Read Moon First in the Prophecy Chronicles :: Chapter Three: A New Life Part One

Lycan

I stared at my ceiling covered in bikini clothed women not really seeing them. I was still shocked and angry about me and the rest of my best friends being wolves, sorry, “Guardians”. We were supposed to kill these badass vampires called Unspeakables to protect the human race and oh, we have a Protector, our principal Mr. Placksworth and I'm pretty sure he's not who he says he is. How could we forget him? He’s only been fucking tailing us our whole lives.

Well, no…he was Luna’s dad’s best friend from like college or something, which seemed like a plausible explanation as to why he was always hanging around us, but was it really a coincidence that he happened to get a job as our principal as soon as we got our High School assignment? Our small suburb had a private High School, and the public one. Placksworth had been teaching at the public school…until my friends and I got accepted into the Private school. It always weirded me out.

My mind kept going to how Snow saved his freaking life, by putting her own life on the line. Is that what we're supposed to do? Kill ourselves so the selfish humans can live? How is that fair? I'm pissed. I'm a sixteen-year-old guy; I'm supposed to be out partying; exploring the other gender, I'm supposed to make mistakes and learn from them. But no, I'm a Guardian now, I can't do that, I have to go on Unspeakable runs, I have to bite the heads off them and there's no room for teenage mistakes.

I spring up from my bed and punch my wall, the plaster crumbling from the fist-sized hole. Nobody comes, not that I expected them to. Even before tonight my parents were hardly ever home. Even if they were home, they never really paid attention to me. My grandmother took care of me, she always made excuses for her son and daughter-in-law always being gone or too tired to notice me...now I knew why they were. Our shared destiny was more important than their own kid. What a surprise.

I look out my window to across the street, Snow's light was on and then I remembered she had to be in pain that stupid vampire chick took a bite out of her and then Mr. Loony dowsed the shit out of her wound with brandy, I had to call her.

Wait, what the hell am I doing? I'm with Echo Vischovo, a beautiful, talented girl, and she's a wolf, a beautiful wolf. Why am I having these thoughts about Snow? What's wrong with me?

After I worked so hard to get her to like -like me in the first place too, but Echo in the beginning always said that she didn't know why I was with her, that I belonged with Snow but the truth was Snow was with another guy at the time, a real jerk too. His name was Travis Dillenholer, she broke it off with him when she caught him with the town bitch Charity Bell. Don't let her name fool you, she'll do anything or anyone to get what she wants.

Anger boiled deep inside me just thinking about that dill hole made my teeth grow and I knew without looking that my eyes were flashing bronze; I think out of all my friends I had the shortest fuse. I let my anger roll off of me in coils letting my muscles and bones change, relishing the way it felt to feel the power radiate off of me. In no time I had changed into the midnight black wolf with the bronze eyes.

I needed to run, to be free but I also knew my parents wouldn't let their one-hundred-and-fifty-pound wolf-son out on the streets. I had to jump out of my three-story window. I braced myself and jumped out my already opened window and when I landed, I was off. I was free, I wasn't the star football player, I wasn't the most popular guy, I was Lycan Johnson the wolf, the Guardian. I passed Snow's house, I think she saw something but she didn't know what or who it was, that's how fast I was.

I didn't worry about the Unspeakable; I didn't worry about anything. So many possibilities that I could get away with, so many new things I can do. I can run so fast everything's a blur!

When I reached the forest's edge I slowed to a walk and came upon a stream I had to show this to Sn- Echo. Had I almost said Snow? Had I almost said I had to show this most romantic spot to Snow, not my girlfriend of two years Echo? What is wrong with me? Had my feelings for Snow not died when I professed my love for Echo a year ago?

Had Snow put some sort of spell on me? I morphed back into a human and sat on a low hanging rock just above the stream and realized I was naked. I also realized I didn't care for once in my sixteen years of life, I, Lycan Taylor Johnson didn't care how he looked. It felt amazing just being me. I realized I had to get back, because the sky was lightening. I had school to go to. It was hard to believe that something as mundane as school and high school exams were important now. But for appearances sake we had to go.

Echo

I still couldn't believe I was a wolf. I never ever thought I could be anything special. When Lycan asked me out it was the first time I felt special that I was loved and that I was wanted. But when I became a wolf, it put all that I felt with Lycan behind me and it was like I didn't need a relationship to get validation. I was a badass wolf, who cared if Lycan didn’t actually love me? Who cared that if my parents knew how I truly felt about one of my friends that they would send to the same camp?

I just needed the wolf inside me to protect me. I love Lycan, or do I? It's just that I always have this nagging feeling that him and Snow belonged together, that they were meant to be.

Maybe I should break it off, let them be happy. Being young is about changing who you are to fit what you want to be, how the world sees you is nothing if not unimportant.

I should break up with him tomorrow, the sooner the better I want him to be happy. I don't want to be in the shadow of his thoughts of Snow.

