CHAPTER SEVEN
Mary was preparing dinner for two. She wanted to amaze Wolf with her cooking skills. She went to the butcher's store, got a big piece of lamb meat, and returned back home to continue with her preperation.
"Now, what do we have here?" she spoke to herself as she was preparing the meat. "Would he like it cooked or rare? Or should I keep it raw?" Finally she decided to make it rare. She didn't add anything to it. She took the meat cut it in pieces and put it in oven for 5 minutes and brought it out. That's when she heard the doorbell ringing.
"Comming!" she said loudly. She knew it was Wolf. She smelled him.
"Hi!" she said as she opened the door.
"Hi Mary. I have something to tell you." Wolf was serious.
"Come in. I was just getting ready to dinner. Want to join?"
"I..I wasn't.."
"I won't take no for an answer. I have rare lamb meat. I thought that you would like it that way too." she said with a smile and took his hand and they went to the dining room.
"OK, but I can't stay for long. Virginia is alone at home and.."
"It's OK Wolf, I know that worry about her. But you won't be late for home."
She didn't even let him say what he wanted to say. So, Wolf just followed her to the dining room, and sat near the table. He decided to leve the discussion for after the dinner. (He wouldn't want to miss the lamb!)
"I'll be right back. Make yourself at home." she said and went to the kitchen.
"Put yourself together Wolf!" he said to himself. "Grrrrr, how am I supposed to tell her about Tom. I wish I wouldn't have the one who was going to say it."
"Say what?" Mary said as she came back with a big dish of rare meat.
As soon as Wolfs eyes caught the sight of the meat, he forgot about everything.
"Nothing. I was thinking loudly. Just that." he said scratching his temple. "This smells good."
"I know." she smiled again, and put the dish on the table."I hope that you like it."
"I already do!"
"Would you like something to drink with it? Red wine maybe?"
"Yeah, sure."
"OK, I'll be right back."
She went to the living room. That's where she kept her little bar. She took a couple of wine glasses and a bottle of wine, which wasn't opened yet.
"I hope this works." she murmured to herself before heading back to the dining room.
"Here. This is the best I have." She said and handed the bottle to Wolf to open.
He opened the bottle and poured wine into the glasses.
"What will we drink for?" Mary asked raising her hand for a toast.
Wolf wasn't thinking of a toast. All he was thinkng about now was how to tell Mary about Tom without hurting her feelings.
"Wolf?"
"Yeah, I'm here."
"Physically yes, but mentally no. I was saying how about a toast?"
"Well, umm.." Wolf thought of something to say while he raised his hand. And finally without finding any other words he said: "Nice to meet you Mary. To our friendship."
"Yeah, to our... friendship." She drank from her glass looking at Wolf while he was busy with eating his share of the lamb. Wolf didn't notice how Mary stared at him when he said -to our friendship-. If he would've noticed, he would've seen how her eyes went to yellow and back to normal for a moment.
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Virginia was watching TV. She regreted that she left Wolf go to Mary's place alone.
"I wish I went with him. I wouldn't have been so worried now."
Was she feeling kinda jealous? No. Wolf is loyal to her. He went to tell Mary about Tom, and he'll be back by ten. But it's 10:30 now. And he didn't even call.
Virginia was getting nervous. She decided to wait for him a little bit longer. She tried to call, but the phone showed busy all the time.
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After finishing their dinner, Mary and Wolf went to the living room.
"Mary, I have to tell you something, but I don't know how." he said.
"I have something to tell you too. And I think this is the time for it, but first let's have a drink. I feel thirsty. Want some juice?"
"Yeah sure." Wolf replied.
She went to the kitchen. Opened the fridge and took the orange juice out, poured it in two glasses. Then she started to search in the drawers for something.
"Where did I put it!" she said with a low voice, not wanting for Wolf to hear her.
Finally she found it. A medium sized black box, which had six little colorful boxes in it, and a piece of paper. She opened the paper and read what was inside.
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My little girl, please use this wisely.
To reach your goal use these one at a time. And never use it on the same person twice.
To make it easier for you to use, I'm writing here what means each color of a box. This potions work slowly. It would take at least a day for its effect to start working. Remember, this may not work, if you aren't sure of what you want.
Red: Use if you want someone to get pox.
Blue: Use if you want to put someone into sleep.
Yellow: Use if you want someone to obey you.
Black: Use to turn someone into a frog.
White: Use if you want someone to tell the truth.
Pink: Use if you want someone to fall in love with you.
Love, mom.
