"Mom," Maddie called as she rushed down from the second floor of her three bedroom house, "Have you seen my shoes I can't seem to find them anywhere, if I don't find them within the next three minutes I am going to be late for school."
"What?" Maddie's mother shouted.
"My shoes, have you seen them?" Maddie asked exasperated.
"You are not going to school today young lady."
"What do you mean I am not going to school today?" stated Maddie.
Her mother looked bemused, "It's the full moon tonight and it's far too dangerous for you to be out during the day. Especially, since it's you sixteenth birthday, remember we talked about this?"
Maddie turned her gaze away from her mother of course she remembered 'the talk.'
"Oh, darn it I forgot that it was the full moon tonight," Maddie muttered sadly.
Her parents with gleam had explained that as a wolfblood turning sixteen meant that she, Maddie, would make a complete transformation, she was no longer a pup, they'd called it 'her coming of age.'
"So, I can't go to school today?" Maddie whispered.
"Nope," said her mom cheerily.
"Well, that's just great I have a major test today. So, I am going to need a good excuse why I wasn't there for it on Monday when I go back."
"Don't worry, leave that to me."
"Ok, whatever you say." Maddie said stomping her way back up the stairs debating how to spend the hours between now and the full moon.
Later, after Maddie had spent hours bored, wavering between excitement and anxiousness, studying, but not really absorbing the text, ignoring the few texts from her friend checking up on her, the time came for her to get ready for her transformation.
It was as Maddie got ready for the full moon that she heard an unfamiliar howl. She didn't know who it was. She thought that she knew all the wolfbloods within a fifty mile distance from her house. Looking out the window the sun sinking faster than she would like the unfamiliar howl forgotten, she shrugged it off and went down stairs when it was time for the full moon to start.