Nicole

10

“Flight H108 departing to Cincinnati, all passengers to make their way over to gate 3 please. ” The voice said over the speaker.

“Well that’s us” Dad said smiling, “let’s go home family”.

We boarded the flight and I took my seat in first class next to Jake and mom and dad sat together in the seats behind us.

I took out my iPod and started listening to Taylor Swift singing about bad blood causing Jake to chuckle and shake his head, clearly remembering what happened on my birthday.

My mind drifted off to the dream and how weird it was, red wolves don’t even exist. I shake my head and start thinking about yesterday which happened to be the day I turned 18.

After a two hour long phone call with Logan, my parents took Jake and I to some restaurant and we had cake and I got a cool new bracelet as a present from my parents to which Jake said “It was from all of us, you’re welcome” when I rolled my eyes he claimed that his love for me was present enough.

After the whole celebrating my birthday thing with my parents, it being our last day in Miami we once again went club hopping with the other kids but also went to some karaoke bar where Jake and I belted out Blank Space by Taylor Swift. No, he wasn’t drunk or anything, he just happens to like Blank Space.

This morning after I took a shower I called Logan and we talked for a while and he informed me about changing a class for me from Astronomy to Drama to which I’m grateful for because I really didn’t want to spend my last year of high school failing a subject that’s teaching me about the stars and s**t.

I must have drifted off because next thing Jake was shaking me away and said that we’ve landed in Cincinnati.

We walked into the house and my parents went into their room to unpack whereas Jake and I dropped our bags in the lounge and went to the kitchen in search of food.

After digging through the pantry and slamming cupboard doors we came up empty. The food was either spoilt or just plain unappealing.

“Well that was a bust.” I said plopping onto the couch.

Jake sighed and went into his room to unpack, I grudgingly decided to do the same.

An hour later Jake come strolling in my room, “The ‘rents just left for the grocery store but I’m hungry so let’s go to the pack house, I bet there’s food there” He said while sticking his bottom lip out.

“Okay, I anyway want to see Logan so let’s go.” I said already walking out the front door. The pack house is a huge mansion with about 50 bedrooms. There’s about 208 smaller houses surrounding it, one of the houses is ours and the other is the Alpha and Luna’s then the rest belong to other pack members not wanting to live in the pack house.

The Moon pack has about 1833 pack members, some of them live in the town whereas the rest of us live in a gated community just on the outskirts of town that’s surrounded by a large forest or rather woodsy area where the pack members go out for runs or train.

We entered the pack house and were instantly greeted by pack members and I left Jake with Dave as they started talking about some new Warrior video game that just came out.

I walked into the main kitchen and grinned when I saw Luna Alexa, the moment she saw me she engulfed me in a big hug.

“You look beautiful Nicole, Miami must have been good right?”

I smiled and asked where Logan was, “Oh he’s with his dad back at the house.” She replied.

I helped her in the kitchen as she was cooking and we chatted about random things when the kitchen door suddenly flew open and Logan’s 6’4 frame filled the doorway.

I grinned “I’m bac-“ I was interrupted by a growl so loud I’m sure the entire state of Ohio heard it but it was the word uttered through the growl that had me completely dumbfounded.

“MINE!!!”