When the sun goes down

Chapter 7: Oh it was true alright.

I wasn’t going to waste any time finding out whether this theory was true or not, I had to find Harley, he was the only one who could answer my questions right now. There was no one else I could go to, my mom would think I was crazy and probably take me to the hospital or something, and besides my mom there was no one else.

I didn’t know where Harley lived, but I remember him saying he lived over the other side of the woods, so that’s where I was going….

It was 3pm so it wasn’t going to be dark for a while, so I didn’t have to worry about getting lost in the dark, again.

If this was all true and I was a ‘werewolf’ then he was too, because he was saying something about he felt exactly the same when he was told? It’s just all so confusing and it’s starting to make me feel like I’m going insane, so I needed to find him, even if it was the last thing I was going to do…

I arrived at the spot where me and Harley had our first encounter, and I was a bit stuck, I didn’t know what to do next… should I start shouting his name, um walk and try and find his house that I didn’t have a clue where it was, or just wait for him to find me…..

Before I could actually decide what I was going to do I heard something, leaves started to crackle a few metres away from me, could it be Harley? Wow I was so wrong…

I turned round to discover I was face to face with the biggest animal I had ever seen. It was the animal that kept appearing in my dreams…oh shit, it was a werewolf…

I couldn’t move, my body had gone stiff, I think I was in state of shock, this couldn’t be happening, werewolves couldn’t actually be real!

The immense animal started coming towards me, slowly but in a vicious manner, it started to growl and grinded its teeth, don’t think it looked too happy with me to be honest…

I started to back away as it got closer, it was obviously going to kill me, there was no way I could defend myself against this beast, and if I was a werewolf then I certainly didn’t know how to form into one. I closed my eyes and wished it to all be over as quickly as possible, that’s if it did want to kill me.

I could feel the animal’s inflexible, warm breath against my face. My heart was started to race furiously, I was petrified. I was really going to die wasn’t I.

Before I could even start to imagine what death was going to be like, something threw the massive animal away from me, I opened my eyes to find two werewolves battling against each other just a few yards away from my feet, was this like coincidental or once someone or something trying to save me. I didn’t really have time to decide which theory was right, I just legged it faster than I had ever ran in my life, there was no way I was getting eaten by a wolf, if I was going to die, at least be something cool and maybe a little painless! 

I ran and ran until a found a house, just like mine, maybe this was Harley’s house. I didn’t really care if it was or not, I had nearly been killed by some enormous creature, I think I could handle knocking on some stranger’s door.

I walked up the steps and reached the door, where I knocked three times. It took a good 2 minutes before anyone came to the door, it was a women, she looked reasonably friendly, she had tight dark blonde curls and a patterned dress with a little apron, guess she was in her late 40’s…

“Hello, how may I help?” she asked, seeming a bit weary

“Um hi, I’m Evie, does Harley live here by any chance?” I asked politely

Her little smile seemed to drop a little, if Harley did live there, I don’t think she liked him very much..

“Yes he does, unfortunately, why would you want to know that, may I ask”

“I really need to speak to him, urgently even, he said he lived around here, so I thought it might be this house”

“Oh I see, you don’t want to be getting yourself involved with that one, the jackass” she said seeming a bit annoyed, I was really curious to why she thought he was a jackass…

“If you don’t mind me asking, is he your son?” I asked trying not to seem nosey, she didn’t seem like the sort of person you wanted to mess with…

“No, thank god, he’s my step son, his mother died a few years back…Anyway he should be back soon, would you like to come in and wait?” she asked…One of his parents was killed too, I wonder if it was how my father died…

“Sure, thanks” I said with a polite smile on my face, I really needed to speak to him, even if I had to wait there for hours…

I was expecting to be lead into the dining room or something but she took me took his room, strange, I wasn’t his girlfriend or anything, why couldn’t I just sit like a normal guest. Great.

His room was a typical boy’s room to say the least. It was blue, with a double bed in the corner, a desk, TV on the wall, games laid everywhere, clothes sprawled everywhere, the normal I guess…it didn’t smell so I guess that was a plus.

I didn’t really know what to do with myself, so I just sat on the end of his bed, staring at the wall, I wasn’t exactly going to pry through his belongings like some people would, I wasn’t like that.

Time was going pretty slow and at least 30 minutes passed, I got a bit bored so I decided to cross my legs and sit against the wall, I wasn’t going to give myself backache because he was taking forever to come home….

40minutes passed and I heard the front door close, hopefully it was Harley, and yes I was right.

He walked through the door with nothing but a pair of ripped cropped jeans, he had a very nice body, perfectly toned, nothing too much but he definitely had something. When he had figured out I was sprawled across his bed he seemed, well a little bit confused…

“Why are you here?” he asked looking at me hard in the eyes, he wasn’t too impressed.

“I’m sorry about earlier, can you please explain to me what’s going on, you’re the only person I can talk too” I asked with a sweet ring to my voice, if I was going to get what I wanted I had to play the game right…

“Well, you saw what happened in the woods earlier, I saved you from being wolf meat, think that explains everything”

“It was you.. you saved me?” I was quite shocked, he saved me.

“Yes of course I saved you, I picked up your scent from miles away, I knew you had obviously come back for some answers”

“Well yeah, I kinda googled it, what you said to me sounded completely insane, I had to do something” I said looking up at him as he pulled on a tight black top, why did he have to be so hot, even though he saved me, he wasn’t exactly my favourite person right now…

“I’m not in the mood to talk right now, I’ll come over your place tonight, 11.30pm, I’ll show you how we work, oh and take some spare clothes you’re gunna need them”

Great, guess that’s why I woke up in the woods naked then.