The Forgotten Werewolf

Darkness. Nothing but complete and utter darkness surrounds me. In the distances I hear water cascading down a waterfall crashing into the water below. About 50 feet in front of me I hear an owl hooting out a warning to its prey it wishes to consume. I slowly advance forward until I see the moon light peeping through the trees to guide me safely to an open field. I walk to the clearing and collapse onto the soft grass below me. I look to the moon and cry. "WHY GOD. WHY DO YOU HATE ME SO MUCH? I am so tired, tired of this so called life. Why, WHY did you take my parents from me? Why do you force me to continue on with this pathetic life I live? I feel so alone, I am so tired of feeling alone. I just want to be happy and belong for once, so why couldn't you take me like you did my parents?! WHY JUST WHY?" I sob. I sob and think about my life while laying on the soft ground. My parents died in a car accident when I was a year old. Apparently they were going to the grocery store with my in the back when a drunk driver ran a red light and crashed into our car. Killing them and leaving me in the hands of the foster care system. At least that is what I am told anyways.  Being in the foster care system is definitely not easy. You have good foster homes with loving, kind, and caring people. Or you get the bad ones with people who don't give a sh*t about you, or your life. The only care that they have is the money in which they receive for having you. I have been in both types, and honestly I would take the first one any and every day.  At school it can be just as bad. Kids can be so mean. I don't fit in any where. Constantly being made fun of, harassed, bullied, and being made to feel alone. I already feel alone as it is, but when you are made to feel that way by your peers for some reason it makes it worse. *SNAP* "What was that?"  Silence "Is anyone there?" "Yes dear child, I am here." A feminine voice replies. "Who are you, where are you?" I reply with as much courage as I can. "Sit up dear child and open your eyes" the voice replies. I oblige and sit up and open my eyes to find a woman standing in front of me wear a long flowy white dress. She is tall and has curves a girl would die to have. She has long light brown wavy hair that reaches her waste. Her face is shaped like a God with beautiful pale blue eyes. She smile at me and I return the favor. For some reason I feel safe. "Because you are my child, safe that is." I look at her questioningly. "May I sit Bailey?" I nod at the woman in front of me curious as to how she knows my name. "Because I know all of my children's names and that includes yours." she chuckles.  How does she know what I am thinking, this is so strange? She laughs again while pushing her hair from her face, "I know all of my children's thoughts Bailey. Anyways, I am here because you called me. We have a lot to discuss and little time to discuss..." "Wait what do you mean 'I called you', I didn't call yo.." I begin to interrupt. "But you did Bailey, and it is extremely rude to interrupt someone. Anyways I am God, your Go..." "I did call to God, but your n..." "Bailey! There you go interrupting again. Can you please just listen to me?" I nod my head urging her to continue. "As I was saying, I am God, well actually a goddess. The Moon Goddess to be exact. You feel alone because you weren't meant to be within the human population. Granted that wasn't your fault but you were never meant to be where you are."  she pauses and sighs. "Your destiny hasn't changed it has just had some bumps and obstacle's that you have had to overcome. But your destiny remains the same. As for hating you, I do not nor could I ever hate you my child. Also, I never took your parents from you. They are still within their pack. What I am saying is that they are still...." *BEEP BEEP BEEP BEEP* I quickly smack the top of the alarm to silence it and also manage to knock it into the floor. I sigh while throwing my blanket off of me and stretch while rushing through my morning routine. Grabbing my clothes and rushing to the bathroom. I turn the water on and strip from my bed clothes and climb into the hot falling water. I run my hands through my hair thinking about the strange dream from last night. It felt so real, so vivid. I feel something strange in my hair and pull out a leaf.  "What the heck, where did this come from?" I ask myself. I sigh as I come up blank and quickly finish my shower and dry off.  *"Remember Bailey, I need you to remember."* I hear a familiar voice say. Okay, I am officially going crazy. What is wrong with me today?! I continue to get dressed and dry my hair. I quickly apply a light amount of blush and finish off by applying some mascara to highlight my eyes that have a blue green color next to the pupil with a pale blue around the edges. I check to make sure that my light brown hair is completely dry before hurrying out of the bathroom and back to my room to grab my things for school. I head down stairs PRAYING that my foster parents haven't woken up yet. I can't handle a repeat of yesterdays events. "BAILEY! I THOUGHT I TOLD YOU TO CLEAN THIS KITCHEN AND MY BEDROOM LAST NIGHT!" I hear my foster mom scream as I entered the dingy living room. I stop and turn to look at my foster mom who was standing in the kitchen. She had her hand crossed in front of her pretty much non-existent chest. Don't take this wrong but, this woman could definitely use some exercise and less KFC. And some happy pills, lots and lots of happy pills. Her hair was red, a fake red, but red nonetheless that reached right above her shoulders. She was missing a few teeth due to lack of oral hygiene but whatever who am I to judge. "Mrs. Nickols, I did clean the kitchen last night but by the time I was finished you were already asleep and I didn't want to wake you." I replied looking down, I knew better than to look at her. Last time I did she locked me in the basement all weekend with no food. I definitely do not want to go through that again.  