Chapter 6: Trouble

Annie's POV

I took a deep breath. "Where is he right now?" I asked

"We don't know where he's at. His thoughts haven't been very coherent," she said.

I closed my eyes and took another deep breath. I did not even want to begin to imagine how bad things were about to get. That guy and his damn anger issues! I swear to God next time I saw him I was going to sink my teeth into him and I was going to kill him!

I turned on my car and stomped on the gas pedal harder than I meant to. I rushed home as fast as I could safely do so.

"It has to be fake," I heard my adoptive mom say as I walked through the door.

"What has to be fake?" Oh God this better not be what I think it is.

"This video they're showing on the news. It's a video of one of your friends turning into a wolf and attacking someone. The witnesses are swearing that it's real but come on now. Are your friends trying to be YouTube stars or something?"

I felt my stomach sink as the video was replayed over and over again. The only sense of relief I had was that maybe, hopefully, the majority of people seeing this would believe the same thing that my mother did. That it was all fake.

I knew one thing for sure though. I shouldn't have gone home. I should've gone looking for that idiot right away.

"Where are you going?"

"To go find that idiot-I mean Ethan and see if he's okay,"

"Annie you know it's all fa-" I shut the door before my mom finished talking.

I drove down to the diner where it all went down. There was police activity everywhere. My stomach clenched when I saw some blood on the floor. There were even news cameras here.

"Hey kid you need to get out of here. Move!" an officer shouted at me.

I refused to move. "Where is he?"

"I don't know what you're talking about kid but you need to get out of here and-"

"I'm talking about the boy on the video that turned into a wolf-"

"You know the kid on that video?"

"He's a friend of mine. I'm just trying to understand what happened," I explained which was the truth.

"We don't know what happened. But you need to leave now we are investigating,"

"I'm right here,"

I spun around and saw Ethan standing there just a few feet away from me. Lily, Joseph, and Eric were there as well.

"We found him and convinced him to come back-"

I opened my mouth to begin saying just how stupid that was when Eric stopped me.

"Just listen Annie everybody whose seen the video is convinced that it's fake. If he tells the investigators that he just got angry and physically attacked him they'll be much more likely to believe that story,"

"But what about these witnesses?"

"Nobody is going to believe there story. It's too absurd," Joseph explained.

Well it wasn't the worst idea ever.

"There he is! That's him!" someone screamed hysterically. A woman was pointing at Ethan. Soon others started pointing at him and screaming.

Soon they started screaming other things like "Werewolf" and "Murderer" despite the fact that he had not killed anyone. From what I understood he had severely maimed two people but they were still alive. Thank the heavens for that.

One of the police men grabbed Ethan "You're coming with us kid,"

"Let me go!" Ethan shouted rather aggressively.

"We just need to bring you down to the station to ask you some questions. Now come-"

"I am not going anywhere. Whatever questions you want to ask me you can ask me right here,"

"Take him away!"

"Get him out of here!"

"He's dangerous!"

I could see Ethan getting angrier and angrier by the second. A bad feeling settled in the pit of my stomach.

"He's a menace!"

Ethan began to shake very badly. Oh no.

"Okay Ethan we're going to have to arrest you-"

"Officer get away from him right now!"

"You just-"

I pushed the police officer out of the way just as Ethan exploded. Ethan went straight for the crowd. I shifted from human to wolf without even thinking. I slammed into him before he could hurt someone else.

He then toward me and tried to attack me. I jumped out of the way his teeth just barely missing my leg. I threw myself toward him but he was way too fast.

His mind was so enraged that he tried to attack me again. This time I was a split second too slow and he sank his teeth into my side. I yelped. Then I lunged at him and clamped down hard on him. For the next minute or so we fought. It was as if our primal instincts had taken over all rational thought. It wasn't until I heard the influx of thoughts that I realized the other three had phased as well to help. It wasn't easy. Ethan was easily the strongest of all of us wolves. But I was faster and I was determined to use that to my advantage.

Then when I was able to grab Ethan by the neck I did and I pinned him to the floor. I refused to let up until I saw that he was calming down. Once I was sure he wouldn't try to attack me again I let him stand up.

Someone gasped and I looked up. The crowd was standing there staring at us in fear. Even the police were frozen in shock. The news reporters just staring at us with their cameras still rolling.

Oh shit. This just went from really bad to a hundred million times worse.

"We need to run. Now!" I ordered my pack. We ran like hell.

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