Forever Mine [ON HOLD]

Chapter Four - Run Free ✅

Chapter Four - Run Free ✅

My eyes flash open, and I sat up in a rush, trying desperately to catch my breath. I look over at my bedside table at my little pink alarm clock that sits there.

03:47am

Great. I've been having the same reoccurring dream every night since my first day at school. It always starts of with me in the woods, but unlike usual, it feels eerie and cold and I instantly feel like I want to be anywhere else. There's a dark mist drifting across the forest floor, hiding it from view, so that with every step is a mystery. Then, out of no where, pitch black wolf is standing in front of me, actually it is towering over me, it's hot smelly breath washing over my face, looking down straight into my eyes. And that's it, that's when I wake up, and I'm left with the image of those piercing blood red eyes that gives me chills.

For the next five minutes I try with no success to just roll over and go back to bed. I finally decided that sleep isn't coming right now, so I wrap my dressing gown around and slip of my slippers and go down to the kitchen. I pour myself a glass of milk, heat it up in the microwave, before I sit down at the dinning table, and as usual, my mind is spinning with so many thoughts. This nightmare of a dream made the rest of the week at school pretty miserable as I was too tired to concentrate on anything, although my wolf had another idea to why we were miserable and tired. After Monday, Ryan didn't turn up at school at all. Every time I walked into class I'd be secretly hopeful that he'd turn up, but my heart always sunk a little as he never did. In fact non of them did, not Lexie, not Axel, or the other couple that I was him with on Monday, and that's weird right? I hated the way I missed his constant gaze on me, I don't even know this guy and he's got me smitten.

"Are you okay sweetheart?"

I turned to face my mother, who had her dressing grown wrapped tightly around herself, and stilled looked half asleep. "Can't sleep," I replied. I watched her grab a glass of water, before she joined me at the table, eyeing me suspiciously. "Im fine, I promise," I sighed.

I knew why she wasn't giving up. The last time I told her I was fine, I turned into a wolf. Not that she knows that... But the whole transformation was pretty traumatic to say the least. Give it a though; you are normal, have a great life, then all of a sudden, out of no where you turn into a massive wolf. Not only does that seriously hurt the first time, but how do you know who you can trust? My first thoughts were that I'd be dissected, and forced to join the zoo or something, and that's the main reason I haven't told anyone what happened, including my family. But I could see it from their prospective too. All of a sudden, I am who I've always been, then I became distant, secretive, and for a short while, I wanted nothing to do with anyone, hating the world for what I've turned into.

"I know you've said you don't want to talk about it..." she trailed off slowly before adding, "but you know you can right? I would never think any less of you for anything,"

Oh mum, if you only knew I turned into a beast, "You don't have to worry anymore mum, I really am okay. We are going to have a better life here." I told her as convincingly as I could. I mean all things considered, I haven't been called a freak or an outcast yet (Zac aside).

Mum studied me for a moment longer before she nodded, stood up, kissed me on the forehead and disappeared upstairs. I decided that I was maybe tired enough to try going back to bed now. As I climbed the stair I couldn't help but wonder if I'd ever be able to tell my family what happened to me, or more so would I ever be accepted the way I am now? These are the thoughts the float through my mind as I slowly drift back off to sleep.

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I want to go for a run, My wolf growled at me. I was becoming increasingly annoyed with her as not only has she made herself more present this week and demanding I start a family with Ryan, but now she is insisting that I allow her access to my body to change into a wolf to go running around the woods - she's obviously gone crazy!