The New Guy

Mystery Man

There he was, just standing there staring at her with his breathtakingly good looks and dark slicked back hair. A million thoughts were racing through her mind but she couldn’t think straight because her heart was beating so fast. Was he dangerous? Why did he smell so sweet and musky? Why was I getting more and more drawn to him the more seconds that passed by?

“Hello” he suddenly broke the silence that seem to have last forever as they just stood there staring at each other. His voice was smooth and charming and she suddenly could tell he wasn’t a danger to her, but he definitely had that bad boy vibe. “My name is Lukah, I am new in town.”

“Are you following me?” Mel stammered out.

“I can see how you might think that, but I did come here looking for you.” Lukah replied in mater-o-factly tone.

“What do you mean you came here looking for me? Why me? Mel said very concerned and shocked.

“You are Melanie Underwood, correct?”

“Actually it’s Melanie Hale, how did you know that name, Underwood?” She hadn’t heard that name in a long time, it was the name of her biological parents but she was adopted by the Hale’s at 6 months old and she didn’t really know anything of her biological parents besides their names and that they tragically passed away.

“You are from the Underwood pack, your parents were very powerful leaders before they tragically were killed. I am from the Conas pack.” He said as if she knew anything about what he was talking about.”

“Pack?” Mel said wide-eyed and confused.

“Don’t you know anything of your past or your parents?” He said with a concerned look on his face.

“No! I have no idea what you are talking about, I don’t know anything about my biological parents besides their names, what is a pack?!?” Mel questioned.

“You descent from a line of werewolves,” he said point blankly.

“Werewolves?, ha you’re crazy, there is no such thing,” she huffed accusingly as she started to turn to walk away.

“Mel?” Just as she turned around and looked up she found Tyler coming to look for her.

“Who was that, are you okay” he could see that she was shaken up.

“No I’m fine, he was just some crazy person who tried telling me he knew my biological family, but he was clearly out of his mind.”

“Would you like to talk about it?” Tyler said concerned.

“No, I would rather not.” Mel said a they walked back to the bonfire that was slowly dying down. “I think I’m ready to go home.”

Tyler took Mel home an kissed her goodnight just before she got out of his truck, just like he always does. Something felt different to her though, the kiss felt different, it didn’t feel like any of the others from the past four years, it felt distant and she couldn’t help but be concerned. She went straight to bed that night in hopes to forget the day.