Crimson

What the hell is a Super moon?

"Super moon? What the hell is a freaking super moon?" I say as James grabs my arms and forces me to look at his eyes, I never noticed this before but one of his eyes was more blue then the other.

"Do as I say, make's my life much easier for me" he says as he sternly looks at me, I nod my head and Conner takes my hand and we walk away.

"Parker? What the hell did he mean by a super moon? What is it?" I ask him as I follow his lead through the Brobdingnagian trees and shrubbery.

"Parker?" I question as he continues to not answer me, I'm fed up and I know that he is trying to focus on what he's doing but I really need him to listen to me.

"Conner!" I say as I grab his forearm around my small hands and look at him, "What did he mean by a super moon" I ask him as I see him clenching his jaw; he does it whenever he is frustrated.

"It's when the moon is full for three months, a wolf like James can't be near his mate during this time" he says to me as he continues to walk towards this tree and pulls out some clothes, he starts to put them on and I sit on this fallen tree as I see some of the bark had fallen off and was making itself a home for a bunch of insects.

"Mate?"

"It's short for soul mate, it's like meeting your significant other without having to deal with the exes and such"

"Oh, who's your mate?" I say as I look at his back, he is putting on his shirt when I notice a bite mark around his waist, he isn't looking at me but I know that I shouldn't have asked the question.

"She's dead Chloe, died a long time ago," he says to me as he puts the shirt on and grabs his socks and shoes, I scoot over a little as I fiddle with my fingers in my lap as we continue to talk.

"Does James even want me? He acts like he doesn't"

"He does, if he didn't you'd know"

"How?"

"Because a wolf like him is different to me"

"How?"

"He can't shift because he's a Lycan"

"A what?"

"It's a rare species, kind of like a deformity or disease, it's when you can't fully shift and you have to go by all of these new rules and such, basically he's more dangerous and irrational then a normal wolf like me" he says to me as he helps me up, we walk side by side continuing to talk, I want to know more about his kind I mean if I'm gonna be mated to one then I've got to know right.

"What about his parents? I didn't see any photos of them"

"His dad was exiled a long time ago and his mum died from the loss of her mate"

"That can happen?"

"It's called heart break it's what happens when you lose someone you care deeply about, she couldn't stand the loss so she killed herself"

"Oh . . . will that happen to you?" I ask him, he stops and looks down at me, I meant it really I did, I don't want to lose Conner he means way too much to me.

"No, I'm stronger then that besides I have you and Ronny that I've got to take care of" he says to me as he smiles making me smile and hug him as we got to the backyard of my house after hours of walking. We get into the house and I see that it is a mess, Conner growls as he looks around.

"What is it?"

"Someone's still here" he says as he walks in front of me and steps quietly, avoiding all of the broken glass and flipped over furniture too. I follow close by gripping onto his shirt a little as he moves a hand behind him and I grab it for comfort.

"They're gone" he says as he turns to the kitchen I breath out not knowing I was sub consciously holding it in, he walks over to me and puts a hand to my cheek making me come back to reality, his forest like orbs look at me and I grab his hand blinking and bending down to the floor picking up a shattered image of my dad and I.

"What is it?" he asks me as I stand up and put the photo back onto the bench when I notice that there was something on the back of it, I turn it around and widen my eyes.

I know what you really are . . .

I look up at Conner and he takes the photo and smells it I am a little confused but I am more on the side of freaking out .

"You're not leaving the house, you go to school and you come back and you don't leave okay?"

"What?"

"Once it's after school you come back home and you don't go out got it?"

"Okay" I say as he hugs me and kisses my forehead, he helps me clean the mess up and we chill on the couch talking about what I've got to be doing for now on.

"So I have to stay in the house as soon as it turns night?"

"Well mainly as soon as the moon comes out"

"Oh" I say as I slouch into the couch, he looks at me and tilts his head a little, I look at the time and sigh.

"We've still got a couple of hours till night, what you wanna do?"

"Well I've got to stay here with you until tomorrow morning so whatever you're up for I guess" he says to me as he looks at me, I think for a moment then slowly turn to him smiling like an idiot.

"Ice cream?"

"Ice cream" he says with a nod of the head, we stand up and grab the keys to the house and some money as we walk outside and head over to the ice cream shop down the road, we pass Jackson street that had the old ice skating rink that has been abandoned for years, it is our favorite place to go to. Conner, Beth, Ronny and I all hang out down there, as it was a while away off the road to get there.