Here is to live

Chapter 14

"Skylar" someone calls out my name. But it's pretty dark here. "Skylar" the voice is a little bit louder now. Making my mind I run towards the direction where I think the voice is coming from. While running i told myself, I will not be hearing my name be called the third time.

After a few miles I see movement not more than 10 feet away. I stop and froze on the spot when I heard two voices arguing. One is a man and the other a woman. Then suddenly my heart starts to pump fast; the voice, these voices I hear are very familiar.

Deciding to check if who I think this people are is correct. I ran towards them as fast as I could then stop right after the opening in front of my found paradise on the woods a few days ago. 

My eyes might be deceiving me or I might be out of my mind. I can't believe this but I'm actually seeing my parents, both of them standing there having an argument. Arguing? Woah. Wait, my parents never argued. Who are this two in front of me?

"We are your parents Sky. Now please keep quiet for a while, while we sort this thing out" my mom said but not facing me.

But the weird thing here is I didn't even spoke. So why would she tell me to shut up? And why are they here? I know they are dead for almost a year now, but why am I seeing them now? Why now, when I have already moved on?

"Well sweetheart that's actually the reason why we're here now. And yes, we totally heard you. You know you can never keep secrets from us right?" My dad says. Funny, he is always that way. Too kind but you hear, see and feel the authority in him

With total lost of words, I just stared back at them. I didn't spoke, I just examined them taking in how they look at this moment. They actually look so young as if they were not the people they used to be. And to top it all, it's as if that night never happened.

Feeling a little bit weak from all the running I just did, I decided to sit on the ground bringing my legs closer to my body hugging them and rested my head on my knees. Closing my eyes for a while, I felt two warm hands wrap around me and it suddenly became so quiet.

"Are you okay kiddo?" My dad's voice came first. "We know what you've been through this past months and we're sorry." Mom spoke when I decided not to answer dad's question.

Opening my eyes I could see my mom hugging me. Yet I am surprised not being able to smell her sweet scent. Frowning I lifted my head to have another look at them. My eye sight was a bit blurry at first but when my eyes adjusted to the scene all I could do is Smile

Letting go of myself, I moved closer to my mom and hugged her tighter than I should. But mom didn't mind, she just stayed there and continued to hug me. I am so happy to fell her embrace once again. And I never really knew how I've missed her so much, not until now.

"I miss you so much mom." I said and hugged a lot tighter. "I miss you to my little warrior. But you got to let go of mommy because you've gotten stronger this past few days." She said with a chuckle. I decided to give her one more squeeze then let go of her and said sorry. Mom just gave me a sad smile and turned to look at my dad who was eyeing me with too much concern.

"I miss you too Alpha." I said staring at him then giving a sly smile. My dad gave a sad smile, walked towards us and sat beside me. "Now you know that I'm no longer Alpha right?" Dad ask me sounding a little sad. I nodded and told him that he will always be an Alpha for me, which actually brought a smile in his eyes.

For a moment I really thought that this will be forever, that I won't be losing them again. But I guess that's something that the world may never give back. Because this time, dad turned back to being serious and asked me. "Do you know why we've come to you?" I turned to look at mom and answered "no, but I wish this is not just a dream."

"But this is just a dream Hon. And we need to talk to you so please listen to us first, okay?" My mom squeezes my hand while saying these words. Then I turned back to my dad and gave him the assurance that I will listen to what ever he'll say. That turned out to be a go signal for him because he started to talk about things that we've never talked about when they were alive. 

I feel like we have been here for a day now when dad finished. Guess I am more than confused from all the information that they have given me, because I started to have a headache. 

"Now I know that all this is too much for you and 15 is not the right age for all this burden. But we really are sorry for leaving too early. I guess we, your mom and I didn't expected that day or rather that night to happen." My dad gave me another sad smile.

"But we hope you'll handle these things maturely and bravely. We need you to trust yourself and always protect those who you don't want to lose anymore. Okay?" I nodded and mom spoke again. 

"Oh and one more thing, we don't want you blaming yourself for our death. We died to protect you, to make sure that they won't hurt you. We love you and that's what matters." These where the last words I heard from them until I felt tears running down my face and all turned dark.

I could feel two soft arms wrapped around me, rocking me back and forth. Then I heard her whisper "Please Sky, come back to me. I know you could hear me. Just please don't leave me like this." My sister's voice is broken. I've never heard her spoken this way before. Not even when our parents died.

