The Secret She Kept

Telling Him

I walked to the rest of my classes with Nick since we had 6 of them together. During lunch, we laughed and talked about some of the crazy things we did over the summer. I talked about how my birthday was awesome, it was our 1 month and first kiss anniverary. The theme of it was water park, i had set up a mini-pool, a tarp with soap for a slide, water balloons, and water guns, for fun. Everybody who went on the slide ended up getting bruises and scratches from it since there were rocks and sticks under it. I got a long deep scratch along my leg from a stick poking through the plastic, and my sister's boyfriend who decided to do a belly flop down the slide had bruises on his stomach, so... not the best idea. The fun part was the balloons and guns, we decided to do a water war, so when me, my bestfriend sarah, or nick went down the slide the other two people would throw water balloons at you and squirt you with the guns, they would do it when you were going up the hill from the bottom of the slide too. Nick or Nicky brought up how our "first date" was very fun too, his mom had picked me up from my house and took us to Wendy's, then dropped us off at the pool he lived near. We splashed around and played pool basketball, and he went down the slide a couple of times and tried to get me down it. The problem is I'm afraid of heights and although the slide wasn't tall, I also thought I might get stuck in it, so I refused to go down. We walked to sixth period together and since it was math and we were both nerds/geeks, we finished early and chatted amoungst ourselves. "Are we okay? I mean you did say you needed to tell me something later," Nick asks looking at me with concerned eyes. "Oh, Nicky, our relationship is great, what I have to tell you is something that has nothing to do with us, just something that I haven't told anyone and I feel like you need to know" I answer with a reassuring smile. "Ok, I trust you," he says then gently grabs my hand as the bell rings for us to go to 7th period. He drops me off at the library and hugs me before he goes off to his class. I work in the library during the last period of the day, usually I just do my homework and check books in when needed. The bell rang, and I took a deep breath and grabbed my stuff off the counter. I ran to Nick's class and waited for him to come out, about 3 minutes later we were walking to my locker. I threw my books in and grabbed my lunch box, throwing on my jacket as we walked to the front door. We had already gone to his locker and since neither of us had homework we both only had our lunch bags and coats. "Can you tell me what your big secret is now?" he asked as we sat down on a bench to rest. "Ok, promise me you won't run away from me," I say with pleading eyes and I gently take his hands in mine. "I promise, Wills" he states with the most sincere look on his face I ever seen. "Alright, ever since I was born I've been part Willow-beast, Willow-beast are magical creatures that are better than people in several categories, one being strength, another being speed. There are other things we are better at, but that's not important. When we are agitated or normal we turn, our eyes turn colors from what they are to purple, our hands turn to claws, most of us eat meat, but I don't, and we can be quite vicious. This is why I leave class, I don't like to be judged for who I am because a lot of people become scared. That is why I decided to tell you this, I needed to tell someone about this and I trust you, also I need help to control the beast part of me," I take a breath after talking that much and look at Nick to see his reaction. He is quiet after I'm done talking and his face is screwed up, he's thinking about what I've said. "So, you are basically part magical being, and part human, you don't eat meat and you're  mean sometimes?" Nick asks after a few minutes. "Yep, that's pretty much it," I say leaning foward and putting my hands between my legs to warm them up. "Well, that's not bad, we can get through this, babe, I can deal with this," He says wrapping his arms around me and leaning his forehead against mine. "Thank  you for understanding, and not running away in terror," I whisper as I scoot closer to him. "I love you, and I would never run  away from you," he says and leans closer to me, I lean closer and meet his lips with mine. We kiss for a minute then we break apart, "come on we can hang out at my house and I'll show you my beast form so you know what signs to look for, k?" I ask pulling him up with me as I stood up.  "Yea, good idea" he says holding my hand as we start walking toward my house. Once we got there, I unlocked the door and pushed it open, "Mom, me and Nick are going to hang out in my room, ok?" I yell going up the stairs with Nick following behind. "Ok, sweetie, if he is allowed he can spend the night, it is Friday after all," I hear her reply as we enter my room. My mom trusts us enough to know we'll sleep in separate rooms and not do anything crazy if he spends the night. Nick has spent the night many times before and my mom counts him as family. He texts his mom to see if he can spend the night and smiles, "She said it's fine, and I can come home whenever, even spend a second night if I want." "Yay! This will be soo much fun!" I shout with excitement. I tell him to sit on my bed and I will be right back I didn't want to change form in front of him. After I allow my eyes, hands, and body to change I walk back into my room. He sucks in his breath and runs his eyes from head to toe, analyzing me. "So, what do you think?" I ask sitting next to him on the bed. "I think you're even more beautiful than before," he says turning to face me. My arms had gotten more muscular and my nails had grown a little longer into what I called claws. "I really love the vibrant purple your eyes are, and how strong you look," he comments me. "Thanks, babe, want to watch a movie or play Minecraft?" I ask already knowing the answer. "Minecraft!" we both say at the same time laughing at how we think a like. As we play, I get the temptation to tickle him, so I casually lean forward and tickle his sides. He jumps off the bed in surprise and smiles mischievously at me. Before I know what's going to happen, he drops his controller and starts tickling me. I fall of my bed and he kneels next to my wriggling form as I try to escape his relentless tickle fight. "Stop! Stop! I can't handle it!" I squeal rolling around the floor laughing so much that tears are coming out of my eyes. After I had showed him my beast form, I changed back to human in front of him so he could see what it was like. Now here we were laughing like crazy and tickling each other.