Chapter 18: The One When She Meets Spencer
It's been a few days since I shifted for the first time and I am now in the final stages of being fully in control of my new abilities. The hardest thing to control is the strength. Like the heightened senses takes time to control especially the hearing, but the strength is a whole other thing. I may have ripped the fridge's door because I was too hungry. At least they fixed it the next day but right now I'm handling things with the lightest touch possible.
I'm also going to start training soon. Logan says that he trusts me and that I should be the one to tell him when I feel like I'm ready to start. I honestly am not in the place for that since so much has happened in so little time. I think that if I have something else on my plate I would totally just collapse.
Logan is in another meeting with an Alpha from a near by pack, so he wasn't with me. He asked if I wanted to go but I think it would be better if he handled this alone and even if I actually wanted to go I had already volunteered to read and spend the day with the kids whose parents died in combat or in any other situations. I guess you could call it the orphan center.
After having a quick shower, I searched the closet for clothes that made me seem friendlier to kids. I ended up choosing a black shirt and a white skirt with watermelons. I guess this is one of the clothes that Austin bought me but I never realized it existed until now. Kids like watermelon and happy colors, right? Oh god I'm bad at this.
I slipped on black flats and headed downstairs. I ate an apple as I walked the route towards the building. I knocked on the door and immediately a middle aged woman opened it. Damn, I thought I would at least have a few seconds to calm my nerves.
This woman had short red hair that was in two ponytails and had badly applied makeup on. I'm not one to judge but she literally had purple eyeshadow that almost reached her side hairline and her eyeliner was suppose to look like a cat eye but it was just a straight line. By her smell I could tell she was mated and her wedding finger also suggested the same.
"Luna, I apologize for my appearance. The kids wanted to do my make up. I thought I would have time to clean up but I guess not" She apologized without looking me in the eyes. At least that explained a lot.
'She's nice. I like her' Brigitte said and I silently agreed.
"It's fine, you don't have to apologize for keeping the kids entertained. What's your name?" I asked.
"I'm so sorry I forgot about that. My name is Jenedieth but everyone calls me Jen" She says and opens the door further for me to enter.
"Thank you Jen. Now where are those little angels?" I asked her.
"They're all through that door over there and the babies are all upstairs in their nurseries" She said and I stopped walking to look at her.
"They're babies?" I felt like someone hit me in my chest as soon as I realized how all those babies would have to grow up without any parental figures. That happens in every part of the world to every species but it's still sad. "Whatever, don't answer that. Let's just see the kids" I say and walked with her through the door that she said.
Immediately I was hit with more than a dozen different smells. Multiple eyes stared back at me and before I could prepare, they gathered around and did group hug around my legs.
About 2 hours later, I had read them a story, played a game and I had met every single kid except a boy that had spent the whole time sitting in his bed and looking out the window. I watched him for a while and he always looked like he was in his own little world.
"What happened to him?" I asked Jen once I realized he didn't socialize with the rest of the kids either.
"Long story short, his dad was abusing him and his mother and then the father decided to end his life and the boy's mother. He has been here for a few months now. He usually doesn't talk to anyone unless it is necessary. He is actually very bright, he shows enough skills to skip a grade but he fails anything that requires speech and communication" She explained and I nodded.
"That's awful, how can someone do that to their mates and their kid?" I asked.
"They weren't mates, both their mates were killed in combat and they found comfort in each other"
"That's still horrible, it's his own kid. And even if he wasn't, that is another person. How can someone be so messed up to hurt someone?" I said and she agreed.
"I'm going to talk to him. I'll signal you if anything happens" I said to her and she nodded before keeping the rest of the kids occupied.
I walked towards his bed and sat right at the edge. "Is it okay if I sit with you?" He looked at me for a second before nodding his head. I sat right next to him and looked out the same window as him. He was staring at the deep line of trees.
"Hello, I'm your Luna Lily. Can you tell me your name?" I asked him. He stayed silent. I was about to leave him alone when he spoke. "I'm Spencer".
A smile broke in my face at the sound of his voice. It was fragile, almost like he was afraid of me. "Well hi, Spencer. I like your shirt. I have one like it but mine is a girl's shirt" I said and pointed to his shirt. It was a Marvel's shirt. It had the Avengers on them.
"My favorite is The Scarlett Witch, what's yours?" I tried to strike a conversation with him.
"Thor" He responded and for the first time he turned around and sat facing me. I could finally see his face. He was about 7 years old with dark blonde hair and hazel eyes. He was absolutely beautiful.
We talked all about the different heroes and when we started talking about the villains he changed the topic suddenly. "You know that I was there when it happened" He said to me. "When what happened, Spencer?" I asked him.
"When dad killed her. He was going to kill me too but I started crying and screaming like mom taught me and he didn't" He said while looking forward. I didn't know what to say.