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"I guess I need the pink one." she opened the pink little box and she emptied it in the glass from which Wolf was going to drink.
"This better work mom." she said and went back to the living room.
"What took you so long?" Wolf asked.
"I forgot where I put the glasses." she said with a will-you-forgive-me? smile. "Here you go." She gave Wolf his glass and sat beside him.
Wolf sniffed at the glass, then tasted it.
"This is nice." he said and drank all of it at once.
"Slow down! Were you that thirsty?"
"No, but it was good. I liked it." He smiled at her. "So what were you going to tell me?"
"Nothing. I mean.. I forgot."
"Oh."
"What about you?" Wolf looked at her confused. "What were you going to tell me?"
"Oh, yes. I don't know how to say this. But I want you to know that I don't want to hurt your feelings. I just thought that you should know."
"OK, go ahead. I'm listening." She put her glass on the table.
"It's about Tom."
"Wolf, if you're going to mention yesterday, please don't."
"You know?"
"Of course I know! I was with him!"
"OK, then, I must go. What time is it anyway?"
"Umm.." Mary looked at her watch. "Eleven."
"Cripes! I'm late! I promised Virginia to go back at ten!"
"Don't worry, I'll take you home."
"Really? Huff-puff, that's so nice of you."
"It's nothing. I love... to help." She was about to say I love you, but didn't. She wondered why couldn't she say it. Wasn't that what she wanted? It was. Or at least, that's what she thought. She picked up her keys and they went out. She drove the car like crazy (as she usually did.).
"Mary."
"Yeah?"
"Why do you drive like a troll who's about to be thrown in the dungeon?"
Mary laughed at the question.
"What's so funny?"
"I'm sorry. But that troll thing that you said. That's funny."
"OK then. Why do you always drive like a crazy? Is that better?"
"Just as the other. OK, well, I really don't know. I love the feeling of speed."
"But you might hurt yourself."
"I almost did once."
"Really?"
"Yeah. It was two years ago. I was in Florida for a concert, and one night, I decided to go out alone. So I went and took a friend's car. I was driving fast in the middle of the night. And then there was this old lady, that I didn't know where did she came from, who was crossing the street. Or at least was trying to."
"You hit her?"
"I wish I did. At least I wouldn't have stayed in hospital for broken legs. When I saw her, I lost control. I was surprised and smashed the car into another one, and both went into the wall of a building."
"Cripes!"
"Cripes indeed. I still remember how it felt that time. That pain. And there was no one to be with me. That friend of mine didn't even come for a visit. I guess she was angry because of her car."
"That's no reason."
"Maybe it was for her. I don't blame her at all."
"What about Tom?"
"Tom didn't know about it. he heard it from news and called after a week."
"Wasn't he with you there in that Flora place?"
"It's Florida Wolf. And no. He was here. When I used to go for tours I went only with my crew. Tom's just a friend. he doesn't need to be with me all the time."
"But I think that he needs you beside him now."
"We're not talking to eachother."
"Why?"
"We had an argument yesterday morning."
"So, you didn't talk to him or see him later?"
"No. Why should I? He's the one who started it. I'm not going to be the first to appologise."
"So you don't know what happened?"
"What do you mean?" Mary's face turned to concerned.
"One of his patients died yesterday night."
"Uncle Joe." She stopped the car suddenly, and Wolf was going to hit his head to the front window if he didn't had the safety belt on.
"He was your relative? Oh Mary I'm so sorry. I thought you know. You told me you were with Tom yesterday. I thought you knew about it."
"Uncle Joe isn't my relative. He's Tom's uncle. His mother's brother. Are you sure of what you're saying Wolf?"
"They only said that it was his patient. I don't know the name."
"It must be him. Tom didn't have any other patients staying at the hospital these days. God! Now I have to be the first to call Tom." She started to drive again.
Wolf didn't say anything about Tom. He was afraid that she would stop the car again and this time he would see himself hanging through the front window.
Finally when they were near the building, Mary parked the car in front of it. For a moment, it semed to her that Wolf didn't want to get out of the car.
"We're here." She said, trying to understand the look on his face.
"I know. But there's something that I think you should know Mary."
"What is it?"
"This morning me and Virginia went to the hospital to see Tom. But when we were there a nurse said that he was home, because one of his patients have died and Tom was going to take care of everything concerned him."
"Now I have no doubt that it's uncle Joe. Poor man." Her eyes were filled with tears.
"Mary. This isn't the whole thing." Wolf said.
Mary quickly wiped her tears with her hand.
"Then what is it? It's not like you're going to tell me that Tom killed himself."
