The Full Moon, Amber Riel [speed reading book TXT] 📗

“I didn’t eat him....” He pointed to Kat.  “She must of ate him.”

Kat jumped up from the chair and she was beyond angry. “I don’t know what you’re talking about. I’m leaving so you guys can leave me alone.” Kat stormed out the door, slamming it as she left.

Lacy noticed the blood stains on Shawn’s sleeves. “She didn’t eat him. Look closely at your brother’s sleeves.”

Millie stood up and moved toward Shawn. “You ate him.”

Shawn was ashamed and didn’t want to admit it, but he had to. “Yes.”

Millie was now really ticked off and smacked Shawn’s cheek. “I told you not to eat him.”

Kyle stoop up and walked behind Millie. “Now you have to go three days without meat.”

“Um.... Um.... Why can’t you guys just let me past just this once?” Shawn asked. “Give me a warning?”

“Rules are rules,” Millie replied.

“Rules are rules?” he asked, repeating what she said.  “Millie, we have to go everywhere you go so you don’t break the rules. More than once we had to hold you back so you didn’t harm a human. Please? Just this once?”
Millie thought about it. He was right and she didn’t want to be a hypocrite. “Fine. But remember, the next time you’ll go six days instead of three.” She left the room followed by Kyle.

Wagner walked over to Shawn. Tears were still crawling down his cheeks. “Why did you eat him?”

Shawn didn’t answer. Just looking at the young lycan crying and listening to him, made Shawn feel so bad. He had hurt him by eating the animal that he was trying to take care of.

“Come on, Wagner.” Lacy didn’t want to see Wagner crying and she also felt bad for him because of the cruel thing that Shawn had done. “Let’s go get something to eat.”

“Okay.”

Outside, Millie and Kyle were sitting on the back porch step. They sat there in silence for a while.

“You know, Shawn made a good point about you.... Trying to attack the humans,” Kyle finally said, breaking the silence.

“I know. But with the way they treat us.... They need it.”

“I hear that bitterness in your voice and yea they do.... But if you harm them, then that doesn’t make you any different from them.”

“Me and Shawn are orphans because of them.”

“I know.” Kyle put his arm around her and pulled her closer to him.

“You need to go to anger management classes. At first, you were uptight, but now.... You have anger problems.”

Millie looked at him. “No I don’t.”

Kyle looked at her, funny. “Yes you do.”

“That’s not true.”

“First step is denial.... Millie, you get mad if someone says hi. You get mad if someone looks at you the wrong way.”

“Okay. That’s true.”

“Fifth step is admitting it.”

Now, Millie was giving Kyle a funny look. “What happened to the second step to the fourth step?”

Kyle scratched his head. “Good question.”

Millie started laughing.

“Do you feel like you have a weight on your shoulders?”

“Yea. After my dad was killed with my mother and I had to become the leader, I felt like this weight was put on me.”

An idea popped into Kyle's head and he pretended to take something off of Millie’s shoulders.

“What are you doing?”

Kyle smiled. “I’m helping you out. I’m taking the weight.”

Millie also smiled. “You know that doesn’t work.”

“Well, I tried.”

After diner, Lacy and Shawn were hanging out in the living room. Champ walked into the room. He was dressed just as nicely as he was the night before. “Well, I’m going out tonight,” he told them.

“Okay.” Lacy looked over at him.

“So when do we get to meet this mystery girl?” Shawn asked.

“Well....” Champ started walking to the front door.

“When it’s the right time.” He opened the door. “See you all later,” with that said he left.

“You know,” Shawn said. “I want to see where he’s going.”

“Me too.”

“Want to go follow him, well, spy on him?”

“Actually, yea.”

They both left and followed Champ, but they stayed to where he couldn’t sense that they were there.

Champ's Secret

Lacy and Shawn hid in the bushes by the river. They watched Champ sit down on a bolder. He was waiting for someone to show up and they were going to find out who. “Well, we get to see his mystery girl,” Lacy whispered, kind of excited.

“I know.”

“Can I join you?” they heard someone ask.

They watched as Champ turned to face a dark figure. They looked to see who it was but where they were they couldn’t tell who the girl was. “Go ahead.” Champ smiled.

When the girl walked out into the moonlight, they were shocked to find out that Champ’s mystery date was.... Kat. “He can’t be dating her.... It’s against the code.” Lacy was filled with shock.

“Maybe they’re not dating.... Maybe his real date got sick and it just so happens that she’s here to tell him that his date couldn’t make it.” Shawn was trying to think positive. He looked over at Champ and he thought that Champ was the kind of person who respected the rules and lived by them. For Champ to date a cat was something unbelievable.

“True.” Lacy’s eyes grew big when she saw Champ put his arms around Kat. “He’s hugging her. They must be dating.”

