Moonshadow, T.A Perue [books for 8th graders .TXT] 📗

love you too! Glad Ella's mom called we slept late, I got to get ready for school call you in the car!"

 

I threw my phone onto Ella's bed, running to her side to wake her up. Once she finally opened her eyes I told her we were going to be late if we didn't hurry up and get dressed. I opened her closet which was so much bigger than mine, but so was her room, it was slightly larger than mine, with the same maroon walls, mine much more purple than red like her's, it had a bathroom just like mine except hers didn't have a shower. When her parents buildt the house in 2015, she was twelve, they asked her if she wanted a big shower or a big closet, but then again she at twelve wanted a big closet, seeing no need for a big shower, which she now regreted. As I shuffeled through the blackness that was her closet, I found regular skinny jeans, the blue jean kind, I put those on and a black tank top with a black hoodie. Ella was soon to follow, doing the same thing but with a purple hoodie that had stripes of lighter purple going across it, hers zipped mine just pulled over. We grabbed our bags and headed out the door, telling Mrs.Evergreene thank you for letting me stay over. While we were walking out to her car I noticed Tristian walking into the woods across from the park Ella lived by, I got out of the car and told Ella I'd meet her at school. She was super confused but drove off anyways telling me to be safe. When I was walking to the park he started to disappear into the trees, I took that as he wanted to be alone so I turned around to start walking towards the school. I got half way through the park , and all of the sudden it started raining, I ran for cover under the trees closest to the opening of the forrest. I started  crying at the realisation this was part of my dream the rain the walking the running for cover from the rain and now the crying. I just cried harder and harder as the rain poured and my mind whipped like a tornado. I was afraid of what would happen next because in my dream I was met with Tristian bloody, and weak lying on the cold floor of the wet earth. Then it happened the slow warm breathing on my back, I contemplated turning around but decided I couldn't just leave him here to die, so I turned around to see Tristian perfectly fine. Reaching down to touch my shoulder I winced and shot away, as I did, he started to speak.

 

"Are you ok... Luna is that you? What are you doing out here in the rain like this?" he asked with a worried look upon his face.

 

"Yeah, I'm fine." I replied, knowing I wasn't.

 

"Are you sure, here take this." he said handing me his jacket, which oddly wasn't soaked at all...

 

"Thanks, why are you out here anyways?"

 

He sighed " I was looking for someone, they were supposed to meet me here, but I guess they didn't show."

 

"Oh well, you wanna walk with me to school."

 

"We can drive if you'd perfer to stay dry." He stated.

 

"Sure I'd really like that." I shot back with a smile.

 

We walked through the rain to his car, which I couldn't believe it was his when we got too it, I pegged him as more of a manly type, maybe a truck or a sports car, definetly not a SUV. It was a nice SUV though, it was a Mazda like Ella's was but a CX-5 instead of a Mazda 3, which honestly I could see him driving Ella's car more so and Ella driving this. But I wasn't one to judge a car is a car, I got into the car and he started driving to school, I couldn't help but stare at him while we were driving, he caught me looking and cleared his throat. He seemed nervous, when I put my arm on the arm rest it touched his, and holy hell it burned, we both jumped turning to look at eachother. Tristian pulled over the car, and touched me again, it burned like it did before, then he touched me again, but this time holding his hand on my skin leaving it bright red and throbbing. But in that time the oddest thing happened, my necklace the one Ella had given me what as bright as the real moon shining in his car, making both Tristian and I hide our faces in our jackets, then he let go and suddenly everything was normal. I turned to look at him, also at my arm that burned horribily, but nothing was there but the pain. I looked from my arm to him, then to my necklace, finally I spoke.

 

"What just happened, what are you? What did you do to me!?"

 

His face grew saddened and full of emotion as he said " I'm not sure what happened, I didnt do anything to you, I just touched you, your skin looks so soft, and I had to make sure I wasn't the only one feeling my skin burn when we touched. And I was right you feel it too."

 

"Umm, oh well, thats odd, and uhh...you never answered my question about, what you are Tristian!" I said with anger and confusion written all over my face.

 

But to my suprise he said something, "I believe I'm the same as you are...."

 

"What human? Because my normal interactions with humans, their touch doesn't burn me!?"

 

"No werewolf." He said staring blankley into my green eyes as i did to his.

