Savanna

Chapter 4

My heart still beating from all the shock, I turned my head to see through the back window. Black shadows were moving in the darkness. Slowly they stepped in the middle of the road and watched us leave. This figure didn't seem to belong to a human, but I have no idea what else it could be. Its glowing eyes were only things I recognized now. But then we turned around a bend and the silhouette was veiled by the forest.

I eyed the woman who had saved me, thinking through the questions I needed to get some answers to. But then I noticed something. A lonely tear on her cheek. She was concentrating on the road, trying to hold back what was waiting in the corners of her eyes.

"Where are we going?" I finally asked.

She wiped the tear away and blinked a few times, trying to look like nothing was wrong. But she wasn't that good of an actor. "You are... Selina, am I right?"

I nodded. "How did you know?"

"You go to same school with my son," she replied.

"Your son?" I asked, hoping to get the name.

She nodded and seemed a bit hesitant before answering. "Jake."

This name brought back the fear that had started to fade when I got saved. I leaned against the door and rapidly grabbed the door's handle.

"No, no. I will take you to your home. I'm not here to hurt you," she tried to calm me down. I noticed she was ready to hit the brakes. "I wouldn't have brought you from there otherwise. When I... Actually I'm not even sure why I drove there. And when I saw you running, escaping from something, I knew they were there... I couldn't just drive away like nothing happened. I don't want him to do this." Her voice broke with the last sentence and another tear ran down her cheek. I didn't calm down completely, but pulled back my hand and slumped back on my seat. She didn't seem to be lying.

"Did you see him...?" she asked after a few moments of silence. It sounded like she trailed off, but I saw she was waiting for my answer.

"Jake was the one who kicked off that door. He was chasing me," I said dryly.

"But did you see them... different?" she specified. She didn't look at me when she talked.

I shivered when thinking of the memory and took a deep breath. "Their eyes were glowing. Like cats' eyes. And... one had fangs." When the image appeared in front of my eyes again, I slightly flinched.

"And this was all?"

I stared at her. There's something else? "What are they?" I asked, my voice was too demanding. Jake's mum didn't take her eyes from the road, and slightly shook her head. Her lips were pressed together.

"You must tell me!" I had raised my voice, sounding even more demanding. I couldn't let her just stay quiet. I needed to know. I almost got killed tonight.

"Humans can't know about them," she finally mumbled, clenching the wheel. She wished not to talk about that, but I'm not letting that happen.

"I must know. I can't go on with my life like this. I would do research." I'm sure she saw the problem. I had witnessed something, and I won't let it go too easily.

After a few moments she sighed and loosened her tight grip on the wheel. "Well... You have probably heard the myths about werewolves," she said slowly.

"Werewolves?!" I screeched.

"No, they're not werewolves. But... It's something similar."

I waited for her to continue, no matter how weird or impossible it would sound. I've seen enough to believe anything.