I glanced up at everyone to see if there was anyone staring at me or playing with their phones. And a lot of them had their phones out, but they didn’t look suspicious to me. Not like they were sending cryptic messages to me or anything like that. But I wouldn’t know for sure who was sending me these messages. They could be pretending that it’s not them.
I wasn’t sure if it was too much of a coincidence or not and I made sure that I kept my eye on everyone that was around me. My mother had always taught me to watch my surroundings.
I didn’t think I would have to do so much of it here. But I guess I needed to watch my back more than ever now.
By lunch time that day I went to my locker and I put my books in it and then I headed out the front of the school.
I definitely wasn’t going to the cafeteria and I wanted to go somewhere where I knew that I could be alone. And I sat at the table out the front of the school. But I wasn’t alone for long.
“Ava.” Someone said from beside me. So I turned my head and Wesley was standing there.
“What do you want?” I asked.
“I wanted to come and check up on you. I saw you come out here instead of going to the cafeteria.”
“Do you really expect me to go back there again?” I asked, looking straight ahead.
He slowly started walking around so that he was in front of me, and he leaned down slightly to look at me but he pulled his head back for a moment.
“You don’t have a single mark on your face now.” He said, surprised.
“I know.” I said.
“I know that werewolves heal fast, but that is incredible.” He said.
“I’ve always healed faster than normal. I don’t know why.” I said.
“Do you want to get out of here?” He asked.
“What?” I asked, looking at him skeptically. What the hell was he up to?
“Let’s skip our last classes and go somewhere. I bet you haven’t let your wolf out since you’ve been here.” He said.
“It’s a little hard to do when we’re in the middle of a city.” I said.
“Yeah. It is. So, why don’t we go for a drive. I know the perfect place.” He said.
“How many people are going to be there waiting for me?” I asked, looking away from him again.
“You really don’t trust many people. Do you?” He asked.
“No one around here has exactly proven to me that they can be trusted.” I said.
“Well, maybe you should let me be the first. I promise that I am not going to do anything to hurt you. I just want to go for a run.” He said. So I hesitantly nodded my head and I went inside and grabbed my stuff without being seen by the teachers and met Wesley outside next to his car.
We drove through the city without saying much to anyone. I could feel the tension between us and it felt like Wesley was trying to fill the silence with words, but he couldn’t think of anything to say.
And I guess, I wasn’t really making it that easy on him either. I was just looking out the window, not too interested in making conversation.
When we finally got outside of the city, Wesley pulled up in a carpark and we went into the national forest.
“Alright. There are usually other animals in these woods, like bears, and they don’t like us. We just need to be careful of them.” He said.
“Are they werebears?” I asked. And he looked at me confused.
“We don’t get werebears around here.” He said. And I nodded at him.
“Will they be able to smell us before we smell them?” I asked.
“We’ll smell them before they even see us. Don’t worry about it.” He said.
So we walked into the woods, and followed it down far enough so that we were away from the road.
I made sure that I stood behind a tree where Wesley couldn’t see me and I took all of my clothes off and I heard my bones snapping and rearranging and before I knew it, I was standing on four silvery paws.
I came out from behind the tree and Wesley was standing there as his reddish colored wolf.
“Oh my god. Your wolf is beautiful. She’s completely silver.” He said.
“I know. And she’s going off at me right now.” I said.
“What’s her name?”
“Kora. What about yours?”
“Drake.”
“I hope you know where you’re going. Because I don’t.” I said.
“Follow me.” Wesley said as his wolf started getting really excited, jumping up and down and playing around.
“What is wrong with him?”
“Nothing. He’s just excited. We don’t get out much either.” He said.
When he managed to calm his wolf down he started running off into the woods and I followed after him, right on his heels.
He would look over his shoulder to see if I was still following and I was there the whole time.
He started to slow down a little so that he could run next to me and as soon as we were in stride with each other, Drake started getting really excited again.
He was trying to play around with me, but he was making me a little nervous. The only other wolf I had ever run through the woods with was my mother, and that was usually training. It was never just for fun.
Drake started nipping at my heels and Kora took over. She charged into his side and laid him out flat on the ground and stood over him growling.
“Wow. Calm down. Drake was just playing.” Wesley’s voice filtered into my head.
I slowly started to back away from him.
“Sorry. She’s never had a wolf do that before.” I said.
“What do you mean?” He asked.
“She’s never had a wolf to play with.” I said, looking away from him. Embarrassed at the confession.
Wesley got up and he slowly walked over to me and he nudged the side of my face with his.
“It’s alright. We’re not hurt. You don’t have to worry. We’re not going to hold it against you. Come on, let’s keep running. I’ll keep Drake under control.” He assured me.
So we started running again, but then I heard this strange noise in the distance and suddenly Drake started yelping and he fell to the ground of the woods.
I walked over to him and he was slowly turning back into his human form, but he wasn’t doing it intentionally. I then saw the dart sticking in his side and the smell instantly hit my nose. Wolfsbane.
