We stay in the lake for hours, until it got too cold to stay in there much longer. I was laying on a blanket looking at the sky which was slowly fading into night. Jacob and Samatha were on another blanket doing the same thing, Martha was plaiting her hair while Reece was emptying the puddles from his shoes. I was looking up when I felt someone sit next to me, I look over smiling towards Justin.
"At least they've stopped arguing" he says looking towards Martha and Reece, the whole time they've basically been screaming at each other.
"That's because they're both doing different things, give it an hour the arguing will continue, this is just a rest period for them" I say laying my head back down looking at the sky, he lays next to me looking up too.
"Couldn't you just stay like this forever?" He asks I nod it was really beautiful out here, he turns to look at me making me look at him, before we could do anything Martha starts shouting again.
"Why have you put water near my blanket?!" She shouts making me smile to Justin, but sit up to see what's happened.
"I needed to empty my shoe and your blanket seemed like a very absorbent piece of cloth" Reece says smirking towards her, wow these two really can't get along for even a second.
"Time to leave I guess" Justin sighs getting off the floor packing things up, as a huge argument broke out between Martha and Reece.
I get up helping Justin pack the stuff away folding up all the blankets, Jacob carries all the things to the car as my phone starts ringing. I walk over to see Ethan was ringing, I quickly pick up it being a force of habit.
"Where are you?" He says as soon as I pick up, in the background I could hear loads of talking and shouting.
"We're just about to leave the lake, why is dad okay?" I ask immediately my mind drifting to him, Justin walks behind me placing his hand on my shoulder sending me a questioning look.
"Dads fine but you need to listen to me, when you get back don't come straight into the centre of town, go the back roads so you miss all of the centre" he says but before I could ask why the phone goes dead, I stare at it worry filling my senses.
"Something bad is happening back at town" I tell Justin who quickly pushes me to the car telling the others to hurry, Martha and Reece finally shut up arguing and quickly get in the back of the car as we race out the lake place.
We drive for a while and were about ten minutes from town, I've been trying to ring Ethan but it keeps going straight to voicemail. I was starting to get a really bad feeling, the screams and shouts I heard in the background made me sick to my stomach, what could be happening?
"Ethan said we have to take the back roads to town, so try to get off the main road" I say looking over to Justin, he nods with a smile but I could tell he was also worrying.
He didn't hear the conversation but he could probably tell by my manner how the conversation went, I don't worry about little things so if I worry, you know it's bad.
We continue normally down the road, I was looking out the window at the passing trees when Justin, slams on the brakes the car coming to an abrupt stop.
"That's gonna be a problem, all the back roads are blocked off for some reason" he tells me while still holding tightly onto the steering wheel.
I turn to look up ahead where the roads had huge rocks blocking them, okay what is happening? They weren't there when we left this morning. Another question though, why are they there?!
"Is there any other roads we could take?" Jacob asks from the back but Justin shakes his head, but kept looking at the distance between the rock and the trees, just in case we could fit through the gap.
I look out the window at the surrounding wood area, Ethan said keep away from the main roads there has to be another way.
"We're gonna have to go that way Erika" Justin says holding my hand, I sigh looking around but realise he was right.
I send him a nod sitting back in my chair as Justin directs the car onto the main road, a place I wasn't comfortable driving down. A few minutes go everything seemed normal, until a big explosion could be heard ahead of us making the whole ground shake. I grab onto Justin's hand as he makes the car go a little faster, as soon as we pass the towns sign it was chaos. There were people running around, fires and what looked like wolves, wait wolves, where the heck did they come from?!
"You girls stay in the car, guys let's go figure out what's happening" Justin says quickly getting out the car, I hold tighter onto his hand saying be careful, he nods before closing the door running towards the main part of town with Jacob and Reece.
We sat in the car for a few minutes just looking at the chaos in front of us, the car was silent but the outside definitely wasn't.
"We've been away for a day and this happens" Martha says from the back, her and Samatha were holding hands as I just stare at everything that was happening.
"We'll be safe if we stay in the car" Samatha says which is what Justin did tell us to do, but what if something tries to attack the car with us inside, then can we leave?!