I know he said he loves me but I want someone who can be honest about his or her feelings about me. Kind of like Luna, she's not afraid to speak her mind or to be herself. And she told me just before her parents took her away that she liked the same gender. I always felt different than everyone else, I'm attracted to the different gender yes but I'm also attracted to the same gender. I think I'm bisexual.

Wow I never really thought about it, perhaps I was too afraid, but I always found Luna extremely attractive with her long black hair and gray eyes that looked green in certain lighting, she was super tall for a girl too which was fine with me.

It seemed so sudden. Yesterday I was so deeply in love with Lycan; or at least, I thought I was. I always knew deep down; that Lycan could never truly be mine. His soul didn’t match mine; we didn’t have anything in common; the most we did was have sex, make out, and watch television when we weren’t doing the other two. I don’t remember us having heart to heart conversations; no, our relationship was more physical than emotional.

I wasn’t connected to him on a soulful level; with Luna, I could have those heart to hearts, and we could talk for hours about the silliest things. She was my best friend; aside from Snow, but Snow; she wasn’t anything like her cousin. Luna and I shared so many things in common, like colors; blue, movies, Bridge to Terabithia, the original not the remake, animal, horses, and so many other things; it only made sense for us to be more than just friends; it wasn’t like I hadn’t thought of her in that way before; I just thought it was a phase every girl went through. And we had kissed; once at a Halloween party in the seventh grade; it was a game of spin the bottle; we couldn’t say no. The truth was; even if I pretended to be disgusted by it; I had enjoyed the kiss immensely. I had dreamt of kissing her again for years...

Luna

I sat on my bed reading a new book my mother and father insisted I read, it's called 'How to get back to a God Accepted Relationship.' I threw it down under my bed and threw my pillows across the room hitting my mirror, it fell down and shattered on the floor.

Unwanted memories of my parents finding out about my secret girlfriend and shipping me off to that what did they call it? Conversion Camp? What the fuck did that even mean? Did they actually think they could convert me into being straight? I had to fake it, until they brought me home. Just in time for the shocking revelation that none of us were normal.

There went my plan for disappearing when I turned eighteen, now I was part of a pack, and I had a destiny. Along with the other great book my parents gave me, they gave me a Guardian Law book as well. The antiquated laws and views were enough to make me hurl. They had no issues with having female Alphas…but heaven forbid if anyone was gay.

The anger boiling inside slipped and my muscles shortened and relaxed; they amplified and I shrank into my silver wolf. I looked into the remnants of the mirror and saw my green eyes reflected back at me. I jumped from my open window and without a second thought, I ran to Echo's. I knew she would understand she's the only one who could. I could sense that she was hiding what I had been hiding.

I'm bisexual, I've known that about myself since I was seven. What if she is too? We could be together! I love her so much, and it's not friendly or sisterly. It's a romantic kind of love, like a million roses and lilies blooming at the same time.

I wasn’t attracted to Echo simply because she was bisexual or that she was beautiful. I was attracted to her, because she didn’t know how beautiful she was, she was the most giving, loving, intelligent person I had ever met, and her laugh was infectious, her smile radiant, and her eyes were raging storm clouds that I wanted to chase forever. She was so much more than a pretty face to me, and I hoped she felt the same.

When I reached her white and red shuddered house I stopped and sat on the front lawn. I whined a couple times but she didn't come, so I barked. She still didn't come so I barked louder. She came rushing to the window and when she saw me, she smiled like she was thinking about me or something that had to do with me.

She gave me the one-minute finger and the next thing I knew she was at the front door and she motioned for me to come inside, I slinked over still in wolf form and walked up the stairs I knew so well. Meandering into her bedroom I changed back and borrowed a nightgown from Echo.

"Hey what are you doing here? It's like two in the morning." I heard Echo whisper and I got closer and sat on chaise lounge and told her why,

"I am here because I think I am in love with you. But you’re with Lycan and I don't know for sure if you’re down with that way of love."

"I was just thinking of my feelings for you an hour before you arrived."

"Really and how do you feel?"

"I think I'm in love with you too Luna." she said crawling over to me and when she was just inches from my face, my lips I whispered,

"I knew it,"

I grabbed her face and kissed her. It was like all my fantasies combined. She moaned and pulled away. I didn't understand at first and then she spoke,

"I hear my parents and I'm definitely breaking it off with Lycan so he can have Snow."

"I hear you, my love. I'll go, but I don’t want to. I will see you tomorrow, okay?"

"Yes, always but let's wait a few days before coming out I don't want to rub it in Lyc's face, you know?"

"Yes, I understand,"

I stripped off the nightgown and changed this time not in frustration but in love and I jumped from the window I felt eyes on me and saw a black wolf just up ahead I didn't want to see Lycan right now not when I just stole his girlfriend.