-Chapter One-

Introductions

It was a Saturday. Sunny out, and despite the great weather outside, I kept sleeping. My arms reaching around what was thought to be my girlfriend Haley, was a pillow. Suddenly and without warning, the alarm started blaring. Crap. I had to get out of bed. Glancing at the clock at which the deafening noise came from, I watched it as it passed 9:00am to 9:01am. With a loud sigh I shifted to the side and turned the alarm off, then I slowly but surely got out of bed. Shuffling past the guest bedroom and the bathroom I found myself in the kitchen, where I also found Haley cooking breakfast. Walking up behind her I pecked her on the cheek and gave a half-hearted "good morning". She smiled then walked to the sink to wash her hands. I walked to the kitchen table and sat down with some eggs and bacon and a cool glass of orange juice. I quickly shoved a piece of bacon into my mouth began chewing slowly. It was slightly burnt. "Someone called for you earlier but I didn't want to wake you, they said they were your cousins" muttered Haley. "Oh, well I'll call them back I guess" I replied, I couldn't think of anything else to say. I mean I could call them back or I could enjoy our days off and stay home with Haley. "Eh, I'll call them back after lunch. By the way, what was the caller ID?" I asked uninterested. "Uh…" she paused for quite awhile before answering. "I think it was Vancouver. Vancouver, Canada" she finally finished. I was disappointed. "Oh okay" I replied again with no enthusiasm in my voice. Taking another bite of some bacon I hadn't noticed she had been sitting in the chair next to me. "Are you okay? You seem to acting odd" she asked with a small sign on concern in her voice. "Yeah I'm fine" I reassured her. "Those cousins of mine that live in Vancouver are old school. Like....they believe in our old family legends that we had made a deal with wolves thousands of years ago, and that if we were able to use their spirits for our own advantages they would be considered sacred and we would come to their aid in a time of need. Just blatant crap like that" I explained. "Well, do you believe it?" she asked me again. "No" what an abrupt answer, even before she finished her words I knew that would be the answer. "Oh" she replied then fell silent. "I'll call them later, lets watch some television" I said grabbing the TV remote and turning it on.

I mindlessly switched through channel after finishing my breakfast, then I felt a soft punch on my side. "Pick a channel damn it!" said Haley with a pinch of aggravation in her voice. I stopped on Animal Planet; they were doing a documentary on wolves. Great, I try and get my mind off of that subject and now I have to suffer a fifty minute special on it. "Awe they're so cute!" Haley said repeatedly during the show every time she saw a puppy. And I replied with the same answer "yeah they are". I shifted to my side and laid my head on the armrest and fell asleep, still hearing the noise of wolves howling before I zoned out.

"Daniel, it's afternoon, wake up" Haley said softly shaking me. "Ok, I know you are listening I see you smiling" she said again, she was right, I was smiling. "Fine then, I'll do this" she said before pushing me clean off the couch. "Ouch, that hurt" I said in a blatant lie. "Go get ready, its already afternoon" she commanded scornfully. "Ok then mommy" I replied comically. She rolled her eyes and cracked a grin. Quickly before she started on me again I sat up and dashed into the bedroom. Quickly throwing on a shirt and some jeans I slipped my sneakers on and headed to the bathroom. I quickly brushed my teeth and put some deodorant on, then walked back into the living room. "Hola sexy" Haley spouted as I entered the room. I smiled and walked to sit next to her. "So what do you want to do? We have all day to do something" I asked interested. "Well, we could stay home and watch movies" she suggested. "Or…" she took a short pause. "We could go out and spend the day at the beach" she finally added. "So which one?" I chuckled in response. "Eh, let's just have stay in and we'll pick something up for dinner" she finally decided. I nodded in agreement and walked up to the DVD selection we had that was perfectly organized next to the TV. "So which movie?" I asked. "Something…. Funny" she muttered. So as she told me what she wanted, I blankly picked a movie. This'll do I thought as I popped the movie into the DVD player.

During the middle of the movie, Haley began to start dozing off. Suddenly I felt her warm body collapse against mine, I didn't bother to look to see what she was doing, and I was too hooked into the movie to care. "This… is my favorite part" she muttered. I rolled my eyes, she always loved the last kiss scenes of movies, and it was a true fascination of hers. I kissed her forehead then laid a pillow in my lap. She slowly moved her head from my shoulder to the pillow and quickly covered herself up with a blanket.

Later that night we had dinner, I had made chicken fettuccini with tomatoes and garlic. "You know you never called your relatives earlier today" she said with a full mouth. "Yeah, not excited about it" I admitted. "Well" she said silently picking the phone up and calling the number back. "Here" she gave the phone to me. "What, no!" I whispered as I forced the phone from my hand. "Take it now Daniel!" she whispered back while forcing the phone in my grip. "But!" I was cut off by the voice coming from the phone. "Hello?" he asked. "Oh . . . uh. . . Hello!" I sounded like an idiot. "Is this Daniel Creeks?" asked the man. "Yes, this is Daniel Creeks" I replied. "How are you son? It's been awhile" he asked in a friendly warm voice. "I'm fine, I wasn't expecting you guys to call" I replied trying to be enthusiastic.

"Oh my apologies I'm being rude this is Glen, Glen Creeks. I'd get Claudia or Chloe to say hello but I'm afraid their getting groceries." He replied excitedly. "But Lewis and Darius are here, say hey boys" he immediately said. I could hear older boys saying hello over the phone. "Yeah little Lewis and Darius, how are they? Last I saw them they were fifteen and fourteen" I asked trying to start a conversation. "Well Lewis isn't little anymore and neither is Darius. Lewis is about to turn eighteen and Darius is turning seventeen in October" he explained. "Ah, I thought their voices seemed a little different" I replied with a chuckle. Glen laughed for a minute then came back into the conversation. "So Daniel, you need to come to Vancouver. I understand your residing in Florida, I'll pay for the ticket" his voice was urgent now. "There is a big event that is about to happen in the family much like family business, and your involved" he continued. "Oh, what event, someone getting married, or a funeral or something?" I asked in confusion. "No, there have been complications that involve you and we need to up here as fast as could be" he explained again. "I understand, but I can't just leave, I have a job and my girlfriend Haley is in law school" I explained to him. "Just call in sick and Haley shouldn't come" he said sounding more serious. "Ok" was that all I could say? I felt like I was in a hostage situation! This was unbelievable, my relatives spring up out of nowhere and demand I fly from Florida to Vancouver, Canada and don't tell me a reason?!

"Your flight leaves in two days, be ready" he spouted then hung up.

"So what they say?" asked Haley quirkily. "I'm going to Vancouver in two days apparently, there is some family business in which they wont tell me what and they said you can't come" I replied. "Why can't I come?" she replied. "I don't know, he said you can't come, he's bought a ticket already and told me I'm leaving in two days" I replied hastily. "Oh well fine, I guess I cant really go if I wanted, school and such" he said sipping her drink. She couldn't lie very well; I could see she felt left out. "I'm gonna turn in early, let it all sink-in" I said abruptly to break the silence. "Okay" she replied. I picked up my plate and put it in the sink then shuffled to bed, slipping my night shorts on I quickly dozed off into a dreamless sleep.