The Beast within

Chapter 27 are you werewolves

Casey's P.O.V 

  I opened the door wider, so they could walk inside and they all gave me curious looks. What was wrong with them?

  "Casey, we know you have been having a hard time, but you're a strong woman and if you need to talk we're here for you." Becky said, pulling me into a hug. Bella sat down on the bed and I saw that she had noticed the boxes on the floor. 

  "I take it you looked through the rest of the stuff, are you ok? Do you want to talk about it or want to be left alone?" Bella asked, but in all honesty I didn't know what I wanted. 

  "Listen girls, don't crowd her, I actually came to talk to Casey, not crowd her with questions." Katherine said, I stood there face to face with my friend and decided to just come right out and ask her, I wanted to get it out in the open. 

  "I've been reading letter after letter from my parents, looking at photos that I thought weren't real until today and then before you all came here, I read another letter and looked at some more photos and the last box contained over five grand of spending money, but here's my question and do not dare lie to me. Are you all werewolves? If you are, are you planning to kill me?" I asked, slightly nervous about their reaction. Would they all laugh at me? Would they send me off to an insane asylum? Would they attack and kill me for finding out their secret? They all stood there for a few minutes and then started laughing. Okay, so that answers that question, bring on the straight jacket next.

  "No, we're not planning to kill you Casey, but since you asked and already know, yes we are werewolves. We don't kill humans, we eat just like humans do."  Katherine replied, completely knocking me for six. My parents were right and I'm not going crazy, they really are werewolves, either that or this is one hell of a practical joke. I stood there listening and then turned to Becky, remembering what I wanted to ask.

  "Becky you look different, you look like you lost all your baby weight in a day, what's going on?" I asked her, Becky looked down at her hands, probably deciding whether to answer me or not. 

  "On a werewolves 18th birthday, we shift into our wolves for the first time. I shifted into mine that night, when you went off with Jake. Do you remember when you were heading back, you said that you heard wolves howling, well that was us. We were howling with joy because of my first shift." Becky replied, a smile came to my face as I remembered that night.

  "I remember, I thought the howling was really cool and beautiful." I said and they all nodded, which led me to my next question.

  "So is everyone here a werewolf? Is that the reason why you call this place the pack house?" I asked and they all nodded yes.

  "I have one more question, did any of you know that Jake is a vampire? Is he a rogue, a human drinker or an animal drinker?" I asked, hoping I had correctly remembered the different ones and again they laughed.

  "Yes we knew and he feeds on animals his whole pack does. How did you find out he was a vampire?" Becky asked and I rolled my eyes.

  "He told me, then took me up to the very top of a tree and showed me. I asked him not to text me for a few days because I was a little freaked out, kinda like I am right now. Do you shift during full moons as well?" I asked, each time they answered a question another one immediately popped into my head.  

  "On a full moon the whole pack shifts, runs and begins howling for a full 30 minutes. We eat human food, we fish and have fun just like everyone else does, but we train everyday, we have guards and warriors, so that if rogues try to get into our territory we are ready to protect our family." Katherine said, explaining a fair few more of my questions some of which I didn't even know I had until now. 

  "Alright well, can I see your wolves?" I asked, I was hoping they would say yes, but at the same time I was kinda hoping they would say no.

  Katherine's P.O.V 

  Casey finally knew my, well our secret and it felt great. I was finally able to tell her the whole truth and so far she wasn't running for the hills or cowering in fear which was a good start, but now she wanted to see our wolves. Would she be able to handle this or would she completely freak out.

  "You will need to stand back, go and sit on the bed and don't move until we are done shifting." I said, she nodded and sat down on the bed. I was the oldest, so I decided that I would go first and started shifting. Bella and Becky quickly followed and Casey's eyes were so wide it looked like they were going to pop out of her head and then the inevitable happened, she fainted.

  Casey's P.O.V 

  I was watching them shift and the sounds of bones breaking, the way their limbs turned and transformed was too much for me to hear and everything went black. I woke to something repeatedly nudging my shoulder and when I looked up, there were three wolves standing in front of me.

  "Oh my god! I'm so sorry, I didn't mean to faint, it's just that I was scared that you were in pain or being hurt….and I'm talking to three wolves expecting them to understand me, great. I've finally lost the plot." I said, while they looked at me and then to each other. One wolf walked up to me and nudged my hand with their head. I looked at the wolf and I don't know why but something told me it was Katherine.

  "Katherine?" I asked and the wolf sort of nodded, actually she looked like she was smiling. Katherine was a beautiful black wolf, I looked over at the other two wolves, trying to guess which was which.

  "Bella?" I asked, pointing to the wolf that was a Brownish red colour and it gave me a sort of nod. 

  "Becky?" I asked, pointing to the only other remaining wolf and she playfully jumped in the air, landing on my bed, she was a light brown wolf and they were all beautiful.

  "Can I touch your fur?" I asked, Katherine stood in front of me, while Bella walked over to me, letting me touch them and Becky just rolled over onto her stomach and crawled closer to me.

  "Wow, your fur is so soft." I said, stroking them, they moved away from me and shifted back, but they were all completely naked.