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Chapter 4 – Learning and Controlling
A werewolf? I thought to myself. No way!
Its true Paul, I looked up at Sam confused. How did he know what I was thinking? Sam let out a chuckle. When we are in wolf form we can read each other's mind it's a way of us contacting each other. Only wolves in the same pack can do this though.
Pack?
That's a group of wolves who stick together. At the minute there is me, you and Jared.
Jared?
He phased last night. We need to phase back before someone sees us. He looked around urgently.
I looked around also. We were on the beach. I looked back at Sam suddenly terrified. What about if I can't phase back?
Jared asked me the same question; it's easy, just think of being human.
I did as he said and thought about myself in human form. It worked I opened my eyes and I was lying on the floor.... naked. I tried to cover myself up and Sam laughed next to me passing me a spare pair of jeans he must have brought with him. I blushed at the fact I was naked in a public place.
"You'll get used to it. It's something that can't be helped. First thing about being a werewolf is that you should remember always take your clothes off before you phase otherwise you end up with none left, trust me" He chuckled. He pointed to the floor next to me were my clothes that I was wearing previously were laid, torn up and unrecognizable. Sam sat on the floor and I followed his actions, also sitting on the sand. I did a quick check around me to see if anyone had in fact seen Sam and I burst into werewolves. That would be a hard thing to explain to someone. Luckily nobody was around.
"Are you feeling better now?" Sam asked me with a smirk. I thought for a minute and was shocked that I hadn't noticed how all the aches and pains had left my body. Instead that feeling of power was back and it felt amazing.
"I'm fine now" I chuckled at how unobservant I was.
"I bet you have questions, but let me explain something's to you first then you can ask me anything you like" He looked at me, waiting for a response. I nodded. He looked back out across the beach and started to speak again. "I believe you have been told about the old legends about La Push?" He asked.
My answer was simple. "Of course, who around here hasn't!" he chuckled at my answer because it was true. The legends of past generations are pasted down and retold over and over again. Most people don't believe them, however, for that very reason. How can we be sure that the stories are true and haven't just been changed to make it more exciting by someone else? My father was the one that told me some of the many stories. He was a believer of them all. He stopped telling me then as I got older because to me they were just myths, they didn't exist.
"Some of the legends are true. Like the ones about us descending from wolves." Sam pointed to us. "We are both proof of that" I gasped as he let out another laugh. "I was shocked too" He told me.
I thought back to the stories that my dad told me when I was younger; they always involved the wolves fighting for land, La Push. I remember one that involved wolves of La Push making a treaty with the cold ones. My dad never did tell me what the 'cold ones' were. He told me that he didn't want to scare me.
"The cold ones?" I asked simply.
"Yeah" Sam nodded. "They exist too" He assumed that I knew what they were.
"What are they, who are they? I just know them as the cold ones"
"Vampires" He laughed coldly, without humor. "They are the reason that we both are now wolves. Billy Black has a theory, he thinks that because there are vampires near, the wolves in us are coming out to protect our people. That's what we are here for."
I froze. "There are vampires near"
"Yeah, they live in Forks. I didn't know until just a few weeks ago."
Forks? That was a small town near us. It was small, really small. I had heard of most people there, as they knew most people here.
"Who?" I asked him wondering if I knew them.
"The leeches that live in Forks are the Cullen's"
"Dr Cullen?" I stuttered out. I remember Doctor Cullen. I had met him on more than one occasion. He was my dad's Doctor when he was ill a few years back. He always seemed like such a nice, loving man. It did look like he could have done with a bit of sun and a little more sleep, however. "A vampire is working in a hospital!" I yelled. How could that be? What had that doctor done to my dad? Is he the reason he is dead? Did they really drain his blood? I shuddered at the thought.
"Calm down. The Cullen's claim that they don't hunt humans. They hunt animals instead and before you ask no they don't hurt us. We live to kill vampires, so to them we smell and taste disgusting" He smirked at his words. "Any questions?" He turned and asked me.
I had loads of questions, but nothing was coming to me at this minute. Everything was so overwhelming. "No" I told him.
"Okay, we are going to go back to mine. I want to introduce you to someone" His face lit up as he spoke and stood up.
Sam led the way to his home, which wasn't that far from the beach. He opened the door and shouted. "Emily, I'm home!" His house was filled with the faint smell of cookies and muffins. My mouth watered.
I saw Emily's head pop around a corner. "Hi" She smiled at Sam, then me. She was a very pretty woman but the scaring on her face was a distraction.
"This is Emily, Emily this is Paul" I smiled at her and held out my hand, trying not to look at her face. "In the old stories about the wolves there is a legend about imprinting. Have you heard that one?" Sam continued before I had chance to speak to Emily.
I thought back to when I was told the stories. Imprinting is what a wolf does when they first set eyes on their soul mate. It is kind of like a connection that forces the two to be together.
I nodded at Sam for him to continue. "That legend it true as well. Emily is my imprint. It's really rare but I just wanted you to know just in case" Everything that La Push was saying about Sam and Emily was wrong, I thought. They all spoke about how they feel sorry for Leah and that Sam was a cruel, playboy for leaving her for her cousin. How could they help it? Sam and Emily are soul mates. Imprinting has got to be a strong connection. He probably couldn't ignore the feelings. Everyone thought that Leah and Sam were going to be together forever, it must have been hard for Sam to leave her, even if she wasn't his imprint, he still loved her.
