I hope you're proud of me! I pounded this one out! :p
PaulPOV
A rush of fear swept over me, I jolted upright in bed, and almost immediately, a deafening howl sounded through the woods. Something was not right; Lila was scared, no, she was fricken terrified and I needed to get to her.
I jumped up out of bed, threw my window open, and hopped out of it. Running into the forest as fast as I could I took my pants off and phased, in what I thought, was record time, and took off. Once I phased my mind was filled with chaos, panic, and wonder. The kid that Sam had been keeping his eye on had finally phased and wow did he have a lot on his mind, but that didn't matter. I had to get to Lila. You know, this whole week I had commended myself for not being a stockerish freak and tracking down my imprints house when I met her last Saturday but now I just felt like a big asshole because I didn't know where her house was so I couldn't get to her as fast as she needed me to. I stopped running and concentrated, feeling the pull that our imprint bond was giving off and then darted off in that direction. I was so focused on Lila that I didn't realize that I was running in the direction of where the pack was with the new wolf.
I broke out of the woods into a nice, private backyard and was floored when I saw the whole pack in, wolf form, minus Collin, in front of Lila, who was sitting on the porch steps practically hyperventilating. Collin was sitting next to her talking calmly, trying to comfort her but it wasn't working because every time he tried to put an arm around her or pat her hand sympathetically, she would punch him.
"Paul, I need you to go calm her down," Sam's voice said in my head, "because Collin's not doing a very good job at it."
Before he even finished his sentence, I was moving in her direction. This was the first time I had seen her since the party a week ago and even though she was looked to be having a panic attack, she was as beautiful as ever. When I got within 30 feet of Collin and Lila I phased back causing Lila to jump and scream. When she had collected herself she looked up and realized that yes, I was Paul, and went dead still.
"Oh my god. Oh my GOD. OH MY FUCKING GOD! WHERE ARE YOUR PANTS PAUL?" Lila screamed burying her head in her hands. "Why the hell are you a giant wolf too? Why are any of you giant werewolves? None of this is fricken possible. They're suppose to be legends. I still think that I am in some kind of fucked up dream. Collin punch me! Try to wake me up!"
"Punch her and you're dead." I told Collin giving him a pointed look and putting my hand over Little Paul (not that he was little in the least) for Lila's sake. "Collin, go find me some pants." I ordered and he went to search for some.
"So… Surprise!" I said warily, earning a death glare from Lila, which she quickly dropped in order to shield her eyes from my naked bod.
"That's not funny." She said seriously. "In fact it is probably the stupidest thing that you can say to me right now," She looked at me with a determined face, ready to tell me off for trying to make a joke when she realized, "and why don't you have any hackin pants on yet! Since Collin is obviously too dumb and doesn't know how to do something as simple as getting some fricken pants then I guess I'll do it myself." She said standing up and walking towards the back door, before stopping and looking back at her brother with concern, while he had all of the wolves around him.
"He'll be alright." I told her with a reassuring smile, which she tried to return but it ended up looking forced. She then turned around and continued her way to the door, opening it and looking back at me with an irritated face.
"Are you coming? Or are you just going to stand there holding your junk all night?" She asked impatiently. I chuckled and then followed her into the house with the screen door slamming behind us; I would follow her anywhere.
LilaPOV
I led a very naked Paul through my house up to Brady's room to get him some fricken pants. At this point I was feeling like a crazy lady because my hands were shaking and I'm pretty sure I was mumbling to myself as I rummaged through Brady's dresser drawers.
"Here." I said as I threw the basketball shorts I had found at Paul, and then sat down on Brady's bed.
Gosh, why did this have to happen when my parents were out of town? Brady and I had been watching a TV show together as happy as pie when Brady said that he wasn't feeling well. I got up and took his temperature only to see that it was really, really high. I told him that I was going to take him to the Emergency Room and he immediately started to protest, telling me that he was fine and that the fever would break soon. He kept telling me there was nothing to worry about, but being me I kept pushing him. Telling him that he was really sick and we needed to get him taken care of.
He just sat on the couch with his arms crossed over his chest, looking like a little kid pouting. If this fever had made its appearance a month ago, when Brady was still a weakling, I would have literally pushed him out of the door, but since he had grown like a weed in the last couple of weeks that was no longer an option.
"Well, I'm at least going to call mom and tell her that you've spiked a massive fever." I told him impatiently.
"No!" He yelled, starting to shake. "Can't you just leave it alone Lila!"
