Howl

Going Downhill (Tasha)

I was running back to my home after school. Everything seemed suspiciously quiet, I ran to my house, afraid of this ominous feeling the longing to feel the pat on my back by my mother and father, to watch my elder sister grin at me and play with me. I reached my home, there was a big crowd assembled near my house. I rushed forward hoping to see my father smiling down at me while the sound of the kitchen would be coming and soon my mother too will emerge. What I saw made me gasp, grief took over me. My father, his legs and hands had been chopped off, tears started spilling down my eyes. I rushed towards my dad and cried like hell. Soon a lump formed in my throat. Where were Mom and sister? I rushed forward in the kitchen just to see my mom hanged. I backed away. What was happening ?? Was this some kind of joke? I fell down on my knees and started sobbing heavily. I was sobbing when a hand touched my shoulder, I looked back to see my sis with tears in her eyes. I hugged her tightly.

RING......RING......RING......

My eyes fluttered open from the nightmare I had. No, it wasn't a nightmare...it was my past. People think that being easy-going is my attitude but no, I do it just to show people that I am not weak. I got up from my bed and washed my face twice to shake away from the dream and got ready for Jr. college. I and Jacob had become good friends by now although it had been only one week. I planned on telling him his and mine reality after one more week if things went as planned. I walked near to my table, grabbed my phone and bag, and rushed out of my house. I had woken two hours earlier and now intended to torture Jacob by calling him again and again. Hahahahahahaha but I expected some background music, ahh never mind.

I called him. Surprisingly the phone was answered even before the first ring. Gosh !! I didn't expect him to be up so early. He is a grumpy old man. "Morning Grumpy old man !!" I said cheerfully.

"Will you stop calling me that ??" replied the beautiful voice. Yes, I found his voice beautiful so what ?? Those who think I have any interest in him are a bunch of........Let's leave it, shall we ??

"So you are up early huh ??"

"Well in case if you hadn't observed, you have been doing your silly prank for the past two days." He muttered.

I rolled my eyes. Okay, come to the jogging park if you don't mind. He replied back "Kay, coming."

Soon I entered the park and sat on a nearby bench waiting for Jacob. I don't know why but I was having a bad feeling about this place. I had a feeling that I would soon be in combat. My palms were sweating.

Someone patted me on the shoulder. Instinctively, my legs moved to trip him, my one hand caught his neck and my other hand was showing bright orange flames. I looked at the someone. Uh-oh, he was Jacob himself. I extinguished my fires and let go of his neck.

He wheezed, "What was that for ??" he spluttered. I gave him my hand and muttered "So we are being followed."

"But who would follow us ??" He questioned.

To answer his question, two figures rose from the ground and stood in front of us. One was a man with long sleek and shiny black hair, about six feet, had black pupils, and had a fair tone. One was in a big mask, covering one of his eyes and nearly all of his face. "Vrykolakas" I spat

"The what now ??" He asked looking bewildered. It was going off-plan now we had to outrun them because there was no way we could fight them ourselves. These two looked like serial killers.

My hand reached my pocket. It was my only option. In an instant, I threw the smoke bomb grasped Jacob's hand, and flew away.

Luck was on our side, The jogging park was full of people so we managed to run away and one of the specialties of my clan is that we can run really fast. So before they could even run away from the smoke, we were already away.

Lampost zoomed in and out of my view. Jacob was now unconscious and I was bearing him. I didn't stop running until I reached a small woods-type area where people usually camp. I was breathing heavily. I had taken a twisted way to throw them off our trail. I looked at Jacob he was still sleeping peacefully and we had escaped just a life and death situation. The nerve !!

I decided to wake him up and splattered him with water, he woke up and groaned. He sat for a while and everything then seemed to come to his mind.

"Who were they ?? And how could you throw fire ??"

I explained patiently, "First let's go to a hiding place, and then I will explain everything to you. Okay ??"

He seemed to consider this and stood up. I started walking and he followed me. We must have walked for what seemed like an hour until we reached a big tree with a big bush formed as a curtain. I marched ahead and moved aside the bushes and entered the cabin I had made just yesterday.

Jacob gasped. If he was shocked just seeing this then I don't know how will he react to what I was gonna tell him.

I sat down on a log and gestured him to sit there. He sat and I offered him some water. He swigged it down and whispered, "Explain yourself."

I took a deep breath "This is going to shock you but you are a werewolf Jacob."