Look^ IM BACK :D hmm, I think I'm more excited about this than you probably are, but anyway thank you so so much for all the reviews, I mean 9 reviews just for a prologue? WOW! I hope this lives up to your expectations, and enjoy the first chapter of shiver :)
(just so you know, last chapter was from the book, but this chapter is deffo not :D just a little quote at the start, to show you the awesomeness of it :D)
disclaimer: me? Own sonny with a chance? Or shiver? -queue hysterical laughter-
Sonny's pov
And so it was an unbroken pattern for 6 years, the wolves haunting presence in the winter and their even more haunting absence in the summer. I didnt really think about the timing. I thought they were wolves, just wolves...
Chad's pov
the first time I saw sonny, as a human, was the hottest day of my life, in fact, the hottest day in Wisconsin history. That day, I was at work doing my summer job in the little café in Appleton's town centre. I felt so hot! (and not just because I looked it) I heard the doorbell announce new customers with its little chime and I looked up from the book I was reading to see three teenage girls. One was slightly younger than the other two, with medium length brown hair with lighter highlights and was wearing slightly eccentric clothing, another also had brown hair and was giggling over a celebrity magazine but the last girl was her. She'd dyed her hair black but her scent was everywhere. I knew it was her. She wandered in last, a little behind the others. Stopping to take in the scent of coffee and cocoa that filled the café.
'sonny, come on!' the giggly brunette said, beckoning her over to the counter . Sonny looked up lazily from where she'd been staring out of the window and walked slowly to the other girls, staring at the floor the whole time.
'yeah' sonny said half-heartedly, glancing back over to the window.
'come on sonny! We came all the way over here so you two could get a stupid coffee, so at least choose one so we can go!' the younger girl said, waving her fingerless rainbow glove clad arm in the air in annoyance.
'fine then! ' she said, glancing up at the chalk board on the wall 'er, I'll have a white hot chocolate'
'all of that and you're not even going to have coffee?' the younger girls exclaimed 'I could have made you a hot chocolate and home but noooo you had to come to the place where they make the best coffee didnt you?'.
'whatever, lets just get our drinks' the gorgeous black haired girl said, fanning herself with her hand in spite of her buying a hot drink. But she still didnt look at me, if she'd just have seen my face, my eyes, she would have recognised the colours that stay the same, no matter what form we're in. instead she glanced out of the window again. I followed her gaze, realising she was looking at the woods, scanning the trees for something. Was it me?
'okay, so can we have...' the giggly girl said to me, placing her magazine non the counter 'wait, what do you want?' she asked the eccentrically dressed girl.
''a coke, its way to hot!' the youngest of the three said, 'I don't know how either of you can stand to drink hot drinks!' its not hot enough...
'a white hot chocolate, I just said it Lucy!' sonny said tiredly
'okay, so a coke, a white hot chocolate and er, a cappuccino please' Lucy said, pulling a pink purse out of her pocket
'anything else?' I asked, watching sonnys reaction to my voice, she glanced around curiously, but her eyes never strayed to my eyes
'you guys want anything else?' Lucy called to the other girls
'ooh, a cupcake!' the other, nameless girl said excitedly, clapping her hands together and pointing out a chocolate cupcake with smarties on top.
'uh, no, I don't want anything' sonny said, sitting down at one of the tables and the younger girl joined her.
'okay, can we have that cupcake and that cookie?' Lucy said, tapping her fingers on the glass top.
'sure, that's 6 dollars please' I said politely, bagging the cookie and cupcake and placing the drinks next to Lucy's fingers. Lucy took a 10 dollar bill of of her purse and handed it over, and I exchanged it for 4 dollars change.
'thanks' she said cheerily, taking the drinks over to the table. the youngest of the three took her drink and cupcake greedily, taking a huge sip of her coke and sighing contently. Sonny brought the mug containing her hot chocolate to her lips, taking a small sip and placing it back down on the table. I watched intently, willing her to look up and see me, but she just got up suddenly and said her goodbyes and left. I sighed sadly, resting my head in my hands.
'what a waste of a drink!' the younger girl exclaimed.
2 years later
sonny's pov
'so, what did you get for number 3?' Lucy asked me, looking over my locker where I was stood putting my books away.
'to be honest Lucy, I don't really feel like re-living the test again. I've been through it once, never again' I said, slamming my locker door shut.
'okay, whatever.' she replied grumpily, reaching into her locker. 'look, I took some pictures!'
'oh, cool. What of?' I asked, trying to show some enthusiasm for some ink on paper.
'well, this one's of Brett Mathews playing basketball, don't you think he's so hot? And this is...' Lucy's voice drones on about hot guys and celebrities, but she actually did have a talent taking these photos, if only she'd use it for something better than stalking her crushes. '...but I think you might be interested in this one, sonny.'
'what, what is it?' I asked impatiently, trying to peek at the photo in her hand.
'its of those wolves you like so much, the ones in the woods?' she revealed, holding up an artful picture of a wolf. My wolf. You could only see one eye and half his body behind the trees, but I knew it was him, it had to be.
'no way! Have you got any more?' I asked, trying to snatch the picture out of her hands. But she darted her hand away quickly.
'I've got lots in a scrapbook at my house, there's a white one,a big black one, a scraggly light brown one and even a blonde one with strange blue-gold eyes, just like the guy that works at the café in town...' Lucy rambled about all the wolves she'd seen, but when she mentioned the blonde wolf, I instantly perked up.
'come on Lucy, we'll get your scrapbook on the way to my house. Don't worry, my parents wont be home for ages, or else my mum will be in her studio.' I said, almost a little too cheerily, closing Lucy's locker for her and pulling her by the wrist to my car.
