Sunlight streams onto my face the next morning. I wince a little and shut my eyes tighter to pretend it isn't. I want to sleep a little bit longer, but my body doesn't want to agree with that. After a while I pull myself up into a seated position as my eyes fall onto the sleeping bags surrounding me. Michael lies still asleep beside me sprawled out on his back. Ashton and Calum both teeter on the edges of their sleeping bags. I'm sure if they move much further they'll fall into one another.
I sigh, it seems no one else is awake yet.
I focus my hearing listening for any other source of noise from the house, but find none except the early morning noises of the birds outside. I'm the only one awake. I stretch my arms out, taking a deep breath. In turn I get a brief scent of the acidic burning smell that still lingers in the air from the fire from last night....
Last night, finally making my first shift into a wolf certainly hadn't been a dream. One glance at my wrist at the wolf charm another reminder of that. For all the stories, and all the fear that I'd built up over these past days maybe it hadn't been so bad after all. It felt like a blur, tinged with unreality. Yet I knew that it had happened. I guess I wasn't human anymore.
I look up at the clock ticking away on the wall, it's still early and I feel awkward sitting here waiting for everyone to wake up. I decide to lay back under the covers and try to force myself back to sleep, again. It seems futile though as my mind starts to wander onto anything but sleep.
"Hey, is he awake?"
"Nah, don't think so."
My brain snaps back to the present. I can hear voices. Does that mean the others are awake? Sleepily, I open my eyes finding Calum and Michael sitting on the floor together on the other side of the room. Neither of them were paying any attention to me. I wonder who they were talking about? Ashton maybe?
"Cal, I've been doing some investigating, his parents are really hunters or at least have ties to them."
I freeze. What did Michael just say? So maybe they were talking about me?
"Oh no. They can't be. I really hoped it wasn't true." Calum frowned.
"It appears so, everything I've found seems to suggest that they are." Michael frowned, "They must've been assigned here. Besides, Luke says he moves around a lot, it makes sense."
No. First Calum's mum and now Michael. I wasn't sure if I could handle everyone thinking my parents might be hunters. You'd think I'd know about this kind of stuff if it was going on in my own house, but he was right we had moved around a lot. Plus, the last names lined up. It was starting to seem a little more than a coincidence.
No, it was a coincidence. It had to be.
"I wonder why they never told him then? It seems odd, I thought they trained their kids from the time they could pick up a sword." Calum sighed.
"Usually, that's what's so strange about it."
"If they are, do you think they're here for us?" Ashton asks, joining the conversation as he steps over me to sit across from them slightly blocking my view.
"I hope not." Calum frowned, "For all we know they're just here for the lone wolf that attacked Luke. We're probably the least of their problems."
"Possible. I mean if they were worried about that incident, you think they would've come by now." Michael adds with a glance at Calum, "They've had long enough."
Calum frowns and a confused expression crosses Ashton's face. It's subtle but I notice Calum's hand trembling as he focuses straight ahead almost looking through Michael. He looks as if he's about to cry.
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The Sun Will Rise (Moonlight 1)
Fanfiction(5sos Werewolf AU) 'It's hard to see the enemy, When you're looking at yourself. Maybe your reflection shows you screaming out for help.' Luke doesn't expect much from his new school; however, it soon becomes apparent that this one isn't going to b...
