*Soleil*
Something is burning my eyes. Making me blink and wake up. It is sunlight coming through a crack in the curtains. I feel confused, wasn’t I speaking to Sascha a couple of minutes ago ?
Where the hell am I ?
The room is huge and there are boxes stalked along the walls. The bed is very big and beautifully ornate. The dark bedsheet smells amazing and fresh. Seriously, where am I ?
I lift my head only to winch. This has to be a real hangover. It’s a very fitting name. I get out of bed, to my relief I am still wearing the dress. The black wig is on the table and so is my handbag. I grab both and walk out the door. Outside is a hallway, there is a door leading to a living room and one to the kitchen. It smells like bacon. Normally I would be looking for a plate, but my stomach is not about to invite anything inside. Exce
chapter contains violent vampire attack*Casper*“Don't you think that was just a bit disrespecting ? We are here to honor Davina’s memory and you are acting like a total jerk”. Oliver is pulsing on his cigarette, glaring at me from behind the curtain of black hair.I can feel how the anger is pumping through my veins, and my hidden fangs are threatening to slide out.You little self righteous emo-cow. I close my eyes and breathe through my nose. Oliver's cheap deodorant makes it easier to control the urge to rip his nicotine filled lungs from his body. The thought calms me and a smile spreads on my lips.“Oh I am so very sorry,
*Soleil*The dreaded day has come. Time to sling my backpack over my shoulder and walk down the path beside the church. Last year I had walked the same way, fearing how I would deal with so many new people. I am still as insecure and shy as back then, in some areas. In many ways the situation is the same. I can no longer go down to the canteen and sit down next to Davina. I can’t stare dreamily at Luca’s broad back through english. I am all alone again.When I walk into the school everyone in the hallway goes silent as they turn to stare at me. I hear the sound of stilettos clip clip towards me and to my surprise I see it is Julie, the leader of the elite.“Listen, I am sorry about the thing with Davina. She was like, you know okay. We are all really upset right ?”The fancy blonde with all the right accessories
*Luca*“This is really nice actually. I get a big living room and you get your own rooms. Rent is reasonable too”. My mom turns to look at us.I shrug, trying to smile, because I can see she is excited. Andreas just grunts something in a typical teenage way.“Oh, you two are never happy”. She waves Victor over. “Come here sweetie”.Victor reluctantly walks over to look out the window with her.“Look, your new School is right over there”. She points to a big building. “And there is a big nature playground too”.“Cool mom, a playground”. Victor mumbles without any excitement in his voice.“I know it, I really do. But dad got offered a job here he could
*Soleil*“When we go to Ballimore at the next full moon, we need to be well prepared”. Siri pulls out the chair and sits down at the small table in the kitchen. “It has been too silent lately. If there are going to be many new hamram and the young Pugh boy changes at the same time we are going to be really busy”.I lock my eyes on an old tea caddy that has probably been standing in that spot since Siri moved in. I can’t handle thinking about Luca’s baby brother in that way. Unfortunately it is inevitable. It is the rules for following the calling and not different from other hamram. Most of them are only sixteen when we find and kill them. It had been a rare coincidence that it had been a fully grown man the first one I saw up in Ballimore. I need to pull myself together.“I am still not getting any premonitions about the family, but if
*Soleil*“The others from my coven have been asking for you. They thought it was a shame you didn’t come for the harvest party”. Mark gives me a big hug as I step into his apartment.I freeze for a moment, before getting my composiour back.“It was a lot of fun at the solstice thing, but I have started doubting if it is the right thing for me”. I try getting around the subject.“Sounds exciting. So where have you ended up then ?” The slumps down on the couch.“Realising that it is complicated. I have kind of given up on finding why and who. I think I see it more as a big corporate company, where all the gods sit at a long conference table discussing the world”. I giggle and sit down on his office chair.&ldquo
*Soleil*It is past ten when I walk home from Mark and when I reach the train station I walk past a rather dangy bar. Not one of those modern cafe-like places with tapas and imported beer. No… one of those dirty, smelly places, where the... not too reputable people hang out. The only food they serve is a grilled cheese sandwich and a bag of chips if you are lucky.I am a boring sensible mouse, remember ? I stop, looking through the open door.A couple of older men with greasy hair and bushy beards are hanging on the bar discussing something. My eyes follow the row of dirty windows. There is a second open room in the back with a pool table.“Hmm it might be time for me to learn how to play pool”. Excitement and fear mix in my stomach, giving me chills.You don’t dare.. I take
*Luca*“I have gotten an answer on the mail I sent to that guy in Ireland. His name is Gunnar Holmvik”. Andres is stuffing the last bit of dinner in his mouth as he pulls out his tablet. “He writes the sickest things about how it was before the vikings and stuff. Did you know that back then it was an honour to give birth to a son with the ability to change into a wolf ? It made him a great warrior and he was almost guaranteed to die in battle”. Andreas looks excited, the rest of us are looking at him confused. “To be resurrected as einherjar and get a spot in Odin’s army at Ragnarok of course”.“So there were werewolves in viking times to make warriors for ragnarok ?” My father looks at the homepage. “That sounds like a fairytale Andreas, not something we c
*Luca*“Nope, not feeling anything this time either”. Andreas pulls at the chain around his wrist. “Either I have become a superhero or they are very literally about having to be 16 first”.“Shut up !” I sner at him with a voice that is no longer my own.I collapsed on the ground and can't suppress a pained sob as my body pulls itself apart and into a shape that isn’t naturel. It surprises me that it’s over so soon. When I open my eyes I realise that I am still myself mentally. The wolf is pulling at me and my brain is going crazy with impulses that I have a hard time not giving into, but I am at the control panel. For now. I shake my furry body and get up.