THE THING IN THE WOODS

THE SEVENTH WOLF

She is frozen in time, her hands scroll down the olds newspaper’s pages plastered in the computer screen, she’s not alone anymore, she’s been visited in that empty and dark library by realization and sadness, both sinking in her chest haunting her as ghosts, she feels lost, her heart got broken so many times in the last months that she doubts she has a heart anymore, she can’t trust no one, Blake who seemed to be a good guy was a werewolf, and not just a werewolf but the cold blooded creature that murdered her mom, Matt who supposed to be her best friend, has been hiding his powers from her and the fact the knows about the existence of werewolves and plus he’s helping save Blake’s life right now, to not mention that, that man told him the truth about her dad.

She can’t trust her dad, she can’t trust in any of his words, it’s like waking up from a long dream, or worse, to be born again but retaining memories from another life, she’s not Nichole Copper anymore, she’s not any of the girls in the passports, she’s not her dad’s girl or a normal teenager, that’s is the biggest of problems, she’s broken she can’t tell who she is or were she belongs, she’s scared if she takes her hand mirror from her pocket right now she won’t recognize the person staring from the other side because nothing in her was ever real, everything was a prefabricated lie, something planned to keep her eyes closed her whole life, and now she knows the truth and everything about her lost it sense, how to walk? How to feel breath? What is the proper way to feel? She doesn’t know because she has always been what her father wanted her to be and now she doesn’t know who she is or who she will become the only thing that matters now is that Blake is out there alive, healing when he should be slowly dying in her hands.

Now she misses Seth, misses him more than ever and can’t fight back the tears she wants to sink her face in his chest, she wants to rely on him and tell him how screwed things are, how lost she feels and why she has to do what she has to do, she needs to hear his deep voice and stare at his crystalline amber eyes, she can’t believe it is over and it is because of her dad, he threatened Seth or something to stay away from her because he goddamn bastard who can’t accept the idea of not controlling her life as he has been doing the last sixteen years, lying her about her mother’s death, taking her all over the country and the world without asking her if she wanted to go, hiding from her who he really was and what she’s capable of. About what else he lied? Was her mom a nice person of was it fake too? She has cloudy memories about her and in them her mom was a lovely lady with long hair, sparkly eyes and a beautiful smile but maybe… just maybe those memories aren’t real and they are just what her dad wanted her to believe, she wouldn’t be surprised if it turned out to be true, but it doesn’t matter she doesn’t have a mother and would never know what kind of mother she would have been for her and everything is Blake’s and he’s going to pay for it.

…….

Walking back to Dr. L’s place seemed to be faster than running, because in seconds Matt is getting in through the front door and climbing down the stairs to get in the basement, when they are inside Dr. L lights on Matt’ candle and then his, Matt flickers and the world starts to get colorful and illuminated, at his right is the table where Blake lays and next to him is…

“Annie” Matt says startled.

“Why are you so shocked? I live here” The girl grins.

“Is he dead already?” Dr. L asks sternly.