Aniska
Rome
Wednesday
September 30
The guy who worked at the gas station told me it was a big dog but I refused to believe that so I asked to see the surveillance footage from that night.
As I viewed the video something else caught my eye. When they pull up to the gas station the hitchhiker snuck out and ran off into the bushes. What was he doing? I looked closely and realized he was stripping off his clothes.
He starts twitching like a madman as his body changes into something I knew all too well then Quinn walks towards Gary and that thing from the bushes launches at him biting his head off then attacks Quinn. It runs off after a few moments of standing over Quinn. Janet came out and saw Gary's body. By the looks of it because the video didn't have a sound I assumed she was screaming. She looked back at Quinn and held him as he died in her arms.
"What was that thing?" the guy asked in fear and I shrugged but I knew what I saw. A werewolf. I heard stories about them when I was a child but didn't know they were real.
My question is how is it just starting its killing spree? It's probably not even from here. "Thank you again," I said in a hurry and got in my car. I don't know its next attack so I'll be swift and go the hell home.
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I ran up to my front door forcing the key in like eyes were on me but in actuality, I was paranoid by this thing. It's roaming Transylvania.
"Mom why do you look like that?" my daughter Yelena asked while sitting at the dinner table with her dad and brother.
"Didn't you hear? Wild dog on the loose." I chuckled before getting my plate and sat down.
My husband David read me like a book and kept staring at me throughout dinner time.
We finished eating and he excused the kids to leave except me. "Why are you acting so weird?" he moves to a chair next to me to look me right in the eye so I don't lie. "I want to tell you but things are better unsaid," I said standing to my feet and running up the stairs.
I don't know why I'm hiding from him when we sleep in the same room. "Come on Aniska tell me what's bothering you?"
"It's complicated."
"More complicated than our children?" he joked and sat on the bed then pat the space next to him. "I saw the dog attack footage earlier and it left me puzzled."
"What did you see?"
"I can understand it because I'm Romanian but for you to understand it..... It's insane."
"What are you trying to say?"
"Do you believe in the urban legends of Transylvania?"
"No." he laughs and I knew I should keep this theory to myself. "Never mind because you're taking all of this for a joke."
"Let me guess you think a werewolf killed your brother?" I stood there not saying a word. "You can't be serious Ann."
"Fine don't believe me but you'll see it for yourself," I said stripping off my clothes and then putting on my robe.
"Aniska there is no such thing as werewolves. They were created by parents to scare their children. That's what my mother said."
"First of all your mother is American!" I shouted from the shower. I'm done arguing with him. Until it comes face to face with him then he'll believe me.
Thursday
October 1
Janet
My family and I woke up early to visit Quinn's parents. Aiden had to go to school because he had an examination. I was quite nervous to go around his family plus I'll have to keep our brief relationship to myself because he never made it official enough to tell them.
No one knows except Kayla and Justin. "Hey, Mrs Turner." I greeted her with a hug. "How are you coping?" she asked pulling me into her house while my parents were outside on her porch with Mr Turner. "Better than the other days. I decided not to remember how he looked when you know," I controlled my incoming tears and smiled as hard as I could and it worked.
"So you won't need a therapist?"
"I don't know. Maybe?"
"If you need any help a close friend of Quinn's is a therapist," she smirked and my face furrowed. A close friend of Quinn's? "Wait Daisy is a therapist?"
"Yes, I've seen her since Quinn's death and she's helped me cope a lot."
If you're wondering who's daisy? Well, that was Quinn's first girlfriend in middle school. I'm happy she's a therapist but I don't think she'll be wanting to see me after our tiny feud from 2010. We were fifteen at the time and someone told her a rumor that I was hitting on Quinn.
She threatened me but later found out that the same person who told her I liked Quinn was the culprit who liked Quinn. Daisy never apologized to me and she remained friends with that person for some reason.
Quinn broke up with her and she blamed it on me which stirred up our beef. I never took a L because I was never in the wrong so I just left her to time. "So should I tell her that you're coming?" Quinn's mother interrupted my thoughts. "Huh? No actually not right now." I smiled hoping she'd let go.
"Okay, take your time. She's available every day except on Sunday she has a church on that day."
Oh, so she's a Christian now? Like I said I'm happy that she's a changed woman.
Sebastian
"Welcome to Nashville High Sebastian Bell." the principal shook my hand as all three of us stood up. "Here's your timetable." He smiled at my mom and me as we made our way to the door. "Um, Miss Bell may I have a word with you?" I roll my eyes already knowing what's about to happen. He's into her and I can't do anything about it.
As the principal escorted me he locked me out. Desperate much? I scoffed it off and decided to look around. I walked up to a classroom door then saw a familiar face. Aiden. By the looks of it, he was doing a test. "Are you new here young man?" I didn't realize I was staring at Aiden until a female voice spoke and Aiden looked at me surprised. "Sebastian?!"
"Aiden Slovak you are in the middle of an exam!" This teacher is mad extra. He was just happy to see his friend. I bet her life is sad. "You, Sebastian are interrupting my class," I whine deciding to leave but winked at Aiden before disappearing behind the walls.
