Chapter One
Life is so boring…
It’s another day of the same old routine: wake up, work, and sleep. Nothing happens in this town… ever. I’m Raven, I live in Night Haven, it’s a dinky little town in the middle of nowhere, and the most boring place to live in the entire world.
The most interesting thing that has ever happened is….well, nothing. I cannot remember a single interesting thing that has happened in my 22 years of living here. Oh well, I suppose it’s better to live in a safe town like this. It’s provided me with a home and a job, so I can’t complain too much.
I’ve finally left work after dealing with bullshit people all day. I cannot wait to get home, wear comfy clothes, and read my favorite book. I see the crummy apartment complex in the distance, so close to home. I walk by some slezzy looking man and sign internally, “please don’t.”
I hear him whistle at me, I look around glare at the perv standing outside the store behind me, then I fully turn around and flip him off, “Find something better to do than creep on women, you perv.” I laugh at his shocked face and continue my way home.
I’ve gotten tired of men constantly catcalling me, I don’t see myself as attractive enough for this shit. I stop and look at my reflection, trying to understand what people see. I’m average height, with blue eyes, long black hair, and a plus-size body. I sigh and keep moving; no point in wondering about something that will never be answered.
I finally reach my apartment. It's tiny, but she’s home. I lock the door behind me and fell my phone vibrate in my pocket. “Ugh, can’t I rest for just a second?” I grab my phone and see it’s Willow. “Sup girl?”
I can hear her cleaning in the background, I swear all this women does is clean! “Wanna come over and spend the night? It’s been a while since I’ve seen you,” she says. It is the weekend, and I don’t have much to do. “Yeah, I’m down. Do you want me to bring anything?”
She hums for a second, “Just pack the usual, clothes, some movies, and games. Also remember to pack you fucking meds this time!”
I roll my eyes and sigh, “Yeah, yeah, I’ll remember my meds, no need to nag me.” I hear her scoff, and I hang up before I get an earful. She is always so dramatic, but I love her. We’ve been friends for as long as I can remember, I’m excited to spend some much-needed girl time together.
I quickly eat some food, take a fast shower, and pack my bag. I decided to bring the Harry Potter movie series since I know her and I will be up most of the night. I double-checked everything, and head over to Willow’s house.
It’s about a half-hour walk; she lives more in the middle of nowhere than I do, if that's even possible. She inherited her parents' home and small property in the woods, just a little way out of town. The house and land are gorgeous; it was always my safe space, and I have so many good memories from when we were younger.
I walk up the winding stone path, just enjoying the scenery around me. I take a deep breath and stretch; the air out here feels so much nicer, and everything feels calmer. I miss coming out here, I should look into moving out here.
I walk into the house and look around for Willow. I find her in the kitchen… She is still cleaning. “Women, why the hell are you always cleaning? It’s spotless in here, take a damn break.” I watch her jump and she quickly turn towards me, “fucking hell, you scared me! How did you get here so quickly?” I laugh at her, she’s always been so easy to scare.
“You know I’m a fast walker, you should have known it wouldn’t take me long to get here.” I roll my eyes at her before going to set my stuff down somewhere. I hear her sigh, “Fair enough, and by the way, I happen to enjoy cleaning so no judging me.” She gives me a look and continues to clean.
I will still judge her, cleaning is annoying and the worst thing ever. How someone can enjoy it is something I will never understand. I look out the big sliding glass door, enjoying the view, “Let’s go for a walk, it’s been so long since I’ve been here, and it’s a beautiful evening.”
She nods her head, “That sounds nice, we can also have a small bonfire after and roast some marshmallows.” I just smile at her, she loves her marshmallows.
We start our walk on the leaf-covered path. I look around, the woods are so beautiful with the setting sun in the background, “I wish I had brought my phone out with me, this view would be a great pict…..wahhh!” I feel my foot collide with something hard. Within seconds, I fall flat on my face. I lay there dazed for a second and then looked over to see Willow doubled over laughing. “Stop laughing and help me up!” I said while trying to keep a straight face. She wipes the tears from her eyes and grabs my arm, and starts pulling me up, “ahhh wait, stop!” She lets go, and I plop back on the ground with a grunt.
