CHAPTER TWO

It was after everybody left did I get the chance to meet my cousin who -unlike me and my father- wasn't a werewolf.

So when I let slip about the family curse only to see his reaction of curiosity I knew that I was in trouble.

It was about an hour later when I had finished telling him about the Lockwood family Curse which both my dad and myself had unfortunately activated.

He left the room then and I felt as if I had done the wrong thing in telling him, but there was a part of me that said it was the right thing to do and I should ignore the feeling that it was wrong to do so even though I knew my dad would get angry as soon as he found out that Tyler knew.

A MONTH LATER

MYSTIC HIGH SCHOOL

I felt weird walking beside Tyler in the hallway as girls stared in anger and guys in envy. I wanted to run but with the grip he held on my wrist I knew I wouldn't be able to get out unless I wanted to risk being found out.

So as we entered History class I took the seat nearest to the door and ignored all the looks and greetings as I put my earphones in my ears and blasted Last to Know by Three Days Grace before copying down what was on the board into my notebook.

Once the bell rang I let out a sigh as I grabbed my things and mad a run for the car park where my dad was waiting for me –embarrassing I know- so that we could get a head start and get chained up in the old Lockwood Cellar in the woods.

The only problem was that once we just about had everything set up Tyler we could hear Tyler on his way, so we quickly packed everything and ran to the car.

It was unlike any full-moon I'd endured as I turned chained to a tree with my father in his Jeep. I felt a tear escape my eye as I controlled the change as I heard the screams of my father in the car and the running steps of a vampire coming our way.

From the scent I could tell that it was Stefan Salvatore so I unchained myself and ran into the forest in my bikini and short-shorts to the party pretending that I was there to have fun as people came up talking to me and I surprised them by talking back and knocking back drinks like there was no tomorrow.

Meanwhile I kept an ear out listening to what was going on with Stefan, surprised when he met up with Caroline and warned her that "the bite of a werewolf can kill a vampire" causing a wave of panic to run throughout my body as I sensed that Caroline was a vampire.

As I blanked out for a moment to listen properly to the group of seniors surrounding me I felt as if something was wrong and put an ear back out to hear Tyler scream "NO!" at the same time Stefan screamed "CAROLINE!" and that's when I knew Tyler would start to be more careful, that the Curse was real.

A couple of hours later I was laying against the Jeep with my knees brought up to my chest as I waited for my dad to come back when I heard footsteps, when I looked up I felt sorrow that my cousin had come in search of me and my dad but I understood why.

"So how is it that you activate the Curse exactly? You said that you'd tell me" Tyler said taking off his jacket and wrapping it around my shoulders to keep the cold morning air at bay.

"In order to break the Curse you have to take another life, whether it's intentional or not… once a life's been taken the Curse is broken and you're a slave to the moon once every month" I turned to see the look of curiosity on his face.

"It was six-years-ago when me and some of my friends were walking across a bridge, she tripped and fell and I caught a hold of her before she fell… but she was to heavy and I couldn't hold any longer. Her hands slipped through mine and she fell into the lake"

I stopped and wiped the tears from my eyes "it was a week later while on a camping trip with my school that I turned… and I killed every last one of them. I was taken in by a local man who happened to be a were and over the years he taught me how to control the wolf during the change, he taught me to fight it so that I could stay out on a full-moon instead of having to turn. And I did everything he taught me, I still do…" I looked at Tyler with tear freely flowing down my face as I felt my father's presence.

"If anything happens, if you break the Curse come to me and I'll help you. You can try and push me away, you can try and fight me when I help but I can promise that I will never leave you"

I then got up and threw my dad his pant and shirt before walking back to the Lockwood Mansion so that I could spend the rest of the day sleeping.

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