“I can’t answer all of your questions because you have to leave now. If Carlos senses that you were here, he would hunt you down and he would kill you and I can’t let that happen. You can’t die without fulfilling your destiny. If you do, the world would be just like that house, nothing but ashes. It would be a waste land and your own people would not survive it. It would not be able to inhabit anything living again so I can’t risk you staying here longer but I can grant you one wish. What do you want?” she asked him. “I want to be able to come back and get answers to my questions. I need all the answers I can get!” he said to her. “I was hoping that you wouldn’t ask that. I thought you would be ask to get your sleep back, your sanity, your peace of mind” she said to him. “I guess you can say that somethings are more important than others” he said to her. “I would try my best to keep shielding you every time you come but there would be sometimes where I wouldn’t be able to do that a
“The second time?” Arielle asked him.“It doesn’t matter. We need to go to school. The last thing we are doing is going late to school. Mom would freak out if she finds out that we were late to school” Alexander said to her.“No, I want to hear it. We can be late to school for all I care. This is way more important than whatever the school has to offer us. Besides, we already missed the bus. We might as well take out time or stay home. Nobody really cares” his sister said to him.“Miss school? Mom would kill me” Alexander said to her.“She loves you way too much to even hit you. All she would do is let me off this stupid punishment before you but you already seem unaffected by the entire thing so it shouldn’t be a big deal for you” she said to him.“No. We can talk about this when we get back but for now, we need to find a way to get to school. We would get a cab to take us to school and if they ask why we are late, you would tell them that your brother was coming down with a flu” he
“So what do you plan on doing about that because he is definitely going to be at the phasing ceremony. There is no way he is not going to find out and if I don’t phase, I would draw a lot of attention to myself. That is the last thing I or my family need” Alexander said to him.“You would be transforming. I would keep my father here until the entire transformation is over. Cathy and I decided to act sick and make him stay here. When my father can’t attend to something, he sends his general. This is a bracelet that I had someone make for me. Nobody would be able to see that you are a burning flame wolf except for those with the knowledge already so be careful about who you tell that you are a burning flame wolf” Carson said as he handed him the bracelet.“I don’t understand. Why are you doing this for me? Why are you being so nice to me even though you are aware that I hate your family?” Alexander asked him.“You don’t hate my family. You hate my father and that is okay. I hate him too
“Confronting her wouldn’t get it solved either. Look, she has the upper hand here. The last thing we want is you getting expelled for rude behavior. Mom would totally kill you even though she loves you. Besides, we need to get home before mom freaks out because she is looking for us. The last thing we need is to get in any more trouble before the next full moon” she said to him. He nodded at her and they headed for the bus. She was silent through out the ride to the house. When they got back into the house, they could smell the aroma of their mother’s food. She was cooking lunch already. Alexander wondered how late they were if she was cooking lunch already. He stepped into the house and he could feel the presence of another person. He walked into the living room and a smile appeared across his face.“Dad” he yelled out before walking to him and giving him a hug.Arielle ran down from the stairs that she was already midway on. She ran to the living room and she jumped on her father.
“Yeah, two days and some hours. What are you going to do now? I mean, what is going to happen to you?” she asked him.“I don’t know but I am hoping that mom would have some answers for me” Alexander said to his sister.“How can you still call her your mom? She literally lied to you!” Arielle said to him.“Arielle, until I hear her side in all of this and get the answers that I seek, she is still my mom. Whether she gave birth to me or not, she has looked after me since I was a kid. That is what a mom does. So her not birthing me is not going to change the fact that she has been my mom right from the very beginning and she is always going to be my mom” Alexander said to her.She scoffed and she shook her head. There was no way she was going to put up with all of this. One thing she hated was lies and secrets and it was starting to look like their entire family was built on them. She shook her head and she headed out of his room.“Ari?” he called her.“What?” she responded.“Tell me if
“How do you know this woman? Where did you meet her?” his mother asked him.“She has been in my dreams. I have been having these dreams where she comes and she stares into my soul. The dreams, there is a burning house there. Hold on. Let me see if I can make a sketch of it” he said as he grabbed the notepad and started to draw in it. It took a couple of minutes and that seemed to be like forever but he was done soon enough and when he was done, he handed it over to her and she looked at him. She shook her head. There was no possible way that could be possible. This woman was dead. She was known to be the last burning flame wolf and there was no way Alexander knew her because he was barely a month old when she had died. She didn’t know what to think or how to feel. All she knew was that he was the last burning flame wolf. The woman in the picture was the last female burning flame wolf. If she was right about everything, the woman in the drawing was his mother, his real mother. “Mom
“You cant give giving me that attitude, Ari. I am not the reason he is leaving. If you have an issue with him, stop giving me that attitude” her mother said to her.“I have nothing to say to you because all of this started because of you. He is just what? Eighteen and we both know that if he goes out there all by himself then he is going to die! He wouldn’t survive out there and it is all your fault. You caused this. If you had just been honest with him right from the very beginning then none of this would have happened but no, you decided that it was best for you to keep it a secret just because you were too scared to tell him the truth. You might as well just pack his bags and kiss him goodbye” Arielle said to her. “Ari, I think you have said enough” Alexander said to her.“Really? Because I don’t think I have said half of what I need to say. We keep living with the consequences of her own actions and I am getting tired of that!” Arielle said to him.She looked at him before headi
"And I am done with the dishes" Alex said as he dropped on the couch beside his mom."You are going to be eighteen in a few days, Alex. Don't you think that you should leave the dishes for Arielle? You are going to spoil her rotten this way" his mom said to him."She is just eleven mom. She doesn't have to do the dishes. I have to head out soon. I need to head for football practice and then make it back in time for lunch. After lunch, I have some assignments to catch up with so I might be a little unavailable for family time until I finish up with my assignments" he said to his mom."Just make it back in time for lunch and then finish up all you have to do before dinner. I don't want you skipping meals. You would be eighteen soon and you would transform on the first full moon after you turn eighteen. I don't want anything to go wrong. Soon, you would be looking for a mate and then you would have to look your best. I don't want you looking thinner than you already look and I certainly