Chapter two

Four years later

I stare at myself in the mirror, stunned. I couldn't believe my eyes...

I was a freaking werewolf! How is this possible! I was freaking out, but needed to keep it down because I couldn't risk my parents finding me in this position, not after Shawn laughed at the idea.

A few weeks ago, my group of friends were once again in awe at my "superpower", that's what they liked to call my ability to run faster than the common human, my super strength, and my super hearing, let's not forget my fast healing. My parents, when I just started living with them officially, they were stunned at my abilities, which made me feel uncomfortable and weird, so from there, I tried to keep a low profile, but I don't always succeed because I love running and that wasn't a secret. At first, I wanted to enlist in the school team, but I knew it would bring unnecessary attention to me and I didn't want that.

But sometimes I get over-excited and carry myself out stunning everyone in my team class.

"If I knew any better" started Shawn, "I'd say you are a werewolf, or a vampire" says and he and the rest started laughing so I laughed too, but once I arrived home, I started researching on the subject. There were pages that described things that never happened to me, but most of them talked about super-strength, super-speed, and super-hearing.

It was crazy, but it added up to the things that have been happening to me for the last four years. I was different and I knew that, my parents knew that, but they never commented on it, at least not in front of me.

I didn't want to become like those crazy people that they thought were some mythological creatures, or like that man that acted like a rat in New York City, but couldn't keep ignoring these anomalies.

So without my parent's knowledge, I would take their car and drive to where it all began. I would go to that forest where I fell over the cliff and run through it. And once I run the first time, I couldn't stop. I loved how my feet seemed to fly over the ground and the feeling of freedom I felt every time. That forest brought some familiarity I've been lacking forever, it made me feel connected to something, and I knew I had to find out what.

I would run through the forest, calling out "my wolf", but nothing ever happened, so I gave up, until today, when I allowed to fully think about my lost family finally after all these years. Normally, I would avoid thinking about them because I would always end up crying and my chest would hurt. But it seemed to work, because the next thing I knew my bones were cracking and my body trembling, my whole body in pain, until I stood on my fours feet- I mean... paws.

Now, how the hell do I shift back to my human form? Me being in a wolf's body felt extremely weird and foreign.

<> I chant in my head, but nothing happens. I could feel something else, in my mind, and it was unsettling. Was that my wolf? Could it speak? Didn't know.

I close my eyes and picture myself in my human form and all of a sudden my body started trembling, and holding back a scream, I was on my knees, naked, on the floor of my room breathing heavily.

The image of my naked body on my room's floor in front of the mirror brought me back to that night four years ago, when I woke up naked. Maybe I was in my wolf form when the accident happened. That would explain the mystery.

I take in a breath, as if I've been running for hours. My body felt exhausted.

I stand starting to put some clothes on, but stopped when I felt... something. Something was different, and I knew there was no way back to my normal self. I could feel my wolf, like, somehow, my brain finally acknowledge something that was always there but didn't know even existed.

I wonder how I never felt my wolf before? Why now? Maybe because I accepted the fact I am a supernatural creature that is not supposed to exist?

I wonder if my biological parents were werewolves too.

Deep in thoughts, I look out the window, down at the car parked just outside the house. It was getting darker, but I didn't mind, darkness wasn't a problem for my supernatural eyes.

Now that I'm accepting the fact that I am a supernatural creature, I feel empowered, invincible, this urge to run overcomes me. I change into a dress that will be easy to take off, put some sandals on and run down the stairs with my purse.

"I'm going to Anna's" I yell grabbing the keys of the car but before I could open the front door, mom appeared from the kitchen.

"At this hour? Riley, it's late, and tomorrow you have classes" says with a hand playing with the little hair she has left. Cancer was doing its damage, but she refuses to give in to the illness. I just couldn't allow myself to think about what not getting the chemo was doing to her body.

I insisted to her to do it, but she says she is already old, and getting the chemo would only make her weak and sick and that she wanted to enjoy these last years. If she didn't die today, she would in the next years. She was now eighty-two but seemed way too young because she still could move with no help.

I wanted to scream at her. I wanted to be selfish and force her to get the chemo treatment. I wanted more years with her, it's only been four years with her, which it's nothing at all, but I didn't want her in pain and suffering either, so I kept my thoughts and opinions to myself, enjoying every second I get with her.

"I know, but her dog destroyed part of the project and needs help" I lie, feeling the guilt tighten the strings of my heart. I didn't like lying to my parents, but I would hate for them to reject me once they know I am a freak, someone that shouldn't exist.

She sighs, as if it pained her every time she has to let me go to school or somewhere else. But she also didn't want to hold me back. But she knows I can take care of myself.

"Just, don't stay too long. Okay, dear?"

"Yes mom, I love you" I say giving her a kiss and a hug. I do that every time I leave the house because I can never be too sure that she'll be there, okay and alive once I come back.

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I drive fast, not wanting to arrive back home late. Well, too late, that is.

I park in a secluded area. Making sure there's no one around, I take my clothes off and start to concentrate in my wolf. I call for it, or her, and I picture the image that the mirror showed me.

My heart starts beating fast when my bones started cracking and my body trembling and once again, I was standing on my four paws.

Suddenly, a rush of adrenaline and excitement fills my body and I bark, jumping around happy. Knowing what my wolf wanted I started running to full speed. Feeling her excitement.

I felt bad for her. She was hidden from me for four years. I ignored her existence for far too long.

Overcome with joy I howl loudly without expecting a reply. My whole body stops when I hear another howl. My heart started thumping erratically and suddenly, my body was running toward the howl.

I howl again, getting a howl back. It was like that until I see another figure up ahead in the darkness. I stay still, not knowing what to do. With my excitement of finding someone just like me, I didn't think of the danger.

On instinct, I lower my ears, my tail tense and walk slowly to the unknown wolf. The wolf was smaller than me, and once we were close enough, it barked at me in a playful manner. I straightened myself and barked back. The wolf turns around and I follow, starting a game of chasing. We would start baiting to one another pushing each other, barking and howling. I never had so much fun in my life! I felt like a baby- I mean, like a pup.

I don't know how long we went like this, playing with each other, but suddenly another wolf howled and the wolf that was with me howled back and looked at me and I knew she needed to go back home.

I take that as a cue to go back to the car, which took me a great amount of time, which made me nervous. I promised mom I wouldn't return too late.

When I return my parents were installed on the couch watching an old telenovela. They would always stay up late at night, they explained that old people needed less sleep.

My mother just stared at me with worry, but I calm her giving her a watery kiss on the forehead at which she complains at the time and dad and I laughed. I take my pre-heated food up to my room and eat it staring at my poster wall that shows a photo of the wild taiga forest in northern Russia. For some reason, I have an obsession with that forest. I just imagine the wildness there, the flora and animals and how magical it would be to take photos of them. It's a dream for me to go there.

My parents have offered me to pay me for the trip, but to be honest, the thought of leaving them freaked me out. I had already lost one family, I wasn't about to lose another one. And they couldn't go with me because, well, they wouldn't be able to catch up with me, so I just been saving money in case I get the guts to go there.

Besides, I'm sixteen, I have a lot of years to go. Anyway, I will rather be out of school before doing anything.

An hour later, my eyes start to close by themselves so I prepare to go to bed and before falling asleep, I thank for my parents and my new discovery.

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