The Wolf

"Umm... I was thinking of us watching, "To All the Boys I've Loved Before." She says in a happy tone.

"Cool I'm down I heard it's good." I say as I grab the popcorn and candy while Lyra grabbed the rest and we headed upstairs to my room. I would say my room is rather ordinary, I have a nice balcony where I sit and read books. My room décor is kind of random, it's all colors of the rainbow random pictures and such. We sit on the bed and get relaxed as I grab the remote and turn on the movie.

An Hour and a Half Later...

"Oh my god that was so worth it. The way Lara Jean opened herself to love Peter and they lived happily ever after." Lyra says as she clasped her hands together and rolls her eyes.

I rebuttal Lyra's comment on the movie by saying, "It was a roller-coaster to be honest and If you ask me for my opinion-," I say as Lyra interrupts me.

"I didn't ask for your opinion. "She says in a matter of fact tone.

"Oh shush, I tell her while slightly pushing her over I continue on to say, You know that she really loved the guy that was with her sister Margot. That Is who she wanted for a boyfriend Peter just happened to come along." I say to Lyra while putting the empty bowl of popcorn on the ground.

As I am reaching for my coke by my bedside Lyra goes on to say, "Speaking of boyfriends... when are you going to get one. "I choke on my soda and wipe my mouth off with my red sweat shirt.

"Um... never in my life. "I say in a plain tone.

"Why not you have never had a boyfriend, better yet you have never had your first kiss you are practically a virgin. You need a boyfriend ASAP." She says.

"I am a virgin." I respond back to her. "Lyra let me play some knowledge on you in the words of Cher, "Like desert, yeah. A man is absolutely not a necessity." I tell her.

"Oh, please leave that mumbo gumbo in that barren heart of yours, since It will be like that forever. "She says as she mumbles the last part. "While you sit here alone, I'm going to run downstairs and grab an ice cream bar. Can you close your balcony doors it's cold in here." She says as she runs downstairs to get an Ice cream bar.

I slug myself off the bed to go close my balcony doors. I start to push the door closed when I see something off in the distance, it looks like a figure. I open my doors and walk fully on the balcony and stick my neck out to look a little further. To my dismay it's a wolf. From what I can see it has piercing green eyes and jet-black fur. I almost want to reach out and touch it. It's head moves from side to side as if it's trying to tell me something. I jump in fright as I hear my phone go off.

I run to my bed to see what it is, a message from Myers, gosh I forgot I was texting him. The message read, "I know we don't know each other that well, but would you want to maybe hang out sometime?"

I freeze for a few seconds trying to figure out my next move. A guy has never asked if I wanted to hang out before, heck no guy as even pegged attention from me. I know my answer.

Q: "Sure let's go to burg-oh-wow or something."

M: "I'm down with that. I'll text you with the details."

I drop my phone back on the bed to run back to the door. When I enter back onto the balcony the wolf isn't there anymore. Man, I wonder where it went, I shut the doors and lay back on my bed waiting for Lyra to come back.

Me and Lyra spent the rest of the night talking about the movie and Jack of course. Before I knew it, we fell asleep.

4 Hours later...

I wake up in fetal position with the covers draped over my body. I rub my eyes to get a clearer vision of my surrounding which isn't working. Slowly my eyesight clears I look around my room for Ly. She must have left a few hours ago I wonder why she didn't wake me usually she does. I roll on over to get the dishes and put them in the kitchen when I hear a crackle sound under my elbow.

I pick it up to see a note from Lyra saying, "You looked peaceful sleeping, see you tomorrow at school love you." I smile from the note I put it in my back pocket and stumble on down the stairs sleepy to put the dishes in the sink. I rub my throat with my hands, it feels dry I grab some orange juice from the fridge and guzzle It down vastly. I sit the Orange juice on the counter to lean over and grab a napkin to wipe my mouth off when as I am doing that I jump in fright as I turn around and see my Grandfather with a baseball bat in his hand.

"For the love of life Grandpa what are you doing?" I asked with my hands up in surrender.

"I thought you were a killer or something, child what are you doing up so late." He says in his Grandfather tone of voice.

"No Grandpa I was bringing the dishes down to the kitchen, and I needed a drink of orange juice because my throat was dry.

"Oh, alright you just scared the life out of me." Grandpa said as he rested the baseball bat against the wall.

"Sorry I didn't mean to." I say.

"It's ok Quinneth you know your mother used to come down here every night to get a drink of orange juice." He says as he looks down at his feet.

"Really!" I say. He doesn't really talk about mom all the time it makes him to sad.

"Yeah... Uh I'm going to go back to bed you go on back up to your room and get a good night's rest." He tells me as his eyes look away from me and focus on the ground.

"OK, Grandpa, I say as I put my hand on his shoulder, I miss her too." I kiss him on his cheek and head on up the stairs to bed.

I close my door and lay on my bed and look up at the ceiling. I miss my mom all the time she was like my best friend and the best mother a daughter could have. I always wonder what my life would be like if my mom and dad didn't die. Would we still be living in St. Helena or in some bigger city? These questions rake my mind over and over again. I look towards my balcony door again to see if the wolf is back, he's not there.

There was something about that wolf I don't know what it was, but it gave me a feeling of comfort yet fear which is weird. I haven't felt that kind of comfort since my mother and father died. I lift my butt off the bed to take my pants off and threw them in the hamper next to my closet. I turned over and drifted off with the last thought in my brain, comfort.

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