"Spencer, I'm so sorry you have to live with that memory. But I can tell you something that will help you. Do you want to hear it?" I asked him.
"Yes, please" Was his answer. It broke my heart.
"You are going to get past this, maybe it won't be right away but one day you will look back and it will all be a bad memory. You're even going to find your mate and as far as anyone knows, she can be any one of those girls" I said and pointed to the crowd of kids playing a game. "Would you like one of them to be your mate?".
"I like Kendall" He said and his cheeks turned red. I knew exactly who she was. She was one of the first kids I met, she was really sweet and was the total opposite of shy.
"Oh really, what do you like about her?"I said to him with a teasing smile.
"She's nice to me" He said briefly.
"Well that's good, don't you ever let anyone be rude to you. And if someone does , you tell me" He nodded in agreement and I checked my clock. Logan's meeting must have ended already. He wanted to have lunch with me today so I must get going.
"Spencer, is it okay if I come visit you every few days?" He nodded. "I'll see you soon, kid" I said to him and walked towards the rest of the kids. I said my goodbyes and then went towards the exit but a pair of arms wrapped around my legs stopped me. I looked down to see Spencer staring right back at me.
"Can you promise?" He asked. I knelt down before I answered him. "Promise what?" I asked him.
"Can you promise that it'll get better?" He asked and I smiled at him. "Of course, I will even pinky promise" I said and we did. This kid really deserves so much better.
I went back to our house and followed Logan's scent into our bedroom. He was there watching television. "You're back. How did it go with the kids?" He asked me.
"I loved them. I actually got to talk with a kid named Spencer, his dad killed his mother and then committed suicide. Spencer witnessed it all. That poor kid"
"Yeah, it's a pretty sad case. I tried to get him to open up but he wouldn't say anything. I guess he could see just how special you are" He said with a smile. "Okay, enough about Spencer, you have to change into warm clothes or we're going to miss our lunch reservation".
"It's okay, I'll change fast" I said and took a set of clothes before going into the bathroom.
I changed into a white shirt, blue denim jacket, black leggins and brown boots. It seemed warm enough. I looked at myself in the sink mirror. Somehow my thoughts drifted off to Spencer and then his dad. And I somehow ended up thinking about my old Alpha.
This sudden anger burned my body. How could he hurt me that way when years ago we ran in the same group of friends. I went to drink from my water bottle but the water inside was making waves. What the fuck? Then I looked at the sink and saw how the water was moving violently from side to side. I had to calm down to see if there wasn't an earthquake happening, which there wasn't.
What is happening? I calmed down and looked back at the water but it was back to normal, like nothing had happened.
Was I the one that...? No It can't be. Well witches, vampires and werewolves exist so nothing is technically impossible. But this actually seemed like it could be impossible.
I immediately went towards Logan.
"Logan, something weird just happened...again" I announced to him.
"What? What happened?" He asked me.
"I know exactly how this sounds but I think I just controlled water" I said to him and he stayed silent while looking at me like I had just said that Voldemort has a nose.
"Lily, we can cancel the reservations if you need sleep it's okay if all of thi-" I interrupted him.
"Logan, I'm serious. I know it sounds crazy but you have to believe me. I'll even prove it to you" There was a glass of water on top of the drawer and set it in front of me.
I focused on the water and tried to do something but I just came up blank.
"Lily it's okay, you just need sleep" He tried to comfort me but I was extremely frustrated.
"No, It's not that Logan. Okay? I'm sleeping way too much because so much it's happening in my life. I lost my family because of their stupid arrogance and then I had to have my ex friends humiliate me and abuse of me for years. Then I met you and I felt like I wasn't good enough because a Luna is suppose to be strong and can lead her pack but I couldn't do that because I was just human and that wasn't good enough. And then you had to lose control and claim me. We already talked about that so I am not going back to discussing this. But I had to go and fucking shift. I had to go and break every single bone in my body but at least something good came out of it. And I was fine with handling all this shit. And now, and fucking now I had to go and imagine or experience myself controlling some fucking water and it's too much for me. It's too much shit for me too handle" I said, multiples times through out my little speech Logan had called my name but I kept talking and right now he was still doing that.
"Baby, Look behind you" I turned around to see a water made wall covering the whole real wall.
Holy fucking shit. It was true. I was doing that.
I tried to calm down and when I finally did the whole water wall came tumbling down and turning into gas before it reached the actual floor.
"You're actually not imagining stuff. I'm going to cancel our reservation right now" Logan said.
"Okay, now I need to sleep. Can't handle that too" I said and collapsed on the bed.
This just adds to the list of stuff I really need to handle but are too much in the moment.
"You're not going to tell me who I am, I'm going to tell you who I am"
- Nicki Minaj
Sorry about the wait, school is just too much for me. I had this little twist planned from the beggining, I'm sorry if it wasn't introduced well I'm just too tired but when I edit this story I will fix it.