Changing

Chapter 13

When I woke again, the sun was already finishing its rounds in the sky. The sky itself was brilliantly lit with different colors. Red, orange, purple, pink, yellow, and even green could be seen in the clouds above me. 

My body still ached, but it was a dull throbbing, much lessened from yesterdays torture. I found I could move, only causing a few flares of pain when I stretched to far. The cuts that marred my body were already healing. 

They did not crack and open like they had done the night before. 

Dull, vague images sprang to my mind. Most of the night I had spent in a stupor, but one memory stood out more vividly than the others. That of Bonnie’s silent presence beside me. 

I looked around the dense plants and trees and finally found her seated lazily against one of the protruding branches, high up in a oak. I was surprised to see her in her human form, I had been expecting her to be a wolf. I guess its because that what I mostly saw her as now. 

Her vigilant luminous blue eyes swept across the dense foliage watching, waiting. She looked like something you would expect to find in a fairytale. A dark huntress of the night. 

Though she wasn’t dark now. The sun sent down golden rays into her long weaving hair, that was full of leaves and debris, but this only added to her enchanting appearance.   

I gasped at her beauty, and that small shift of sound floated up to her ears and she looked down at me. 

A beaming smile lit up her features. 

She’s smiling? She’s smiling at ME?

“You slept forever, I thought you would never wake up.” she said in a high weaving tone. It sounded like music. 

I stared at her flabbergasted, unable to think or move. 

Her grin grew at my confusion. 

She then lithely let herself fall from the branches. Leaves whipped along her body as she fell. She landed, crouching down to let her knees absorb the shock. Her small muscled rippled with the strain. But she was graceful in her movements. 

She stayed where she was with an amused expression on her face.

“What?” she asked, “wolf got your tongue?” then she growled playfully. Her eyes flickering from blue to yellow and back again.  

“Who are you and what have you done with Bonnie?” I asked trying to sound sarcastic, but I was too stunned to get it right. 

I had never believed that Bonnie would talk to me, even when I realized she could. I never thought that she would. And to she her smiling, and not only smiling, but smiling at me! It was almost too much to grasp. 

Her grin wavered and became smaller, a furrow formed between her eyes, “I’m sorry about that…about everything, you see…”she broke off and turned away from me her shoulders stiff. 

When the silence lengthened and became uncomfortable I whispered, “why?”   

She took a deep breath which vibrated through her body and then muttered something. 

“What?” I asked unsure if I wanted to hear the answer. 

She turned to me abruptly enraged. She scowled at me, her eyes a glowing gold. 

“I was scared of you okay!” her mouth twisted around ‘scared,’ like it was a dirty word. “I couldn’t trust you, and you were so weird! Always trying to help me…why would you want to help someone like me? I thought it was a trick, another of the many I had fallen for during my time in that lab…”