Dawn

Chapter 8

"Vince!" I yell, running towards him excitedly in the school halls. He turns around from where he was talking to his beta David. He scans me up and down.
"Um, yeah Dawn?" he says looking at me like I'm crazy. My eager smile slowly fades away.

"So, about what happened last night," I say hands behind my back, rocking back on my heels, anxious with nerves.

"Oh you mean that?!" he then begins to laugh. "Let me clarify, Dawn Coleman. I Vincent Kade reject you," he says, laughing.
I feel a stab of pain cut through me. Everyone around us breaks into laughter.
Tear begin pouring down my face before I can stop them and as if this could get any worse, Alyssa comes through the doors with a group of girls behind her.
She reaches us and shoves me out of the way roughly, making me fall to the ground startled.
She then grabs a hold of Vince's face and presses her lips onto his, looking at me with a smirk while making out with him. She pulls away and Vince leans into her with a smile.
"You really thought you had a chance. How pathetic, " she says as she giggles, everyone starts to laugh again.
The laughter clouds my senses until that is all I can hear, along with the rapid beating of my heart that has swallowed my ears.
"Let's go, this is too sad for me to watch," she says, looking at me disgustedly.
***
I quickly wake up, cold sweat on my neck and face. I wipe a hand over my face and take a deep breath.

Please moon goddess just let me get through today.

A loud blood churning scream from down the hall erupts, and I jump out of bed and run down the hall in a hurry, sliding and slipping with my socks as I rush to get to the sound of the scream.
I open Ella's door and see her covering her ears, her head into the sheets hunched over.

"Ella!" I yell in alarm. I rush over to her.
She yells harder, her teeth gritting together. I rub her back, my heart beating a mile per minute as I try to reassure myself she's alright even in this state. I try to calm her down, pulling her hair out of her face but she continues to writhe in pain.
"It's Ok," I say, willing my voice to be soft and calm. Her blue eyes fill up with tears, and she turns her head out of the sheet to look up at me.
"It hurts Dawn!" she whines.
"I know, but it will go away soon like it always does," I say. I caress her hair. I feel bad for her, the dreaded turning pains that every young werewolf experiences in their life are the times that will stay with them forever. They're the worst, and like an amplified, tortuous puberty for werewolves.

Normally when this happens, mom and dad are usually her to calm her down. But they decided to take tonight to transform and have a lovely stroll in their wolf forms...
When Ella turned 9 she started to feel the changes of the turn. This stage takes a while, for most kids, it takes four years. You start to develop your typical werewolf characteristics like your claws, your canines, and most importantly the ability to shift during this.
But the thing with us Colemans is that we develop earlier than most.
My dad's side of the family has been early bloomers for as long as they can remember, nobody knows what really caused it, but we both got the gene. The normal age for most werewolves to undergo the changes of the turn is around 11 or 12, which is the age that Ella is currently at now, so she's going to able to shift sooner.

To note, the process totally sucks. I would know, I think I experienced the worst changes of the turn one can experience, just thinking of it sends shivers down my spine.
The worst part is, and yes it gets worse, the closer you get to the full moon the more your body starts to ache and your hormones go crazy out of wack. It feels like your trapped in your skin, which you are, and there's nothing you can do about it except go through it. 
It's like your period, but on steroids and males have the privilege of experiencing it too.
When the changes of the turn are over, most people transform when their 15 or 16, but since I developed earlier my first transformation was at 13.
I remember feeling like an outcast at that time. Aside from Alpha and Beta children whose blood makes them develop earlier as well, I was the only one who wasn't a child of a high-ranking official that was able to shift younger too.
On one side, it had its perks, but mostly, it just made me a target until everyone had caught up and could finally shift.  I despised myself for it.