Surprise with consequence

Esha's POV

"Are you friends now with him?" Clara asked with a glee look on her face.

"Starting" I just said.

"He's hot, as you know, just go with it, Esha, skip friendship" she beamed, "Nah-ah, just kidding."

"It's a bit complicated" I said, "He's new and also we just met him last Friday."

"Everything gotta start with something, anyway" Clara said and hugged me tight, "You'll be fine, I think he'll be a good friend or else, I'll rip him apart."

The last part made me laugh. Didn't Cain said he is a werewolf, what can Clara even do.

The weekend went off like that like blur, I wish I had enjoyed it more but didn't. Cain came Sunday again with mixed nuts. Imagine that? Mixed nuts? Well, I love eating nuts. Just that and to tell me to be careful and look at me which made me feel a bit awkward.

School days are the same. Lessons and all that.

Cain always accompany me home this week. He always break the silence cause I do not feel much like talking cause I don't know what to say. He has a car and well, it's kinda weird cause on his first day, he called someone to pick us up.

I can hear some whispers behind my back during breaks and lunch because no one knew me that much. Such an average girl having a hot guy hanging around.

"Don't bother" Cain said.

"Says the guy with most of these girls always glancing and looking at you" I muttered.

"Are you jealous?" he asked out of the blue.

I scoffed and continued drinking my hot chocolate in a hot summer. Weird? Uhm, I'm used to this.

Clara was having a conversation with her boyfriend and they were like enthralled with each other. So glad about it.

Gellie was not able to join us today again because she has matters to check and look. That girl is always busy.

"You dream" I managed to counter him.

"I got to show you something later, will you come with me?" he asked.

"What is it?" I asked, is this werewolf related? I thought to myself.

"Uh-huh" he said.

This guy really has something with reading my thoughts. Arrrrggghhh!

"Where will you show me whatever that is?" I asked.

"That's a surprise" he said.

"Tsk. Surprises are kind of scary" I said. Well, surprises are okay but I don't feel much okay with as I have these scare jumps most times.

"You'll see" he said, "You won't be scared."

And so everything felt so rushed again and classes are ending.

"Can I speak with you, Miss Mirsten?" our Literature teacher called out to me when I was about to go out along the others.

"Yes, Mr. Corous?"

"The essay you passed was really good and I just want to commend you about it" he said, "By the way, we have an essay contest on England Literature next week at Herin College, would you like to attend?"

Uhm, okay, so I don't exactly remember being good at anything much but my grades are good. No failing ones. Well, I can try this, interesting things are happening to me these days. I don't exactly need these much but why not?

"Uhm, sure, Mr. Corous, I'll give it a try" I answered.

"I know you'll be okay" he said and smiled, "You may go now."

I left and outside the room, Cain is standing leaning on the wall, obviously, waiting for me. I just sighed.

"Didn't know you're such a brilliant student of Lit" he said.

"Nah-ah, just got lucky, I guess" I said.

"You're brilliant, nonetheless" he said.

We went to the school's parking lot when a wave of nausea washed over me, Cain caught me in time before I fall to the cement.

"Hey" he said and was about to carry me but I stopped him.

"I'm fine" I lied.

He assisted me towards the car where I slumped back on the seat when I was in. I closed my eyes and images of that gray wolf with that intensive brightly lit up green eyes popping up. I tried to clear my mind and rest. It's been a week since I had dreamt of that one.

Cain was running his fingers on my forehead, more like little taps. My mind is clearing up along the images of the gray wolf.

I slowly opened my eyes to look at Cain's. Full of worries again. I just smiled without really thinking.

"Gee, thanks" I said and held his hands up for him to stop pitty-patty little taps my forehead even if it is relaxing.

"You're fine now?" he asked.

"Yes" I said, truly that is what I feel, lighter now.

"Uhm, okay" he said, maybe he felt it, too.

He drove towards the direction of their house and the woods after it. He guided me out of the car and we walked inside the woods. Too many tall trees, cool breeze and birds chirping. Are we in Disney land?

He came closer to me and scooped me up, before I protested, he is carrying me.

"Cain, put me down" I said.

"May I just carry you, please? I'm a bit worried you might fall again" he said.

If that's what you say. Never experienced this much anyway, better enjoy it. And I feel a bit tired to be honest.

We were in a clearing now, with lots of violet flowers and some tiny insects flying around, there were yellow and red flowers, too, mixed up together, it looks like sunrise and sunsets. The air here is so relaxing.

"How is this?" he asked, looking at me.

"It's pretty" I answered, he gently put me down and helped me to stand beside him.

I roamed my eyes around and caught some squirrels running around and some rabbits, too. This is too marvelous.

