Phases of the Moon

Selene's POV

I could hear the sounds of the airport echoing in my ear. I heard the static from the microphone as they announced the flight plane. I looked out the window at the looming Budapest skyline. Tiny droplets of rain ran down the glass as I grabbed my bags and headed to home, back in Ipswich, where I could escape the horrors that I would leave here. I glanced behind me being careful of all glances at me. I breathed a long sigh as I walked to the airplane.

I sat down and fiddled with long chocolate hair. It was damp from my travel to the airport. I looked out the window as I felt the speed pick up as we flew into the air. I hated flights, the thought of being cooped up in a plane for many hours seemed intolerable. I allowed myself some time to sleep, the first in a long time. I drifted back to when I was younger with my brothers and when things weren't as…complicated.

"Caleb…wait! You're too fast!" a small girl screamed as she ran in the woods. She was chasing her ten year old brother along with his friends. Her birthday was today and while the family got the part ready, they all decided to play tag.. They decided to play tag in the forest outside their home. Along the way she had gotten lost behind Caleb. The young girl started to cry as she looked around at the unfamiliar place. She heard crunching like leaves, she stared to cry louder for her brother, for his friends anybody. She was so afraid, she looked up and stared into the face of a wolf as it lunged for her.

Regular POV

She jumped up as she remembered that day. The last part was wrong, that had not happened that day. Her brother was the one that came out of the woods. The wolf part was from the present. It was her sixteenth birthday when she was in Budapest at a night club. She and her friends went into the woods, drunk playing around. Of course she got lost in her drunken stupor and ended up sitting at the roots of tree as she laughed at nothing. She heard a noise like a growl and growled back as she fought off the effects of the alcohol. Suddenly it was like she was sober, the growl became louder and she was not laughing now. She called for her friends but she only heard more snapping of twigs as she backed into the tree. She closed her eyes trying to block out the surroundings. She heard steps and began to tremble. She peeked her eye open and let out a piercing scream as the brown wolf lunged at her, its mouth snapping as it attacked her. Minuets later she laid there bleeding from her side, at the brink of death when the largest wolf she had ever seen walked over to her. It looked down almost in pity as he stared into her eyes as she closed them.

That was the day everything changed. She met Gabriel Sage and his son Adrian. Gabriel was the large wolf she had met. They were werewolves or loup-garous whatever you wanted to call them. They had let her live among them turning her into what they were, but she didn't want any part of this curse they had given her. True her sight, hearing, and smell were increased along with her athletic ability, but the cons outweighed the pros. The smell of blood was prominent everywhere, she thirsted for blood or food, whatever she could get her hands on. If she became too angry she could snap and turn into this…demon. She was dangerous here in Budapest, but hopefully she could forget her lupine side when she went to Ipswich. It had been almost five years. My mother had shipped me off when Caleb turned thirteen. When he and his friends left for some camp she shipped me off to a boarding school in Europe. I didn't even get to say goodbye. My father had been ill lately and my brother and his friends had been hanging out more since Caleb and Pogue had turned thirteen. They all left that summer and I was left alone in a mansion where my mother drank herself to oblivion as my father's health decreased. I had gotten a cryptic message a year later saying he had died. I was a million miles from their and I was all alone.

I felt the plane land and the passengers leave. I sat looking out of the small window as the green, orange, and red trees in the background. I felt my heart stop, I had lived in Europe for almost seven years and had felt so far away from the place I used to call home, but now here I was in Ipswich, and I had never felt farther.

I picked up my cell and dialed a number I had typed in so many times yet never called. I put it to my ear and listened to the rings that followed.

"Hello?" a deep voice answered. I felt my breath stop short as I heard his voice.

"Hello?" he repeated.

I let out a breath and liked my lips.

"Caleb…" I whispered.

"I'm home in Ipswich, I came home." I said I felt tears tickle my eyes. I heard him gasp and let out a breath.

"Selene?" he said almost unsure.

"He big brother…" I said softly.

"It's been five years…" I heard him whisper.

"I know, but I wanted to come home." I said almost pleading.

Caleb's POV

I was sitting around with the gang at the house. We had just finished watching a movie and were just talking when my cell went off. I looked at the id and it just said local. I answered and only heard breathing. I spoke again and was rewarded with a voice I hadn't heard since I was thirteen.

"Selene?" I asked. When I said that name the boys turned to me with their mouths wide and surprised. I let out a breath I didn't realize I was holding.

"It's been five years…" I said like a whisper.

I sat down and listened to my baby sister as she told me she was in Ipswich and was coming home. She was on her way here and was going to Spencer. I hung up the phone and stared into the blank faces of my friends.

"Was that who I think it was?" Pogue asked as he looked at my surprised face.

"It was Selene, she is back in town." I said softly.

Five Years Ago:

Four boys came barreling in with camping gear as they all ran upstairs to her room to tell her the amazing news they were going to tell her. Reid reached her room first he swung the door open and stopped. I ran behind him and looked at the bare room. All her stuffed animals were gone and movie posters. Her room was bare and cold. Half of her furniture was gone save her bed. All that was left was a small wolf he had won her at the carnival before he left. His mother appeared at the doorway with glass of sherry in her hands. She told them she had shipped her off to a school. He started to cry, even though he was thirteen. All four of them stayed in her room till it was time to go.

Reid's POV

It couldn't be happening…

Five years since he had seen her last. He still remembered that night before he left for camp.

"Come on Reid! It's raining!" screamed Selene as she ran under the terrace. Reid stood there under the rain laughing at her as she rung her hair out. Her hazel eyes were filled with laughter.

"Come on Selene its fun to play in the rain!" I said back. I dragged her out as she squealed at the pounding rain.

I fell down in the grass laughing as she pushed me into the ground laughing as she rolled on her back letting the rain fall on her face.

"I hate that you're going to camp tomorrow." She said as she rested on her elbows looking at me.

"I know, but my father wants me to go, and everyone else is going so it could be fun." I said.

"I'm going to miss you guys." She said as she fell back.

"The same." I said back. I looked over at her and looked at her eyes. I smiled and leaned over and gave a small peck to her lips. Her eyes widened as she felt my lips on hers. I smiled again and got up. I looked down at her, she was still in shock. I gave her a hand as we walked to the door.

Selene's POV

I looked at the trees as we drove by. Flashes or red and orange whizzed by me as the taxi pulled into a mansion. I had almost forgotten what it had looked like as I walked to the door. I turned around as the taxi drove off. I looked up at the house I once called home and knocked on the door. I felt my heart stop as I confronted my fears.

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