Chapter 4: Go see the Alpha tomorrow

It could be a miracle but I can't tell how I managed to run inside and bolt the door. Immediately I got my kind of safety, I took off my clothes and dashed into the darkroom. The only place I had ever felt safe and not seen by anyone. Maybe I have a natural connection to darkness. Although it was very dark and I couldn't see, I could still sense where everything in the room was being kept, after all, I had stayed there for four years. Damped and naked, I walked straight to my wardrobe and grabbed the only blanket I had. Wrapping it around my small body, I stumbled to my wooden bed to have at least a beautiful night's rest since she could not have a wonderful day. It should be 7 pm outside, the time normal wolves celebrate for no reason while all I could have is the dark peace in my room. The only thing I kept praying for was death; at least I would have to see her parents at last. Rolling my eyes dramatically, I recalled wishing for death some minutes ago and then praying not to die the other. Beneath the blanket, I felt the hair at the back of my neck rise, and I froze. Restlessly, I kept on rubbing it all over my body in the blanket this can't just vanish. "My necklace!!" I gasped. My body shook as I wondered how it must have fallen off. Even though I don't know what it means, I can't just lose it after all these years! What if I need it now? The only sound heard was the agonizing sound of my gnashing of teeth and harsh breath. Normally, I would feel some kind of safety whenever I hid in my darkroom, but this time around,d, I felt being watched. Paranoid like something was coming to get me, something like the big bad wolf I saw outside. 'Who's there?' I whispered then sniffed. My lower lips quivered as I tried not to cry. Panic flowed through my veins as I began to toss about, trying to calm myself to maybe fall asleep and wake up to realize everything had just been a bad dream. Just random dreams, used to have each time of the year during the rainy season, the season I feared all through her life. 'Those eyes, those red eyes' Those growls sounded like it was trying to speak directly to me. If they did, why didn't they just shift back to their human form? I could still hear it, in my ears making me crawl more into a ball and shiver. Even if I felt different some minutes ago, o knew something worse was around the corner, but I couldn't just put my hands on it. Hopefully, it won't be a big bad wolf that just killed someone and might have killed me. Quickly, I sat up. My brain working, thinking why the wolf must have just stood still like he was glued to a spot. Could it be that the moon goddess saved me from death or it might be a bad dream? The hairs at the back of my neck raised, making me turn immediately with the nearest weapon in my small shaking hand. "I know you are here!" I sniffed, blinking back the tears in my eyes "Don't move an inch or I kill you!!" I have silver and you know what that can do" I added looking around the room. Still yet no movement, not even the slightest noise,e but I am certain that I am not alone, and that scares the heck out of me. "Please, I beg you just go away, I promise I won't tell anyone just go away, please!" I broke into tears. Waiting for the next minute like forever, I felt more than disappointed and extremely scared when nothing happened. I was about to move towards the only source of light in the room, a window I had not opened for two years when I heard something like a growl from behind m,e and then flashes of light. A piercing scream escaped my throat as I threw the weapon I was holding toward the light. "Seriously!?" It came with a dry chuckle "Rotten banana? Is this your sliver?" Grunting unattractively, I stopped crying and shivering to look at the intruder's face. The scowl on my face didn't disappear but I was glad that it wasn't the big black wolf. "Delta Axon," I wrapped the cloth around my bodywells" I bowed slightly, hissing from the pain in my back. "What are you doing here, hmm, in the darkness?". Axon stared at me for a while in total silence, his nose wiggled as he sniffed the air and his eyes turned dark. "Camille did this to you" his voice wound hoarse. Obviously yes and I wonder what he wants me to say now. Everyone in the park knows what I go through in her hands and that of her groupies. "I am fine!" I faked a smile "Was washing some clothes then I fell" I wiggled her brows. Axon stared at me for a while, speechless and irritated. He scoffed as he looked around, trying hard not to roll his eyes. "The floor grow fist to give you black eye or purple bruises on your stomach?" Axon moved closer to me "The clothes grow claws too? And hurt your back and chin?" He attempted to touch me, but I moved back, crashing into the wall.l "What's up with you, Rain?" I want to yell what's up with me to his face. I want to just say how I am sick of living, how Camille just keeps hitting me because I am weak. I want to tell him how humiliating it is to be 22 and still haven't shifted for the first time. But no. Instead, I looked elsewhere, making sure not to stare him in the eye, and smiled painfully. "It's not like you all care!" I paused for a few seconds, trying to analyze what my mistake would cause me "The last time you spoke to me was eight months ago" I sniffed "Why are you even here?" "I saw Camille returning from the woods and I could smell you all over her" Axon replied instead. I rolled my eyes. If I could have my way ay I would have just switched with Axon so he would know how I feel. "So my darkroom now looks like the woods, Delta Axon?". Axon opened his mouth and closed it back without saying a word. He is trying to maybe tell me something better, and he usually does, years ago. "You won't understand" Axon moved back to his previous position and brought out a small bag he kept on my woody bed, "I thought you were dead!" "Dead?" My jaw dropped as my brows bent. Something inside of me keeps telling me that the big wolf in the woods could be him but the only difference is that I have seen Axon's wolf and his wolf is not as wild as that. Although he is black, big too, but not evil-looking. "Do you want me dead?" I intoned.