Coming of Age

Chapter 8

©CRGangell aka Whitesabretooth

Chapter 8

While the triplets showed their friends around the manor, Amy sat in the small sitting room attached her bedroom; Shannon, Becky and Cass were with her. The four close friends were catching up but it wasn’t the same, they weren’t the bubbly group they normally were, they couldn’t be, not in the presence of Cass’s great loss.

Almost a year ago she lost Grey-hawk in a tragic accident on a mountain that they were camping on with several of their younger members. Cass still blamed herself for Grey-hawk’s death even though it hadn’t been her fault, how were they to know that the mountain side was unstable, that a light shower would turn into a landslide. The pack had taken the loss of their Alpha hard but they still had Cass although they didn’t know how to help her through her pain. Amy’s solution to Cass’s depression was to send Ghost, the one person who truly knew what Cass was feeling. Slowly Cass had come back to herself but she wasn’t the same person the pack knew and loved so when this came up they all but shoved her in a plane to get her here. They hoped that being with her family might bring her back and if that failed they hoped that Serenity could do for Cass what she did for Ghost.

Amy stood and squeezed into the chair beside Cass; she wrapped her arms around her friend and waited. Cass closed her eyes and rested her head against Amy’s shoulder, Shannon and Becky wished they could join the hug and offer their friend what she needed, comfort.

Amy sensing their intentions willed them to her bed and she and Cass onto the middle of it. Shannon and Becky joined them, hugging Cass from all sides.

“I miss him,” Cass suddenly confessed.

“You feel as if someone has taken a razor to your soul and hacked you to pieces.” Amy supplied, she knew the feeling, knew it and had vowed that she never wanted to feel it again.

Cass nodded, “I know he will return… but I need him now.” She pulled away from Amy a little, “will… can… Serenity do what she did for Ghost for me?”

Amy sighed, I hope so, she thought to herself, “I don’t know, I asked her about it and she said that she didn’t know how she did it at the time. She might be able to.”

“Regardless of whether she can or not we are here for you,” Shannon told her.

“When was the last time you really slept?” Becky asked.

“I don’t remember.” Cass answered honestly already her eye lids were feeling heavy.

“Sleep, dinner isn’t for quite a while.” Amy prompted and Cass nodded as she closed her eyes.

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