Twins of the Cursed Moon (wolf shifter werewolf romance)

1. Monsters in the Woods

"I'm telling you, there is nothing in the woods. That's just something adults say to make us stay out," said Tina, a blonde girl wearing a graduation robe and holding a flashlight.
"If there's nothing in the woods, than why have you never walked in there?" said Margo, a brunette with wide rimmed glasses, holding her graduation robe, wearing jean shorts, and a tee.
A group of seven freshly graduated students from Bindwood Academy, a boarding school in Montana, walked along the dividing chain link fence between the dense woods and the edge of their school's grounds. At the beginning of every new school term, the headmaster reminded all of the students that the woods are strictly forbidden, because there are large beasts in the woods.

"If you're so sure that there's nothing in the woods, then why don't you go in and show us?" said Pam, a tall and thin brunette with chin-length hair that had blue tips and matched her robin's-egg-blue eyes. Her sharp features and willowy form were striking in a completely different way, which obviously annoyed Tina whenever the two of them were together, but inexplicably they continued to spend time together.

"I'm not trekking through the woods right before my family takes me out to eat," said Tina.

"I'll go," said one of the three boy's who was following the girls. He was an athletic boy with light brown hair an dark blue eyes. He smiled at the blonde girl and winked at her.
"See, Max believes in me," said Tina.
"No, he just wants to get in your pants," said Pam.
"Don't fight, we should be celebrating," said Trish, a strawberry blonde haired girl with big green eyes.
"Well you're in luck," said Terrance while reaching an arm around Tina's shoulders. "No one needs to fight, because we can take care of this debate right now." He shrugged his backpack off of his shoulder and pulled out a pair of wire clippers.
"Why on Earth do you have those in there?" said Margo.
"If I don't tell you, then there's no reason to lie," said Terrance.
"They're probably for something lame, like gardening or something," said Ben.
Terrance punched Ben in the arm and then walked over to the chain fence.
"This was funny at first, but the joke's over. Seriously, don't cut the fence," said Margo.
"If they want to be dumb, we should let them," said Pam.
"What if those things come through?" said Margo to Pam.
Pam crossed her arms and shrugged her shoulders. "If you're really going to cut the fence open, make sure that you make the opening small enough that nothing else can come through."
"What's going to come through?" said Terrance.
"Just do it," said Pam.
"Whatever, you chicken shits can stay on this side of the fence, just hold this flashlight for me," said Terrance while tossing a flashlight to Margo.
"You don't need to show off for Tina, she isn't worth it," said Margo to Terrance.
"Is that any way to talk to your friend? Don't you believe in me?" said Terrance.
Terrance clicked open one more link and then threw down the clippers. He started slipping through the fence, but Margo rushed forward and grabbed his arm. "You don't need to go through there. You've made your point well enough, you're no coward. Let's get out of here and go out for some pizza or something."
"You know, if you like me, you probably shouldn't flirt with other girls in front of me," said Tina.
"We aren't flirting, Margo is just like a sister to me, an overprotective sister. We'll be back soon, just a quick walk in the forest to let everyone see that there's nothing to be afraid of and then we can go out for pizza," said Terrance.
"Promise?" said Margo.
"Sure, just wait for me here," said Terrance.
"Are you love birds done yet? You know what, maybe you should go with him," said Tina with her arms crossed.
"No, she needs to hold the flashlight for me. We'll be right back," said Terrance.
Margo hesitated a moment longer and then released his arm.
Terrance slipped through the hole in the fence along with Max and Ben.
"If the guys are going, I'm going with," said Pam.
"I don't want to be left behind," said Trish.
The others slipped through the hole in the fence and looked back at Margo and Tina.
"Are you two coming with?" said Pam.
"I'm not going in there," said Margo.
"Lame! Fine! I'll go into the woods, but if my manicure gets messed up, you're paying to get it fixed," said Tina and followed after them.
"Just keep shinning the flashlight into the woods, so that we can see our way out, we'll be out soon," said Terrance.
"Alright," said Margo and watched her friends walk into the woods. She wanted to stop them, but kept on telling herself that nothing bad would happen and everyone would come back soon.
She waited with her back propped up against the trunk of a weeping willow tree. She fell asleep there and woke up the next morning. When she went back to the dorms, she was told that her friends went out drinking, and all died in a horrible car accident. They had a quiet group closed casket funeral. Everything felt unreal to Margo, so she came in as soon as the funeral home opened and peeked into Max's casket when no one else was there. What she saw then was something so horrible that she would never be able to forget and it haunted her every time she closed her eyes.

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Rose
"Even a human can become a shifter, you just have to be accepted by a spirit beast."
I kept replaying those words over and over in my head while I tried to quietly slink through the wolf's pack lands. This was insane, I was insane, but I desperately wanted to find my best friend who I hadn't seen since the night she told me that we couldn't see each other for a while. I'd tried to be patient, since she'd told me to wait for her, but it'd already been eight months. Winter had come and gone and now the woods were covered in leaves and she was still not back yet. I'm not sure if I'm remembering incorrectly, but I remember a look of fear on her face when we talked last. Was she afraid and if she was, why? I hadn't been able to ask her then, because after hugging me, Brooke changed into her wolf form, and ran away.
Brooke told me once that shifters aren't born with their spirit beast, that during the entire day July's full moon lands on, the connection between the beast spirit realm and our realm opens up. It's during this time that the shifter packs take their young to their packs spirit platform, hidden deep within their pack territories. The platform is always situated somewhere along a stream within their territories. This is normally a closely guarded secret, but Brooke and I had met when she was twelve and I was ten; playing deep within her pack's territory where I wasn't supposed to be. When you're young, it's easier to spill secrets that you really shouldn't.
I was actually trying to avoid cleaning the boys bathroom at my boarding school, because my math test had more doodles on it than answers. I had won a nice cleaning demerit and the person in charge of assigning tasks happened to dislike me. Yes, I knew that I would receive an extra cleaning demerit for skipping my cleaning duty, but by then someone else would be in charge of assigning tasks. Then I could do something less disgusting than cleaning boys pee off the floor and walls of their bathroom. I was told that all students were forbidden from entering the woods on the other side of the rock-wall surrounding the school grounds. However, who told them to leave a hole big enough to crawl through? Headmaster Donavan said there were dangerous monsters in those woods, but that's just something that adults say to make kids obey them. Except that it wasn't and I would have been torn apart by wolves, if I hadn't been a little girl, and the pack alpha decided to spare me with a warning to never enter pack lands again.
Brooke and I had become fast friends during the hours before I'd been caught and brought to their pack alpha. Seeing those people shift into wolves right before my eyes had been quite a shock, but it hadn't been as much of one as when Brooke turned into a wolf right before I was escorted out of their lands. When Headmaster Donavan saw me being led back by two wolf shifters, I ended up getting more than the extra cleaning duty I had expected, I ended up grounded from going on any school outings for the rest of the year. The hole in the wall was repaired and life went on. The only difference was that I was bored out of my mind. I had nowhere to go and nothing to do. Nearly all the staff and students were going on trips during the weekends and holidays, and I wasn't allowed to go anywhere.
Finally boredom and curiosity won out, which led me back to the place that used to have a hole in the wall.