It's just me

Chapter 4

Life was getting quite boring, I must admit. Same routine everyday - wake up, hunt , walk through the woods for hours without any specific aim. The worst thing was - I had no one. Nobody who I could trust and share my feelings and thoughts. I kept wondering about that boy. Something was special about him, I could feel it, but I didn't want to go back to where I found him. The fear from the creature hasn't disappeared. I was hoping I would never have the chance to meet it again.
One afternoon I didn't feel like doing anything, even not eating. I was thinking about my family and how much I missed them. I still do of course. So it was a day for reflection. Suddenly, I heard many steps - people's.. I got back to reality and started searching for a place to hide. My first thought was:

"Dear Lord, please not hunters."

I have had a lot of bad experiences with them through my stay in the woods and none of them ended good. For them , hehe. However, this didn't mean that I wasn't afraid of them. All those weapons were way too scary. Actually, scary isn't the correct word for them - more like terrific. The shelter I usually used was an old fallen piny tree with a hole in it. I could fit in it quite easily and it covered me enough.
Silence continued for a while. Of course I had to do something stupid and didn't wait enough and went out to check what was going on. And then.... I heard something that I have never heard before - a wolf's howl. But much louder than the usual. What the hell was that? Was it even normal? But who was I to tell? A girl-wolf creature?! Yeah, sounds perfectly normal. And then.. Just out of sudden someone appeared. And surprise, surprise can you guess who? Oh, well the boy bitten from the creature that I didnt know what it was. Well at least I supposed it was him. The thing was that.. His eyes.. They were red. And his face.. He was half wolf and half wolf. (Back then I didn't know what a werewolf is, so don't judge). However, he was staring at me and I couldn't move. My heart skipped few beats, I felt like my eyes were burning. My whole body started hurting. More like my bones were cracking and something was changing. Then I got it. Or more like saw it. I wasn't an animal anymore. My reaction was more like a shock , not a satisfaction or happiness. I was so used to my animal habits and way of living and going back to human wasn't in my chore. As I was lying down all of his friends or whoever they were came. The most embarrassing thing was - I was naked, but someone gave me clothes just a second after I thought that. And this person was the other boy from that night in November.

Stiles - that was how they called him.

That was the last thing I remember
cause I think I passed out. Next thing that happened... I was in the sheriff station and Stiles , or however his name was , was talking to the sheriff.

" - We will take you to your home. There isn't a reason to worry about something." - he said.

I went in the police car without saying anything. And as we stopped in front of my old house I started crying, because I knew what was expecting me there. My only left relative - my father. He looked just as how I kept his appearance from my childhood in my memory. Only his happy face expression was gone and he looked a lot more tired. Not physically, more like emotionally. With small steps I got to the house porch. He couldn't stop looking at me and I felt like he won't recognize me.
" -Malia? Is that really you?" - he said through the tears coming from his eyes.
I was speachless. All I could do was to nod. Finally, he hugged me so tight and I couldn't believe I was at home again.