A White Moon

A New Friend and An Announcement

When all the wolves have disapered in the trees I sense someone to my right, I look and beside me on the porch is a giant red-brown wolf with big brown eyes. I sigh at the irony.

“You’ve got to be kidding me.”

“Sorry, I’m not.” Jake’s voice reply. He looks EXACTLY like in Twilight, like Jacob’s wolf!

“You have seen Twilight right?”

“Yeah. Thought about changing my name. Can’t really change my wolfs color.” His big wolf snort.

“I think it’s cool that you look like him.”

“I know, I’m a total badass.”

“Can we go for a walk while we wait?”

He stands up and nod his head once. I get up and we start walking around the house. “So, do you and John have more siblings?”

“Yes, we’re four years apart and we have a sister in the middle.”

“Cool, I’m also the youngest.”

“Yeah and you’re still six years younger than me.”

“Six? That means you are eighteen. And John is twenty-two?”

“Nineteen and soon twenty-three. You’re almost thirteen Elle.”

“Oh yeah. Not there yet though…”

As we talk we round the house and comes out to the backyard where a feast have been set out, waiting for when the pack comes back. There are fairy lights along posts all around and there are tables with red and blue flower arrangements. A long table in the front of the house is where the ranked members are sitting.

“How long are you ‘stuck’ with me?” I ask Jake, while turning around to look at him I see a smaller red-brown wolf come running above his shoulder. He hears it too and turn around, huff and let out a low growl. The other wolf stop in front of us and drop something on the ground. I notice it is a grey dress. I look at it then back at the wolf that is no longer completely a wolf but starts to become a girl-woman with long red-brown hair. She then snatch the dress up, step into it and pulls it up.

“Hey little brother.” she say with a wink while she walk past him and turn her back at me “Will you zip me up please?”

I pull the zipper up. “Done.”

She turns around and smile at me “Thanks! I’m Jill.”

“Elle.” I greet. She seems nice and she start talking to me immediately.

She walks, and keeps talking, me over to a bench and we watch as a few Omegas continue fixing the last couple of things. Jake sit down beside me and the bench. He never stops letting his eyes wander the surroundings.

“Don’t think that I’ll forget that you didn’t answer my question.” I tell him when Jill pause, to take a breath. “Your sister sure can talk. A lot.”

“Yes, she can. And I wouldn’t think of it. But it’s you and me kid. At least till you find your mate, then maybe I’ll get a different assignment? Logan said ‘we’ll see’.”

Just when I’m about to ask what it means we hear a lot of voices coming around the house.

“Finally! I’m starving!” Jill exclaim excitedly.

Dora see me and smile. I get up to meet her and we walk hand in hand to the table. Logan is right behind us. He pulls out a chair for Dora, she kiss his cheek and sit down. Logan then pull out the chair to her right for me. I sit down and look back at him “Thank you.”

“You’re welcome sis.” He says and kiss the top of the mop of white that is my hair.

Then he sit to Dora’s left. Jake lays down behind me on the floor. There are a lot of people around but we are all safe so he does not need to be on high alert. I turn around and give him a smile, that he just snorts at.

The buffé is served and everyone takes a plate of food. I go and grab a plate “Want do you want Jake?”

“Huh? What do you mean?”

“Well.. I’m grabbing a plate for you-“

“You don’t have to do that. I’ll just grab something later.”

“Okay. Then I’ll chose for you.”

I hear him sigh behind me. “Nothing with sauce, too messy… or spicy, our stomach can’t handle it.”

I fix him a plate with different things and completely overload it. When I come back to the table with the plate everyone stare at me with wide eyes. When I place it on the floor behind my chair I hear the laughter of relief.

“What? You didn’t think I would eat all that?” I say and wink at them while Jake jumps at it so fast; food goes flying to the sides.

“Pig. Maybe you’ll end up choking on it…”

His wolf snorts. “Ha-ha.”

I go to grab a plate for myself and then join Dora, Logan and the others at the table. When we’re finish eating, and almost every wolf present have grabbed their third plate, people began moving around to mingle. I cruise the crowd with Jake by my side.

“Elle!” I hear a voice behind me call out. I don’t recognize it but I turn around to see a blonde girl in my age, and here I’m thinking I’m the only “kid” present, guess not.

She is so pretty, I see that she have a thin layer of freckles, she is a bit taller than me and have a pink and white dress. “Hi, my name is Ellie, I’m fourteen. I wonder if we maybe could become friends, there is not that many girls in our age. Most are either seventeen and up or ten and down…”

“Sure. But just so you know, I’ve never had a friend before.” I chuckle. She seem surprised but recover fast.

“There’s a couple of swings down this way. You want to get out of here?” she points her finger behind me and I turn but can’t really see any swings. I look at Jake but he just seem bored.

“I’m guessing swings don’t interest wolves?”

“How could you tell?” he reply. We walk away from the party a bit but still close enough to still hear it.

“So, what’s up with your hair? When you got here it was black now it is bright blonde kind of whitish. It’s really cool both ways! I wish my mom would let me dye my hair!”

I figure that I don’t need secrets so I tell her about father and that he was abusing me, that the black hair made it a little bit easier to get around the everyday life.

As I tell my story I hear Jake growl where he lays on the ground about three meters from me. I guess he doesn’t like my history. Although there isn’t anything I can do about it now.

“He’s an asshole.” Jake mutter in my head.

“Well, Jake. I can’t say I disagree. But he loved my mother at some point and she loved him. Very much.”

Ellie just stay quiet. I find myself looking for a change of subject.

“Ellie, tell me about your family!”

She looks down in the sand for a couple of seconds before answering. “It’s just me and my mom, and two sisters. Dad was killed by rouges on patrol about five years ago.”

“Oh.” I say looking down. “I’m sorry.”

“Oh no. It’s okay, I miss him terribly and I would rather have him here but I know that he’s not in a bad place since he’s with the Moon Goddess.” She gives me a weak comforting smile.

“Elle. There’s dessert now.”

“Dora says that there’s dessert now.” I say and hop off from the swing. Ellie and I walk in silence. Guess we gave the other a lot to think about.

When we get back, Logan comes to get me. “Come on, Adora asked me to get you.”

“You’re the only one except our mother that's ever called her ‘Adora’.” I say to him.

He just smile in response.

I go to my sister’s side. Before the dessert gets served Dora stands up.

“I actually have an announcement before we dig in on the dessert. “ Everyone looks at her in surprise.

I meet with Logan’s eyes and he looks just as confused as I am. She turns around to a young Omega holding a grey and white box , she hands it over to Dora, who then turns to face Logan.

“You, Logan David Williams, have given me so much. You have given me and my sister a home, way homier than our last ‘home’. You’ve given me so much love and respect. You’ve been amazing this entire time, I want to give you something, more than me. I love y-” She starts tearing up. “I love you Logan with all that I am. And I want this to be something that you will always remember.”

She then gives him the box.

He looks at it a few seconds before he lifts the lid. His eyes goes straight in and when he looks back up at Dora his eyes are big and teary. “Are you serious?” he whisper.

Dora nods. He looks back down. Then he place the box down in front of him, stand up, lift my sister and spin her around. He then moves on to kissing the life out of her. First on the mouth. The nose. Her cheeks.

I meet the eyes of Makela and the others at the table. They smile at Logan’s happiness, but they also seem curious.

“Are you guys going to share the news? I’m just going to assume it’s happy.” Makela asks out loud.

Logan quickly puts Dora down and takes a black fabric out of the box. He then proceed to pull it over his head.

It is a t-shirt that has “Big Bad Papa Wolf” written across the chest.