She moved away from me and started to wipe my face. My assumption was, when I cried on the dream world I cried in the real world as well. But what bothers me is how is it that my sister's here on my room thinking that I'll leave her.

Without opening my eyes I spoke. "So how long have I been out and why the hell are you thinking that I might be dead? And tell me, what brought you to my room?" Meg didn't spoke. Instead she just hugged me tight and cried even more. I know I acted like a b***h so I just gave her a hug.

"I thought that you'll leave me too. I never told you but since mom and dad died, I would always check on you every night before I go to bed no matter how tired I am from work." She said in between sobs. Hearing her say this allowed a smile creep on my face. 

"You don't need to worry too much big sis. You know that I will never leave you right?" She nods and then I asked. "So what happened? What made you-" But I was not able to finish what I was about to say because Meg held her hand on my mouth. What the hell?! I thought to myself, but before I could even speak she spoke.

"When I came to check on you, I could see that you were dreaming. You were moving more than you should. And yes, I know that you're asleep because I tried waking you up. But you just won't budge. And you started trashing out then suddenly started calming down until you were no longer breathing. No pulse no sign of anything. I was so scared."

Then she started to cry. She can no longer continue to what she's saying but I understand. At this point, I am already out of her warm embrace and am seated on my bead beside her. Feeling the love and care that she gives me, I enveloped her with my warmest embrace knowing so well what I can make her fell.

Well, yes, we both are born of an alpha blood line but by this time we already knew who was next in line after our dad. And I am to accept this fact, because there is no denying the fact that only a true alpha can calm those of their pact by just touching. So that's what my touch is doing to Meg every time she's upset, sad or worried.

"It's so funny how you actually can calm me down as fast as lightning whenever you touch me. But don't get me wrong I love the feeling. And it's already late so why won't we go back to sleep uh?" And just like that everything is back to normal.

Meg was about to get off of my bed when I grabbed her arm. "What?" She asked while eyeing me curiously. I'm not yet okay so I decided to ask her if it would be okay for her to sleep beside me for the night. In which she agreed immediately, that I'm so thankful for.

Both of us lay on my bed for a few minutes when I felt her breathing got slower, meaning she's already asleep. While I on the other hand have been thinking about my dream and what my parents have just told me. I was having trouble getting back to sleep for a couple of minutes more until I started to drift off again.

6 Am alarm turns off

'Ugh! Great, early in the morning and I have a bad head ache. This is not so good.' I am babbling on my head when Meg suddenly opened my bedroom door. "Yes I know that head ache sucks but you need to get out of that bed and eat your breakfast then prepare for school."

So technically that's how my day started. With this headache I have, I can't seem to think how I am able to survive the day at school. So while walking to my locker I accidentally bumped in to someone. Not bothering to check who it was I said sorry while cradling my head and was about to walk away when the person spoke.

"That's one hell of a head ache huh?" This voice had been familiar to me now because the person who own it have been my seatmate for the past week. And I am not in the mood for any games so I told her directly. "Yes, this head ache is practically killing me from the inside so please stop with the games for awhile. Please?" I told her and pleaded.

"I'm sure you would want to have a much better day than what you're having right now but I just want to say that I'm not the one who's playing with you." Sam said with a smirk on her face.

"But you are still one of them by giving that comment the last time we saw each other." I told her the truth. 

"Yes, I know. But I am not the enemy. Here, come with me. I think I can do something about that headache of yours." And she started to walk without waiting for me. I decided not to do anything stupid and just give her the benefit of the doubt. So I followed her until we reached her locker which is not too far from mine.

"Here you go. Try taking this now and if it worked on you take one later before lunch." She held two bottles in her hand both have this pinkish color. Thinking of my safety, I didn't took the bottles from her instead I gave her a questioning look. Sam didn't back out. Instead her smile broadens.

"Don't worry Sky. I am not planning on poisoning you. This is actually a mixture of herbs. It is made of some herbs with the likes of Feverfew, Jamaican Dogwood, Camomile, Elder Flower and much more. Best for headaches since werewolves don't usually get headache it makes it a lot harder for us to look for a medicine for it. "

Sam explained and told me some of the ingredients of the mixture. The funny thing is I believed her and took the bottles that she still have in her hands that are held out for me. "So how are you able to have these?" I ask her after downing one bottle.

"Those were made by my aunt, Luna Sofia." And I guess that came out as a bang 'cause I never thought that she is anywhere related to Luna Sofia, my new mom. Then I guess I will need to be kinder to her and start to know her a little bit better.