Twenty-four.

Stella POV.

"Can I hug you?" he asks me giving me a very pleading look, I just agreed to be friends with him, and a hug won't kill me right? If we're connected somehow, I want to know more about it, I need to find out more about everything.

"Okay," I say, I was rigid as he got near me, as he hugged me, he took a deep breath near my neck, and a smile got on his face as he let me go.

"You smell so good, it's a wolf thing," he says with a smile on his face, he was too happy while I was still worried, I didn't trust him fully yet.

"Thank you, it's a me thing," I say with a tight smile, I'm trying to smile, trying to act as normal, but it's very hard.

"Do you want to go anywhere?" he asks me.

"No, can't we just stay here? I can't really go, mom would get mad," I lied, I did tell her that I'll be around here and I didn't want to go anywhere with him.

"Okay, we can stay here," he says taking a seat, and I do the same, there were no chairs around here, just tree trunks and some big rocks for