12

I throw myself on my bed, the sun is starting to set and I can't adjust to the jet lag yet, I'm exhausted. At the same time, I only arrived today, but I'm so happy to be home again.

Now it's late May and it's getting hot. I stare at the ceiling above me and think, think about everything that's happened since I was drawn to go to the Big Reunion. I learned a lot about politics from all over the world and I am now independent. I miss Émilie already, Elsa and her are now my best friends in the same way, then comes Gab, and Étienne? Étienne, where do I put it? Does he occupy the place of boyfriend or not? I decide not and it makes me sad.

Anyway, my position with Etienne was weird. I never accepted him and he did the same, but neither did I reject him. I admit that the concept is weird, when we are soul mates, the wolves "recognize" each other and feel a void when the being is not nearby, as soul mates, we accept where we reject the be. In the majority of cases, wolves do not reject their soul mates. When soul mates have both accepted each other, then they are bonded and don't like to be separated. Finally, there is the marking, carried out by the male on the female, which will show everyone to whom the female "belongs". Soulmates then feel the emotions running through the other.

For me, all of this is extremely complicated, especially since few wolves find their soul mate.

I'm happy because it's Saturday, so Sunday I can do whatever I want and Monday I'm going back to class after 2 months of absence. I'm going to meet some friends!

And professors...

I hear my mother call to the table and I get up reluctantly, dragging my feet. I am literally shattered.

At the table, we eat pizza and talk about me, what I did in New York, if it was good, etc... I feel like I've had this topic of conversation for thousands of times.

Then we finish eating and I go to bed after kissing my little sister, my little wolf.

•••

I get up, it's Sunday!!! It's 10 o'clock, okay, I'm adapting to the jet lag. I go down to breakfast and find Jenna at the table.

I sit down heavily at the table and greet her:

-"Hi! Did you sleep well?"

She responds happily:

-"Hello yes and you?"

-"How are you."

It's true, I slept pretty well.

I realize then that I haven't seen her for 2 months, I don't know anything about what she did while I was gone. So I ask him:

- "Jen, what did you do while I was away? You made other friends, you were sick? Tell everything!"

She smiles and begins her story:

-"I haven't been sick and I haven't made any new friends. But I'm going to tell you everything in detail since the day you left.

Coming home, we were all sad, but mom said you would have fun. We started living without you, I was sad, it's true that it's weird without you. Every morning you cried "goodbye!" going to high school. And there was nothing, it was empty.

A week later, we started to adapt, it was difficult but I invited friends to sleep over and it was fun.

I hung a calendar by my bed and every night I ticked off the day that had passed, then I counted how many days it was until you came back, it was a long time. But I saw that the gap was closing and I wondered if you were thinking about me and having fun, like mom said.

Until the day you came back!!! You know Lou, I missed you.", she finishes speaking and I give her a shy smile. I approach her and hug her, I whisper to her:

-"I haven't stopped thinking about you, and I've missed you too. But there's something you haven't told me about, your transformation." I look at her with an inquisitive eye and she takes a breath before continuing:

-"A month after you left, I started to feel that I was changing. I was growing and I saw that my face was changing slightly. Afterwards I noticed that there was a kind of presence in me, I didn't didn't understand right away. I told the parents about it and they knew I was changing so they told me how to do it. I tried several times alone in the garden until the day I got there, it was too good but it hurt. After I was too happy and I kept starting over. I don't know how many times I've been to the forest, but now I know her like the back of my hand!" I kiss her and laugh with her, then I go to brush my teeth and ask Elsa by text if she's free today. She replies no because she has an appointment with the hairdresser. Shame. I lie down on my bed and against all odds, I fall asleep.

•••

I wake up around 7 p.m. and go downstairs to eat dinner because I heard mom calling us. We eat lasagna and after eating, I go back to my room before going back to sleep.

•••

The next day it's the alarm clock that pulls me from sleep, I growl. It's 7 o'clock in the morning. I remember I have to go to high school so I get out of bed. I quickly take a shower, and go have my breakfast. After that, I say goodbye to everyone before leaving my house to go to high school.

I don't meet anyone on the way, and it's when I get to high school that I see that I missed high school. I smile, I'm happy to get back to my daily life. But everyone jumps on me.

- "It was good, you saw them, New York, boyfriend, friends, restaurants, hamburger..."

I hear dozens of voices, I don't answer anything, I take turns hugging them, smiling at them, then the bell rings. It breaks our delirium and I run to Elsa.

In math class, everyone keeps sending me words, asking me for stuff. For a moment, I wonder if it's the same for Gabriel!

The day passes quickly, I found those I loved even if I had the right to a real interrogation.

At noon, I went to eat with Gabriel and he told me that everyone was asking him questions. He looked drunk, but I had a good laugh.

We rediscovered our bond from the start.

At the last hour, in English, I chat a lot with my neighbors and there too, I have a good laugh. It's when I get home that I collapse on my bed before falling asleep again.