so close. Kodi figured he had the race in the bag. He had won. But then a red and blue blur flew past kodi and then reached the end of the beach. kodi was so shocked he forgot to keep kicking his feet and he fell nose first into the sand.

Kodi stood back up and shook the sand from his face and spat out a mouth full of sand.

"i told you not to cry if i beat you" sasha said laughing.

"im not. Im shocked though. I didn't think it was possible to run that fast" Kodi said in a shocked voice

"well, now you know it is" Sasha chuckled.

As the sun moved it shined straight down on kodi and sasha.

"im gunna go get out of this sun. See ya kodi" Sasha said and ran off toward nome. Kodi walked slowly back toward nome.

Deep in thought kodi didn't even notice as he was back in nome. Only when he bumped into another dog did he snap out of it.

"Sorry" Kodi said looking to the dog he'd bumped in to. It was Asher.

"It's ok. Just pay more attention. Hay!" asher said recognizing kodi "It's kodi right?"

"glad you remember my name" Kodi said

"yea, how could i forget?" Asher replied

"So how you doing? Haven't gotten lost yet have you?" Kodi asked

"Acctually that's what i am right now. Lost" Asher chuckled

"Even her laugh is perfect" Kodi thought. "well where you trying to get too?"

"Home. I was with a friend and i kinda got lost when she left"

"come on. Ill take you" Kodi said glad he could help her again.

As they walked kodi wondered if he should tell her about how she had been in his dreams several times before he'd even met her.

"No, not right now at least. It might creep her out"

 

16

It was now Friday. Dusty had left Sunday.

"Just two days left" Kodi said to himself

Over the last four days kodi had been spending alot of his time with Asher. It was still a mystery to him why she was in his dreams.

Kodi enjoyed being around her. She was fun to be around.

Kodi was now standing out infront of the boiler room. It was late and kodi suddenly found that Asher was right beside him. She was leaning against him. Kodi grinned.

Kodi leaned back against her as they sat there. Only a few minutes passed before the two walked into the boiler room.

 

Standing at the entrence to a back alley across the street from the boiler room was Kirby.

Kirby was surprised to see kodi with another dog. Kodi didn't seem the type who would do that. "No that must have been someone else" Kirby said shaking his head.

"it was just another dog that looked like Kodi" Kirby said turning around and walking away.

 

 

When kodi woke up the next morning he was in the familiar boiler room but one difference this morning. Beside him lay Asher.

Kodi wondered what she was doing there but then he remembered. Then Dusty came to his mind.

"what have i done?" Kodi said and stood up. He didn't feel comfortable being there with Asher anymore. Kodi ran from the room as soon as he got outside.

 

"ok, hopefully no one saw me last night so i can just pretend this never happened" Kodi said to himself. He was inside his dads boat. He'd found a hole on the bottom of the boat when he'd run out to the beach. Looking back at the boat he noticed a small hole in the bottom so he dug through the snow and found the hole was just big enough for him to climb into.

"Asher will be quiet about it im sure" Kodi said trying to convince himself that it was ok.

"Dusty comes back tomorrow. How could i have been so STUPID"

"Kodi?"

"oh no" kodi said recognizing the voice.

"Kodi is that you in there?"

It was Sasha

"Just leave me alone right now Sasha" Kodi said and moved further inside the boat.

"what's wrong?" Sasha's voice asked

Kodi looked back and saw sasha had climbed into the hole and was following him.

"I said just leave me alone" Kodi said. He didn't feel like talking to anyone about what he'd done.

"Kodi you can tell me anything. Now whats wrong?" Sasha said in a comforting voice

"Sasha if i told you what you'd hate me" Kodi said taking a step back from her.

"try me" Sasha said.

"Ok, but i warned you. Im mates with Dusty who's in teller right now but last nght I slept with another dog"

Sasha was quite for a minute then said "Kodi. . ."

"I told you you'd hate me if i told you" Kodi said looking away from her.

"who said i hate you? you just made a mistake. A BIG mistake but we all make mistakes" Sasha said

" I didn't mean to do it. It just sort of. . . Happened. Dusty comes back tomorrow and i don't know what to do" Kodi explained to Sasha

"I dont know either but i know one thing. Your not going to solve anything by hiding in this boat" Sasha pointed out

"I know. I just didn't know what else to do" Kodi sighed

"Well come on. Its too dark in here" Sasha said walking toward the hole.

Kodi stayed put for a minute then sighed and followed her.

 

17

It was Saturday night and all kodi had done was talk to asher about last night. The conversation hadn't resulted very well either.