“I think I twisted my ankle when I fell, it's hurting pretty badly.” She kneels in front of me and looks at my ankle, I flinch when she touches the side. “I agree with you, but if we wrap and ice it, you should be alright after a while. I nod, she helps me up again and supports my body so I don’t put too much weight on my ankle.
We made it back to the house, she orders me to sit on the couch and not to move, I gave her a salute, “Yes ma’am.” She glares at me for a second and goes to get the first aid kit and an icepack.
“Thank you for taking care of me, and sorry for still being a klutz.” She laughs and looks up at me after finishing wrapping my ankle, “you’ve always been a klutz. It would take a god damn miracle for you to not hurt yourself whenever were together.” I watch her put everything away. She looks at me for a minute, looking like she wants to say something, but doesn’t and leaves the room instead. That's odd, she usually always talks to me. She comes back into the room and sits next to me. “Ready for our marathon?” I nod and start the first movie.
I never made it through the first movie. After an hour, I started dozing off. I felt a poke on my shoulder, “Let’s go to bed, Raven. We can finish the movie tomorrow.” I nod tiredly. Willow helped me get up and settled into bed, I knocked out in record time.
Willow
It’s been about an hour since Raven fell asleep. I keep tossing and turning, my mind constantly running. I’ve been keeping a secret from her, hiding part of who I am. I wasn’t always like this, it was forced upon me one night many years ago.
I was out hiking alone, stupid, I know, but it was something I did often. I had set up camp for the night and was almost asleep when I heard growling outside my tent. I didn’t know what it was or what to do, I had laid there frozen in fear, my mind panicking, do I stay or do I run? I made the wrong choice.
I had bolted out of the tent as fast as I could, not paying attention to anything around me. It was so dark, but I pushed on. I could hear whatever it was following me getting closer by the second. I felt something furry and heavy slam into me, the force of the hit sent me sprawling onto the ground, and I couldn’t get up fast enough.
Once I was on my feet, two wolves were stalking around, snarling and nipping at me. I took one step back, and they lunged, taking me down. I felt one's teeth sink into my thigh and the others into my stomach. I screamed in pain, thrashing around trying to dislodge either one of them in hopes of getting free. Nothing worked, I felt them ripping skin off, section after section. I screamed as loud and often as I could, hoping maybe someone was around. After what felt like hours, I heard a loud band, and one of the wolves dropped to the ground, maybe…hopefully dead. I watched in horror as it shifted from a wolf to a human. I couldn’t believe all the stories were true. Lycans are real.
I snap back to reality as the other wolf darts off into the woods. I lay on the ground, too weak to move. “Please help me.” My voice barely comes out as a whisper. I see movement out of the corner of my eye, a person. He comes up to me, “You’ll be okay, I’ll get you help!” He carefully picked me up and ran, faster than I humanly thought possible, but before I could question anything, I blacked out.
I woke up in the hospital after being asleep for 4 days, or so I was told. No one knew what happened to me or had any information on the man who helped me. Everything was super fuzzy for me, but the events came back little by little. I recovered from my injuries fairly quickly, this shocked the doctors and despite many tests, they had no answers. After about a week, I was finally able to go home.
The first thing I did was research Lycans. What I found scared me, I didn’t want to believe what I read. Lycans are usually born, but there is the ability to become a lycan if you are bitten and you survive the bite.
I was attacked by Lycans and had survived. Does this mean…
I am indeed a Lycan now. I tried many stupid things to test if I was a Lycan, each result pointed to yes. The final test was trying to shift, so despite feeling stupid I tried. Let me tell you that shit hurt so damn bad, but I did shift and was now undenibly a Lycan.
It’s been three years since then, and I’ve wanted to tell Raven but didn’t know how.
I want to turn her, make her the same as me, share this life with her, but isn’t that selfish? Changing her life forever just for my wants? Should I ask her if she wants this, or not give her a choice because of what I know and went through? All the questions swirl in my mind, and I have no clue what I should do.
