Chapter 1
A/N: My first story ever feel free to comment and review. Any feedback or suggestions are appreciated!
On the day before the first day of school some people would say it's ok to be nervous. The only problem is I'm not nervous about the start of school after two months of relaxation. I'm worried about what happened over summer vacation. Tomorrow starts my junior year at Springhead High, the same school I've been in since I was a freshman.
I only had two friends freshman year. I have those same friends beside me this year. Most of the kids at Springhead High call us "The Pack" because we stick together all the time. We sit next to each other during class, lunch, and free period. We all share a secret that no one at our school would believe. I think that secret binds us but I also think something clicked when we first met.
My friends Tia, JC and I live in sleepy, rural Springhead, Colorado; a town nestled in the foothills of the great Rocky Mountains. There are too many farms to count in Springhead, it's real cowboy country. All of them stretch over hundreds of acres. The farmers raise vegetables, cattle, horses, and dogs. Tia is my neighbor and lives right next door to my father's 200 acre ranch. My dad and I live alone together on that ranch breeding Appaloosa horses. I'm an only child and my mom just got up and left one day when I was too young to remember her face. It's ok though because dad keeps saying, "it was bound to happen eventually so better that it was before you really knew who she was."
As I mentioned before Tia lives next door to me. She lives with her Native American born mother on a small 10 acre property to breed ranch dogs like Collies and Australian Shepherds to help all of the farmers. JC lives farther away from me and Tia. Luckily its only five miles so we are still very close. JC doesn't own any animals; his sister, Stacy, is allergic to fur and dust. Stacy was adopted when she and JC were around one so people always think they're twins; I guess JC's parents didn't want him to be alone growing up. Stacy hates any animal, especially Tia and I.
As I sit here thinking about Springhead it really is the perfect place for my kind. The shape shifters.
A/N: Chapter 2 will follow next week!