While I was asking these weird questions in my mind, I spot Ethan running passed and towards the main part of town. Why is he running into the danger?! I can't loose anyone else! Without thinking, I jump out of the car and bolt towards town centre, emerging myself into the danger and didn't want Ethan in.
"Justin said to stay in the car!" I hear Samatha shout, but her shouts soon are muffled as I arrive in the thick of all the chaos.
The town centre no longer looked nice and happy, it resembled what a apocalyptic world would look like. Everything was growing dark, not due to the time of day alone but the ash in the air. Businesses were on fire, with the windows smashed, all the glass just laying in the street. People were laying on the floor, while others were trying to help some of the injured people.
I began to get lost in a town I've lived my whole life, everything looked the same, broken and on fire. I start to frantically look around for Ethan, but I never caught sight of him. I walk around aimlessly unknowing of how long I'd actually been in this chaos, minutes felt like hours.
A sound a few feet behind me, stops me in my tracks. I refuse to turn at first hoping I was just imagining it, I take a deep breath in before slowly turning my body. Where I come face to face with a gigantic wolf, it was growling while showing it's terrifyingly sharp teeth. In that moment I didn't know if I should run or freeze, there was no way I would be able to outrun a wolf.
It begins to take steps towards me which causes my body to actually move, I take steps backwards my eyes not leaving the bloodthirsty wolf in front of me, I lose my footing and end up falling onto the floor. When I take a look up the wolf was now inches away from me, my whole life flashes before my eyes as I look around for help.
Through the chaos, a guy somehow stands out to me. He stood in the middle of town looking extremely calm, everyone else was screaming and quite literally, running for their lives but he wasn't. He looks over our eyes meeting instantly, I somehow get lost in his ocean blue eyes. The chaos around me fades away, all I could do was stare deep into this guys eyes, which he was also doing to me.
A growl close to my face snaps me out of my trance, I turn to see the wolf was basically on top of me growling. My eyes soon go wide as I cover my face, I didn't want to see what was about to happen and just waited. But nothing happened, I wasn't attacked. I look up to see the wolf taking slow steps backwards, he turns before taking off running in the opposite direction. At the same time, all the other wolfs also run off in that direction, which now left the town wolf less but still destroyed.
I lay back with my head on the pavement just trying to calm my racing heart, it all happened so quickly but yet, so slowly. I open my eyes just staring at the night sky, I was very nearly eaten by a huge wolf. I lay there for a few minutes staring at the sky, the noise of the town was still loud but I couldn't move yet.
My view of the sky is blocked by Justin's face, he looked kind of relieved when he saw I was alive. I instantly wrap my arms around his neck, I hadn't cried yet but now I was wrapped in his arms, I wept like a baby.
"What happened?" He asks still holding me so tightly in his arms, I try to speak but no words wanted to make their way out my mouth.
"Come on, everyone's been called to the town hall " he says pulling me up while I continued to cry, he wraps his arm around my shoulders pulling me closer to him.
At the same time a huge growl rips through the air, the whole town goes silent for a few seconds before all chaos broke loose once again. Justin looks into the woods before he takes my hand and makes us both bolt towards the town hall, we ran passed loads of others going the same way.
As we run, out the corner of my eye I see a few people laying on the floor, motionless. It took everything in my power to not stop and help them, Justin continues to pull me to the town hall where everyone was pushing and shoving each other to get in.
Justin keeps a tight grip on my hand as he leads me into the town hall, we were getting pushed and shoved as we went but we finally arrive in. The place was still so loud with panicked voices, doctors were on one side trying to help the wounded that managed to enter the hall. Justin still held my hand as he leads me through the hall but off to the side, as I turn my head I spot the guys looking insanely worried. I'm immediately wrapped in a tight hug by Sam, she was shaking and crying uncontrollably.
"We were so worried, the guys got back but without you" Sam says pulling away wiping the tears from her eyes, I had managed to stop my own tears from flowing for awhile.
I hear my name being called from somewhere else in the crowd, I turn to see Ethan and my dad were in the middle calling my name. I shout I'm over here which makes them both quickly run over to me, also wrapping me in a hug.
