The Sun Will Rise (Moonlight 1)

Chapter 3-A Light That's Calling Everyone Out

I lay there for a while. Just sitting there in the silent darkness. Slowly things started to come to me, noises; like the soft shuffled rustling of leaves, heavy footsteps, then breathing. I could feel something warm against my back. My eyes flickered open into dim lighting finding a grey cement ceiling above me. My vision was still blurry for a few moments, so I felt around instead, my hands meeting with something flat that still seemed to press downwards as I touched it. It felt like a mattress. I sat up in alarm, noticing that there were tools on one side of the wall scattered across the brickwork. Where was I? What had happened? Then I spotted someone sitting on a dark green beanbag a few meters away watching me. Another two faces peeked up from behind a couch. Hiding behind it like it was a protective barrier.

The person on the bean bag stood up and stepped into the light, it was Calum, that frustrating boy from school. What was he doing here? He gave no clue as to why. He just glanced at the other two, and they moved out from behind the couch sheepishly as if being forced. I noticed one of the boys had green hair and I knew immediately that it was Michael and Ashton. They looked terrified, but why?

None of us say anything for a moment. I find myself glaring at them and they simply stare back at me. How could it be that the three guys who had hated me were here now? Where were we and why were they here?

Then my thoughts flashed back, to the forest, the wolf, the pain that I'd felt. Had they been the ones to find me? Had they somehow made the wolf go away? The last thing I could remember was people taking about a them and someone saying that I was dying. Did these three have something to do with it, were they the people I'd heard?

"Uh...hi Luke." Calum says, taking a few hesitant steps towards me. I notice that he's still in his school uniform, then I notice some blood on his hand. My blood. A voice in my head suggests.

Neither Ashton or Michael say a word. They look quite hesitant to say anything. I see them make a glance at one another before turning their attention back to me. I guess now's my chance to ask.

"Where are we and where did the wolf go?" I ask, finding my words come out slightly raspy.

Calum glances back at the other two before nodding, "Well we're at my place. We sort of found you lying there in the bush and brought you back here." He spoke, "I think we managed to scare the wolf away, if we hadn't I guess this all could've been a lot worse."

"Uh...thanks." I say, though something bothered me, "How did you know about the wolf and how did you scare it away?"

An anxious look came across all the boys faces. Sending, alarm bells off in my head. I think something about my question had triggered something in them, but I couldn't be sure what.

Calum's eyes fell to the ground, "Uh, that one kind of needs a bit of backstory behind it...."

A backstory? What else could there be to that? A wolf attacked me, they saved me shouldn't that be it.

"I was going to wait, but I guess now you've asked this is the best time." He spoke, "Please promise me that no matter what we tell you tonight it does not leave this room, okay? No matter how terrifying it may be."

That was odd, but they had me curious. I wasn't sure if I would be able to keep my promise, but I find myself nodding anyway.

Calum glances at the others, who nod at him. He takes the space on the mattress beside me.

"As you know you were attacked by a wolf this afternoon." He pauses, seeming to search my eyes as he says it, "This one was quite different to your average one, it was a werewolf."