The Moon Will Fall (Moonlight 2)

Chapter 3-Gravity Keeps Pulling Us Back Down

It was the first day of a new school term and I was already exhausted. Even the coffee wasn't helping. Calum beside me didn't look much better. Even when we had eventually got to sleep, what Michael had suggested last night had worried me.

The rest of the night when we'd been researching I'd kept an eye out for anything related, but it appeared we were the only ones. It seemed nobody could refuse their Alpha; except for extreme circumstances or when your loyalty had completely shifted to another pack and Alpha. There was nothing recorded about anyone struggling to walk before their first shift. In fact, it had said that a werewolf on their first moon, that their first instinct would be to go outside. As well as find a chance to race outside the first chance they got. I wondered if perhaps I should ask Ashton about it, but didn't want to make Calum suspicious. I figured I'd be moving to Ashton's again soon so perhaps if all else failed, I could ask him then.

Calum was trying to hide it from the other two but he was miserable about Sam still. I'd had to talk him into even coming to school today. It hadn't helped that after Michael had left, the hunters had been over and had loads of questions for both of us. They were working on a cover story for the police and news so no one would learn of the strange circumstances. It made sense, but I could see it affecting him.

"Calum did you and Luke even sleep last night?" Ashton sighed at us as we joined him and Michael at our table that overlooked the football oval.

"Is it that obvious?" I sighed, as I dumped my bag beside Ashton. "We were up half the night researching."

"Did you find something?" He asked with hopeful eyes.

"No." Calum and I replied quickly.

"We tried finding out why Michael and Luke heard it but we couldn't find anything odd." Calum continued for the both of us. I bit my lip knowing we couldn't tell them Michael and I had worked out a few things that were odd. We barely flickered each other a glance as Calum let out a sigh, "Then the hunters came and we had to deal with them and their questions."

"What did they ask?" Ashton frowns.

"Just wanted to find out what had happened, didn't say about Luke and Michael hearing anything though. We just made out we were headed back to the party, when we found him." Calum explains.

Michael frowned, he had been remarkably quiet this morning. He narrowed his eyebrows as he spoke, "About that, I talked to Jayden afterwards he said neither him or the rest of his pack heard it either. They would've been the same distance away perhaps even closer."

"This is getting even stranger." Ashton sighed, "This supernatural business is really starting to do my head in. What does all of this mean?"

There was a collective sigh among the four of us. We seemed to be getting nowhere with this, everything was leading to a dead end. Except one thing.

'Did you work out anything to do with us?' I asked focusing on Michael only.

'Not really, it's what I just said.' Michael frowned.

I sighed, I'd hoped that he would at least have found something, he hadn't finished though, 'But I also asked Jayden whether any of his pack had done what we had and he said no.' Michael added, 'If he's forcefully told them to do something. They do it.'

I frowned, so everything was suggesting that what we had done was odd. Just how odd was it, and why were we seemingly the only two to have done it?

'Does Calum even realise how much you've done it?' I ask, as I consider how much Jayden would've known about this. If Michael had done it and Calum hadn't noticed then he wouldn't realise how often it occurred.