A/N hello everyone I'm happy to be here but! (And this is a big butt) (I enjoy them that way ;) ) this is not the second chapter of ER as you probably believed, sorry to do that to you. It is the first chapter but split in half because I had people tell me the first chapter was too long which in all honesty it probably was. Now then. Unless your name is country wolf dog (thank you again my friend) you haven't reviewed, I don't demand or beg for reviews but they make me feel good and it lets me know I'm doing well. So please. Review and if your lucky I might eventually turn into a happy little Japanese school girl and act even weirder then I already am O_o but anyway go ahead and read if you wish and see you at the bottom.
I then waited for what seemed like an hour for him to respond, but the red wolf said absolutely nothing, and continued to silently sit there seeming to contemplate over what I was doing, more then likely unsure if I was being genuine about my offer or not. Eventually he nodded, but his eyes were downcast, probably from guilt or embarrassment. I then helped him stand up on his feet, and we gradually made our way to his car. I opened the door for him, and then he sat down and leaned his head back against his seat taking in a few deep breaths." Hey, do you think that you will be able to drive back home safely?" I asked him just in case he was not able to. I had hit his face pretty hard a few times, and as I looked at him and the blood coming out of the few gashes on his face made by my rings, I could tell that his pride was not the only thing that was really hurting him. He did seem fine for the most part, although he would probably want to take a painkiller later on. The red wolf then slowly nodded his head and barely managed to say a thank you. He then puts the key into the ignition and started his car.
Nodding back to him, I said goodbye and left to my own car. I saw him drive away by the time I started my vehicle, and I stared at my paws as I grab hold of the steering wheel. My paws and the four rings I was wearing had blood on them from the fight. The first one was white gold with a skull embedded in it. The second was a gold one with intricate curving 'S' like designs on it. The third was another gold one, but it had a wolf snarling engraved into it. The fourth and final one was a red gold ring with small spikes on it making it pretty effective in a fight, and probably is the reason why the red wolf had gashes in the first place now that I thought about it. Taking my eyes off of my rings, I grabbed my new charger out of the bag it was in. I plugged it into my car, and then connect it to my phone. "Rack city remix" by Tyga started playing when I clicked shuffle after I selected my music. A smile went across my face as I put the car in gear and drove out of the parking lot heading straight for home, hoping to get there before the storm hits.
The return trip back to the house was not long at all, and the traffic was mostly light considering the time of day. But when I was driving down the road just a couple of miles away from home, a Blue car drives through a red light, coming out right in front of me through the intersection I was about to drive past. I had to slam on my breaks so that I would not collide with the car that seemingly came out of nowhere. The tires screeched as I held my foot down on the breaks, and just narrowly missed the other car by a few inches. Thankfully, I was able to keep moving so that the other car behind me had ample room to slow down before it almost rear-ended me and caused an accident.
My heart was racing from the close encounter I just had, and the stress from this and the fight earlier was giving me a headache. I rubbed my forehead as I loosened the death grip I had on the steering wheel. "I'm sorry but I can't take anymore of this bullshit!" I shouted out agitatedly while glaring through my window at the rapidly disappearing blue car to my left. All of these stressful events that happened today had really set me on edge. I was just relieved that I would be at the house in just a few more miles, and did not have to deal with anymore crap for the rest of the day. Keeping that in mind, I calmed a little as that thought helped me to stay focused and alert while I drove towards home.
Dark clouds now hung ominously overhead as the roar of the rumbling thunder got louder, and the flashes of lightning streaking across the sky could be seen not too far in the distance. The wind whipped through the trees and was blowing leaves, paper, and all manner of small debris through the air from everywhere, making me wonder and worried that I may not have had enough time to make it back home before the storm got bad. Luckily there were only a few drops of rain that started to trickle from the heavens when I had made it back home and out of the downpour that would soon arrive.
I pulled into the hangar, and pushed the lock button on my keys once I got out of the car. I saw that Selene's car was back in its spot, and assumed that she had gotten what she had needed at the store. Once I had walked out and into the garage, I knew that I was more than likely right from the smell of the cooked meats that was permeating through the house and the garage. I then opened the door to the house and placed my shoes on the rack after I took them off, and then made my way into the kitchen.
