Falling for You

Chapter Three

Chapter Three

When waking up, Abby realized she was on Darren's chest lying in the forest. She immediately got off and backed away from him.

“Abby? Are you okay?” he asked worriedly.

“How am I okay, do I look okay? I just found out your some kind of wolf!” she spat at him. She was obviously angry with him.

“Abby! Please, I'm sorry! But what was I supposed to tell you without you thinking I was crazy?” he asked her.

“I don't know, anything?” she asked icily.

“Let me explain!” he said following after Abby as she walked away. He grabbed her arm and forced her to sit down.

“Get off of me! You-you jerk!” she yelled.

“I will, I promise but I want to explain to you about all of this. You can sit here and listen, or I can force you to listen. I'm not letting you leave here without me telling you what happened,: he said staring deep into her eyes. She looked away and sighed. Her head said to run and her heart said to stay. Whoever came up with the term "follow your heart” was clearly stupid.

“Fine. You get ten minutes, not a second more,” she said sitting as far away from him as possible. He sighed and sat down at the nearest tree.

“Okay, well this is going to be confusing but I'll try my best,” he said to her.

“Hurry up then, times ticking,” she said looking away.

“Okay well as you know now, I'm a werewolf,” he said as Abby flinched at the sound of the word 'werewolf'.

“Well you see we change whenever our wolf feels the need to take over. Some of us learn control, and can change when we want to and not when our wolf wants to. To survive we stick together in packs.  Werewolves form packs so we can defend each other from other packs that want to attack us. In these packs, we have alphas and betas. I'm the alpha of the Lightning pack and my brother is the beta. Although he rightfully is Alpha, he didn't want the responsibility,” he said stopping for a breath. Abby nodded her head for him to continue.

“Okay, well we can also be born a werewolf, or turned into a werewolf. My brother and me were both born werewolves. But you can be turned into a werewolf by being bitten by another werewolf. We aren't just born these furry creatures though; we carry the gene with us throughout our youth. When we turn sixteen the genes kick in and we make our first change. Once we become wolves, instinctively we look for our mates. Mates are pretty much what you would consider a soul mate, except mates have to be together. Werewolves usually mate with whoever is most likely to carry the werewolf gene so we can reproduce. When a werewolf finds his or her mate, an unexplainable bond is formed between the two partners and they can sort of feel the emotions of their partner. If anyone were to harm someone’s mate in anyway, trust me, the wolf would know and attack whoever hurt their mate. No one can touch someone's mate, you see we are extremely jealous creatures,” he chuckled. Abby didn't laugh; she was in shock over-dose at the moment.

“So you’re being completely one hundred percent honest with me?” she asked biting her lower lip.

“Abby...I could never lie to you,” he said.

“So this mating thing... how do you know if your mates?” she asked.

“Well if you’re mated with a human, the human will feel normal, but the wolf with feel almost like a magnetic pull towards that person. Once the two finally...err make love, a small crescent of the moon will be placed on both of their arms, to show everyone else that the person is taken. Usually humans and werewolf's can mate perfectly fine together. But if an alpha finds his mate, his mate must become a werewolf and take over the position of alpha female. There's no choice for the female sadly, but that's how it is,” he sighed. She knew something was up with him.

“So who's your mate?” she asked.

“You may not like it…” he said stalling. “I think my mate is you,” he said looking at her.

“I’m what?” she yelled. She was calm, up until this point. Now she was supposedly mated Darren, and since he was alpha she had to become alpha female, which would make her a werewolf. It didn't help that her sixteenth birthday was coming up in under a month. Abby decided to do the only thing she could do at the moment. She took off running.