Claimed

Chapter 1 (pt. 1) Memories

Crystallize-Lindsey Stirling

~~~~~~~~~~Present~~~~~~~~

"Come on Alex!" Sierra yelled. Sierra is my best friend since....forever. She has always been there for me, including when my mother died.

Her golden brown hair danced in the wind as she was pulling me by the arm to go on a run with her.

Her green eyes sparkled in the sunlight as she was smiling and giggling as she was forcing me to go with her.

Her grip tightened around my right wrist. "Please Alex! Just this one time?" She pleaded. She gives me her puppy dog eyes, next adding her quivering lip.

I swear, if she wasn't my friend and she was doing this to me, I would kill her.

"Ok fine. I'll go." I say as she started jumping up and down in the doorway.
I still can't believe that she is 18 years old. She acts like a 8 year old instead.

She releases her grip on my wrist and my hand was almost purple and there was a red hand print tattooed to my wrist.

The creases from the nails left purple indents in my wrist. My hand starts throbbing. I gently hold my wrist, unable to feel the touch of my left hand on my wrist.

I glared at her. She then gives me that innocent look on her face. I shake my head and grin. That girl.

"Sooo.... as we going or not?" She asks as I continue to look down at my hand as it slowly turns back to my pale white skin.

"Yeah, yeah we're going." I step outside with Sierra as we walk along the concrete driveway and then into the thick green trees.

"You ready?" She looks at me with a smile and eager eyes as we reach to the dirt path.

I take a deep breath. "Ready as I'll ever be." I focused on my heart beating and transformed into my wolf.

Sierra already started running but then stopped seeing me still at the beginning of the dirt path. She tilts her head to the side, giving me a questioning look.

At first, I slowly started walking, which turned in to jogging, and then finally into running.

I catch Sierra at the corner of my eye. It's been a while since I felt this feeling. This feeling of freedom and peace.

I never ran again ever since that incident with the unknown wolf. I was scarred. I mean sure I've been through a lot but I couldn't have anything like that wolf happen to me again.

For all I know, if I went out again, I could have been killed, but isolated myself from the outside.

Adrenaline flowed through my veins and the feeling of joy suddenly exploded in me. I've missed this.

It seemed like time stopped and I was the only one here. While it felt like everything was slowing down, I was getting faster.

I suddenly reached this path the looked familiar. It felt familiar. As my mind drew blank, the memory of horror and dread filled my mind.

This was the border of the werewolf territory to the vampire territory. This is where I crossed the territory.

Everything looks so familiar now. I look around for Sierra but she's gone. I panicked. Fear took place of the joy that I felt before.

I run away with terror in my eyes. I don't even know where my feet are taking me. I can't even think right now.

I told myself I would never come back here. Why am I here? Questions keep coming and coming.

The sound of water fills my ears. The path looks familiar. The trees start to clear out as I reach a rocky cliff.

Our meeting spot. This is where my mom and I would always be. I haven't been here for 3 years.

Nothing has changed. I look to the ground and see paw prints that were pounded into the ground. They don't look new at all.

The memory of that night with the wolf appeared all of a sudden. All I could hear was my heartbeat. I focus on it and transform back into my human form.

I start sobbing, remembering that day when I crossed between the territories, the day my mother died, all those times when my mom and I would meet here, and that night with the killer wolf.

My moms voice fills my ears. It feels like she still there. Why did she have to die? She should be here consoling me.

I start crying even harder. More and more memories fill my mind. Why today? Why now?

The memory of when my mom and I were here. I didn't know that would be the last time we would be here together. Tears continues to roll down my face as I tried to relax. I couldn't stop crying. The tears just kept coming.

~~~~~~~~5~Years~Ago~~~~~~

"I can't believe your going to be 13!" My mom said happily. Her smile was the brightest I've ever seen. Her dimples always seemed to amaze me. They added onto my mother's innocence.

"You know 13 is a unlucky number, right?" She started laughing. Her laugh was music to my ears.

"Like anything is unlucky for you." She said grinning.

"You mean for you. Everything and I mean everything, is unlucky for me." I said. It was true though. It's walkways been my mom who was lucky. I'm always the one stuck with the bad luck.

We stayed silent as we stared into the water fall, our legs hanging from the cliff.

"You know, I'm going to miss this." My mom said out of the blue. Why would she miss this?

"Why?" I give her a questioned look.

"Your turning 13. It's going to be uncool to hang out with your mom. Your going to leave me." She game me sad look.

"Like that will ever happen. I'm never going to leave you." I said with tears welling up in my eyes.

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