One Night Under the Moon

CHAPTER 4

In Kindergarten, the other kids' parents have been reporting to teachers how Jake bullies the other kids during play hours and talks about their toys, "he is so much stronger than the rest of the kids, and it's not even as if he's a big baby," the teachers would tell Kelly.

During every parent and teacher's association meeting Kelly's dad who represented him as she was still in college, would always get attacked by the other parents for Jake's behavior.

Kelly finished high school and made it to college, and she still has not heard from Jacob, he probably does not know he has a son somewhere, and what if he's not even alive, she thought to herself sometimes, when she remembers him.

It's even more difficult for her to get into a relationship when her love interests find out she has a child.

This finally turned her down. She wept all day and almost cursed the day she met with Jacob. The scenario has led to a disaster due to unforseen circumstances.

Kelly begins hiding the fact that she has a child, from her love interests and leaves Jake at home with her mother who raises him like her own, while Kelly finishes college.

Martha Carson, Kelly's mother, and Jake's grandmother begin receiving messages about how strong Jake is for his age.

At 14 years old, Jake was faster than the biggest boys on the baseball diamond, imagine a fourteen years old hitting a home run on a professional baseball diamond, people started to pick interest in him and Jake began getting offers from scouts who wanted him to play for their local baseball team.

"Mom, Mom, would you believe I hit seven home runs today?" Jake came home one evening telling Martha, his grandmother whom he calls mom, while Kelly is away at the University of California in Berkeley.

The next day, scouts came to the house to look for him but he was out playing with friends.

"Mrs. Carson, our academy would like to take Jake with us to play for our team, but first he would have to go through some medical examinations and then we hand him a contract," the scouts said to Kelly's mother, they can't seem to stop talking about how strong and fast Jake is for his age.

At some point, she began to notice hints that seem like they have doubts about the fact that Jake is fourteen years old.

Because of this reason, Martha Carson decides to reject the offer, knowing fully well that if Jake catches wind of this he may never talk to her again.

Just as she had predicted, somehow Jake find out on the playground that his grandmother had rejected an offer from a baseball academy in Houston.

"Bro, why did your grandma reject an offer that would have started your way to play for the Astros?"

"What do you mean man, I didn't get any offers," Jake replied.

"Are you serious right now, she didn't tell you?" another boy, the brother of the first boy asks Jake.

"Oh poor dude, look, Jake, my Dad works for the academy he asked me why you would reject such an offer and I told him I have no idea and I'll have to ask you whatever your reason is," the first boy speaks again.

"I did not reject any deal bro, no academy reps came to my house dude, my granny would tell me," Jake defends.

"Would she now?" the first boy asks again.

That's when Jake's decided to run home and confront his grandmother about it.

"Why would you do that?" Jake bursts into the kitchen screaming, slamming doors, and hitting the kitchen aisle and whatever other furniture he could find.

"How the hell am I supposed to make it to the Major Leagues like this, when you keep rejecting offers that come for me, what joy do you derive from that?" Jake screams at his grandmother, Martha Carson.

"Listen, baby, you need to finish with the school before you can take this baseball dream very seriously, I know you have abbey strong passion for the game but what if it doesn't work out, what if you don't make it to the Major Leagues, I mean not everybody can be Derek Jeter you know," Martha tries to pacify her grandson.

"I know I can make it to the MLB grandma, I know, there's no better batter in my age grade in the whole of Dallas, I know what I'm saying because I've searched for them and I haven't found any yet," Jake still fuming, tried to prove to his grandma that she made the wrong decision.

Martha Carson does not tell Jake that the real reason she did not let him go with the academy reps is that she suspects there must be something strange about him.

Martha and her husband have discussed the matter several times and Mr. Carson already started making research into their grandson's strange behaviors.

First, he sleepwalks but that's not such a strange thing, but then during the end of the month he tends to leave a lot of hairballs around the house, the tub has to be cleaned of hair all the time, but then at any other time, there is not so much hair around the house.

Jake is very hairy but Kelly said his father Jacob was a very hairy person, but then the weird part is that he also spots hair on his palms I and had already started growing a mustache at fifteen years old.

Jake is very fast and strong for his age, they never told him this but when he was about six years old, Mr. Carson and Martha Carson had caught him carrying his bed up with one hand to find a baseball he accidentally threw under the bed.

"Don't say that Tom, those do not exist, it's just folklore," Martha tells her husband.

Tom Carson responds, "How then do you explain all of these strange behaviors, what if he has already turned and we don't know?"

"What if he has, what are you going to do about it, hand him to the government to run their terrible experiments on him like a lizard, as they did to all those black people in Tuskegee, Alabama?" Martha asks her husband, still finding it hard to believe that their grandson may be a werewolf.

"No of course not Martha, I can't let my blood go through such a terrible fate, but it would still help to know before it's too late..."

Martha Carson cuts him halfway, "Maybe we can take him to the cathedral, I know one of the fathers there, I read that priests can exorcise werewolves just like they do demons, but, but I refuse to believe our grandson is, a…I can't even say it."