Klaus's Pet Book 1

24

Lorelei POV:

Emma laughs.

"Seriously? You bring beer every time you come here and yet you don't drink?" She asks

"To be honest, yeah. I'd rather be high than shitfaced. Alcohol just doesn't do it for me." I say

"Being a hybrid doesn't help with hangovers?" Ash jokes

I laugh and shake my head.

"Unfortunately not. If anything it makes it a hell of a lot worse."

Emma punches me in the arm.

"Where have you been? I haven't seen you in over a month. I was getting worried that you died or some shit." Emma says

James rolls his eyes.

"I swear she's got a deep obsession with you. She talks about you so much it's like every other sentence out of her mouth." He says

Emma laughs and I grin.

"It's not healthy Em. This is an intervention." Lydia says with a straight face but even she breaks out into a smile

"Sorry to break it to you but Lorelei is not my type." Emma says with another laugh
"So you do have a type?" James asks
"I'm too busy to have a relationship right now." Emma says
"Avery and I make it work." Lydia points out
"Thats because you and Avery are both supernatural and spend most of your time together." James replies
"I don't think I could date a wolf. Too much anger issues and competition." Emma says thinking out loud
"What about a vampire?" James asks
"Yeah one bite during rough hot sex and they'd be dead the next day." Emma says
"A human?" Lydia asks
"Oh sure. 'Hey why do you vanish every night during a full moon?'" James retorts

"Maybe one day ill find someone but I'm really not worried about it yet." Emma says

James gets up and douzes the wood on the fire with lighter fluid, lights a match and tosses it in, igniting the fire.

We all sit and talk about the past few weeks that we've been apart. I tell them about the hunters and they all look shocked, disgusted, pisssd off or speechless.

James tells me about the wolves that have come in. They were new wolves who had just triggered their curse and hadn't even turned yet.

I've learned that many wolves rotate out, finding new places to call home or the older ones take off to create their own pack.

They were now at around 20 or so. Some new wolves would migrate to the newer packs.

They created the system once the pack had gotten too large to maintain.

Emma always took in the newbies.

She understood what it felt like to be outcasted.

Eventually she had told me that after I had been abandoned that night of the ritual, she was forced to trigger her curse by killing her father.

A punishment handed down by Hector for the way things had gone.

Her dad didn't put up a fight and with his dying breath he told her it would be okay.

I'd always hoped she had escaped that ritual and even on the months she had come down to visit afterwards, she'd never told me. The memory was too painful.

James laughs which brings me back to the present.

Ash punches him hard in the shoulder.

"I bet I can run faster than you asshole." She says

I must look confused because Emma tells me that they are talking about racing during the next full moon.

"It's kind of a sport around here. Whoever wins gets a day off." James says