Circuitous - Jacob Black

Chapter One

Lozen's POV

" YOU ARE A WORTHLESS LITTLE UNGRATEFUL BRAT!! I'VE DONE EVERYTHING FOR YOU!! THIS IS HOW YOU REPAY ME?!!?!" my Mother yells at me.

" Mom," I start.

"NO!! I WANT YOU OUT OF THIS HOUSE NOW!! YOU ARE A USELESS WASTE OF SPACE!! I HATE YOU!! YOUR FATHER DOES TOO!! SO DID YOUR SO CALLED BEST FREIND, DEREK. HE LEFT AS SOON AS HE COULD, HE COULDN'T GET AWAY FAST ENOUGH!!! AND NOW ENOUGH IS ENOUGH!! GET THE HELL OUT OF MY HOUSE AND DON'T EVER, EVER COME BACK!!" My Mother yells at me.

I don't even do anything before I run out the door in tears. I am running into the woods, and can't breath properly, I can't tell what's real and what's not.

Is it really hot, or is that just me? I feel like throwing up. Every bone hurts. It feels like someone is popping my bones like bubble wrap.

I get so angry thinking about how my Mother was talking about Derek. His family died, he just wanted away from That, right?

My body is shaking violently. Am I cold?! But I'm sweating!

The shaking gets worse and eventually I feel the worst pain I have ever felt amplified by 10 000.

I could feel and hear fabric ripping. Was that my clothes? I suddenly get a lot faster and can hear, see, and smell a lot better.

I try to scream, but it comes out as a howl.

'What the hell?' I think.

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A few months later.

I am just running around like a regular day, I've figured out that I am a wolf now. I have no idea where I am.

This life is a lot better than at home, I don't think I am going back, ever. Derek and Laura left, so why can't I?

I don't think I am in California anymore. It gets a lot colder here then back there. There are snow piles bigger than some of the trees. Ah, trees, they smell so good, and they make good shelter when they fall down, kind of like a den.

I've kept moving this whole time, just running in different directions. I like it, it is freeing. I haven't changed into a human, so I think this will be permanent. I'm a little bummed, then I think about how I am free, no ties to anyone or anything. It is a lonely life, but its away from my parents.

But, I'll never see Derek again. But, he left me. But, his whole family except his uncle Peter.

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4 Years Later

I smell something different as I am running. I hear screams next, I take off, to help anyone I can.

There is a man attacking a baby wolf, a brownish-gray cub.

The man is overtop of the pup yelling and screaming, he has a gun in his hand, it is smoking. I look the pup over, no gun wounds. I sniff and detect blood. I look around and see a severely injured pup and a bigger wolf, the pups mom.