I know I haven't posted in a while but meh. Please read and hopefully you'll enjoy this chapter or hate it.

Chapter 4

Howls of the Night

Kerry pushed the diced vegetables around with her fork. She had lost her appetite over the last couple of days after everything she had gone through. Mei made a complete recovery and chose to repress what happened at the club last week.

She also decided to ignore every call Kerry made to her house and cellphone.

With Alex and Tori away in Pennsylvania on a ski trip with their other friends, Kerry was alone for the weekend.

It had been a while since Kerry stayed home on a Friday night. Her dad was so happy to finally have a dinner with Kerry present, that he went all out on making dinner. It was unfortunate all his delicious food was going to waste, for Kerry was experiencing an all-too-familiar anxiety. Michel never showed up again after the incident and she was beginning to think seeing him was just another one of her dreams.

"Sweetie, are you okay? You haven't even touched your food yet." Joanne asked with seemingly genuine concern.

Kerry was surprised her soon-to-be-step-mom noticed, seeing that she was flirting with her dad the entire dinner. Although everyone thought Joanne was the nicest woman in the world, Kerry knew it was all a front to get into the Nowicki Household. She only held her tongue so as not to upset her dad, who was completely head- over-heels with his fiancé.

"I'm feeling a little sick," Kerry said quietly as she pushed her plate of food away. "I'm gonna go to my room and lay down."

"Are you alright Ker?" Her dad's face was etched with worry, "Maybe I could make you some soup or something?"

"No dad, I just have a small headache…it's nothing a nap won't fix." She managed to force a smile to reassure her dad. Before anyone else could protest Kerry emptied her plate into the trash. She quickly rinsed any remaining debris and placed it into the dishwasher.

As she walked up the stairs she could hear Ian asking, "What's nauseous?"

Once she made it to her room she flung herself onto her comfortable bed, Kerry signed in relief. Without opening her eyes, she reached over to her nightstand for her iPod.

The first song that played was too gloomy to listen to in her current state. She clicked next and was satisfied when "Love" by Keyshia Cole came on.

"Love. Never knew what I was missing, but I knew once we started kissing, I found you." She hummed the melody of the song and as it progressed, she felt herself drifting into sleep.

*TAP*

Hearing a noise at her window Kerry stirred in the mess of covers but only rolled onto her side and went back to sleep.

*TAP*

Kerry groggily opened her eyes, but closed them again assuming it was a branch hitting her window. "Freakin….tree….." She mumbled.

*TAP*

"Oh my freakin god….." Kerry covered her head with a pillow.

*TAP*

At this point Kerry was wide awake. Not so much because of the noise itself, but because she had remembered there was no tree outside her window.

Inching towards the window, Kerry peaked through the blinds to see what was causing the noise.

"What the…! Leon?!" Kerry gasped aloud.

He was standing in her backyard with only a long sleeve shirt and ripped jeans. She couldn't tell if they were purposely torn.

Leon grinned at her when she opened her window to stick her head out.

"Hey babe!"

"Shhhh! Don't be so loud!" Kerry whispered, "My dad will kill me if he sees you. What are you doing here?" Kerry looked nervously side to side to see if anyone might have seen her guest. The last thing she needed was her neighbors scolding her father about letting boys hanging around at night.

"Mind if I come up?" Leon was smiling. Sure, it was easy to be in such a good mood if he wasn't in danger of being grounded for life.

"What?!" Kerry choked, "Stay there! I'll come outside."

"You can if you want," Leon laughed, "but the chances of us being caught are less likely if I come in."

"Ugh….fine." Kerry was about to turn around towards her door when a soft thud behind her caught her attention. Leon was literally three inches from her face, causing her to squeal and fall backwards onto her bed.

"Did I scare you babe?" He flashed her an irresistible grin.

"How did you get in here?!" Kerry was still recovering from her shock.

"Wolfboy, remember?"

"Oh…I forgot about that…" Kerry turned away, embarrassed for forgetting something so crucial.

"Oh yeah, hard to remember the little things." He said dryly.

Even though his voice was sarcastic, Kerry could tell by the ways his eyes showed mirth that he wasn't at all offended.

He flopped down on her bed next to her and grabbed her iPod. Kerry noticed Leon's nails were sharper than normal as he browsed through her songs.

"Sex Therapy?" His seemed surprised.

"I swear I didn't put that song on there!" Kerry quickly defended herself. Her cheeks were flushing red.

"Don't play coy, I love freaky girls." Leon said suggestively, moving closer to her.

"Excuse me?!!!" Kerry had her hand ready to slap him.

"Hey hey hey! It was a joke! Sheesh, and you were complaining about ME being too loud." He held out his hands in a display of mercy. She noticed he did that a lot. The boy was probably used to offending girls. Hmph.

"You never answered my question," Kerry said seriously, "Why are you here anyways?"

"Ker, I'm hurt. Did you really forget?" Leon tried to muster up the best puppy dog face he could. He could have succeeded if his eyes didn't betray him once again.

