Tainted Red

Chapter fuckin One

A midnight black wolf danced around me, it's electric blue eyes clouding my vision, begging me to join it's dance. I began to sway and dance in sync with the creature before me, suddenly I felt my breath leave my lungs and pressure on my chest build. I threw my arms out in front of me as my eyes snapped open to see Hudson fly off my form.

'HAPPY BIRTHDAY REINA!' He screamed in my ear. I cringed and pressed my palms into my ears.

'Owww. Thanks but I don't remember asking you to make me deaf'. I huffed. He shrugged his shoulders, ruffled my hair and handed me a small box, wrapped in Christmas paper. I rolled my eyes as a grin took over my features and ripped off the wrapping paper.

'THIS SO BEAUTIFUL THANK YOU SO MUCH!' I squealed, as I held up the petite gold Figaro chain, with a small half moon charm.
I jumped off my bed and hugged him tight.

'Anything for my SEVENTEEN year old sister, but you might want to let me go before I pass out.' He said putting emphasis on my age.

'Oh shit, I'm so sorry !!'. I squealed as I release him from my death grip.  My brother and I have always been close, as our dad hasn't been exactly pleasant, drinking himself into a coma everyday after our mums death.

'It's alright but, we better get moving, we are celebrating early, because uni starts in about three days, there are more surprises downstairs' Hudson said leaving me to get dressed in my school uniform.

My grin never left me as I walked into the living/kitchen room.  I was greeted happily with the sweet smell of pancakes and maple syrup.

'Happy birthday ren!!' He whispered, his face holding a proud and excited expression. He directed my attention toward the countertop with his arms for me to see letters cut from pancakes laid to form the word eighteen and four State Of Origin tickets*

'NO WAY! ARE THESE GAME TWO TICKETS FOR TONIGHT' I basically screamed. I loved NRL especially the State Of Origin, Up the blues amirite.

'I know, I know, I'm so good but we have to be quiet you know what would happen if dad woke up, I got four tickets for you, me, Kayla and Reem, but if you didn't want Reem and I to gatecrash you can give em to your other friends i don't know'

'you idiot! of course I want you and Reem to come you guys are like my actual parents!' he clapped his hands together 'now let's eat pancakes before they go cold'.

We ate pancakes till we were bursting at the seams and close to a food coma, we some how managed to move to the lounge. Just as I was about to pass out my phone buzzed,

Kayla: HAPPY BIRTHDAY YOU GRONK COME OUTSIDE NOW! Ok see you in a sec love you bye.

Me: I'll be out in a sec, you impatient bitch x

'Kayla's outside, I'll see you when I home from school, ok?' I said as I left the couch when he lazily nodded and said something about seeing his mate, Reem, as I began walking towards the front door.

I opened the front door to see Kayla sitting in her little Suzuki Swift, motioning for me to come with her fingers. As I got closer the louder the music became, I opened the passenger door and slid in.

Kayla yelled happy birthday in my face and pulled my body into an awkward hug.

'Okay Kay calm down the gear stick is digging into my back' I whinged. I moved back into my seat as she started the car I brought up the footy tickets.

'Wow you are so lucky to have Hudson as your brother, game two tickets that's so fucking cool' she said.

'Yeah pretty cool right! The best part is YOU'RE COMING!!' She slammed on the brakes and started yelling about how excited she was along with a long line of expletives. Kayla was interrupted by a horn sounding from behind us followed by a lovely string of curse words. Kayla being herself stuck her head out the window.

'AYE MATE, FUCK OFF IF I WANT TO STOP I CAN FUCKING STOP IF I WANT TO DRIVE LIKE A SUNDAY DRIVER I WILL, ASSHOLE' She rather nicely replied, I stifled my laugh as we drove off to the milk bar, aka the best cafe in town.

We enter the cafe and payed for our order, Kayla and I got the same order of an iced latte on almond milk and eggs benny.

I decided to tell Kayla about my strange dream as she was a year older than me and had already shifted. I told her the wolf and how strange it was considering I was 17 and wolves shifted at 18.

She tucked her brown hair behind her head, her blue eyes looking dead into mine.

'Girl, that happened to me for a whole week before I shifted, I dreamt of my exact wolf, maybe you're one of those rare early bloomers?'she said.

'Yeah maybe' I replied and sank further in the the cafe chair

The waitress placed our food in front of us, we thanked her and dug in.

'I've eaten way to much this morning'. I checked my watch.

'Shit girl we've got to go to school'. We left for school completely unaware of the evil the future holds.

*****AN/ I know this is really boring but it's the calm before the storm aye?

I know a lot of you are not going to know what the State of Origin is so I'll give you a rundown. It's basically a footy game rivalry between the states NSW (blues also referred to as the cockaroaches) and QLD (maroons also referred to as toads), there are three games of NRL (National Rugby league) and which ever state wins majority takes the Origin shield and wins the series I guess. It's a pretty fuckin big event for said states. If you want to learn more wiki is ur friend x