Chapter 2

“Hey, Ice. Your camera….” Alice stopped immediately when she saw Isis on the ground, crying like a baby.

Alice rushed to her in a frenzy, “Ice! What happened to you? Why are you crying?”

Isis looked at her friend while the tears refused to stop. Can she trust Alice, too?

No. Fatima knew her secret all along, and the first person she would burst it to was Dalton, her boyfriend. She got up from the ground and eyed Alice for a split second.

“Leave me alone,” She whispered and ran out of the basketball arena. Her sobs were suppressed by the cheering students.

Alice stopped chasing after her after losing her amongst the crowd. She went back to their seat with petrification, “Something is wrong with Isis. I met her crying”

Fatima took a long sip from the Caprisun juice and stared at a space before standing up, and then smiled. “She must have a lot to get off her mind. Perhaps…”

“We should go find her,” Alice was concerned.

“You can run along. But I have other things to do,” Fatima cut her off and walked away.

Alice ran her hand over her hair, feeling foolish at the attitudes of her friends.

Back at Isis, she finally stopped running when she got to the bank of the deserted swimming arena, which was once overpacked with a crowd.

She breaths erratically. Her head reeling.

At this moment, her phone beeped and she slowly checked on it only to see a message from her mum saying, “Come back soon, princess. Remember I told you about Max, my boyfriend from Vineyard Pack? He’s around and wants to meet you….”

“No!!” Isis yelled in frustration and threw the phone into the water in frustration, while the lump of tears came bursting in great currents.

“Goddess, why?” She cried bitterly and fell beside the blue water. “I… I just wanted to be happy!” She yelled, her scream rhyming with the screams coming from the basketball arena.

But surprisingly, a hand suddenly poked out of the water bearing her phone, making Isis stagger back in momentary shock.

The head of whoever it was followed, and standing before her, dripping wet.

The fellow who had no swimming cap on shook his head, releasing droplets of water from his hair onto Isis’s body.

Then he reached out and gave her the phone, “You threw that on my head.”

Isis’ jaw dropped!

Just how many surprises for today? She cried in her mind as he was still holding out her phone.

Sniffing, she took the phone from him with shaky hands and got to her feet instantly to get going, but he pulled her hand, and due to the water sprinkled to the side of the pool, her leg slipped, and Isis fell back into the pool with a loud thud.

She wailed immediately her body came in contact with the cold water; she cannot swim and also being a stealer, her wolf hates water!

Isis struggled aimlessly in the water while the boy, whose intention wasn’t to pull her into the pool, struggled to gather her in his arms and pull her out.

When they finally got out of the water, Isis lay on the ground, breathing shakily, water coming out of her nose and ears.

The guy ran to the side where his backpack was, and fetched a towel to try covering her up.

“Can you speak?” He asked with concern.

His words angered Isis, who sat up and beat his chest angrily, “I fell into the water because of you bastard!”

The guy was totally astonished. “But I only wanted to give you your phone and….”

“Don’t talk to me!” She snapped back and got to her feet immediately, yanking his towel off.

Samuel Armani watched the feisty girl walk away angrily, still drenched.

‘She’s got quite an attitude!’ his wolf commented. He nodded in agreement.

He turned around to pick his towel so that he could wipe his hair and also leave the pool side when he noticed that his small ring was gone.

Samuel Armani looked around with trepidation. That ring was from his love.

When he couldn’t find it, he has no choice than to swim back into the pool.

When he found nothing, Samuel got discouraged and came out.

“Damnit!!! That’s the only gift I have from Tiara!” he complained bitterly.

*****

Isis felt she couldn’t continue anymore. Fatima was nowhere to be found, and Alice was begging to know what had happened.

After she had returned the camera and all equipment to the person in charge of them, she set out to go back home instead of staying back for the night party organized to celebrate the EPC victory.

“Oh Fuck it!” Isis growled in pain as she remembered the message her mum sent about meeting someone.

She was in panic now because she was halfway home and couldn’t go back to school.

She decided to settle at a guest house, “Just for tonight,” she thought and booked a room as well as some bottles of tequila to gulp down her heartbreak and anger.

She hadn't drank up to two cups when the ethanol began to affect her brain.

