Masonic Werewolves, James Livingood [top 100 books of all time checklist .txt] 📗

stuck out her finger in the air, “Furthermore, here is what I know of his behavior. He joins a secret society that is highly suspect. The whole lot of them are probably werewolves!” Her finger pointed at the lodge and the group of men gathered near it.

Brother Scott chimed up, “Hey now Abigail, this isn’t what we discussed in church. I thought I told you that there is an order within the lodge…”

Abigail nodded, but continued, "Also, and tell me if you can deny this, you dog-napped my daughter's boyfriend's dog! You probably would have eaten him if you weren't stood up to." She got in front of Jacob and began to yell. "You are a demon wolf. Admit it!"

She then slapped him in the face. Jacob could feel the wolf in him get angry. It needed an outlet. All this frustration of letting down his brothers and then being confronted by a crowd. He was backed into a corner, and now this woman was hitting him. Zan had beat him down, twice, and this woman would probably do it a third time. He had the power to stop this. He could shift and bite her. It would serve her right for being a miserable person.

She slapped him again, and yelled a second time, “Demon wolf come out! I compel you to come out demon wolf!”

Jacob was about to turn when he caught the eye of the local auto-mechanic. He shook his head slightly. Jacob wasn’t sure if he had seen that right. Another person in the crowd was looking not at him, but at the people gathered. Jacob felt some kind of instinct that his secret was not so secretive. Other people knew what was going on in this town. They looked ready to defend him. Jacob’s dog, “Sir Licks-A-Lot” came to his head. A sly thought crossed Jacob’s mind. He would give this woman a wolf.

Jacob ducked his arm over his head, the goal being to mess up his hair. He yelled out, as loud as he could, "I am changing! I am changing! I am becoming a wolf!"

He fell on the ground. Jacob began to make loud grunting noises and even let out a fart. He yelled out again, “My teeth are growing! I am becoming a wolf!”

Abigail, not catching on to what was happening, continued her rant at top volume. "Yes, Demon wolf, come out! We will smite thee Demon wolf when you prove to us your true shape!"

Jacob jumped up on his feet and stretched out his back as far as possible. He made his eyes go cross-eyed, just for added effect. In the dumbest, loudest impression he could make, he howled. He then proclaimed, "I am a wolf!"

The crowd began to chuckle. Abigail was about to hit him when Jacob dodged and stuck his tongue out. He ran his tongue up the side of Abigail's face. He wished he hadn't, because of the taste of makeup. However, the crowd's response moved from a chuckle to loud laughing. Jacob looked around and saw that the group was responding to his dumb joke. He doubled down and grabbed at Abigail's side. He then pretended to hump her leg. He closed his eyes and stuck his tongue out as far as it would go. The crowd continued to laugh.

Abigail started hitting him and yelling for him to get off her. Some other person in the crowd yelled, "That's probably the most action she's seen in years!" and the crowd continued to laugh. While Abigail had been a church-going high school teacher, her loud opinions did not make her popular.

Jacob let go of Abigail's side and smiled broadly. He found Zan in the crowd and even he was smiling. His girlfriend was hitting him for smiling, but it seemed like he couldn't help himself.

Jacob then began to address the crowd as loudly as he could, "Listen, everyone, listen! Abigail is right. I was in the middle of a dare one of my lodge brothers gave me. I am new to this…" Jacob made quote signs with his hands, “ ‘secret society’.”

He put his hand to the side of his mouth, as if about to tell a friend a secret, “Mostly we just have dinners and recite speeches.”

Jacob pointed at Brandon and said, "My lodge brother Brandon dared me to wear a skinned animal in a public place. I was worried the bear would drag in the dirt, ruining the hide. I chose a coyote skin and ran around in the park late at night. I was so embarrassed that I just bolted."

Abigail piped up and asked, “Then why were you naked?”

Brandon caught the general mood of the crowd and stepped forward, “That was not part of the dare! We never dared him to go naked! That’s all him.”

Jacob winked at Brandon and said to the crowd, “It was very liberating! You should all try it sometime.”

A few more laughs came from the crowd and they began to dissipate. Jacob caught several of their eyes as they left, getting slight nods of approval. As he scanned the audience, he saw Zan.

Both Abigail and Abigail’s daughter were yelling at him. No wonder he was such a jerk most the time.

Brandon grabbed Jacob’s shoulder and whispered, “Good job.” He seemed about to say more, but Jacob still had more task to do. He walked up Zan and the women.

“Zan.” Jacob said in a plain voice.

“Yeah?” he said, the women around him going silent.

“Why do you put up with this?” Jacob pointed to the two women beside him.

Abigail’s daughter answered for him. “He’s a joke with no other place to go. He can’t even walk a dog. He’s always broke and if he didn’t live with me he would be on the street. My life might be better if he was a bum on the street instead