Trapped [H.S]

Chapter 4: You're A What!?

Chapter 4: You’re A What!?

It’s almost six o’clock and Nora is going to kill me if I don’t reach there in like ten minutes! Note: Nora is my best friend. We’ve been friends since 8th grade.

She has been calling me non-stop since twenty minutes and each time I pick up I tell her I’ll be there in five. I should have not slept! This is what happens every time I take afternoon naps. Either I miss something important or I get late for it. I quickly brush my hair and fix my makeup one last time and run downstairs. “Dad, I’m leaving.” I inform him.

“Honey bun, your mum called. Uh, I think you should go some other night. Its full moon tonight and you know how strict she is about these kind of stuff.” My dad tells me.

“Dad! You know I don’t believe in all this crap! All this is just superstition and I need to rush or else Nora will go bat-crap crazy on me. Please.” I walk towards the door and the car keys. I push my feet into my shoes and I hear dad’s footsteps. “But you girls can do this some other night too.”

“Daddy, Nora will soon go to college and I won’t be able to see her often. Please! I promise to stay inside all night.” That’s what shuts him up.

“Okay, be careful.” He says and gives me a quick hug.

It took fifteen minutes to reach at Nora’s and when I see the time, it’s quarter to seven. She is going to kill me. I ring the doorbell once, but no answer. Twice, no answer. I keep ringing the doorbell but no one answers. I decide to call Nora but it went straight to her voicemail. I sit outside on her porch for about thirty minutes thinking she must have gone to get some snacks and ice-cream but she doesn’t return. I try calling her again but to my disappointment it goes to voicemail. I decide to wait for more twenty minutes and see if she returns.

It’s nearly eight now and she hasn’t yet returned. Now I start getting really pissed off! If she was going out she could have at least told me! I get up and search my purse for the car keys when I hear loud howls. Like proper wolf howls. I take a step back and hide behind her porch. Since when did he have wolves in our neighbourhood? I hid there for a good five minutes and then I hear Nora. She sounds angry and she is shouting at someone.

“You could have hurt him!” she screams at the guy wearing a leather jacket and black jeans. His back is towards me. I hide myself properly so that they can’t see me.

“I am sorry! I didn’t know what to do!” He says. I have heard this voice before. It’s really very familiar. Another guy joins them shortly and Nora shoots him a deathly glare.

He gulps before opening his mouth to say something but Nora punches him hard on his face. The familiar voice guy holds Nora back and the guy who got punched starts growling.

The familiar sounding guy tries to calm the growling boy down. He turns towards the boy and takes his aside. Harry. How does Nora know Harry? And what happened? What are they talking about?

“Son of a mutt!” Nora spits and the boy loses his control. He pushes Harry aside and launches himself on Nora. But as he jumps towards her I see something unimaginable, something I only saw in movies or read in books. His arms and legs are gone, replaced by huge wolf like legs. He has huge black fur and yellow eyes. He has ears like a wolf. He’s got a mouth like a wolf and as he jumps on Nora, she swiftly rolls aside and then turns into a wolf herself. She has big brown fur and same yellow eyes as the other wolf’s. She is just as big as he is. “Guys stop it!” I hear Harry exclaim. How can he be so calm? Is he one of them too? I try to stand slowly not averting my eyes from the huge wolves in front of me.

Both of the wolves stop fighting and start sniffing. That’s when Nora’s or I should say Nora the wolf’s eyes meet mine following the other wolf’s and then Harry’s. “Jenniffer.” He says with his eyes wide in shock. He starts taking slow cautious steps towards me.