 

"Asher, i need to talk to you" Kodi had said walking up to asher as she sat on her porch.

"Kodi, ive been looking for you. I had a great time last night by the way" Asher said flashing kodi that perfect smile of hers.

"asher that's what i wanted to talk to you about" Kodi said uncomfortably.

"oh, really?" Asher asked. The smile had disappeared

"see last night was. . . a mistake" Kodi explained. This was where the conversation started to go down the drain

"a mistake?" Asher asked. Her voice getting louder

Kodi had hoped this wouldn't happen. "Im mates with another dog. Last night should never have happened"

Asher swiped at kodi across the cheek which left three cuts. "If you were mates with another dog why didn't you tell me"

"cause it wasn't really any of your business" Kodi said keeping his voice even

Asher turned and walked into the house after kodi said this.

 

Kodi sighed. How much longer before Asher was gunna tell someone about what had happened? Had she already told someone?

Kodi didn't know what to do. Dusty was due to be back in less than ten hours.

"Kodi!" came a voice from behind him

It was Kirby.

"kirby, what" Kodi said turning around

"Kodi i don't want to believe this but last night i saw you, or someone who looked alot like you, walk into the boiler room with that new dog. And what happened to you?" Kirby asked noticing the dry blood on kodi's cheek

"Kirby, im sorry but that. . . was. . . me" Kodi said slowly.

"Kodi what were you thinking? Were you even thinking?" Kirby asked after a moment's silence.

"Kirby i don't know how that happened. It was a mistake. I-" Kodi said but kirby cut him off.

"Kodi this isn't something that just happens. You must have been thinking. You had to have know what you were doing" Kirby said. Even kirby was now sounding angry.

"I SAID IT WAS A MISTAKE" Kodi said raising his voice over kirby's. " i don't know what to do now. I can't tell dusty but she will be back here by tomorrow"

Kirby took a deep breath then said "this is a deep hole you've gotten yourself into"

 

 

18

Kodi walked slowly to dustys. She had to be back by now.

The hole way to dusty's he debated about telling dusty about what had happened. He decided that he wasn't going to tell her.

He could only hope that asher didn't tell anyone.

When kodi got to dusty he saw the last thing he wanted to see.

Dusty was talking with the stunning green and white malamut that was Asher.

"oh no" kodi whispered to himself.

Pretending like nothing was wrong kodi walked up to dusty and nuzzled her. "Hay dusty, did ya miss me?"

Dusty smiled and replied "you have to ask?"

After a minute dusty said "this is Asher. She's been telling me some very interesting things.

"please no" Kodi thought. "really? Like what?" Kodi asked keeping his face straight

"She said she used to live in anchorage. And that she just moved in. She was just asking me if id show her around the town but im a little busy. Would you mind showing her around?"

"sure. Why not" Kodi said and licked dusty on the nose then headed off with Asher.

"what are you doing?" Kodi asked Asher when he was sure dusty wouldn't be able to hear them.

"What do you think. Im just trying to make a few friends" Asher said not looking at kodi

"Asher you didn't tell her about. . ." Kodi started

"Not yet. But if you don't tell her within the next three days i will" Asher threatened

"Asher please. Can we just forget about this" Kodi asked

She didn't say anything else to kodi.

Kodi left her at her house then started back toward dusty's

 

Kodi layed down on the beach. Watching the waves and the water move up the sand then move back. It was only when the water went far enough that it soaked kodi did he get up.

Dusty laughed.

Shaking his fur dry kodi laughed with her.

"So kodi what really went on here while i was gone?" Dusty asked walking over to kodi.

"nothing. Really." Kodi said keeping his voice calm.

"that's not what i heard" Dusty said looking at kodi

Kodi gulped.

"I heard that you and your brother has stumbled onto something about that new friend of yours" Dusty said grinning. "looks like you might have another family member living in nome"

Relieved kodi said "yea" with a slight chuckle.

 

19

Two days had passed and kodi still hadn't told Dusty about the mistake.

Kodi wasn't sure if he was going to be able to keep it a secret from dusty much longer.

He walked around nome trying to think of the best way to break it to dusty. Every way kodi tried he resulted in hurting dusty.

But if kodi didn't tell her today then she was gunna find out from someone else and it would be twice as bad.

 

When kodi finally decided to go to dusty's and tell her about what really had happened, he had walked to dusty's then reluctantly barked. When dusty came to the door she didn't look to happy to see him.

"Dusty i need to tell you something" Kodi began slowly

"if it's you sleeping with another dog while i was gone

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