School
"You'll be fine." Gina said as I sit in the car.
"They're not going to stare," I wine like I was the younger one here.
My sister could win affords for being most optimistic "I guess your right."
Her face drops and she whips out her phone "Please say that again so I can have proof."
I smile "I guess your right."
"Okay lets go."
We walk together and people are staring but not me I remind myself. Gina smile as people wave to her. I leave her at her locker were her friends are waiting, walking to my locker in the senior block. What I notice is that people aren't waving or saying hi but they are looking at me. It makes my skin crawl like maybe I have million little bugs on me.
Making to my locker all I want is get my book, go to class, and not see any animals on my way. Is that to much to ask. It must be because as I take my physics book and binder a boy starts talking to me.
He lean against the locker "Sip-up."
"Hi," I say around him.
"Are you new I saw you with Gina Del Mauro are like a cousin or something?" He asked following me.
"No, Asher."
"You know me," He said blushing.
I roll my eyes "I'm Toni Del Mauro, Gina's big sister and we have the same English class."
His eyes widen and his jaw drops "Your Fat Toni!" At the name Fat Toni the entire senior hall stops and looks at me then the whispers turn into full blown conversations. I run to my class I'm the first one in there not even the teacher is here but than again with all the murder that happens around here I'm surprised they even found a teacher. My teacher Mr. Kyle is stumped at my sudden change I sit in my normal seat but still he asked.
"Are you new you kinda familiar but I have to ask."
"Mr. Kyle its me Toni Del Mauro."
He's surprised to I see him turn his head to mouth the words Fat Toni. The class snickers this man couldn't hide anything "Oh, well you look good Miss. Del Mauro."
I really hope he dies soon it use to make me mad that people called me Fat Toni its a name I've had since the seventh grade so I guess I was use to it but still felt like cut to my soul when ever I heard it said out loud. He looks at me again trying fit all together I was dressed like myself only my jeans were baggy and my sweater was looser then it should be. Gina loaned my one of her tank tops so my bra wouldn't show, my hated of Peter Hale was now growing like a cancer.
"Mr. Kyle the bell just rang." I say hoping to get this day will go by fast wit my luck I was in for a long day.
"Right," He walk in daze to the bored writing our assessment.
Someone tap the back of my shoulder, I turn its Asher he hands me a note. I take it read his words "Sorry about what I said its just you look so different like last week you were a ugly duckling and now your a swan."
The words enrage me but also make just a small part of me smile I know that it shouldn't that I could go back to being me. But, that's not going to happen I feel just as well today as I did the first day I came home. My blood sugar I hadn't checked it in since yesterday morning. I was healthier then I had been in a long time that should make me happy but knowing the reason it scared me that I could be a werewolf. The full moon would come at the end of the month. Mom and Gina would be gone at the Winter Wonderland Pageant so that was two people I didn't have to worry about.
"Go away," I told the twins as they sit with me at lunch. Usually I would sit alone Gina would site with me but freshman and sophomores ate at different times. So, I would just read listening to my iPod.
"We have to talk," Aiden said as Alison, Danny, Issac, Lydia, Scott and Stiles, sit with me.
"About what?"
"You know what," Scott said.
"We just want to help you," Alison said her smile fake enough for me to not believe her.
"Are you a bad liar because your a werewolf?"
Stiles chokes on his water, Isaac smiles the rest just look at me like I was blind Danny explains "Alison isn't a werewolf she's a werewolf hunter."
I laughed "So, you a werewolf hunter has dated two werewolves."
"Yeah," Stiles said "Its complicated."
"You said we had to talk about what?"
"The full moon."
My heart beat speeds up "What about it I go crazy rip out the throat of a virgin."
Stiles gulps cause me to giggle "Its not funny." He said leaving the table causing Scott to go after him.
"That's two do I get rid of the rest of you."
Lydia rolls her eyes taking her tray "You should listen to them."
"Just know that if you do kill someone I'll be forced to take action." Alison's threat lost on me. I really can't take her serious she looks a kitten threatening wolf dressed in ruffles and pastels.
"She'll kill you," Isaac said following Alison.
Danny looks at me "They want to help." He smiles at Ethan then joins the rest of the group.
"And then there where two," I smile.
"Your scared," Ethan said lean in close to me. "I get that."
"Really?"
Aiden speaks this time "We were scared our first month too but I tried to play it off like I wasn't scared out of my mind."
I breath in my voice shaking "What if I do kill someone will she really kill me would I feel remorse." Peter didn't I had met him that once but I knew he felt nothing when he tried to kill me that first time.
Ethan takes my hand I hadn't noticed it was shaking was my whole body shaking too "Your not Peter and I won't let you kill anyone."
"Thanks." I say looking at them.
The bell rings "Whats your next glass?" Ethan asked knowing he would walk me to my class.
"P.E.," I say looking at my books. "So, you're all a pack?"
Aiden grins but its Ethan who answers "Yeah, we are all of us. Humans, werewolves, and Banshees."
"Banshees?"
"Lydia," They say together.
Aiden explains "The bite will change you but what you become is a reflection of who you."
"So I could be a werewolf," I say a smile spreading across my face.
"Whats with the smile?"
A giggle leaves my lips "I'm not a wolf."
"What are you then?" Ethan asked.
"How was school?" Mom asked us the minute we walked into the house.
"Fine," I say going up the stairs to my room.
Mom wants to ask more question but I just don't want to explain how awkward today was. She wouldn't understand how I felt like I was on display, how the whispers about me made me feel more like an outcast.
What am I? The question lingers with me all day stupid werewolves making me think about who I was. If I could be an animal what would I be, nothing to big or to flashy a fish something normal like a goldfish or a bird a robin maybe.
Gina knocks on my door "Can I come in?"
"Sure," I say sitting up on my bed.
She sits on my bed her golden curls bouncing "What happen to Moon?"
I sigh "I don't really know Sun."
"Your not going to be the way you were before are you?"
"No," Most people would be happy about it but I don't how to feel like my whole world flipped over.
"Are you still sick?"
"No, I don't think so, Sun"
Gina's nickname is Sun and mine is Moon from the story Sun, Moon, and Talia. Sun and Moon were the children of Talia the Italian sleeping beauty, twins as opposite the day and night. We stare at each other, we have the same cheek bones, the same heart shaped face, our eyes are the same shape, mine are brown hers are blue. Our hair is the same now soft and fine but colored different. My black hair is straight while Gina has golden hair that curled.
"So," She smiles "Guess what the hot topic of school is?"
I groan "I hate school."
Gina laughs at my new disgust for the institution "That's you and your transformation is all anyone is talking about."
"I feel like a piece of meat on display."
"Now you know how I feel." Gina said looking at the ceiling Mom didn't know this but I had painted the ceiling with glow in the dark paint so I could see constellations.
"Does it ever get better?"
"No, just learn to live with the stares and ignore the wipers."
"I hate school do you think Mom let me home school?
She shakes her head "No she loves this new you."
Rolling my eyes "And, when she figures out that I won't go back to the way I was?"
"She'll be on cloud nine."
"You know its funny how her cloud nine is the seventh circle of my hell." The universes hates first I was a geek then I learned to t live with it now thanks to werewlof I was a hot topic.