"Are you okay?" My dad asks placing his hand on my shoulder, I nod as Justin comes behind me wrapping his arm around me smiling, my dad smiles before turning to talk to everyone else.
"Alright everyone listen up" he shouts which makes the hall slowly get quieter, the only sound was the few doctors trying to save some people.
"Now I know what just occurred was really scary and confusing, but we all need to try and stay calm. I want you all to quickly go back to your homes and stay there until you are notified to leave, I promise I won't rest until we have answers" he shouts looking at everyone, I direct my attention up to Justin who rubs my arm, his parents were away so it would just be him at home."My dad will probably let you stay at my house, you shouldn't be alone at a time like this" I say looking up at him, he smiles as people start to make their ways home.
I wave goodbye to Sam and Jacob who start to fight to get out the hall, Martha hangs back looking nervous probably waiting for the crowd of people to go down. That's what I thought we would do but my dad tells me to meet him by his car, Justin once again takes my hand leading me through the huge mob of people.
After a lot more pushing and shoving, we arrive back out into the night. The cold night air hitting me first, it felt great to be out of that stuffing hall. My dad walks by pointing to his car but I take another look to Justin.
"Hey dad, Justin's parents aren't in town, can he stay with us so he's not alone?" I ask as I open the car door, my dad looks to Justin nodding but gets called to the side by someone.
Justin tells me he'll just grab his car before he too leaves, this meant I was alone standing outside my dads car. I start to scan the area where I see Ethan was helping people get to their houses, at least I know he's safe. Reece starts to walk by but stops looking over at me.
"Are you sure you're okay Erika?" He asks rubbing my arm, I nod looking around at everyone "if you need me you know where I am" he smiles wrapping me in a tight hug, I thank him before he too walks away.
I spot Martha finally leave the hall where she sends me a nervous smile before walking away, the line of people leaving the hall begins to thin out. Where my dad soon appears getting into the car, I sigh climbing in where he wastes no time speeding out the centre of town and towards home.
"Do you have any idea what that was?" I ask as we get further down the road, he looks out the window then back at the road.
"I have an idea, I'll let you know when we all get home, but be prepared it's big" he says as we pull up at my house, wow that was fast!
Justin and Ethan were already there waiting outside, Justin comes to my door helping me out as my dad runs in shouting for us to follow. He instructs us to wait in the living room while he gets something from the basement.
I sat in the middle of the sofa with Justin and Ethan either side of me, no one spoke for a few minutes. It was the first time since the chaos began, it was quiet and calm.
"At least none of us were hurt" Ethan says interrupting the silence, I nod agreeing with him but he wouldn't believe how close it was.
A few more minutes go by until my dad walks out with what looks like photo albums, he places them on the coffee table but stands in front of us."What I'm about to tell you is gonna sound so shocking and not real, but it is" he says not really making any sense, I take a look to Ethan who was playing with his wrist band, he does that when he's nervous "the town was attacked by people who are half wolf, half human" he bluntly says, okay he wasn't lying when he said it would be shocking.
