Chapter 2 -
Secrets revealed

Walking up toward the house, I sigh, looking down at the piece of paper in my hand. I asked Ethan for Benny's house address and Ethan, in his weird sniffing state, wrote it down immediately, bless him.

I walk to the porch, fidgeting with the paper. This isn't weird, right? Nah... I need to explain to him anyway... Ugh! This is stupid. I should be at home, it's a full moon and I need to protect myself and others, but I couldn't help but be drawn here anyway... and hey! I may be able to... I don't know, help?

As my fist is about to connect to the wood of the door, it opens revealing Sarah,

"Oh, hey Abigail! Can't talk, gotta go!" She says speeding away in a hurry.

Okay then...

My first connect with the door frame, not wanting to enter the house unannounced. There's a sound of feet padding along the hallway upstairs, then I meet Benny's eyes as he stands at the top of the staircase,

"Uh... Hello. You wanted to talk?" I ask after a beat of silence. He looks at me oddly,

"How'd you get my address?" He asks. Great, he thinks I'm crazy.

"Oh! Right. Ethan wrote it down for me." I reply quickly, my fidgeting growing in pace.

Benny nods slowly, walking down the stairs and over toward the door, now face to face with me,

"Well, with all respect, can we make this quick? Ethan needs me pronto." He says, a slight irritation to his words as if Ethan's annoyed him.

"Yes! Of course." I nod, not wanting to take up his time any longer,

"You see... I'm a werewolf." I say, my voice picking up speed as I avoid his gaze. Surprisingly, however, he snorts,

"Right... and the silky smooth skin says otherwise."

I can't help but roll my eyes, "There are different species of werewolf, Benny. Mine just so happens to be the non-fur related one..."

Benny crosses his arms, "Prove it." I roll my eyes again, cocky bastard.

I look down toward the ground, calming my breathing and once I look up I growl, teeth sharp, eyes glowing bright blue - meaning I've killed an innocent life - and claws at the ready.

Benny jumps back in surprise and I laugh, face shifting back to normal, "Sorry, Sorry."

"Okay... guess you were serious then." He mumbles walking forward a bit and me backing up in response as he closes his front door,

"I'm surprised you told me..." He says softly as he wears a shy smile,

"Well yeah... I thought I could trust you. Besides, you're obviously not new to the whole supernatural thing." I comment, using my hands to speak a little bit more than usual. I'll blame it on the nerves.

"Heh, obviously, I mean my best friends babysitter's a vampire."

"What, Sarah?" I ask as she's the first person to come to my mind. Benny's eye widen,

"How'd you know about her?" He asks, his mood shifting from soft to outright baffled,

"Well," I start with a soft chuckle, "when your buddy Ethan said 'Neck bitter', I kinda just caught on. Either way, her scent has Vamp written all over it, to be honest. I just didn't realise at first." I finish and I can't help but adore the little smirk he does when he's intrigued,

"What about mine?" He asks. I lean forward a little, taking his personal space into account, and sniff him,

"Hm... Magic. Spell-master?" I ask, reaching my mind for words,

"You're good at that!" He laughs, clearly amused by my little 'party trick'.

I bow playfully, "Well, it's one of my very special talents." Benny laughs again, and that sense of familiarity is back.

What is that?

"So, Ethan?" I trail off, reminding him of his friend's dilemma,

"Oh, right!" He suddenly shoots up, as if he'd been shocked, "Wanna come? I could use a werewolf." He asks and it feels wrong of me to decline, so I nod.

"Great!"

"So, how far to Ethan's house?"

"Oh! Next door actually." He says, dramatically taking a step off the porch stairs.

A best friend that lives next door? Lucky.

I trail behind Benny as he steps in front of me to lead the way for the short walk, and I can't help but admire him. He's sarcastic and funny, and honestly? Kinda cute.

We reach the door that is surprisingly open (well that's just unsafe) and the one holding the door open is a young girl with her light brown hair up in a high ponytail. Her clothes scream pink and I smell the soft scent of Ethan coming from her.

This must be his little sister.

"Where's Ethan?" Benny starts, looking down at the young girl, but then he looks around clearly annoyed, "Hey! He's having a party and he didn't tell me?"

