Lupo

Chapter Two

Mark, I sat thinking about the hairy man in my bed. I stared at my ceiling perplexed by the thought of me coming out to him. I basically told him everything about me. I've never done that with anyone and I hardly know the man! I sat up and looked over at my clock, 4 am. Its hard to fall asleep with a million things going through your head. I haven't went to bed on a decent time probably since I was 10. My anxiety has worsened over the years of bullying and loss of friends. I never leave the house, I never talk to anyone but on occasion I'll speak to a friend I have online.

I got up from my bed and as it slowly creaked a black furry animal jumped onto my lap before I could stand up.

"Hey sailor" I said as petting my cat. He rubbed himself on my hands and I pet him for a bit and got up. I carried him to the kitchen with me and got myself a bagel. I smothered it in cream cheese and looked outside. It was a pretty warm night and it had a crisp summery scent to it. I stretched and put my bagel down. I decided since it was late and no one was awake that I would take a walk. I slipped on some old converse of mine and grabbed my bag. Since I am always worried about everything, I take a bag with me that has all the things I would need in case of an issue. I don't really need it, but I'm paranoid. I went out and started walking down my street. I put in my earphones and played music. I strolled down my street until a got to the strip of woods at the end of my street. I jumped over the guard rail and started walking. Hoping I could find a nice spot to draw or something. There usually are no animals in the woods, unless they were rabbits or foxes, things like that. But as I started walking deeper into the woods I heard a large huff, and then whining.

At that moment I froze in fear. I could feel my heart pounding and I turned slowly to find a large animal laying against a tree.