Chapter 1 (The Wolf)

Collin, Amy, and I all sat on Collin's couch, looking out the window.
"I ran three blocks. I deserve a box of doughnuts now" Amy said in a deep, manly voice as a chubby jogger passed.
We all laughed as we watched him pass the window waiting for our next victim. Collin and Amy were my best friends and I loved hanging out with them at Collin's place. We had all known each other since kindergarten and only recently had it gotten awkward to hang out, all three of us. I guess Collin and I were just beginning to notice Amy was…well a girl-not just a girl but she was a hot girl!
"OH! It's so cold out but I'm going to strut around in these shorts so men can stare at my ass" Collin exclaimed in a high pitched voice, which made it even funnier seeing as he was going through puberty.
Amy and I both burst into laughter; Collin joined us until he realized we were laughing at him and not with him.
"Hey! Shut up guys!" Collin yelled not helping his case as his voice cracked.
Amy and I couldn't stop laughing at him so he gave both of us a good whack on the head. Amy and Collin started bickering about abusing women, but I wasn't paying attention. I didn't feel too good. I felt like I was burning up like a turkey in the oven at thanks giving.
"-don't you think so Brady?" Collin turned to me awaiting my answer.
"Huh? What? Sorry" I looked at him, snapping back into reality.
He jerked his chin towards the window and I followed his motion to spot Sam and his crew outside. "Don't you think those guys are gay? I mean they only hang out with each other and they NEVER wear shirts!" Collin laughed at his own joke, receiving a swat from Amy.
"I think its hot how they show off their muscles!" Amy argued back
"Gay. Yeah. Uhm…guys I'm going to head out. I really don't feel all that good." I said quietly while standing.
"Awe! Bye Brady" Amy jumped up and hugged me. "SHIT! You're hot, dude." She looked at me wide eyed.
"Not as hot as me!" Collin wiggled his eyebrows and pushed back his hair in a failed attempt to keep it out of his eyes.
Collin and Amy started bickering again and I found that as my golden opportunity to sneak out. I stepped out of Collin's house and looked down the side walk to see Sam and his whole crew watching me. Well shit that's the way home. I could walk past them and totally act like they're not even there or I guess I could take the long way. As if my stomach knew what I was thinking it suddenly lurched. Ughhh, guess I'm going to go past them.
I quickly walked past the gang of giant built men towards my house. Using every shred of energy not to look back at the men I just walked past. I finally reached the house and unlocked the door, walking in to find my grandparents sitting on the couch, reading. My grandpa took one look at me and smiled wide, I don't know why but he seemed excited. He whispered to my grandma and she looked at me proudly.
"What?" I looked at them confused.
"I can't believe it's finally happening to my little Brady!" My grandma said while smiling wide.
I sighed loudly and went upstairs to have a cold shower.

I lay in bed after my shower and stared at the ceiling.
"This is it. I'm going to die at the age of thirteen." I said talking to myself. "Now I'm talking to myself. Great way to spend your last hours."
Suddenly I got the urge to go outside.
"I'm sick…I shouldn't go outside."
I shook my head but my legs had other ideas. They carried me outside, into the backyard and stopped there. I stood there for a while then I felt something strange travel down my spine, a ripple almost. Then another one, again and again, down my spine. My whole body began to tremble and I fell down to my knees and hands, letting my head fall limp. As quickly as my head fell limp it suddenly jerked up towards the sky. A very un human howl came from my lips as I heard a ripping noise. The world went black and white and I could hear the sound of the wind whistling through the grass, the faint scent of morning dew. I was suddenly higher off of the ground as I looked down at it, weird. As I looked down I spotted a puddle, filled with the image of a giant wolf, where my reflection should be. Well how is that happening? Am I dreaming? "You're not dreaming, Brady" a booming voice in my head explained. That wasn't the usual voice I heard in my head. The voice I always heard…well the voice I always heard in my head was my own.
"You're going to be hearing many other voices in your head when you're in this form, Brady. Now what I need you to do is step into the forest." The booming voice instructed me.
This form? Why did this voice want me to go into the forest? I shrugged and walked into the forest suddenly realizing that I was walking on all fours. Wow! I'd dreamt myself as a giant wolf, that's pretty cool.
"For the last time, Brady, You're not dreaming!" the booming voice sounded a little annoyed now, but he was only in my head, what could he do to me if he was only a figment of my imagination?
I suddenly stopped when I spotted another giant wolf; this one was black and held his tail high. I remembered reading that only Alpha wolves carried their tails high, so this wolf must be the leader of a pack.
"Yes, I am the Alpha of a pack…your pack, Brady." The booming voice responded to my thoughts about the wolf.
Was the wolf somehow in my head? Listening in on my thoughts and answering them?-wait my pack? What was going on?
"Brady, do you remember the legends of the Quileute people?"
Of course I remembered them, my grandparents told them to me every day, practically. Then suddenly it came to me, I really wasn't dreaming.
I tried to speak only hearing barking and "I'm one of the wolf warriors?" in my mind.
"Indeed. You have just phased for the first time. You will need a haircut and the pack's emblem tattooed on your shoulder. Shall we go now?" the booming voice in my head seemed very strong but understanding at the same time.
I hesitated before thinking, tattoos, hair cut? Why not? Maybe Amy will like me more if I looked like one of those guys Sam hangs around.
Low, quiet laughter echoed through my mind followed by "Follow me!" the black wolf started jogging deeper into the forest. I stood there and looked back over my shoulder, watching my house. What the hell, I'm a wolf, the new bad boy Brady, like I'm going to worry about my curfew. I snorted at the thought and followed the black wolf.