Benny looks up the stairs and points, "You dog!" He yells. As he walks away the young girl looks up at me,

"Dog?" She asks and I laugh awkwardly,

"Yeah, I don't understand them either," I mutter, beginning to walk upstairs to follow after Benny.

"Hey, are you Benny's girlfriend?" The young girl suddenly asks. I turn around to her and laugh, blushing a little,

"No! I'm not. I'm just a friend." I reply before running upstairs to meet Benny. I wander the hall, entering a room that screams teenage nerd and look down toward Ethan who is laid out and tied to his bed,

"Benny just stay away okay? The moon... I'm... Changing!" He groans and honestly? I sympathise with the guy.

You and me both, Ethan.

Ethan's eyes lock onto the new subject into the room, me, "What are you..."

Benny cuts him off, "We'll explain later. I did this. I can fix it, all right?" Benny says, trying to reassure Ethan. Benny gets out a book and I walk over, trying not to touch anything in Ethan's room,

"Spellbook?" I ask jokingly, but of course, Benny nods as he flips through the pages.

Benny holds up his hand, facing his palm toward Ethan, "Corvus trigon." He says as a purple light shines from his hand and he hovers it over Ethan's body. He moves his hand away and the light disappears with it.

Ethan's panting calms down and he manages to relax a lot more than he was before, "I'm still hairy!" He complains to Benny,

"Ok, dude. Chill. You're cured, trust me, the hair will fall out." Benny reassures the other brunette as he reaches down and starts untying him. I move to Ethan's other side and help untie him.

"Now come on, we gotta get you to the party and find the real werewolf," Benny mutters as I finish untying his left foot, faster then Benny might I add.

"What..? Who's having a party?"

"You are, now let's go find him!" I reply, speaking up for the first time since I entered the room.

Ethan looks at me, "Oh! Yeah to keep it short, I'm a werewolf, different kind than you and the other guy though. No fur or anything!" I answer his unspoken question and all Ethan can do is nod his head and stand up.

*

Benny screams, "Don't hurt me, I just wanna make you famous, and me, rich!" He exclaims, panicking.

My eyes flick to Benny, "Famous or your life? Pick!" I yell, as the dumbass clenches to his camera,

"Use him like a chew toy!" Erica says giggling as she watches the scene unfold,

"Erica!" I exclaim, irritated,

"I thought we were friends!" Benny yells dramatically as he tries to hit the werewolf with his camera.

I growl at it with my teeth and claws out, then the whole scene just flips:

Sarah shows up flashing her fangs at the beast,  then Benny runs around it, over to Erica, and a whole new guy that I've never seen before just walks down the stairs to Erica and Benny.

What the hell?

Sarah and I hiss and growl at it and I can feel Sarah's gaze on me and I flick my eyed to her to give her the whole 'I'll-explain-later' look, seeming we currently had bigger things to focus on.

"Hey, what's happening?" The blonde boy who just walked downstairs asks, which triggers the beast to turn around and growl at him and the boy screams and instantly hides behind an already horrified Benny.

Sarah jumps on the beast, as if the damn thing was a cow, and has some vile in her hand,

"Bad dog!" She yells as she makes the beast drink from it,

"No!" Erica exclaims, kneeling down to it, "What did you do?" She asks, her voice pitchy.

"I cured him," Sarah replies, slightly out of breath from just recreating a rodeo.

"How would you like it if I went around curing all your boyfriends?" Erica spits. She looks down and we follow her gaze, and there lays, not David, but the one and only Ethan Morgan.

Naked.

"Ethan?" Erica yells, quickly standing up and backing away from the poor boy, "Really? Eww!" She wipes her hand on the blonde boy's shirt, clearly disgusted at the idea of the beast being Ethan.

Well, that's just rude.

I quickly avert my eyes and flick them up to meet Benny's eyes as I cover my vision with my hand,

"So not looking!" Sarah scoffs, throwing a blanket over him, and with that, I lower my hand back to my side.

"So, if that's Ethan..." I start, "Where's David?" Benny asks, finishing my sentence.

Our eyes scan the basement until they eventually fall onto a dog, "That's David?" Erica asks, "Ugh, that is so lame."

