An Alpha's Melody

Chapter One: Melody

    It was just like any other school day, until I walked through the woods surrounding my house. I had taken these walks many times before, spending most of my childhood roaming the forest and soaking up the scenery. I have always loved how peaceful it was, especially as fall slowly turned to winter. Something about the death, but gurantee of a beautiful return seemed so poetic.

    It was on this very walk, the day that I turned fifteen that everything changed.

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    The shadow loomed over me for merely a second or two before disapearing again. Was it a bear? Some creepy serial killer come to kill me?

    I gained an answer all to soon, when fangs sank into the base of my neck, and peirced the top of my shoulder. Of course, I collapse, and look up into the red, beady eyes of the largest wolf I have ever seen. I can't even manage to scream. There wasn't enough time before the wolf shifted into a boy, or rather a man, and covered my mouth with a strong hand.

    I glare up at his now grey eyes and light brown hair. I reach out my right arm, the one that has been unpinned from the ground, and I shove it into the lengthy hair, which reaches halfway down the back of the man's neck. I yank hard, and he glowers, moving the other hand to my throat.

    "i don't want to hurt you anymore," his somewhat deep voice claims, like a caress to my inner eardrms.

    He raises a hand and brings it down over my eyes, while strangling me in what could be called a lover's cradle, so that I black out.

    I awoke in my own bed that morning, and went to school like nothing happened. I pretend that I am not dying in excrutiating pain from the enormous bite on my shoulder and neck. Throught the school day, I have many weird looks.

    "Where were you last night?" A short girl, who describes herself as fun sized with a light brown braid down one shoulder and light blue, peircing eyes.

    "I wasn't feeling very good, Alexa,"I tell my best friend. Not a complete lie.

    "You do know you can't hide anything from me, right?" Alexa dares to put a hand on her hip, throwing it out to the side.

    "Yeah, I am sorry, but I can't explain right now. Come over after school, or switch lunch hours!"

    

    "I switched to your lunch hour, but it isn't actually changing until next week," Alexa explains to me. "So what's up?"

    How do you explain to your best friend thought you were bitten by a giant wolf, that then changed into a human . . . a very, very attractive one at that! So I show her my shoulder, and remove several layers of bandages, and launch into the whole story.

    "Well, then. Do you know what that sounds like?"Alexa asks.

    "Yeah, like complete bullsh-t."

    "Well, that too, but I meant like a werewolf bite!"

    "Ugh, I was so hoping you wouldn't say that, Alex," I groan, shortening her name, and covering my face with my palm.

    "Google!" Alexa shouts, and draws my laptop from my nightstand. She opens the computer and logs an, sending me a wink when she got my password, read write live, correct on the first guess. She googles werewolf bites, and I fall asleep with my head on ehr shoulder, as she scrolls through the endless results.

    When we wake up, we are in a somewhat tangled position, laptop and all, that should have been unbearably awkward, besides the fact that we have been so close since we were little kids. In a town this small, everybody knows everybody, and everyone elses' business.

    "Holy cra-"

    "What?" I jump, as we break apart. 

    "I remember what I read right beofore falling asleep. It was something about the full moon . . . which is tomorrow night!"