Spirit of the Wolf

Chapter 21: Loretta

Loretta's POV

I walked in and felt for a light switch. I flicked on the switch and jumped at what I was seeing.

"Surprise!!" The room shouted. Streamers and balloons flying towards me. Every body that I was friends with, was here. I saw Judy, Enowel, Tori, and even Lisa. A couple of other kids from my school that I sort of knew where also there. My mom, Danny, and Lela were also there to. I stood in the door way stunned, with a dumbfounded look on my face. Lisa rolled her eyes and grabbed my wrist.

"Its your birthday you idiot!" She laughed.

"Oh, that's right! My birthday is right after JJ's! I totally forgot!" I laughed embarrassed. Lisa just rolled her eyes and dragged me inside the room. I stumbled in after her and was greeted with a lot of my friends and other people. There were a lot of games and stuff to do set up around the room. I also saw a cake and presents around it.

Yess!! I can't wait to see what's behind the wrapping paper!! Spirit said excitedly. I just mentally rolled my eyes and scolded her.

'Spirit! Don't be so inpatient. Be great full that thy even through the party for us.'I playfully teased her. She gave me a wolfish grin and continued to mess around in the back of my head, exited at all of the things going on.

There was that apple dunking game where you had to take a apple out of a bucket full of water with your mouth. There was also darts, a bean bag throwing game, pin the tail on the pony, and a bunch of other stuff I could not name, or recall playing before. After a long time of playing games, messing around, and eating snacks that were provided, we were all called to the table with the cake on it. I gasped at the details put into it. It was Jasper a Spirit playing with a stick, carefully iced onto the chocolate cake.

"Who frosted this?" I asked. Everyone immediately pointed to JJ. I ran over to him and hugged him tightly, I felt tears of joy start to build up in my eyes, but I did not let them fall. Now your probably thinking 'cry baby' but you don't know how much that means to me. One of the most important things to me is on that cake, and the fact that my brother put so much effort into it to make it, makes me feel like someone out there does care about me. Okay, enough of the touching hearty stuff. Back to reality.

I released JJ of the rib crushing hug and gave his cheek a sisterly, thankful kiss.

"Thank you, JJ." I said giving him a quick hug.

"No problem, little sis. Just don't kiss me ever again." He said in a playful manner, wiping his cheek. I rolled my eyes at his childness and returned to reality again. My mom stuck 13 candles into the cake and set them alight. Everyone started singing the song and my mom, being a mom, video taped it. The song finished and they a shouted for me to make a wish.

'I wish, that I will never lose my family or my true friends' I blew out the 13 candles after I made my mental wish. You should always remember your birthday wishes, because they are made for you to set your own goals. Your goals are there to make your wishes come true. Wishes are goals, and goals make wishes come true.

My mother handed me a knife and told me to cut the cake. I started cutting the big, beautiful, rectangular cake into squares, and putting them on plates with plastic forks. After the cake was passed around, we had all started to just talk and do random things. Time went on and somewhere in between I had opened gifts and received a bunch of stuff that I would probably never need. People started leaving and the only person besides my family that was still here was Lisa.

"Hey, Lisa are you okay? You look a little, um... different." I asked concerned.

"Yea, I'm fine, you don't need to worry about me." She said with an uneasy chuckle. I did not believe her one bit, but I will let this one slide for now. Whenever something is troubling Lisa, I can tell and no matter how hard she tries to hid it, I will all ways find a way and I will fix whatever the problem is.

"Do you want me to give you a ride home?" She slowly nodded her head and sighed.

"You can ride on my back." A slight smile tugged on the side of her lips. I gave a pat on her shoulder and I walked over to my mom saying that I was going to be out and about with Lisa. She looked a little resistant.

"I think that you should bring your brother along with you." My mother said, fiddling with her fingers.

"Okay, but, why?" I asked confused.

"I just, feel like you should take him with you." She continued. I gave her a confused nod and grabbed both Lisa and JJ, then dragged them both out of the room and to the elevator. I walked through the lobby to the doors.

I stepped out of the building to be greeted by the fresh, unpleasant, and rather gaggingly discussing smell of car fumes, rotting garbage bags, and no hint of wildlife anywhere except for a few hints of oak trees coming from JJ. I tried focusing on other things, but I could not get rid of the unnatural smells. It was late afternoon, so it would start getting dark in a couple of hours.
After about fifteen minutes, we came to the park and went to that bush where JJ and I had shifted this morning. We walked over to it and shifted into our beautiful wolves. I knelt down so Lisa could clime onto my back, and we were off into the woods.

I could feel Lisa relax as we ran smoothly through tall trees and the thick sage bushes. A lot was probably on her mind, and a run was what she needed to calm her nerves. Yea, that's how well we know each other. I let my mind wander and let Spirit in control, so she could stretch her legs and her restless mind to focus on something other than not having to worry about doing anything. It would not be healthy to just sit around all day and not move around fiscally, so every other time we go on a run, I let her in control.

I trust Spirit with my life, and she trusts me with hers. One of the biggest reasons why we trust each other with our own lives, is because our lives are connected, and if something happens to ether one of us, it will harm the other one. So, what I'm saying is that if Spirit where to get hurt, I will also be hurt, and vice versa.

I was ripped from my line of thought when Spirit came to a sudden halt. Unsure of what was going on, I poked into Spirits train of thought to find out a answer. Her mind was on one alarming thought. Kidnappers. I quickly contacted her through the mind link.

'Spirit, what are you doing?'I asked concerned that she was thinking about kidnappers. 

We need to keep moving, it is not safe here, especially with Lisa. Spirit replied a bit frantically. I mentally gave her a confused look, but she replied by putting me back in control. I instantly knew why she was so frantic. I could smell people, people that smelled familiar enough to know that these people where not so kind and that we have had a run in before with them, and it did not turn out so well. I quickly started to move away, but we have been here to long, they knew we where here, and I don't think we would be any ideal guess. 

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Hey, so, sorry that I did not update in a long time, it was finals, and I had no time and stuff, but it is now summer, and you know what that means, longer chapters!! And maybe even more frequently. This chapter was longer than the usual and I hoped you liked it. Oh, and sorry for the late update. Let me know what you think in the comments and ....

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