Rules & Questions.

Rules.

Damn rules.

I'm willing to break them.

One by one if necessary.

I sigh as I walk through the cemetery towards the wing of graves reserved for pack members, I look carefully at the strange names and some are even funny, but I try not to laugh out of respect for the dead, but there are names that don't cooperate. As I walk between the graves, something catches my attention, something not, being more specific someone familiar, I walk towards the blonde who was looking intently at a nameless grave, with absolutely nothing, just the blank headstone.

- Shouldn't you be going to school? - I ask without warning of my approach, but she is not scared and given her posture so calm and relaxed I could even say that she expected my approach, but it would not be possible for her to have noticed me.

- And shouldn't you? -answers my question with another question and I smile, stopping beside her, receiving her look and corner smile with an arched eyebrow.

I like it.

I don't understand, but when she does it it's different, I don't know how to explain or define what's going on with me.

She sucks, but she's got something and that particular way of looking at her feels inviting.

As if involuntarily with this action she made me automatically stay even if that was not my intention.

- Okay, I think I'll rephrase my question. - I say and she turns around looking at me intently with an expression of amusement. - What do you do in a cemetery at seven in the morning? - I ask and she puts her hand to her chin pretending to think.

- I was waiting for you to go out there on a magic carpet flying singing " an ideal world. " - she answers mockingly, but it's not a rude mockery, it's more of a mockery in a mocking tone. - What do you do in a cemetery at seven in the morning? - returns my question again and I roll my eyes knowing she won't speak until I speak first, at least I want to believe that.

- I'm trying to find a relative's grave. I answer and she arches an eyebrow.

- I see you're back to being my lonely and curious wolf. - he jokes and I smile.

- Since when am I yours? - I ask and she smiles. - Where is that part of the date, meeting the parents and all those catch-ups that never work? - I ask amused and she rolls her eyes.

- It's cool. -She replies, still smiling and before I say something she speaks again. - Baby, I'm not Aladdin, but I want to show you how beautiful this world is. - complete making me laugh and at the same time leaving me in disbelief.

- I don't know what makes me more incredulous if it's you're practically making it clear that you like Aladdin a lot to the point of making jokes with references to the drawing. - I say and she crosses her arms looking at me with an expression of amusement. - Or if I'm in disbelief that you make me a line like that, I expected more for someone of your level. - Completely amused and she arches an eyebrow looking at me seriously.

- Someone my level? - He asks and I sigh.

- Yes, someone of your level. - I answer and she bites her lower lip and then nods frowning.

- I think I'm in disbelief with your lack of words to describe my person, but I understand you, it's not always that you find someone like me. - She says amused and I roll my eyes, shaking my head, diverting my attention from her to the blank grave.

She also turns her attention to the grave, but every now and then I feel like she's watching me and so I look at her, I contain the urge to smile to see that her tight dark blue jeans contrasting her curves, thighs and full butt, boots black with not too high heels and the long-sleeved blouse with a slit collar makes me smile in the face of its non-repetitive and different style.

- They say this tomb belongs to a witch. - says and then I get out of my personal analysis of her and look at the grave.

- The graves that were supposed to be witches are marked, so there's no way this is a witch. I say and feel her gaze on me.

- Maybe this is from someone they didn't want people to remember since it's blank. - she says and I look at her just now noticing how her blue eyes are even more beautiful and reminding me even more of the sea of ​​Tenerife. - However they exaggerated the illustration of a guy's grave up front, you should check it out. -she completes pointing to a spot in the wing reserved for my family and I notice the wolf statue highlighted.

- I think you should go with me, because I don't want to leave our magic carpet, I still haven't sang my song of revolt, but I'm dying to scream to the world that no one shuts me up. - I say amused and she smiles.

-I think the right song for you is "if the waves really open for me, one day I'll know who I am."-She says quoting the theme song from Moana's cartoon. -But I feel that at some point you'll go around singing "I'm free, I'm free, they won't hold me back."-She jokes and I smile.

- Okay, miss of the lines and jokes with Disney cartoon songs, I understand that you are the expert in this, I promise I won't try to steal your number one fan patent anymore. - I joke and she looks at me with an accusatory expression while smiling.

- I think it's good wolf. She says with her eyes closed and I smile again.

- Go ahead and watch the cemetery. - I scoff and she lets out a nasal laugh.

- All right, cemetery concierge, but don't try to steal poor John's gravedigger vacancy, he needs this job, okay. - mocks and I show her the middle finger while smiling and she returns as we walk in the direction she pointed.