None of us spoke for a few minutes once again, did my dad really just say that? Does he really believe that the town was attacked by werewolves? I have so many questions followed by worry, let's hope our dad isn't starting to go back just when he was getting better. He begins to flip through the books he brought from the basement, I once again look over to Ethan who held the same expression I did."You think the town was attacked by werewolves?" I ask finally talking breaking the awkward silence we had going on.This causes him to look up at me confused not understanding what I meant, does he really think I'm the confusing one in this conversation?!"That's what they're called werewolves, but they're just myths" I explain to him hoping he would understand, he shakes his head turning around one of the photo albums to sh
It was later in the day, I was stood in the kitchen cooking something for dinner, Justin wanted to help so I told him he could cut the peppers. I've been cooking dinner ever since my mum went missing, my dad for the first maybe seven years was never home, he was out looking for our mum and only came home when he needed to get more evidence, as he called it. Ethan used to take care of most things but I didn't want to feel like I wasn't pulling my weight, so I cooked. I'm still in cook mode even though my dads back, I still like to cook for them and to be honest, I'm really good at it.The house was quiet, all you could hear was the stove and Justin cutting the peppers, my dad was working and I had no idea where Ethan was. The silence was broken by the sound of my dads voice coming through Justin's walk-in-talkie."Pc Richard Parker coming through
I had finally managed to fall asleep after hours of tossing and turning, the image of the wolf standing over me kept appearing every time I closed my eyes. I had been asleep for around an hour, when a voice wakes me up suddenly.I frantically look around the room to find the owner of this voice but found no one, Justin was fast asleep on the blow up mattress on the floor. But beside him was his walkie-talkie which calms me down a little, there is no intruder it's just that thing!"I just hit another one, taking these down one after another" the voice says again through the walkie-talkie, what a lovely thing to hear when you've just woken up right?!I sit up straight rubbing eyes as I went, I look over at the clock to see it was almost 4am! These wolf and police officers don't sleep it feels like, I get up to get a glass of w
I jolt awake to my name being called, it takes me a few seconds to process what was happening before I jump up. Cody was slowly sitting up from the other sofa, in the same moment Justin begins to shout my name once again, this time it was closer than before. I run up to the door of the basement locking it as I went, I knew this would just confirm to Justin that I was down here but it would at least give me a few more seconds to think of an excuse. Cody was already on his feet as I make it to the bottom of the staircase, he didn't look as though he was in any pain which was kind of shocking, he literally got shot yesterday!"What are we gonna do? Justin is gonna come down here and see you and-" I start to ramble as my name continues to be shouted, I could tell by his tone he was getting worried and a little annoyed.
After an hour I had filled 7 notebooks while Reece, was just about done with his first. He was exactly like this at school then on the way home he'd copy my work, once he actually walked into a lamppost due to writing while walking.This little study session had uncovered some interesting things, it's also made me kind of believe that the werewolf people are out there. Let's start from the beginning, werewolves live in packs like most animals, they have a leader called an Alpha. Each werewolf also has a mate, that is another person that is assigned to you by the moon goddess. The Alpha's mate is called the Luna and they both rule over the pack, but there are some wolves who don't have a pack. They're called rouges and from what the books are saying, aren't very nice at all!Maybe Martha is Scott's mate, there's a few things I could look out for
It was now late that same day, the whole day the town was just littered with police who were making sure everyone remained in their homes. My dad kept ringing me and demanding I tell him what I knew, of course I would sweetly reply that I hadn't a clue what he was talking about. I wasn't like Justin and just throw my friends under the bus for no good reason, well a justifiable reason.What Reece said earlier did get me thinking, what was Justin doing outside my bedroom door? But also he must have had his head on my door to hear what we were saying, what did he think me and Reece were doing up there?! Has he ever done that before when I've been in my room? This whole situation has just brought up so many new questions, mostly around the intentions of Justin.Reece had just gone to bed when I lock my bedroom door, while Justin slept on a blow up m
I jolt awake suddenly, someone was banging repeatedly on the front door. My heart was pounding in my chest as I get to my feet, why the hell would someone be banging on the front door like that?!I make my way out my bedroom and down the stairs, where Reece who also looked as though he just woke up was by the front door. He sends me a confused look before opening the door, there stood a young police officer with his arms crossed."Sorry to wake you so early, but the police need to urgently check all the females for a mark" he says where his eyes glance to me for a second, Reece moves in front of the door as the police attempts to walk in."Okay first of all, don't just assume you can walk straight into the house and second, she's just woke up at least let her get changed" he s
I slowly start to feel my body again to discover I'm laying on the floor, a hint of confusion takes over my senses. As I become more with it I discover that as I've said, I was on the floor but my head wasn't. It didn't feel like the ground but someone's lap, who's lap could I be laying in? And more to the fact, why am I laying in their lap?My eyes slowly open where it takes a few seconds for my eyes to adjust, before I discover who's lap I'm laying in, Cody's. His worried face was looking down at me with his hand running through my hair, sparks just spread wherever he would touch."You don't know how great it is to see your eyes open" he tells me relief filling his face, I was still pretty out of it but was slowly coming around."What happened?" I ask my head still on his lap, honestly, I didn't want to move until I had no