Since she had chosen to drink outside the room, it was difficult for her to get back to her room.

Isis kept bumping into the wrong room each time. But when she got to room 96, she mistook it for her room 69 and opened the door since the door was unlocked and rushed to the bed immediately, sprawling drunkenly.

Meanwhile, Samuel Armani just finished his bath after being grumpy since he exited the pool. He dried his hair and walked into the bedroom naked to put on his pants when he saw the crazy girl from earlier, lying on his bed!

Samuel gasped in horror. How did she know he was staying at this guest house, and why was she in his room?

Did she perhaps come to return the ring? He gulped hard and tapped her, “Hey!”

Isis rolled drunkenly, and raised her head, “Oh, it’s the fish boy.”

Samuel frowned. What sort of name is that? He noticed her gaze was fixed on a particular part of his body. His frown deepens, “What….?”

“That is the fish boy’s fish!” Then she laughed hysterically, “The fish boy’s fish is very big.”

Samuel’s eyes widened immediately when he realized she was looking at his exposed ¢ock. He immediately turned around to grab a towel, but he wasn’t so lucky….

A hand tapped him from behind, unmistakably hers.

Samuel turned around slowly, meeting her dull eyes that stared at him blankly and strangely.

“You can take my bed and drop the ring on the table. I’ll just step outside,” He whispered and attempted to break free from Isis’s stronghold again, but she grabbed his shoulders with her two hands, pouting, Isis asked, “Did you think being a stealer makes me a slut like my mum too?”

Samuel was in a tight spot. He doesn’t even know who her mother was!

His brow furrowed, he was still naked, and goosebumps had begun to kiss his skin.

His wolf growled inside of him, “She reeks of lust. Her wolf is also horny. She's a stealer indeed and could...….”

“I can’t fuck a stranger!!” he cried in his mind, “I can’t betray Tiara!"

Isis pulled him again, “Fish boy, did you really think I’m a slut?”

“Hey-” he wanted to tell her to stop calling him that and drop his ring but her lips was right before his own, pouting... "Huh?”

“I-” he attempted to talk again, but her lips were already on his. Not like she was kissing him, but she’s so close to doing that already, and thinking of his lover and the ring she made him loose, Samuel pushed her back.

“Hey, did you realize you’re with a guy? And, did you bring my ring?”

Isis’ brain snapped. “What ring? Are you saying I’m just like my mum?” She withdrew dejectedly.

Samuel was frustrated. ‘Guess she doesn’t have it’ his wolf cooed.

“Okay” he pacified. “I’m sorry. But why are you here?”

Isis turned to the bed. “I would have gone back home if Mom hadn’t texted me to meet her boyfriend and it’s killing me so much that I-” She paused, alcohol tampering with her brain again making her gulp.

Samuel sighed and put on his shorts before walking to the bed and sitting beside her, “Yours is still better. I ran from meeting my new stepmom. We’re in the same shoes. But you can’t just walk into my room, and –”

Her face and pink lips were close to him again. His breath almost caught in his throat, and Samuel blinked hard. “C-Can you step back, please?”

She giggled like a happy kid and edged nearer instead of backing off, “We’re in the same situation, right?”

“Yes, but I don’t mean you should edge too close to me. You can’t move too close to a guy,” He scolds her, barely keeping his cock in check from exposing his developing sexual urge for her.

“But you smell good,” the drunk Isis pressed again, this time her lips directly at Samuel’s.

“If you want this so much, then I think I have no choice but to just-” He almost gave in to his urge when his phone rang and the ringtone was the special ringtone he set for Tiara's call.

Samuel jumped up immediately and picked his phone. He was about to pick the call was Isis who was sleepwalking fell to the floor with a loud thud.

He dropped the phone to help her up and before he got the chance to pick the call, it has ended.

“Good lawd!” he growled at Isis. “Just how much more did you have to do?”

He turned around to call his girlfriend again, but she wasn’t picking up again.

Samuel dropped the phone with sorrow. He’d promised to pick Tiara’s call always but this drunk girl….

“Rrrrrr” he growled wishing he could just push her off the bed again but what he heard beside him was little snores.

He had no choice than to fall beside her and before he could know it, he was also snoring.