A/N: In the last chapter, Hayden admitted to Sherman that he killed a fellow classmate's dog and fed of it's flesh and blood. And he's got dark burn-spot like circles covering his eyes, and he's got some super wolf hearing, as well as develop cravings for meat. And Sherman pierced Hayden's navel. This is where we left off. Enjoy!
The weekend passed quickly and Sherman saw Hayden at school on Monday
"Meet me in the bathroom" Hayden said as he walked into the bathroom. Sherman walked into the boy's bathroom to see Hayden with more white strands in his brown hair, his skin was even more pale than before that he's almost gray-skinned. Today Hayden was wearing a skin-tight black shirt with his friendship locket hanging from his neck, gray colored spiked bracelets on both wrists, tight black jeans that were torn at the knees, a seat-belt style belt that had the logo for 'Suicide Silence' across the band and on the buckle, and had black combat boots.
"You wanted to see me about something?" asked Sherman.
"Yeah. Um, about that piercing you gave me Friday night" Hayden began. He lifted his shirt to reveal no ring and the hole where Sherman pierced it was gone.
"What the...?" asked Sherman as he got down to examine Hayden's bellybutton.
"That's what I asked myself this morning. It began stinging and itching so I took it out and the hole closed itself up" Hayden explained and then put his shirt down.
"I guess we're back at square one" Sherman said.
"And that's not all that happened this morning. Look at this" Hayden said. He pushed his hair behind his ears to reveal his ears are now pointed at had a black tip at the top of the ears.
"I can't go around the school or my home looking like Mr. Spock, Sherman. That has 'Geek' written all over it!" Hayden said outraged and somewhat freaking out. He then put his hair over his ears and scratched behind the pointed ears.
"Hayden stop" Sherman said as he was a little weirded out by Hayden's scratching.
"I-I can't. It feels too good" Hayden said as he had been breathing rapidly like a dog would when they were getting pleasure from their owners like a belly rub.
"Hayden, please stop it. It's freaking me out" Sherman said again with a begging tone.
"Must. Keep. Scratching" Hayden whispered and smiled showing his sharpened teeth.
"Hayden, stop!" Sherman yelled. Hayden then stopped scratching and looked to Sherman.
"Sorry. Now what are we gonna do about this?" asked Hayden to his auburn friend.
"I think I know someone who can help. That goth kid in our class. Jimmy" said Sherman. Hayden laughed sarcastically and then got one eyebrow raised and he knew Sherman wasn't joking.
"Are you serious? You think he's gonna help us?" asked Hayden.
"He knows stuff. His parents own the van that ran that thing over. It's because of him that thing is a road-pancake right now and that we're still alive" Sherman pointed out. Hayden's look returned to the normal emotionless one that Sherman had known their entire friendship and then spoke.
"Okay, after school. I'll text my mom and tell her I'm gonna be coming home late tonight. See you when the bell rings" said Hayden as he walked out the bathroom and pulling his iPhone out his pocket and began texting. With Sherman now alone in the bathroom he decided he might as well just wash his hands and head to class.
When Sherman was about to exit the bathroom, a pair of hands dragged him to the janitor's closet. He was now pinned up against the wall by Amber Marsh, the girl Hayden was making out with last Thursday with white streaks in her brunette hair, her ears pointed and sticking out her hair, her eyes turned yellow, burn spot like circles on her eyes, teeth were sharp, nails were super sharp and she was growling at Sherman.
"A-Amber. What happened to you?" Sherman asked in fright.
"Ha, I was wondering if you could ask HAYDEN!" Amber shouted as she tossed Sherman to the ground next to the door.
"Ever since he bit me by accident, my hair has been changing, my ears are pointy like an elf, I have cravings for meat. And another little fun fact, I tore my own pet cat's head off and ate the corpse!" Amber screamed. Sherman picked up a spray bottle full of 'Windex' and sprayed it in her face. When Amber covered her eyes up and screamed, Sherman ran out the door and to his class.
