The Sun Will Rise (Moonlight 1)

Chapter 34-Long Night

A/N: I don't usually suggest songs that go with chapters but I first heard 'Long Night' by With Confidence about the time I was drafting this story about a year ago. It fits this chapter so well and even helped inspire some of the story. (I even named this chapter after it.) So, if you're someone that likes music that goes with chapters I'd recommend it. 

I focus on the rain as it pours down, drenching the trees surrounding the house and turning the dirt to mud. Worst of all, it feels like a barrier from the outside world. I want to be out there, searching for him, making sure he's okay. Yet it and Michael's words are blocking me. I place my hand on the window as I look out, feeling the cool night air pushing on it.

I can't take this for much longer.

I stand with Michael and Ashton at the window, the two of them are also watching the rain. It's almost as if we all expect to see his silhouette appear through the trees and that'll he'll appear at any moment. Yet, it had been at least half an hour and he hadn't returned. I was starting to worry that something had happened. I wish Michael had let us follow him. At least we'd have known where he'd gone.

"He's alright, isn't he? He's been gone awhile." Ashton finally said, his eyes barely moving from outside.

I hoped so. I could barely sense Calum right now so I couldn't help but assume the worst. He was clearly cutting us off on purpose. I knew he could look after himself, but I had visions of him crossing the border without realising and being captured or attacked by the hunters. I knew he was smarter than that, but in the state, I'd seen him leave in I wasn't so sure of anything.

Michael tapped his fingers on the window, seeming unsure what to say.

We'd sent Pip back to her room, and put a movie on. It was High School Musical and she seemed happy to watch it. Emily was grateful to us for providing Pip with a distraction. She seemed a little better now, but her eyes were weary making her look a little ghost like. It was clear her decision was haunting her. I had no idea what to say. I had no idea what it was like to be in her position, to have so much power but be unable to save someone that you thought that you could.

I winced as a bolt of strong emotion came at me from out of nowhere almost knocking me backwards with its force. Alarmed, I glanced over at Michael and Ashton who both wore looks of surprise on their face. They'd felt it too.

There was only one other person whose emotions I could sense. He wasn't alright. Sure, I thought it was awful that the girl in the other room was rejecting the bite but it wasn't enough to render that kind of reaction. Calum had always seemed so calm in the face of this kind of thing. This was different, something had set him off about it. I just couldn't seem to put my finger on what. Michael seemed to know, that's why he hadn't let us follow. What was it though?

Ashton shook his head, "Alright, that was a stupid question. He's, not is he?"

"No." Michael finally said as he glared out the window, pressing his palms onto the window sill.

"Did something happen?" I ask quietly.

His eyes barely wavered, he sighs, turning away from the window and leaning back on it, "Yeah it did."

Mine and Ashton's full attention falls onto him. Michael looks between the two of us, a slight hint of fear in his eyes as he bites his lip. He lets out a groan. "Look he can't carry on like this without you both knowing what happened. You were both going to find out eventually."

I see Ashton nod at him to continue. I was curious as well, I desperately wanted an explanation to this.

"He's going to kill me for telling you this but there was a girl that he liked, Sophie was her name." Michael begun, turning around to face the window rather than us, "We'd always been friends with her for a long time. She was the only one who still talked to us after we split off from our friends when we first fell into all this werewolf business. When we were in year eight, they started hanging out more and more. At some point, I realized that they were in love. It was almost impossible to imagine the two of them without each other."