Cain's POV

Esha's eyes were sparkling with glee from the surrounding. I discovered this place from wandering around the house. Well, I'm also inspecting any unsuspected inhabitants as well cause this are still part of the town's woods, where Stephen's pack can be. We mark our territory anyway so I doubt.

Seeing my mate like this is such a joy. I wanted to kiss her but it's just too enjoyable to look at her now, I can settle on that one for now.

Esha was walking around and tried to catch a rabbit. At first, the rabbit was intently looking at her, like studying her. She was about to get it when the rabbit hop off away.

"It's scared" she said.

"Why would you say that?" curious why since naturally, rabbits can get really anxious around people.

"I just felt it" she said. She just sat down and laid on the flowers. Ah, flower bed for her. Such a lovely one. I went to sit beside her.

"It's not scary, this place, I mean" I said.

"Your surprise isn't, that I agree" she said, "But this is still a part of the woods, what if that wolf comes back again?"

"No, it won't, not here, it's now our territory and it won't dare to trespass" I assured her, of course, that wolf won't.

We were like that for some time. I told her about how I found this place and how we travel from town to town. I did not mention the reason why the pack I'm part of, moved here. I won't alarm her. I will protect Esha no matter what.

Esha's POV

We left the clearing soon after and Cain drove me back home. We had to stop though, because of a deer that suddenly stopped on the center of the road.

It's nearing night now.

The deer was not moving even when Cain blew the horn of the car. He went out to shoo it and in the blink of an eye, a massive black wolf, larger than the one who attacked me came down on him. In my panic, I went out of the car to see what happened. I seem a bit dumb right now but what if Cain was bitten and all that?

But he was not. He was freaking holding back. His forearms were blocking the wolf neck. The wolf's growling is fierce.

"Cain!"

The wolf was distracted and Cain was able to pushed it off him. But like a flash, the wolf's stance are up and he started charging at me.

I expected to be crushed but I felt nothing. I opened my eyes cause I was really frightened a while back that instinctively, I had to close my eyes.

The display of a gray wolf is standing in front if me, its back on me. I looked around to see where Cain is but he is not here. Torn clothes are around and I hear the angry growls of the gray wolf.

The black wolf is still but his intense look made me shiver. I can feel the night air. The two wolves started to move like I was not there. The gray wolf, though, was just moving around the area where I am, I had to lean and maybe just cling to the car for my own life.

'Where is Cain?' my thoughts are in disarray right now until I heard it.

'I'm here'

I looked around.

'Esha, I'm here' it's here again 'See, I told you, we are real.'

My eyes shot up to look at the gray wolf near me. His back is still on me.

Just then, the black wolf charged in towards it and they started prancing at each other. The black wolf flipped the gray wolf down and pinned it to the ground. The left paw of the gray wolf shot up and struck the neck of the black wolf. It was able to free itself from the hold of the black wolf. The gray wolf got up immediately and pounced on the other wolf. It was about to land its paw with its claws showing under the moonlight sky when then black wolf pushed it.

The black wolf got up and started towards me. I can't scream, I think my voice is stuck inside. The white wolf was too fast to shove the black wolf on the side before it reaches me.

I heard howlings from afar, when I look to where the black wolf is, it is already gone. The gray wolf now is looking at me. Its golden eyes seems to shine. Then it collapse. I knelt down towards it. Its eyes have this hold like when I look at Cain's.

It dawned on me. That voice a while back was his.

"Cain?" I look at the wolf and touched its fur. It looks weak but maybe it's just tired or something.

Just then, the gray wolf started to convulsed a bit then stopped. The fur started to fall off that I had to backed a way for a meter.

The wolf started to turn, his furs falling and its snout started to changed. Then for like almost 10 or 15 minutes of like a mild to medium trashing on the cemented road, the wolf was shed on Cain's body, the wolf now is like a pile of fur with some flesh, also the skin. It started to turn to a powdery look like when you see in movies and the spirit drifts off. The heap of fur and some flesh disappeared into thin air. It is like looking into fading stardust.

I gasped when I lookdd at a naked Cain a bit curled on the ground beside the disappeared dust or more like just a weird drean. Okay? So how am I able to help him?

He started to move so I stopped on my track. I had to look away cause he is standing up.

"Hey beautiful" he said.

My eyes are still closed. I can feel him walking towards the car and hear some scrunching.

For like almost 5 minutes I look like an idiot, I was wrapped around from behind my back, I can smell the perfume or whatever, scent you call that? Just like the scent only I, can smell from Cain. This is a bit making me feel awkward and a dismssive feeling trying to ve be enclosed.

I do not know but he just had this different smell. Like fully grown grass, ah!, a scent of summer.

"Esha, how do you find my wolf form?"