The world unseen

chapter 15 shape shifters

Gale's Pov

My name is Gale, I don't have a last name. I come from a family of shape shifters.

Shape shifters don't have an original form like some fictional shows and movies say. We are born in what ever shape our mothers are in during labor.

At the current moment, my family are traveling as human in a car. We are always moving. We can't stay anywhere long as we age 10x slower than humans do. And life is hard if we stay as animals, so we are humans most of the time.

I sit in the back, we are a family of five, my father, mother, me, my younger sister and our younger brother. Even though I am almost 26 in human years I stay with them.

I never minded the traveling before, it used to make me happy to go somewhere else to find something new. However, now it's just sad and lonely. And the only difference was that I fell in love. All I want is to go back her her but I can't just leave my family like that. I never got to tell her how I feel. And now I'm several states away and it's been 10 years. She's probably forgotten me by now.

Normal humans generally don't have an effect on me. And shape shifters don't often mate with other species, however it is possible to.

My sister saw me staring out the window. "Thinking about her again, Gale? Seriously" Rebecca said her judgmental tone. "God your such a-"

"Rebecca, that's enough!" Our mother said in an annoyed tone. "Leave your brother alone. You know he can't help it"

It's true, once a shape shifter finds the one they want to mate with, they won't stray from them. They will try to get the other to fall for them and if it's unsuccessful then they will go throughout life mate less.

It's sad and the main reason why shape shifters are becoming more and more scarce.

Eventually I want to go back and look for her but I haven't found the time to tell my parents that, because it would mean separating from the pack.

I just keep looking out the window, I rest my head against the glass. I sat there with my arms folded and slowly my eyes closed as I drifted off to sleep.

I dont know how long I slept for but the next thing I know I'm being slammed into Kyle, my younger brother.

No I wasn't just being slammed the car was spinning  in the air. I instinctively grab onto the car door to support myself. But it didn't do anything. When the vehicle impacted the ground it broke apart scattering us around.

I was lucky enough to land off the road into the grass. But my leg broke badly.

"Mom?" I called. Looking around frantically. "Dad!? Kyle? Rebecca? Can her hear me?" I see someone laying limp to the right of me. I drag myself over to them.

It was my mother, she wasn't breathing.  "Mom, come on." I try to stand on my knees putting my weight on my non broken leg and tried to start compressions.

What feels like hours, but what could have been 20 minutes have passed. And I knew she wasn't coming back.

I still don't know what had caused the crash or where the rest of my family went. I assume they stuck to the plan of shifting into an animal and running towards a thick area of nature. So that's what I did.

I morphed into a fox and dived into the woods running as fast as I could into the night.

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Alex's pov.

Nova left a couple hours ago, which made the house a bit awkward with it just being me and Weston. I definitely have feelings toward him. Just looking at him makes me blush and my heart flutter.

I dont even know what to say to him, so the awkward silence grows as he does the dishes for me. I sit on the bar spoon to my kitchen island and watch him.

I guess he sensed my gaze as he turns his heat and his red eyes lock with mine then I see his smirk.

"What?" I say looking at him. I can already feel the heat rising to my cheeks.

"Nothing at all, my queen" he said.

I almost forgot that part. Where I got  coronated to the queen of the witches. I was given several books about family history for me to read. I was also given books on Magic that I need to study.

"Then why did you look at me?" I said averting my gaze to the floor. Trying not to let my lust overtake me.

"Well you were looking at me first were you not?" He asked while drying off his hands with a wash cloth.

"Well, I-...." I had no answer so I shut up. And I can hear him chuckling woth amusement. He walks around the kitchen island over toward me. He then stands on front of me and cups my left cheek with his right hand forcing me to look at him.

Once again I can feel my cheeks heat up. I naturally part my lips unaware that I did so, he picks up on this and leans down. I was surprised when his lips connect with mine. My eyes close and I press in. His hand moves from my cheek as he puts both of his arms around my lower back and pulls me off the stool into his sturdy and warm body.  I put my arms around his neck.

I break the kiss and I push my face into his chest. "Your just trying with me aren't you?" I ask.

"Not at all, I live to make you happy and to give you what you want. It's the whole reason I exist." He told me. Hugging me.

"And what about what you want? You get a choice too Weston. I don't want to force you into a relationship that you don't want. You don't owe me anything"