The teenage girl hand rested on the handle of her front door. The rain was still striking her but she was so numb from the cold that she couldn't feel it. She took a deep breath and stepped inside.
"Oh, Leah's home." She heard her brother hang up the phone and without looking at him she started up the stairs. Before she was half way her brother's voice drifted up to her, "Hey Leah, mum said to tell you dinner at six."
"Thanks Seth but I already ate." Her voice was little more than a croak. She didn't turn, continued up the stairs and entered her room, it was dark but her keen eyes could see well enough. She shook the water out of her matted hair, it hadn't been washed for weeks.
Flopping down on her unmade bed she looked up at the ceiling for the hundredth time that week. "Jacob where are you?" Her voice was small in the large room, all most lost in the emptiness. Seth and the others say you're in Canada but can't pinpoint you. She sighed loudly
How could you just leave. She knew he wouldn't answer even if he could hear her. As the thought crossed her mind she knew what she had to do, in a few seconds she was out the window.
Leah hit the ground on four paws and started running leaving her shredded clothes behind. She wasn't sure why but no one was phased at the moment, a lucky break, she only felt the faint echo of Jacob's thoughts. She was headed for the highest point around, the forest reduced to a green blur, Leah was the fastest in the whole pack.
She reached out with her thoughts hoping to get a response from the large russet wolf.
Go away Leah!
Jacob! But there was only silence in reply. Leah felt a rush of heat that extended to the end of each of her hairs. The others hadn't been able to get a response from him and he had called her by name.
She reached the top of mountain and howled.