When I reached the kitchen, I was somewhat expecting to see Abby to be the first that I saw since she was cooking earlier, but I saw a white furred she wolf instead, it was Selene. She was wearing a black hooded jacket over a white T-shirt, and a pair of dark blue jeans with fleur-de-lis emblems stitched to the back pants pockets. I walked in further and saw that she was the one who was cooking the food. She had some ground beef in one skillet, and cubed steak in another with both already on the burners, all the while she was seasoning up some chicken for the tacos later on tonight. She smiled, and then waved at me. I too did the same by smiling and waving back to her, and then I walked closer to the edge of the kitchen so that I would not be in her way while she cooked, but could still talk to her face to face. "Hey Selene, I see that you have been working hard, and it smells good in here."I said in a playful tone.
Selene smirked at the comment, and then while shaking her head at me and placing the chicken on a pan, she replied, "I am not slaving over this stove alone I'll have you know, Abby is helping too. She just went up stairs to get her phone since it was ringing. Apparently she thought it might have been you calling her, but from the looks of things, you are not on the phone with her." she said glancing at me, and then she looked out the window in the dinning room adjacent to the kitchen as the rain started falling down even harder in a downpour, and the thunder got louder as the storm drew ever closer. Selene then walked to the window transfixed on the storm that was getting more aggressive by the second." Well at least you made it back in time before the storm had hit us." She said somberly.
Selene was still staring out of the window looking left and right at the rain that was steadily falling from the sky when she mentioned the storm. Then she went back over to the stove to check on the meats after a few seconds. Not a moment later there was a bright flash outside the windows, and a loud boom resonated through the house. Selene yelped and jumped away slightly from being startled by the lightning striking a tree in the woods close by. A few more flashes and loud rumbles resounded, and the lights in the house flickered for only the briefest of moments. "It is starting to get bad out there; I just hope that the power does not go out." She said softly, sounding a little concerned and was trembling a little, but she got over it almost immediately, and went back to tending to the food.
I agreed with her and nodded my head in affirmation, I too walked over to the window like Selene did earlier too see how it looked. The storm did indeed seem to be relentless and harsh, and the wind was picking up even more from the sounds of it colliding with the house with what seemed like nearly gale force speeds."Yes, it is getting really nasty out there, but at least everyone is inside and out of the thunderstorm. All we have to worry about is if there will be a blackout like you said." I stated trying to sound a bit more optimistic than I was. Now wanting to change the subject and talk about anything at all other than water falling from the sky at the moment, I looked straight at Selene again and walked back to the spot I was standing at earlier near the island table. I had figured that asking her how her day was would end up being a good idea since she was pretty busy all day and probably was really tired by now. "So Selene how was your day? They did not work you to death at work did they?" I asked while leaning on the island counter in the middle of the kitchen with eyes fixed on her, waiting for a response.
Selene was turning the fire on low under the beef and steak pans, and then started to stir over and over the chicken breast chunks in another frying pan to make sure that they were cooking all the way through when I asked her this. She shrugged her shoulders, and turned around to face me, "I had a pretty good day actually; there was not too much to do at work today at my job, so I was able to relax mostly and was able to come home early. Once home, I took a short nap and then watched a little bit of the TV, but I remembered that there were some things that we still needed for dinner, so I went to the grocery store to pick them up. I then came back home, and here I am talking to you." She answered smiling and brushing her fur back with her paw.
"Well that's good, and who knows, maybe tomorrow will be another easy day for you." I said chuckling. "Oh and the chicken will start to burn if you keep the fire on high like that, I would turn down the heat if I were you." I indicated by pointing to the smoking pan on the stove.
Selene's eyes went wide realizing that she completely disregarded the food on the stove top when she started talking about work and the store. "Ah crap! . . . No!" She screamed as she hurriedly ran over to turn the burner on a lower heat setting. Fortunately the chicken did not burn, and it was just the pan starting to smoke from the high heat.
