The girl next door

Rhayne's pov

We just moved to a new town. Our house was basically bordering the woods which was quite nice, except now I'm one of the new kids in town with no friends. Anyway we moved into our new home on Friday morning. The house has four bedrooms, one was made into a guestroom, two were on the first floor and the other two were on the second floor, one facing the back and one facing the road. I got the room at the back, it faces towards the woods as well as my neighbour's house. I had a lot to unpack and at the end of the day I was truly tired. So I took a shower and went straight to bed afterwards.

I was having quite a nice dream when i suddenly heard someone scream. Jolted awake by the scream, mad as can be, I thought to myself who the hell is watchingo horror movies at 2am in the morning! Don't get me wrong I like horror movies, but really 2AM in the freaking morning! I knew it wasn't in my house that that scream came from so I peek through my window and sure enough the light in the room of my neighbor was on and the balcony door wasn't even shut.

While I was grumbling to myself, I saw her, my new neighbor. She's cute I thought, but then I saw her wipe her eyes. Wait is she crying? Could that scream not have been from a movie?

She didn't stay outside long and soon her room was dark, she must have gone to sleep since it's quiet now. Wonder if she closed the door this time, jip she did, that's good.

I wonder why she was crying, with that in mind I fell back asleep.

The next morning I woke up at 10am, first thing I did was check next door to see if I could see her again, but unfortunately that was just wishful thinking. So I got up and got ready for the day, there was still a lot to unpack. I went downstairs to grab something to eat and then returned to my room to finish unpacking.

It was around 3pm when I finished and so I went to my balcony. When I got there, I looked out at the woods and I could feel it calling to me. So I told my parents and little brother that I was going for a run and they told me to have fun and be careful, I also invited my little brother to join me but he declined since he was enjoying his games too much. So I just went by myself.

Once I got abit further into the woods I striped down, placed my clothes under a tree between its roots, don't worry I brought a plastic bag with me which I placed my clothes in and then I changed into my wolf form. Yes I can change into a wolf and no I'm not a werewolf, I'm a hybrid, a mix between a wolf and a vampire. No the sun doesn't burn me nor do they burn other vampires. Normal vampires would only now and then get a heat rash when they stay in the sun for too long or maybe get a headache. And no they don't only live off of blood, they can eat human food. They only need to feed on blood at least ten times a month. Well there are those who prefer to only drink blood and indulge themselves in it. As for me I don't have to worry about heat rashes or having the need to drink blood thanks to my wolf. And I have only drank blood once when I was young, wasn't really meant for me, I prefer food.

My wolf is pure black with the tips of my ears, tail and paws being white. I'm quite large in my wolf form. Even against other werewolf's I stand out a lot. It's the reason why we had to move, because it seemed that the alpha of our previous pack felt threatened by me, even though I have no interest in the position of the alpha.

Once I changed into my wolf form I took off into a sprint. I ran for sometime, feeling very free when I suddenly got a sniff of a tantalizing sent, which made not just my wolf howl in delight but also brought my vampire nature to the front, both of them growling mine at the same time. Now I was rather surprised because my grandmother told me I might not find my true mate since I'm a hybrid, but right now I'm tracking the sent of my mate and I'm truly looking forward to meeting them.

In my excitement of discovering my mate, I ran full speed and soon I could see her, she was sitting under the huge tree which had its brunches hanging down.I think it's a willow tree, but that doesn't matter for my attention wasn't on the tree, it was on my mate. She had her head down reading a book, her long dark brown hair was cascading down her back and over her face, hiding it. I wish I could tuck it behind her ear so that I could see her face clearly, but luckily she did it for me. From her body built she looks quite small compared to me who is 6'3 in height but it doesn't matter to me, as long as I can be with her or at least thats what I'm hoping for.

When I tried to get a little closer to her, she suddenly looked up and straight at me, that's when I notice it! She's my next door neighbor, the one from last night.