"He almost did."
"Come on! I know he wouldn't do that."
"After we talked to the nurse, me and Virginia left the hospital and went to Tom's house. The door was opened. Everything inside was turned upside- down. It was a huge mess all over the house. We found him in his room, lying beside his bed. On the floor. And there was an empty bottle of.. umm.. whiskey. Yeah, that's what Vriginia named it, and the doctor too. An empty bottle of whiskey in his hand and two other on the floor. I tried to wake him up but he didn't. He was alive, but didn't respond. The doctor who came was his friend."
"Daniel."
"Yes. You know him?"
"Yes. What happened next?" Mary didn't look at wolf. She looked straight and tried hard to keep her tears to her. She didn't say anything while Wolf was talking. She just listened.
"They put him in the ambulance and took him to the hospital. Mary. I'm sory, but I thought that you should know. I mean after yesterday morning when you came to our house, and I smelled your scent. I thought that you should know from me, rather than anybody else."
Mary sighed. She looked at Wolf straight in the eye. Her eyes glowed yellow for a moment and turned back to normal.
"What you smelled yesterday morning doesn't mean anything for me Wolf." Wolf was confused.
"Are you really a half-wolf Mary?" Suddenly he started to doubt his instincts. She didn't act like a wolf. Wolves have only one mate. And they're for life! But Mary seemed to act more like a human.
"I am a half-wolf. Why would you ask that?"
"You seem more like a human. I don't want to be rude, but wolves mate for life. But you don't seem to do that."
"In this world you should follow your heart. You may be dissapointed once or twice, or maybe several times, but at least when you follow your heart it wouldn't hurt that much. I've had many boyfriends. And when i met someone else, my heart told me he's the one. So I went to the other, and that's how my life is Wolf. And believe me, it's better than other celebrities. They would go to bed with anyone who would build a career for them. I'm not like that. I built my career by my own."
Wolf didn't say anything. He just listened. And when Mary finished speaking, he didn't know what to say.
"I guess that Virginia is waiting for you." Mary said finally.
"Yes. I better go now. Thank you for the dinner. And forgive me if I hurt your feelings with anything I said."
Before Wolf could open the door, Mary pulled him to her and kissed him on the lips. When they pulled away from eachother. Wolf couldn't say anything. He just opened the door and went out of the car.
Mary was preparing dinner for two. She wanted to amaze Wolf with her cooking skills. She went to the butcher's store, got a big piece of lamb meat, and returned back home to continue with her preperation.
"Now, what do we have here?" she spoke to herself as she was preparing the meat. "Would he like it cooked or rare? Or should I keep it raw?" Finally she decided to make it rare. She didn't add anything to it. She took the meat cut it in pieces and put it in oven for 5 minutes and brought it out. That's when she heard the doorbell ringing.
"Comming!" she said loudly. She knew it was Wolf. She smelled him.
"Hi!" she said as she opened the door.
"Hi Mary. I have something to tell you." Wolf was serious.
"Come in. I was just getting ready to dinner. Want to join?"
"I..I wasn't.."
"I won't take no for an answer. I have rare lamb meat. I thought that you would like it that way too." she said with a smile and took his hand and they went to the dining room.
"OK, but I can't stay for long. Virginia is alone at home and.."
"It's OK Wolf, I know that worry about her. But you won't be late for home."
She didn't even let him say what he wanted to say. So, Wolf just followed her to the dining room, and sat near the table. He decided to leve the discussion for after the dinner. (He wouldn't want to miss the lamb!)
"I'll be right back. Make yourself at home." she said and went to the kitchen.
"Put yourself together Wolf!" he said to himself. "Grrrrr, how am I supposed to tell her about Tom. I wish I wouldn't have the one who was going to say it."
"Say what?" Mary said as she came back with a big dish of rare meat.
As soon as Wolfs eyes caught the sight of the meat, he forgot about everything.
"Nothing. I was thinking loudly. Just that." he said scratching his temple. "This smells good."
"I know." she smiled again, and put the dish on the table."I hope that you like it."
"I already do!"
"Would you like something to drink with it? Red wine maybe?"
"Yeah, sure."
"OK, I'll be right back."
She went to the living room. That's where she kept her little bar. She took a couple of wine glasses and a bottle of wine, which wasn't opened yet.
"I hope this works." she murmured to herself before heading back to the dining room.
"Here. This is the best I have." She said and handed the bottle to Wolf to open.
He opened the bottle and poured wine into the glasses.
"What will we drink for?" Mary asked raising her hand for a toast.