And with that he walked out onto the back porch.
"Don't walk away from me Brady! It's rude!" I yelled back, walking outside after him and that is when it happened.
My little brother exploded into a horse-sized wolf.
We were both frozen in place staring at each other with panic in our eyes and that's when I started to scream. I couldn't help it; it's what my brain was telling me to do at the moment so I did. Then Wolf Brady let out the loudest effin howl in the universe and stared running around all over our backyard.
We were in the backyard for about 3 minutes, me screaming and him running, when they came. Wolves, huge ass mother fucking wolves all over the place, and it was one of the scariest things ever because they were closing in around Brady, and in my eyes they looked like they were about to strike. My poor brother seemed terrified and that's when I started running towards him, in big sister mode, ready to fight for him, even though I had more chance of getting eaten then actually helping him escape, it was worth a shot right?
One of the wolves turned its head my way once I was off the porch and started heading towards me. I then turned around and ran up the steps back onto the porch. Then you know what? The fricken wolf turned into a human, not just any human, but Collin who was now zipping up his pants and looking around uncomfortably. I guess this was why he hasn't been talking to Brady lately…
"Woohoo…," Collin said looking at me skeptically, "What a night."
That's when I plopped myself down on the porch steps with Collin at my side telling me all about the wolves; who their alpha was (Sam Uley), what they were made to do (kill vampires, are you kidding me? Vampires?), and he was in the middle of telling me the guys that were in the pack when another wolf showed up and walked right over to us. This wolf turned human, or "phased" as Collin had put it, causing me to scream. I couldn't help it, it was a natural reaction.
I looked up at the man that was in front of me and was really fricken shocked to see Paul, yes Paul, standing where the giant wolf had been only moments before. Not only was Paul a wolf but at this moment he was also naked, very very naked and standing right in front of me. I buried my head in my hands to keep myself from staring because he looked really good naked and other any other circumstances I would have just-
"Lila? Where are your parents?" Paul asked looking at me as if he had been trying to get my attention for a while.
"Oh, they're in Seattle. It's their anniversary weekend." I said distracted by my thoughts.
"Lucky for us." He said under his breath and then looked at me with concern. "Are you okay?"
"No. I am not okay. I am most definitely not okay. I am the opposite of okay Paul! I just found out that my little brother can turn into a wolf and he's not the only one! There are a shit load of you guys. How does this happen?" I was now pacing the room and yelling at Paul, I think that I deserve to be upset and yell right now. "Oh my gosh. I think I'm going to puke. Here it comes… here it comes… never mind it passed. This is all so fucking insane." I was hyperventilating again; this was too much to take in.
"Lila! Just take a deep breath. Calm down-"
"Calm Down? Are you crazy? How am I supposed to calm down? Do you know-" I was shut up by Paul's hand covering my mouth.
"Deep Breath." He ordered, so I took a breath. "Relax." I let my shoulders slump. "Calm Down." I tried my hardest and allowed myself to calm down a tiny bit. "You are going to be just fine." Then he removed his hand from my mouth and stared at me.
"How long have you been a wolf?" I asked as calmly as possible. I wanted to know if this was a new trend or if it had been going on for a while now.
"Since I was 17." He replied cautiously.
"How long ago was that?" My voice squeaking a bit.
"Alright." Then I turned and walked out of Brady's room with Paul at my heels. I was on my way back to the porch to check on Brady when Paul grabbed my hand and spun me around. "Um… I, uh- What are you doing?"
Then he pulled me to him and wrapped his arms around me.
"You look like you could use a hug." Was all he said. I swear this was the best effin hug I have had in my life. I fit perfectly enveloped in Paul. He was so warm and solid and half-naked, making the hug even more awesome then a fully clothed hug would have been-
A howl interrupted (what is with all of these interruptions?) my thoughts as well as out hug, making us snap apart as if we had been caught doing something inappropriate by my dad. We stood looking at each other before Paul cleared his throat.
"I'm, uh, going to check on your brother." He said and briskly walked out of the door. Again I say, what a confidence booster.
My phone, that was sitting on the kitchen table made a sound alerting me that I had a text message.
I'm missing you
Wow, is it bad that I had totally forgotten about Ryan until now? You know, I don't think its that bad considering the night I just had. I've had a rough couple of hours, with Wolf Brady, Wolf Collin, Wolf Paul, Naked Paul, Concerned Paul, Great Half Naked Hugger Paul and oh my gosh, I'm screwed.
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