To tell the truth, I had never thought about death before, the only thing I believed was that I would die old with the person I love. But apparently death is happening right in front of me. The huge wolf growls with hatred, as if it had me. Behind him appear three more wolves. Despair, fear, terror invades me. I'll die, it's obvious and I'll be torn apart by four wolfs, there is no worse way to die than this.
I'm still sitting on the floor, cornered. My breath hitches and I feel like I'm missing.
"Please don't ..." I murmured, as if that wolf was going to listen to me. He approaches at a determined step until he is in front of me. His eyes are black, very black and I would swear I had seen them before. But where? The three wolves behind are also approaching growling, maybe I should look for something to defend myself, a branch, something ... I can't make this so easy for them. The wolf in front of me walks, surrounding me. I looked for something with my hand on the ground, a stake or something and I find it. I held it tight to me to be ready. I don't even know the way back.
He positions himself in front of me again. I crawled away from him, that infuriates him more and he growls louder. I stopped, now he's determined to do something to me. Force, Caro, you can do it, you just have to stake it and run. I listen to my mind and as the wolf approaches I drive the stake into his shoulder and run away. I could hear how it wailed and the other wolves in the back howled. Sure calling more wolves or lamenting for his friend.
I ran and ran and ran. I don't know where I am, my feet hurt and I'm getting tired, I don't hear anything following me so I stop to take a breath, there is a silence around me, just my breath depleted ration is heard.
"Help ..." I stammer, knowing no one will listen. Suddenly a few steps behind me put me on alert, I turn to find one of the wolves standing in front of me, but this one does not come to do the same thing that the other did, he ran determined to throw himself on top of me but, when he made the jump, another and much larger black wolf pushed him hard. The other wolf cried out in pain and stood up.
The black wolf positioned itself in front of me like a shield, snarling at him. The other wolf gave me one last look and left. Okay, one less, now I just have to find a way to get away from this one. The wolf turns to look at me. I can't believe they're fighting over me, they all want to eat me. I must not taste good.
"Please ..." I begged. Maybe he will understand me, maybe he will look at my terrified look and let me go. Maybe he's not a carnivorous wolf, maybe he's a vegetarian. What crazy things I say.
The wolf comes up to me, to my face, and wipes a single tear that ran down my cheek. It's savoring me. I know. I hope I smell bad so I don't want to eat. I looked at his eyes... They are black, but they don't scare me like the other wolf, no, this one gives me a feeling of being protected. I think.
"Let me go" I whispered. My heart is beating at a thousand an hour, my breathing is ragged and the tears are still threatening to come out. The wolf turns and walks away. Relief fills me. Not quite, I have to get out of this forest. Before turning around, the wolf turns to see me and makes a gesture with his head, it is as if he wants me to follow him.
Obviously I will not, I do not know if he will take me to his favorite place to kill or take me with his wolf friends to share me or... The wolf growls again and makes the same gesture with his head.
"Okay ..." I murmured, walking cautiously towards him and positioning myself next to him. We start walking, everything is silent. I admit that I am scared to death and super nervous, there is no moment when I do not look at the wolf, at any moment he can throw me on top. But for some reason he hasn't, however, this wolf gives me security... Peace. I feel calm being with him.
It may be my guardian.
We walked for several kilometers until we reached my house. What a relief. But I still can't breathe easy knowing that I have a wolf next to me... Maybe it gave me the chance to say goodbye to my things, to my mother and then to kill myself ruthlessly.
I walked cautiously until I reached the porch of the house and turned to see the huge wolf looking at me with ... sadness? Maybe I felt sorry for him and that's why he lets me live. He turns around and starts walking into the darkness of the forest.
"Thank you ..." I whispered, knowing he won't listen. Somehow I have to thank him for saving me and letting me live. When he's far enough away I hear him howl. A howl that touched my heart. As if he had meant something to me by that. I stood there, looking where it went until I remembered that there are wolves wanting to kill me and I went inside the house, locking it. I closed the windows and the back doors. I went up to my room and stayed there, sitting on my bed, waiting for mom.
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I heard an annoying noise, I stirred in my bed and crushed my face with the pillow to avoid hearing it, but it is not enough. The damn noise is coming from my alarm so I slowly opened my eyes and the sunlight invaded me. It is morning already? I fell asleep all night.
At least I am calmer because of everything that happened yesterday. I wrinkled my face remembering that it is Friday and I have to go to school. I walked to the bathroom, took off my clothes and let the water run through my body, but I gasped at the feeling of being super cold.
"It's freezing ..." I murmured. The pipe where the hot water runs must have been damaged. I grabbed the soap and rubbed it over my body and then shampooed my hair. I gave gentle massages and then rinsed off. I covered my body with a towel and left the bathroom.
I looked in my closet for something comfortable to wear, I chose jeans, a short shirt that revealed my belly button, and cotton boots that reached almost to my knees. I grabbed my coat that fell below my thighs and put it on. I brushed my hair down, outlined my eyes and lastly I put on lip gloss.
I was ready.
I took my backpack and then went down to breakfast. There was no one in the kitchen, then I heard footsteps behind me. "
"Carolina, are you ready?" Mom approaches, sleepy. I sit in the chair and prop my elbows on the table.
"No, that's how I always get up." I replied sarcastically. Mom rolled her eyes and I laughed. She almost doesn't like my sarcastic way, but sometimes they ask questions that aren't even relevant.
"You are not going to work?" I asked, noticing that she was still in her nightgown.
"Yes, but I go in the afternoon. Yesterday I came late at night so they gave me this morning."
I nodded. Mom gave me my cup of coffee along with my toast. She sat down next to me and began to fast. I took a sip of coffee.
"By the way, I met one of the neighbors yesterday." She said, looking at me. I almost choked on the coffee.
"Neighbour? To who?" I just hope it's not Kayler.
"Kayler, I think his name is." She answered. "Good Guy."
I raised an eyebrow at that last thing he said. If only I knew that he was an idiot, arrogant, womanizer.
"Yes of course."I whispered.
She gave me a questioning look.
"Do you know him?" She asked. I shook my head dismissively.
"Something." I don't need to know him very much to realize what kind of person he is. I hate that he's my neighbor, I would have preferred Paige as a neighbor, I just hope I didn't meet him on the road today. Arrogant.
"Last night he helped me with the car. If it hadn't been for him I would have walked here, the car stopped me in the middle of the road, luckily he was passing by and he revived it" She made a wrist of relief.
I frowned as hard as I could. Is that Kayler? In cerium? Because I don't think so. And what was he doing at night on those lonely roads? That boy is weird.
"Well... How lucky, huh?" I lied. I don't want that mom and that to have anything to do with it. And I'll try my best not to get close to him. Kayler means trouble and it's something I don't want to have.
"Yeah, what's more, he offered to drive you to school today."
I spit out the coffee I'd just sipped, falling into Mom's face. I opened my mouth, amused. "I'm sorry..." I covered my mouth, trying not to laugh.
She glared at me.
"Carolina!" She chided. "Look what you did." She picked up a cloth and wiped her face.
"Tell me you didn't accept..." I asked, referring to Kayler. She considered it for a moment.
"Yes, I accepted." She muttered. "Look, it's coming." She looked out the window. And then a car noise warned me that Kayler had indeed arrived.
This day won't be pretty either.