"Great, just what the Internet needs." Benny says raising his camera, "A cute animal video..."

I laugh and shake my head at Benny's joke. My feet carry me over to David and I pet the dogs head and rub him behind his ears.

He's cute.

"You know that's David, right?" Sarah asks, no real judgment behind her words.

"I know. But, he's still a dog! At least for now..."I reply finishing petting him and standing up. As I turn around I see all eyes on me.

Ah, great.

"So..." Sarah speaks up, "What's up with the glowing eyes and claws?" She asks, trying to be polite.

I can't help but sigh, "To put it short: I'm a werewolf, just not that kind." I say pointing backwards to Ethan and David,

"So no fur? And no monster?" Erica asks, her eyebrow raising. I shake my head,

"Only the whole glowing eyes thing, my claws and teeth, and there's also this kinda uglier form for, I don't know? Fighting I guess. Oh! I can also turn into a wolf because 'I'm connected to my inner wolf'." I explain, mimicking an old friend's grumpy voice at the end of the explanation.

"How come we didn't start fighting?" Sarah asks, thinking back to her and Ethan's argument, "Y'know, Vamps," she says pointing to her, Erica and the blonde boy,

"Not every werewolf is like that, I guess. Also, I'm more mature..." I trail off, looking down at Ethan.

"I'm Rory by the way!" The blonde boy speaks up, leaping over to shake my hand,

"Abigail..." I mumble unsure of how to really react. I'm not used to this kind of thing.

"What a beautiful name!" Rory says smiling.

"Is he flirting with me?" I mouth my concerns to Sarah and Erica and they nod, laughing softly. Benny rolls his eyes and walks up, pulling Rory away, thankfully.

After a beat of silence, Benny slaps his hands together and walk toward Ethan, "Alright, time to get him upstairs."

Sarah and I walk over to Ethan's sleeping body as Benny finishes wrapping him up securely with the blanket.

"Oh! Before we go, if you're all vampires and you're' a Spell-master," I say, waving my hand to them all,

"What's he?" I ask, nodding my head down to Ethan's sleeping form.

"Seer, he sees things." Benny shrugs, struggling with an explanation.

Okay then...

With that, we all hoist Ethan up and carry him to his room. After he's safely tucked in, we all call it a night and head home.

Or in my case, a motel.

*

The next day, I meet up with Sarah at her locker. She's packing things into her locker and talking about some movie she had watched a few nights ago and I try my damn best to keep up.

"Hey," A voice calls from behind us. I turn to see Ethan walking over and I wave in response. He gives me a half-hearted wave then turns his full attention back to Sarah.

Ok, so he's clearly in love.

"I just wanted to say thanks for saving me," He mumbles uncomfortably, "You know, you could've saved yourself. I... I didn't know you care so much..."

Sarah laughs a bit, "Don't get too excited. I thought you were David. Besides, you were about to eat your whole nerd squad."

Ethan laughs awkwardly, as he thinks back to last night.

"Yo! Get a load of us!" Benny says as he turns the corner with David. Oh, God.

"Speak of the devil," Sarah mumbles as she judges me with her crossed arms, playfully.

"He's teaching me everything he knows about getting chicks," Benny says grinning. He can't be serious, right?

"It's true, not every guy can pick up two girls as beautiful as you," David says looking down at Sarah and I.

What is up with teenage boys and unwanted flirting?

"Yeah?" Sarah asks, smirking at the bizarre comment,

"You were ready to give up the cure for me." David whispers tenderly to Sarah, "And you," He turns to me, and I can't help but internally gag.

"You were so kind to me, even as the beast I was." He closes his eyes as if to fuel the over dramatisation of this whole concept.

He does know that he was a dog, right?

"Let me thank you both properly," He says grinning at us both. Sarah scoffs and reaches for a tennis ball from her locker, saving us both.

"Fetch!"

She throws it down the hall and of course, David being a literal dog, chases after it barking.

"Sorry, I'm... Just not a dog person." Sarah says grinning at her own joke as I roll my eyes, laughing.

[EDITED - COMPLETED]
[2010 Words]

(Original) Authors Note:
The gif is her showing Benny her eyes and teeth! The face model is not Shelley Hennig, Though I love her! It's Indiana Evans.