Chapter 4: Confessions Please (Prt. 1)

Chapter 4: Confessions please

Caleb led the way with Aidan beside him the two quietly talking among themselves.

They seemed to be talking about cars because they were saying things about motors, rims, and horsepower. The school wasn’t far from where the pack lived; there were students already there when they entered. Jack was there leaning against the lobby wall eyes honed in on Annette.

He sauntered over eyes fierce, his eyes normally a light red looked like blood. “Annette.” He said. Caleb grabbed Annette’s wrist and pulled her behind him, “Annette come here.” He whispered.

“Jack leave her alone.” It was Lee.

“Lee!” Annette cried pulling away from Caleb and rushing into Lee’s arms. Lee wrapped an arm around Annette’s waist. He pulled her behind him as he spoke to Jack.

“I have a right to see her.” Jack replied.

“Not anymore. You stay away from her! If you don’t and I find out about it there will be hell to pay!” His voice was low, a warning to not only Jack to but Ian’s pack as well. Jack shouldered past Lee muttering something about getting Annette. Lee turned his attention to Ian. “Thank you Ian for keeping her safe.” With that Lee herded Annette off to find Max and the others.

“There she is.” Amy crowed running up and hugging Annette, May came next with Max in tow.

The bell rang and Amy followed Max to his locker, “Those people she stayed with… they our neighbors?” He asked pulling out a black binder.

“Afraid so.” Amy said. Max finished digging through his locker and let Lee have it. He followed Amy to hers; Amy opened her locker to find a white envelope in her locker. Somebody had been sending her love notes. She pulled the envelope out and carefully opened it, it said:

Dear Amy,
I know I’ve been sending you note after note. I’ve decided to just come right out and tell you who I am. Be at locker number 6025 at eight.

Amy checked her watch she had two minutes. The strange thing was she had to be at Lee’s and Max’s locker. Max followed her snickering the whole way, “Ok its eight where’s my secret admirer?” Amy questioned.

“Here she is!” May shouted, as heads turned. May shot down the hall and hopped into Amy’s arms, “I love you!” She squealed. Vivian came out of the girls bathroom and took a quick picture, “That outta teach you not to freeze my bra!” She stated.

May jumped out of Amy’s arm and caught the camera Vivian tossed at her. “How’d she get you?”

“She convinced me that Riley was gay, and that he and Lee were secretly dating.” Vivian confessed.

“Vivian! Oh the trauma you must have went through.” Amy cried.

“Ian…. How do you know him?” Annette asked as Lee stopped with her at her locker. Lee shrugged and looked away. “Lee? Please tell me.” Annette asked as she grabbed her stuff and stood beside him.

“It was a long time ago, way before you were born. Max and I had a rough past. Mother was a sweet woman, very caring and loving. In a way she was like you and May, Father well he, he was the pissed off version of Max!” Annette had to giggle at that, when Max got mad he lost all focus of everything but the thing that made him angry.

“Max was never strong physically, he was ill a lot. But when he changed he didn’t come home for two weeks. When he did he explained what happened, he changed me. I actually saved Ian’s village from a fire. It was back in the summer of 1830, somebody was messing around the brushes with fire and once they got caught they spread creating a wild fire. It burnt down two bakery stores, and five houses going on six. May who was new to our coven smelled the bodies and blood, she tried as best she could to cover her nose but the blood was already messing with her mind.

“She raced down to the village bent on killing innocent people. Max and I had built our lives to live in secret, so no one would know what we were… we weren’t about to let May ruin that for us… even if it meant we had to kill her. We raced down to the village we were so accustomed to smelling animal blood this new blood didn’t even phase us. May was about to attack her first victim a small boy lost, looking for his mother.”

Annette gasped and looked at May, she was so playful throwing the camera around keeping it away from Amy. May was a sweet and gentle…. vampire, the person Lee described now didn’t match May’s profile. “We stopped her in time, luckily she only bit Max taking a small amount of his blood.”

“Wait… you guys have…. blood still?” Annette gasped.

“Well yes, would you like to hear the story or vampire history?” He countered.

“The story, sorry it just surprised me go on.” Was the timid reply.

“Yes now where was I? Oh yes, Max lost a small amount of blood before he finally threw May off and tackled her. He talked to her receiving several more bite marks, but finally he got through to her. She stayed by his side not trusting herself… eventually things got to bad for her so Max left with her. May felt horrible, she felt like she had betrayed us and almost left our coven to go out on her own… anyway back to the story!

