Visions (Forest Secrets Book 1)

Chapter 19

Alright, so this is the last chapter. I hope you liked the story. I'm working on the sequel right now, it's called Shadows, and I'm a few chapters in. I hope it explains a few things. I bring in some new characters, revisit one or two old ones.

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The room was brightly lit. It was huge, to, the ceiling was high up, and the room shaped in a way that gave it the feel of a cave.

            It was probably what they’d been aiming for. Stupid werewolves.

The click of nails on the hard wood faded into something heavier as there were suddenly naked people walking past us. They all seemed to be searching for clothes, and when I thought they’d all gone past us, I grabbed Emily’s arm next to mine and turned for the door.

And there was the werewolf that had chased me and led the group that and herded all three of us here, already in jeans and blocking the only way we had out.

He smiled smugly as he looked at me, imitating a snap with his jaws. I felt my vision go red for a second as I stared at him. He seemed to be enjoying my expression, so I turned my back on him, no way out.

I heard the sliding of a lock and looked back to see a different clothed boy buttoning his pants and he took the job guarding the door, relieving the stupid green eyed jerk.

Said jerk brushed past me and grabbed one of the shirts lying around and pulling it on.

The girl from my vision, the one with the red nail polish came stomping down the stairs, “What’s going on?” she asked to no one in particular, with aggravation.

Jerk answered her, “Seems some of the humans around here are as curious as cats.”

She made a gagging noise. “I hate cats.”

I knew that girl had just made one Emily Jackson’s “Bad List”, who’s loved cat, Joseph, was currently residing in a cat hospital for a broken toe.

“What are we going to do with them, Noah?” She asked Jerk who was “supposedly Noah” but I stuck with Jerk.

“What did you do you do with Carter?” Was it the same for us?

Jerk smiled at me, reading my face. Christine saw that and was on the verge of tears as she asked, “Did you eat him?”

My face fell. Oh god. It hadn’t even occurred to me, but now…the blood spill…

Oh god.

“Babe, you got any pancake mix?” The voice made me look up. I wasn’t going crazy, because there he was, walking on the second floor hallway toward the stairs in blue pajama pants.

“Carter!”

He looked down at us, surprised, “Jenna…Emily…Christine? What are you guys doing here?”

Crap! Now they knew our names. He hurried down the stairs toward us, smiling. He pasted Jerk’s sister and gave her a kiss before stopping in front of us.

It was too much.

“What the hell Carter?! Where have you been?” I shouted at him.

“Here…” He looked taken aback

“Here? Do you know how worried everyone’s been? Do you know what’s been going on? I’ve got a detective breathing down my back, thinking I’m the one that took you. We get chased by frickin’ werewolves that want to eat us.” There was an angry throat clearing, but I ignored it and went on, “Everyone’s been so worried and we had a search party. We were scared for you. And your family! God, Carter, you should have seen them!”

I was a little out of breath and said quieter, “What the hell? Why didn’t you just go home?”

“It’s a long story,” he answered, sounding chastised.

What had he been doing all this time? Then I snorted. I knew exactly what he’d been doing, because he’d been doing Jerk’s sister while everyone was worrying over his safety.

“I can’t go home yet.”  

As if that explained anything. He looked back at Red Nail Polish—the bitch, literally—as if waiting for something. She nodded and he turned back to us, taking a deep breath. “Beth’s a werewolf.”

“We got that.” Christine said blandly.

“We saw each other a bunch of time, and before we had sex, she asked me to be hers and I said ‘yes’. I didn’t know what it meant at the time, but I don’t regret it now. I left after, because I didn’t know that it meant that I was literally hers. Like her mate. I had broken a sacred pact or something so they came and got me to explain it. Course, seeing a bunch of werewolves in my room didn’t really make me all that welcome…” He looked up at us for a moment and continued, “So I fought, but obviously I didn’t win. So I ended up here. That’s it. I can’t go home until we find some way to explain everything.”

“What’s gonna happen to us…?” Emily asked. It was the same question going through my mind.

“Hey. Get in the kitchen.” Some werewolf came in and threw the orders at Carter with a stern look on his face that booked no argument.

Carter looked back at us, but Beth came around and grabbed him by the arm and dragged him out of the room.

We were alone in the room except for the one werewolf. “Don’t even think about it,” He said, guessing our plans for escape.

It was boring. We waited in that room for a really long time. It had been dark when I ran into the forest, and as far as I could see through the windows, it was still dark, so time wise, all I knew was that it wasn’t morning.

My phone buzzed while we were in there. My only thought was, Grandma. The stupid werewolf took it from me before I could answer it, and then took Christine and Emily’s too.

I was so tired, my eyelids drooping, body sagging. I kept switching from one foot to another.

It seemed like forever when Beth and Jerk finally came in through the doors. Beth looked tired too, like she didn’t know what to do. Jerk kept his eyes on my face. I barely had enough energy to glare at him, but I pushed myself. It probably came out looking like some drunken stupor, but what’re you gonna do?

Beth was in the middle of shaking her head at the werewolf that had been waiting with us when Jerk started walking towards me. She looked at him, confused.

I gave him the same look.

He walked over, eyes locked on mine. He closed the distance between us, and when he moved his face closer to mine, I cringed away. My mouth, though, hadn’t been his target. He continued until his lips were at my ear.

He whispered something and my stomach lurched and my eyes burned, but I knew what I had to do.