June 19th-

“Katie,” Sam whispered, peppering my neck with kisses. Like THAT would get me to pay attention to him! Let’s be frank, it was working. “Katie, baby, please say something to me.”

“Something,” I reply, still staring at the TV screen. We were half-way through an episode of Bones that I’d already seen, and I wanted to know how it ended. Sam growled playfully.

“You know that’s not what I meant…”

I shifted in my seat to get a better look at his face. “So… I’ve been doing a lot of thinking about this whole thing and was wondering, where do we go with this whole thing? You’re a hot werewolf. I’m a sub-par human. I mean…. What?”

“I don’t see what my being a werewolf and you being a human has to do with anything. In my eyes, you’re the most beautiful person in the world to me. Please don’t ever talk bad about yourself again.” He brushed his lips against mine. Fireworks exploded from my head to my toes. “There isn’t much else to discuss. We spend the rest of our natural lives together.” He leaned forward and captured my lips in a kiss again.

“No!” I yelped, breaking the kiss. I slid to the other end of the couch to put some space between us. Sam huffed, unhappy that we were going over this again. “You just can’t start kissing me when we’ve got things to discuss.”

“I don’t see what we need to discuss. You are my soulmate. We spend the rest of forever together. It’s simple.”

“No! We don’t even know that much about each other. I mean… What are we going to do about the holidays? Your family or mine? Weird hobbies? We just started dating. I don’t know if I even love you or not.”

Sam’s eyes flashed gold. His nostrils flared. His knuckles turned white as his nails tore holes into the leather couch cushion. “WHAT?”

I stood up and took a step towards the door. (In hindsight, this probably wasn’t such a good idea since I had seen my boyfriend turn into a wolf monster.)

“I don’t want to be with someone just because of some cosmic dating service,” I say. Now, I swear Sam started to huff and was growing bigger. “I want to be with someone because I CHOOSE to be with them.”

“YOU’RE MINE!” I remember a flash of color and agonizing pain in the side of my neck.

July 8th-

“Please wake up. Please wake up.” I could hear these words chanted repeatedly, through the haze of sleep. Now, this confused me, Diary. No one ever begged me to wake up before, except for maybe my mother when I forgot to take out the trash or something.

“Please wake up, my precious one. Please don’t leave me.”

Bleary-eyed, I managed to open my eyes a sliver. I could see Sam sitting next to my bedside, holding my hand, and praying to an unseen force. And then all the events of the last few weeks hit me, Sam had bitten me. Aside from the throbbing in my neck, I had no idea what to expect from the bite. Was I going to turn into a wolf creature too? I wasn’t prepared for the responsibility of superpowers. I’d seen what had happened to Spiderman.

“Katie…” Sam sighed in relief. “You’re awake. Thank the Spirits.” I couldn’t bring myself to look at Sam. He’d bitten me. He’d hurt me when he promised that nothing on Earth would hurt me. All the trust I had had for this man was gone. “Will you not look at me?”

I didn’t say anything. I just kept staring at the heart monitor thingie that was clipped to my finger.

“My darling, you must believe me. I had no intention of biting you. It was my beast. He thought you were going to leave us, and the thought was driving him mad. I’m so sorry this happened. What can I do to make this right?”

I looked up at his tear-stained eyes. “Let me go home.”