The next day I was up and ready in the kitchen eating as usual. I usually enjoy looking outside as I ate. That all changed however when Lassora came in a little scared and shaking. I look at her not know what was wrong. If I'm being honest this is the first time I have been alone in the same room with the man. He's no younger than fifteen and he's wears a sleeveless band shirt, shorts, some big looking skater shoes. He also as glasses on and will always be the one who is human for he never changes. It's a complicated reason but to shorten it out he got bit by a werewolf one night and his first change didn't exactly go well. If your also wondering about his name, it's his nickname. real name is Nicholas Lassora Von Hedi.
"Hey buddy, what's wrong why so scared?"
"Storage room, there's a...there's a..."
"A what?"
"Rat."
"Your scared of a rat."
"Not just any rat, a rat of unusual size."
"Wait those things are real, didn't know that ROUSes were even a thing."
"Well they are, and this one seems to be bigger than the last."
As we were talking John, Julian, and a half asleep Matt walks into the kitchen.
"Ah Nick, Daniel what's going on?"
"Hey John, Lassora here said he saw a ROUS in the storage room."
"Oh, a ROUS?"
Half asleep Matt says "Think he means rats of unusual size."
"Oh, thank you. Well lets go see if this rat is still down there. Julian, Matt come with me. Daniel you come too. Those bastards are hard to kill."
I get up and sigh. Another breakfast ruined. I put on my shoes and walk downstairs and into the supply room. To my eyes this was the biggest supply room I've seen. Wood all around, barrels marked and filled with different things, crates upon crates probably filled with stuff and they too are marked. I walk around seeing. A crate catches my eyes as it says "John 1968" I look inside and I come to find an old Army suit with a few medals, an LMG, a few grenades, and a flask. I look to John and ask "Um hey John, what's this."
He laughs and says "Oh my, man that was a good time."
"Wait, you served?"
"Yep, I just did it for fun cause honestly I was bored. Man that was not a great time. Felt bad for those human boys. Ah well got a few of those medal thingies for saving a few of their lives. My and brother fought, and oh boy was dad pissed when we cam home. Cussing at us in French. Oh those were the days."
"I'm just shocked that you fought in one of the worst wars that America fought in, and France but mainly America."
"Yeah, but hey sometimes you win and lose."
"You know.." a yawning Matt said, "If your interested I have a piece of the Berlin Wall."
"You do?"
"Yeah, I think I left it in here somewhere, Johnny can you help me find it."
John nods and helps him find the piece. I already explained who Matt was before but hearing him speak, he has a Polish/German accent. He wears exactly the same clothes as Zane does when in human form except more Judas Priest look. John pulls out crate and opens it. there was some of Matt's stuff and inside was a concreate piece of the wall. He shows me it and Matt was not lying. The piece he had in his hand had a writing on it, not graffiti writing but part of a warning. Matt puts it back and smiles. "Boy now that was the happiest day in my life. A teenage boy me helped tear that wall down with thousands of others."
"Hey guys, what's going on?"
"Oh hey Lucy, umm there's a rat in here, a huge one. We were looking for it but then we got distracted by talking about life events. Like did you know John served in Vietnam."
"Oh yeah, he told us about it. Did Matt show you the wall piece."
"Got it right here in my hand sis" said Matt who was waving the piece in the air.
"Oh cool."
"Say now that were talking about it, did you experience anything in your life Lucy?"
"I grew in Northern Ireland in the 90s, what do you think."
"I have no clue actually."
"Terrible, every bloody day I was in fear that I would have gotten killed just for being British. Luckily after five years my father pulled me out and moved me back to England."
"I see, what about you Julian?"
Clearing his throat he says "My dad sent me off to a private school in New York, I'll let you guess what event I saw."
"Oh I see, well umm I guess my experience was growing up in Los Angeles in the 90s."
"Eh guess we all had some bad experiences with human history. John fighting in a war, Matt being happy that his country was whole again, Julian with his terrible experience in New York in 2001, and me living in Ireland because Mommy wanted me to see aunt and uncle. You know for you humans war and fighting is common."
"It's just our primal nature, if we don't like something we kill it. Hard to achieve piece when others don't want it. Sad reality but then again you werewolves had your own experience with war and death too. no offense but you do have a standing member of Dewolfe here."
"He does have a point, and none taken Daniel."
"Hmm yeah true, and technically our start was certain humans being cursed. It's weird how similar humans and werewolves are yet we see each other different. Weird question but do you think we can ever live in piece?"
"Who knows, between us, maybe."
As that conversation ends a silence comes to the room. We all stare at each other in awkwardness as that question was asked and to be honest this was indeed a weird conversation to begin with. Soon we hear a thump and a scream. Lucy brightens up and says "Oh yeah, forgot to tell you guys, we found a ROUS in the house, think Zane killed it. Which means breakfast."
"Oh dear god, no thank you. I'll stick with my PB and J. You guys have fun."
"Your loss."
The others go upstairs as I stay behind to clean up. I sigh and roll up my left arm sleeve all the way to look at a bullet wound scar. I lightly tap it and say to myself "Vago's for life....or something." I then walk back upstairs and join the others.