Chapter 14

We stood in the background of the house and there was really a lot of people. Lights were everywhere lightning through the night, as the moon didn't come out yet. The lights were placed to look like an entrance to the woods.

In a swift motion, Jacob lifted me from the ground holding me bridal style. I yelped and glared at him.

"Hey! What the hell is wrong with you?!" I whispered yelled so only he could hear "Put me down." I felt so embraced by his act, my cheeks burnt a bright red. Tingles shot down my body as his arms are holding my back and the back of my knees. I lowered my head so he can't see my flushed face.

"It's a tradition, I have to carry you into the woods. It has to be done right." he whispers into my ear, his hot breath tickling my earlobe sending shivers down my spine making my face redder as I tug my head down more "Don't you ever hide your face away from me" he says tightening his grip around me "Look at me" he growled lowly when I didn't look up.

I hesitantly look up to meet his gaze, and there I see them as they had turned black filled with lust. I had been staring at his eyes captivated by them for a long time that I didn't realize that we had stopped. I look around, we had stopped at a clearing, the people had rounded us, as Jacob stands in the middle. I look up to the sky and see another light lightning the darkness other than the stars, I can see a moon in the middle of the sky and not just any moon, it was a full moon.

As I was looking at it I felt captivated by it, it was like I can't take my eyes off of it. And then a string of pain shot through my body, every second the pain increases. I felt my bones start braking as I heard it too, the sound made me cringe. Then hair started to grow on my skin, Jacob lowered me to the ground but stayed by my side as he promised earlier. My dress started shattering, there was a time when I couldn't contain the pain so I closed my eyes with difficulty as if the moon was keeping me from closing them with some kind of force that only I can feel. I let out a loud cry, a very long one as I started to feel my body smaller, hairy and my cries started to sound more like an inhuman growl.

And suddenly all the pain, all the crises, all the growls it just stopped. I opened my eyes slowly at first I saw a pair of shoes in front of me, I tried to lift my head but it felt weird in a kind of way and I just couldn't do it. Then I saw that Jacob had crouched beside me looking at me with pure admiration. I tried to lift my hand to hold his, but instead of my hand, I saw a paw, an actual wolf paw. I had complex emotions, I was afraid, shocked, confused, curious, but mostly I was kind of... excited. Yes, I never expected myself to feel excited out of all things.

I looked up again but I didn't see the people who accompanied me here, but at there places, I saw wolves. I was a bit afraid of them, so I went to look at Jacob for some confront but there I saw a giant black wolf standing right beside me on the place that not a moments ago was accompanied by Jacob. And then I remembered, I once had a dream about a wolf who looks just like this one, back then that wolf made me uncomfortable and scared but surprisingly this one didn't instead I felt safe around him, I wanted to hide behind him from the eyes of the other wolves, I felt attracted to him in a kind of way.

"Are you okay?" A sound echoed in my mind, it was a masculine voice one that sounded familiar, it was weird it scared me.

"It's okay baby girl it's me, Jacob I'm talking to you through mind-link." I look up to the wolf beside me, he looks into my eyes and nods his head "Could you try to talk to me?"

"J-Jacob?" I said that sounded more like a question.

"Okay, now Melanie I'm going to come near you to help you get up and start walking."

"Okay... Um, d-do they have to watch?" I ask hesitated.

"No, it's okay. You could just tell them yourself."

"But I don't know how."

"Okay, so you have to think of them all, just like you do it with me, focus on them and tell them what you want."

So I did as he said, I tried to focus on the people, it was a little bit hard but I tried, after a moment of concentrating and thinking I said "C-Can you please ... Um, leave us?" And then I heard a lot of voices in my head that said in union "Alright Luna!" Minutes later no one was there, just Jacob and me, that made my heart thump hard against my chest. We were so close that it made me more and more nervous, he lowered his head on my stomach and tried to lift me up. I was hesitant to do so, it felt weird to put pressure on my paws but I managed to stand up on them, my legs felt a little wobbly, Jacob got behind me and started to push me lightly, I took two steps and collapsed on the floor. Jacob came back to help me stand up again.

"I want to stand by myself please." Jacob walked some steps back to watch me, it was strange that he is watching me doing such a thing, I felt myself like a baby learning to walk. It was embarrassing, I'm taking too long to learn to do a simple task like walking, these people are experts in this thing and here I am taking forever to just get up.

"Hey, Hey! you don't have to be embarrassed" Jacob said through mind-link

"It's okay everyone's first shift is hard, I too had a lot of difficulties doing it for the first time. But like I already said don't worry I'm here, I'll help you."

I stopped trying to get up and just stared at him, frozen in my place.

How did he know what I was thinking?

"I can read your mind." He said again.

"But how? I can't read yours, werewolves can't read minds, can they?"

"Baby you were saying it out loud in your head, so it was like you were mind-linking me."

"Oh, okay. So how... how could I just not let you... Um, hear my mind."

"You have to just think of a wall that you put between us, between the pack too."

I closed my eyes and just did as he told me, I tried to put a wall, and I think it went well. I went back trying to get up on my own and my attempts were successful. Then slowly I started to take small steps forward, it felt kind of weird to walk on your fours, but thankfully I didn't fall. Minutes later I started to walk without hesitation as Jacob was walking beside me making sure I was doing good.

"So do you think that we could go for a run. It will be really fun." Jacob's voice echoed in my head, I paused for a moment and looked at him then nodded my head.

"We will go on slowly for you so you won't trip," he said as he started running slowly and I just went on behind him looking on the ground trying not to fall, not paying attention to my speed as I bumped into something and fell to the ground, I looked up and realized that I bumped into Jacob as he also was on the ground beside me. He got up and turned to look at me while I was getting up.

"I think you should be the one on the front, it's better so I can make sure you are safe."

I felt butterflies in my stomach, he wanted to protect me, I always felt safe with him.

I started running again in front of him, and I started picking up my pace taking him out of guard. And then we started racing, it was clear that Jacob was slowing down, he could have beaten me but he was only running closely behind me.

15 minutes later, I felt tired as we reached a small lake. So we stopped there, I sat down on the ground facing the lake, Jacob was walking on the edge of the lake looking at the water, he then lowered his head and started drinking the water. At first, I thought it was weird to drink like that, but then I felt thirsty so I stood up and walked to his side.

"How do you do it?" I mind-linked him, mind-linking is becoming easy for me, and I'm managing to keep my thoughts for me, its a bit hard to keep them from Jacob thought, but I'm trying.

"You mean drinking from the lake?" he asked and I just nodded my head waiting for his answer."It's very easy actually, you just have to lower your head, get your tongue out and with it, you have to get the water, simple! Just like this." he then did just like he told me, and I went on with his lead. I lowered my head got out my tongue and took a gulp of water.

It felt exciting, I got up and started jumping around, I don't know why I just felt happy that I could drink in wolf form. I was jumping around happily as Jacob was sitting on the ground watching me, I was happy for being a wolf, kind of strange but I liked it.