Chapter 8: The Truth Comes Out
I heard someone scream, after a second I realized that person was me. I fell forward clutching my chest. I looked back up at the wolf and I could remember the night more clearly than before, and it hurt so much more. The pain increased and I began to claw at my chest, I had to stop the tugging but I needed to find out how. I felt my brother's hand on my shoulder, it was burning hot. I tried to shake it away but I was hardly able to focus on anything. After a while I felt something prick my arm and I fell into a deep dreamless sleep.
I woke up feeling sore and my throat dry. I sat up and found I was in my bed. I heard footsteps outside my room and my door creaked open lightly.
"Ivy?" Daniel said
"Danni, what happened?" I asked my head throbbing.
"Um…about that. We need to talk…about…that."
"Um, ok."
"Ivy, the reason you were sent away was because of what happened just a little while ago…"
"But that didn't happen 10 years ago!" I yelled. Just then my dad walked in
"He didn't use the words in the right order. The reason I sent you away was so you didn't get accidently hurt by one of the pack."
"What do you mean by pack, and how would I get hurt?" I ask getting more confused by the second.
"Your brother and I are werewolves. We work in a pack. Sometimes we get angry and we lose control. If you're to close when that happens you could get seriously hurt. We all work in a pack, you met them all that night that you got kidnapped. I'll reintroduce them to you once you feel well again."
Daniel left the room in the middle of the conversation and now my dad started to walk out of the room. I looked down at my hands.
"Dad, who is Seth?" I ask quietly
"You might meet him when you're better."
"I know that, but what was my relationship with him when I was little?"
"You were basically best friends, he's also the one who killed the leech that kidnapped you."
He started to walk away but I needed to say one more thing.
"Thanks dad…" I say quietly
He turns around looking shocked.
"Why are you saying thank you?"
"Because you've been trying to protect me by keeping me away, and I want to thank you for that."
I ended up not going to school for the next week. And when the weekend came around, I was feeling great. Today I was going to meet my extended family. I got dressed in some black "cozy" jeans and a black short sleeve shirt with a wolf howling at the full moon on the front. I also just wore plain comfy black flip flops. I put my hair up in a ponytail and then I clipped it up. I ran down stairs and into the kitchen. Everyone was standing in a huddle whispering. When my family saw me they stopped. My mom was wearing basically the same thing as me except she had a solid black long sleeve shirt.
I smiled, "Is everyone ready to go?" I asked
"Yeah, let's go." My mom said. I headed towards the front door but I heard someone clear their throat. I turned around, and that's when I noticed both my dad and my brother weren't wearing shirts.
"Um…we're not going by car are we?" I asked. All of them nodded
We all went out into the back yard and headed into the woods. Every time there was a noise I flinched. I even flinched when there wasn't any noise. I tripped and fell, but I didn't get up, instead I stayed on the ground and started crying. After a minute Danni came and crouched down by me.
"Ivy, what's the matter?" he asked worried.
I took a deep breath. "Ever since that night I haven't been into any woods. But now that I'm here again I can't help but remember that time…" I said
Danni scooped me into his arms and started towards mom and dad. "I think we should change now, I don't think she can take it much longer. We need to get her out of here, now." Danni said. Suddenly my dad walked over to us and looked me in the eyes.
"Ivy, we're going to change so we can get to the house quicker. You're going to ride on Daniel, trust us, you'll be safe and we won't let anything hurt you. We'll be right back, ok?"
"Ok." I said quietly. Danni walked over to mom and let me down at her side. She pulled me into a tight hug while dad and Danni went behind a tree. I was still crying lightly but it felt good to cry in my mom's arms. After a minute I heard a branch crack. I stiffened in my mom's arms, but she just chuckled and turned me around. I saw a huge light grey wolf with dark spots and a dark muzzle and a midnight black wolf. I realized that the black one must be Danni; it was the wolf I remembered seeing before I went unconscious a couple days ago. My mom led me forward and helped me onto Danni which I was grateful because my knees were about to buckle. I held on tight to his fur and buried my face in his neck so mom and dad wouldn't see I was still crying. Just then my mom told me something I was not expecting.
