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Chapter 16

Chapter 16

Arriving home I didn’t expect anything to be out of the ordinary. I expected our large brick house to stand there towering over me, like it always does, the driveway empty, the room’s dark. There was nothing to celebrate and my parents hadn’t informed me of any gathering that we were hosting, so when I arrived home to a driveway so full I had nowhere to park and music blasting so loud I could hear it out on the street I knew there was something wrong.

My first reaction was to check and see if I was at the right address, though it wasn’t easy to mistake the mailbox that my brothers and I had decorated with various drawings when we were little for someone else’s.

I confirmed I was at the right house after I searched for the hidden key I kept under the flower pot that was under my window. After hours of trying to decide where I should put it that had seemed like the best spot. Now that I had found it, proving that I had not gotten lost and imagined our drawings on the mailbox, it was time to go inside.

Slowly I walked up the stone walkway that my brothers had constructed to get out of being grounded once. I peered in through one of the large windows which unknown people where dancing in front of.

Cautiously I pushed the heavy oak door open and dropped my backpack on the floor from shock. In the house balloons, happy birthday and congratulation signs were plastered everywhere. We had already celebrated my birthday though. My parents must have come up with some really creepy idea. I was already scared to find out what it was.

“Surprise!” Everybody screamed at me. I searched the crowd trying to find some familiar faces but I couldn’t even find one. I saw a black haired tall man who looked at me expectantly and a blonde woman whose expression mirrored his. There was a teenager my age that was looking pretty uncomfortable as if trying to find a way out, and I heard a baby crying.

“Umm, hi!” I said waving. In reply there were choruses of hi’s and hello’s, but the woman continued staring. I couldn’t place her expression though. I saw expectance, nervousness, regret and disappointment in her eyes.

“You don’t have any other reactions?” She asked me turning fully towards me and I felt her gaze pierce through my body.

“I don’t really know how to reach to this.” I told her truthfully as I saw a look of familiarity show on her face before it returned to normal.

“I expected a girl like you to have a much better reaction.” She told me, still glaring at me as if she was trying to search for something.

“Like what?” I asked her.                                            

“Definitely a reaction that was less confused. I was expecting you to recognize the scenario, at least see some familiarity, but you showed nothing. You’re just like everyone else! I cannot believe we thought you to be…” She trailed off. I was about to start panicking when I finally saw two familiar faces. The faces of the two people who had put me in this awkward position.

“Why, hello Margaret! We see you have met our daughter Ashley.” They greeted her, well more like my dad did while my mom just stood there bobbing her head back and forth.

“I have, and it’s been a disappointment. I thought she would be extraordinary and instead-” She gestured towards me, “I get this.” My parents looked at her in shock.

“She does have more too her though. You haven’t seen her in wolf form yet, and she is still to mature.” My father told her trying to save everything that was possible. I on the other hand was confused. They were telling this woman about me being a wolf in a completely relaxed manor, like it was natural.