Being One Of Them

Chapter X

Luke sat on the coffee table, in front of Mia. He had already finished wrapping her ankle along with his story. Mia was all ears when Luke was telling his story. She looked at him with sympathetic eyes, she couldn't have imagined being bullied just because he was born different compared to his sister and dad. She had thousands of questions racing through her mind, but she didn't want to make Luke remember those sad days.

"So are you gonna tell me why you were at a werewolf forest during a full moon?" Asked Luke, he was leaning forward while resting his arms on his legs.

This caught Mia off guard, she nervously smiled and looked away in another direction trying to pay attention somewhere else that wasn't him. "You see, there's this girl, her name is Autumn..." She trailed off. As soon as Mia mentioned Autumn's name this raised a red flag. "She has this project for friday and she told she needed a few werewolves pics and uhm" she didn't know what to say, Mia knew that it was so dumb of her to do that, she didn't know Autumn had I'll intentions.

"So you decided to put your life on the line for a few pics?" Luke furrowed his eyebrows in confusion.

This time she was looking at Luke but she looked down in embarrassment; he was right, she could have died, just because of a few pictures. "I know, I just... I didn't think it through".

Luke was mad, not at Mia but at Autumn. He didn't know where his anger came from but he knew he had to talk to Autumn so she doesn't mess with Mia anymore. Autumn was one of the werewolves that after she knew that Luke became a Lycan, she threw herself at her, but Luke completely rejected her, because one: Autumn was one of the werewolves that made fun of Luke and second: because Autumn has an annoying personality and made a 180 after she found out that Luke was Lycan.

"Uhm Luke are you okay?" Mia broke Luke's thought, he didn't notice but his eyes were glowing bright because of his anger.

"Oh yeah, sorry, was kinda lost in thoughts..." he trailed off, a small pause resided before he continued talking "You must be really tired, I'll bring you a sheet so you can sleep, I hope it's enough".

"Yes, it's perfect," replied Mia. Luke stood up and walked behind the sofa and went near Lukes dad's room, next to it was an armoire where he pulled out a bed sheet. Before returning he grabbed his cell phone that was in the kitchen counter and made his way to the living room where Mia was. He handed the sheet to Mia and she made herself comfortable.

Mia grabbed one of the sofa cushions and used it as a pillow. Luke sat in front of the sofa and pulled his phone out scrolling through the different apps he had.

'Hmm is he waiting for me to fall asleep?' thought Mia as she eyed Luke who was focused on his phone, she smiled a little "Are you waiting for me to fall asleep?" She asked.
"Hmm yeah, I thought you wanted some company until you fell asleep" he averted his gaze from the phone to Mia, he saw her smiling and that made Luke a little flustered but he recomposed himself "if you don't want me here I'll just sleep in my room". He started lifting himself up before stopping mid track
"Wha- no no, stay, I like your company" she exclaimed. Luke sat back down.

"Crazy night wasn't it?" The question was mostly for herself she couldn't believe she actually went into a forest full of werewolves and almost died, it almost sounded like a dream but it wasn't.

"Yeah, can't believe you're that dumb to do that" Luke emphasized the word dumb.

"Hey, look, in my defense I..." she didn't have anything to say. "Oh shut up, it's not like I'm dead" she had used her arm as a second pillow to elevate herself a little.

At this point, Luke had his phone turned off and started talking "that's because I saved you" he exclaimed.

"From yourself, 'cause you were chasing me and almost killed me" she laughed a little at the end.

"... yeah you're right" for the first time in a while Luke laughed; they both laughed.
Minutes and hours went by and they talked; too deep into the conversation they didn't care what hour was or if they should sleep. Luke was enjoying the company of Mia, she was the talker of this conversation which Luke didn't mind, he was happy listening to her about how she climbed a tree and thought she could fly because she made an 11:11 wish or how she baked mud cookies when she was 6. He had a small smile at the end of his lips, that he himself didn't notice.

"Why did you think making mud cookies was a good idea?" Luke asked, he was now on the floor sitting crossed legged while resting his arms on top of his legs.

"I was 6, I was just having fun" she retorted in a funny manner.

Mia enjoyed talking to Luke, she knew he was really quiet, he would make comments here and there, but she didn't mind, he didn't want to push Luke to talk if he didn't want to. She enjoyed seeing his small smiles and a few laughs here and there whenever she talked about her childhood. Sure she wanted to know about Luke but she wasn't gonna pressure him.
More hours passed by and Mia fell asleep, Luke sat there staring at her sleeping form for a few seconds. Deep down he wanted this to last just a few more seconds even minutes, but he didn't want to make her uncomfortable in case she wakes up out of nowhere.

He quietly stood up and left to his room. He laid down on his bed and recalled everything that happened today, a few frowns here and there but when Mia came into the picture a little smile was painted on his face and before he knew it he fell asleep too.