"Hey Liv, are you coming to dinner with me after school?" Megan looks at me questioningly as we sit in the last class. Chemistry, I hate chemistry. All this talk about alkanes and that crap just doesn't make sense to me.

I look at her briefly apologetically and then back at the board, "sorry but I have to go home now. My... er, mum really wants to eat everything with us and my dad is coming from work especially." I immediately feel guilty because I have to lie to her, but would it be better to say 'hey, I'm a werewolf and I have to run through the forest today...