"Yeah and I'm Spiderman,"
Was what I giggled when Seth first told me he was a werewolf.
I frowned up at him when he didn't laugh along with me.
We were sitting in my favourite spot, in a park on the edge of the forest, why they put a park there was beyond me but I loved how secluded it was and I found it tad romantic, which is why me and Seth always ended up there, not that I was planning on telling him that.
We were swinging high in the air on a swing each and I slammed my heel into the ground, stopping myself, I turned to frown at Seth,
"Why are you not laughing along with me?"
He too stopped his swing and put his head back to look at the darkening sky,
"Because I'm not joking Grace,"
I raised my eyebrows in skepticism,
"Prove it," I tell him forcefully,
He put his head back down slowly and turned to me, he seemed to scrutinize me for a few seconds before grabbing my hand and dragging me the few metres into the woods.
"Close you eyes." He tells me when we have walked for about ten minutes.
"Why, I thought you were gunna prove something to me or are you just going to run away when I close them?" I asked him, smiling.
"Just do it," he says sighing,
"Why?"
"Please,"
"Tell me why first,"
He smirked suddenly, and I actually thought that his plan was to run off on me, but it didn't seem like Seth to leave me in the woods by myself, he hardly ever brings me out here unless it's important.
"Please, for me?" he pleads one last time,
and I give in, knowing I'm not going to win with his looks working against me.
"Seth?" I ask, worrying after a few minutes of silence,
"Seth?" I ask louder, still nothing.
"I'm uncovering my eyes in about three seconds and you better be standing in front of me,"
Still nothing,
"One,"
I hear some trees rustle and am tempted to run after him, that little –
"Two,"
No, his still there I can hear footsteps, but is that him, they sound louder and like there is more then two legs, maybe someone is with him,
"Three,"
I shout throwing my hands off my eyes.
I jump back a bit as I realize that it's not Seth in front of me but a big, bear-looking thing that has the same colour hair as Seth, a light sandy brown.
I blink a few times and the wolf retreats, sinking back as low as it can, in an attempt not to scare me.
I smile suddenly,
"Aww, your so cute!" I exclaim as I start to walk towards it.
I walk up to it and reach my hand out experimentally, it carefully pushs it head against me. I giggled as I felt his soft fur. He turned his head towards me at my laugh and cocked his head to the side.
Then I saw the soft honey eyes and gasp,
"Holy crap, you were telling the truth."
Seth shakes a little in something I'm guessing was laughter, I giggle along with him then I frown. He cocks his head again and I walk away turning my back.
I hear a rustle in the trees and turn around just in time to see Seth re-emerge.
I quickly turn back around again, pretending to be upset,
He walks slowly over, until I can feel his breath on my neck, I suppress a shiver and pull my back straight to show him I'm annoyed.
"Was it that much of a shock?" he asks quietly,
I shake my head; I can just imagine the confused look on his face,
"Did you expect something different?"
He attempts again and again I shake my head,
"Was I ugly?" he asks softly.
I giggle then and turn around and giggle louder when I see his forehead scrunched up in confusion.
"What?" he asks finally,
I try to pout as I tell him,
"You didn't laugh at my spiderman joke,"
Now he laughs and pulls me into a hug.
My breath hitches in my throat as I feel his warm, bare chest against my jacket. I hold in the sigh of contentment and pretend to be angry at him.
"Oh, so know you laugh at me," I say and turn around walking towards some trees,
"You're going the wrong way," he yells after me.
I sigh and turn around the other way, pushing past him, though it hurt me a lot more and I rub my shoulder.
Seth runs after me, and gives me the grin I love so much.
I keep up the act until we reach the edge of the trees then turn around and smile at him,
"So what's it like?" I ask him as we make our way back over to the park.
"Being a werewolf?" he asks as he sits down on one of the swings.
I nod and watch him as he pushes the swing back and builds up momentum.
"Well, it was pretty crazy at first, I mean I got angry at the stupidest things, then Leah told me of for eating the last cookie and I just lost it, the next thing I know I'm big and furry and there are voices yelling at me in my mind."
"Wait!" I say holding my hand up to stop him, "you heard voices in your head?"
"Well yeah sorta, it's more like you hear their emotions and see into their mind, it's kind of annoying."
"Annoying? That would be so cool!"
"Not so cool when you see every thought of Jared and have to feel the same feelings about Kim." He mumbles, looking away.
I cringe away from that,
"Well being a werewolf isn't sounding so appealing now," I tell him, flopping down onto the other swing.
He laughed at my disappointed face before assuring me that there was many perks.
For the rest of the night he continued to answer my many, mostly random questions.
...
Later that night, I was lying in bed when I thought of another question; I hesitated for a while before I grabbed my mobile.
It rang a couple of times before he answered, somewhat groggily; I looked at my clock wondering what the time was, the clock flashed 10:30.
"Tired?" I asked him.
"Yeah," he answered quickly when he realized who it was, "Sam has me covering Jacob's shifts,"
"Oh, like protecting the Rez and that?"
He must have nodded because there was a long pause before he answered yes,
"Sorry," I tell him quietly, "am I keeping you up?"
"No," he said, more awake now, "so what did you want?" he asked, trying to be more cheerful.
"Oh…Uh…" I hesitate again, "um… not much." I mumble.
"Ok," he answers simply.
I try to change the subject before he brings it up.
"So where's Jacob then?"
"I think your cousin could answer that better," he told me, laughing.
"Ew!" I practically yell when I figure out what his going on about.
He laughs louder, then sighs,
"so anything else you want to know?" he asks,
"Uh…"
"What is it?"
"Well, I was just wondering… whether… you know… werewolves could…"
I bit my lip, not believing I was asking him that.
"Yeah… that's what imprinting is for," he tells me.
"What's imprinting?" I ask him, my curiosity perks up as my heart begins to thump, the word sounds so familiar, yet I don't think I had ever heard of it before.
"Well it's kind of hard to explain really,"
"You could try," I tell him.
"Well, you've seen Jared and Kim, Sam and Emily, even Quil and Claire."
"Yeah…"
"Well that's imprinting right there,"
"But what is it?" he wasn't really explaining it properly and I felt as if he was holding something back, I was getting more confused by the minute.
"I don't think I could explain it properly, maybe you should ask one of them."
I heard talking on the other end of the phone and then Seth told me guiltily that he had to go.
I frowned as I hung up and couldn't hear his voice anymore, I felt utterly pathetic as I realized how much I missed him, after just a few seconds.
You would think that after finding out that he was a great big werewolf I would be freaked out, but I felt the exact opposite, I felt more of a pull towards him if that were possible. I felt suddenly cold as I lay in bed without him.
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