I was chuckling at her response to the situation, and could hardly hold myself back from laughing. She too started to laugh after realizing how she reacted. My attention however was drawn away from Selene to the stairs not long after because I could hear someone coming down the steps. Abby came round the corner once she had descended down the stairs, and smiled widely when she saw me, "Hey babe, I did not hear you come in. Welcome back." She said greeting me excitedly and then gave me a kiss. It was almost powerful enough to make me forget about the fight and near car accident earlier, but the dull pain I felt throbbing from my injured side was reminding me of what happened. When the kiss had ended she winked at me, and then walked to the sink and washed her paws. She then opened the refrigerator and took out some tomatoes, hot peppers, garlic, and some other things and placed them onto the opposite side of the island table, and was now facing me. There was a food processor that she probably had taken out when she was helping Selene earlier sitting next to a plate filled with herbs, vegetables, and other ingredients. She then started to place some onions she had already chopped on the plate and the other things one by one into the processor and turned it on. She continued to add things like tomatoes and lime juice to the mixture, turning it into a nice and thick salsa.
I noticed that we did not get to talk much at all earlier today, and I wanted to know how she has been. So I smiled at her, and then leaned in closer once she turned off the machine. I then proceeded to speak with her, inquiring about how her day was. "The salsa is looking great honey, and I can't wait to try it. So, how have you been? I had to leave back out again before we had a chance to really talk earlier."
"Yeah I hope that the salsa turns out good too, I don't think it will be too bad. Maybe I should put something extra to kick it up a notch, just for you. "She smirked and winked at me when she said that. I was a little curious of if she was really going to put something in it, but because of her tone, I figured that she was playing around. She then continued to smile at me while I was musing over if she was going to add something, and I was about to ask her again about her day since she said nothing of it. But before I could, she put the now finished salsa in a bowl, and crossed her arms while she leaned over from the other side of the island facing me, using the table to support her."Now then, you asked me how my day was, right?" she asked coolly and at the same time was furling her right eyebrow. I nodded to her, agreeing that it was indeed the question I had asked her. She unfurled her brow and her smirk from earlier turned into a broad smile. "Well my day was pretty good, not really eventful though. I just had to do some errands, drop a box off at the post office, and got a few things for the washroom. I then came back home and finished doing some small chores. Then when I was done, I got to enjoy the peace and quiet until you came back." She replied in a relaxed manner, sounding contented and at ease.
"Wow, sounds like you had quite a bit to do. It is good to hear that you did not have too much though. At least you got to rest most of the day" I said thoughtfully, happy that she had a pretty peaceful day."We even got to have a little fun together too. We should definitely do things like we did on the couch more often." I remarked in a playful and mischievous tone. I then winked at her while leaning in closer, and we kissed again. It was short lived because she had to finish helping with dinner, but it was just as sweet as any other we had shared before. I could not help but be captivated by her when the kiss had ended, and her smile and cheerfulness was so incredibly infectious. My mood had lightened even more and I felt content just being around and talking to her. Abby just had that aura or air about her; she could lighten any situation, even if there was a raging storm and thunder blaring just outside.
We continued to talk for a while, and I told both Abby and Selene everything that happened at the store with the red wolf. Abby was really concerned when I told her that I was hit by a car. She checked my bruised side, and I cringed when she pressed on it. I reassured her that I would be fine, and they both calmed down when realizing that nothing was fractured or broken. Abby then hugged me tightly; she was still concerned even after knowing that I was okay.
When it was over, Selene and Abby went back to cooking, and I assisted them by setting up the table and getting the other condiments and sauces ready. Darryl came down stairs soon after, and he too joined in getting things ready to eat. Several minutes later all of the food was done, and everything was set and prepared. All of us then sat down at our mahogany dinner table to eat as a family. The tacos were excellent, and Abby's salsa was amazingly good as well. Darryl even made nachos with it. We talked about the events of the day, the storm that was going on even while we were eating, and also about what our plans for the next day may be. We laughed, and were just having a good time eating together. There was nothing special in particular that happened or was spoken of though, but we all had a great time.
