MoonNight (16 page)

 
 
“Are you going to talk to me?”
 
He asked.
 
 
 
I stayed silent.
 
 
 
When we got to the Starbucks he opened my passenger side door.
 
I headed to the entrance.
 
Carson hadn’t budged.
 
 
 
 
“Leslie,
” His
usually strong voice cracked.
 
 
 
I turned around but didn’t walk any closer.
 
 
 
“Come here,
” He
stared me down.
 
 
 
“No.”
 
I crossed my arms.
 
 
 
“Don’t make me come over there.”
 
 
 
“That’s not a threat.
 
You’ve changed.
 
You’re
not the sweet
overprotective guy I knew last week.”
 
 
 
Carson relaxed and leaned against the hood of the car looking off in to the distance.
 
 
 
“Look,
” I
said walking towards him.
 
“It’s not that I don’t like you.
 
It’s not that I have a problem with werewolves.
 
It’s not that I have Rifle and Galen now as really good friends.
 
It’s that I can’t afford you to leave like you did again.
 
That was my downfall, the darkest days of my life.
 
And I know you’re so, look at you,
” I
gestured up and down his body.
 
“You chooses me and think it’s your duty to just walk away to ‘keep me safe’.
 
No I just need you to be the guy I once met and stay that way.
 
It’s for both of our sakes.”
 
I ended on a soft note standing in front of him.
 
 
 
“I’m sorry.”
 
He
looked down at his feet.
 
 
 
“And I forgive you,
” I
lifted up his chin so our eyes met.
 
“For now.”
 
 
 
We lie on the hood of the car pointing out constellations.
 
He told me many stories of what they met to the werewolf pack.
 
 
 
 
“You know,
” He
said pointing at a cluster of stars.
 
“That group of stars are there every night.
 
The story goes that four million years ago the goddess of wolves, Leto, took a man and a wolf and put them together and they rose from the earth descending to earth.
 
At that time the wolf and human were the two most dominating species on earth. That’s where all the power comes from
I
guess.”
 
 
 
“Oh.
 
Is there a story for vampires?”
 
I asked curious.
 
 
 
“Yes there is.”
 
 
 
“Will you tell
me?
”
 
 
 
“If you really want to hear it that much.”
 
 
 
“Trust me,
” I
placed my hand on his forearm.
 
“I do.”
 
 
 
“Well I don’t know
If
you guys have a different myth.
 
But the
werewolves’
version dates back to four million years ago.
 
They were made by Agra.
 
He was the main enemy of Leto and wanted to create a more powerful creature to go against the werewolves strong forces.
 
He made the vampire which was equally strong.
 
That’s the myth to why our species dislike each other.”
 
 
 
“Oh that makes sense.”
 
I rolled over on my side and kissed him on his forehead.
 
“That’s for telling me.”
 
I giggled.
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
                                               
 
 
 
 
Today was horribly terribly dull.
 
Carson was in the office with Regan, Dimitri, and Jeremy.
 
Supposedly they went a little overboard including some pictures of John Milton's Paradise Lost.
 
Mine and Loren’s
were
on some random classic about fish so we were pretty safe.
 
Tarun hadn’t
come
back to school yet.
 
I haven’t seen her outside of school yet.
 
It was a little awkward being around my old werewolf friends.
 
They rarely talked to me and tried to avoid me as much as they could.
 
 
 
 
Right now I was staring at an untouched plate of food.
 
Galen told me I only needed to feed once a month.
 
Every phone call I didn’t answer.
 
Every text I didn’t reply.
 
Still I took his tips and advice in to consideration.
 
 
 
“Come on.
 
Let’s go to science.”
 
Loren said rubbing her neck right where her tattoo was.
 
 
 
 
Science with Stephens was always more exciting
than
any other class.
 
Today we were looking at
pond water
.
 
It was so disgusting.
 
But of course me and Mitch were partners just like in every class and got done first.
 
I felt bad for that poor
guy.
 
Carson can be pretty intimidating.
 
Loren along with the others went back to the clan since it was a full moon.
 
Carson stayed with me.
 
I convinced Emi to leave so
Carson and I
could spend one peaceful night together.
 
Wolves are very very comfortable bed accessories even though I couldn’t even sleep anymore.
 
I’m just glad all those myths about coffins, and sleeping during the day were not true.
 
Otherwise I’d really never make it.
 
 
 
 
The next morning none of the werewolves were there.
 
I got a tray of food and stopped when I noticed Galen.
 
I started having a panic attack.
 
My feet disappeared beneath me.
 
What the hell was he thinking of coming here?
 
I thought as my face met the cold floor of the gym.
 
My cheeks turned red as I stood up to face three hundred pairs of eyes.
 
 
 
 
That C
alifornian dreamer Galen looked
at me and muttered, “Sorry.”
 
 
 
“You damn well be sorry!”
 
I shouted then stomped off to go clean myself up.
 
 
 
“Leslie!”
 
He ran after me.
 
 
 
Both of us were incredibly fast runners, and I had run to the beach by
Carson’s
house in no time.
 
There was nowhere to go beyond the beach.
"
 
 
 
“Go away Galen,
” I
spat.
 
 
 
“Leslie look, I’m sorry I just left that one night.
 
A-and, and I just wanted to make it up to you.”
 
 
 
I swallowed awkwardly.
 
“Galen, it’s complicated.
 
We’ve talked once for-what-five minutes?
 
And I don’t even know you.
 
Here you come walking in to my school and make a damn fool out of m-”
 
 
 
“I go to your school.”
 
 
 
“What?”
 
Did I hear him right?
 
 
 
“I enrolled on your school.”
 
 
 
“Galen!
 
Why?
 
This is only going to create problems between you and Carson and you know it!”
 
I pushed against his chest.
 
 
 
“I was ordered to.”
 
 
 
“But-”
 
 
 
“There are no buts!