jump back instantly and gasp. ‘Hi Dusty!’ He said smiling as Dusty frowned and walked past him, ‘No Dusty wait!’ he called after her and ran in front of her making her stop.

‘What do you want?’ She said sternly.

‘I came to show you the way…’ he said smiling.

‘Well I don’t need your help!’ She said walking past him again not looking back.

‘Is that why you’re going the wrong way?’ JD said smiling as Dusty stopped and turned around to look at him.

‘Look I don’t need your help, I’m not the wolf you were looking for, I’m just a husky and I’m going back to the town where someone can take me to Nome!’ With that Dusty turned around and began to walk in the right direction.

‘Let me help you then.’ JD said calling after her as she looked back at him.

‘I don’t need any ones help…’ With that Dusty kept walking not looking behind her. JD quickly walked up beside her but she refused to look at him as she walked. Finally Dusty snapped as she turned to him, ‘Go away JD!?’ she said gritting her teeth.

‘Please let me help you.’ He said looking up at her with his blue and green eyes. Dusty sighed and finally nodded.

‘Just take me to the town then go....’ She said looking up at him before she kept walking with JD beside her with a chessy grin on his face.

As they walked Dusty couldn’t help but frown, why was he insisting on helping her? Why did he follow her? Why can’t he just leave her alone? Looking at him in the corner of her eye Dusty thought to her self that he wasn’t even that charming he was just stupid with his different colored eyes and grey fringe and his always flirting personality, he was so annoying and what kind of a name was JD?! She kept walking not noticing that the sun had gone down at the moon was out lighting up the snow which reflected the moonlight making it appear almost like it was day again.

‘Tell me Dusty what’s it like being a dog?’ JD asked looking at her, but she didn’t look back up at him.

‘I live in a warm house with an owner who looks after me, they feed me and look after me and I have great friends who I can always depend on.’ She said smiling before stopping and looking at JD. ‘What about you, how’s being a wolf?’

‘Well for starters we don’t get our food served to us on a silver platter…’ Dusty frowned but didn’t say anything, ‘…my pack is so close we are more like family then friends, we’re free and can go any where we please and we sing to moon when were happy or lonely.’ He turned to look at Dusty as they kept walking sighing to himself, ‘There is so much you don’t know Dusty…about what it means to be a wolf.’

Stopping Dusty looked up at him and shook her head, ‘No JD there is so much you don’t know about being a dog.’

The two kept walking until finally Dusty saw a glimmer of light in the distance, she smiled as she jumped excitedly and began to run towards the edge of the forest, JD quickly ran beside her and stopped her. ‘Wow hang on a minute there.’

‘Why?’ Dusty said a smile extending across her face at the thought of returning home.

‘The people around here don’t take to wolves to well we should wait till all the people are asleep and all the lights are off.’ JD for the first time had a very serious look on his face and Dusty simply nodded as they walked closer to the town. The two stopped on the edge of the forest and looked at the town.

‘I’ve been meaning to ask you Dusty what’s that thing around your neck?’ JD asked looking at Dusty who looked at her collar and smiled.

‘It’s a collar I wear it because it signifies I’m a mail dog!’ She said proudly holding her head up high, JD smiled down at her and for some reason she blushed.

‘It’s pretty classy maybe I should get one?’ He said smirking.

Hearing people the two quickly ducked low in the dark and watched as a few people emerged from a nearby house. Instantly Dusty stood up her mouth dropping open it was her owner the one she thought had died when Striker had taken her away from him. Her tail behind began to wag as she stepped forward a step and then another one. ‘No Dusty wait!’ JD yelled out but Dusty didn’t seem to hear as she ran forward towards her owner. The people suddenly saw her and she recognized one of them as the person who had hit her owner the other day.

‘No Dusty!’ Her owner called out as Dusty growled at the other men.

‘Restrain that animal!’ One of them called out as from behind Dusty a man crept up and through something around her neck. She growled as she tried to free herself.

‘Its my dog not a wolf!’ Her owner called as Dusty struggled against the rope trying to break free. She watched as her owner was dragged into a nearby house and her attention quickly went back to JD and she instantly swung around looking at the forest. ‘JD!’ She yelled trying to find him in the darkness remembering that he had promised if she called his name he would help her. ‘JD help me!’ she yelled as the man pulled hard against her rope pulling her away from the forest and towards a building.

The man pushed Dusty in to a room taking the rope that was holding her and tying it a hook on the wall before he slammed the door behind him locking her in the room. She quickly ran to the door and began to paw it but it was locked and she couldn’t get out. Running to a window where she could see across the street she could see her owner nearby a window looking back out of it and for a moment they looked at each other before he was dragged away from the window which had strange metak bars on it.

Jumping down she ran over to a side window where she could see the forest but she still couldn’t see JD, she pawed the window and it opened but as she tried to jump out she realized the man had tied her down so she couldn’t get out, she was trapped. Sitting down she looked up at the window for hours hoping JD would come back...

Slowly the cold woke Dusty up as she looked up at the window, she jumped up seeing a shadow and thinking it was JD she ran to the window and pushed it open a little as the wind blew snow in to her face making her close because it was so cold. ‘JD?’ She called out as she opened her eyes but she only saw the dark forest. Jumping down from the window she sat back down on the floor and hung her head low. How could she be so stupid? JD had probably allready left seeing her run to her owner he must of thought that she was accepted back by her owner... but she was so excited to see her owner that the dog inside of her ran forward whilst the wolf others claimed she had in her was pushed aside. How could she truly be a wolf when she relied to much on people who hated and feared her because of her wolfish appearance? All she knew was that wolves and humans didn't mix so did that mean she could never again be accepted in to a home? She had not only run away from those who needed her help the most but also from JD who only wanted to try and help...all because she wanted to be a dog again...but that was now impossible.

She tried to remember her father but only blurred images came to mind, she remembered her mother and how soon after she was born was taken away along with her siblings to where she had never found out. Could see truly be the wolf that they all seek to help them? Looking at her reflection in the glass window she didn’t know who was looking back at her, she was a dog, but then why did she look like a wolf? She was so confused and she hurt inside truly knowing for the first time that things could never go back to normal. Sighing Dusty raised her head up high remembering what JD said and howled not because she was happy but because she was truly alone and for the first time in her entire life she felt more wolf then dog. She felt a fire burn deep inside and for the first time in her life a hatred she had never felt before of people came to her for looking her away, trying to kill her, and for hurting her owner...she growled out aloud.


PART 3 COMING SOON