S.H.O.F.

Dogs Live Outside, Not In!

She stood up and I was scared she would fall but then she just got up and lifted her suppressed leg and then what she did next really surprised me.

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Melissa's Point of View

I knew Katrina would never forgive me even with my apology. She would need something to drastically bring us together and we both know that the money bribery scams weren't working. She would always freaking tell mom, and just leave the money on my bed on the day afterward. 

I couldn't just tell her my secret, she wouldn't believe me. I had to physically show her and the pain in my foot had simmered  but taking it out would definitely hurt. She needed to know what she is anyway, mom has tried to hide it by confining dad to the basement, but she isn't dumb. Well, I would think she knows why mom put him there, it would be inhumane for her not to know. 

I need to focus on shifting because well, I can control myself but not on full moons and the next full moon being tomorrow doesn't help because I feel the effect it has over me right now.  

I'm a werecoyote. My mom has genes of a coyote and my dad has the genes of a regular werewolf. That's why when my mom's old guy ex manfriend, tried to kill me, I healed quickly. That was the day I found out who I truly was. Mom said that Katrina would be something so much more but, didn't think she would be serious about it. I can smell the power radiating off of her. That's why Jacob was acting dumbfounded, he didn't expect her to hold so much power. Thankfully, Katrina bravely spared me some time to come up with a plan so he wouldn't see me shift. If he had saw me shift, he would know all the ways to contain me as he did mom. I knew sneaking into the vents would be of use to me.

I didn't realize how similar Kat was to me. When I was her age, I would try to find innovative and secretive ways in and about this house like it was a cage I was trying to break free from. For me, it was an actual cave, bounding me to this house and it's inhabitants. For Kat, I would think it's her own domain that we are all swimming in. I think she wants to be ruling herself out of existence, to a dimension where it's all her and things she likes. When the world makes sense, where everything surrounds you, and only you. 

I used to think I ran the house till I got introduced to these new people, and they started make my life suck and dragged me into reality. But that was the point, I get locked in my own world and face reality all at once. I can view the world as if in my own hands, as I own it. But no, I don't have that decision because the men if my mother's life want to depict what I do and how I act. Kat is the silent type, I have never been and never will be. I want to see if Kat faces any outside pressures like I do. I face many pressures and it makes me look fake because I act one way with my family and another with friends. 

What people don't understand is that I have different expectations from different people. In school, you are supposed to be funny and chill, the objective is to please everyone else and make your way to the top, the goal isn't education. 

At home, I have to respect and I can't see my parents as friends, someone I can run to and tell secrets, their lives need to be in check before I feel comfortable telling them anything at all. In the outside world with people I don't know, I have to stop in my tracks and know who to approach as I would in school and who I would as if at home or who I wouldn't bother to approach at all. With my friends, I can be chill and be myself, without trying to impress someone. I just have to join the group to stay in the group. I don't really have a choice what groups I am in, whatever they are in, I am in. 

I did it! I finally shifted. Kat looked scared. I felt a trickle of what had to be blood and remembered I had to pull off the wolf trap. Why did she have one of these laying around? What if she got stuck? Would she even scream or would she sob in silences for her own downfall as she bled to death? I grabbed both sides of the trap and pulled in opposite directions, man did it hurt. I growled and it had startled Kat to her feet in shock. Maybe she thought I was going to bite her or I couldn't control it.