IN THE FULL MOON

chapter 19 so many secrets

For as long as I could remember, I hadn't

kept anything a secret from Ivy. Half the time it

was because she squeezed information out of me,

the other half because I blurted it out in

excitement. Now I had been keeping several major

events under wraps for quite some time. Besides

discreetly seeing Brandon, I'd managed to keep

three classified secrets: one, that Brandon

Maddox had rescued me from the wolves; two,

that I was in love with him; and three, the

Westsider I was in love with might possibly be a

werewolf.

The secrets burned inside me. If I told Ivy

about Brandon, she'd be upset that I was in love

with anyone other than Nash. And if I told her he

might be a werewolf, she'd clearly think it was a

prank. She'd be in as much disbelief as I had

been and, like me, would want proof. Finally, the

news of a teen werewolf would spread through

the town faster than a flood. Brandon's existence

would ultimately be at stake. Before I told anyone

anything, I needed to know for sure what was

happening with Brandon - if his dreams and

what I thought I'd seen meant that he was,

indeed, a werewolf.

My calendar and my notebook became my

best tools. As the days passed by, I logged all

possible lycanthropic events - the three nights

when the moon appeared full, Brandon woke up

shirtless and covered in dirt. Brandon dreamed a

lot during waning and waxing moons. He was

ravenous during the day. And I noted the shapes

of the moon and circled the date of the next full

moon, which was several weeks away.

Brandon continued to be a loner at school -

keeping to himself in the cafeteria while my

friends and I gathered at the popular table. I was

completely torn up about it. I wanted to go over

and sit by his side. Every other table was

crowded with friends and cliques. I'd be the only

one to break out of the pattern that had gone on

for years in Legend's Run. Most important, I

would lose my best friends if I chose the Westside

over the East. Plus, I worried that Brandon could

change his mind about me at any moment. He

clearly had some strange things going on in his