When things go wrong

Chapter 3

One child of a shape shifter family there is somebody like me. I have a special ability unlike my father, or brother. I have exceptional hearing. Like right now I can hear their conversation as if I were right next to them. You are probably wandering why I only have a brother and my dad. Well, my mum died. She was hit by a car actually. She was in her animal form which was a puma, she was just running along when she came to a road. My mother wasn't stupid, so she didn't just walk in front of an on-coming car, no, she is not that dumb. She had checked and was just about to cross when a car came around the corner. I was told she had just frozen, and the car had kept going. The sad thing is, the driver didn't even stop, they just kept going, but my dad had tracked them down, they had confessed to hitting a puma, but didn't seem to see the significance.

That was four years ago now, and I have gotten over it.

I dropped my head and looked down at my black paws. Well, my whole body isn't black, just my paws. I was actually white, a pure color apparently.

I am a white wolf with bright blue eyes, my human eyes, and black paws. I trotted forward and sniffed at the ground. I don't hunt either. I tend to just run until I can't no more. That's probably why I beat all the boys in the cross country, and they all wander why. But I can't tell them.

I wander aimlessly thinking about whether one of the other nine families will be here in Highfield. After about half an hour I come to another house. I sat and watched it for a while. A boy about my age walked around the garden. I wasn't sure what he was doing, maybe gardening? No. He wasn't bending down. Maybe architecture? Yeah, right, a teenage boy doing architecture. Who am I kidding? I shook my head and walked to the edge of a road, changing back into my human form I jogged forward till I was on the road. Looking right and left, I decided to go back the way I came. Probably through town. I walked along the edge of the road for a while until I came to some shops. I sauntered past them, and ended up at the front of the house I was at the back of earlier.

Now the boy was out the front. I walked past, and continued on until I got back to my house.

"I'm back!" I yell into the house.

"Good, you can cook dinner." Liam yelled back.

"What? Where's dad?" I yelled back, walking through the living room to the kitchen where Liam sat at the table.

"Work" he said it like it was the most obvious thing in the world.

I breathed in deeply.

"Why don't you cook, Foxy?" I asked.

He scowled at me. He hated that nickname I gave him, it kind of made sense though. Liam could shape shift into a fox.

He growled at me, flashing some canines at me.

"Woah!" I raised my hands in defense. "We got a badass over here!" I put emphasis on bad, before baring my own huge wolf teeth. Which, might I add, are bigger than his little foxy ones. I laughed as his jaw tightened.

"Wanna go out." I asked my little brother.

"Yeah, whatever" he answered.

"Did dad take the car?" I asked.

"No, he flew." he answered sarcastically. Now this comment could have made sense, considering the family we lived in but dad is a black panther, therefore, he is unable to fly.

"Of course he took the car." Liam muttered.

"OK, we shall walk." I say.

"WHAT??? I don't want-" Liam started.

I cut him off with "Fine, no dinner."

He opened his mouth like he was going to say something, but changed his mind and closed his mouth.