Forming a Reason (On Hold)

Chapter 1- The Forest

Forming a Reason

Chapter 1- The Forest

I laughed, feeling joy at the way the wind whipped through my hair while the leaves crunched beneath my feet. Running has always been one of the things that I enjoyed doing, it relieves me from my worries and calms my nerves. It helps me clear my mind and... I just feel like doing it... every day.

My hearts started pounding wildly in my chest, making it a bit suffocating to breathe but I still kept running, I hated it when they both started pounding. It reminded me how abnormal I was and I hated it. But I still kept running, I had to get there before they did.

Although they could out-run me if they wanted to, but they always let me go ahead. I think it's because they wanted to keep me in their sight. I rolled my eyes, talk about over-protective.

I looked over my shoulder and stuck my tongue out. They snarled threateningly and increased their speed. My eyes widened, they were gaining on me. I turned my head away from them and focused on running only to hear them growl loudly.

Their growl just made me laugh, "Come on slowpokes, I thought you guys would've been faster than me!"

My comment just made one of them determined to prove that they're actually faster than me as I saw a glimpse of a large mess of dark gray fur beside me. I rolled my eyes at the childishness of it,  I knew they were faster than me, I was just joking around.

Too bad, they couldn't understand that because they were wolves.

I smiled. Hanging out with wolves was actually pretty fun and I'm not scared of them, they're actually pretty friendly if they aren't hungry. None of them has ever tried to eat me.

Coming here in this forest and spending time with them made me realize that they aren't actually as dangerous as people made them seem. Or maybe I'm just used to it.

People think I'm weird and they stay away from me, they avoid me like plague. I tried to make friends but then someone found out about the fact that I was the possessor of two hearts and now the whole town knows. Blabber mouth.

Our town is small one, so everyone knows each other. The most annoying and irritating fact was that whenever I even approached anyone they would be repulsed by my sight and walk away as fast as they could. I mean, I'm not ugly or anything but the fact that I have two hearts somehow... disgusts people.

At the first sight, I would look like a normal human. Eating normally, speaking normally, doing average and normal things but if you dig deeper I'm something else and I hate it. No one wants to be with me because of what I have.

My smile faltered as I kept my pace. I had decided to live alone when I turned eighteen because even my parents thought I was not... normal. When I was a little girl they would sometimes move away from me subtly or just leave the room whenever I was around.

At first I thought nothing of it but then it started to hurt and when I asked my parents that why they did it. You know what they said?

'You're... just not normal.'

I mean, really? Just because I'm not 'normal' they would never look at me as their daughter again? They would treat me like dirt? Is that how parents should be?

I forced myself to think about something else other than my family. Wolves were the only family I had now, I don't know why and this may seem strange but... I feel like they're a part of me. An important part of my life, I really can't spend a day without them.

The first time I met the wolves was when I ran into the forest, crying. I was feeling really lonely that day and something inside me just snapped and I started running, I didn't know where I was going until I ended up in this forest and met the wolves.