The Markless

Chapter 6: Learning About Us

Okay, let’s start with….” After a long time which seems like forever we finished before dinner is served. I learned about witchcrafts, Fae’s magic, Elves, Dwarfs, and many more. I don’t want to elaborate things that is more complicated than my life. But what interests me is the part of where Goddess, which is a god that werewolves praised for a long long time, Samantha said she created this sort of imprinting stuff, oh! Not that, hmm, like a fate thingy, a destiny, that a person has a soulmate out there somewhere in this world, a soulmate that completes your whole being, the other half of you. It intrigues me because Ben never said a thing about a soulmate when lecturing about the history of werewolves. It looks like Ben is preventing me from finding out about it, seeing that I haven’t experienced being in love or whatsoever.

I admit I like the thought of me having a soulmate who’s looking for me, but I’m not a werewolf, I’m simply a human with extraordinary appearance that I alone has. Oh, and that ancient paper Ben and Dave-the-jerk was talking about is written in elvish language with some witch’s chanting. Yeah, a bit of a freaky stuff is going here, and Samantha is even more shocked at me knowing that I can speak elvish language. More like I was surprised at myself, Ben and Dave too was shocked that they abruptly stopped for a minute before going back to what they’re doing. I was silently gazing through the window pane when Samantha snaps her finger at me to regain my focus back to the lesson,

“I’m sorry I was thinking about something for a minute,” I smile at her apologizing for getting distracted at my silly thoughts,

“It’s okay, I know it’s a lot to take in just one day, and I’m a bit surprise that you learned all that when I studied this for a whole year,” She exclaimed,

“Yeah, it’s not only that I’m a freak but also a genius one”, I laughed at the sarcastic comment I said to her, yeah, I’m really a weird one,

“Hey, don’t call yourself a freak, you’re not a freak, you’re just special, and if no one recognizes

how special you are I’ll give them a butt kick myself,” Samantha proclaimed staring at Dave who

watched us from the beginning of this lesson,

“Hold up, I’m not saying she’s not special either,” Ben said raising both his hands in surrender ,

“You betcha! Or I’ll give you a beating when we’re done here”, Samantha replied with angst in her voice,

“Hey hey, knock it off, don’t wreck the house,” Ben stopped them while inspecting the walls, Huh? They’re just talking, how could they possible wreck this house? I was lost at my thoughts when a piece of wood falls from the ceiling. Alright, that is creepy and scary. Ben looked at them two annoyingly,

“I told you to stop it, you two will break this house apart in a minute then I will send you two back without a single thought”, Ben warned them,

“Sorry… got carried away..”, Samantha replied bowing their heads as if they did a grave sin

“Sorry..”, Dave muttered then tilting his neck like he’s submitting to him, then I noticed Samantha was doing the same thing, and that’s when I felt it. The heavy atmosphere I’ve been sensing the moment when Ben reprimanded them earlier,

“What is this?”, I said at Ben with confusion flashes before my eyes

“What is what?”, Ben replied through his pressed lips as if he’s telling me not to push his buttons more than it is now

“This awfully dreaded air I’m feeling right now? Or I’m just getting crazy thoughts because ofwhat I discovered I can speak elvish language and on top of that, all of you are ignoring my questions starting from yesterday”, I stated while waving my hands in the air like a crazy woman,

“Oh jellybean I think what you’re feeling right now is the dominance of an Alpha’, Samantha said joining in the conversation while staring down at the floor, I don’t understand why she is speaking with her head down when she can perfectly talk to me like a normal person, “You can raise your head and talk to me like a normal person would you know? And what is this dominance of an Alpha are you talking about? Are you three keeping more secrets from me? Is there more of this?”, I said to her hoping she would raise her head to answer me but she remained bowed down, Dave also remained his head bowed down to Ben, oh jesus christ! I’m really losing my mind at this crazy stunts they’re pulling! And there’s not a single ounce of mercy from them to explain this situation we’re in right now, as I’m walking towards Ben to grab his shoulders and look him in the eyes to tell me sincerely what are they keeping from me, Samantha pulled the hem of my t-shirt to stop me from doing something that I will regret,

“I wouldn’t do that if I were you jellybean, might as well to just calm down and be quiet for a while, this will end in a second once his alpha calms down”, Samantha replied shaking her head, then that’s when it hit me, Alpha dominance, I recalled what Ben taught me, is it really that thing?

Oh god, Is Ben a werewolf? Or they’re just joking and having a good laugh that’s all, then is it really also the reason why he can smell something that I can’t? Come to think of it, when I was lost in the woods when I was 6 years old just because I was having a tantrum moments when he didn’t gave me things that I want. I just remember running through the woods then as luck would have it he found me deep in the forest without any backup from a police, he told me about this accident when I was old enough to comprehend what happened that day, back then I thought he just have skills that humans don’t have such training himself to track someone as far as one healthy adult man could

run, I couldn’t believe it myself that I could run for more than 20 miles for just a mere child like me, but thinking about it now, it all makes sense Ben said that werewolves have heightened sense of smell compared to an average person, they can easily detect a person’s scent miles away from them. Maybe that’s why he effortlessly found me without a doubt. But this is solely based out of my suspicions about Ben, it doesn’t mean that this proves he is one, right?

“Is this some kind of joke? Ben isn’t like that, I’ve been with Ben, and he’s like a father to me, if it is true what you said he is, then he could just have talk to me and confront me about it, he wouldn’t keep any secrets to me,”, I said to them clasping both of my shaking hands together. This is scarier than I thought, Ben wouldn’t do that right? This is just my delusional thoughts getting the best out of me.

Oh, please tell me this is just a dream. That’s when I glanced at Ben to confirm that this helpless situation that I’m in and all of these thought running around inside my head is not true, and this is all just a dream, a dream that I couldn’t wake up from. Ben exchange glances with me, oh dear, there it is, the look in his eyes that this is all true, how can he? I trusted him, then in return he did this to me? I suddenly felt the earth crashing onto me, I couldn’t breath and my head start pounding then I just felt my body falling on the floor and I blacked out again for the second time.