What if you woke up one day and you were different. you didn't look strange but you felt strange. and as time past you noticed it getting worse and worse. you still had no idea what was wrong but you knew, something was wrong. Let me start of by saying I am Peter and this is my story. Were to start off but the beginning. I am a 15 year old boy living in a town in southeast Wisconsin. I have always in joyed the outdoors, mainly the local park near my house. There is 2.5 acres of wood land that I spent a large portion of my summers in. I have climbed every tree, fallowed every game trail, looked under ever rock andover turned log, and still yet when I go there I feel free and open to the world and it's creatures. I have found that I prefer life in those woods over my life in my house. My family and I have recently taken a trip to Dave's Falls up north in Crivets, Wisconsin. Its 987 acres of wood land and rapids. I have never felt better.
I was About six when this happened and bye this I mean the events that are about to unfold in front of you. Okay, umm well when I was six my father took me to the zoo. There was this show that day were an ape trainer took out an orangutan and told one of the children to come up on stage and pet it. I was always interested in primates sense was an infant. Quickly I shot up my hand and the man picked me. I then walked on the little stage platform and I looked at him on that leash. I walked in my cargo shorts and black tee-shirt over to it slowly because I knew you should never startle an ape, even a tamed one. I recall the man saying something along the lines of" Here let me show you." but I paid him no mind. So out of instinct, I bowed my head and showed my belly a little. Maybe 2-5 inches, to show him that he had power and that he was in control of the situation. I then sat down a bout 3 feet in front of him very slowly avoiding eye contact to show that I was no threat. I opened my hands flat, palms towards him and held my left out about 1 1/2 away from him, now palm up. He slowly placed his hand on mine showing he accepted my gesture. I reached with my right to pet the top of his crown. He was startled a bit and brought his head back fast enough to where his right fang scraped my under arm and a bit of blood showed. I pushed back fast and I got up bowed again as a thank you and ran to my dad. He picked me up and we went to our seats. Then after the show the trainer came up to us and apologized and gave us a gift card to the gift shop. Then we left.
For 2 years nothing happened. I lived life, went to the park, played with my friends, went to the skate park, learned to long board. I went threw puberty, I look the same as any bloke. Then, one summer I started noticing I was feeling... antsy and I felt edgy and I felt like the hair on my body grow ever so slightly. I feel freer when I don't wear shoes. I also seem to do things better. As a hobby I in joy parkor. real parkor. Not that fake shit that "hardcore parkor" I have done roof running for many years, but now it was changing and I was getting much better. I had always climbed trees often, but now... I was doing some in 8 seconds or less... I had my hearing improve exponentially and my reflex's were improved. So much so that took my old buck knife and i would throw an apple up in the air and i would slice it not once but twice as it fell to the ground... Once threw the middle and once threw one of the 2 pieces. I felt like a super hero. I also noticed that same summer it mainly happened on the week of a full moon. Like a werewolf kind of thing you know? But... when I find myself outside on a full moon it hurts. BADLY. I feel the hair on my neck pull and grow. My hands naturally curl into a half fist and I start to run. Just run really fast and then hide or lay flat on the ground. Then, there are the things I like to call "pains". These pains are things such as bright lights at night or cars are just scarier then seeing your own ghost.
I have figured out that peppermint helps me calm down a lot. I guess it helps my brain make clear choices and it gives me kind of a reality check. I also have found out that I have a lasting ability to read peoples body language and words. I can read situations faster then most and I have a knack for seduction and making people feel good. I was always awkward I now had a gift of speech. But, I know that most of it mental but the physical attributes .. I can't help but exploit for my own fun. I have found i bond closer with animals. Almost unnaturally. I have been to 6 doctors and 9 physiologists. Only them and my parents know about this. Not even my girlfriend knows about this.... But, this is now here forever. I don't mind being a freak anymore. I'm Just Different.
