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know I don’t own you but we made an agreement.”
     
    “So,” I retorted, throwing her favorite word back at her. I was going to tell her that this had all been preplanned, which it had been.  In fact, I’d change the meeting place to show her a little respect.  I didn’t want to parade another girl around town if she had already told people we were together.  I wasn’t as heartless as Brody and Shelli thought.
     
    “Don’t bother,” she said.  Here it comes, I waited. But she surprised me. “Get this girl out of your system.  I know how you are, but I expect you will never let me find out if you stray.”
     
    How in the hell was I supposed to answer that?  So I didn’t. “Flynn,” she said a moment later.
     
    “Yeah,” I replied, still perplexed by this girl.
     
    “Are we in agreement?” she pressed on.  I wondered if her face held the frown I could hear in her words.
     
    She had to be the strangest girl I’d ever been with. “Sure,” I said.  It had been what I’d agreed to, a partnership.  And now it seemed like the deal included an uncomplicated relationship with mutual giving and taking.
     
    There was a breath of silence before she broke it. “Good, because I have plans for us,” she proclaimed. “We will rule the school.  You’re like the king to my queen,” she added confidently.
     
    Okay, that really wasn’t in my plan.  But whatever, I wasn’t going to knock a gift horse in the mouth. “What about Jay and Kathy?” I asked. Everyone knew, although it wasn’t spoken aloud, that those two had an unearthly beauty about them.  They also had the longest standing relationship in high school history that began in junior high.
     
    “Fine,” she said. “I’ll agree about those two but if you ever mention it in public, I will deny it.  The point is we make a powerful couple and next year we will be on the throne.”
     
    I wasn’t quite sure if I understood her meaning.  Was it the homecoming or prom court or school in general?  But now wasn’t the time, I heard a car in the distance and knew the twins would be getting there soon. “I, ah, gotta go.”
     
    Silence.  I expected her easy demeanor to change.  She’d surprised me again.  “Talk to you later lover boy,” she crooned, sounding again like the girl she’d been when she first called.  She was definitely an eccentric one.   But it may make things interesting in the meanwhile.  After my quick goodbye, I hung up.  Luke’s posture straightened from the causal position he had a second ago.
     
    The guy just stared out into the trees in a battle ready stance.  I looked at the empty bottle that hung in my friend’s hands.  He’d managed to drink the whole thing by himself and I wondered how he was still standing.  Following Luke’s eyes out into the distance, I saw movement.  Someone or several someones were headed our way.  Coming to my feet, I hoped Luke was sober enough to be effective in a fight.  Just then, six figures came stepping through the tree line that bordered the gravel drive.
     

 
    Chapter Five - Luke
     
     
     
     
     
    My head was swimming, but I had to focus in case there was danger.  All my senses told me it was friendlies.
     
    A loud noise erupted from Flynn’s pocket.  It was the opening line to Bon Jovi’s classic song “Shot through the Heart” A nd you’re to blame. You give love a bad name sounded out .
     
    I watched while my friend pulled his phone out and studied the screen a second before shoving it back in his pocket.  No doubt some girl that wasn’t’ important to him. 
     
    When the pack came out of the woods in arrow formation onto the gravel drive, I let the question of who was on the phone go.
     
    “Chris,” Flynn said, greeting the head of the shifter pack.
     
    “Thought you guys were here.  We felt a demonic presence in the woods,” Chris said looking around trying to figure out who might be with us.
     
    Flynn frowned. “We