Chapter 7: True Form

"You had her in your house again and you didn't bone her!" asked Jeff as we walked down the hallway of the building as we headed to our fifth hours.

"She's normally over... About two or three times a week... It's like I have two sisters..." I replied looking at my cell phone

I had a message from Lily, it said: "Burgers after school?" I replied with a simple "sure"

Two weeks had passed and I haven't had a chance to talk to Melissah as she hasn't attended class since that night. Nothing particularly eventful happened since then, other than my sisters "time", hair color change and me getting a new pair of shoes.

"So what happened with you and Angela" I asked as we stood outside of my class...

"We decided that she wanted to see other people... We had some good times..." he replied after thinking about his situation

"You guys went out for like three hours!" I laughed out

"Good times" he repeated

"Hey, burgers after class" I said as the bell rang and we parted ways, I walked into class.

I sat down and looked around; it was the same except for a few people being absent.

Class started as it normally does. Christine and I passes a few notes as we always did but I mostly kept to doodling on my note book till class ended and the teacher held me afterwards to talk about how his daughter needed a date to prom and he would accidentally give me an A in the last test we had, Which coincidently, I didn't do all that great on. I accepted. His daughter wasn't bad looking or anything but apparently she was just very shy, his words not mine.

I walked out and looked around, school ended with fifth hour today. It alternates between odd number classes and the even every other day.

A girl stood at the end of the hall. I stared at her; she wore a light brown zipper trim skirt with a white blouse and a black cloche hat, her long golden hair reviling itself under it. I walked towards her, I walked towards Melissah. She walked towards the steps that led to the bottom part of the building; I hurried but didn't call out.

I stepped outside and barely caught a glimpse of her skirt walking behind a building, I followed.

She leaned on the building when I caught up. I stared at her, she didn't look at me, she looked at the floor.

"Where have you been?" I asked but she didn't answer "answer me... What do you guys want with me?"

"Please don't hate us" she said softly "we're only trying to help..."

I stared at her "help who?"

Silence... Then finally "everyone..."

"What does that have to do with me?" I asked pacing "with my family?"

More silence, this time she played with her foot on the dirt "there... There aren't many nice dark ones any more... Grayson wants to build an army to help get rid of the bad ones..." I slammed my hands on the building next to her face, she flinched and braced herself.

"I don't give a shit!" I replied with a growl, not un-harshly, "I don't fucking care what Grayson is doing... Leave me the fuck out of it!" I didn't even realize that I had changed to my werewolf form till I saw my muzzle about an inch from Melissah's face.

I calmed down and I reverted back to my human form.

"Look... I do not wish to be part of your group... I just want to be myself and be normal".

She opened her eyes to look at me and calmed down a little

A few leaves rustled nearby and we both looked to my left, Jeff stood there, wide eyed and opened mouth. I stared at him and swore on the inside.

"I'm sorry Jonathan" said Melissah as her hair started levitating and her eyes darkening, I knew immediately that Jeff's life was in danger

I changed to wolf form as I barely had time to stand between Melissah and Jeff, I felt something hit me in the chest, throwing me backwards, I landed by Jeff's feet.

"Jonathan!" yelled Jeff in a cautions voice

Jeff didn't know about me... About my family... Christine only found out because she had accidentally been in my house one full moon night years back

Melissah's eyes were normal again "Get out of the way Jonathan, he knows our secret" her eyes darkened.

I stood up just in time to get in the way of her attack again. I was tossed to the side facing Jeff. He looked at me in horror, not sure whether he should run or help me up. I guess he stood there because deep down he know that I was still me.

I forced myself up and looked at Melissah

"I'll kill you if you hurt him" I growled.

Her hair fell and her eyes returned to normal immediately... "But..." she trailed off as I stared at her through painful eyes. She looked back and smiled slowly "you're a good friend Jonathan... Maybe one day..." she turned and walked through the nearest fence that led to the street and finally disappeared.

I looked back at Jeff who bend down to help me up, my wolf paw completely shadowed his human hand but he helped me up.

I changed back and looked at him.

"All this time..." he started staring at me "all this time you weren't human and you didn't tell me?" his face got red

"It's not like that" I grunted standing against a building for support

"So how is it Jonathan? I thought I was your best friend... And you've been hiding this from me... From everyone... From Christine!"

I didn't answer, I didn't have the heart to tell him that she knew something he didn't, I felt like an asshole

"She knows, doesn't she..." he continued, lowering his voice

Silence fell as my sister, her friend, Samantha something and Christine came towards us. Christine wore a plain white shirt with some blue jeans; Samantha wore a short black skirt with a black blouse while my sister wore a long skirt and a "Metallica" shirt, her newly bright pink hair dangled as they approached.

"There you are" said Christine as soon as they got near, let's go I'm hungr... Jonathan are you ok?" she hurried towards me and placed an arm on my shoulder...

"Yeah..." I said staring at Jeff who stared at my sister

"What?" she asked annoyed and started examining me

Samantha stayed back

"Are you... A werewolf too?" Lily and Christine stopped as the color rushed out of their faces and slowly turned to look at Jeff.

Samantha looked at Lily confused "what... What's he talking about?"

Nobody replied

"Oh, shit, you are!" said Jeff a little more than pissed off

"You know?" asked Lily in a little more than a whisper

"Just found out, and you" he said looking at Christine "what are you?" he stepped forward to Christine and removed her hat to see if she was hiding anything beneath it and started feeling her body to see if anything didn't belong, Christine protested and swore and finally slapped Jeff when he grabbed a little too much of her rear end.

He held his cheek and looked back... "What are you guys? Really..." he looked at all of us and finally at Samantha, who still stood to one side, she shot him a "you're not touching me" glance. We stared at him and Lily moved her sight to me

"Jonathan?" she started

"Show them..." I said signaling for her to move to the side of the building so nobody would see "you might want to see this too, Samantha" I signaled her to come closer

Samantha came closer by me as Lily reluctantly took off her shoes, moved and turned to look at back at Jeff and Samantha who stared in awe as white cat ears, a cat tail and some large white paws appeared on her hands and legs... She moved her tail and flicked her ears to prove that they were real... She gave us a small smile and placed a cat paw on her hip.

Samantha slowly walked forward and touched the cat ears and tail and finally examined the paw Lily stood still

"You too?" she asked as she sprouted large angel wings which stood beautifully as if they weren't let free nearly enough...

We all stared at Samantha who hugged Lily as if she just found a long lost sister, Lily hugged her back with her giant cat paws

Jeff looked at Samantha, Lily and me for a long while then turned to look at Christine "and you..."

Christine looked back at him "... am going to slap you if you touch my butt again!" she pushed him back slightly, she returned her attention on me again "what happened Jonathan?"

"I'll tell you over lunch" I chuckled and looked at Jeff "I'll tell you everything..." I got off the wall and looked at the girls who showed their true forms proudly, Lily turned back and Samantha followed, we started walking passed the gate that let the students out.

"So..." started Jeff reluctantly "do you guys eat like kibbles or people or something...?"

Lily reached out and smacked Jeff upside his head

"What the hell?" he snapped

"Don't make me use the cat hand" she replied laughing

We shared a laugh, it felt good, as if a burden was lifted from me, Lily and Samantha probably felt the same