A Werewolf's Lost Howl, A Zombie's Lost Heart

Chapter 8: *8

"Should we share our birthday cake with Willa? Since it's her birthday too." Zed asks, taking a bite of his and Wyatt's birthday cake.

"Actually, her birthday was yesterday. For twins, we were born a day apart." Wyatt told him.

Zed stopped eating his cake, "Seriously?"

Wyatt chuckles at his boyfriend's dumbfounded expression, "Yeah, werewolf twins are born a day apart."

"I never would've believed that you and Willa have different birthdays."

Wyatt put his plate down, "No one would have believed it either."

Another thought came to Zed's head, "Why do we have to move into an apartment again?"

"When you were on the verge of dying two weeks ago, Z-Patrol searched the school for evidence of what had happened to you when they came across..." Wyatt paused, not knowing how to break the news to Zed.

"They came across what?" Zed questions.

Wyatt let out deep breaths, "They found Coach Lewis dead in her office, with no blood left in her body."

Zed brought his hands to his mouth, "No..."

"That's not even the worst part." Wyatt frowns.

"What else could be possibly worse than that?"

Wyatt sighs, "Z-Patrol found ten students dead behind the football stadium."

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Zaria was in their home library looking for a book called The Forbidden Mates.

She scanned every bookshelf until she found it.

"Here it is." Zaria grabs the book from the top shelf.

Zaria sits at the table, "Just what I was looking for." She opens the book and reads it to find information about Eleazar and Octavius.

She scans the book with a pace to find a piece of information.

As she turns the pages, a piece of paper falls out of the book.

"What is this?" Zaria picks up the paper off the floor. She turned the paper over and saw it was a letter on the back of it.

Zaria reads it;

'Yes, my dear heart, I will marry you. I will love you for all eternity. And tonight at last, we will be together. I do.' -Forever yours, Eleazar.

"Did they ever get married?" Zaria asks herself.

The door to the library opened with a bang, which made Zaria jump in her chair.

"Vic, what the hell?!" Zaria turns in her chair to see her brother carrying a large frame into the library.

Victor puts the frame on the floor against the wall, "Sorry, this painting was hefty."

Zaria gets up from the chair, curious, "Painting?"

"Yeah, I went back to the castle and found this." Victor steps away from the painting.

His sister observes the painting with interest, "It's Eleazar and Octavius."

Victor nods, "Look at the bottom of the painting. It dates back to the 1600s."

"So, they have been dead for four hundred years and Zed and Wyatt are their reincarnations." Zaria frowns.

"Pretty much. It's almost creepy, actually."

"How creepy?"

Victor shrugs, "I don't know how creepy, but there are differences between them." He turns to the painting, "You see, Zed has green hair, but Eleazar has black hair with green streaks."

"While Wyatt has dark brown hair with a white streak, but Octavius has purple hair with multiple white streaks."

Zaria crosses her arms, "Now, that's a significant difference between them."

"Yep. Sure is, and that's not the only difference between them."

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"Welcome to our new home." Wyatt grins as he and Zed walk through the door of their new apartment.

"It's bigger than our dorm," Zed said with a smile.

Wyatt nods in agreement, "Yeah, and much more space, too."

Zed sits on the couch, melting in it, "This couch is much more comfortable than the one in our dorm."

Wyatt sits next to him, "I agree."

Zed saw boxes on the kitchen counter, "Did you bring all our stuff from our dorm?"

Wyatt shakes his head, "Your dad and Zoey helped me."

"Oh, that reminds me, I need to call them now to let them know I'm out of the hospital and home safe." Zed stands up.

"You go do that while I unpack the boxes," Wyatt told Zed.

"Okay," Zed takes his phone out of his pocket and walks into the bedroom.

Once Zed left the living room, Wyatt entered the kitchen, taking a box off the counter.

He sits it on the floor and opens it to see a notebook inside.

"What is this?" Wyatt took it out of the box and saw a big 'Z' on the notebook's cover.

"This is Zed's notebook," Wyatt said as he opened his boyfriend's notebook. His eyes widened when he saw the drawings inside. But one, in particular, caught his eye.

It was a drawing of him in his werewolf form, howling at the moon.

'When did Zed draw this?' Wyatt thought as Zed walked back into the living room.

"What are you holding, Wyatt?" Zed inquires with curiosity in his voice.

Wyatt stood up from the floor, "You didn't tell me you could draw."

Rosiness rose on Zed's face, "It wasn't necessary."

The werewolf lifted one eyebrow, "Why wasn't it necessary?"

"Addison always told me my drawings were stupid." Zed blurted out accidentally, covering his mouth.

Wyatt felt anger rise in his chest, but kept calm, "You're drawings are not stupid, you know that, right?"

"But Addison told me I should burn my drawings because they're ugly," Zed blurted.

"She is wrong, Zed. Your drawings are beautiful, just like you." Wyatt grabs his boyfriend's face, trying to keep his anger down.

"Wyatt, she-" Zed started, but Wyatt cut him off.

"She nothing, Zed. I love you for who you are." Wyatt admitted.

Zed's face turns a deep shade of red, "What did you say, Wyatt?"

Wyatt pulls his hands away, "I said I love you."

Zed felt his heart warm with happiness, "I love you, too, Wyatt."

Wyatt began to grin happily as he grabbed Zed's face again to bring him down for a kiss.

Zed returns the kiss by wrapping his arms around Wyatt's waist, bringing him close.

Their kiss soon lasted for a few minutes before breaking apart.

Wyatt smirks up at Zed, "Should we continue this in the bedroom?"

Zed smirks as well, "Yeah, we should."