"I'm keeping my eyes on that teacher. No one and I mean no one talks to my boy like that. Who the hell does she is?" my mother appears from around a corner. "I was in the wrong."
"No, you weren't. You went to see your friend but she had to be a bitch to you." she's too far gone and pissed too. Once she's angry there's no way of calming her down so I hope this teacher is alive after the sun sets.
"Let's go home." I grab her hand causing her to finally calm down. I guess she has a soft spot for me.
Gabriel
"He talked about you every day Gabe." aniska said to me as she handed me a huge white album. "Marcel seems to have been a photogenic man." I open the album seeing a black and white photo of who I'm guessing is Marcel in his 20s. "He looks like Lyle here but with jet-black hair. I swear the Slovaks have strong genes."
I glance at her as I turn the page. "Lyle is the other brother with the oddly blonde hair?"
"Yup that's my bro, he was so abnormal to us because all of us had brown hair. I don't know who he gets it from in the family. None of us have blonde hair." I wish I could tell her that Carl was the one who started the weird hair genetics but I can't. Simon has the same color hair as Carl.
"Who's this gorgeous lady?" there was this photo of a brown hair woman who had a slight resemblance to Janet from the hospital. "That's Mrs Natalia Slovak, papa Marcel's wife. She was born in Spain."
"Our Marcel picked the right one. She's beautiful." I found myself staring for the longest when suddenly an ache in my knee snapped me out of a daze. "Ow." I wince holding my knee and saw Marcel. My eyes go wide.
"Gabe, are you alright?"
"Huh, yeah just really miss Marcel you know." I guess he didn't like me complimenting his deceased wife. "Oh don't pay him any mind young man." a sweet elderly woman says and chuckles a bit, already knowing it's his wife as I turn the page. "That's my baby girl Marilyn in 1933." I took a quick look at the two elderly couples. Maria was gazing at the picture as Marcel looked at Aniska. "You know, she looks just like my mother." he finally says.
Aniska talked about Gary and her niece's boyfriend and the grieving niece. Speaking of the boyfriend I need to get back to France for the results. "Ann, I hate to leave but duty calls." she slights frowns but hugs me. "Make sure you come to the funeral."
"Promise." she pulls away allowing me to get up and leave. Natalia and Marcel waved me goodbye as I began to exit the house.
Aiden
As the day went by my friends kept asking who's the tall, dark, and handsome guy who winked at me. All of them got a 'he's my new neighbor' out of me. "Is he seeing anyone?" Whitney my girl best friend asked eagerly.
"Not that I know of."
"What's his name at least?" she's about to go investigator on his ass. I must apologize to Sebastian if she harasses him over the internet. I'm fully responsible if so.
"Sebastian." I sighed and went back to work. She was quiet. Too quiet until out of nowhere she sprung up in frustration. "He doesn't have a fucking social media? What is he an alien? He's so fucking hot. He should post his attractive self."
"Probably he's shy, whit," I say without looking at her.
"Or even better, shy guys are my type." I roll my eyes at her desperation. I just hope he doesn't reject her because she'll toast him the next day. But with what? She has nothing on him.
5 hours later
Mrs Williams
I finish marking all the test papers and exit my classroom locking it. I yawn as I walk through the hallway of the school. I want to hurry to my car because I have this slight paranoia about being captured by sex traffickers. I've watched taken a little bit too many times. I was close to my car when a strange man in a black hoodie was sitting in one of the cars.
It must've been him because it didn't alarm me. If he thinks he'll get to me he's making a pathetic mistake because I know Taekwondo so if he doesn't want to get hurt he better watch his self.
Why am I talking like I know what I'm saying? My thoughts of him being a kidnapper turned out to be true as I saw him get up, striding towards me. I ran to my car pressing the open button before literally falling inside. I wasn't fully inside and I thought he would grab my ankle by now but he hasn't.
I slowly turned around seeing no one hear any footsteps. Maybe I'm just tired. I sit properly in the driver's seat before inserting my key. The engine roars to life as I put the gear on the drive. Calmly and softly I catch my breath as I drive.
I don't want to have a heart attack behind the wheel. I was shaken up by the weird incident and decided to turn the radio on. A nice song started playing. "And there he was this young boy. Stranger to my eyes." I sang as I got out of the school parking lot heading for the main road.
"Killing me softly with his song killing me softly with song singing my whole life with his words killing me softly!" I sang at the top of my lungs and I stepped on the brakes. "That was close." I chuckled before looking into the rare view mirror and seeing two red glowing eyes.
I froze and just sat there staring it was like I was in a trance.
Third person's POV
Mrs Williams froze as her cocoa brown eyes met Gheata's, her red demonic eye reflected through the mirror at the teacher.
"Drive into that light pole," Gheata said simply, and without hesitation the teacher stepped on the gas, wrapping her car around the light pole. It broke in half from the impact landing and crushed her skull also killing a small pedestrian who was running away from it.
Gheata wasn't physical at the horrific scene because her soul did telekinesis while her physical body slept peacefully in bed. Sebastian has no idea what happened as yet.