As she opened her eyes, she felt as though her entire body was ready to break in two.
Which wasn't all that far from the truth.
Nel was always a bit odd from an outside view and no one really knew why, until a moon cycle ago.
The sun had set and the moon had risen providing it's ever gentle light to the nighttime serenity.
That serenity however would soon be disturbed by the terrified shrieks of a certain Nel Combersnatch, a young girl who hadn't even made it to her second year of high school before someone found her.
Normally being found wouldn't be an issue but tonight just so happened to be a full moon, meaning she didn't have a choice.
Now I know what you're thinking, full moon is she a werewolf or something? Hahahaha. No.
She would probably be better off if she were one of those guys and just transformed and went on a killing spree, but she wasn't so fortunate.
She transformed alright, but not into anything helpful and transformed is a stretch considering she just reduced in size.., and strength, and… courage.
I know some of you are looking at me like how in the hell does her courage get reduced? And the rest of you know the answer.
You try standing next to someone who doesn't know you're there, who could accidentally kill you and never realize it, or when they realize you're there only to try to trap you or worse.
On any other day she had control over it and she didn't know what was with the full moon, honestly she didn’t really care to find out.
Now some of you are asking why doesn't she stay inside her own home on full moons then? Because she can't fight the urge to head into the world and explore, it's almost like a trance and before she knows it she's out on the streets hidden in plain sight amongst the shadows or under a low overhang of a porch or bench.
She's almost always near a person when she snaps out of her trance, but for some reason she's been awakening from her trances near the same pair of runners and she knows because there's a handwritten message on the backs "If you can read this you're either super short or stole my shoes~ Liam Walker".
She knew Liam from school, he was at least a year ahead of her and was a pretty nice guy, but tonight that didn't matter to Nel.
What would it matter that he knew her? People can have horrible first reactions and those reactions could kill her.
One time she thought he'd seen her and almost screamed sprinting deeper undercover, she'd stayed stock still even past morning light, he'd left long before that, but her only thoughts were don't get caught.
That is until an innocent chipmunk bumped into her making her jump, she hit her head on the overhang and ended up walking home from there, but that chipmunk will never be the same again.
This time however she hadn't noticed him kneeling "so...uh..I kinda noticed you a couple months ago? But you kinda ran away and I've seen you since then but didn't really know how to approach you and I don't even know what I'm doing right now, honestly, but my curiosity got the best of me I guess?" He had a sort of wincing smile that clearly showed his uncertainty which just so happened to be one of the scariest things in the world to Nel at the moment.
She froze. It was one thing to think she'd been seen, it was another to know.
Wide eyed in terror she began to scream the most blood wrenching scream that her little lungs could handle, before she knew what had happened there was warmth and darkness, out of breath and shaking tears began to stream down her face, she now knew what had happened, Liam had grabbed her!
