Friend Or Foe?

Mother And Father

After mother had the meeting she took me out for ice cream. She didn't actually expect me to pay attention in school, and the whole disappointed look was an act. Mother actually wanted to be an actress before she was a wolf, she was raised by normal humans and didn't find out about her true nature until she was sixteen . She knew the struggle of school and obviously didn't want me to experience the same pain. It was my father who actually made her realize she was a wolf.

And this is how they met and how she found out :

It was the day her sixteenth birthday and she was in the woods with her friends but she went off track and lost the others. Out of nowhere a rabid animal appeared and tried to attack. Then my father appeared. As soon as he arrived at the scene time stood still for him. All that was running through father's head was "mate" again and again and again. He was lost in mothers beauty the moment he saw her. But mother didn't feel anything because she had never shifted. She looked at my father with confusion written all over her as to why an animal was staring at her so intensely. The other wolf saw that they were distracted and used it as an opportunity to attack my father.

"He was a rogue you know." she said interrupting the story going on in my head.

"How did you know what I was thinking about?"

"Because you make the same strange face every time you think of that story."

As we walked home from the ice cream parlor she continued to tell the story never missing a single detail.

" I thought that your father was a dog, and I loved dogs. My mother wouldn't get me a pet for anything in the world, so when I saw him try to protect me I was immediately drawn to him, so I guess one way or another we were going to be together. I also saw the other one try to attack. I figured that if I rescued him he would love me forever and never leave my side... "

She paused as a tear trickled down her eye.

" And he still does love you mother, as you thought that he would. He will love you forever and never leave your side. Even if you can't see him just keep on loving him and you will always feel his presence. Just because he doesn't live here with you doesn't mean that you are alone. " She looked at me with tears in her eyes, she stopped walking, turned to look at me and held my face in her palms and just looked at me for a while.

" Oh Delaney, I'm never alone cause, I have you. You look just like your father and it's hard to stop loving someone you see everyday."

Her voice was soft and sounded so poetic. We walked the rest of the way home in silence, silence because we enjoyed the quiet and just having each others company. My head was near her heart and I could hear it beating louder than it ever had before, maybe she was thinking of father, but that was the only person on her mind every day of every second. And as we walked through the forest in our pack territory I could hear the wind singing.

We paused to enjoy the wondrous sounds of nature and the tranquillity that it gave me. Mother smiled before looking at me.

"It's your father reaching out to you my love telling you to be strong. "

" No mother, it's him reaching out to us telling us he loves us."

The forest was my favorite place in the world. It was where my father first ran when once he had shifted as well as my mother. It was where my father would come to practice controlling the wind and my mother would control water because they were elemental wolves as was everyone else in the pack. It was where we would come and have picnics and have tea parties that mother and I would drag father to just to take him away from his alpha work. It was supposed to be were we would all run together once I had shifted. Instead the last thing that happened here when my father was alive, was his death. Up until this day I still think that it--