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"Ulysses, though?" He shakes his head and pushes me through the same door. 

Ulysses pulled me in and said, "Run, he'll be fine, these people have been looking for you for hours, now go run and don't look back, kid." He closes the door, and I leave. If he says that Ulysses will be okay, that's fine.

Just a few houses and I'll be there. There's a small path that leads to the entrance of these woods, where a few houses are. Juana and Jose aren't as wealthy as I am, but they take classes with me because their parents work in the reserve of the woods. The governor lets them do this because this is our greatest pride, even though it's just the woods. When I get to their house, I stop in front of a truck, and when I see the door to their house open, I again duck down. I looked at my watch and saw that it was just after 2 p.m. Nobody was supposed to be home, so I crouched down to the side of the house where this truck belonged. That's when I heard a dog growl.

Why do I turn my head to see a sad Chihuahua? This breed of dog is the most annoying of all time. I try to quiet it down, but it starts barking again. "No, no, no, hush, quiet down" I was looking for a place to hide when I heard a small growl come from my backpack. 

The chihuahua ran back into its house, which was strange. I run and hide in a small storage unit for garden tools. I can see them moving around through a small hole. I silently hope they leave, but I'm so close yet so far away. Just as I think they're about to leave, one of them starts to open the storage, no-no-no. The sound of a rifle being loaded can be heard before he can open the door.

"What the hell do you think you are doing on my land?!" When an older woman yells, "Have you seen this girl?" they step back and ask the same thing they did in the kitchen. I don't see what she does, but I hear them walk away, and then I hear her speak again. 

"I'll give you one last chance to leave on your own. After that, I won't ask you again." People in the group start to go back.

"We don't mean any harm, madam. the guy stops talking when he hears a gunshot, "Start! Get off my land!" Another shot is heard, and it sounds like someone is running, but I can't tell for sure because I can't see anything. 

When I think everything is fine, a woman walks up to the storage room and opens the door. She points the gun at me and raises her other hand to tell me to stand up. I stand up and put my hands up to show that I'm giving up.

"I'm not trying to hurt you, I'm just running away, and the dog almost gave me away." She nods and tells me to walk to the back of her house, where there is a small hole. She points to it and tells me to get on my bottoms. I'm a little confused because I've never seen this side of my best friend before.

"Follow it until you see a small opening. That will be your friend's house. This small hole is to help those in need escape. Don't ask me, ask them when you see them." I nodded and squatted down to drop into the hole. 

"Ouch!" I take my bag off and open it. The puppies get out, and I put my bag back on my back. "Go straight, guys!" I tell them, and they walk with me as I crawl to the end.

Smart dogs, seem to understand everything I say. We get to a small hole that is covered by a ball. I push it with my hands and it pops, but I can't get in with my bag. I look at the black-haired puppies, and their eyes are red and wired, which scared me for a second, but I need to get in through that hole right now.

As I talk to the dogs, I sigh. "Can you go in and figure out a way for me to get help?"

They go in and dig the hole bigger so that I can fit. I squeeze into Juana and Jose's basement, walk over to the door and put the metal lock on from my side. I walk back to the broken sofa they have down here and fall asleep face-first on it. I am so tired that when I close my eyes, I fall asleep right away.

Harper's POV

We were finally out of that box, but we shouldn't have run so far from... Where had we been? I can't think of it. I hear my twin brother talk through the mind link as I think about where we were.

"Should we let her go? She is sleeping, so no one will come here to look for her.' I roll my eyes when he asks.

"No, and don't you feel attracted to her? I ask him, and when he looks back at her sleeping body on the couch, his ears go down and he gives me an annoyed look.

"Then you felt the same way?" Grate, I guess we're stuck here, what a mess we've made of things this time.' He replies, "Trust my twin brother to be down for the most stupid reasons."

"You don't want to leave while these poachers are looking for her, and from what we've seen, you're not up in the North.' When I answer him, I hear him grunt, and he shows me his teeth to show how angry he is.

"Calm down, I know you want to get out of here, but we need to think and then act, or think while we act would be best for our survival." He sniffs the air with his snout, which is cute.

I walk up to this girl and smell her hair. It smells like vanilla and salt caramel, and she smells really good. I wonder who she is, how old she is, and if we've met before since I've never seen her before. Cooper jumps on her back and starts to sniff her like a wolf as I try to look at her. One of my ears goes down and I tilt my head at his tracking.

"Do you know where she is or can you smell her?' When I ask him, he gives me that annoyed look again.

Cooper walks down and changes into his human form. I do the same thing. I'm glad she's asleep because if she woke up and saw two teenage boys in the room with her, we would have scarred her for life. When we look around, we find two basketball shorts. They are tight, but they are alright. As we look around, we see that this is definitely a basement full of teenagers, but why are we so hidden?

"Do you know? I think we were drugged and then put in that box. I can't remember who we are or where we're from, but I do remember that you are my brother." When he smiles, I want to hit him right in the mouth.

"That makes two of us. I tried to think but couldn't, it's like a wall. All I know is that I can't leave this girl. She smells like sweet vanilla and salty caramel. Don't you find her irresistible?" I ask my identical twin, who is now starting to smell again. I can't believe I'm related to the same guy who has the same good looks like me.

"I don't smell that. I smell dark chocolate with a hint of cotton candy, and it's making my mouth water. Where is it coming from?" he asks, looking around. "I don't smell that. I smell dark chocolate with a hint of cotton candy. Why me?" I rub my temples with one hand while the other is on my hip.

"Cooper, the girl is making you smell, bro. I don't know why, but we can't just leave her there, because she needs us as much as we need her. If she smells like that, she must be important, and we need to keep her close. It's clear that she doesn't know who we are, but at least we know who we are. We just need to try to remember where our pack is." He gives a nod and rubs his chin.

"Could she be one of us?" I think about it when I look at the girl, but we don't know for sure yet.

"I don't think it's possible, because only our kind smells good, and that includes our mate, but we'll never know until we're old enough. For all we know, she could just be a member of our pack and nothing more. Let's take it one step at a time. Do you agree?" He gives a reluctant nod.

"Sure, if you're willing to wait six years to find out. As of today, we are only twelve. Who knows what will happen, but you are right that this sentence is not very common. Do you think she will freak out when she sees us?" When he asks me a question, I nod. Then we hear footsteps coming down the hill, and we both change back to our wolves.

As I change into Conner, I see Harvey, my brother's wolf, go up to the girl and lay down next to her as if he were sleeping. I go to wake her up because I can hear noises getting closer.