WALKING INTO THE WOLVES' DEN

"We?" Emma muttered out aloud. It can only mean one thing. She thought. Derek and Maya could be back, or perhaps it was just Clem and Anthony.

"Who was that? Family?" Professor Perkins asked, watching the lines that smeared her forehead whenever she was in deep thought.

"No. A friend." She replied.

"I see…" He said, wondering immediately if it was a male friend or female friend that was worrying over her. The probability that it might have been a male friend that had called to check on her caused a tightening in his guts.

What the hell! He voiced out on his mind, not believing himself at the moment. He was going macho over a human girl. His twin would laugh the life out of him when he hears about this.

"He was checking upon you?" He asked, unable to keep the suspension on the caller's gender; and so, he wisely posed it as a question, trying out the masculine pronoun of which his instinct was vying for.