Howl

You're Not Alone

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So school was a drag...just thought you should know :)

I'm sorry if this chapter is a bit like 'wtf' but it will make sense way later on in the story so just bear with me.

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Chapter Song: Lady Gaga- Teeth

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Chapter 23

"No," I sigh "I'm fine, really. There's no need to book a flight over here, trust me, besides, you hate the cold."

"Why the hell haven't you called me in over a week then?" Edwin's voice powered through my mic. I winced, pulling away slightly.

"Jesus, calm down, Ed," I said lowly, though I knew his anger wasn't misplaced. I hadn't called him in over a week, but then again, it wasn't like I had a choice.

"I told you, I was...busy."

"What was with the pause just now?"

I groaned "Stop reading so far into it, you're acting like an overprotective mother for crikes sake."

He grunted "Better that than none at all," He replied, his tone slightly resentful. I wasn't the only one that suffered neglect in the family. I was ignored by both parents, whereas Edwin got the attention of only our Father and Emilie only of our Mother; it was only just John that got the blessing from both parents. That would probably explain why he always felt the need to take care of me as a father would, Edwin had already adopted the role of mother hen by the time he was eight and I was three.

And now, at the age of nineteen, I had finally accepted that I didn't need their attention anyway. Coming here and making new friends, finally escaping the suffocating nature back there and the pressure, I felt like I could finally open up fully.

Well, that and the fact that I wasn't quite..human.

"I'm just...worried," Edwin continued "you seemed tightly wound last time I saw you I guess, and that made me worry, but when you didn't call me?" He blew out a breath "I nearly had a heart attack. I'm only twenty four."

I rubbed the growing ache in my head "I know, and I'm sorry. I really was just caught up in some stuff, y'know, concerning hunters on the Native Land and everything. I was just trying to help out seeing as they've done so much for me already." I finally put forth the lie that Ilyanna had created with me beforehand. I hadn't been able to get much word in before, seeing as Edwin found it suitable to lecture me.

Told you, he's a mother hen alright.

I could picture him raising his dark brows in disbelief.

"And you somehow couldn't get a hold of your phone?" He stated. He didn't believe me.

I looked up at the ceiling, my eyes pleading with the heavens.

I didn't want to lie. In fact, it left an acrid taste in my mouth, but how else was I going to brush this aside? I definitely couldn't tell him everything. There was no way for me to make him believe without showing him firsthand, and even then it'd be breaching the trust the Yukon here had given me in Talkeetna. If he hadn't already booked me into a mental institution that is.