When we had finished eating, Darryl volunteered to do the dishes, and I went ahead putting the leftover food and everything else away, as well as taking the garbage out. It did not take long at all to clean up the mess after dinner, so I had no problem helping since the girls did most of the cooking. After we had finished cleaning up the kitchen and dining room, Darryl sat down on the couch facing the TV and went on his laptop, probably working on one of his projects. I decided to join him on the couch and tell him about the incident at the store since I had not earlier. As I sat next to him, I smiled while leaning back and said with a contented sigh; "Well I had an interesting time at the store."
"Why, what happened?" he questioned me with a quizzical expression. He knew something was off by the way I had spoken to him by the look he gave me.
"Well, I got hit by a car when I was almost inside the Future shop store, and I nearly got hit by another one when I was driving back home." I answered him nodding my head and smiling as I did. He then gave me a look of confusion and narrows his eyes on me.
"So you nod and smile about nearly getting seriously injured or killed twice? Wow Andrew just wow, at least you are okay." He said shrugging his shoulders and shaking his head at the way I was acting.
"Well it's better than being angry and worrying about what may or may not have happened. Life is too short to worry about things like that." I said explaining to him honestly. He nodded in agreement, and I see him start smiling trying not to laugh about something. I was confused; he normally did not just randomly start laughing for no reason. "Uh bro, what is so funny?" I asked perplexedly.
"It's you, I am shocked hearing those words come out of your mouth. It is funny to me when you said that." He chuckled for a second, and then his expression turned from cheerful and carefree to a more cool and serious one. "I am proud of you. Usually you get all mad, fiery, and angry. Then while in rage mode, you lash out at whatever it is that ticked you off. I'm happy that you are handling the situation so well and view things this way with a chilled outlook." He said solemnly still looking very serious and cold. I was unsure what to say, part of me wanted slap the back of his head, and the other was happy that he was proud of me, but the serious tone he had so suddenly spoken with was odd. So I just stared at him confusedly without saying a word. He sighed and went back to his normal sarcastic and lighthearted self, "It means that you are maturing Andrew. There is still hope for you yet little brother." He sarcastically remarked with a hearty laugh.
I shook my head and rolled my eyes at my brother for that comment he made. "Hey whatever man, you don't have to act so serious and surprised about it you jerk." I retorted back to him. He shrugged again, but still had a huge smile on his face. He dropped the subject after that, and we watched a little bit of TV before the girls came in the room and joined us. We watched a few shows, but I started to feel a little sick during one of the episodes of the show "The Walking Dead". When it had ended, my stomach was feeling even worse. So I checked the clock and saw that it was past ten o'clock. I decide to take a shower to clean myself up a bit, hoping that I would feel better afterwards. "Okay guys I'm going to go take a shower and lay down for a bit. I don't feel so well, and I think that I will just call it a night." I stated as I stood up to head upstairs.
"What is wrong babe? Is your side and back bothering you? Do you need me to get you anything?" Abby asked sounding awfully worried, and her face was showing how truly concerned she was. She then rose up to stand next to me, I had to reassure her, Darryl, and Selene that I was going to be fine.
"Don't worry honey, I just feel sick and nauseated. I will be fine once I get some sleep." I stated calm and reassuringly. Abby looked me in the eyes, her worried expression softened and I could see the relief on her face from hearing me say that. She still told me to call her if I needed anything, and I nodded and said to her that I would. Darryl and Selene too were concerned, but I told them the same thing that I told Abby. I then said goodnight to everyone, and then headed on my way up the stairs while the three of them went back to watching the TV.
A nice hot shower and a good night's sleep probably would do wonders for me is what I thought as I made it to the top of the steps. I was beginning to feel quite woozy as the nauseating feeling increased in strength. All the while I was getting my night clothes out of the dresser drawer once I was in mine and Abby's bedroom. Quickly collecting my clothes, I walked inside the bathroom that was connected to our room, and then took off my clothes and turned on the water in the shower to let it heat up. As I waited for the water to warm up, I stared into the mirror to see if I looked as bad as I felt. I was feeling so light headed and even more nauseated than I had been before when I was at the top of the stairs, and at the same time my anger from earlier in the day started boiling back up inside of me. I saw myself beginning to snarl in the mirror, and then I shook my head trying to calm down before it got worse. I then placed my paws on the edge of the sink and took deep long breaths while closing my eyes for a few moments, trying to calm myself.
