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Chapter 1: Wolves

Belle's POV

I listen as he and his friends taunt and ridicule me. Mocking me without mercy as I trembled and struggled to stay composed as I fought to keep my secret a secret. A secret that wasn't entirely mine to keep.

It honestly shouldn't bother anymore since they've made my life a living hell since I was little. Always making fun of me for being adopted and having no memory of my past. It didn't matter that my younger brother and my friends had the same problem. All adopted with no memories of their real parents. I was the one that they constantly picked on.

Victor was the one that I hated the most. Or should I say used to hate the most? I didn't know. I thought I hated him all my life. I did hate all my life. Until recently anyway.

Maybe I should first start of by explaining the weirdness that is me, my brother, and our friends. We could all turn into wolves. Hairy oversized wolves. It started with Sam. He was my best friend. He was the first to suddenly and unexpectedly explode into a wolf. Angela was next followed by Joseph, and my brother Michael. Then there was me. My name is Isobelle but I prefer Belle. I was the last to make the change just a few short months ago.

I felt like I had been pushed to the limit with the bullying and I just exploded. No one was around to see thank god for that. I can still remember clearly how freaked out I was when I first saw my wolf reflection. Nothing freakier then seeing yourself with light brown fur and four legs and paws. Luckily my friends and brother had already gone through what I was currently going through. Like all wolf packs we had an alpha. That was Sam. We all obeyed him and followed his orders whether we wanted to or not.

I, on the other hand, was not afraid to challenge Sam. Like when he ordered me to stay away from Victor 'for my own good'. This was nothing something I could obey so I fought him.

I didn't even understand what I was going. Victor was a lifelong bully I used to hate but now the thought of being separated from him pained me. When I first saw him after the wolf change everything changed. Everything that made me who I was completely changed. From the moment I locked eyes with him I knew that if I had to I would die in order for him to live.

As a wolf I learned a lot more about him then I would have ever thought possible. As a wolf I found him alone on the beach one day. It looked like he had been crying. He was scared of me at first but gradually he warmed up to me. When he was alone he was a completely different boy. He was just a broken kid with a past full of abuse. He had a drunken father that would beat the hell out of him for no reason and a druggie mom that really didn't care about his well being at all.

Now everyday I meet him at the beach as a wolf. I looked forward to seeing his good natured soul in the evening. It was a complete contrary to the mean spirited one I saw at school and in other places where I might encounter him as a human. Sometimes though I really think he was just egged on by his friends. He's always seems a little more hesitant then the others.

My friends say I'm imagining it all and I just need to stay the hell away from him but they just don't understand why it's impossible for me to do that. Hell I don't even understand it. Before it was easy now not so much.

Maybe if we couldn't read each other's minds as wolves it would all be easier. Stupid wolf telepathy just puts all of our deepest darkest secrets out in the open. Like my intense fear of the water. I refused to go in the water which is ironic considering that I live in Hawaiii. I nearly drowned when I was little and I never got over it. Just thinking of even going in a swimming pool was enough to make my heart stop. I had successfully kept my secret until the whole wolf thing.

At least it wasn't just my secrets that were out in the open. My brother has been cheating on his girlfriend for a while. A fact that made me want to beat him half to death sometimes. Or Sam's secret love of boy bands. Something that made me laugh.

Of course there was the fundamental question of why this was happening to us. None of us could even begin to understand why we had been blessed with these powers and we were certain that we never would.

As soon as I got home from school that day I turned on the news. I wasn't exactly surprised to find a news report about us wolves on the news. Wolves were not native to Hawaii and it hasn't exactly escaped the notice of the locals that there was suddenly a pack of horse sized wolves prowling the streets. The news also reported another missing person. There seems to be way to many people disappearing or being killed lately. The numbers seem to be going up every month and it's quite scary. Theories like vicious new gang and wildly active serial killer are being thrown around. It's happening on all the islands to. Not just the one I'm on.

All I could say is that there is a lot of strange things going on in this screwed up world of ours.

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