The Girl Who Cried Werewolf

Blake Foster was only 10-years-old when she stumbled-quite literally-into a young black wolf. Right then and there, they formed a special bond nobody could break.
Blake kept going to meet the wolf, everyday for a whole year when one morning, she accidentally walked in on the black creature shifting into a boy her age.
She was shocked, and so was the boy, until he cracked a smile. He said two words that embedded itself into her head for the next couple of years: "Mate, mine."
She smiled a big smile for the rest of the day, and when she went home, she cried with happiness: "Mama! Papa! I've made a friend! He's a werewolf! He told me himself!"
Instead of getting praised for discovering something so miraculous, people called her crazy, and insane for the next couple of days until her parents had enough of their daughter's foolishness.
They locked her in a cage, like a dog, and only fed her once a day. They kept her outside, in only a plain grey t-shirt, and shorts... even in the winter. Barefooted.
They thought she would learn she was wrong, and that werewolves weren't real; but she never admitted it. She still believed in the supernatural, for years and years.
Blake knew, in her heart, that her friend was looking for her, and when he finds her, he's never letting her go.