The Last Female *Complete*

Old Memories

I wake up in my bed, I must've been found by aunt Lillian and she must've brought me here. I'm in my normal sweat pants and baggy sweater pj set as well, so It must've been her. A sense of relief comes over me since I realised I probably woke up nude. At least no one else saw me. I hope..

The stairs are old and creaky and all my bones ache and hurt. I've never shifted for that long before and I'm sore and exhausted. The blinds are all slightly open, but more closed to be dimmer. Thank God, I have a pounding headache so it helps.

     "Are you hungry?" Lillian asks once I reach the bottom of the staircase.

Right then is when I realise I'm absolutely starving. Luckily I see a buffet of food laid out on the table.

     "I am more than I thought," I reply, trying not to drool.

     "After shifting that long I usually am starving. And I get muscle pains and a migraine, it's usually only this bad when the alpha forces you to shift though. Do you feel alright?" She asks

     "I feel like you. Hell," I sigh while drinking the chai tea in front of me. 

It's not long before the pile of bacon and sausages are gone. Followed by the pancakes and French toast platters. Honestly, I've never felt this stuffed. 

    Lillian gets up to gather dishes, "you can thank the nice boy that brought us all the groceries. I think his name is... Dillan..?" She thinks, "he is tall, dark hair, green eyes, muscular.." she adds.

The other guy from Zach's party. I never learned his name. It was hard not to glance over at him once in a while, but I tried not to stare. When she says tall and built she means it...

     "Why did he bring us groceries?" I ask

    "Oh well, Walter is stepping down as alpha and Dillan will be stepping up, so I think he was trying to act like Alpha," she tells me,

Now it makes more sense why I saw them together that night. And they were checking up on my friends, while I want to know why they are being checked up on, I'm no longer confused as to why he was there. 

     "Hey, Fawn you seem lost in thought," Lillian points out

     "Its nothing," I answer

A knock at the door... was it dillan?

Lillian answers it and Walter. Both guys are my age so it should be relatively easy to get along with them. 

     "Hey fawn I was wondering if you'd like to see more of the property? I could give you a tour," he asks

     "Uh, sure, sounds great," I answer, grab my coat and head out the door.

He takes me to the main house again but this time to a small area off to the side,

     "This is where children here like to play often, I know we did as kids, it might have been a long time ago, but you did used to play with me and a few other group member kids," he says,

     "Sorry, it's hard to remember much from when I was a kid," I tell him 

     "We used to play dollies, because If I wanted to anything else you'd cry until I played with you, it was annoying then," he chuckles "but rather adorable now," 

It makes me blush, because I do remember that vaguely. 

     "I think I remember that, Walter," I smile

He takes me around, introduces me to a few people he claims I used to play with or know, but I have no memory of. He leads me through a forested path to a tree house and helps me up the old ladder. 

I remember this place.

     "We used to come up here a lot as kids," he smiles.

I look over various carvings and drawings. Flowers, hearts, and a crazy looking dinosaur. I trace my fingers along the old, splintered, wood wall until my fingers stop on a heart with initials. F.S + D.M forever.

I can't stop tracing it. I know it's not mine though, my initials are F.W. my fingers keep getting interrupted by the claw Mark's and scratch Mark's around it, but I always find the deep carved notches of the heart. 

     "Who did this, do you know?" I ask

     Walter comes over "I'm not exactly sure. I think it's Dillan's, he carved it. Not exactly sure who the F.W is though," he says

    "Its old," I notice

    "Why? Do you have the hots for Dillan?" Walter teases

    "Actually I haven't even met him yet, I feel as if someone is avoiding me sometimes," I sigh

    "Well I doubt it would be him avoiding you then. He's not only a ladies man, but a social butterfly in the community in general. You'll talk to him at one point or another whether you want to or not," he chuckles. They must be good friends since he looks like he's remembering a lot when he says that. It makes me feel a tiny bit better though. I don't like anyone avoiding me, and I wouldn't want to frustrate the alpha in training. My stomach rumbles loudly and I realise all this running around is making me hungry. I don't normally hike around much since I've always lived in town or in a city. 

     "I can make you something. At your house. Or we can grab lunch at the main lodge if you're hungry," Walter says

I'm not used to being around so many people and I don't need 500 eyes on me. I still am the only full blooded female... 

     "Let's go back to my house then," I reply

We head back and eat and chat. I really start to remember this place when he mentions our childhood together. We did grow up here, and I do remember Walter. And a few other people surprisingly.

There was rosie. A cute little girl with pigtails I remember, and Walter showed me her picture (in a big pack photo on his phone) and she has definitely grown up, all of my childhood friends have. She now has flaming short red hair and her freckles definitely became more noticeable. She's still cute. Then there was Katie. I remember her, blonde hair and glasses, but Water didn't have a photo of her. She moved away from the group with her parents and left the group and he hasn't seen her in 5 years. Dillan I remember vaguely as a kid, but very vaguely. All my memories of him are of him being distant, but that makes sense since that's how my memories are now. Walter points him out. The same guy I saw at Zach's no doubt..

Before I know it I look outside and it's sunset, almost dark. Lillian comes in the front door from work, she's a caregiver, and smiles. 

     "Hello, alpha," she smiles

     "Walter.. come on alpha is so weird," he sighs

     "Yeah, it's getting late, but thanks for showing me pictures and stuff," I smile

     "I'll get going, but I might see you tomorrow, bye Lillian," he adds before walking out the open door Lillian had left and closing it behind him.

     "He likes you..." she smiles

     "I don't have time to think of that, I'm getting my own life together," I laugh

     "Have you found a mate yet?" She asks

     "I truly don't think I have," sigh while heading up the stairs to my bedroom.

I fall down onto my bed and collapse. Not long after I fell into an extremely deep sleep.

Tonight I dreamt that I was running, with a family.. of foxes.. it was amazing. I felt truly free. Then I woke up. 

     "Go back to sleep, go back to sleep," I mumble while squishing my head under the pillow over and over. I didn't want to wake up, but I guess the reality was I did. I got up, got dressed, ate quickly, and ran out the door as fast as I could avoiding everyone around me. Walter is extremely nice, but I need some space. I find myself back at the old treehouse heading up the ladder. That heart… I know I didn't carve it… almost all of my memories about this place were re-jogged from Walter's stories the other day, but for some reason I feel close to it. I hear the rope ladder move and jump back.

    "Hello?" I saw while jumping.

The person must've heard me and wanted to be alone, because I look out the window and see someone running into the cover of the bushes and they're long gone before I could even see who they were. I decide obsessing over someone else's carved heart initials is odd and get up and leave. No matter how many times I think of the old carving on the way to the main lodge I push it back out of my mind. I'm looking down when I bump into someone knocking us both down. It's rosie!