasing me? What is this two balls humor?"
"These are code name, of course!" explain Mimi. " May I call you Foxy?"
"No!"
"Rookie? Like in Rox and Rookie?"
"No!"

She pout. Damn it, she's super cute! And Shawn smiles at her. Does Shawn likes cute and feminine girls? Ball in my stomach. Is this girl his riding hood. Does she spend her days with him?

I pass my hand in my hair without knowing what to do. Am I jealous?

Shawn heads toward my room and I follow him.

"What are you doing with this pillow?"
"I sleep with my head raised. This is what a pillow is use for," he mocked me and put in on my bed.

I freeze.

"Why do you put in in MY bed "
"Tonight, I sleep with you!"

The lightning could fall upon me and it wouldn't give me as much effect as this sentence.

Shawn... are you kidding me?

He took off his T-shirt and I see his torso naked with a large scar, like a burn.

"A souvenir off my meeting with Wolfgang" he explains to me, seeing that I'm observing him.
"Why... why do you uncover yourself?"
"To take a shower."
"A... shower." (I repeat everything like an idiot. I'm about to break down.)
"I now you're use to see me after sports class but... we're going to sleep together and I prefer not to... smell the sheep."

He's joking...

I see him leaving in toward the bathroom. He has a few burns in the bottom of his back to.

I sit on my bed and look at the two pillows. Shawn and me... the idea of our bodies so close prevail in my mind and I feel the blood going in my cheeks.

"This is stupid!"

There's nothing between the two of us, even if I hope sometimes. Nothing at all and he's making fun of me. My heart beats loudly. I hear Mimi beside, she's ordering pizzas. Shawn and Mimi? Impossible! Well, I hope.

I have to calm myself. I close my eyes and focus.

Inspire. Expire. Inspire. Expire.

It's fine... I calm myself down, lying on the bed.
Everything is fine. Today, I failed my exam, Shawn arrived with two weird guys, someone tried to kill me and now I have a wolf and a mouse who order pizzas and a sheep in my shower... and maybe in my bed.

Oh no! Nothing is fine! That does not calm me. I open my eyes. Two gray pupils and curly black hair a bit humid are on top of my face.

Shawn. A towel around his neck. Naked torso. Less then five centimeters from me.

I don't move. If I stand up, our lips will collide.

"Shawn," I whisper. "What's wrong with you?"
"I'm first hunter," he said with a shy smile.
"First hunter? I don't remember this tradition. What does it gives you the right to?"
"To you!" he said and my belly contracts.