APUI: Volume 1 - My Life as a Werewolf

Chapter 2: I Guess My 16th Was Sweet

GRACE

Outside the car the first traces of civilisation were beginning to come in to view. I sighed. Life here was going to be so much different to life in the city. Well, at least I have Ash. Finally, we made our way into town. We drove slowly, letting people cross the road. As we drove I noticed a really big house. That must be the pack house!!!

Eventually we pulled up at our new house. We were going to stay in the pack house but decided against it as we don't know the pack and we are used to living on our own. Ash, however, has a younger sister and can't really live on her own so she's staying at the pack house. Ash's parents and mine were murdered when we were 13 or 14. My brother, Chris, was 15 at the time and Ash's sister, Tara, was 11 or 12. Now almost 2 and a half years later, ash's sister is 14, I am 15 (almost sixteen!!!), Ash is 16 and my brother is 17 (almost 18). You are probably wondering how we managed to survive 2 years without foster parents. Well, being werewolves, we get exempted from some laws so all we had to do was get 2 monthly checkups of ourselves and our living quarters instead of having to be fostered.

Now, as I am almost 16, it means I am going to shift soon. This means that 3/4 of us will be werewolves and that is too risky. That is why our parents were murdered but we weren't. The rouges (technically we are rouges too but we could also be a pack with Chris as alpha, Ash as beta, me as third-in-command (or gamma) and Tara as delta (or the rest of the pack or the omega) Chris and i's dog could also be part of our 'pack') were able to smell our parents because they were fully grown and there were four of them but they didn't kill us because the smell wasn't strong on us and could have just been from being with our parents. I still don't fully understand why the rouges didn't kill Chris because he was fifteen and almost a werewolf so the smell was stronger on him. Maybe the rouges were just waiting for us to grow up so they could kill us and have some fun by fighting us.

It took forever to unpack. By Sunday night I flipped onto my bed and mentally thanked Chris for not making me go to school on Monday. My birthday and first shift would be enough to deal with.

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Chris woke me up at 10:30 the next morning. In my opinion that was way too late because that would mean I would only get 12 hours of being the birthday girl. I got changed and ran quickly down the stairs. I grabbed and ate a banana before running outside to my brother who was playing with our dog, Glossy. (A/N Hence my wattpad username GlOsSyIsCoOl) "Where are my presents?" I practically screamed at him.

Before he could answer a twitch ran through my entire body. I began to shake uncontrollably. "Glossy get inside!" my brother yelled. Glossy ran inside with her tail in between her legs. As the shakes increased in intensity, I moved into the middle of the lawn. A large crack was heard and pain shot through my leg. My other leg broke and then all of my bones began cracking and snapping. Shifting hurt even more than I thought it would.

My vision began to get really hazy but suddenly it cleared. Everything seemed slightly different. Chris's voice came through my head. "Are you okay?" "I'm fine" I replied. "Can you go get me some clothes? I'm going for a run so I'll be back in a bit" I said. I ran and jumped over our garden fence.

As The Evergreen Sunset pack, or my pack as I should say, occupies almost the entire town, I ran down the road and through the town in wolf form. Galloping close to the pack house, I yipped loudly and ash sprinted out. "OMG you're so pretty!" she said. She ran round the side of the house and stripped, before shifting and running away with me.

We sprinted into the forest and played chasie. I barked at woodland animals and ash laughed a really weird wolf laugh, which made me laugh my weird wolf laugh too. We both sounded like we were choking which just made us laugh harder. "I better go home" I said through mind link. Somehow, ash, Chris, Tara and I can all mind link each other, which reinforces my theory that we are or were classed as a weird mini-pack thing.

Walking back home, there was a pile of clothes for me laid out on the back deck. I put them on and ran upstairs to find Chris. I got him to give me two pairs of old clothes to put outside for emergencies and I put two pairs out for myself as well. Strolling back inside, Chris had come downstairs with my presents. The first was two pairs of short shorts. They were size 14 kids and XS which was perfect. I hugged Chris; short shorts are my second favourite clothing item. My favourite clothing item is converse. This was what just so happened to be inside the second present. I squealed. I had been asking for converse for what seemed like forever. I have a faded green pair of high tops which I got when I was 11 (for Christmas I think) and were kind of small. I also have a navy pair with pink, white and blue stars, again high tops, which I got when I was 12. Both of my pairs of converse still fit me though. My new converses are entirely black. They go to half way up my calf and I did them up really tightly. Luckily, they had a zip on the side because my family always complained that I took too long to do up my Connies. My last present contained a whole heap of books, all of which I had told my brother to buy. I am not denying it: I am a complete book worm. I have about 350, all of which I brought to the new house and refused to give away.

At about 5pm, ash and Tara came over and gave me their presents. Ash had got me some more books and Tara had gotten me some makeup. I laughed at this because Tara is such a TC. I you don't understand what that is, she basically thinks she is super cool and even though she is only 13, she wears makeup to school. Even though she is kind of TC she is really nice. At 13 I made a pact to myself I would not dye my hair until the year I turned 15 (grade 10) and not wear full makeup to school until I was 16 (end of grade 11). I had stuck but that promise but now I guess I could wear make up to school. I thanked them and continued to do random stuff like read books and arrange my room. At the end of the day I sighed, I didn't know if I could face school tomorrow.

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A/N So guys what do you think? I know I am finally getting into the story!!! And she /I shifted for the first time! Her wolf is honey blond which is the same colour as her hair. If you guys were wondering, yes she has dyed her hair slightly. It was getting really dark and could almost class as brown so she dyed it in a gradient with it being blond at the end and darker to her original hair colour at the roots (this is what I want to do with my hair if it gets too dark.) This also means she does have to re-dye it that often as the hair near the roots isn't dyed so you can't see that some of the hair is dyed. (Pic of what her hair should look like in the last chapter (this chapter is her wolf >>>>> or ^^^^^))

Yeh well hopefully the next update will be in a few hours... Who knows... I generally will only be able to update on weekends and Wednesdays but again who knows...

I don't think anyone but me has actually read this book... 😒 so I hope by the time I have 3 parts at least 1 other person will have read my book... Well anyway... Bye

Gracie

Ps.

Character overview for ash -

Name: Ash Skythes (pronounced sky-v-s)

Age: 16 1/2

Eye colour: changes but is a bluey greenly brown

Hair colour: mid brown

Height: 5 foot 3 inches (157cm ish)

Build: very skinny and small

Luv ya,

Gracie xoxo