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Slowly trudging into my room, I throw my bag on the bed and head to the bathroom. Today has been a long day, but the gods have shined on me because there was a gas leak at the school and they let us out early. I know it's not the best time to be happy, but you take what you can get these days.
Arriving in the bathroom I observe myself in the mirror, I actually don't look that bad. When I woke up this morning I felt and looked like trash, but I guess I overreacted. In the middle of looking in the mirror my phone starts buzzing crazy in my back pocket, wonder who can be?
He may be my Grandpa. Every time he goes grocery shopping he always forget what we need, so he'll call and make me walk around to house to see what we need. OR it could be Ida, sometimes the store will have busy days and she'll want me to come in.
"Hello?" I say into the phone.
[on the phone conversation]
L: Hey it's me Lyra
Q: Hey, did you lock yourself out of your house again because I don't feel l-
L: No, that's not why I called I need to know when your birthday is. And that only happened one time, I'm allowed to forget you know.
Q: I know that. Why do you need my birthday?
L: When you filled out the letter for the vet clinic you didn't put your date of birth.
Q: It's 5/25/2004. Why don't you know my birthday?
L: I bet you don't even know mines.
Q: It's on Christmas Day.
L: You only know that because it's a national holiday.
I let out a deep sigh and walk back into my room, "I really think you need to start listening to me more."
"Yeah, I do too. Oh my god you won't believe what happened to Rachel from the cheer team today." I can hear the excitement in her voice.
"Wait Rachel with the red hair?" There's a lot of Rachel's at St. Helena High.
"No, Rachel with the mole."
"On her face." There's also numerous Rachel's with moles. "Stop interrupting me!" She says agitated.
"Sorry, tell me more."
"Rachel was seen kissing Reggie in the janitors closet right after they let us out from the gas leak."
"Who's Reggie?" Lyra lets out a groan.
"Damn it Quinn do you not know anything?" I just roll my eyes as she continues talking. Leaning down I take off my shoes and throw them under my bed. Rising up I let out a huge squeal by what I see from the side of my room.
"... then when they found them, they were totally starch naked I mean how embarrassing is that. I forgot the best part, Reggie wa-." I instantly cut her off.
"Alexander." He looks in disarray, like he was having conflict or something.
"No, I didn't say Alexander I said Reggie. Are you even listening?" I really wasn't.
"Ly, I got to go." Before she could object, I hang up the phone.
"Shouldn't you be a work?" It's 4:00, he usually doesn't get out of work until 6.
"I should be, but I'm not."
"May I ask why?" I question while crossing my arms.
"This whole relationship has been a lie." He say's frantically shaking.
"We've only been dating for like two weeks, we are still learning about each other. I reassure him. "It's alright that we don't know everything about each other."
"No, you don't understand this is something you should've know even when we were just friends." I look at him with a curious look.
"Ummm alright what is it?"
"I can't show you it here." He says panning his hands around my room.
"Show me?" From his behavior, it's getting really weird.
"Ok Alex you're starting to freak me out." I walk up to him cupping his face.
"Meet me in your backyard." He starts to walk away from me, what does he need to show me outside that he can't show me here? This is not how I thought my evening would go.
"It's raining outside." I tell him pointing to the grumbling rain outside.
"Rain never hurt anyone." He responds shrugging it off.
"Alexander I'm not-." He swiftly cuts me off.
"Meet me outside right now." He says in a demanding voice, by the way he's looking at me something inside of me is telling me not to object.
"Fine." I say silently avoiding his gaze. In what seemed like a flash he jumped out of my window. Not he 'jumped-on-a-tree-and-then-landed-on-the-ground' he jumped out a window like a...superhero.
"OH MY GOD ALEXANDER!" I let out a huge streak, panic starts to set in. Is he dead? Did I just witness a death, I'm too young. I pace around my room looking for my phone, turning around I see it's on my bed. The first number I come across is my grandfather's, my finger is just inches away from clicking the call button.
I can't call him, if I do, he'll know I was here with Alexander.
I know in this situation I shouldn't be thinking about myself, but if he's dead I don't want to be dead too. I have to go outside and assess the situation myself.
The only shoes I can find are my rain boots. Putting them on quickly I practically jump down the stairs to my backyard. Once I get there I look below my balcony, I don't see a body. This is not making any sense; how could he survive that jump?
"Quinneth!" I hear Alexander scream my name. He stands in the middle of my backyard under the pouring rain, at this point were both going to get pneumonia. He has no scratches, bruises or broken bones.
"How did you- I don't understand what's going on here!" I scream at him, due to the rain being so loud.
"Just let me explain in a few minutes everything will add up." His curly hair is now straight and dripping wet.
"Fine, could you kind of hurry it up it's hailing out here." No, I'm not being exaggerated its actually hailing out here.
"I'll try! Quinneth from the moment I saw you at that party, I had to get to know you. What you like, don't like and your passions. First, I needed to see if you liked me, which you obviously do. As we kept hanging out the feelings, I had for you grew deeper, deeper than any other girl I've ever been with. With having those feelings for you I want you to know every single dark secret about me. Whether it's good or bad you needed to know the real me. I actually told you everything, well what I wanted you to know at the time."
"Alexander, what are you trying to tell me! You're freaking me out honey." I start to walk up to him; he told his hands up.
"Quinn stay right there; I don't want to hurt you."
"Hurt me! You could never hurt me, Alexander." I keep on walking towards him.
"STOP!" His voice dooms loudly, even over the rain I could hear him loud and clear. In fear of how he sounded I stop dead in my tracks. His head hangs low, it's looks like he's trying to control himself.
"Ale-." Suddenly I stop talking, his head lifts up I gasp at what I see. His eyes change from jet-black with grey specs to golden yellow. It's the same color from the night when he beat up Myers.
"Let me show you who I am, who I really am." He starts to take off his clothes and throw them to the side. In an instant he's stripped naked, when I say naked, I mean naked.
I shield my eyes away from him, "I know that at some point you and I would see each other... you know naked, but not in my backyard and not this soon in our relationship."
"Quinneth just shut up." He says breathing heavy.
"Don't tell me t- AHHHH!" I move my hands from my eyes to see his bones start to break. His nose turns into a snout, canines start to grow in his mouth, feet shift to paws. I try to run away but I slip onto the ground, the rain beats start on my face and body. All of a sudden the cracking stops, I shut my eyes in fear of what I would see.
Minutes go by and I hear nothing. With my eyes closed I feel a sense of someone or something looming over me. I feel heavy breathing on my face, opening my eyes slowly I'm in awe of what I see. A pair of black eyes looks over my face, the creature open it's mouth flashing canine teeth. They are so sharp looking they could slice me in half. I must be dreaming, right?
From the shock I mumble out one word, "We-we-werewolf."