The Sun Will Rise (Moonlight 1)

Chapter 12-Moon

Grey clouds were building to the east above us as we left school. I sighed, pulling on my backpack strap. It looked like we might be in for some more rain this afternoon. It was common for the end of summer but the forecast had said it would clear up by tonight. It had been raining a lot these past few days including last night after Michael and I had left the creek.

"Luke, you okay?" Calum asked. I nodded, realising that I'd stopped dead in my tracks. I looked ahead, Ashton and Michael were already a few steps in front of us. The two of them paused at Calum's words turning back to look at me with worried expressions.

I guess they had reason to. By now, all of them understood my parents were in fact hunters as they'd suspected originally. I was nervous telling them but Michael convinced me to do so. He was right, Calum and Ashton had simply assured me that it would be fine and that it didn't change anything. Yet although he had been the one to help me, Michael had become a little more distant again. He'd barely talked to me all day and when he did it was in as few words as possible. It reminded me of how he'd been when we first met. I'd thought after what he'd told me yesterday we'd be fine but I guess that wasn't the case.

"You're not worried about the moon tonight, are you?" He asks.

Damn, with everything that had happened I'd almost forgotten. Calum had mentioned it once or twice but it had begun to slip my mind. I had been concerned about it before but now he'd said it I could feel my fears growing once more.

They'd told me to keep tonight free and that's exactly what I'd done. I just hadn't asked my parents yet, considering I'd lost my opportunity yesterday but surely, they'd be fine. All I knew was that we would be meeting up at someone's house. I had no idea what for though, no one had seemed to explain that part.

We start to walk, Michael falls back into step with Calum beside us. "We're meeting at my place tonight, right?"

"Yeah. Your parents are cool with us being around? My sisters having some friends over so my place is out." Calum said.

"They will be, I don't even think they're home tonight. Dad has to stay back late after work and mum's working night-shift tonight." Michael sighed. "So, it'll just be us."

I couldn't help but feel a pang of jealousy, I didn't know about Ashton, but both Michael and Calum's parents knew what they were and accepted them. If my parents found out, I'd hate to think what they would do. Disown me probably, from what Calum had said. I couldn't keep thinking about that. I'd been a wolf for over a week now and had shifted a few times and neither of them had any inkling of what was going on. Everything would be fine.

"Did you ask your parents Luke?" Calum questioned. "You said you were going to and then didn't respond."

I'd forgotten. After yesterday afternoon I'd barely spoken to her let alone asked that.

"Uh...no. That was actually what I was going to do when I found out about my parents." I frowned.

"Well that's alright but don't forget." Calum frowns, "You can't be there when the moon rises."

"You say it's important but what actually happens on a full moon anyway?" I ask.

"Ah yeah, we forgot to mention that didn't we...." Calum said. He frowned, and glanced at the others as if waiting for someone else to take over. It was starting to worry me when he did it as it seemed to usually be something I wasn't going to like.

"Well, the turning into wolves on a full moon is the part of the story is true." Michael says, when Calum doesn't seem to respond.

That wasn't too bad. I'd expected it to be something like that. It also made sense if Calum's sister was having friends over we couldn't be there. They didn't seem to be finished though.