I was a good husband, a great dad to them. I don't understand where I went wrong. I can't believe she did this to me. How could she let this happen? I tried so hard, I can't believe they saw me. I was gentle. If anyone saw me with the kids anyone they would've known i was a great man, not one mean bone in my body. She would always say I "was a good husband, a good father." But they saw me, she saw, she rejected me.
I first met her when i was living with my mother, and she was living with her sister, cause her parents recently moved out and left them the house. I used to see her when I hung out with my mom and brothers. I guess she always loved that about me, a young man that was nice with his family must be worth knowing. Then there was this one time i was in the woods alone, i met her alone this time, no mom, no siblings i was coming back from a hunting trip. I didn't do that well but i wasn't discouraged because i had a good hunt the day before. I decided to walk around and just enjoy the morning this day. That's one of the things she said she loved about me when we first met. We started talking one day and things progressed, we hung out more, we started dating.
Then finally we decided to move in with each other. Finally , and it was time for her sister to move out and for us to start a new chapter. Her sister teasing her said "Well! If he's going to be here everyday and half the night, I guess there isn't room for me!" And with that she was gone. Her sister never liked me. She always suspected me would say behind closed doors that something wasn't right with me, that there was something off with me, and my wife was just blinded by love. She suspected my reasoning for being out of the house half the night. I got scared she even followed me.
It was the moon, it's the moon's fault, the moon is what has betrayed me, or was it him, was it their fault for bestowing this curse on me. My mom warned her one night "It's the moon's fault, and the blood." But she never knew till it was too late i never wanted her to know, but she found out i love her but she'll no longer love me. It's true what the rumors say I'm drawn to find people like me when it happens ,but it always goes wrong.
I would've been in the clear until my youngest our youngest, she turned from me. Oh how that hurt my heart ache. I came back home and she was there "scared-looking stiff, with her eyes wide and then she begun to cry and try to hide behind '' my wife. She started to say "Make it go away ! Make it go away !" my own kin my blood my child the sadness in my heart can't be explained.
The dark moon was starting. I wasn't by her side tonight, i left earlier than usual because it started. I was standing outside the entrance of the house . My head was low, I sat down , cause I was feeling weary, and looked down at my feet. And then it started my feet got longer stretching out, ther toes stretching out and my foot got long and fleshy , and white, with no hair on them.
My hair started to shed, like it was fried away from sunlight. I was white all over, then slowly I turned my face and looked at her. My face started to change it got "flatter and flatter, the mouth flat and wide and" my teeth grinning flat and dull, my "ears gone, and my eyes gone blue-blue with white ring around the blue" staring at my wife. I had turned into the "hateful one" which my kind calls them.
I don't know what I was thinking changing right here, in front of her. I think my heart still aches from when my own daughter said those words. This might be a suicide because i know i cant contiue living like this, but i also know even if they kill me theres a chance that it wont even help.
Then it happened to her sister, her dear sister who suspected me from the very beginning. She was coming, i saw her running from the corner of my eye, running at me "with her head low and her mane high and her eyes yellow as winters sun". I looked around and the whole pack was coming for me , my branch had broken. So I ran and ran heading for the "cleared fields, and lowlands, down the mountainside." But they followed and it happened my dear's sister completed my suicide the one i changed my mind on but it happened my layered curse. The curse from my father's bloodline has caused me so much pain and tears, losing love over and over making me complete the same storyline twice. Oh how I tried this time but my efforts failed. So I live again like a whole new being forgetting my past and my freshly past love and family. But this time just this time I wanted something more I didn't want to move on. I loved so hard this time so I wanted to mend my broken heart since we can never be together again , because this time it was different she was my true love. And I don't want her to love anyone else ever again.
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The Husband Story
Short StoryI was a good husband, a great dad to them. I don't understand where I went wrong. I can't believe she did this to me. How could she let this happen? I tried so hard, I can't believe they saw me. I was gentle. If anyone saw me with the kids anyone th...