"Since you and Danni are twins you have a little wolf blood in you, there for if you want you can talk to Danni in your mind. He can block his thoughts from the pack if he wants and you can hide your thoughts from him if you want. You can also share thoughts with him if you want. Danni can do the same thing when he's in his human form. You two actually did it a lot when you were little." She said
I thought really hard and tried to ask 'Are you there Danni?'
'Loud and clear Ivy, although you don't have to think so hard. When we were little you could do it with such ease, maybe your out of practice or something.' He thought
'Was I really able to do that?'
'Well you're doing it now, maybe you just needed a reminder. Ok, we're about to start running. Tell me if we're going too fast and I'll tell Dad, and make sure you hold on tight.' He thought.
'Ok, thanks.' I thought back and I held on tighter to his fur.
'And here we go' he thought excitedly as he started running
As soon as we started I tried to hide my thoughts from Danni. He was running as fast as that vampire. I have no idea how I knew I just knew that the thing that kidnapped me was a vampire. I went rigid as I remembered that night so long ago. The flashbacks came back, the forest rushing by, wind blowing my hair and exposed skin. I began to cry on my brother's fur. I began to shake uncontrollably. I felt that we were running faster now, but it just made what I was feeling worse. I continued crying and then warm arms picked me up. After a minute I felt myself be shifted into different arms. Then I heard it.
'Ivy…why didn't you say anything?' Danni asked
'You saw everything?'
'Yeah…why didn't you say anything though?'
'I didn't want to worry you guys, it's just the speed reminds me of that night…'
'Don't worry about it, we won't run you anywhere anymore. You should have told us.'
'Look, I'm sorry ok? Can we just leave it be?' I asked getting frustrated
"Yes we can, because we're here." He said out loud. "Just please keep your mind open to me while we're here." When we broke through the tree's Danni set me down and I fell down and threw up. I was still crying but after the throwing up my dad picked me back up. I dug my face into his shoulder and for once I was glad he was so warm. I was so cold after the whole forest incident. As we got to the front door of the old yellow house that I hung out at when I was a kid, Aunt Emily opened the door and when she saw me curled up in a little ball in my dad's arms she let out a little scream.
"What happen?!" she whisper yelled
"She had some problems with flashbacks in the forest. As soon as we set her down when we got here she threw up. And one more thing." He leaned in forward to Aunt Emily and whispered in her so quietly that I knew I wasn't supposed to hear. "Is Seth here?" he backed away and she nodded.
"Here let me take her to the bathroom to get cleaned up before she meets the guys." Aunt Emily said. My dad set me down and Aunt Emily helped me through the door, up the stairs, and into the bathroom. She gave me a wash cloth and I cleaned of my face. I looked in the mirror, I was still really pale (well, more pale then usual) but I didn't have any more dirt on my face. Aunt Emily set a make-up case and a brush on the counter.
She kissed my head. "I'll wait for you just outside the door until you're done."
"Ok, thanks Aunt Em." I said quietly. She closed the door.
I looked into the make-up case and took out what I wanted. I took the brush and started coming the knots and leaves out of my hair. I brushed it back into a loose pony tail the twisted it up and held it there. I grabbed a black hair clip and clipped the hair back. I let it fall down and even though it was clipped up it still came down to me waist. I applied some black mascara and tipped it with a silvery blue. I put on a little blush and I double checked myself. I actually looked like myself. I took a deep breath and opened the bathroom door. I saw Emily across the hall and when she saw me she came over and gave me a huge hug.
"Come on, it's time for you to see your extended family." She said quietly hooking her arm with mine as we walked down the stairs to a new future.
I am so sorry for the late update! The chapters got mixxed up and a whole lot of other things. Thanks for reading though! CB...OUT! ;D