Eisenhut

Chapter 12

"I know you told me your reasons for being a traveller," I began, "but why didn't you join the hunters or the pack army? You seemed to enjoy it when we went on the excursion,"

He took a deep breath, "I used to be part of all that," he reminisced, sadly, "if I had carried on, I would be where Dominik is now. I would become the next instructor when my father retired,"

"Then why did you quit?"

"Quit?" he echoed, "Oh I didn't quit. I still hunt but it's not my main priority," there was a pause; "I decided it would be best to become a traveller. You know when I said I lose control?" I nodded, "well... that's it. I become a different person when I feel threatened by humans and I've done things whilst in the pack army that I regret to this day," he turned back to face the sunset, "so I told my father to pass on my role to Dominik,"

"Dominik," I repeated, shaking my head, bitterly.

"You don't like him?" Sascha smiled, wanting me to elaborate.

"He's just difficult to get along with," I didn't want to say what I really thought of Dominik as I still wasn't aware of how close the brothers were and I didn't want to offend Sascha.

"Really?! He thought you two really clicked,"

I scoffed, "you're joking, right?" but he was deadly serious, "he has a strange way of showing his fondness for someone, then."

"Oh you're talking about his 'tough guy' persona," Sascha laughed, "Yeah he does that to impress the ladies,"

I faced Sascha, forcing myself to make eye contact, and admired the similar golden colour we both shared, "I'm not really into over confident people," he quickly blinked, turning his head away. I quickly changed the subject, "You know I'm actually quite tired," I coughed, wiping my clammy hands on my jeans and standing up.

He didn't say a word.

    I took a step in front of him and was surprised at his next action. Gently, he took hold of my wrist with one hand and rose up next to me. "I'm not really into over confident people either," he spoke softly, barely above a whisper, and then pushed my hair out of the way. He leaned in and I, in a trance, stood still. I had never been this close to a boy and I had never been lucky enough to develop feelings for a guy who seemed to feel the same way.

However, our romantic moment didn't last long. With our lips millimetres away from each other, we were interrupted by the screeching of a police siren winding around the cliff parallel to camp, seemingly heading in our direction.

    My feelings of lust were soon overpowered by fear, as the lights from the car were as bright and loud as fireworks. "Oh my god," Sascha was almost speechless, "we need to alert the pack," I was surprised that everyone hadn't already been awoken by the deafly sound, but needed to act fast.

As he pulled away, I could sense he was frightened like me, as he suddenly morphed into his werewolf form. It was the wrong time to admire his beauty, but I couldn't help it. He was the most majestic wolf I had ever seen, his dark brown fur glistened under the moonlight, which also enhanced his sparkling sun-like eyes.

"Go to your cabin, now!" he growled, awakening me from my daze. I bolted to my home, keeping watch of Sascha to witness his next move. With all his breath, he began howling three times, like a warning signal or an alarm. Immediately, cabin doors were flung open to reveal most males in their alternate form too. They piled out together, forming a clump to wait for Denis' orders. I was too far away to hear exactly what he said, but in a split second, the army were fleeing out of the camp to investigate the potential danger.

Sascha stayed behind and watched the events unfold from the cliff edge.

I hurriedly unlocked the front door to find Irina pacing up and down the hallway with Claudia and Hans sitting at the table, drinking coffee. Hans wore a face of worry; however Claudia was her usual chilled self. "Julia!" Irina hugged me, "are you okay? Why were you outside? Was Sascha with you?" she began to shoot bullets of questions at me.

"I'm fine," I lied, "we were both just chilling by the fire and then we heard a cop car and-"

"Okay, we all need to stop stressed," Claudia sighed, "from all the drama I thought we were under attack or something but one car?" she paused, "they're not a match for a pack of werewolves,"

Irina recommended we got some sleep to try to take our mind off the event. Despite Claudia's brave and logical approach to the situation, she still asked to stay in my room as she felt safer on the top floor. I was actually relieved she did, as because of that I managed to fall asleep straight away, only waking up briefly to hear the front door slamming shut.