Chapter 4
Franklin's POV
Franklin started back towards camp. He arrived and sat around the fire with the two gentlemen.
Joseph- "There he is. Dude you've been gone a while."
Franklin- "Yeah, I know, nature around here is just so...profound."
Joseph- "Yeah right. Oh, Rick Franklin, Franklin Rick."
Franklin and Rick got up to exchange handshakes.
Rick- "I'm Ricky Zancu and i'm from Alaska."
Franklin- "Franklin Wellington the 3rd nice to meet you. So how long you and Joseph known each other?"
Rick- "Aah me and Joseph go wayyy back I even remember that time we went camping at..."
Joseph- "Yeah, yeah, yeah what ever. Franklin um, last night didn't you say you hear strange noises?"
Franklin- "Noises? Like what?"
Joseph- "I don't know you tell me."
Franklin unsure how to answer just sat staring blankly at Joseph, but his interrogation was interrupted by Rick.
Rick- "C'mon Joseph give the guy a break its his first time camping."
Joseph- "Oh...that's right."
Rick- "Of course and franky. Is it ok if I call ya franky?"
Franklin- "Yeah its cool."
Rick- "Ok did Joseph tell you that you were walking through wolf territory?"
Franklin- "Wolf territory?"
Rick- "That's right, did you see any?"
Franklin- "No, not really."
Joseph- "Well i'll be right back.""
Rick- "Where are you going?"
Joseph- "To get more fire wood."
Joseph strolled off into the wilderness. Afterwards Rick and Franklin engaged in a private conversation.
Franklin- "Whats his problem?"
Rick- "Ah its nothing, he's been this way every since an event that happened a while back."
Franklin- "Oh...what was it?"
Lilly's POV
Lilly arrived at her and Garth's den.
Garth- "Where have you been?"
Lilly- "Just out."
Garth- "Just out? lilly I know you've been with that human I can smell him on you."
Lilly- "But..."
Garth- "I FORBID you from ever seeing him again, and if you do I will FUCKING KILL HIM."
Lilly- "But..."
Garth- "THATS FINAL."
Lilly- "Why do you have to be so jealous!?"
Garth- "JEALOUS! This has nothing to do with jealously, look lilly im just trying to protect you and if anything ever happened to you I wouldn't know how to continue living without you."
Lilly- "Garth I love you to but we both have interest and if we want to keep an healthy marriage we have to fulfill them."
Garth- "Lilly I know that but I don't trust that human and I care for you, so you are still forbidden from seeing him."
Lilly could feel herself welling up with tears.
Lilly- "You care about me but you don't care about my thoughts or feelings."
With that lilly ran and vanished into the night.
Garth- "LILLY! i'm sorry..."
She was already to far into the distance to hear his cries of remorse.
Joseph's POV
Rick- "And to this day he swears up and down that a wolf talked to him."
Franklin stood in awe from the story that Rick told him.
Franklin- "But what if they could talk."
Joseph- "Nonsense, you're starting to sound like your cousin now, so i'm gonna tell you the same thing I told him, if animals can talk dragons can surf while playing guitar."
Franklin managed to utter a chuckle.
Franklin- "Joseph's been gone a long time now does it really take that long to get firewood?"
Rick- "Don't worry he's ok, but its either that or you both share a bad habbit of taking 'nature' walks at the wrong time of day. Well i'm gonna get some shut eye if he isn't here by 12:30 wake me."
Franklin- "Ok."
Franklin looked up through the forest canopy and gazed at the starry moon-lit night. He then noticed a disturbance in the brush.
Franklin- "Must be Joseph."
He went to go investigate.
Franklin- "Joseph? That you?"
Lilly- "No, its me."
Franklin- "What are you doing here? What's wrong?"
Lilly- "Nothing...can I stay here for a while just until the morning"
Franklin- "I...I...I don't know..."
Lilly- "Please?"
Franklin- "Ok, ok, look theirs my tent go inside don't say a word, don't come out."
Lilly- "Ok, and thanks."
Franklin- "Don't mention it."
At this point Franklin was about to walk back until he heard footsteps crack in the leaves behind him.
Joseph- "Who ya talkin to?"
Franklin whirled around in surprise.
Franklin- "DUDE DONT FUCKIN SCARE ME LIKE THAT. Where have you been!?"
Joseph- "You didn't answer my question."
Franklin- "What the hell do you mean 'who i'm talking to'? It took you that long to get three blocks of wood?"
Joseph- "That's not important, you know what, never mind."
Then the two sat around the fire and stared at it in awkward silence.
Franklin- "Well i'm going to sleep."
With that Franklin crawled into his tent and saw that lilly was curled into a little white ball so he stealthily slid into his sleeping bag.
Morning came quick and soundly. Franklin was deep asleep until he was awoken by something licking his face...
Franklin- "Heheeheh stop tha ahaha but mum yawn I don wnna go tu scool t'day."
Lilly- "Wake up."
Franklin- "Huh, ok i'm woke."
Lilly- "I need you to come with me somewhere."
Franklin- "Yeah, sure."
Franklin crawled out of his tent only to see Rick and Joseph in their tents snoring their lungs out. They strolled through the forest until they reached Lilly's destination.
Franklin- "This is where you live?"
Lilly- "Yeah...wait, its Garth, hide!"
Franklin scrambled behind a large tree.
Garth's POV
Garth- "Lilly, there you are."
Lilly- "I thought you were on duty."
Garth- "I had to take the day off to look for you, Winston understood, but I got you something."
Garth reached behind his ear and displayed the gift.
Lilly- "A rose!"
Garth- "I know right, its the last one of the season and I found it, can you believe it? Wait, I SMELL SOMETHING, it's the human! You brought him to our home!?"
lilly- "I..."
Garth- "WHERE IS HE!"
Garth began to scan the surrounding area with his nose until he stopped in front of the tree Franklin was hiding behind. He could hear the growl of the large beast even standing behind the limited safety of it.
Garth- "Human I know you're here!"
Franklin apprehensively wrapped his fingers around the grip of the revolver in his pocket.
Where did Joseph go? What's going to be the outcome of Franklin and Garth? Stick around...