#11: Spirit Animals

Ryuu-fuckin-Gavril:

"(Link)"

I frowned down at the text not knowing how to feel. Trying to appear inconspicuous, I swept my eyes across the classroom and caught sight of Leo near the back of the room. It was free period, so everyone was doing whatever they wanted. Leo was talking and laughing with some friends as per usual, though he had some books laid open on his desk which his friends had congregated around.

I looked back at my phone.

Me:

"This isn't porn, isn't it??"

I had just put my phone down on my desk when Ryuu's rich laughter boomed above the chatter of everyone in the classroom, making everyone turn to him. My lips

twitched in a small smile when I saw him clutching his phone to his chest as he leaned back in his chair still laughing.

When he calmed down some, he bent over his phone and started typing-

"Dude! What's so funny? You gotta share!" Lucian peeked over Ryuu's shoulder. "Is it that girl again?"

Ryuu had a grin as he shoved his friend's face away. He seems to do that a lot. "Yeah. And?"

My phone vibrated then, and I turned back around in my seat to check his reply.

Ryuu-fuckin-Gavril:

"You have no faith in me whatsoever, do you? It's not."

Still feeling a bit suspicious, I made sure to turn down the volume, before tapping on the link. As I did, I heard one of the girls at his table ask. "What girl?"

I couldn't resist looking over my shoulder. Ryuu was still grinning but didn't seem like he was going to say anything. Lucian rolled his eyes and answered instead. "He was given a wrong number at this party two weeks ago, and he's been texting her ever since." He smacked Ryuu's arm. "Dude! You don't even know if she is a girl!"

So either Ryuu hadn't told his friend that he sent me his nudes or Lucian is covering for him.

The link sent me to a site that made me raise a brow. It was one of those personality games, and this one was to find out what your spirit animal is. I'm pretty sure I took one before, courtesy of Megan, and if my mind serves me right, I was a sloth. But sometimes these things are so different from each other that you don't get the same results. I kept half of my attention on Ryuu and his friends as I answered the questions.

"What would you do if she's some creepy perv?" The same girl asked, and l almost scoffed.

"That's what I'm saying!" Lucian said.

"Knock it off," Ryuu finally spoke, his voice holding just a hint of annoyance, though a quick glance at him showed that he was still grinning. The guy was good at keeping his emotions off his face. "Until it's proven otherwise, I'm going to take Eleanor at her word."

I don't know why, but hearing him say my name made me tingly all over.

The test came to an end, and my spirit animal was apparently a butterfly. Was that even possible? But that wasn't what shocked me the most. It was the fact that at the bottom, it showed what other animals you were compatible with, and according to the test, I was compatible with monkeys, hawks, and wolves.

I went back to my inbox.

Me:

"I'm a butterfly…"

Ryuu didn't reply, and it wasn't until much later when I was in the middle of my last class that he did.

Ryuu-fuckin-Gavril:

"Legit??!! Dude! I'm a wolf! We're compatible!!"

That shouldn't have made me as happy as it did.