" said Topher. "You look good."Estrella accepted her drink from the bartender. "You know, your social skills are getting better every time I see you. ...ot that long ago, you never would have thought to reassure me about something like that."Topher smiled. "Give me a couple more years, I might even be more advanced than the kids in your class." I would say you already are, but some of those kids are really precocious," said Estrella. "You haven't lived until you've been smooth-talked by a. "There was no denying that understatement. Still, the bigger shock for mewas almost how little all of this really changed my feelings. Certainly,there had always been the basic assumption that I would go back to whatI'd been once this mission was completed, but I'd gotten so lost in mywork and so comfortable with my new life that I hadn't even thought aboutit recently. I'd been doing interesting work, and I couldn't deny that Ifelt wanted by Oswald. That feeling had burrowed deeper into me than. Shoving the last bite of my sandwich in my mouth I walked up stairs to my room sitting at my desk finishing my math home work I was done about 4:30pm not to bad only an hour and a half I put it I. The math section of my binder then walk down stairs to the kitchen taking my phone off the charger it wasn't fancy just a simple LG razor but it was good fliping open my phone to reveal a missed call from Charlie arguably my best friend, I went to voice mail did what the annoying machine told me to do. The other rule is never, ever attack a human, especially in your wolf form. Even if it's self-defense. You'll have to answer to the Council if you do and the punishment can be severe."That didn't seem too hard. I couldn't imagine telling anyone I was werewolf. A couple of weeks ago, I'd have assumed anyone telling me that would shortly be staying in a rubber room. It was all too weird to be real. I finished making the cookies while Evan had another cup of coffee."Hey Evan, What's Noelle's phone.