Out of Time ❧ Kai Parker ✓

Chapter Five

Night has fallen and Kai still hasn't left his room. I got to hear his story, he was right. His totally tops mine. But I feel bad for him. Something must have happened that made him snap.

I walk into the living room and look around. There is a wooden shelf with pictures on it. I walk over to it to examine it.

I pick up one of the picture frames, I see Kai and a girl that looks his age and two other kids. All of them wearing the same shirt, all smiling. They all look happy. I set the picture down. I turn and walk over to one of the chairs and sit down.

The living room is spotless, besides the occasional blood splatters here and there. I lean the chair back and close my eyes.

Day 394, I am still in Hell. It has been over a year since my mother sent to here. I have tried so many different ways to end it, but none seem to work. With each passing day, my hope decreases. There is no hope for me.

I am laying on the grass staring up at the stars, wishing desperately to be free and to see my brothers and sister again.

I wonder how my family is doing. Do they even still remember me? They must, it's only been a year. Unless mother put a spell on them to make them forget me. The thought scares me. But I know that is what my mother did. She made me disappear physically and mentally.

I open my eyes as a pain hits me. I feel my body start sweating, and I let out a scream. I hear movement upstairs, and the sound of Kai walking down the stairs. "Please, be quiet. I'm trying to watch a movie."

I stand up and immediately regret it. "I'm sorry," I whisper in return for Kai' swords. I feel my bones start moving and I try my best to contain my scream. But I can't. I see, through blurry vision, Kai walking towards me.

"What's wrong with you?" He asks with no sound of concern in his voice. I want to tell him that I don't know, but the pain becomes worse and I fall to the floor.

Tears have fallen from my eyes and are now streaming down my face. What is happening to me?

The feeling of bones relocating it much more painful then it sounds. I watch in disgust as the bones in my arms move around.

I hear Kai talking but I can't really hear him anymore. Only bits and pieces. "Oh....shifting.....eclipse." His words made absolutely no sense.

I look up at him and he reaches down to me. I think that he is going to help me stand but no. He puts his hand on my arm and more pain shoots through my arm. His hand lingers there for a bit before he moves it. The pain where his hand once was is now gone.

I look up at him, and he smiles down at me. I was fixing to ask him what he just did, but then more pain erupts in my body as more of my bones move around.

Hours seem to pass and the pain only gets worse with each minute. Kai just stands there awkwardly staring at me. Eventually, the pain does go away, but my body is sore.

I stand up but realize that I am still much shorter than I usually am. I look down and notice that I have fur and paws. No. No. I can't be a werewolf.

I think back to the times when we would bunker down on the full moon go hide from the beast. How can I be one? Is it a full moon? All this time in this prison world, it has never been a full moon.

I look up at Kai and I'm scared. How do I turn back? Am I going to be naked in front of him?

"Hey, Wolfie, come here." I notice that he is by the front door and he opens it. "Go out there, no animals allowed in the house," I state at him. "Don't blame me, my dad's rules not mine." I see him smile as I walk towards the door.

Once I'm outside Kai slams the door shut. I hear him start chanting in Latin. I ignore him for now and I look up at the moon. Sure enough, it's a full moon.

Panic shoots through me. Am I going to have to go through this every night?

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In the morning I wake up in the middle of the woods. Just as I suspected, I have no clothes on. I quickly make a run to the nearest house.

I run in some random direction, and a house does not come into view for a while. But I eventually find one. A small one-story house. It was white on the outside with flowers lining the driveway.

I quickly enter the house and search for some clothes. The first room I check was only male clothes, which I will wear it I have nothing else. I enter another room and again it was male clothes. I search the rest of the house but there is only male clothing. I sigh and grab a long-sleeved black shirt and skinny jeans. I also grab, a pair of shoes, they look like running shoes, they are black.

Both were too big for me, but I exited the house and walked back to Kai's house. I walk feeling no need to rush. I notice how the trees on either of the road at perfectly inline.

I eventually reach the house and I walk up to the door. I open it and walk in, but there seems to be a barrier that keeps me from entering the house. "Kai!" I call out for him. No answer. I was starting to think that I imagined it all yesterday, but I see him descend the stairs. Today he is wearing a red shirt and sweatpants.

When he sees me and smiles, "Looks like my spell worked." He says mostly to himself. "Thanks for that magic you gave me, by the way."

I look at him with confusion, "I never gave you magic."

His smile grows bigger and he walks closer. "Did I forget to mention the best part, I am a siphoner. I siphoned your magic last night when you were changing." I look at him with disbelief. "Looks like you left out a detail as well. Did you forget to mention that you happen to be a werewolf?"

"Well, I can't forget to mention something that I didn't know, so," I reply back to him. I put my hands up and close my eyes and start chanting to unto the spell. "

"Yeah, you can't break it." I hear him say and I open my eyes. He smiles at me, "I cast the spell using blood magic."

I glare at him, "Well, can you undo it?" I question him, crossing my arms over my chest.

"Why would I?" He steps right up to the doorway. "There are plenty of places for you to stay. No need for us to be together all the time." He closes the door and leaves me outside.

"Kai," I plead with him the fear of isolation evident in voice. "please don't leave me!" I yell at him through the door, but he doesn't answer.

I am alone again.