Crying to the moon

Chapter 1

"The smell of your skin

Linger on me now."

Ever since I was little I was told that big girls don't cry, so I wouldn't cry no matter how much it hurt. Or no matter how much I wanted to, I wouldn't cry. At least not when the sun was still shining and when people were still awake. But at night that's when I cried, night was my time, so when everyone was sleeping id get my warm blankets and go sit at my window. Looking at the moon as I let my silent tears roll down my soft cheeks.

But I don't cry at my window no more, because once I turned 13 I would sneak out of my grandmother's house and go into the forest. You see that's the best thing about Lapush there's always trees to keep you company. As I went deeper into the forest floor until I found a meadow. I went into the center of the meadow and lay down on the grass I looked up at the stars but most importantly the moon and cry my heart out. And even though the years have passed I still do, I still am laying down at my meadow with tears in my eyes. Even if my body has changed, I still feel like that 7 year old looking out her window.

Flash Back

"Mommy! Where are you?" I called out at the forest air as I went deeper into it. Some of us from Lapush were at chief swans house having a get together to watch this game on TV

"MelodyHoney stay back, run to daddy" I heard my mother yell out, just a little way ahead of me. Normally I would listen to her but her voice when she said it, it sounded like she was scared and panicking. So I ran to where I heard her voice, and as I rounded a huge tree I saw something that would change my life forever.

"Mommy" was all I could say as I looked at my mother with her back towards me, but that wasn't the scary part, the scary part was what I saw in front her. There in front of my mother was a woman with blood red eyes and very large teeth. As I stared at my mother and then to the women, who slowly moved her head from looking at my mother to me. And smiled showing how white her teeth were. She then took a slow step towardsme with a gleam in her eyes.

"Stop! Stay away from my daughter!" my mother yelled as she stood in front of me.

"Darling I will that is until I'm done drinking from you." Was all she said before she attacked my mom and bit her. As she squatted over my mom and began to drink I went behind her and hit on the head with my bear.

"Stop it! Leave her alone your hurting her!" I screamed with tears in my eyes. She then turnedtowards me and looked as if she was about to pounce.

But then something hit her from aside, it was another one of them only this women had butterscotch eyes. I washed them as the two woman hit fought each other when I heard someone whisper my name from behind.

"Melody" my mother said in a whisper from where she lay on the ground. "Mommy" was all I could say as I cried at her shoulder.

"Ohhoney is alright, you'll be alright, just remember mommy loves you and all your sisters very much. Can you tell them that for me?" she said in a raspy voice.

"I will mommy! I sobbed as I cried "mommy I'm not a big girl I still cry" I said sadly as I looked down at her beautiful face.

"It's ok to cry Melody; you can cry all you want." She said looking at me with love in her eyes "cry at night honey cry to the moon, I'll be listening." Was the last thing she said as her sparkling eyes turned into dull lifeless brown.

"Mommy I love you" was what I said as I lay my head on her chess wishing I could hear her heart beat. That this was just a very bad night mare, that any minute now she would stand up and give me a hug. But I knew that wasn't going to happen and it was all because of that women. I turned around to see that there were more the people with butterscotch eyes as they turned something on fire. Slowly they turned around and looked at me with hurt and sorrow in their eyes. Slowly one by one they left deeper into the forestUntil there was only two left a blond man, and that woman that attacked the lady first? She slowly stepped forward looking down at me. As if asking me if she could come closer, I'm sure after what I just saw I should be scared because this lady had the same teeth as the other one but the truth is that I wasn't. I slowly walked over to her and for some reason I hugged her.

She stiffened for a second before she relaxed into my hug; I looked up into her eyes to see a warm look, the same look my mother always gave me, love. Slowly she hugged me back, rubbing my arms trying to sooth the pain I was feeling in my heart. She was cold, was what I thought, I felt like I was hugging ice. So I rubbed her arms and looked up at her. She and the man slowly smiled at me.

"Esma dear, we…need to go, people are coming" said the man as he went closer to the woman hugging me. She crouched down to me and kissed me on the forehead gave me one last squeeze before she left with the man.

It wasn't too long after they left that I heard footsteps coming I looked up to see my grandmother and some men from Lapush along with chief swan look down at me in horrorAs they took in my tear dried face, and my mother laying lifeless on the floor just a few steps away from me. Chief Swan came to me and led me to my grandmother and she carried me back to the house. But before we went in I heard a little boy tell the other little boys that his daddy said it was a 'cold one'. Cold one, for some reason that name fit the lady with red eyes. But the other ones with butterscotch it sounded mean, like it didn't fit them. As I felt the reality of it all hit me, that my mother was gone. I felt my head get heavy, so I looked up at the beautiful gray moon before sleep over took me.

End Flash Back

I bolted up from my spot in the meadow looking around trying to see if anyone was there. Satisfied that I was the only one in the meadow I quickly got up and dusted myself off and headed back towards grandma's house. As I was walking I couldn't stop thinking of what happened over the year's right after mom died. She missed out on a lot, like both of my older sister's weddings, how Serenity already has kids. That's the reason I'm living here with my grandmother, I used to come with my mom just for summer vacation but now that my sis has trouble taking care of me and her kids along with work. I decided that I could go live with grandma and help her out around the house. So starting this year I will go to Lapush high school. I looked ahead to see that a faint glow was near. Telling me that I was almost there, since my grandmother always turned on the porch light when she went to bed. I walked slowly up the porch steps to my house and was about to open the door when I heard something, like a twig braking. I turned around fast enough to see a shadow of what looked like a wolf run off towards the side of the house. Quickly I went into the house making sure everything was locked before I drifted to sleep.