Full Moon

Full Moon: Chapter Five

"Kyle?" I called out softly, closing the front door behind me as I tiptoed upstairs. The house was dark and Kyle's bedroom was empty aside from the furniture and occasional discarded shirt.  I opened my mom's door slowly and found her sitting upright in bed with an open book on her lap. 

"Mia your home," My mom said softly, wrapping her arms around me lightly once I'd walked over to her bed. 

"Why are you up so late?" I asked my mom, eyeing the sleeping tablets and glass of water next to her bed. Her bed sheets were unkempt and I knew I'd probably have to wash them as she wouldn't do anything about it herself. 

"I saw it was a full moon and knew there was a gathering so I waited up for you," she tucked a strand of my auburn hair behind my ear. I looked at her in confusion, she had never waited up for us before. "It was your first as Alpha," she said, sensing my confusion. 

"Oh," I said with a small smile, it wasn't like my mother to delve into pack life as much as she had been recently. 

"And your father phoned," she said in a softer voice, fiddling with the book in her lap as she dog eared the page. 

"Oh," I said again, smile dropping, "What did he want?" My father seldom phoned unless he wanted or needed something from us, and if the rest of the pack knew my mother communicated with him, she would be exiled too. 

"Just his normal check-up, wanting to know what was happening in the pack," she smiled almost as if she was in a daze from the phone call, staring at the wall as if lost in thought. "HE still love us, you know? He wants to come get us- "

"Enough mom," I cut her off, reaching for the glass and two white pills and placing them both in her hands. "You know can never come back."

"But with you as Alpha, you can allow him- "

I cut her off once more, "Did you tell him I was Alpha?" I asked her sternly, looking her in the eye as she took the medication. 

"Of course," she replied, placing the book next to her bed and lying back on the pillow. Cursing, I got up to leave her. Somehow I knew this wouldn't be the last phone call from my dad now that he knew I was Alpha. 

And if the packs knew about it, I would be in deep trouble. 

"So what did you tell Julie?" I asked Sam as we finished up our breakfast at the pack house, ready to do some training before Caleb arrived. 

"That she was a family friend who just needs a place to stay for a while," Sam answered, tugging off his shirt once we'd reached the small training arena next to the house that mainly consisted of practice dummies and sand flooring. "Her mother actually seemed pretty happy to have another girl in the house besides her and Julie."

"Julie's Brothers still causing mischief?" I asked with a smile, stretching my legs and arms as Sam began to punch a dummy in warm up. 

"Oh yeah," Sam said with a laugh, "All six of them drive Julie and her mom crazy."

"I meant to go and visit her this morning, but there is just too much going on at the moment," I bit my lip nervously, not knowing whether or not to tell Sam about Caleb. 

"What, Caleb?" Sam asked, walking over to me to spar, "He's seriously not a big thing, a nuisance at the most. We can just act like he's not even there." If only you knew, i thought, holding up my fists expectantly. 

"Alright, come at me small fry," I taunted Sam, ducking out the way as he threw the first punch towards my shoulder. As I was crouched, I hooked my foot around Sam's ankle and sent him falling to the floor, leaping out the way as he tried to grab at my ankles. Just as fast as he went down, he was back on his feet and lunging towards me. I put up my hands to block him to which he responded by grabbing my wrists and in one move spinning me around to face away from him, my arms locked behind my back.