Meet Again

Meet again

I could hear voices. Far voices. I tried to open my eyes but they seemed too heavy accompanied by a fierce migraine on my forehead. My hands went to my head and rubbed at it slowly to ease the pain. 

I tried again and this time managed to open my eye a fraction. I first saw the white plain marbled roof and waited for a while for my sight to adjust to the luminous light before roving to the side. 

I heard footsteps coming towards the room I'm laying in before the door flung open and the worried face of Sandy popped in. I hissed in relief and made to sit up.

She rushed to my side “No babe. Just relax” where have I heard that before? Yes! The strange guy. My eyes widened and I looked about frightfully as if I expected him to still be around. 

“What happened to me?” I could barely hear my voice. 

“I can't tell. The sales lady had found you on the ground when I asked her to call you to come to check out the gown I picked. No one knew what happened” 

I remember now. I was speaking with the strange guy and he had suddenly...Yes! That's it! 

“Sandy, I think...I think I'm going crazy”

“Crazy? How?” she came closer and held my hand in her soft ones, her face scrunching in concern.

“Did you see any guy? A guy. He was wearing..” I paused to think about his garters “ A black trousers and black tight sleeves. He had green eyes and a very tall lean physique” 

She had a look of disbelief stretched on her face. She shook her head after I finished my descriptions “No one of that description came into the boutique. Where did you see him?” she looked about now, her face furrowing to showcase dread.

I pointed to the door “I saw him in the boutique, Sandy. You have to believe me. That guy is..is..No. I can't say it. He said some awful things to me, Sandy.” I Palmed my face and shook my head.

She held my hands and pulled away from her face. “ Kim you have to talk to me. I'm getting worried. What did he say? I'm sure we didn't see any guy come in or leave the boutique. But it's a big place anyone could come in. I'm certain they will surely see him in the cameras if we check”

I nodded and made to stand from the bed tears beginning to leak from my eyes. “We have to go now, Sandy. I'm fine. I promise to tell you everything. But first, we have to check. I have to make sure I'm not going insane. Please”

“Okay, calm down we will. calm down.” I sat still but uncomfortable. I was about to go off my rockers and the only thing that can reassure me right now is knowing that he was real and I didn't imagine all those things. 

 

Sandy stood and reached down to the bed to pull out my slippers before she stood and shifted for me to come down. “I will ask them to go through the camera footage. You have to calm down promise?” I nodded stiffly and stood up from the bed.

I believe she thinks I'm not in the right frame of mind to handle whatever it is that is wrong with me so I would let her handle it as far as my suspicions are proven right.

We walked out of the room that I couldn't fathom who slept in it, considering this place is a boutique. But I didn't want to dwell on that thought because right now I had a more demanding matter I needed to rectify.

We reached the cashier’s desk where we met two ladies who were engaged in a conversation but stopped the instant they saw us. One of them with blonde hair smiled and rushed to me “Oh, my God you are awake. I was really worried” She said to me worriedly.

I gave her a lopsided grin and went to sit on the chair close to the desk with my hand going up to support my chin. I could feel their look of uncertainty but that was less of what I cared about. 

I drifted off after I heard Sandy asking the other lady something about the guy.

He was standing right in front of him. It wasn't imagination. I saw him with my eyes. He was real. He had told me about my short lifespan if I don't find my mate. 

What mate is he talking about?. 

I don't usually fall sick. The last time I did was like three months ago and the doctor had confirmed that I was good for a long time to come. So why would he insinuate something of such magnitude?

I don't know why, but his words are hefty to me. Somehow I feel there is something behind it. Like he wasn't just fibbing. Yes, then when he had said it, I had looked at him like a lunatic until he had transformed into that heinous creature. 

I could swear it wasn't my eye deceiving me. I had seen half of his face changed to a wolf. 

A goddamn wolf.

What is happening? and why would it be just when my best friend tells me about some stupid wolf folklore, that I would suddenly start seeing wolves at every turn?. 