My head hung low as I felt once more in control again, but when I opened my eyes, I was confused, amazed, and terrified at seeing that my right paw had changed colors. There was a line going straight down my middle finger to my wrist, with the right side of it the same color as my gold ring, while the left side of my paw was the color of my red gold ring. I was in a daze, and I could hear my heart beat faster while my breathing intensified as I was trying to not freak out at what I was seeing.
Thinking that I was just hallucinating since I did not feel so good, I wiped my eyes and began shaking my right paw vigorously, but the colors stayed the same and did not change back to normal. I then tried to see if I could rub it off, and in doing so I noticed that it had the same sheen and properties as the rings that I was wearing. Still gazing at my strangely colored paw, I realized that the water was still running. So I walked over to the shower, and put my paw under the water, but after scrubbing it with soap under the water for a few minutes, it still would not come off or change back. Getting slightly worried and annoyed, I growled bitterly at not being able to wash it off or change my colors back.
Knowing that getting frustrated was not going to help me solve my problem, I decided that I needed to calm down more and clear my head to think of a way to get my paw back to normal. Figuring that taking the shower was a good place to start calming down to think, I hopped in the shower and began to scrub myself clean with the soothing warm water. While I was getting clean, I tried thinking of calming things to rid myself of the anger, fear, and frustration. I thought of things like a beach that lead out to a bright blue ocean with cool waves crashing against my feet, or a gentle breeze blowing through a copse of trees in a wide and open meadow full of sweet smelling wild flowers, or even the tranquil sound of rain slowly falling from the sky onto the ground like it was now. Thinking of those things did help out a lot, and after I was finished showering and turning off the water, I took another deep breath feeling content once again with all of the negative feelings washed down the drain.
I then looked down at my paw again, hoping that it went back to normal. I smiled feeling incredibly relieved seeing that it was back to my black fur color, and figured that it was just some weird side effect from whatever was causing me to feel nauseous and lightheaded. Now that the bizarre color changing thing that happened to me was over, I took a towel off of the rack and dried off.
To see if any other changes happened to me, I looked in the mirror again, and turned all the way around, paying close attention to make sure that I did not miss a spot on my body that seemed odd or changed. I let out a contented sigh seeing that everything was in order and unchanged, but while I was putting on my night clothes, I suddenly felt awfully drained of energy and extremely tired. So I sluggishly managed to make it to my bed from the bathroom, and collapsed on it feeling the comfort of the mattress sooth and relax me as I laid there sprawled out on it. The nausea and dizziness did not end there however, and I started thinking that maybe someone had done something to me."Yeah someone had to have put drugs or something in my food, that's it. Someone had drugged me. I'm not going crazy." I mumbled quietly to myself as I rested my head down on my pillow and turned over on my side.
There was a part of me that questioned if what had happened in the bathroom with my fur changing was because of me hallucinating from my nausea or not, but if that was not the reason for it, then what caused it? And if it was in fact real, what was it that happened to my paw? But before I could contemplate over these questions and the possibilities, I fell into a deep and restful sleep. However, as I was loosing myself to sleep, I had a feeling that it wasn't over with what happened to me, and that this just may be the beginning of something new and exciting for me.
A/N hello how was that? Good? Bad? Please say good. Anyway, the reason the real second chapter isn't out is because life has been hectic sort of lately and it's been a bitch, but it's been good too. We might divulge and penetrate deeper into my life next time we speak (so sexual *licks my lips* mmmm delicious) if you haven't noticed yet I'm being really weird and that's because I just woke up from a nap. When this happens I get really weird and touchy, stay away from me in that situation. ( XD) and don't listen to whatever I say that gives you any other idea (come on you know you want it *licks my lips again* ) well I'm gonna go now guys bye, I will attempt to get new hilltop or TZ or this out soon!