"I'm sorry, I guess I did." Unaffected by his attempt, Kerry eyed him suspiciously thinking about everything Michel had told her.

"It's Friday." Leon said bluntly.

"Yeah…..so?" Kerry was confused.

"Don't tell me you forgot about the date you promised me?!" He said with feigned hurt.

"What da-…oh my god!" Kerry distantly remembered saying yes to his proposal, but she never thought it really was going to happen. He didn't have her phone number, or her address….

"Wait…" Kerry started, "How did you find me?"

Leon simply tapped his nose.

"You smell like delicious treat." He licked his lips.

"Um wow….down boy." Kerry pushed him away.

Leon didn't bother resisting and fell into a comfortable laying position on her bed. He tucked his arms behind his head, "You haven't seen the worst yet." Leon replied, winking at her.

Kerry turned around to look at the alarm clock on her night stand.

11:35PM.

At this point, her entire family was bound to be asleep since an hour ago. Kerry relaxed now that she was sure that no one else saw Leon.

"It's almost midnight, that's way too late to go out. I'd get in so much trouble." Kerry apologized to the man who seemed to be sleeping in her bed right now.

"That's bull." Leon scoffed, "If I met you in a library, fat chance I'd be there, but I'd probably believe you more as the daddy's girl you're playing off to be." Leon frowned, opening his eyes he eyed her with scrutiny.

He thought it was a lame excuse?

"Do you think I'm kidding?!" Kerry asked.

"It's hard to think you'll be grounded for going out on a date with ONE lycan when you were out at a club with MULTIPLE lycans AND bloodsuckers." He scoffed.

"Don't have such a hissy fit," Kerry laughed, she understood where his suspicion came from. "First off, my dad knows nothing about vampires or werewolves and it's going to stay that way." She gave him a stern glance. "Secondly, he thought I was sleeping over a friend's house that night and THAT is going to stay that way too!"

Leon dramatically placed his hand over his heart and gasped, "Kerry?! You LIED to your own father?!"

"Shut up." Kerry laughed as she lightly punched his arm.

"At least I won't feel guilty now." Leon smirked. He got up to stand on his feet. As he stretched his arms over his head with a yawn, Kerry noticed how built he was. His muscles were visibly toned even through his thick shirt.

When she heard him cough, Kerry was interrupted from her prying gaze to find out he was grinning like an idiot. She was caught in her act and quickly turned her face in a vain attempt to cover up her wandering eyes. Her face was burning with shame but Leon simply chuckled gently.

"Guilty about what?" Kerry abruptly asked to break the awkward silence.

"Well, I would've felt like an ass for dragging a girl out when she wasn't allowed," He stopped when Kerry quirked an eyebrow in inquiry, "But seeing that you're such an awful daughter anyways, I don't think I don't feel like I'm doing anything wrong." He finished quickly.

"You flatter me…" Kerry's voice dripped with sarcasm. "Nothing is open at this time anyway, we'd have nothing to do. And I'm not looking forward to a walk along the beach in 0 degree weather."

"We can always go into the city and hit up the clubs." He joked, "Although I don't know if you're a clubbing type of girl, you seem more like the shy, quiet type."

If only Leon had known her a few years ago, he would've realized how right his last statement was.

Kerry rolled her eyes at him. "Yeah, I'm kind of turned off by clubs until I'm fifty."

"So what does turn you on?" Leon asked seriously.

His hands of peace were up before she could raise a hand or open her mouth for a scolding.

"Just kidding." He stuck his tongue out at her, "No I actually have something else in mind."

"Like….?" Kerry asked.

"That would ruin the surprise." He winked at her. Leon had this boyish charm about him that made it impossible for Kerry to be mad at him. She especially loved the way he would grin at her, a sort of lazy smile that partially revealed his pearly white teeth. She wondered if his fangs were as noticeable as Michel's.

Kerry glanced at her clock again to see it was 11:58PM. A thought crossed her mind that made her feel uneasy. Leon must have noticed because he placed a hand on her shoulder and looked her in the eyes.

"What's wrong?"

"Well…it's almost midnight, don't werewolves….turn into some crazy beast?" As awkward and lame the question came out, it was a real concern she was thinking about.

"Shit….the full moon!" Leon's face revealed pure panic as he quickly turned to face the window. "Kerry quick! Get away from me!" He stumbled away from her to the center of her room.

11:59PM

Leon clutched his sides and began to groan in pain, shaking terribly. Kerry's eyes widened in fear.

Midnight.

He growled from his hunched position and jumped at her with a snarl.

Kerry's scream was muffled by a hand. Kerry opened her eyes to see that Leon was on the verge of dying of laughter. His attempts to stifle his outburst actually made him louder.

"WHAT THE HELL?!" Kerry punched him as hard as she could in the chest. She ended up hurting herself while Leon didn't seem to feel anything. "YOU'RE SUCH AN ASS-" She paused when she heard noises down the hallway. She waited, but no one came. "Hole…" She hissed.

"I couldn't help it, I'm sorry." Leon smiled sympathetically, although his eyes said he wasn't really sorry, "….Your face though! Priceless!" He doubled over, shaking with silent laughter. He quickly composed himself when he saw the death stare Kerry was burning into his head.