She laughed, " you, you call this clean? You didn't even mop. Look at this!" she yells while pointing at some mud on the floor."  "Mrs. Nickols it was spotless last night I swear. I don't know where it came from I promise!" I reply as strong as I could. "Well, it doesn't matter now. YOU WILL CLEAN THIS ENTIRE HOUSE AS SOON AS YOU COME BACK FROM SCHOOL." "Mrs. Nickols I will have homework to do its a school night. I..." *SMACK*  " Does it look like I care?" she asks as she removed her hand from my face. "UGH, you should be glad your parents are dead. I would hate for them to see the disappointment and failure you have turned out to be." She states coldly as I hold my red throbbing cheek with a tear slipping down my face. "GET OUT OF MY FACE. Be here as soon as school is over, and if you say anything to anyone, you WILL regret it. Am I understood?" she asks while placing her man like hands on her waist.  I nod. "I cannot hear your head shake, I said am I understood." She screams sending spit flying from her mouth. "Yes ma'am, I will be here right after school."  I reply while rushing to the door to leave. As soon as my feet hit the sidewalk I run while sobbing. Why must she bring my parents into it? They never did anything to her. I was so upset that I ran straight into my best friend Justin.  Justin is one of my four best friends. He is tall, muscular, has a 6-pack, extremely good-looking. He stands at about 6 foot 2 inches tall, had black hair with blue eyes and a jaw line every man wished he had. Today he is wearing his dark washed jeans (my personal favorite) and his American Eagle dark blue to light blue faded shirt. "Bailey, have you heard anything I said?" "Huh? Oh no, I am sorry Justin. What did you day?" I reply while wiping the tears from my face in hope that he wouldn't notice. He moves the hair from my face and says, "I asked why you are crying." I sigh and look down. He grabs my chin and pulls my face up to look at him with an emotion swimming in his eyes that I just can't place. "She hit you again. Didn't she?"  I just closed my eyes and nodded. He pulled me into his embrace and wrapped his thick muscular arms around my body.  "I'm sorry B. Your life wasn't suppose to be like this. I'm so sorry." he says as his voice cracks. Is he crying? I ask myself. But why would he cry? It isn't his fault he has done nothing wrong. All he has ever done is be my friend. *"Please Bailey I need you to remember. Remember our conversation, remember my warning please you need to remember before it is too late!"* The familiar voice screams into my head causing me to back away from Justin and drop to my knees holding my head.  "BAILEY?! BAILEY LOOK AT ME WHAT IS WRONG?" Justin's panicked voice says near my ear. "Just a headache I will be okay." I groan out. He helps me to my feet crashing my body into his. "Come on, I am driving us to school today. I don't feel like waiting for  Ashley, Katelyn, and Blake today. They can catch up later. Come one beautiful lets get you in the car and get you some Tylenol."  I nod my head and climb into his dark gray Nissan Altima. The interior is all back with leather seats and sunroof. I love his car. He grabs two Tylenols from his center console and hands them to me and his Dr. Pepper. "Here take these they should help." "Thank you Justin." I reply before taking a drink and handing it back. He starts the car and drives down the curvy road heading towards our school. He pulls into a parking space when his phone starts to ring. "Yes Ash? ..... No I got tired of waiting for y'all so we got in the car and left.... No, y'all can find a way here I am not coming back there.... Well if y'all would get somewhere on time you wouldn't have this issue... Look I am not going to sit here and let you yell at me, be mad for all I care. You guys know I hate being late..... K, see ya when you get here." "They mad?" I ask. "Livid, they are livid. But that is on them. I really don't care." he sighs, "Come on lets get some breakfast. We walk into the school and head to the cafeteria. Everyone looks at me and whispers.  "Don't listen to them B, they are just jealous because no matter how hard they try they will never be as beautiful as you." Justin says while putting his hand on my shoulder and winking. I blush and lean into him. We grab a tray and sit at the table when Ashley, Katelyn, and Blake walk in with pissed off expressions residing on their faces. "What the f**k dude? Why didn't you wait for us?" Blake asks as he sits down beside Justin. "Probably because you guys always cause me to be late." "Oh come on we were on time today, well to school that is." Katelyn says. "HMMM, why is that?" Justin asks while biting into his apple. "Oh, ummm." Katelyn says while scratching her head and looking away. "Because they stayed with me." Blake says while grinning ear to ear showing off his dimples and white teeth. He is handsome don't get me wrong but not nearly as handsome as Justin. He is built like Justin but Blake has blonde hair and brown eyes. Katelyn has brown hair and brown eyes and Ashley has black hair and hazel eyes. And I can only imagine why they were all three together last night. "For petes sake, I did not need to know that the three of you had s*x last night." *RING* "Great, now we are late for class. Come on B, I'll walk you to class." Justin says while glaring at our friends with disgust written all over his face. We walk down the hall in silence until we reach my senior English class.  "Bailey, I wanna do something but don't freak out okay." "Okay, what is it?" I ask while looking at him puzzled. He leans down and places his lips on mine shocking me and taking my breath away. After I realize what's happening I wrap my arms around his neck and he lips my bottom lip asking for entrance and I oblige. *Throat clearing*  We both pull apart to see my teacher Mr. Martin staring at us with wide eyes. "Sorry Mr. Martin, but I have been dying to do that for a year. Couldn't help myself." Justin laughs and leans down and kisses my cheek. "I'll see you after class B." He turns and takes off down the hall. "Bye Justin" I call out to him he turns and winks then continues down the hall.  I walk into class and everyone is staring as if I had grown two heads. Well this will be lovely. Half way through class my head was pounding. *"REMEMBER BAILEY. REMEMBER"* Images from my dream came flooding back into my head. The conversation with the woman who claimed to be the Moon Goddess suddenly didn't feel like a dream.  *RING*  "Okay class, read chapter 21 and answer the questions at the end and turn it in first thing in the morning. Class dismissed." We all quickly exited the classroom. As soon as I walked out the door Justin pulled me to him.  "You ok B? You don't look so good." "Yea, I am fine. My head still hurts but I am okay I promise." I say as I look at him and smile. "Good I don't want my girlfriend hurting all day long." He winked. "Since when did I become your girlfriend?" I asked smiling.  "Since you kissed me back of course." He replied grinning. "Unless you don't want to be my girlfriend." He pouted. "I never said that now." I grinned at him. He stopped and pushed me against the lockers next to my civics class and kissed me again. This time with passion and heat causing me to moan into his mouth allowing him to slip his tongue into my mouth. He grabbed onto my hips as I held onto his shoulders. "D*mn Bailey. I never knew kissing you could make me so h@rd." Justin  whispered in my ear. I blush and look at him and he smiles. "Alright babe, I'll see you after class. I'll meet you in the cafeteria, okay?"  I nod my head while he kissed my neck. I walked into class and got the same reaction I had last period. Why is everyone acting so weird.  Everyone started whispering about me and I tried tuning them, but I couldn't.  "I heard from Ashley that Justin is just toying with Bailey. They aren't even her real friends. They just felt sorry for her." the girl at the front of the room whispered. Tears began pooling in my eyes. I got up and quickly walked out of the room headed for the bathroom. As soon as I got close I heard my friends around the corner so I hid to listen. "Justin, this was never apart of the plan! What got into you. Dating her was never part of the job description." Ashley pretty much yells. "Ashley keep your voice down before someone hears you!" "Shut up Katelyn, I will talk as loud as I want!" "Would you both shut the F**K up. D*mn. I can do what I want. I actually care about her. I'm still doing my job, maybe I can learn more with this role anyways." "Dude, I like the way you think. Why didn't I think about that?" "Because you're an idiot." the three replied. "Anyways, do you know anything yet Justin." "No, I know Rebecca hit her again. Tell your aunt to lay off would you? If she runs her off it wont be good for any of us." he pauses, "I have noticed she has had a bad headache all day." "When is her birthday again?" "In three months." Justin replies. "Then it isn't the change. That doesn't happen till their 18th birthday." "Then what could it be?" "Hard to tell. But we will talk about it more later. Remember the more we learn the more we get paid." Ashley says.  I covered my mouth and slipped into the empty classroom behind me and slid down the wall and sobbed. I guess everyone was right. They weren't truly my friends. They were using me, But why?! I got up and left the classroom and ran straight out the front door of the school. I walked down the winding road that lead to the h**l hole I called home. Each sob that escaped my mouth shook my whole body.  Why me? I cried *"I tried to tell you my child. I need you to remember"* I got home and lucky for me my foster parents weren't home so I went to my room and I laid on the bed closing my eyes.  Remember Bailey you need to remember I chanted to myself.