Always

Chapter 4

MJ fell asleep to the sounds of nursing flutter pigs and one very loud fart from Juliette. She giggled and passed out immediately. She awoke covered in a cold sweat two hours later, vivid memories of a guy but she couldn't make out his face. They laughed together and she felt happy for a moment, but then the sounds of breaking glass and screaming and she woke up. She looked around the room, disoriented. She looked out the blinds and saw purple footprints across the yard, they led to a tree and then disappeared. She grabbed her "Moss, Moss and More Moss' ' book and flipped to the table of contents, Progetitris Ostetimo "Twinkle Toe Moss – purple foot prints indicate a wolf or werewolf in wolf form". "what the flip?" MJ grabbed her flashlight from her windowsill and shone it at the tree. A branch dipped and swayed back and forth. MJ took a sharp breath; whatever this thing was it was near her window. "Ahhh!" MJ let out a scream as she caught two glowing eyes in the light. She dropped the light and backed up, the curtains fell back in place. "What is it?! Are you okay?" Mom came running down the hall holding a framed picture of their Gammy. "There's eyes outside of my window, they are in the tree. I think it's a wolf." MJ said, Juliette emerged from her nesting box, stretched and took stock of the situation. Flew to MJ and perched on her shoulder. Dad called out, "everything okay?". Mom said "there are eyes outside of MJ's window." "Okay" he says with a yawn. "Where is your light?" Mom asks "it fell when I..." Mom grabbed the flashlight and shone it out the window. The branches were still rustling, but empty, on the other side of the tree purple footprints appeared. Mom pulled the window open and started yelling. "Get the hell out of here you flipping creep! If I catch you in our yard again I will sick the dog on you!" Dante continued to snore under the bed. Dad came in the room, "everything okay?" he asked. "I think we have got this under control now." Mom said as she locked the window. "Alright then, I'm going to hit the dusty trail." Dad said, turned on the spot and strolled back to bed. "Cruise, get back in bed everything is fine." Mom said "mom, what are you doing with gammy?" Cruise asked. "It's the closest thing I could grab to protect our family." Mom said. "you were going to hit a wolf with your mom?" Cruse had a scowl on his face. "you're back for one night and you wake my baby! Chungus was finally asleep after reading him 3 books and his nightly warmed yak milk. It's not as easy as it looks being a young father." Cruise said. Juliette raised her head catching a glimpse of Chungus in Cruises bathrobe pocket. "Oh no, get out of here Jerk-liette" Cruise said as he covered his pocket and ran down the hall, Juliette hissed and chased after him. "No! Hey, he likes me more than you!" Cruise pleaded. Juliette returned moments later with Chungus' scruff in her mouth and nestled him back in her bed. MJ was alone in her room, part of her was terrified of the creature that was looking in her window, the other part was intrigued. Maybe this wolf knows her or knows what happened to her, MJ vowed that she would find out who this was and how it all connected. 

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Another short chapter, sorry.  anyhow i hope you have the best day

Slay the day, my queens.

-Ava