Howl [Being Edited]

Chapter 2

I had awoken on my back deck in a tremendous amount of pain barely remembering the events that had happened this morning although I had an overwhelming smell of Luke on me. How I even knew the scent belonged to him doesn't phase a person in extreme amounts of pain. I groaned and closed my eyes bracing myself for my appendix to explode. I was scared and terrified and I could feel the adrenaline pumping through my veins. I wanted to scream, I wanted to shout for help but I was in too much pain. I writhed on the wooden deck floor wanting my life to just easily slip from my body to end the intensity of this pain. But death would not come because death was not kind to me. Instead I felt my body rip apart inside out my limbs shrank and bent and my heart felt like it was going to explode. It felt like my whole Universe had imploded and suddenly exploded one right after the other. I whimpered in pain and when I stood again panting heavily I was on four legs instead of two. It was confusing and disorienting. Everything was in sharper clarity and the smells were driving me crazy. My ears turned involuntarily towards the noise of small footsteps running through the forest behind me. I was scared I didn't know what I was or what happened to me. I imagined myself to be dead and reincarnated as an animal of some sort. As disoriented and confused as I was in my current state I caught scent of something pleasing and comforting I bounded down the wooden stairs and onto the grass catching the scent again. I followed it out to the front of a house and bounded down the street the scent getting stronger as I went along. I narrowly missed cars and people gave me odd stairs but I needed to follow this scent. I felt like it was calling to me. 

I reached a small house where the scent was the strongest, I felt great even though I had sprinted at least a kilometer to get here. I heard footprints from inside the house and I heard a shutter snap. A boy was standing in the window of the house with a camera in his hands, I didn't feel threatened by him. I looked at him and turned my head sideways to try and get a better sound. My scent trail had ended here so I figured whatever scent I was following was in that house somewhere. The boy had left the window and I felt like I couldn't just stand on the front lawn of this house. The boy came to the gate leading into his backyard and opened it and started calling me to come through. The sight confused me, didn't he know I was a freak of nature? I didn't want to go through it felt too wrong to me. Perhaps he foresaw this happening and so he left the gate open and dropped a meaty steak in the middle of his backyard before returning into his house. I realised I was hungry and anxiously approached the meat keeping my eyes and ears alert. The gate to the backyard closed just as I had dug into the raw steak, I stopped eating and stepped away from my meal. I had begun to feel uneasy. I looked around and shifted my ears waiting for some sound to confirm my suspicions. The boy was back standing at the glass door with the camera. He opened the door slowly while I watched and he stepped out onto his back deck. He still had the camera in his hands which made me feel uncomfortable. He continued to take pictures without making sudden movements, then he put the camera down and tried stepping closer to me. 

Instinctively I growled. He backed up a step and put his hands up. 

"Woah, Kyla I know you're still in there. I know that you're confused and scared and you don't know what's happened to you but I can tell you if you just changed back." 

These words barely resonated with me. Change back? How do I do that, i've died. I barked at him trying to terrify him into letting me go. 

"I'm not your enemy! Would you just change back!" He shouted at me. My ears went down and my tail went between my legs. I lied down in the grass and just let my self go before I felt what I'd been forced to do. The pain came again and this time stronger. It made me want to vomit my insides out, involuntary tears slid from eyes from the pain clenching my body. 

In my human form I gasped once the pain was gone, my breath was shaky and I was naked. I was shaking, I wanted to cry. That was the worst and most painful experience of my life. Luke threw me a t-shirt and some pajama pants. After I had put them on I looked at him.