After class, the final bell rang and Hayden was walking behind Sherman. Sherman had a serious look on his face and Hayden was talking to Sherman to get his attention.
"Sherman, why are you so silent? This is so not like you" Hayden pointed out. Sherman took a deep breath, exhaled, turned around and spoke to his friend.
"You gave it to Amber. You bit her by accident when you were making out last Thursday and you infected her" said Sherman. Hayden just scoffed.
"Oops" Hayden said sarcastically. Sherman also began noticing a change in Hayden's attitude about this about this. At first he was scared but now he was becoming rebellious and he wasn't caring that he was becoming a werewolf.
"Well, the good news is that thanks to me finding out that this happened to Amber, I can convince Jimmy to help us" Sherman said to Hayden.
"Oh so now we're worrying about Amber instead of me?" asked Hayden with his hands on his hips.
"I'm too embarrassed to tell Jimmy that my best friend is turning into a werewolf. He'd call a freak-show or worst, the cops. If we said this was all really happening to Amber, maybe he'll be convinced to help us" Sherman said.
"Well, what are we waiting for. Let's go, like... now" Hayden said. Sherman then spoke again.
"Don't blow this. If he finds out that I'm covering for you and he discovers that you're also a..." Sherman was about to continue but Hayden cut him off.
"A what? A werewolf?" Hayden asked with attitude.
"Let's just go" Sherman said walking forward and Hayden still standing in his spot.
"Whatever you say, coach" Hayden mocked and just followed him to Jimmy's house.
After a while, they were at Jimmy's house. It was a one story rental house and it had paint chipping on the outside of the place. Sherman knocked on the door and Jimmy answered wearing only a black tank top, and black sweatpants. His black hair with red strands in it was wet and he had a towel around his neck.
"We have a problem. We think you were right about that whole werewolf thing. Amber is turning into one" Sherman said. Jimmy then looked to Hayden who was leaning against Jimmy's front door.
"Hayden knows" Sherman said. Jimmy sighed and spoke.
"Come in. I know just the thing to do" Jimmy said. Hayden and Sherman walked into Jimmy's house and into his room. There was a desk and a mattress with unmade sheets on it lying on the floor. There were also speakers playing rock music and lava lamps on the windowsills.
"Wicked. This is lava lamp heaven" said Hayden as he opened up Jimmy's closet door to reveal more lit up lava lamps.
"Yeah, wicked ain't it? Now get the heck out. I don't go searching through your crap" said Jimmy. Hayden rolled his eyes and muttered 'Killjoy' and then collapsed backwards down to Jimmy's sloppy bed. Jimmy opened up a book and showed it to Sherman.
"Silver is the only thing that can stop a werewolf" said Jimmy.
"We tried that already that didn't work" said Sherman.
"Not solid silver, LIQUID silver" Jimmy said.
"What you gotta do is take a large amount of liquid silver and inject it into where the bite was placed" Jimmy said as he turned a page and showed Sherman an illustration of a man injecting silver into a bite mark on another guy's knee.
"Where can we get liquid silver? It's gonna be impossible to find" Sherman complained.
"Not impossible. Wolf Creek used to be a silver mining town. It was abandoned after a workmate died due to a large rolling cart of silver dropped onto him, broke a lot of his bones and squished a lot of his organs. We go to the mines, we get the silver. I can melt it and make you a dose to give to Amber" said Jimmy as he pulled his laptop out and showed the auburn haired boy an image of a mining site outside Wolf Creek.
"How long will that take?" asked Sherman.
"Well, I can go get the silver right now, but melting the silver takes about a day. I'll get it to you on Wednesday, night of Homecoming, okay?" Jimmy offered.
"It's better than nothing so we'll take it" said Sherman. Jimmy and Sherman then shook hands and Hayden and him left Jimmy's house.
A/N: The situation just got out of hand, now Amber is a werewolf, Hayden's skin is paler, there's more white strands in his hair, the piercing hole healed. And now Jimmy is gonna help make an antidote to save Amber, but Sherman is really gonna use it on Hayden. More to come in the next update. Please review, thanks!