Wolf wasn't thinking of a toast. All he was thinkng about now was how to tell Mary about Tom without hurting her feelings.
"Wolf?"
"Yeah, I'm here."
"Physically yes, but mentally no. I was saying how about a toast?"
"Well, umm.." Wolf thought of something to say while he raised his hand. And finally without finding any other words he said: "Nice to meet you Mary. To our friendship."
"Yeah, to our... friendship." She drank from her glass looking at Wolf while he was busy with eating his share of the lamb. Wolf didn't notice how Mary stared at him when he said -to our friendship-. If he would've noticed, he would've seen how her eyes went to yellow and back to normal for a moment.
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Virginia was watching TV. She regreted that she left Wolf go to Mary's place alone.
"I wish I went with him. I wouldn't have been so worried now."
Was she feeling kinda jealous? No. Wolf is loyal to her. He went to tell Mary about Tom, and he'll be back by ten. But it's 10:30 now. And he didn't even call.
Virginia was getting nervous. She decided to wait for him a little bit longer. She tried to call, but the phone showed busy all the time.
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After finishing their dinner, Mary and Wolf went to the living room.
"Mary, I have to tell you something, but I don't know how." he said.
"I have something to tell you too. And I think this is the time for it, but first let's have a drink. I feel thirsty. Want some juice?"
"Yeah sure." Wolf replied.
She went to the kitchen. Opened the fridge and took the orange juice out, poured it in two glasses. Then she started to search in the drawers for something.
"Where did I put it!" she said with a low voice, not wanting for Wolf to hear her.
Finally she found it. A medium sized black box, which had six little colorful boxes in it, and a piece of paper. She opened the paper and read what was inside.
*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*
My little girl, please use this wisely.
To reach your goal use these one at a time. And never use it on the same person twice.
To make it easier for you to use, I'm writing here what means each color of a box. This potions work slowly. It would take at least a day for its effect to start working. Remember, this may not work, if you aren't sure of what you want.
Red: Use if you want someone to get pox.
Blue: Use if you want to put someone into sleep.
Yellow: Use if you want someone to obey you.
Black: Use to turn someone into a frog.
White: Use if you want someone to tell the truth.
Pink: Use if you want someone to fall in love with you.
Love, mom.
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"I guess I need the pink one." she opened the pink little box and she emptied it in the glass from which Wolf was going to drink.
"This better work mom." she said and went back to the living room.
"What took you so long?" Wolf asked.
"I forgot where I put the glasses." she said with a will-you-forgive-me? smile. "Here you go." She gave Wolf his glass and sat beside him.
Wolf sniffed at the glass, then tasted it.
"This is nice." he said and drank all of it at once.
"Slow down! Were you that thirsty?"
"No, but it was good. I liked it." He smiled at her. "So what were you going to tell me?"
"Nothing. I mean.. I forgot."
"Oh."
"What about you?" Wolf looked at her confused. "What were you going to tell me?"
"Oh, yes. I don't know how to say this. But I want you to know that I don't want to hurt your feelings. I just thought that you should know."
"OK, go ahead. I'm listening." She put her glass on the table.
"It's about Tom."
"Wolf, if you're going to mention yesterday, please don't."
"You know?"
"Of course I know! I was with him!"
"OK, then, I must go. What time is it anyway?"
"Umm.." Mary looked at her watch. "Eleven."
"Cripes! I'm late! I promised Virginia to go back at ten!"
"Don't worry, I'll take you home."
"Really? Huff-puff, that's so nice of you."
"It's nothing. I love... to help." She was about to say I love you, but didn't. She wondered why couldn't she say it. Wasn't that what she wanted? It was. Or at least, that's what she thought. She picked up her keys and they went out. She drove the car like crazy (as she usually did.).
"Mary."
"Yeah?"
"Why do you drive like a troll who's about to be thrown in the dungeon?"
Mary laughed at the question.
"What's so funny?"
"I'm sorry. But that troll thing that you said. That's funny."
"OK then. Why do you always drive like a crazy? Is that better?"
"Just as the other. OK, well, I really don't know. I love the feeling of speed."
"But you might hurt yourself."
"I almost did once."
"Really?"
"Yeah. It was two years ago. I was in Florida for a concert, and one night, I decided to go out alone. So I went and took a friend's car. I was driving fast in the middle of the night. And then there was this old lady, that I didn't know where did she came from, who was crossing the street. Or at least was trying to."
"You hit her?"
"I wish I did. At least I wouldn't have stayed in hospital for broken legs. When I saw her, I lost control. I was surprised and smashed the car into another one, and both went into the wall of a building."