We walk in silence while I look around at the different names and surnames on the tombstones, including my grandparents', I go to the tombstone, deviating from the path indicated by the blonde who accompanies me still in silence, I stop in front of the grave seeing the council mark and I get confused wondering why this mark would be on my grandmother's grave. After all as far as I know she died in a car accident and this council mark is often used in unpleasant situations, like when my father marked the skin of two girls with a hot iron etching the council mark so they would always be remembered as "traitors to the natural order."

- Cassandra Blackwood. - says Pandora, stopping beside me.

- It's my grandma. - I say looking at her death date just one year after my birth. - She died a year after my birth. - complete touching the board mark.

- Have you been here before? - he asks and I deny it.

- I don't really like these things, so I always stay out. - I answer looking at her while I think that maybe my mistake could be that I never came here before.

- A pentagram with an inverted moon, interesting. - She says analyzing the symbol of the council. - Does it have any special meaning? - he asks looking at me.

- No, just family stuff the kind I tend to ignore. - I answer and she nods with a shrug leaning down a little to touch the symbol. - Don't tell me you're trying to make a call with the dead. I joke and she looks over her shoulder at me.

- I prefer to talk to the living, but I don't mind a bit bothering the dead when it's necessary. - she says amused and I smile as she looks around attentively. - There's another symbol like that over there. -she says pointing to a grave further ahead and I go there.

As I stand in front of the grave, I see that it is the grave of a girl from the pack who received the death penalty a few years ago.

"Hanna Zucchini."

Died for spreading the seed of evil around as my father used to say, she was part of a group of girls who believed in the tale of the witch who cursed our clan a thousand years ago, I was thirteen when I saw her mutilated alive by members of the advice and her screams echoed in my dreams for months, it was horrible.

- There's the same symbol on her grave. - says Pandora approaching. - I think this must have some specific meaning and that you should know about it. - complete and I sigh.

- I don't know if I want to know. - I say amused trying to contain the bad feeling that the avalanche of thoughts and assumptions in my mind is causing.

- Well, you can't run away from everything in this life, sometimes you just have to stop and face things head on with courage even if you're scared or afraid. - She says calmly shrugging her shoulders. - Knowing is not always the problem, the problem and deciding what to do with all that later, because once it enters your mind, there is no going back. - She completes looking at me and for a moment I think she knows about everything, that she knows who I really am and why I'm here and that she's here to help me in some way.

It's crazy to think that.

But I would love to have someone who totally understands me without me having to speak.

- Come on, let's look at the grave of the wolf statue guy. - she says grabbing my hand to guide me to the place.

This contact gives me that usual weird feeling that I'm almost getting used to, nothing makes sense about my dreams about her or her voice in my head and the fact that she's here right now just when I'm maybe close to breaking pack rules makes me to think that there is some connection between the two of us, but it wouldn't be possible, would be madness.

Although Kai often says that I am madness personified.

Maybe he's right somehow.

- Kasper Blackwood, the " hero " of Mount Holly, born in the year one thousand and twenty-three on the seventeenth of October, he was recognized for doing justice for the families who lost their children killed by Satanist women considered " witches " - says Pandora reading the plaque over the feet of the wolf statue. - He was cheered by the people of that time and nicknamed as the black wolf of justice. She continues and makes a face. - More than a cheesy nickname. - complete laughing while I try to assimilate the information.

A thousand years ago, children, witches and Kasper Blackwood.

The curse doesn't seem as stupid to me as it used to.

What if there's a one percent chance it's real?

What if I'm having visions about a possible realization of the curse?

Not.

Not.

This is madness!

- I think we better leave, this place is giving me the creeps. - I say trying to contain my nervousness and Pandora smile.

- Okay, let's go descendant of the " black wolf of justice. " - he says laughing and I roll my eyes.

- Forget it. I say and she shakes her head. - Idiot. - I say and she nods smiling.

- I can say even more that I'm an idiot doing the idiot dance. - mocks and I feel like punching her.

- Wow, I didn't know idiots were that advanced. - I mock and she laughs as we walk side by side.

- Want a ride to school? -she asks looking at the time on her wristwatch, but specifically on a black applewatch. - We'll be late, but we won't miss the boring algebra class, unfortunately. -she says and I sigh remembering that I'll have to explain my absence to my cousin, he must be crazy standing at the school door waiting for me to show up.

- I want to, but can't I ask you a favor? I ask and she nods. - Can you tell Kai that I was with you all the time? I ask and she makes a face.

- And wasn't it? -she asks amused, stopping walking and crossing her arms looking me in the eyes.

- I was. - I answer and then make a face. - Actually I'm with you still, shit, I got all wrapped up. - I say and she laughs.

