Moon Goddess

CHAPTER ONE

Trickles of water gliding down the grand window. Combining droplets accompanied by the hum of rainfall. The street crowded with umbrellas and soaked humans rushing in and out of buildings. Cars splashing the rainwater as they move along the main city roads. Wipers thudding rhythmically right to left again and again. In her mind the world was at its best during days like this. Where everyone hurries off to get to their final destination, home. So the town gets almost eerily quiet compared to its normal bustle of life.

She was lost in her train of thought staring at the scene outside the cafe's window. She admired the simple things that life offered. A place to stay, a steady job, food on the table. 'Ding!' Sounds through the cafe trying to catch her attention. 'Ding! Ding!' This time followed by a voice "Hey, wake up!" As she turned her head the other way to look at where the irritated voice was coming from she snapped out of the daze she was in. Immediately moving towards the kitchen area to pick up the plates with hot food waiting to be sent out to the hungry customers.

"Sleeping on the job ehh?" The man behind the stove said with a smile in his voice flipping another set of pancakes. She gave him a soft smile and a nod picking up the three plates and exiting the kitchen.

She walked steadily and fast placing the plates at the correct tables and moving on to clean off another. All with a smile and courtesy. She has learned from her first job that a smile gives you bigger tips. Humans respond to nice and they help other nice people at least help more then they would if you served with a frown.

She taught of times when her smile was actually real. When the only worries of her life were the next outfit, homework she hasn't completed or the guy she couldn't get away from. It could have been a completely different life back then. Now it all has changed.

While moving down the memory lane of how life was before everything happened and how it was the first few years compared to now she suddenly felt an unimaginable emotional pain. It felt like someone had squeezed her heart so tight in an invisible grip her lungs refused to let the air out. She stopped cleaning the table and unknowingly sat down. Holding her chest unable to do anything else but stare at the table in front. A minute has passed and the 'pain' has eased but was still pulsating in the back of her mind. "What was that" she muttered softly more to herself than anyone around her.

She glanced at a few of the people that were in the cafe to see if anyone else had a similar reaction. But found no one looking differently than before. No pain showing on anyone's face. No one holds their heart before it magically falls out of the sealed chest. Resting for a few more seconds she got up and resumed her work. 'I felt this before' she taught. She felt it two years ago. The longing to be close to the feeling, to the person who is inflicting it on her. It made her mind twist in fear and adding to the anxiety building up inside her. Never a good combination for an already unstable werewolf lady. Especially in public.

The feeling of hurt sticking with her no matter how hard she tried to look past it she knew something was wrong. The thing is she wasn't a normal young woman working in a cafe shop. She was a young werewolf woman working at a cafe shop running from her problems and her old life. Before it can catch her and trap her again against her will. But running into this new life she didn't quite understand even now revealed more questions than when her journey began and none of them answered apart from one.

What was she.

At every cross road in life it felt like she chose the worst path available that takes to another cross road that leads into more confusion and unknown.

The night she got bitten was the start of the life she didn't know existed. Even now the thought of that night, the choices she had to make to lead her to this curse sends shivers down her whole body.