“This is my room.”
“No “I breathed
“Max is our neighbor, Loren said. “Though I told him if he’s not nice to you
Id beat him up”
“Like you could take me Mini Moonbeam,” Maximus snorted.
Loren put her hands on her hips. “I totally could because I’d catch you off guard with how quick I am
Then, quick as lightning, she shifted and barreled into Max’s calves. He shifted slightly but barely moved. Loren whined slightly then tried again. It earned a deep rumble from Max’s chest.
“Good try, pup,” he said.
Loren whined again then shifted back to her human form She grumbled as she pushed past me and into our room. I couldn’t help but stare at Maximus as he unlocked his own door. He caught me staring and raised an eyebrow
“Can I help you?”
“My neighbor,” I said softly. “Great.”
Maximus barely paid me any mind as he opened his door. He gave me one last glance. “Just don’t be too loud, too smelly or too generally annoying and we’ll have no problems”
With that he walked into his room. The door slammed shut behind him. I stomped my foot in frustration then stormed into my own room. My door also slammed shut and startled Loren where she was sitting on her bed.
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She was doing that thing where she chewed on her lip, again. She played with the lace of her bedspread, sheepishly
“He’s not that bad,” she said softly. “Did he tell you about his brother?”
I sighed deeply and let my eyes flutter shut. I nodded once then looked back at Loren. She gave me a half sympathetic shrug.
“I don’t blame him,” she said. “If I lost my sissy, I’d be inconsolable.”
“I just doesn’t make sense,” I said, shaking my head. I walked across the room and perched myself on my own bed. “Weren’t you all wolfless at some point?”
“Yeah,” Loren turned to face me. She still was fidgeting with the lace on her bedspread. “But some for less than others. Because of what happened to Maximus’s brother, he activated his well very early. I’ve heard rumors that he was four when
he first shifted.”
“Jesus,” I rubbed my eyes. “How old were you when you first shifted?”
“Seventeen,” Loren mumbled. She looked embarrassed and so I figured that was my cue to drop it. I sighed.
I threw myself back on my quilt. “I feel like I know nothing.”
“Well what blanks can I fill in?” Loren said from her bed. I heard her shift slightly and then turned to see she’d moved to face
- me. She was playing with the lace on her duvet still.
“All of them.” I sighed. “I know nothing about werewolves.”
Loren laughed. It was a deep bubbly noise.
“Firstly,” She held up her pointer finger. “We call ourself wolves not ‘werewolves‘ that’s just –” She shuddered “Archaic.“I
nodded slowly for her to continue. She held up her middle finger with her pointer finger. “So obviously you’re wolfless. How did you even learn you’re a wolf?”
I fidgeted “Some lady picked me up from the orphanage I was at when I turned eighteen,” I said. “Then she told me what I
really was.”