“As I was examining the damage I saw a boy flaming red hair, easy to miss against the smoke and fire. He was right in the middle, a ring of fire had been made around him and some of the people there were shouting at him to die… they were calling him a beast. At first I thought he was one of us, so I ran through the fire and rescued him. Now mind you that wasn’t the smartest thing to do, but I didn’t want him to die either. It was then that I found out, he smelled different like a dog really. When I asked he answered, ‘I’m a werewolf!’

“I stared at him a moment not sure if I really heard the answer, ‘A what?’ I asked.

“He stared at me for a moment before answering, ‘A werewolf! Didn’t you hear me the first time?!’ I was appalled that he would be so rude to a vampire at the least. Did he have a death wish he was planning to fulfill anytime soon?

“ ‘Do you have a death wish dog?’ I countered. He growled at me and I knew he was about to attack. ‘Calm down! Look do you know what I am?’ I asked instead.

“ ‘I don’t know… what are you?’ He sneered.

“ ‘I’m your worst nightmare, I’m a vampire.’ I hissed and showed off my fangs. He growled at me again, so I just left him there in the woods I wasn’t about to help an ungrateful dog. I found May and Max then… and that’s pretty much it.” There was something in the way he said it that made Annette think there was more.

But before she could even ask Lee had leaned down and kissed her. It felt so right! Like she had found her other half, her pain was his pain. Nothing was said; it didn’t have to be in that one kiss everything was said.

Annette pulled back and rested her head against Lee. “Can we go home? Jack’s here.” She plead.

Vivian rubbed her eyes and asked, “Am I the only one who saw that?” “No I saw it to.” May volunteered, Amy and Max just nodded mouths wide open.

“What? What happened? What’d I miss?” Riley’s questions startled the group to life.

“Lee just kissed Annette.” Vivian said her eyes sparkling with excitement, “It was so romantic to!” She continued. Amy smiled; she always knew Lee and Annette were meant to be.

Lee led the way outside, the sun hid behind the clouds as rain threatened to fall. The ride home was silent, each one wrapped in their own thoughts. Once they were home and safely inside did Lee wrap his arms around Annette and hold her tight. “I love you.” He whispered in her ear.

Annette pulled away from him, “Why would you love me?” She asked.

“What’s wrong?” Lee questioned.

“Jack… he… Jack raped… me.” Her voice cracked at the end and she fell down to her knees.

Lee dropped down beside her and held her close, “It’s ok, shh its ok we’ll get through this. I promise.” He vowed pulling Annette in his lap. “Your all that matters to me.” He whispered trying to soothe her.

“What if I end up pregnant then what?” Annette challenged.

“I’ll still love you and want you, and I’ll love the baby to.” Lee said.

“I’m scared.” Was the soft reply.

“I know, we’ll get through this.” Lee promised.

“Lee… I have something else I have to tell you.” It was now or never. Lee looked at her and waited for her to continue. “I’m… I’m a werewolf.”
Lee sighed heavily. “I thought you were going to say something else, I don’t care what you are! You could be a witch, but that doesn’t change how I feel about you.” With that being said he tilted Annette’s chin up and kissed her once again.

I’m where I belong… I’ve always been here I think; it just took me till now to realize it. Lee is so amazing he supports me being a werewolf and all. Amy said Lee and I were bound to happen anyway. Max actually fainted when we told him I was a werewolf.

Lee’s trying hard to trust the pack for my sake anyway, since I’m a new werewolf I could easily hurt people if I get to upset. Alex has been flirting with Amy a lot he seems to like her, and she, him. Ian misses Scotland, the girls loved him there, he likes Florida don’t get me wrong but I guess he’s just home sick.

Alex misses Italy, Caleb and Aidan have lived here their whole lives so they can’t really miss anything. Anyway I have to go meet Aidan in the meadow he’s training me today.

Annette closed her journal and placed it on her bed. “Whatcha doing?” Max asked leaning against the doorframe.

“Just writing in my journal.” Annette replied playing with a pen.

“You wanna talk about something?” He asked.

“Um… you wouldn’t understand, May would and so would Amy.” She whispered. “Besides I have to go… Aidan is expecting me.” With that being said Annette hopped up and went downstairs.

“Hey… how are you using that arm? It was fractured!” Amy shouted rushing over and flapping Annette’s arm up and down. She pulled it back and forth muttering, “How did this happen?”