I started looking around frantically and I heard something in the distance. Footsteps that were slowly approaching us. I got a glimpse of the gun in a man’s hand who was walking directly towards us and I started to panic. My first thought was to run off and save myself, but then I saw Wesley laying there unconscious and I knew that I couldn’t leave him. I managed to pick him up and get him onto my back very awkwardly and I started trying to run through the woods. It was harder than I thought it would be with Wesley on my back and I knew that I wouldn’t be able to make it back to our clothes and the car like this. So I decided that I needed to find somewhere to hide. I started running in different directions and even backtrailed a couple of times, running around in circles so that man couldn’t catch up with us. I came to a rock formation and I got Wesley up on the rocks while I covered my tracks and got back to the rocks without leaving tracks in the dirt. A trick that my moth
When I arrived at school the next day, I saw that everything was back to normal. Well, my kind of normal. Everyone was staring at me and whispering about me while they were covering their mouths and whispering to their friends so that I couldn’t hear them. I just rolled my eyes, thinking that maybe they had learnt their lesson about pissing me off, but I guess not. Or I guess they just had something else to talk about today. It seemed to be going around though. I saw Leo walking past with a few of his friends, who seemed to have grown in size overnight. He didn’t have that many friends yesterday. But he was showing them something on his phone and when he saw me he made sure that they hushed their voices. I knew that he was behind this. He was doing something to make everyone hate me again. And I wish I could say that I was surprised. But I’m really not. I did think that people were going to start leaving me alone though. So, I put my things in my locker and I walked off towards the ba
As soon as the teacher arrived Wesley let go of me and he winked at me before he walked off to his class and I made it to my desk. During the whole lesson I was sitting there with my hood up, not looking around, although I could feel people looking at me. But I was too preoccupied by Wesley and that kiss and how he just grabbed me like that. The feel of his warm breath on my face and how soft his lips were. How gentle he was, considering how big he was, I wouldn’t have thought that werewolves would be that gentle while kissing someone. It took my breath away and now I couldn’t think of anything but what happened. I didn’t really want my first kiss to be like that, but I can’t say that I’m really disappointed. I really liked it, but it wasn’t how I imagined my first kiss would go. I tried to get it out of my head and I looked up towards the teacher and he was rattling on with stuff that just sounded like a blur to me. I couldn’t make out anything that he was saying at the momen
I ran out the side gate of the house and I kept running until I was far enough away from the house that I knew they weren’t following me. But even then, I didn’t slow my pace. I kept running at a steady speed until I hit the highway and I was running along the highway. It was getting later in the afternoon and the chill in the air was getting more prominent. But I still had my big hoodie on and my boots. Plus I was running, so I wasn’t too concerned about the weather. The cold didn’t bother werewolves as much as it bothered humans. We had a hotter body temperature to them on any given day. So we were pretty fortunate like that. But when I decided that it was going to take me hours to get back to the cabin like this, I ran until I got to the woods. I got deep enough into the woods and I took my clothes off and I put my phone and wallet in my pocket and I shifted into my wolf. I then picked my clothes up in my mouth and I kept running through the woods. A lot faster than I would
When we got back to dad’s house I got Wesley to park the truck down the road, so no one saw him with me and I got out and started walking towards the house. But I heard his car door open and close as well. “Ava. Can we talk?” Wesley asked. “What about?” I asked, turning around to look at him. “About what happened today. I know that you’ve got a lot on your mind with your mother and everything. I just need to say what I have to say.” He said. “Alright.” I said. “I’m sorry about everything that I did today. I know that I shouldn’t have grabbed you like that, I shouldn’t have kissed you. I shouldn’t have done anything like that...” He explained, and I started looking down at my feet. “But I don’t regret it.” He added, and I quickly looked up at him. “You don’t?” I asked. “No. I wouldn’t have done it if I didn’t want to. I just know that I shouldn’t have done it in front of the entire class. And I’m sorry for that.” He said. “Why do you like me?” I asked. “Because I know
I was glad when school was over that day, Wesley met me at my locker and I saw Leo standing across the hall with his friends. I knew that he was pissed about all the attention that dad was giving me. He had been living with dad for a couple of years before I came into the picture and I know that he definitely thought that he was going to get the pack. I’m not even sure if Sandra and Leo knew about me before he brought me home. But dad was planning a coming out party to introduce me formally to his entire pack. It was going to be a huge affair and it was definitely not something that I was up for right now. I had way too much on my mind, but there was no getting out of it. Dad gave me his credit card this morning, something else that would have pissed Leo off, and he told me to buy whatever I wanted. Even if it wasn’t a party dress. Dad told me that I was still dressing like I was living in the woods, but that’s only because it’s comfortable to me. But then again, I wasn’t us
I stood in the street really awkwardly as this beautiful woman was looking me up and down, while still wearing my rags for clothes. She was shorter than me, but she showed off everything she had. It wasn’t much, but she made me feel insecure with the way I looked at the moment. She saw Wesley holding my hand and I saw a smirk appear across her face. “I thought you were going to call me. Why didn’t you?” “Because I told you that we were over. And I meant it.” Wesley said. “You always say that we’re over. But we always find a way to work it out.” Claire said, stepping closer to him. But he took a step back. “Claire. This is Ava.” Wesley said. “I don’t care.” Claire spat, looking at me. “Well, I do. We haven’t spoken in two months and now I’ve met someone else. So, you need to back off.” Wesley said. “You really can’t be serious. You’re choosing this thing over me?” Claire asked, looking me up and down again. “Don’t refer to her as a thing. But yes, I’m choosing her over y
Wesley wasn’t lying about dinner either. That carbonara pasta was delicious. And the mud cake that he ordered for dessert was just as great. But the night had to come to an end eventually. So we got up and before I could pull out dad’s credit card, Wesley had already paid for it. He insisted and there was no changing his mind on that. He claimed that he was a gentleman and there was no way he was going to let me pay for dinner. We left the restaurant and started walking back to his truck and Wesley put his arm around my waist and we were just talking back and forth. I was amazed at how comfortable I was becoming around Wesley. And how much he had started talking lately. When I first met him, he didn’t talk much at all. He was just the strong silent type that stayed in the back while all the other assholes were giving me a hard time. Wesley drove me back to dad’s house and he actually pulled up to the gate and the guard let us in when they saw that it was me. We pulled up out t