"Over the next week I will be teaching both you and Jared how to control your anger. You might think that you can control it but you can't, I found that out the hard way" I saw Emily's hand squeeze Sam's and she smiled at him. He looked as if he was in pain and the world was falling down around him. He cleared his expression when he started to speak again. "For now it is not safe for you to be at school with humans, you will be back next week." He paused and gave me yet again another curious look. "Paul I need to ask you something" I nodded for him to continue but he didn't.
"I'm going to go make some dinner Sam" Emily left the room. Tension was suddenly thick in the air.
"I knew you and Jared were close to phasing so it was my job to follow you and make sure it didn't happen around humans and in a public place. Today I was at your school. At lunch you were in the corridor with that boy and girl." He paused and gave me a strange look again. "How did you stop yourself from phasing?"
I nearly phased? That is where that sudden power came from. "I don't know, I didn't know I was going to phase" I answered honestly.
"Who was the girl?" He asked me ignoring my previous comment.
"Bella" I told him with a smile.
The room went silent.
"Keep an eye on her" He told me sternly. I nodded confused at his sudden interest in Bella. His eyes seemed knowing as if there was something that he was hiding from me.
"Okay, I'll take you home, I'm sure your mum is worried about you." The drive home was silent but not uncomfortable; I spent time asking random questions that kept coming to me. One of which was that Sam is the pack leader also known as the Alpha. This made sense as he was the first to phase. He has more experience.
"So will any others be joining us?" I asked curiously wondering how Sam could have possibly known that myself and Jared we about to phase.
"I am unsure. There are guys that are showing signs, such as the body heat. It's too early to tell though"
The rest of the drive was quiet with just the radio playing in the back ground.
"Tomorrow we will meet and start on control. You will see Jared tomorrow. At the minute he is sleeping because he had a rough night, unlike you I wasn't there when he phased and was unable to phase back for a few hours."
I nodded and got out of the truck. "See you tomorrow Alpha" I laughed and even he cracked a smile.
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The week was hard work, my mum believed that I was still ill and allowed me the week off. She never stopped worrying and I wished I could tell her the truth. I left to meet Sam every day after she left for work and I made it back home before she returned.
It was becoming easier and easier to control phasing, all Jared and I needed was practice. "Right, tomorrow you are going back to school, I don't want you getting into fights or anything. Keep to yourself" I frowned and so did Jared, that meant staying away from Aaron and Dave. We had already ignored their calls and texts for a week. The guilt was overwhelming. Our friends must hate us.
"Before you phase back I want to show you something" Jared and I both nodded. "I know that you both think that you don't need to control your anger, but I want to show you what happens when you lose it" I was curious and confused at the same time. "This might be a little hard for me to think about but I'll try"
I closed my eyes and focused on what Sam was thinking. We were standing in Sam's living room, looking through Sam's eyes at Emily. She was talking about Leah, how she felt guilty about what she and Sam had done to her. Sam's anger was increasing as he tried to persuade her that he was doing the right thing. He moved closer to her and knelt in front of her trying to stop his anger.
"Emily trust me it will be fine"
She looked down at him. "But what about Leah"
"Stop talking about it, stop, don't you think I feel bad enough" Sam's voice was raised as he looked back at a very terrified looking Emily. Sam seemed to loss it and he phased. I could hear the real Sam next to me taking deep breathes before he carried on showing us what happened.
He was too close to Emily when he phased and the anger took over him. His paw came up to her face and quickly smashed against her before he turned and ran. Sam didn't show us what he did to Emily, he didn't need to though. The scar is still there after all.
"See you need to control your anger; it's not safe for the people around us." His thoughts were scattered and broken. I could only imagine what he was feeling about what he had done. She is his imprint. I found myself wondering how the imprint felt. It must be strong. Sam said it was impossible to be away from your imprint, you feel lost without them, so how had it felt to hurt his imprint?
"Are you going to phase back sometime today?" I heard Jared's impatient voice ring out. It wasn't his thoughts though. Jared and Sam had already phased back. That I was thankful for, I wouldn't have wanted Sam to have heard my thoughts just moments ago.
We walked back to the beach in silence. None of us spoke until we reached the place that we must part.
"I'll be taking you both to school and picking you up" Sam told us with a stern voice.
I groaned. "Come on Sam, we're not baby's" Jared nodded in agreement.
Sam just laughed. "Technically you are both baby werewolves. See you tomorrow morning" He waved and walked away still chuckling to himself.
I rolled my eyes at him. Never in a million years did I see the day that I thought Sam was a good guy! He wasn't that bad once you get to know him.
"Tomorrows going to be fun" Jared sighed. I nodded along. "I can't believe this is happening. I mean werewolves, it's so fucking mind-blowing how mythical creatures exist."
"I know man. But be honest, how awesome is it to be a werewolf?" I laughed.
"I must admit, it's pretty awesome!"
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