Tommy

The next day the School was packed full of students and teachers, getting ready for the first lesson of the day. Students were going to their lockers to pick up their text books and note books. Teachers were carrying their things to their rooms. I was stood at my locker getting out what I needed.

"Hey, Tommy," a familiar voice said. I turned around, to see my best friend walking towards his locker that just happened to be next to mine. He mentioned before that we have had lockers next to each other since Elementary School,  but I couldn’t remember. I think I would remember having a locker next to him for that long. How could we have never talked and how come I didn’t know who he was until he found out my secret? Anyway,  I was friends with him now and always would be.

"Hey," I said back. Merton opened his locker, placing his coffin shaped bag inside before getting out some books.

"Merton," I said. I should ask him to help me with my homework before I forgot.

"Yeah?" He asked turning to face me.

"Can you help me with my homework? I’m having trouble understanding it," I asked him.

"I’m not a nerd," he replied, shutting his locker.

"I never said you were. I just need help with my homework. If you don’t want to help, I can ask someone else," I said.

"No, I’ll help," he said.

"Okay, thank you."

"Wait have you even started it?" He wondered.

"Erm-well..."

"What you haven’t even started? It’s due tomorrow, Tommy," he said, shocked.

"That’s why I really need your help," I told him.

"Alright,  come by the lair after School. Looks like it’ll be along night," he said.

"Okay," I agreed.

"Alright let’s get to class," he told me, tapping me on the shoulder as he walked pass me. I shut my locker door and followed after him.

                           †††

Our new Geography teacher asked the class a question. He was mean and had a serious temper. You wouldn’t want to get on the wrong side of him unless you wanted a years worth of detentions. No one put up their hand to answer the question except for one girl. I knew Merton knew the answer but he didn’t want to raise his hand for some reason. It was probably because he disliked the teacher as much as me.

"Let’s have someone else other than Misses Know it all, shall we?" He said. See like, I told he isn’t very nice. Although that was the case he never angered me before. I was pretty much calm when it came to things but for some reason to day he seemed to be getting on my nerves even more than usual. Just like that soul sucking guy did yesterday. I didn’t know what was happening too me.

"Dawkins what about you? What’s the answer?" He asked me. Why was he asking me? I didn’t know the answer.

"Sorry Sir, I don’t know," I replied.

"Of course you don’t. At least you’re good at football" he said sarcastically. He was always rude and sarcastic, and I just about had enough of his attitude.

"Dingle?" He turned to face Merton for the answer.

"Tommy is good at other things too, not just football. Yeah, he might not be all that smart but he’s good at quite a lot of things. Of course I’m not quite sure what they are, but he’s not completely stupid," he said.

"Thanks man," I said, smiling in his direction.

"The answer to the question not about Tommy’s intelligence. We don’t care if you think he is smart or not," the teacher said.

"Answer the question," he shouted so loud it made Merton fall out of his seat in shock. He answered the question as he scrambled back to his seat.

"Thank-you and correct."

I could feel myself beginning to growl but I held it back. No one shouted at my buddy like that. Teacher or no teacher, I didn’t like people being mean to him or scaring him. I looked down at my hands because I knew my anger would make me transform any minute. Sure enough they were becoming Wolfy and as much as I wanted to defend my friend, I couldn’t let everyone see me transform. I was really angry. Even more than last night. Angrier than I have ever been. I didn’t know what was wrong with me and it was beginning to scare me. I got up out of my seat and ran outside as fast I could, hiding my paws from view.

"Dawkins?" I heard the teacher shout before the door slammed shut.

Merton

It wasn’t like Tommy to run out of class like that so it could only mean one thing; he was wolfing out. I had to go find him and help him calm down. It could be extremely dangerous, okay so I might be exaggerating a tiny bit, but it wasn’t good that he was transforming right now. The only problem was getting the teacher to let me leave. I jumped out of my seat.

"And where do you think you’re going?" He asked.

"I need the toilet," I lied.

