The Eternal Gift

VII- Moonlight friend

When Callum came out, he looked relaxed seeing as I just kicked him in a very sensitive area. I sat on the edge of the bed, my head down and cried; tears of sadness fell onto my bare skin legs. I didn't want to be a monster, mutant or freak anymore.
Yet no matter what thought I had, my powers took over and focussed on causing havoc like a Kaiju monster.
Then I felt a hand touch my shoulder, Callum took me in for a hug. It felt nice and warm almost too nice. "Callum I'm scared, I don't want to be like this anymore." I sobbed as those words were hard to say.
"Sshh its ok Amelia, I know you don't want this but I don't know what to do." Callum spoke with comfort and reassurance but I knew he was just making it up.

Regardless I apologised to him and then went to wash. It was refreshing to feel water again, I felt a bit better with the shower hitting me with the warm water. As I saw the dirt fall onto the floor while I washed my hair, making the floor almost black. As I touched my skin all over I noticed that there was no bald skin, all of it just hair; I spent about 30 minutes scrubbing my body until I was done.

After I dried myself and left the bathroom, I saw Callum drawing on his sketchbook again. He seemed to have finished it, he showed it to me and I was beyond impressed.
The picture was me but he added pristine detail:
I had long white hair, with grey short fur all over me, with longer claws on my hands and feet with a ginger red fluffy plumed tail that was about a metre long. I also noticed that my eyes were going a deep brown colour. I had enough of what was happening.

I felt hopeless and pitiful, what was I becoming? I missed the normality of the world before my parents got killed. The remainder of the day I was in a sort of autopilot, I helped Callum with his heavy lifting as he was moving out soon. Seth, Callum's dad could tell that something was off despite him or Janice not being able to see me.
4 hours later...

It was becoming dark outside, I ate dinner with the family. It was off-putting to see that they were bothered to see that on my end of the table it was invisible. But I didn't care, I was ravenous as I ate lots of meat, potatoes, and veggies. It was the first proper home-cooked meal I had in a while, I must've eaten about 5 kilograms of food then I finally felt full. "Oh man that was so good, thank you, everyone. This is more than I could ever imagine." I gratefully said as I laid on the floor.

Janice sheepishly laughed, "its ok Amelia we know that you gotta be fed well, so we are delighted for you to live with us." Seth also agreed, "well yes it's important for you to be fed but," he gave a short pause then continued "Amelia this food cost us an AWFUL lot so is it ok if you can perhaps do some errands for us?"

I sat up, all puzzled, "errands like what? I'm the one being hunted yeah?" Seth nodded but gave an explanation "what I mean is things like helping Callum move out to his new place and maybe a grandchild."
Silence fell around the room, it was so quiet. I left the room, slamming the door that broke all of the kitchen windows.
I ran upstairs, opened the window and climbed the roof. I sobbed for hours, I can never raise a child it won't be wise to and I don't know if it would be human or like me; a hideous monster.

I stayed up on the roof all night, I didn't feel that cold I touched my arms and the fur had fully come through. I heard the animals near me from the calls of the tawny owl to the pitter-patter of rats climbing up the wooden fences. I looked up and saw the moon, it was white and bright.
I then began to talk to it almost like the moon was my friend, I talked to it for hours until I saw the flicker of dawn. Maybe like an animal, I belonged in the forest but no I am not one of them or one of the humans. I was at a crossroads in my life again.