Flight or Fight

Chapter 3

Luckily, I was smart enough to do a credit card on my name and save up some money. I had enough money to survive, but what for? I mean, I was all alone in a hotel room, and I couldn’t ask for anyone’s help. My best friend Maya it’s a human. She doesn’t even know that I’m a werewolf, and honestly, I would like to stay that way. I don’t want her to find out what I am. At least not now.
And other people I don’t know. I mean, I know one more person, but he is still human, and right now, I don’t need another drama. It’s about my ex-boyfriend, Noah. He still has a big crush on me. I can say I’m kind of over it now. I mean he’s hot, I need to admit that.
He has blue eyes and blond hair, and he has abs, too. He is really good-looking. The first day I saw him, I fell for him. We started talking, but it took a while until we got together. But it didn’t last long. We were together only for 3 months. And believe me, it was the best 3 months in my life, but slowly I realised that I want someone next to me, who knows everything about me, and still loves me. Who will stay beside me no matter what, who knows me better than myself. And he wasn’t for me. 
I always wondered what he would say if he knew the truth about me. And even if I’m a positive person, with him, I couldn’t be. He would freak out, and if not, maybe he would make me leave far away from everything that involves werewolves. Plus, I know that somewhere my fated mate waits just like me. I couldn’t be with someone, just for the sake of being in a relationship. 
But I was pulled out from my thoughts by the phone. I was getting many messages, and even phone calls.
It will be a long day. i said to myself.
I saw some messages from my parents, which said the same thing. That I’m selfish, and I’m making trouble again. My sister changed her tactics, and she pretended to be worried about me. I knew why she was doing it. She thought I would be stupid enough to respond to her. Right now, I didn’t want to speak with them at all.
But I saw a message from Maya too, in which she wrote “Are you okay, girl? Your sister just called saying you ran away and that they are worried. Call me as soon as possible.”
I knew she would do that, but I knew how Maya was, and even if she knew where I was, she wouldn’t say anything.
So, I called her and I said to meet in front of the school. But before I could go out of the door, my sister mind linked me. “Are you really gonna be like this? Come back now. Otherwise, mom and dad will not live until they don’t find you.” I couldn’t not say anything, so I just told her “It’s not my business. Plus, you can be like a family now. You will not have the troublemaker there.” And with that, I ended the conversation. Obviously, it didn’t work like a phone call, where you can turn it off, and that’s it. They couldn’t bother you anymore. Even if she capped mind linking me, I would just ignore it. I knew eventually she would stop. And she did.
After 30 minutes, I arrived in front of the school where Maya waited anxiously. When she saw me, she ran towards me and started asking a lot of questions.
“I will answer you, but first, let's go somewhere else.” I told her, and I started to drag her after me. Where? I didn’t even know. At first I wanted to go for a walk, but I knew that  was a bad idea. Then I thought it would be better if we would go for a coffee. There usually are a lot of people, so my parents can’t do anything else. They wouldn’t drag me out of there, in front of so many people.
She didn’t ask where we were going. She just followed me quietly. When we arrived at the coffee shop, we ordered some coffee andrea set down.
“Now tell me. What the fuck it’s happening?” She asked. I couldn’t tell her everything. I was afraid of how she would react. “Just some family shit.” I said and I started sipping from the coffee.
“I understand that, but this time seems a little serious, so I want to be there for you. But I can’t if you don’t tell me what is going on.” She said pushing it more and more this time. “And I told you!! It’s family thing. What should I say more than this? I just got enough of them and ran away. The end.” I said really annoyed. I didn’t liked being like this at all, but I was afraid of her reaction. I didn’t wanted to loose the only friend that I had left.
“We know each other more than 10 years. You know about me everything, while I don’t know about you almost anything. You are close but at the same time far from me. I would be there for you no matter what, but don’t you think it’s about time to open up in front of me?” She said looking in my eyes.
If she would’ve known how badly I wanted to open up.. Maybe I could? Or I shouldn’t?
It was a war inside me. I couldn’t stand it anymore, and I just stood up, and storm out from there. She kept shouting my name, but it was useless. I was already outside, ready to live, but something stopped me. A thought... What if I lose her friendship like this? What if acting like this will ruin our friendship and not the fact that she would know what I am.
Without thinking anymore, I went back inside. I had to give it a try. Even if I lose her as a friend, at least I tried to open up.  At least I showed her the real me.
I stood in front of her, and I told her to come after me if he wanted to truly know everything about me. Without thinking she stood up and started following me. She didn’t even have any second thoughts about this, she just came. And this gave me a positive thinking, that maybe she would accept me. At least I was hopping. 
After a few minutes we arrived at the hotel where I was staying. She looked at me, and asked surprised “ You are staying in a hotel? And in a really expensive one?”
“Yes. I was clever enough to save up the money that my parents sent me.” I said really confident, and proud.
In a few minutes we were in my room. She made herself confrontable, and she looked at me waiting for me to explain.
I looked at her, I took a deep breath and I started explaining everything. After a few minutes I could see her being shocked. I couldn’t tell if she was scared now or thought that I was loosing my mind.
“Look, I understand if you don’t believe me, or think that I’m crazy but it’s just the truth. You wanted to know.”  I said with a sad face. She was ready finally to say something, but I stopped her, because I started to hear some voices on the hallway. I smelled the scent of 2 werewolves.
“What? What are you hearing?” she asked.
“There are 2 men on the hallway… I mean werewolves.” I said, and I showed her to stop talking.
The 2 of them, were speaking about my father.  One of them said “When they will realise that they can’t hide their daughter forever? The King will find her eventually.”  The King?? Why is he searching for me? But I couldn’t think because the second one said “They are stupid. She witnessed something important. They will not escape from him.”
I was speechless. So, something really important happened that my family bought me here.
“Are you okay?” Maya asked.
“I’m not okay… The King... Is looking for me...”  I said shocked.
“What? The King?” Maya asked.
“Yes.” After a few second I saw she was just looking at me confused so I explained to her the werewolf things.
“So, you have Kings and Queens. That’s cool!!!! I mean I’m still freaked out at the part that my BFF it’s a fucking werewolf.” She said surprised and shocked.
“I know it’s not easy to accept, so if you don’t want to be my friend anym-“  But I didn’t had a chance to continue because she interrupted me and continued “You think I will stop being your friend just because of this? Yes, I am shocked, but that doesn’t mean I will stop being you friend. You just need to give me time to process. But I will still be here for you.”  Hearing this made me feel blessed. I was happy that I had a friend like her.
“Thank you. It really feels good after I said it. I finally can speak about this with someone you is on my side, and I don’t have to be careful and cautious. Obviously, when you are ready for that.” I said with a warm smile.
“It’s ok. We can talk even now. I will have time to process in the meantime.” She said.
“Are you sure?” I asked. But she replied without hesitation “Yes!!” And continued “ What will you do about the King? Why do you think he Is looking for you?” She asked.
I was so lucky having her as a friend. I knew how hard it was for her to accept all  of this, but still didn’t questioned it at all.
“I don’t know. I don’t know much about werewolf stuff because my sister didn’t spoke that much about this, and I kind of forgot what happened back then, that my parents ran with me here.” I said thinking…
“We will find a way.” Maya said and continued “ I will help you.”