Coraline

When we got back, Ana had them put her stuff near the couch and then I finally got some answers. "So, where's the nearest garage?" She asked Paul, who looked surprised at her acknowledgement. Sam was busy trying to help Embry get her purse off him.

"It's in town, it's Sam's actually." Paul looked like he was trying to talk without looking at anything in particular. I wondered why he was still here in the first place.

Ana just spun on her heels, "There you go, Cor, now you know that they aren't part of a Native version of the mob."

Oh no. Sam and Embry just looked at me with shocked faces.

"Is that why you ran away?" Embry was walking towards me like I had just contracted a flesh-eating virus. He wanted to console me, but he couldn't fully get there. Sam, though, made it all the way and hugged my shoulders. Sad Sam was just as scary and Serious Sam. Phew, alliteration.

"…uh no. I don't like... being rejected?" That wasn't a question. It was a statement. Argh, why am I sweating? This is awful, too many people in this little house. Why are the walls closing in? Ahhhhh…..it's like the Star Wars trash compacter.

"Really? Now?" Ana just looked at me and then shook her head. "I need two brown paper bags and a cold dish rag." She was instructing Paul. He didn't move. So she kicked him in the shin. I expected him to react, she was a black belt, but instead…

She fell over, "what the hell? Are you wearing invisible shin guards?"

Embry chuckled, "That's a good idea, I'll have to invent those." She just sat up and glared at Paul. "You heard what I said, go get the paper bag before her face gets as green as her eyes!" He seemed to hear that cause he decided to get up then.

Embry helped her up, and then Sam looked at my face, "Wow, Coraline, you really are turning green…" Embry poked my should now that Sam forced me to sit on the recliner. I started to hyperventilate.

"You know, this was scary when we were kids. But really, Cor? You're seventeen, grow some balls." She stuck the cold compress on my forehead and then gave me one of the bags. I started to breath into it and I noticed Paul was smirking. I don't know why, but my brain decided to be stupid and say something.

"What's with the smirk, Paul? You're the one who looks like someone's ripped you a new asshole." This was true, since I started talking he went on edge again.

Sam looked up from my face at Paul and then a flood of worry went over him. "Not here, Paul. Go outside."

But Paul just started to shake, his face was getting red and he basically started to vibrate. I took the other bag from Ana and threw it at him.

"I think I made it worse…" I started to say my thoughts out loud. I tend to do that.

Ana just sat there and squinted at him. Embry and Sam grabbed each of his arms and dragged him outside. It wasn't raining, which was surprising, but it was a little dark. I mustered up all my strength and went towards the door. Then Ana whispered something about the bathroom and I pointed. In that second that she distracted me I had lost Paul. I could only see a tree that was now about to fall over and my brothers talking in hushed tones.

"TIMBER!" I screamed the first word that came to mind, not, "LOOK OUT!" or even "GUYS!" I yelled a lumberjack's catch phrase. Embry looked up and the tree was falling towards Sam.

That's when it happened. I watched my brother spontaneously combust. The shock wouldn't let me move, I thought he I'd see a sea of blood, but within one blink he was replaced with a slender gray wolf with black splotches. The wolf hit the tree at full force, and then Sam started to shake and ended up making the tearing sounds of flesh and clothes that forced my eyes to squeeze shut. When I got the courage to open my eyes, I saw a huge black wolf that could have been mistaken as a bear.

"Oh cool, I've gone mental." I whispered to myself.

"Well if you're crazy for seeing that, then I guess we're in the same boat." I had totally forgotten that Ana was there. What had we just seen?