The little squirrel ran straight across the road and scurried off into the brush on the side of the road where it disappeared from sight. I was relieved that we hadn't hit it. That would have made me feel really bad even though I wasn't the one driving the truck.
My brother Paul was the one driving and he didn't seem to care that we had just barely let the little guy survive.
I was still thinking about the very lucky squirrel when we arrived back at home. Paul still insisted on driving me home from school even though I could legally drive myself. Every once in a while he would forget and I would have the freedom of driving, but that didn't happen very often.
I hopped out of his white truck and put my bag on my shoulder to carry it inside our little house. Once inside I made a beeline for my bedroom to get started on my mountain of homework.
It was a couple of hours later when I finally emerged from my room and I was quite hungry as I hadn't eaten since breakfast that morning. I made my way down the stairs and strait into the kitchen where I found my brother and his two friends, Jared and Sam. Both of them were rather hunky and just wonderful eye candy. Before making my presence known, I just kinda stood there and took in their large muscles.
Once I was done ogling the two of them I shuffled in to the kitchen and opened the fridge. I looked at all the contents and none of them looked appetizing to me. I turned around to face Paul and I looked him straight in the eye. Without saying a word he got up, opened the oven and there was a slice of lasagna left in the middle of a very large pan. Realizing that they had most likely had the rest of it, I was grateful that they had actually saved me some. I quickly grabbed it out of the oven and started eating it. Damn I was hungry. I had finished it off within two minutes. Looking up I saw both of the boys that weren't related to me look at me in surprise. Shrugging it off I just walked out of the kitchen and up the stairs to my room.
It was about nine thirty when I heard the all three of the boys leave. Wondering where they were going at this time of night I drifted off into a peaceful sleep.
When I woke up the next morning they still weren't home. I just figured that they had gone out then gone back to one of the other boy's house. Yea, that was most likely.
Pushing that out of my mind, I got out of bed and started to get ready for school. I had showered the night before so my hair had dried straight and was now clean. I brushed through it a couple of times to get all of the knots out of it.
I opened my closet to find my out fit for the day. After standing there and inspecting all of my options, I decided to wear plain black leggings with a light blue sweatshirt that had my school name on it. I didn't put on any make up as it looked like it was going to rain and I didn't want to deal with looking like a raccoon.
I ran out to my car without grabbing anything to eat, and sped off to school.
I got out of my truck just as the bell rang and I ran to the gate before it was closed. I made it just in time then began walking down the hall way to my locker to get a few of my books. Once I was done I headed off to my first class, which went by in a blur.
At lunch I met up with my friend, Catori, at lunch but we couldn't find our other friends though. Whatever, they probably ditched. I wish I had.
"Cat, Tori, Catori?," I said, trying to get her attention. When I said her full name she looked at me like she was going to kill me. At least I had her attention. I then nudged her and looked directly behind us, it was Embry Call. She had had a crush on him since third grade. And here we are now, sophmores. I don't really think that they will ever get there.
As lunch ended Cat and I headed to our next class which we had together and we arrived just about when everyone else did. This was by far the most boring class as it's world history, but atleast I had Cat to keep me company.
The rest of the day passed in a slow motion blur that wasn't necessarily terrible. I stopped at my locker on my way out of the school so that I could lighten my load. Once I was done there I walked out side to go to my truck.
I drove home quickly and when I got there I saw Paul's truck there. That most likely means that he and his couple of friends were there. I parked next to his truck in the driveway and got out and walked into the house.
As i had predicted all three of them were there. I greeted them and then headed to the backyard so I could get some fresh air as I did my homework. Even though it was a Friday I didn't want to have to do my homework later so I figured I would do it now.
Just as I walked out of the house I saw something come out of the woods. A horse sized wolf. Holy Fuck.
Barely holding in a scream I walked back in the house and walked to the rifle by the front door. Just as I grabbed it Paul asked, "What the hell are you doing River Mai Lahote?"
Not realizing he had seen me walk over to the door I almost dropped the gun in fright. Luckily I didn't, I just turned around and pointed at the back door. He took the gun from my hand and headed out the back. I followed him closely so I could witness his reaction to the thing in our backyard.
"SAM!" he called immediately. In what seemed like no time at all Sam was out the door and looking at the wolf all the while cussing under his breath.
The wolf was still slightly concealed by the forest, but it was that I hadn't been hallucinating. Paul turned around and looked me in the eye and just motioned for me to follow him into the forest and towards the wolf.
"Sam, we have to tell her everything." He whispered to sam although I could still here everything that was said. Sam nodded and just started walking out to the forest while I noticed for the first time that Jared was now out here as well. He followed closely after Sam who was walking infront of the wolf. The wolf definetly wasn't normal as it hadn't attacked any of us yet. Yet, that was the key word.
I followed my brother still very suspicious of everything that was going on. We walked through the forest until we got to a small little clearing where we all stopped.
I probably would've been shouting out questions except for the fact that I was in shock that the boys were so calm about it.
"You know all of those legends about the quiliettes, well they are all real." Paul stated right as we stopped walking.
My breath caught in my throat and I just looked at him as everything clicked into place. Then shit went down.
"Why the fuck didn't you tell me Paul?! I deserved to know this from the moment you started disappearing! You are my fucking brother! You aren't supposed to keep secrets from your little sister! You said you would be there for me after Mom and Dad left! You fucking promised me Paul. " I ranted, "And who the fuck is this?" I said pointing to the grey wolf.
Before Paul could reply, Sam stepped in and told us that we should get to emily's before explaining any more.
"NO!" I shouted. I was absolutely furious. How dare Paul keep this from me? He was the only family I had left. He had promised me. Soon enough I was seeing red and I felt sore everywhere. Suddenly it was as if my bones were breaking. I was in agony and screaming now.
