The Lone Wolf

CHAPTER 1: REMEMBERENCE

Flash back:

I woke up to pain. Everywhere. Everything felt like it was in fire. But as fast as it had came, it vanished.

"That's so wierd" I whispered out loud

Then I remembered. It was my birthday. I was 13 today, but something had changed.

The house was quiet (Which never happens) but not just that, I could smell everything. See everything. It was like the whole room I was laying in was unfamiliar now.

Something is happening, I can feel it, don't ask me how, I just can. I try shake these thoughts out of my head. I head to my bathroom, I turn the light on and quickly shut my eyes to try and let them adjust as I start squinting. Everything is so bright it's giving me a head ache.

I freshen up in the bathroom and get dressed. My mum and dad brought me a just below the knee length dress to wear for my birthday. Black long sleeves with white lace all over. My dad said it was fit for a princess.

Which looking at myself in the mirror I feel like one. I put my black flats on and head down stairs. Everything is too quiet.

As I reach down the bottom step it's so quiet that when it squeaks I jump and shriek. My heart pounding so bad. Then just as I'm about to step off the last step, everyone jumps out and yells "surprise" and all of a sudden my heart stops from the initial scare tactics of everyone.

I'm engulfed in hugs left and right and birthday wishes never stopped. Not even through breakfast. Which I couldn't even enjoy cause after one mouthful of my mouth watering bacon and eggs I would have to stop and say thank you every single time. I know. You think I might be ungrateful but I'm not. I just wanted my breakfast in peace I was just so hungry.

After about 3 hours and 100 gifts later, everyone was leaving so my family could do our birthday tradition and go to the waterfall on our lands. It was beautiful. It was so tall with crystal clear water that almost matched the colour of my eyes.

Large boulders and rocks surrounded the water fall to make a kind of barrier that formed a swimming hole. Every year we came here to celebrate another year of safety. A kind of thanks for blessing us to be happy and healthy. I know you probably think "why a waterfall?" well it's because in my family it's been our tradition for as long as I could remember. I asked my mum why a waterfall to offer our thanks but she said "It's hard to explain with out you properly being able to understand. First something needs to drastically change within you for you to be able to grasp what I will have to say. Only then will you understand because otherwise you would never believe".

So after that I didn't ask again.

So we stood there at the end of the water fall and got our swimmers on and swam to behind the water fall where the cave was. It already had candles from last year and many other candles from the years before but I still brought my own for this year. I started my offering of thanks on my knees with the candle lit. My eyes closed and a smile on my face. I did my little offering without uttering a word as is custom for our tradition and opened my eyes blew out the candle and as we were leaving the cave and swimming back through the water fall another wave of excruciating pain hit me.