I recovered just as Sandy came to sit close to me and dropped off my bag she has been holding, close to me. I picked it up to my body and turned to her “What did they say?” 

She exhaled and pushed back a strand of her hair “They didn't see anyone Kim. But I believe you. There is no way you would faint just like that. I believe you. Just that they said the camera has been malfunctioning since today, so they had to put it off till the repair guy drops by “She shrugged miserably “So they didn't catch anything on camera.”

I nodded and made to stand hooking my bag on my right shoulder “We have to leave Sandy. I have to confirm something. I'm going out of my mind and this place is no longer comfortable to me”

“Sure let's go” She followed behind me while picking up some bags from the lady who shouted her farewell to us. 

“We will have to drop by a restaurant so you would tell me everything, Kim. Can you drive?” I nodded already making my way to my car. I jumped in and drive off after her. 

We soon stopped at a restaurant not very far from the boutique and I pulled my car close to hers and stepped out. Together we walked into the restaurant that had few people sitting on their tables with their attentions fixed on their food. 

My eyes roved through everyone instinctively as though hoping to find the mysterious man before I sat down and dropped my bag beside me on the brown long oak chair.

A waiter soon appeared and I demanded for steaks with water. Anything less greasy. 

“So Kim what happened?” Sandy looked up from her phone and asked me. She placed her elbows on the table as her phone cluttered on top of it. 

I wasn't yet myself. What happened back there kept whirling through my head in mad waves. I needed to tell her everything. I can't take this anymore. I can't deal with everything starting from the nightmares down to this, they were all scary.

“I saw a guy at the boutique and he said something to me” I hesitated, trying to recollect how he said the words but everything seemed cloudy. The words, his presence, his appearance. Blurred.

“He said I had a short life span and it was abating every day. He said I would die on my 21st birthday if I don't find my mate. Sandy, I'm fucken 20! Meaning I will die next year if I don't ___”

I looked up at her and saw she was equally surprised by what I was saying. Her face said it all. “Mate?” she made out.

“Yes. I don't even know what that means. That is not all. I was upset and had told him he's a lunatic but then he told me he was going to prove me wrong. He moved back and then just when I turned to leave there and report his presence, I saw his eyes change. Sandy, it was so frightening. They transformed into these shining fearsome orbs and then his face followed suit” I was quivering and sweating now as I reminisced just how he had looked. 

I stopped and observed her carriage. I needed her to believe me. I felt the back of my eye sting from tears in dismay. I can't die now. I can't “Part of his face transformed into a wolf and one part remained a human. When I looked at his hands, they were looking like that of a beast.” I took in air to quell my racing heart. 

 “Sandy I think I've gone crazy. They don't exist. Maybe it's because I've been listening to you and William talk so much about wolves and now I'm seeing them too. Last night I had seen one too.....in my dream! In fact, every night I sleep, I keep dreaming of mysterious things that are not supposed to be. Sandy, what is happening to me?”

“Sweetheart. It's okay. If he said you need to find your mate. Then that only means one thing”

I searched her eye for the meaning of her words but found none “What is that?”

“It means you have been mated to a werewolf.” I experienced chill and warmth all at once. For one time, I thought she was going to say something sensible only for her to utter such absurdity.

“Sandy, are you nut? What the fuck is wrong with you?”

“What else do you want me to say? You said yourself he said you have to find your mate and then he transformed into a werewolf or he showed you a little part of himself so you can believe him. The few times I've spent with my boyfriend, he told me how a person finds their mates in the most unwholesome places. He told me he was once in love with their Luna but she didn't reciprocate his feelings. So from what he had told me, it seems your mate is a wolf and you would have to find him. We have to find him. But how? I don't even know how we are supposed to know a wolf. I only know Adrian and his few friends.”

This is becoming more absurd. I wanted to say something, but then the waiter appeared with our orders and served us before sashaying out. 

I can't die. I have to find a way to stop all this. Which means I would have to do only one thing.

“What time is the party tomorrow? And how many of this...” I made a circular motion with my hand on the air “wolves would be there?”  She smiled mischievously before answering.