"Cripes!"
"Cripes indeed. I still remember how it felt that time. That pain. And there was no one to be with me. That friend of mine didn't even come for a visit. I guess she was angry because of her car."
"That's no reason."
"Maybe it was for her. I don't blame her at all."
"What about Tom?"
"Tom didn't know about it. he heard it from news and called after a week."
"Wasn't he with you there in that Flora place?"
"It's Florida Wolf. And no. He was here. When I used to go for tours I went only with my crew. Tom's just a friend. he doesn't need to be with me all the time."
"But I think that he needs you beside him now."
"We're not talking to eachother."
"Why?"
"We had an argument yesterday morning."
"So, you didn't talk to him or see him later?"
"No. Why should I? He's the one who started it. I'm not going to be the first to appologise."
"So you don't know what happened?"
"What do you mean?" Mary's face turned to concerned.
"One of his patients died yesterday night."
"Uncle Joe." She stopped the car suddenly, and Wolf was going to hit his head to the front window if he didn't had the safety belt on.
"He was your relative? Oh Mary I'm so sorry. I thought you know. You told me you were with Tom yesterday. I thought you knew about it."
"Uncle Joe isn't my relative. He's Tom's uncle. His mother's brother. Are you sure of what you're saying Wolf?"
"They only said that it was his patient. I don't know the name."
"It must be him. Tom didn't have any other patients staying at the hospital these days. God! Now I have to be the first to call Tom." She started to drive again.
Wolf didn't say anything about Tom. He was afraid that she would stop the car again and this time he would see himself hanging through the front window.
Finally when they were near the building, Mary parked the car in front of it. For a moment, it semed to her that Wolf didn't want to get out of the car.
"We're here." She said, trying to understand the look on his face.
"I know. But there's something that I think you should know Mary."
"What is it?"
"This morning me and Virginia went to the hospital to see Tom. But when we were there a nurse said that he was home, because one of his patients have died and Tom was going to take care of everything concerned him."
"Now I have no doubt that it's uncle Joe. Poor man." Her eyes were filled with tears.
"Mary. This isn't the whole thing." Wolf said.
Mary quickly wiped her tears with her hand.
"Then what is it? It's not like you're going to tell me that Tom killed himself."
"He almost did."
"Come on! I know he wouldn't do that."
"After we talked to the nurse, me and Virginia left the hospital and went to Tom's house. The door was opened. Everything inside was turned upside- down. It was a huge mess all over the house. We found him in his room, lying beside his bed. On the floor. And there was an empty bottle of.. umm.. whiskey. Yeah, that's what Vriginia named it, and the doctor too. An empty bottle of whiskey in his hand and two other on the floor. I tried to wake him up but he didn't. He was alive, but didn't respond. The doctor who came was his friend."
"Daniel."
"Yes. You know him?"
"Yes. What happened next?" Mary didn't look at wolf. She looked straight and tried hard to keep her tears to her. She didn't say anything while Wolf was talking. She just listened.
"They put him in the ambulance and took him to the hospital. Mary. I'm sory, but I thought that you should know. I mean after yesterday morning when you came to our house, and I smelled your scent. I thought that you should know from me, rather than anybody else."
Mary sighed. She looked at Wolf straight in the eye. Her eyes glowed yellow for a moment and turned back to normal.
"What you smelled yesterday morning doesn't mean anything for me Wolf." Wolf was confused.
"Are you really a half-wolf Mary?" Suddenly he started to doubt his instincts. She didn't act like a wolf. Wolves have only one mate. And they're for life! But Mary seemed to act more like a human.
"I am a half-wolf. Why would you ask that?"
"You seem more like a human. I don't want to be rude, but wolves mate for life. But you don't seem to do that."
"In this world you should follow your heart. You may be dissapointed once or twice, or maybe several times, but at least when you follow your heart it wouldn't hurt that much. I've had many boyfriends. And when i met someone else, my heart told me he's the one. So I went to the other, and that's how my life is Wolf. And believe me, it's better than other celebrities. They would go to bed with anyone who would build a career for them. I'm not like that. I built my career by my own."
Wolf didn't say anything. He just listened. And when Mary finished speaking, he didn't know what to say.
"I guess that Virginia is waiting for you." Mary said finally.
"Yes. I better go now. Thank you for the dinner. And forgive me if I hurt your feelings with anything I said."
Before Wolf could open the door, Mary pulled him to her and kissed him on the lips. When they pulled away from eachother. Wolf couldn't say anything. He just opened the door and went out of the car.
