Even though I was happy that Pitt was able to help me and comfort me at that time when I need someone to talk to but I still couldn't trust him because of that tattoo. I didn't want him to suspect me that I knew something about him so I had to play along.
I beamed and turned my eyes toward him. I was happy that at least I had someone out there who cares about me.
"It's time to take off man, I have something that I need to do. If you excuse me." Pitt said getting up on his feet and giving me a hand to stand up.
I stood up and asked him what his real names were because, for the time we have been working together, we never introduced ourselves.
"Peterson Adriko"
"Did you hear that sound?" I asked Pitt after realizing something was right. It was either someone was watching our every move or someone was horrified because they saw me back then shape-shifting into my human form
"What do you mean by hearing that sound? It's not like this is your home or something. This is a forest where all creatures of all kinds hide you must have heard the footsteps of an animal. You think that someone is watching us?"
I knew and I was very sure that someone was watching us. The thing I wasn't sure about was Who it was and what he/she wanted. Maybe Pitt had forgotten that I am a werewolf and can sniff people's scent.
"You go ahead, I am hungry and wanna get something to feed on," I announced to Pitt and glimpsed at both sides. No matter how naive I was I couldn't go back and rest without finding out who it was.
Five minutes later,
I rested on top of the stone in between the woods after running miles chasing a deer.
I managed to feed myself after days of starvation. I rested my hand on my cheek on my hand still having this feeling of being watched and the same scent that I sniffed earlier.
"Come out,"
I maintained my original composure waiting for whoever it was to come out but my eyes almost poked out of my head when our eyes met.
"Natasha! Why are you following me around?"
"I was worried about you,"
"Worried about me? I am a grown-up ass man who can take care of himself."
"According to what happened recently, I thought you might hang yourself. That's why."
"Haha, are you kidding me? Do I look weak to you that I would just give up on her because she did that to me?"
I said to Natasha even when I knew she has been crushing on me since the time we came upon but I didn't want to hurt like I did other girls because she remind me of someone that I treasured the most.
As I expected, Natasha sadly looked away from me but I had nothing to do about her to make her feel satisfactory plus telling her the truth now was better than toying with her feelings when I knew my heart belonged to someone else.
"Are you saying that on purpose?" She asked me sounding rather miserable.
"What if I say yes, would you believe me?"
Without saying anything, Natasha sat next to me and spoke out "You know what? At first sleeping with you was enough for me but since you started avoiding me, especially in times when I seduced you and you never looked at me the way you look at Cassandra. I told myself that I will keep on trying until you look at me in the same way but right now I understand that I don't need to try anymore because of you. I give up crushing on you."
...
"Hi, Lucas it's been a fairly long since we last met. How have you been?" I greeted moving toward him. His eyes were glued to his phone and for some reason, I sensed that he knew what happened to me at school.
"You saw it all, right?" I asked sitting next to him
"Just forget about what happened earlier at school. I am okay it's not that she's the first girl I have ever hit on"
"But Claudia rejected you after humiliating you in front of the whole school and secondly, you broke the Exterminator's rules have you forgotten that No dating is allowed between team members even if it's not between members dating is prohibited? How can you?"
Lucas shouted at me. I didn't think about it before approaching her and right now things were becoming more difficult for me than I thought.
"Do you want me to be like these excellent students at everything from bullying to smoking yet their results are ominous? I have been trying by your orders for years. Can't you let me have what I want at least one time? I never asked anything from you."
I blurted out back at Lucas even when I knew I was asking for the impossible thing from him, especially at a time when we were all at a point in life and death because of Xena.
"Look at yourself GK, trying to act cool yet it's killing you deep down. It's hurting you that Claudia is the first girl who has ever rejected you and now you are dying to let her know that no girl will ever reject you. When will stop that childish behavior?"
I glimpsed at Lucas fuming inside because no matter how hard I had to explain to him, he was gonna believe me that I wanted to settle with one girl.
"Okay, Since you can't let me do whatever I want agreeable, then don't blame me."
******
The next day,
I woke up earlier than ordinary and looked at myself in the mirror, it's been eras since I last did that but today was finally my day to look good before just to show Claudia that I can be the kind of man she wants.