'well, okay then?' Lucy said, almost in a daze.
My car was a bit of a 'Bella from twilight' style old Chevy truck. Light blue in colour and a bit worn down in places, but it was comfortable and got the job done. I'd painted a red poppy on the doors to make it more 'sonny' but in a way it was like a living cliché, I just needed my sparkly vampire to come get me...
Anyway, Lucy and I were cruising...well I'd say cruising but actually it was more like the car was wheezing down the road to Lucy's house, which was conveniently on the same road as my house. I could see Lucy's eyes travelling around the interior of my car with a look of disgust on her face, but its the only transportation we had because she couldn't afford a car with all the clothes shopping she does and zora was too young. My dad had given me some cash for a new car but I didn't feel like going to spend it right then.
'mum, dad? Anyone in?' Lucy shouted from the doorway when we got into her house. There was a long moment of silence before zora answered.
'I'm here.' zora yelled, not even bothering to come downstairs from her room, where she was probably plotting something that we'd regret ignoring later.
'okay, me and sonny are just here picking something up.' replied Lucy, slipping off her pink ballet pumps and padded up the carpeted stairs. I followed suit, pulling off my red and white check converse with red cherries off and ambled up behind her.
'hi.' Lucy called into zora's room as she passed. There was some strange noises coming from there so she quickly sprinted into her room.
'hey.' I copied, but as I went past the sound of a large explosion could be heard so naturally, I screamed and pulled the door open to reveal zora. She was sat on a lime green revolving chair behind a huge clear plastic screen where you could see something hot pink and lilac, that looked like Lucy's CD player, melting from a Bunsen burner that was turned on it. Zora was giggling hysterically and the florescent yellow matching lab coat and goggles set along with her hair that was either static or had been back combed repeatedly gave the impression of a mad scientist.
'wait for it..' she said in between giggles.
'ZORA! WHAT HAVE YOU DONE?' Lucy's screams echoed around the house and by that time, zora was on the floor rolling around with laughter. 'sonny? We are leaving!' Lucy screamed, entering the room with a face like a tomato. She then saw the melted mess on the other side of the screen and left the room with a scream.
'I guess that's my queue to leave, see you zora.' I said, racing out of the to catch up with Lucy, and her pictures...
'come on Lucy, lets get inside. I really want to see those pictures' I said while trying to unlock my front door, the lock was a little stiff.
'all right then, Jesus, I don't know why you're so obsessed with those wolves!' Lucy replied exasperatedly, complete with crazy hand gestures and rolled eyes. But I completely overreacted.
'I am not obsessed with them!' I almost screeched, whirling around to stare at her 'I just find them, er, interesting that's all!'
'fine, whatever. Jesus.' she muttered angrily as I let us into the house.
'girls, you're here. Sonny darling, you should speak up, there's probably some people 5 miles away that didnt hear you.' my mum said sarcastically. Lucy gave a girlish giggle and high fived the hand my mum stretched out for her.
'I'll try harder in the future.' I replied just as sarcastically.
'if you need me I'll be in my studio, there's food in the fridge, water in the tap, blah, blah, blah...' mum said droning off at the end while she walked upstairs to her studio, ending with slam of her door.
'funny, I've never seen any of your mums artwork.' Lucy pondered lightly.
'yes, now lets see yours, come on!' I ordered, walking a little faster than normally with my excitement.
'well, I wouldn't really call it artwork...' Lucy said trailing in behind me, trying to work out if she should take her shoes off or not.
'don't bother, mum and dad don't care about that stuff, sit down.' I said, patting the space next to me for her to sit.
'o-kay, so you wanna see my pictures?' Lucy asked, holding out the leather bound scrapbook.
'yeah, sure.' I replied taking it. I opened the book slowly, looking at the first page which was a picture of most of the wolves drinking from the lake in the middle of the forest. It had a caption of 'most of the wolves spotted together.', I breathed in quickly as I saw the wolf in the centre, slightly to the right. It was my wolf, his golden coat glimmering in the winter sunlight, just like the soft snow around him. His blue-gold eyes were turned straight to the camera as if he knew what was happening and that he was being photographed. He was gorgeous.
I turned the next page to see to my disappointment, the white she-wolf I'd spotted in the past. She was hidden behind some dark trees but you could see her contrasting fur and dark suspicious eyes. The thing about wolves (or at least the ones I'd seen at mercy falls) was that they had very human eyes, not the emotion, just the glimmer of a past emotion, like they'd forgotten how to feel.
The next page held two other wolves, not my wolf neither of them, one was very large, perhaps the alpha of the pack? His eyes were a warm golden brown and his fur was jet black and shiny and seemed to be nuzzling the other wolf away from something in the shadows. The other wolf was a scraggly light brown gingery colour and had crazy bright green eyes.
The fourth page held something of much more interest to me. It was him, my wolf. It was a close zoomed in shot of his face that showed his amazing eyes perfectly. They were wide and turned directly to the camera lens. You could see the flash of the camera reflected in the corner of her eyes and his fur was slightly matted around his furry face. After I saw that, I didn't want to see any more and slammed the book closed. Lucy seemed to come out of her sleepy stupor and came to life.
'W-what? Are you done?' she asked, rubbing her eyes.
'yeah, can I keep this?' I asked quickly, stroking the soft leather of the binding slightly.
'sure, but give it back when you've done. Some of my best work's in there.' Lucy said, showing how proud she truly is about her work.
'okay...' I murmured opening to that page again just staring at his wolfish face and for some unknown I wandered what he'd look like, as a human...
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oh wow, I just realised, its JANUARY! you know what that means?
Sad person: Christmas is over?
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