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Riding into the parking lot of the school seemed to drag a lot of attention towards me.

-I should've known…-

- What high school student wouldn't gather attention riding a motorcycle to school…-

As I kind of parked my bike towards the side of the parking lot, a huge amount of students had already begun to stare and gossip about me… I could tell. I guess the only thing running through my head was to get out of the parking lot. I looked around to find where the main building was or at least some building where I can get my schedule. A little to the left of the parking lot was a small building but with a big sign on the side saying Main. I guess that was the right building… if not then I have no idea why they would name that building Main. As I quickly walked towards the building I was able to see an abundance of kid's eyes following me all the way to the building. The only thing I was thinking was

-Walk faster and get into the building already…-

Even as I opened the door to the building, the large number of scents running through my nostrils made me know that a bunch of people were walking closer to the building to see who the "new guy" is.

-Moon… they irritate me so much…-­­­­­

Inside the small building were a main desk and 2 rooms to the side of it. There also seems to be a door that leads to the back that is only used by faculty. The lady working at the main desk seemed slightly fat and seemed to have used a little too much make up. I walked over and she looked up with a small and slowly made smile. I was guessing that she has to do this everyday and got extremely tired of it. I made her life easier by getting everything over with.

"Excuse me…"

"Yes, good morning young man how may I help you?"

"Uh… I'm a new student. I just transferred here."

"Yes, what's your name?"

"Cory…"

"Last name?"

"Corvin"

"Thank you, here's your schedule and your School ID card."

"Thanks…" – I just walked straight out of the building afterwards. However, when I was leaving the building someone was also walking in. It was a girl who seemed to be just about my age as well. Something about her caught my attention though. Her scent wasn't human. I didn't know whether or not she was one of us either. I could be wrong though going with the fact that I made the mistake a long time ago and almost lost control.

-What were the chances of her being one of them?-

-I'm thinking too much. I should just go to class…-

My schedule seemed to be extremely boring. Most of the classes I've already taken. My first class of the day was math. Math class is like always only about a bunch of numbers and a teacher who thinks memorizing every formula will only do you so much good unless you learn to so call "use it".

-What's so hard about plugging in a couple of numbers into a damn formula…-

Walking into the class late didn't seem like a good idea anymore especially since I was the so called new kid and that really set a bad impression on the teacher. Setting a bad impression isn't that big of a deal but there is still the fact that the class of 29 students was staring at me as if I was a lost freshman who just entered high school. I felt like I wanted to sink my teeth into every last one of them so that they will learn to not stare at someone in such a weird manner especially since none of them have ever met me before and none of them know where I'm from and what I've done.

I walked over to the teacher and showed my small transfer slip that the lady at the main building gave me. He took a glimpse at it, looked at his sheet and then told me to take a seat near the window. The room was pretty big for 29 students and I didn't even know if the room was for a math class or a science class. The room looked a little too big to e made for a math class.

-What is there for a math teacher to show in such a big room?-

-A giant statue of a mathematician?-

I tried not to notice the fact that still a number of students were staring at me. The ones who stopped were the ones that were smart. I took my seat and then took out my small notebook and pen. I pretended I was listening while I thought about what to do about tonight. Tonight was the night where the "family" gathers and tells the elders what they did during the full moon which is always the night before the gathering. Those whose stories seemed fake, were filled with innocent murders or seemed to be incomplete for no given reason would be punished the next moon. They would be locked up in the warehouse down a couple of blocks. A warehouse is much better then the place back at home. The elders would throw the wolves in a huge ditch then close the ditch with a giant gate that was made of pure silver.

The legends of us being affected by silver are true but not to the extent of which we cant touch it. Touching it is no problem but if at anytime silver touches our blood or an open cut, we'd have probably a day to live at most unless cured. Some are unfortunate and are shot or stabbed in the heart by a silver bullet or stake. Those wolves die in probably an hour at most. Some die instantly. If you are really unlucky and are shot or stabbed in the head will die instantly. But only if the bullet reaches the brain. Werewolves are known for their unbelievable regenerative ability. Getting shot in the mouth or the back of the neck isn't much of a problem at all. A would like that heals in a little over 3 minutes. The only real way to kill one of us would have to be to use silver.

