The Darker Side of Me

Chapter 17: You Knew?

Dustin closed the door when he walked into my room. I was sitting with my legs crossed underneath me and my back resting on the headboard. Mom was sitting in front of me and Dustin had joined her. I could tell that something was off just by the way mom was acting. She would look anywhere but at me. Dustin was just sitting there looking down at the ground. Honestly, I was getting fed up. I was already scared to death of the consequences that they were going to throw at me and I didn't need the whole avoiding eye contact stuff on top of that.

"Will somebody look at me?" I asked.

The both made eye contact, but then looked away just as quickly. "Noah, you know we love you, right?" mom said quietly.

"Of course. But please just tell me what's going on."

"We'll you see, we wanted to wait until you're older to tell you this. And..."

"You're half werewolf, Noah. Dad was one and you have the genes," Dustin blurted out, cutting mom off.

I sat there silently taking in what was just said to me. I was part werewolf? I laughed awkwardly. "Wow, don't be subtle there Dustin. But seriously..." I trailed off. They both just looked at me with sympathy in their eyes. "He was serious?"

"I'm so sorry honey," mom said. She started to move towards me but I jumped off the bed and went across the room.

"No! Tell me your joking."

"I can't. You do have some werewolf genes in you, but not enough to change."

"Why... Why didnt you tell me?" I was almost crying now. How could they keep this a secret for so long.

"Dad was pissed that moms human genes took over and they decided that we should wait to tell you so that you'll understand. That's also the reason dad is so abusive towards you two," Dustin exaplined.

I felt the sudden urge to punch him square in the face. "You promised that we would never keep secrets from each other. We pinky swore, Dustin!" I exclaimed.

"Look Noah, I had no choice. Mom said to keep quiet until she was ready."

"How many? How many others know about this?" I asked trying to calm down again.

"Not a lot.only your closest friends and family."

"Cameron?"

"Yes."

"Mason?"

"Yes."

"Sarah?"

"She doesnt know about you, but she's the same and her mom is going to tell her today. I think she knows already, though. Mike probably told her. And she has enough of the werewolf in her to change," he said.

I looked directly into my moms eyes. "Someone else knows," I stated. "Who is it?" I felt tears spilling out of my eyes not only in fear, but in anger and betrayal.

"Noah," she started.

"Don't be evasive, mom. Just tell me who else knows."

"When you and Sarah were upstairs on Thursday, Logan explained all of this and mentioned that you both were their mates and I told him about your father. So Logan and Hunter know and depending on what happened Emma may know now too."

I felt myself start to cry. Dustin got up to come to me and I backed away from him. He looked hurt but then a look of understanding washed over his face and he walked away from me back to mom. I was going to say something, anything, to express my feelings but couldn't find the words. I just turned around and walked out of my room. On my way down the hall, I grabbed my purse and jacket and the keys to Dustin's car, and ran down the stairs.

Logan came up to me at the bottom of the stairs and I just glared. "You knew?" I accused.

"Babe, please," he said.

"Don't Logan, just stop." I pushed past him to my front door.

He followed me out to the garage. "Noah! Noah please!"

I climbed into the car and slammed the door. I don't know where I was going to go, but I had to get away from everything. I reversed out of te driveway and turned left. I was sure to drive carefully since I only just got my G2 and didn't want to lose it. I just drove and drove. Somehow I ended up pulling into the log house. Why I came here I'm not sure. Maybe I thought that if I went to Emma, everything would make more sense. She could tell me how all of this is going to work with me being part werewolf and all. But what if I saw Hunter? He technically kept it from me as well, and with all the emotions running through me right now, I couldn't trust myself not to knock him out on the spot. Even with all of this self-conflict, I found myself walking up to the door and opening it. Sarah was sitting on the couch with Hunter and I heard Emma talking to Mackenzie in the kitchen. I looked at Hunter and his eyes met with mine. Just thinking back to how my mom said he knew as well caused me to break down. I dropped to my knees and cried into my hands. I heard Sarah screaming my name asking me what's wrong. She ran over and out her arm on my shoulder. I looked up and was actuallykibd of glad that he decide not to come over because I would have punched him. Emma scurried over and knelt down beside me. I leaned into her and just cried. She started whispering sweet things into my ear and stroked my hair. It was soothing, but all I could think about was the lie that I'd been living for so long and how long my family had kept the truth from me.

~~uh-oh...someone's pissed.... hope you like it:)

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