"Aw Ker," He ruffled her hair which riled her up even more, "You were in no danger, I'm not that careless. The full moon isn't for another week anyways." He comforted her. "Also, I'd never hurt you." He said this part gently as he hooked his finger under her chin to make her face him.

Kerry would have been lost in his hazel gaze if his smirk did not bring her back to reality.

Averting her eyes to everything else around him Kerry sheepishly asked, "So you DO change on a full moon?"

"Well yes, but not in the way most people think." He scratched the back of his head obviously having trouble explaining what he meant. It was the first time he looked unsure of himself.

"I mean like…." He paused, "I won't turn into some ugly-ass hairy man-beast or whatever. I could if I wanted too…I think? But for the most part we just turn into regular wolves."

"What do you mean 'you think you could'?" Kerry asked, she was more so startled about how easily he told her his lycan secrets.

"Well, there's like different forms a lycan can take, actually, scratch that….stages would be a better term for it." He was satisfied with his answer.

"Stages of a wolf right?"

"Yeah, pretty much." He smiled awkwardly.

"And you can stop it at any stage?" Kerry pressed. She wanted to know as much about what she was potentially up against, or getting herself involved with in the case of Leon.

"I guess yeah…" He started, "But every stage you are away from being completely wolf or man, the more unstable you are." He looked uneasy. "You're torn between the mindset of rationality and primal urge which causes a sort of crazed state. The chances of exposure are too high so we prefer to be either or, never in between." He looked deep in thought for a moment, "In fact, I think it's forbidden for lower ranked lycans to change into those in between stages."

"Lower werewolves?" Kerry was astonished. She never thought that there was some sort of hierarchy in the supernatural society. Did vampires have a hierarchy as well?

"Yeah," Leon stared at her for a minute, "You're just curious today aren't you?"

"I'm sorry." She quickly spit out on reflex. "I'm actually surprised you're answering them."

"Why wouldn't I?" He was puzzled.

"Well…um," She staggered, "Don't you have some sort of lycan secrets that the outside world isn't allowed know?"

"For the most part, the 'outside world' doesn't know we exist, and the way I see it," he continued, "The more someone knows about us, the less they're likely to do something to piss us off. There's honestly nothing we're scared of and we're more of a danger to everything else if anything."

"I see…" Kerry mused.

"Heh," Leon smirked, "I think I know where that one came from."

"Huh?" Kerry looked up to him.

"I know you've been around the bloodsuckers before," He answered, "Those mutherfuckers are so tight in the ass. We're way different from them, we don't cower in the shadows."

"They don't really have a choice in that matter…"Kerry defended.

"Whatever," He said offhandedly, "Hey you look tired. Why don't you go back to sleep tonight and we'll go a different time."

She had offended him.

"I hope you're not mad at me." Kerry added quickly. "I mean, I know you guys don't get along but I dunno…" She didn't know what else to say.

"It has nothing to do with that Ker," Leon took her hand and kissed her palm. She blushed. "It's already past twelve and I don't know if I'll have you back before your parents wake up."

"It's my dad and his girlfriend," Kerry corrected, "But yeah, you're right. He wakes up pretty early. Sorry for ruining your plans tonight." She apologized.

"Don't sweat it babe, you didn't ruin anything. I had fun talking to you." He responded.

"…Me too." Kerry agreed. And she really meant it. Leon was starting to grow on her.

"Hey if you're not doing anything tomorrow, I'll pick you up around 10AM and we'll have the entire day." Leon suggested.

"Day? Don't you…" Kerry quickly stopped herself, "Oh right."

"You did NOT just compare me to a bloodsucker." Leon said disgusted, "Ugh Ker, come on now!"

"I'm sorry!" Kerry defended herself, "I'm not used to all of this yet!"

"I know I know." He grinned.

Before she had a chance to say anything, Leon's hand had moved to the back of her head and pulled her into a kiss.

Out of pure shock she didn't respond for a few seconds. Slowly she lost herself to him. He was so warm, and this wasn't like the quick peck he gave her before. He was gentle but held the control. Feeling his warm tongue trace her lips sent sensations throughout her body that she couldn't explain. The only other time a kiss made her feel this way was when….

Michel.

Kerry suddenly pulled away from Leon.

"Sorry." She mumbled.

"Too soon?" He joked, but she could tell he was disappointed.

"Something like that…" Kerry lamely responded.

"I should go now," Leon leaned in for another kiss, but he quickly stopped himself and gave her a quick kiss on top of her head.

Kerry refused to look at him, she felt too guilty for what she did. Although, technically she was not dating Michel, she still felt like she was betraying him. She didn't know what to call what was going on between the two of them….if there really was anything.

"I'll be here tomorrow morning." He lingered for a bit and hesitantly let go of her hand.

Leon closed the window as far as he could from the outside and then jumped out of sight.

Words couldn't explain how despicable Kerry felt, not solely because of the kiss but because she couldn't deny enjoying it.

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