When the sun goes down

Chapter 6: What am I? part 2 of 3

I ran as fast as I could back home, it seemed so far away but yet I got there so quick, it was like I was running at 50mph or something, everything was just so strange..

I got back to my house and at this point it was nearly light. I couldn’t use the front door because my mom and brother would now that I had been out all night so I attempted to climb up to my window which was wide open…

Luckily there was an old ladder resting on the shed at the back of our garden, so I used that to get back into my bedroom…it took a few minutes for me to summon the guts to climb up it, but finally I was up and back in my room.

I checked my clock and it was 6.40am so I had another half an hour before I had to get up…I decided to use that time wisely and get back into bed and try and rest my eyes so I didn’t look like total and utter crap for school which was obviously going to be totally inevitable…

I shut my eyes and very quickly drifted off to sleep….

The wind was soaring through my hair, I felt powerful and immensely strong, I was rocketing through the forest so fast I could hardly see where I was going…what was I? One thing was for certain I was not human…I looked down at my body, but not to find what I was expecting….I was a wolf.

I shot up violently in a cold sweat, briskly turning to my alarm clock…it was 7.20am I’d overslept 5 minutes, not too bad…but that wasn’t what I was worrying about, why did I keep having weird dreams of me being a wolf? Not being funny or anything but I wasn’t going crazy; something really weird was going on with me.

I got out of bed slowly, I ached from head to toe, I hadn’t been out doing vigorous exercise from what I could remember, so why the hell did I feel like this…

I walked over to the mirror to see what the damage was…I had huge bags under my eyes and I looked deprived of sleep, so basically I looked like some sort of zombie, there was no way my mom was going to let me go to school looking like this, she was going to know something was up. Looks like I’m going to be ‘ill’ for the day!

I decided to just stay in bed until my mom came in; it got to about 7.45 before she came in to check why I wasn’t getting ready for school…

“Honey what’s wrong, you feeling poorly?” she asked in a sweet mom like voice

I turned over so she could have a nice, long look at my face…

“Oh sweetheart, you look awful, what’s wrong do you have a temperature?” she said as she put her hand onto my forehead before pulling it away dramatically “You’re scorching hot, no school for you today missy, I’ll bring you up some medicine”

Wow, I was good, didn’t even have to say a word, the state of my face did all the talking by the looks of it, to be fair I looked like complete and utter shit and I don’t think I would have liked everyone at school coming up to me telling me the same thing!

I wasn’t going to tell anyone what happened this morning, not even my mom. Everyone would think I was some crazy psychopath, so I think this little secret was going to be a secret that would hopefully never escape from my lips.

My mom was out today; having interviews for a new job and all that shiz so I decided to do some research into what the hell might be going on with me. I didn’t even know where to start, how can you possibly define waking up in a forest naked and having dreams about being a wolf? I mean if that’s not crazy that was is.

Anyway cutting to the chase 15 minutes into my ‘researching’ there was a knock at the door, luckily I was now showered up and dressed( yes I was dressed this time), so I didn’t look as bad as I did earlier, I pulled myself from my home for the day and trailed downstairs, hopefully it was no one important….

I got to the door and looked through the key hole…SHIT; it was that kid I met in the woods, Harley. Oh this couldn’t have come at a better time, I looked disgusting!

It’s not like I could avoid him, he had knocked 3 times already! Eventually I managed to open the door Harley had his back towards me at first then slowly turned around..God he was hot, like wow, no one had ever quite had that effect on me…

“Hey eve” he said smiling; his grin sort of slanted making him look so god damn irresistible…”um yeah you’re probably wondering why I’m here…” whilst he was saying this he was ruffling his hair at the back of his head, all I could do was stare…”well basically I know what you are”

What the hell was he going on about? He knew what I was, WHAT!?

“What do you mean you know what I am, I’m confused?” I laughed awkwardly; I honestly didn’t have a clue what he was on about…

“I saw you last night, we’ll this morning” he glared at me, like I should know what he meant

“Oh right, yeah, I can’t exactly explain that, I don’t have a clue what happened” I murmured, I was so embarrassed, he had seen me, wow could this get any worse! “Honestly I don’t usually end up in the middle of the woods naked”

“Wait, now I’m confused” he said with a really bewildered look on his face, so he didn’t see me flashing myself around in the woods?

“Urm well that’s all that happened last night, well all that I can remember anyway, unless you saw something else?”  

I was seriously getting worried, what had he seen that I couldn’t remember?

“Evie, you do know you’re a werewolf right?”