- Relax, you want me to lie to him for you, I understand. -she says, walking back and I follow her worried that maybe I'm asking too much. - Don't worry, I'll say that I invited you to go to the library with me and that between one subject and another we ended up losing time. she-she completes and then stops walking and looks around.

- Some problem ? - I ask looking around also trying to understand why she stopped out of nowhere.

- Yes, I'm hearing the spirit of the lie invite me to be your best friend and representative here on earth. - She responds amusedly grabbing my hand and then walks back to guide me in the opposite direction from which we were going.

- Why did we change paths? - I ask confused.

- I remembered a shortcut to get to the exit gate faster that my mother taught me. - responds calmly.

- So this is not the first time you come here. I say and she nods.

- I've come here more times than I'd like. - She says as I see the huge gate ahead.

- I smell fear. I say amused and she looks over her shoulder at me as we approach the gate.

- Because I would be afraid of rotting flesh and a lot of bones under the ground, if what should be feared walks among us so silently and discreetly that perhaps when we close our eyes we may no longer be here in front of each other. - he says and I'm speechless with this observation and I sigh trying to find words to answer it.

- Wow, you know how to cut the mood. - I say as we pass through the gate.

- So there was an atmosphere going on between us and you didn't even warn me? - She asks amusedly and I roll my eyes as we cross the street after she checks that there is no car coming.

- It wasn't in that sense. - I answer and she looks at me.

- Of course not my lone wolf. - She says, amused, turning off the car alarm, smiling in the corner, still looking at me with an expression that I can't decipher.

I think it's better not to even try to understand this expression, I already have too many questions to look for answers, I don't need another one that can come loaded with confusion.

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I sigh for the thousandth time, trying to find the patience not to punch my cousin as I listen to his thousandth sermon as we make our way to the auditorium where the drama class is going to be performing and almost everyone is forced to attend.

- You can't do these things without telling me, my dad said there could be vampires on their way to town and you out of nowhere with Pandora without warning putting yourself at risk and putting the girl too. - Kai says, shaking his head.

- It's not for that. I say and he looks at me in disbelief.

- If you weren't my favorite cousin, best friend and wife I swear I'd get it right now, but I promise that when you have your wolf genes active I'll give you a nice pinch. - he says and I smile.

- Of course you will, I'll even wait sitting down. - I say amused and she bumps her shoulder on mine lightly.

- Idiot. - He says and then looks at me from the corner. - How was being alone with your crush? - he asks and I make a face.

- She's not my crush, but I think we're becoming good friends and hanging out with her was nice. I answer and he arches an eyebrow. – She's funny, sarcastic, also seems to be thoughtful and she somehow always knows what to say, like it's impossible to argue with her about some things. - Completely pensive reminding me of how she made a joke using cartoon songs and I smile.

- So she leaves you speechless? - He asks and then looks at me. - Hey, what's that smile? - He asks amused and I roll my eyes.

- It's a normal smile like any other you give when you remember something funny. - I answer and now he's the one who rolls his eyes.

- So tell me what's the reason for the fun for me to laugh too. - he says crossing his arms and I deny it.

- I'm not obligated to do anything. - I say amused and he rolls his eyes. - Look, you're my favorite cousin and best friend, but you have an annoying habit of throwing me at anyone you think is worthy of being with me. - I say looking at him who is attentive to my words. - But I really don't want anything to do with anyone and even if it got to the point of I don't know, but like I had a sudden crush on someone I'd have to forget it right away, because you and I both know my dad would lock me in a tower if possible and would still end the life of the person I was into. - complete and he nods.

- We know that very well, but we also know that you don't follow the rules and that in a way you are exempt from them because you don't have your wolf genes active yet. - he says and I look at him from the corner. - So make the most of your provisional freedom with this terrible guardian that instead of taking you out of the way of danger does and put you even more in it.

- What do you mean, way of danger? I ask and he sighs.

- Pandora. - he answers and this time he's not making suggestions or insinuations, he's serious. - She is great, beautiful, polite, very nice and has a charm that affects even me being gay. - Says the last part amused and I smile. - But she has something else, something that I can't decipher, I'm not saying that she gives off a bad person vibe, but I think she has a certain attractive darkness and that can be good for you, but it can also be bad. - complete and I get confused.

- Is that some wolf instinct speaking for you? - I ask amused and he shrugs.

- Maybe, or maybe I'm just worrying too much about my baby. - he answers doing a bad imitation of a baby voice and hugging me from the side and then kissing the top of mine.

- Guys, I finally found you. - James' voice catches our attention and when I lift my head to look at him I feel my heart beat so fast when I see a familiar figure beside him.

- Shit, now you've fucked everything up. - Kai says and I look at him who looks at me too.

It can not be.

What is this creature doing here?

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