Being One Of Them

Chapter III

Luke's POV

After I hoped on my bike and said our goodbyes, I left. The wind crashing into me, and the beautiful scenery of the forest beside the school. I couldn't wait, to let myself out in there... 3 days before the full moon, I couldn't contain my excitement. After 16 years of my life living as a human and now I'm a werewolf... no, I'm more than that, I'm a Lycan, a far superior race compared to werewolves. I've gained so much respect after I've shown my true powers, everyone is scared now, they know what I'm capable of. Except the new girl... hmm what's her name?, ah yes Mia. She seems like a gullible girl who always tries to stay positive about the things in life. She seems like a nice girl compared to the other's in school, she didn't make me angry or annoyed when we first met, it was more of serene a feeling.

After everyone found out my true self all of the girls, mostly the werewolves crushes on me like love at first sight. They sometimes buy me lunch or flirt in the hallways, this year they were much calmer than usual which made me relax, except for this one girl, who I know stalks me from time to time, Autumn, she's a werewolf but she has an obsession after I revealed that I was one of them.

I didn't noticed I was too deep in thought I arrived home. I parked my motorcycle, took off my helmet and walked my way to the front door. Our house was right outside of the border of the forest. Since my whole family are wolves, we needed to be close there so after we transform we run off to the woods. I opened the door and slowly muttered: "I'm back".

"Welcome back my sweet lil brother, how was school" Chimed a voice down the corridor. I closed the door behind me and walked inside making my way to the living room. My sister was similar to me, she had raven like hair and she had green eyes, reminding me of my mother... my human mother, while I had honey like eyes or hazel and dark brown hair, like our dad.

"I was normal like always nothing out of the ordinary" I replied. "Nothing at all?" I passed her and and went directly to the the stairs "Nope, everything's is a-okay" I kept walking up the stairs.

"Well Luke why do you have the smell of a girl on you? that's rare", she raced to the beginning of the stairs a looked at me with hopes in her eyes.

"It's not what you think Jessie, besides most of the girls are always on me", she smirked at me and raised an eyebrow "Yeah but this one is human" she replied.

"It's nothing really" rolling his eyes.

"Uh-huh" said Jessica in a disapproving tone.

I kept walking upstairs to my room and heard Jessica at the bottom "Dinners is in a few hours, also dad said he'll be late" she screamed, I shouted an okay and closed the door behind me.

I looked at stared blankly at my room, the dark blue walls decorating it with wooden floors. The big window right behind my bed letting a perfect amount of light into my room. To the left of my bed there was my closet with 2 wooden door that let me step inside. The shelves at the right with trophies and medals, taekwondo and SAF (Supernatural American Football). A big enough desk at the right of the shelf where I would usually do homework. And a bathroom at the right side.

I snapped back into reality and laid down, facing upwards on my bed and looked at the ceiling. My mind went blank, I then closed my eyes and focused. A second went by I started listening to the things inside the forest. After such energy draining day I like listening to the river flowing, the wind whooshing and the noises that small animals made, just right outside my bedroom; I felt at peace.

A wolf I can't believe I am one of them, after all these years, I couldn't help but be a happy sigh, how long has it been?... A year, before that I was weak, I was helpless, I couldn't even defend myself, not even after the many taekwondo lessons I took, I couldn't defend myself against the bullies, only my sister could do it. I took a deep breath, and turned to my side, and slowly closed my eyes; drifting myself off to sleep.

"Luke are you ready for school?" Asked my sister as she waited in the door, she looked so excited to go to school and I just hated it, I don't know what's the point of going, it's not like I have anyone waiting for me there.

"Have a nice day at school" Shouts my mom from the kitchen, we yelled back an "Ok" as he ran outside.

"Did you do your homework?" Jessica asks as we walked to school.

"Ummm... yeah" It came out like a question.

"Come on Luke you need to be responsible" She scolds me and before she smacks my shoulder and I let out an ouch sound "Oh come on that didn't even hurt" she looked at me askance. The trip to the school was quiet and short, Jessica hummed a song for herself while I kept looking to the forest reminiscing it's beauty. Both of us were so deep in thought we didn't realize we arrived at school.

Jessica patted my head as we said our goodbyes. She's 3 years older than me meaning we were in different grades, and it was something I didn't like because most of the kids picked on me for being a human, not even the others get picked so often like me, maybe because they knew my bacground. I had come to terms with myself that I will be human forever and that I won't be like my sister and my dad... but everyone here keeps reminding me of how weak I am. My mom says it doesn't matter who you are and that you need to accept yourself as the way you are, but it's hard they all keep reminding me that I'm not like them.

I sat on my chair and lost myself in my thoughts. I try to avoid talking to people since at the end of the day they are just going to make fun of me, humans here avoided me since they knew that if they tagged along with me they'll pay the price too. I closed my eyes and imagined myself as a wolf, running in the wild, the leaves crunching beneath my paws. I the breeze hit my face, running freely and wild and howling at the full moon.

My thoughts were interrupted by someone, who slapped my head... Hard. I let a flinched in pain, I rubbed the spot in which I was hit and looked to the source of who did it. It was John, the bully of the school, he's a head taller than me and had a bulky structure, I would fight back, but he's a vampire, so I don't have that kind of strength to beat him up.

"You are in my seat" He answered rather coldly. Last time I checked this was my sit, I gave him a confused look, I just wish I could defend myself but, it's just going to get me in trouble and end up in the hospital. Without saying a word, I took my stuff and moved to another place, I heard his laughter as I searched for another sit. I found an empty chair right beside a guy who was typing in his phone. He had blonde short hair, with sharp reddish eyes. He muttered a hi and I replied back a hey without looking at him.

---Third POV----

As the class finished Luke made his way to the locker to get his books from history class, He needed to make it quick since this is the hour where they picked on him. Luke pulled the book rapidly out of the locker, closed it and sped through the corridors. But it was too late, John and some other boys stopped him or rather pushed him, not so hard to make him fall, but hard enough to make him take some steps backwards. Luke is a really intelligent and sweet boy, but these guys are making his life terrible.

"Hey um John, can I go to my class?" Luke asked politely as he tried to move from them but John just pushed him back.

"Meat boy, got some money I'm just going to borrow 15 bucks" He says, giving a wickedly look.

"Sorry I don't have any money" Luke responds trying not to sound intimidating. But he knew he was shaking, he was scared... he was shivering... he was weak and he knew it... everyone knows that the weak ones are at the bottom while the strongest are at the top.

"You dare lie to me" John's eyes turning fiery red.

"N-no, it's the t-truth" John took a step forward with a raised hand....

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Luke woke up from this...this dream no, it was a nightmare. He woke up startled, his eyes glowing a bright yellow looking around as if there was some monster lurking in his room, he took a deep breath, his eyes turned back to normal and laid back down.

"It was just a bad dream, everything is going to be fine" He says to relax himself.