I’ve been torn about this for months. My thoughts started because she’s sick, I can smell it. She doesn’t know and may never know. She doesn’t care for herself like she should.
I can heal her, the Lycan gene will knock out the sickness, but again, all the same questions come to mind. Yes, it would help her, but I would still be selfish because I'm doing it for me…. I don’t want to lose her. What do I do?
Raven
I wake up and see Willow staring out the window, deep in thought. Something is bothering her, and I don’t understand why she’s keeping it to herself. I shift myself into a sitting position, and she looks at me. “Sorry, did I wake you?” she asks.
“No. Willow, what’s going on? I can tell you’re wanting to talk about something, but you won’t. Please talk to me.” She sighs and looks down, not saying anything. “Willow, please. You know you can talk to me about anything, and I will never judge you. I love you.” She sighs again but looks up at me, “Do you believe in the supernatural?”
I was taken aback a little; that wasn’t what I expected her to say. “I do, you know that. There is no way there aren’t supernatural things out in the world. Why do you ask?”
“Do you remember a few years are when I had that accident?” she asks. I nod, “I remember you telling me about it, but you never really explained it to me that well.” I watch her take a deep breath, she moves so she is sitting in front of me. “I was attacked by a Lycan on that hiking trip…”
I gasped, already understanding what that meant, but I wanted her to say her peace. I nod in hopes she’ll continue. “I survived the attack, and things started changing for me. I needed to eat more, I had so much energy, I would heal in no time. I…I became a Lycan.” She looked away from me in shame.
“That explains some of the changes I’ve noticed about you. You know I love you, this changes nothing. You are still yourself, even if you are a Lycan now.” I look at her and see she's still not sure about something. “That's not all that's bothering you. What else is going on in your mind, Willow?
She takes another deep breath and looks at me, “I want to turn you.” I just stare at her for a second, unsure what to say to that. Unsure how I even feel about what she just said. Do I want that? It would be cool I guess but that would change everything. “Why do you want to turn me?”
She shifts, suddenly uncomfortable, “Well uh, you’re sick…” I look at her and raising my eye brow, “excuse me? What do you mean I’m sick?”
“Over the last few months your scent has been changing in a bad way, the only way I can describe it is that you smell sicker and sicker.” Oh, I suppose that explain somethings for me lately. I haven’t been feeling very great and have been so low energy. I thought maybe it was the flu or something else viral, but I supposed something more serious would make sense with how long its been going on. “Would turning me make me better?”
She nods her head, “Yes, the Lycan gene will take out anything, you would be all better.” I suppose that would be a plus, “What type of things would happen if you do turn me? Does it hurt? Is it safe?”
“Well its not one hundered percent safe, there is a chance you wouldn’t survive the bite. If you do though you’d be faster, heal quickly, shift half way or fully into a wolf. Honestly not a whole lot changes but there are those small perks. You’ll need to eat more, your have a faster metabolism. And I honestly don’t remember my change, so I’m not sure if it will hurt.”
I nod, “Hmm, theres a chance I won’t make it but something tells me even if I don’t do this I won’t live more than a couple years.” She nods her head in agreement with me.
I’m not sure what I want to do. Either I die due to disease, or I take the chance and potentially live a long, full life. Honestly, there isn’t that much of a choice. “I want you to turn me.”
She looks at me shocked, “Are you sure? Its gonna be difficult, and you’ll have to leave some of your life behind.” I know I’ll have a leave a lot behind and adjust, but this could be an amazing chance. “Yes I’m sure.”
“Where do you want the bite?” I think for a second, “on my upper arm, could be passed off as a tattoo.” She nods and gets up to sit next to me, “Are you absolutely sure? There will be no going back after.” Death for me is certain even if I don’t do this, and the possibility of an almost endless life is so enticing. “Do it.”
Her teeth elongate, and she bites my arm. At first, nothing happens. In an instant, I fall over, my entire body feeling like it's on fire. The pain is so intense I can’t even scream anymore, only wither in pain. Everything starts to go black. Is this it for me? Am I dying?
I descend into nothingness….
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