Turned

*Attempt of Truth*

His eyes widened and he too, swallowed the lump in his throat.

"W-what?" he stammered.

"You heard me. Now start talking." I demanded.

"Look, I don't think right now is the best time...,"

"Start talking!" I spoke just a little bit louder, just to intimidate him.

He looked away and nodded. I kinda felt bad for yelling at him but he deserved it. Lucas walked back into the bathroom and I followed him. My jaw dropped when I walked in the door. The bathroom was huge! He walked to a door in the bathroom and they were full of his clothes. He started to go through them and when he picked something out he looked back at me.

Being the retard I am, I stared blankly at him.

"Shut the door on your way out." he said.

"Huh? Oh, OK." I ran out and shut the door, blushing furiously.

"Cosa sono io andando a dire?" I asked myself. <What am I going to say?>

"Start with what you want to know." Lucas said, scaring me half to death.

"What exactly did the original council do to make my parents rebel?"

"They murdered my parents."

"Did your parents do anything spectacular to get more than half of a whole race to rebel...?" I asked.

"No, only the fact that they were the King and Queen."

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I sat there, dumbfounded. Lucas just told me that his parents were the king and queen.

"So, when Mike called you your majesty, he wasn't joking. It is your birthright."

"Yes. I wanted to tell you, believe me, I know how much you hate secrets."

"What stopped you?" I asked him.

"I don't know. I guess I didn't want to overwhelm you. I don't know." Lucas sighed and sat next to me on the couch.

"You said I'm a shapeshiter, right?" Lucas nodded his head in approval.  "When will I shift and what will I become?"

"All shapeshifters are different. Not only does what you change into have to do with power, it has to do with dominance in your genes and what your parents were. When you shift... no one is exactly sure. But most likely, your first change will be when your emotions are high. Like yesterday when you insulted Ace." he chuckled. "But what you will turn into? So far I don't know. It depends on the person's personality too, like your spirit animal."

"So it's basically hereditary? The shifting and the power?"

"Yes, everything is hereditary. All families are in the same animal group. Your father was a jaguar, like me. And your mother was a puma. I guess you will be around there somewhere." Lucas looked at me in the eye and my breath caught in my throat. He noticed and chuckled.

Dang it.

Lucas continued to stare into my eyes and I felt him lean forward a little closer to me.

I leaned forward too.

Our lips almost touched when someone walked in the room. We jumped apart and looked at the person who intruded.

Perfect timing.

"Hey... guys...  did I interrupt something?" My best friend asked me.

"Nope, I was just talking to Lucas." I said nervously. She was going to grill me later.