Baying Tides

Baying Tides

Preface

I stood at the cliff, the water choppy in the mid September air. I heard their voices behind my brain, some begging me to come back, some telling me to stay away, and the rest of them telling me they wanted me back, but it was my decision. I shook the voices away, thinking as much like an animal as I could. I had to react only on instinct. I didn't want to be human, ever. Not again. Not after what I'd done. Not after what had happened all of those years ago. Not after what happened just recently.

I slowly lowered my bottom to the ground, looking out over the waves.

"Come back!" Embry snarled in my head.

"Leave me alone! Why can't you catch on you retard!" I snarl back for at least the six hundredth time.

"You missed your own father's funeral. Why can't you just forget about everything?" Seth whispered, so softly that he was barely heard over the cursing of Embry.

"I don't want to come back. I don't want to be human Seth! Why can't you accept that and leave me the hell alone!"

"But you were human for my sister!" He whined. I had to stop the voices. Turning, I made a dash for the woods, the opposite direction they were in. I knew that eventually if I got farther away, I'd be able to drowned out most of them…or at least most of what they were saying.