*** Marcela ***
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I know you are now a vet technician, but have you seen the size of this animal? Surely he would have devoured you in one go. -Michele says as she continues pulling me back to the road, until now I can't understand what it was, is this what mom feels when she wants to save an animal?
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-Mi, I know that sometimes it may not seem like it, but I know that what I'm doing is my profession, I wonder if that's what Mom feels when she needs to save some animal. - We quickly found Dad's friend's workshop, with them talking.
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- Don't tell daddy anything now, when we get home we'll talk about it ok? - I say moving away from Michele and going to get water from the electric water fountain here.
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- Good afternoon Mr. Ferreira, Dad was dying of thirst, I'm glad you have this blessed water fountain here. - I speak in disguise while Michele greets Ferreira and also drinks water.
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- How are the girls? You grew up enhim.- Mr Ferreira is daddy's longtime friend, he has a son Michele's age who is in love with her, but as she says "The boys here are idiots"
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- We're fine, Mr. Ferreira, how are things around here? - I was impressed by Michele's answer, as she is always quiet. They continued talking until the car was ready and we headed home.
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Michele spends all her time on her cell phone texting someone and listening to music with her oversized headphones, while Dad and I exchange a few words.
When we get home Michele goes straight to the kitchen table sits down and stares at me as if to ask "When are you going to tell me about the wolf?"
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- Mom, Dad we need to talk - I say a little nervous I don't know because it was just a direwolf. Mom quickly takes a seat next to Michele and Dad turns to stand next to me.
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- Dad dropped us off at the waterfall today, it was great the water was amazingly good and there was no one there we were enjoying alone, I got out of the water because my skin was getting wrinkled and Michele stayed in the water, I lay on the towel and I started to feel a strange thing as if I was being watched, I started to look around and I didn't see anyone, when I was going back to the water I saw a huge black wolf looking in our direction, I was going to him but Michele was scared so we went back to Mr. Ferreira. - Mom was wide-eyed and Dad looked a little stunned, because I didn't understand.
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- Well, I would fear that day would come, I need to tell you something, something that I hide since your birth, but I hid it for our own freedom, so that we could live the life we live today. -Dad says sitting down and his speech makes me apprehensive.
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- I want you to open your minds and not be afraid ok? - Michele and I nodding affirmatively.
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- A long time ago as soon as the first humans appeared, the Goddess Selene fell madly in love with a human, but this love was forbidden because he was human and she was a Goddess, from this forbidden love the Goddess became pregnant and gave birth to a child, was a boy that she could not raise, she was forced to leave the child with his father who raised him with all the love he felt for Selene, he never saw her again, but Selene always accompanied them... as soon as the child completed the At an older age, her father killed himself because he couldn't stand the idea of not having his beloved in his arms again, Selene couldn't do anything to stop this and asked Zeus to help her heal this pain, then to God Selene through her son has created a species that will always be linked to her, some call us Lycan, wolves or simply werewolf. - I stop breathing at the exact moment Dad says werewolf.
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- Please daddy what kind of joke is this? Werewolves don't exist.- Michele says getting up and heading towards her room.
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- I'm not finished yet Michele.- Dad says out loud and Michele goes back to the kitchen everything happened so fast that I can't even pay attention, suddenly Mom closes the kitchen curtain and the door, out of nowhere Dad starts to turn around in a big gray wolf, a wolf I saw constantly when I was a kid.
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-So you were that wolf.- I say approaching him and hugging his neck, michele faints and mom hugs her.
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- Daughter I need you to go up a little for your father to transform again, when this transformation happens as you can see the torn clothes, then he will come back completely naked.- Mom says all smiling as if she didn't have a Michele passed out in her lap .
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- Ew mom, how disgusting.- I speak and run upstairs.
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So Dad meant that that wolf was a werewolf, but what did he want? If he was going to attack us, he would have done it while I was still lying there and vulnerable. Something about that wolf intrigued me, those green eyes seemed to pierce my soul.