 

I'm sure my jaw dropped as I tried to play it off like I didnt believe him or know what he was talking about, Ella had told me not that long ago that her father had told her a story once about a man that was a werewolf. He'd tried to attack Ella's dad, but wasnt successful, due to the fact he had, had a charm with a cresent moon on his dog tags. He was in the Army which is why Ava, Ella's mom was always home with no husband around,he was gone alot, just like my father. But as she had told me a cresent moon protects werewolfs who haven't shifted, or more so figured out who or what they are in socieity. Which brings me back to why it burned when we touched, Ella said that, this is what happens, when two werewolfs with no sign of having shifted touch it burns like hell. Everything she had told me had been true, so is she one too, I'm so confused, so i took off my necklace and touched Tristian, and look no burn, so I held my necklace and touched him and "FUCK" I screamed, it definetly burnt. I looked up at Tristian who was laughing, his smile was beautiful, and his laughter wildly captivating. We were parked on the side of the road in the middle of the forrest, when I decided to get out of the car and walk into the depths of the forrest enchanting me to come closer. I felt something in there, and for some reason I had to go check to see who or what it was. As I moved closer and closer to whatever I was looking for I felt Tristians hand on my shoulder pulling me back, I turned around to see Tristian just as I saw him in my dream marks deep into his skin, rain pouring, him falling, being weak and I blinked and there he was normal as ever, strong, no marks, standing tall and gorgeous like usual. I'm going crazier than I'd originally thought, I feel like I'm living in this long dream contuined from my reaccuring one. But its real, at least it feels real, I turned to Tristian to ask him;

 

"How long have you known you were a werewolf?" just to see if Ella's theory was true.

 

"A couple of days...I found out in my old town, my mother knew but I haven't shown any signs of having shifted yet, they thought I was never going to, and they never warned me." he replied.

 

"Well what do I do!?" I asked frantically. "I need to find Ella, she knows what to do, she's been through this before.... I think... either way I need to find out if this is real!"

 

I started running back to the car out of the cover of the forrest Tristian right behind me, I was running faster than I ever had, this whole time running I was thinking; why'd this happen to me, who am better yet what am I, whats Ella? I had so many questions for her. When we finally reached the car I slid in and right away called Ella;

 

The phone rang over and over, finally Ella picked up; "Luna?! I'm in the middle of class, whats going on, where are you!?"

 

"I'm with Tristian, wondering why you didn't tell me I was a werewolf, why you didn't tell me you were one and why do I keep burning when ever i touch Tristian!" I said with a raised voice.

 

"Woah, woah, woah Lu slow down, I can't tell you all of this right now, meet me at my house, you and Tristian both you need to talk to my mother.... and your own mothers too" she said sounding sympathetic.

 

So as Ella said, we rushed to her house, Mrs. Evergreene was already awaiting our arrival, she was wedged standing slanted in the front doorway, and she had a serious look on her face, as we walked up I saw a fimilar face through a slit, sitting on the couch, is that my;

 

"Dad!" I said reaching out to hug him.

 

 

Chapter 4: Secrets Revealed

 I rushed into my fathers arms squeezing the life out of him, almost. I hadn't seen my father since my fifteenth birthday, he was in the Army too, with Ella's dad Avaster. We both rairly saw our fathers, and it was a nice suprise to see that Ella's father was here too. Ella hadn't quite made it yet but when she did I knew she'd run into her fathers arms just as I did mine if not with more force. I sat next to my father and mother as we waited patiently for Ella to arrive, while we were waiting, Avaster called Tristian into the kitchen and had him call his mother, shortly after Ella, she arrived too. As I'd thought, Ella ran into her fathers arms quite possibly harder than I had to my own. I thought we were waiting for Tristians father to show up too, but Avaster proceeded to start, which led me to believe Tristians father wasn't coming, so Avaster started off;

 

"So we are here today because two young werewolfs, are about to go through a life changing event and they'll need our help, so with that said, why don't you Ella, give Luna and Tristian some of your background since they are comfortable most with you." Avaster decided

 

"Ok, ummm... well Lunaa, Trisaian" Ella said rubbing her arm "You know, how I had said I went through some changes, over last summer? And that I wasn't the same, well that's because I finally shifted I shifted on the full moon the