Yet I still never understood why only a silver gate is used to block those who are banished for the next moon day. Pushing and throwing the gate away from the ditch shouldn't hurt the wolf at all. That one problem and thought in my head was never solved before. I still don't get it. I always wanted to go and find out before gatherings but I always decided to not go so I can avoid the conflicts ill have with my dad if I am caught.

-That's right… what's my story for tonight…-

-Wait… dad knows I was at home… why do I even have to tell a story…-

"Cory"

"Huh…What?" I looked around to realize I was still in math class and the class was already gone. The teacher was at the door pointing at me for some odd reason.

-I still don't know this guy's name…-

"Are you leaving? I have to go!"

"Oh… yeah sorry I'm coming" I barely finished packing when I left. I simply rushed out still partially thinking about tonight and what stories are going to be told. I always found them fun to listen to despite the fact that most of them are filled with blood and horrid images of teeth sinking into meat and tearing it into a thousand pieces.

­-Yeah… I miss those stories… ha.-

I was standing in the middle of the hallway pretty much clueless about what I was supposed to be doing. Two minutes of complete confusion before I realized that I was suppose to go to my next class. Next class of the day was gym. I almost got lost walking to the gym. Only way I made it to the gym was by following the scent of sweat coming from a confined area.

-A big area with just the smell of sweat… that has to be the gym…-

The bell rang before I even made it to the gym. Just a few seconds after the bell, I walked into the gym. Everyone in the big high school stadium turned around at the sound of the gym doors. Every single student stared at me as I walked to the teacher. It felt like the beginning of math class again. I walked over to the gym teacher who seemed to have worked out daily for the last 20 years of his life. He wore a shirt that seemed like was going to rip off of his body because it was strapped onto his body so tight. He took a big glare at me an stuck out his hand. I was guessing he was asking for my transfer slip. I handed it to him and watched as he scanned the paper with his big eyes. He looked up and with his big deep voice screamed out to the class.

"Everyone, this is your new classmate Cory. He will be joining us from now on."

I didn't even bother saying hello to any of the students. I was simply going to wait to see how athletic these teenagers in the village were. The gym teacher didn't seem that pleased with the fact that no one in the class had changed into a gym uniform. All he did was throw a football at one of the big bodied guys in the middle of the crowd of teenagers. The kid caught the football and then ran into the middle of the stadium screaming…

"Football! Who's captain?" Another one of the kids which seemed like his friend ran out of the crowd with a smile that annoyed me in a way I couldn't explain. He pointed at one of the smaller kids who seemed like he wasn't even able to throw a softball if he tried. The kid walked out of the crowd with his head down. I was guessing that the kid didn't really like football but didn't have much of a choice at the very moment. Both of the players started picking players out of the huge crowd. At the end, only me and one other person was left. I had just realized that the crowd of kids had girls in them. The last person left was the girl from the morning that had an unusual scent. The big bodied kid was now staring back and forth at me and the girl next to me. He was wondering which one to pick for his team. Then he finally chose the girl and I was stuck on the other team. I took a look around at the teams and realized that the other team seemed to have a lot of big bodied guys while the team I was on had kids with puny bodies. I had no idea how my team was going to beat the other team in football and winning the football game was still the last of my interests at the moment. The scent of the girl still confused me. I couldn't get used to the scent and it stuck out of the whole gym stadium. I finally stopped thinking about the girl and her weird scent once the football game started. I was placed in the back with a few other kids. The football was thrown to the opposite side of the stadium to the big bodied kids who started running down the stadium. Before I even started walking towards the kids, the big bodied kid had already been tackled to the ground. To my own amazement, I realized that the puny kids on my team were smaller but also faster and smarter then the big bodied kids. Their tactics were a lot better then the other team. The ball was turned over to my team pretty fast. Before I knew it, a ball was being thrown towards my team. One of the puny kids caught it and started speeding down the stadium. I thought that the kid was going to run a touchdown until out of no where he was tackled to the floor by the girl with the weird scent.

-What the fuck?! How did she tackle that kid to the ground?!-

-She was at the other side of the stadium a few seconds ago…-

Something about that girl was absolutely mysterious and I wanted to find out who she was. I didn't bother running or even trying to tackle anyone during that class. The bell rang after about a half hour of playing. All the kids ran to grab their book bags and go to their next classes. I slowly walked over to grab my book bag. After I grabbed it, I saw the girl walk to grab her bag. I started walking towards her hoping to find out at least her name and where she was from. I just had to find out who she was…