Werewolves//Book 1//

Chapter 19. Goodbye

"Lucy! Come down here!" Jellal's voice yelled from downstairs. I groaned as I pulled myself out of bed and walked down the stairs to find him in the living room. The TV was paused and he was laying down, looking eagerly at me.

"You want me to watch the news? Jellal, I don't have time for this." 

"What are you doing, then? Moping out Natsu and sighing about him?" He asked me. I scowled at his truthful words and trudged over to the sofa he was on to sit down on the space he left for me.

He unpaused the footage for me and played it. I looked down at the broadband's box to see that he had to rewind it for me. I looked back at the screen.

The words of the news reporter filled the room.

"A male, around his late teens, had been spotted lurching around the dark areas of London. Going through records, he had never been here before and he had been taking refuge in many different places, asking people where another male was."

A boy with dark hair was captured on tape. His skin was pale as dust and a well structured. His dark clothes were torn in many places but he wasn't ashamed to walk around in it. He had a plain face but the face was familiar to me. He looked at the camera before grinning at it. That's were it got me.

"It's the guy Juvia was talking about!" I let out as soon as it hit me. But there was something else about the boy that struck me. He was strikingly similar to someone I know.

"Yeah, you glad I called you down here or are you glad?" He asked cockily. His hair wasn't even made properly for this time in the afternoon and it matched his mood to be honest.

"Well, shouldn't you be asking Juvia if she hadn't seen the news? I'm surprised you did." I laughed at him. He raised his hand to his forehead and hit it like he should have done that instead of calling me.

He grabbed his phone and I walked up the stairs. He was closer to Juvia than I was because he could easily lift up the mood but I'm not going to leave this all on him. It's just that I can't phrase words 'correctly' to cheer someone on or up.

My room was clean. My been was on one spot on my right, opposite a window and the painful light would hit it. I sat on the cold covers and stared out of the window before me. All I could see was the sky and one tree in this angle. My hoodie twitched as I decided to go over to the window.

The floor board below my feet was warm from bathing in the light. The rug tickled my feet as I took my first step on it and I leant against the glass. Below was my mother taking out the rubbish.

I could hear fuzzy words from the thin walls but I couldn't make out what was being said. It must be important if the words were loud enough for me to hear from up here.

Before I had known what had happened, time had flown before me.

The sun had finished its time up and went to another section of the world to brighten up, leaving the moon to reflect what was left of the light. The moon was just rock and dust. What about it had made certain humans become triggered under its second handed light?

It was just the night before a full moon and my medicine was downstairs, ready for my next intake of it in the morning. Natsu would come over tomorrow for the transformation so he won't be caught but what would happen then?

If he truly hates me now, he would probably kill me the second he hits his limit. What about Jellal? The blood had run out and our guy would be giving it in two days. Jellal had been restless for the past few days. He hadn't gone to school yesterday, afraid he would hurt anyone.

Juvia would came over yesterday to talk to him about what had happened when he had left even if I could have told him, she said it would be fun that way. 

I lay down on my bed, leaving the covers down since it was a hot night.

Waking up, the only thing I could notice was the note on my bed stand.

A yellow card it was.

It was like a revision card with messy writing. It was a message for me and maybe everyone else. It might have been heart wrecking but it was a message none the less. The morning light hit it with a fuzzy feeling.

My breath hitched as I read the message before me.

'Goodbye, Luce --Natsu'