"No, you don’t," he said.

"My bladder doesn’t seem to agree with that statement," I told him bouncing around on the floor, pretending I really did need to pee.

"I’d sit down unless you want to end up in detention with your boyfriend." Boyfriend? Did he just say my boyfriend? The idea of me and Tommy being a couple was absurd; we were just friends.

"We are just friends," I told him.

"Sit down," he shouted. I nodded and ran back to my seat. Tommy would just have to wait till the end of lesson. It wouldn’t be too long because it was nearly the end. Hopefully, he would just be hiding somewhere, trying to calm down.

Finally, the lesson was over. I rushed out of my room, picking up mine and Tommy’s things on the way out. I headed to my locker first to put the books away. Then I went to go find him. I hoped no one had found him. The first place I decided to check was the boy’s toilets.

"Tommy you in here?" I called out after I had entered and shut the door.

One of the bathroom stalls came flying off the hinges, hitting the sinks. It nearly gave me a heart attack.

"A simple yes would have been fine," I said.

"Merton help me," Tommy said walking out of the stall.

"I don’t think I can help you get away with vandalism," I told him.

"Not with that. With calming me down," he corrected.

"Oh, right. Yeah, of course," I said walking over to him.

"Picture a nice, calming scene," I told him and he closed his eyes.

Tommy

"How about a haiku? *Light of the moon. Moves west, flowers’ shadows. Creep eastward," he said. I could feel myself becoming calmer. Merton was the only one who could ever manage to calm me down. I wasn’t sure if it was the Haiku or the calming scenes he came up with or if it was the way he spoke them, with so much enthusiasm. All I knew was he knew how to calm me down and help me change back. "Scene; a beautiful, tropical beach. The wind blows gently through the palm trees," he added and then made sounds to represent the wind.

"Okay, I’m fine now," I said as I opened my eyes. I was back to being the regular Tommy Dawkins.

He stopped.

"I don’t know what’s happening to me Merton. Recently, my anger has become worse and it’s becoming harder to control my wolf side. I’m scared and don’t know what to do. What if I hurt someone? What if I am turning evil?" I wondered, hoping he knew what was wrong with me.

"I don’t think you are turning evil. Evil people don’t worry about becoming evil. Wolves have predatory instincts and you’re a werewolf so it does kind of make sense. Although that’s kind of worrying," he said.

"So I’m going to end up hurting someone?" I asked.

"No, maybe you just need to find a anchor," Merton replied.

"We aren’t on a boat."

"No, Tommy. I mean an anchor as in something that keeps you stable. Something that keeps you human, something that means a lot to you," he explained.

"Like football?"

"I was thinking of something less violent. Something that doesn’t raise your anger. Something like puppies."

"Aww, I love puppies. They’re just so cute and adorable," I said smiling.

"Well next time you are feeling angry and are having trouble controlling your Lycanthropy think about puppies."

"Okay, do you think it will work?"

"It might do," he replied as the door opened. Hugo walked in and looked at the door and then to me and Merton.

"Would you believe us if we said we found it like that when we walked in?" I asked.

"Vandalism isn’t tolerated at this school. It’s not tolerated anywhere. In fact it’s against the law. I should call the cops but I’m in a good mood. That doesn’t mean you are going to get away with it. You have detention after school, both of you."

"It was Tommy not me," Merton said trying to get out of the detention.

"Merton." I was annoyed that he snitched on me. Yes, I was the one who broke the door but still.

"You were both found at the scene of the crime so it looks like you both are responsible. So you both have detention," he said.

"I get detention when you’re the one who broke the door, with your super strength, typical," Merton muttered as we left the toilets and headed to our next class.


So that’s the end of chapter 2, I hope you liked it.


*I don’t own the haiku. All rights go to the original writer. I found it online. I really tried to write my own but I was having trouble doing so. This is where I got it from http://examples.yourdictionary.com/examples-of-haiku-poems.html and it says it was written by someone called Yosa Buson.