Shawn thought about what Lacy had just said. “Lacy, I could hug you and we’re not dating.”

“Okay.” Lacy watched as Champ and Kat kissed. “Shawn.”

Shawn wasn’t paying any attention. He was trying to look for something, when he looked at Lacy. “What?”

“Look.” She pointed, really shocked.

Shawn looked at Kat and Champ. “ SHARING SPIT WITH A CAT!” He couldn’t help but yell. “ HOLY....”

Lacy covered his mouth so Champ and Kat couldn’t hear him but it was too late. They looked over at the bushes. “Did you hear that?” Champ asked.

“Yea.”

“Stay here.” He moved over to the bushes. Lacy and Shawn tried to get away, but he caught them. “Lacy? Shawn? What are you two doing here?”

“No.” Shawn took a deep breath. “The question is what are you doing here with that cat?”

“We have to tell Millie.”

“No.” Champ cleared his throat. “You can’t.”

“Dude,” Shawn started, “we have too. The ninth code states that lycans must not attack small, defenseless animals. If they do, then they must go three days without meat.”

Lacy and Champ looked at each other then to Shawn.

“Actually,” Lacy corrected Shawn, “that’s the first code, which is what you broke today.”

“Oh, yea. The ninth code states that lycans can not date outside of their species. They can date humans because of their human forms but not different animal species, especially cats. If they do, then they will be banished from the pack and their love will be put to death. For any lycan that knows about what’s going on will be shunned for two whole weeks.” Shawn didn’t even bother to take a breath.

“I know, but please don’t tell Millie.”

“Man, I have to tell Millie. We all know my sister, she can sense a lie from a mile away.”

“It’s not a lie. It’s a secret,” Champ pointed out.

“I can’t....”

“We’ll keep your secret, but you have to tell her,” Lacy cut Shawn off.

“I know.” Champ looked over to Kat. “I’ll tell her when I’m ready....” He walked over to Kat and grabbed her hand. “For now, it’ll be a secret. That means you two can’t tell Kyle, Stina, or Wagner as well.... Because they’ll all tell Millie and she doesn’t need to know.”

“Fine,” Shawn gave in.

“You realize that Millie’s going to be shocked by this. Right?” Lacy asked.

“Everyone’s going to be shocked by this,” Shawn threw in.

“I know.” Champ put his arm around Kat.

“You know, Champ,” Shawn started, “ I use to look up to you and now I’m ashamed of you.”

Shawn and Lacy started to head back to the house. Champ and Kat watched as they left. “You’re planning on telling Millie about us?” Kat asked.

“Yea.”

“When?”

“When the time’s right.”

“Oh.”

They stood there in silence. Kat leaned against Champ. She couldn’t believe that he was planning to tell Millie. They knew what would happen, why would he even consider telling the one lycan that would actually have a reason to kill her. She just couldn’t believe it.

Transformation & Memory Lost

The next day, Millie was walking through the town. She was kind of slouching because her back was transforming from human to wolf. Her knees were bent and her feet were now claws. She wasn’t wearing shoes for that reason. As she walked down the street, kind of dragging her right foot, she looked over at an old, beat up, black pick-up truck.

The guy.... The guy in the pick-up. Who was he? He looked familiar to her, but she couldn’t think of who he was. That’s what happened when she was transforming from human to wolf. Her mind would get cloudy and she couldn’t place who anyone was, well the humans that is. She knew other creatures even her pack, but the humans would become hard for her to recognize. She knew them, but forgot their names.

She hated how that would happen to her because they could do something to her and get away with it. She would forget about it fast. He looked over at her. “Hello, Millie.” He had an evil smile on his face. He looked like a doctor. A veterinarian. An evil veterinarian. Who was he? “Millie, do you need a ride?” he asked.

She recognized his voice. She thought, well, tried to think about who he was.

“Millie?”

She knew this man. It was him. She caught an attitude. Of course, it was Millie. She had an attitude problem. “A ride? A ride? You’re asking me if I want a ride? Doctor O’Nail, I don’t take rides from people. I don’t trust people.” She started walking away.

He drove beside her. “You know, I have a cure for your attitude problem toward us people.”

Millie glanced at him, glaring. “I don’t think so.”

He noticed that she was limping. “You’re a dog.... I’m a vet. What’s wrong with your leg?”

“Why should I tell you? I don’t trust humans.” She was getting angry that he wasn’t leaving her alone. Like every dog in the world that hated to be bothered by people, she started growling at Jack.

“Like I said, you’re a dog, I’m vet.”

It really bothered her that he wasn’t going to back off. Now, she had to tell this doctor why she was limping.

“My brother decided to spill water on the ground and leave it there. I walked in, slipped on the water, and rammed into the brick wall.... Happy now?” She kept walking.

“I