The Blood of a Wolf

Trip Down Memory lane

After a while of sitting in the tree patch, we decided to go and grab some food and take it back and just sit and relax for a while.

"So you know the street right over there if you go down it all the way my old house is on the end."

"Really?"

"Yeah. I wonder if anybody lives there, I mean we haven't lived there for a while but we never put it up to be bought or anything so it could just be abandoned."

"You want to go see if it is or not?" I contemplate it for a minute and then smile.

"Let's go." we leave the patch of trees and throw away our trash and head down my old street. It takes a while of walking but we finally come to a stop in front of my the house.

"This is not what I expected, it is pretty big."

"Yeah since my father worked for the government he got paid decently so when he and my mom got married they bought this house my mom always wanted a big family."

"Well, It doesn't look like anybody is here."

"It doesn't look like it has been touched since we left. Come here I want to see something." I say walking up to the front door of the house Cody following. I tilt a statue that is next to the door over and reveal a key. I pick it up and put it into the lock and turn it unlocking the door.

"Is this legal. Aren't we breaking and entering or something."

"Hardly I used to live here and nobody else does right now so I am only entering my house." I push the door open and go inside looking around I see nothing has changed except for the things that Henry sent over after we moved.

"How is it possible that it looks bigger on the inside." I run up the stairs and down the hall not caring if Cody followed or not. I stop in front of the newest door in the upper levels of the house and push it open. I take a step into my old room and take in everything.

I walk over to the bed an see a stuffed cat sitting by my pillows where I left it, I climb onto the bed and pick up the stuffed cat and hold it to my chest. I look around and a flood of memories comes to me making me smile.

"I am guessing this was your room?" Cody's voice breaks through the silence.

"Yeah. The door had to get replaced a lot because I would get angry and either slam it shut and it would break at the hinges or I would punch a hole through it."

"Sounds like something you would do," he walks over and sits on the bed next to me.

"It was before I was able to control my wolf self."

"What do you have there." Cody points to the stuffed animal I am still holding.

"This is Mr. Cat."

"Mr. Cat?"

"Not very creative I know. On the days of the full moon before I learned to control it I would come here after school or if it was during the summer I would spend most of the day sitting here holding him to me because I was scared of hurting someone. Holding him would give me comfort, I have had him since I was a baby."

"Maybe you should take him back with you give you comfort."

"Yeah." we spend a little more time sitting in my room talking I would tell Cody stories or me losing control and breaking my door or the time I ripped the heads of off a few of my stuffed animals. Then I remembered something.

"The workout room!" Cody gives me a confused look. "Hadn't I told you that my mom had made a workout room here it doubled as a cellar for full moons. My mom has a picture of me when I first started using it somewhere down there." I rush down the stairs and to the basement opening the metal door.

"A metal door?"

"Yeah it was a normal door but after the first full moon on there when I was strong enough I broke it down and trashed the house so it got replaced with metal." I walk over to a wall with a high shelf and the picture is right there in the center.

In the picture, I stood wearing a little karate like uniform on punching at a dummy with a big smile on my face. I stand smiling up at the picture and Cody comes up behind me wraps his arms around me putting his chin on my shoulder. We stand there admiring the picture for a few minutes before we decide to leave and go back to Henry's.

I close and lock the door as we exit the house and put the key back to where it was when we got there. We walk down the drive to the main road when I realize I don't have Mr. Cat.

"Oh shoot I left Mr. Cat on my bed!"

"You mean this Mr. Cat," Cody says pulling the stuffed cat out of his inside coat pocket.

"You grabbed him for me?"

"Of course I did."

"You are the best boyfriend ever," I say as I pull him in and kiss him.

"I will never get tired of that," Cody says with a smile, I punch him lightly in the shoulder but I can't help but smile.

"Come on let's get back before Henry freaks out and comes looking for us."

"Alright." we walk hand in hand back to Henry's and by the time we finally make it into the house dinner is on the table.

"Finally you are back I was beginning to think you were lost or something of the sorts."

"We just stopped by the old house."

"And you grabbed a stuffed cat."

"Yeah. although I thought you would have sold the house."

"I was going to get it ready to sell but I didn't want to get rid of anything in case you would need it." we sit down to eat and talk I tell Henry about school and about how I ended up joining the lacrosse team about Bella and James even a little about Alec and Lexi.

"Well, you two should get some rest your flying back tomorrow right."

"Yeah. I will have to call the pilot to verify the time so I will do that right now." Cody excuses himself to call the pilot leaving me with Henry.

"So you and Cody aren't just friends are you?" Henry says after a few seconds of silence.

"No we are not just friends anymore but it is more of a recent development."

"Well, I am glad that you are happy and that he doesn't care about your other side and the things that come with that."

"Yeah I am very lucky." silence falls between us once again before I speak. "Well, I should be getting to bed see you in the morning, Henry." I head up to the guest room saying Goodnight to Cody as I pass and fall asleep almost as soon as my head hits the pillow.