THAT NIGHT IT SNOWED

I did tell you our weather had been bonkers, didn't I? It snowed last night, and when it snowed, it stormed.

When I went to my room to get my clothes and shower, I realized why having a broken window was not the best idea. There was a pile up of snow in my room, and my room was freezing. Where the snow had melted was frozen. Even the cup of water someone left on my dresser last night was frozen.

I went to the bathroom and found my bottle of happiness frozen too because I had left my bathroom door opened.

Great.

I guess I've got no choice but to use Savy's shower... And shampoo. I grabbed my poor cold school stuff and dragged them back to Savy's room. At the last minute, I grabbed the shampoo and conditioner to defrost in a warmer place.

Savy was still sleeping. She had come back to her bed sometime last night. I didn't wake up. I only saw her next to me this morning. Maybe she won't have to go to school today. She'd like that.

As the girl who never got sick, Savy never got a sick day off school either. Well, I never got sick either... But I've ever gotten injured while training before.

Oh wait, didn't Savy get to stay home for two whole days after twisting her ankle last year? I had forgotten about that. Oh man, I got in so much trouble for that. We were playing jumping game, and Savy attempted to jump something she saw me jump. I didn't stop her because despite her much smaller size, she usually could jump whatever I did, Savy was an amazing jumper.

She did clear the jump, but she landed badly and twisted her ankle. It swelled so bad that mum and dad (mostly mum) noticed right away.

Why did I get in trouble? Because I was there and I didn't stop her and I should have known better.

Just like the time Savy fell off a log and needed stiches in her head. Oh yeah, I forgot about that too.

Or the time Savy jumped on a chair, only to have it tilt and fall over... That actually broke a tooth. But the dentist fixed it, no problem.

I didn't even get in trouble for that one! Even though I was there because I didn't do it first, I was just sitting down reading on my own chair. I was actually the well behaved one in that episode.

Or the time I dropped Savy down a flight of stairs... But she wasn't hurt. My mum got a scare though.

Actually Savy got hurt a lot more often than I did after all. Or at least, it always seemed to be a whole lot more bad when it happened to Savy.

I've always landed on my feet, or at least never on my head or face. I've never gotten hurt from an accident. And I've never ever found myself in the emergency room, nothing dramatic like Savy's type of injuries. It was mostly training, me running too fast and far, me lifting something too heavy, or me running too fast and far while carrying something too heavy.

And more recently, me being playfully hit by a vampire or accidentally cut by an idiot rogue. Because, lets be honest, Neither of them were seriously fighting me tooth and nail. I guess I was lucky... Or unlucky, depending on how you saw it.

I managed to get ready for school. Savy's soap and shampoo was all in citrus scents. I kind of liked that too, very zesty for the morning.

When I got out, Savy was no longer in bed. I guessed she had gone downstairs for breakfast. I heard after shifting, wolves have a crazy new metabolism rate.

Dad was stomping and grunting in my room though. Out of curiosity, I go take a look. He had shoveled the most of the snow into the shower and had pushed up my bloodied ripped mattress up against the broken window, clean side facing in.

"This should keep the heat in better." He told me. Gamma Harry will be arranging for the window to be repaired sometime today. Our window was curved at the top, but luckily it was a separate piece of glass and dad just broke the rectangular part which was faster to replace.

Romantic gestures are in more than one way impractical.

Mum was excited today. Besides promising me a loft bed, Dad had told mum we could repaint and wallpaper the house. The last time our house had a new wallpaper was the year I was born. Savy was pretty happy too. Dad had said she could have a loft bed if she wanted too.

Wow, Dad was really pulling out all the stops today.

"It's about time. You girls are growing up, and the house is due for sprucing up." Dad said, "If the workmen do a good job, we could give them the contract for the pack house renovation too."

"We're renovating the pack house?" I asked.

Dad nodded, "We have a renovation fund put aside every year for the pack house maintenance. And every ten years or so, we take it and refurbish or update the pack house. I think Beta wants to run data cables and increase WIFI speeds, and we need to upgrade the water heater and heaters for better energy savings. Maybe in spring or summer this year."

That made sense. I guess Dad was running our home in a similar way. Dad going KingKong last night was kind of cool, but I'm glad for the sensible systematic everyday Dad and Alpha that he was even more. It's not as exciting, but it made life continuously better for me and the rest of our pack.

I put on snow boots and my waterproof down jacket instead of the school coat today. It's really snowed in out there. Our pack school might even have a snow day, mum had left her phone on the kitchen table in case the school sends an alert.

But Winderhill was further away, and unlikely to be this badly snowed it.

It's a Wednesday morning, still dark, but the day had started for me. I waited for my bus out to City Gate train station. I'm usually the only passenger on the bus at this hour.

Let's see, I've got my homework in my bag, I've got my travel card and visa. I've got my lunch. I'm okay.

Except that I needed to go to school, get my homework done, and be ready for Wednesday training session later. I hadn't seen Dean since the weekend, and I'm not sure what to say to him now.

I wondered if Savy would be promoted now, since she had shifted, would she be in Wednesday's session? Or rather Thursday's session. Wow. Talk about skipping a grade. I think that made it a double promotion.

I'm happy. Now Savy and I can go to a training session together.