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I hear Mom yell for me to come down, I do, getting the wolf out of my mind for now.
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- I can't believe it, how is it possible? -I hear Michele asking Dad before he enters the kitchen.
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- Stop being boring Mi, imagine how cool it must be to transform into a giant wolf. - I reply excitedly even before Dad responds.
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- I still hadn't finished telling you girls everything, Marcela feels.- Now Dad looks more serious than in all the moments I've ever seen in my life.
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- Answering Michele's question, we are direct children of the goddess Selene, she is always close to us and in the full moon or blood moon is when we can have greater contact with her through our prayers, you as my daughters can also be wolves, but we can only be sure when you turn 18 and also at that age you can meet your partner, as Selene could not live love, she created us with the intention that we would be happy in love, from 18 any wolf or wolf you find your mate by the smell, you are attracted to the smell like you've never felt in your life.- Dad pauses and looks at Mom so tenderly I want to cry with emotion.
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- In addition to the smell, when you touch each other you will feel static, as if you have received a small shock, so that the other wolves know that you have found your mate you must tag yourself, your mate's mark is charged with your pheromones, when you're Marked the other wolves smell their mate on you.- Dad once again looks at Mom, who takes off her shirt off her shoulder that contains a mark, two old holes like a tattoo only darker.
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- To finish this matter, wolves live in a pack, some call it a pack, which is usually a large community formed by wolves, we have the Alpha who is like the president, the Beta who is who takes care of the pack / pack when the Alpha doesn't yes and if Alpha and Beta are busy there is gamma, I was the old beta of my pack, but I preferred to move away when I met her mother, she was not very well accepted by the pack for being human and not wolves we can live without our mate or mate , today the appointment of the new Alpha takes place, along with the new Beta and Gamma, I have to go and I would very much like you to accompany me if it is not too much for you. - Again Dad looks affectionately at Mom.
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- Father for now I think it's too much for my head, can I be a werewolf? I don't want to be a monster like that. -Michele gets up and runs upstairs, I can see Dad feels pain when Michele said she didn't want to be a monster, even though she spoke without thinking.
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- I want to go daddy, I want to know more and if I really am a wolf, I want to know more about the pack - Dad's expression changed with every sentence he spoke, as if he relaxed with it.
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- Now Mi won't answer, it's a lot for her to think about, but I'm sure she didn't mean it, I'll talk to her a little.- I give him a hug and go up the stairs.
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- I know my daughter, thank you. You're everything to me. - Dad was always very overprotective and very strong, now I understand a little where this side of him comes from.
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I walk slowly into Mi's room without knocking, we've always been the opposite of each other, but I know that Michele saw me as an example and whenever something happens besides telling Mom, she tells me too.
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I sit next to her and stroke her hair, I see that she is researching werewolves on her cell phone, we stay that way until she speaks.
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- Do you really think this story of being a werewolf is cool? Aren't you scared? -She's not crying, but I feel her body shake as I hug her.
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- There's no reason to be afraid, daddy was always like a wolf by our side when we were kids and he never hurt us, it's all part of Mi Biology, I know that despite your fear you are a very smart girl to understand that. - I keep hugging her, until she pulls away and looks at me.
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- Did you agree to go with him? -She bites her lip, a habit she makes when she's nervous.
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- I accepted, there was something about that wolf that caught my attention and it's also a great way to get to know each other a little more through the pack, Dad never told stories about his family and now I understand why, aren't you curious to know more about it? - I take my cell phone and read the story she was watching.
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- I no longer know what is a dream and what is reality. Yes, it's all very strange, but I accept to go because you go too. - She says melancholy, but I'm sure when we get to the pack she'll change her mind.
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- Okay, but I want you dressed up, none of those rags you wear.-
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- Hey! I don't wear rags.- She responds by throwing a pillow at me.