Chapter 9: Training camp! Part 2

It has been two weeks since we started training camp and two weeks since Ivan and I became boyfriend and girlfriend. Things have been pretty good. Only I sense something is bothering him. Today is a free day to rest from six hard days of training. A bunch of people couldn't handle it and left. Not my friends though. All of us are tough. I wonder if anyone else will leave. I guess we will find out.

It's quiet outside. I walk over to the river and look out at it. A few minutes later I feel someone watching me turn around to see Ivan stand in there. "Hello Vicky."

"Hello Ivan. You found me fast. You always find me pretty fast." I say.

"Oh um yeah I sure do! Hahahaha!" He says with a strange laugh.

I look at hum funny. "Is something wrong? You have been acting weird." I ask him.

"Well actually I have to tell you something."

Me being me of course jumped to concludes,"Are you breaking up with me?"

He looked shocked by the question,"What? No! Why would you think that?"

I looked at the ground in embarrassment.

He looks at me in concern,"Are you alright Vicky?"

I look back up st him and wipe away a few tears that had slipped out,"Yeah. I'm sorry. What were you going to say?"

He sighs,"Vicky. I'm a werewolf." He says. "That's how I can find you so easily. I just follow your scent."

I looked at him in surprise,"Oh cool!"

"Really you're not scared?"

"Scared of you? No way!"

He smiled again this time even bigger. "Good. I'm glad." he says in relief. I can tell he has more to say but I heard someone else walking up. I turn around again and see Kazbar and Valdis. "We can talk more later." I tell Ivan and then greet Kazbar and Valdis, "Hello."

"Hello Vicky. Hello Ivan." Valdis said while Kazbar waved a greeting.

"Ivan why don't you tell them what you just told me." I said turning around to look at him. He looks back with a unsure face."I don't know."

"Oh come on. They won't care."

"Won't care about what?" Kazbar and Valdis asked in union.

"Ivan's a werewolf." I say matter-of-factly.

Kazbar and Valdis look at each other and then laugh. "Yeah sure, whatever." Kazbar says.

"Nice try." Says Valdis.

"I'm not joking." I say.

They look at each other again, this time in shock."Oh!"

"Yep."

A few hours later.

"What Ivan is a werewolf!?"

I had just told Tori and Rhonda who had both spent the morning fishing, about Ivan being a werewolf. Rhonda was speechless with shock while Tori asked questions.

How exactly does that work?"

"He said that he can change once everyday if he wants to. He goes to bandit camps when he goes hurting."

"That's interesting. I had always thought that werewolfs couldn't be around normal people because they would kill them. But that's obviously not the case."

I shook my head,"No not at all. Some might choose to live like that, but most live like everybody else."

We got quiet as we walked into the camp. It was about dinner time now so we came back early so we wouldn't have to wait in a big line. Walking into the eating area I wave as Kazbar and Valdis who walked over.

The five of us then got into the small line that had already started. Ivan soon joined us. "Hello werewolf." I said jokingly.

Ivan looked at me in annoyance and said,"Don't say that where others can hear you!"

"Sorry." I said as I realized that he probably didn't want everyone in the camp knowing.

"It's alright just be careful who you tell."

"Will do."

That evening.

I'm at the river again with Kazbar, Valdis, and Ivan. I'm glaring at Kazbar because he thought it was funny that I had tripped and fallen into the river a few minutes before and was still cold. "Kazbar if you don't stop laughing I'm going to push you into the river and I'm sure that Valdis would help me."

"Haha you wouldn't do that!"

"Want to bet?" I asked him and folds my arms together.

He frowned,"Nope. Forget I said anything."

"That's what I thought!" I said and then stuck out my tongue at him to which he rolled him eyes and said,"Girls."

Valdis and I both laughed.

"Look the sun is going down." Ivan said.

We turn to look and just watch the sunset. I shiver from the cold and try to ignore the chatter of my teeth.

"Me and Kazbar are going to go now." Valdis said.

"Alright... see you... later." I say.

"Bye." Says Kazbar.

Ivan waves bye to them. When they are out of sight he sits down and I sit in his lap. His puts his arms me and I sigh at the feeling of warmth. "Oh honey you are cold."

"I...noticed"."

He turns around so that I'm in his arms and my head is on his chest. He then gently starts rubbing my back. "This will warm you up." He said softly. I sighed in contentment and closed my eyes.

I suddenly open my eyes and realize that I had fallen asleep. I was still in Ivan's arms. And when he felt me move he asked,"Did you have a nice little nap honey?"

I stretched with a long yawn,"Yeah I guess I did."

He smiles and then gets a serious face,"Can I ask you a question?"

I look at him in confusion,"Of course you can."

"What exactly is your relationship with Kazbar?" He asks with a frown.

I look at him lost for words when it hits me,"Are you jealous?" I ask him.

He's quiet for a minute before he says,"A little. I can tell that you like him."

I sighed,"Ivan. I have known Kazbar my whole life. He is like a brother to me. And not only that he..." I stop right there, not knowing if I should say anymore.

He gently rubs my back again,"He want?"

"You won't tell anyone will you?"

"Not if you don't want me to?"

I looked into his eyes and I know that he speaks the truth. "Kazbar and Valdis has been boyfriend and girlfriend for two years."

"Oh. Why don't they want everyone to know?"

"Everyone always thinks that me and Valdis are much younger then we are, so when those two first started going out, strangers saw what the thought was a little kid with an almost adult.

The age difference between Kazbar and Valdis is the same as the two of us. Only a few of us know about the two of them."

Ivan is quiet again for a while before saying,"I see. Thank you for telling me."

I smile up at him,"I'm glad you understand."

He smiles at me as well. I can't help but feel safe when looking into his golden eyes. I feel my heart beating super fast and I'm suddenly nervous. I close my eyes, a small smile still on my face. That's when he gently leaned in and kissed me on the lips.

It was the most amazing thing I have ever felt. I wrapped my arms around his neck and kissed back. We soon broke apart lost for breath. I feel tears in my eyes but for once they are tears of happiness.

Ivan whipped the tears away gently with his hand. "What's wrong, didn't you like it?"

"Sniff. I'm not sad. These are happy tears."

And with that , Ivan smiles again and kisses me one more time before we walk back to the for the camp night.