The Dying Rose and Us. ch 11

He jumped at jamie's throat, she put her hand out defencively.
"wait! no!" i pulled him off of her. megan was long gone by now, and jamie was too shocked to move.
"they saw! they have to be killed!" he snapped. i wasted no time. "run!"
jamie gripped her wounded hand, then ran after megan. "no!" omen cried. he broke free of me and ran after them, and i ran after him. i've always imagined what running as a wolf or dog or some kind of four legged creature would be like. it was confusing at first but after a while it was just like how i used to run before, only faster, and with four legs.
tackled omen.
"what are you doing?!" he shouted. he kicked me off of him using his hind legs, knocking the wind out of me.
he began to run forward, but then stopped. he snarled and tore up a near by stock of corn. "Damn!"
~~~
it's been a day and a half since jamie and megan saw. me and omen are just staring at each other. we've just finished an argument.

"They saw! they had to be killed!" was one of his reasons.
"they are my friends. they just need a while to accept what we are" was my defence.
"maybe. but they'll tell somebody!"
"would they believe them?"
he would just snarl at me.
"when you kicked me you had a chance to get jamie, why didn't you?"
he lowered his ears and turned away.

"have you told anyone?" i asked.
my eye's were getting saggy for some reason. "we told mrs. killi. we trusted her since we saw her most of the time during the day, in writers club"
it took e a moment to comprehend jamie.
my thoughts were suddenly fuzzy. "what did she say?"
i haven't seen miss killi in a while. it felt like years since i last seen her.
"she told us alot of things. explained everything to where we could understand"
miss killi. she's new to this town, moved down here last year. i saw her from time to time at stres or at the movies. everytime she always stopped me and talked to me about stuff. like what i planned to do for that weekend, or something.
"she opened new doors for me and megan"
"what about debra?"

i thoguth about miss killi's expression when omen got into her class. surprisesed. i thought of the way she pranced around the room all dominant like. the way she spoke to omen for the first time.

"she got in the way..."
i swayed slightly. "your hand!" jamie's hadn where omen had attacked was completly healed. a sudden realization came over me. the water was drugged! i stood fast. miss killi must be one of the fallen ones. she must have told jamie and megan about them. maybe converted them like me.
i turned and ran toward the window. a large white wolf jumped throught it before i could. i growled. "hello mis arra" it spoke.
"miss killi!"

she was twice my size. i looked behind me, jamie was sitting on her bed, a coal black wolf. my next thought of an exist was the door. i darted to it, pushed it open and was tackled to the ground.
megan. damn. she pushed me back into the room. i raced miss killi.

"have you sworn your loyalty to The Dying Rose?" she asked.

i said nothing.
"no? well then" miss killi turned to her side in a poper manor, looking at me in the corner of her wolf eye.
"why don't you pledge your loyalty to the follen ones? c'mon. think about it" she sat on her hind legs, still in front of the window, my exit, "The Dying Rose is only gonna use your loyalty as a decoy. join us, we'll train you, teach you everything you need to know, but unlike The Dying Rose we won't use you as a decoy" that was the same thing omen said. minus the decoy part. "c'mon"
it seemed like a good offer... but....
i turned to jamie, "how long?" i asked.
"since the beginning. three years ago when me and megan first moved here, we knew you were the one. our plan was that we would become your friends, offer the idea and talk of nothing but the Fallen Ones. so, to get to the point, make you want to come to us. but then omen came. at first i didn't know what he was untill miss killi told me after school. that's why i aws upset when i saw omen in your room"
it had nothing to dowith me and omen getting closer, or, it did, but not the way i thoguht. that's why she wouldn't let me pay for his ticket.
"join us, arra iaki. beccome a Fallen one like us, and we can be friends forever." she said. i looked around the room as if some how the answer would be there.
megan's fur was still ratty even as a wolf.
"where's debra?" i asked remembering how they drugged me, the effects were wearing off. i'm glad i only took a few sips.
"she wasnt' a werewolf. but we were working on her. she was all for it until she got second thoughts.
she decided she liked her life as a human and chose to stay as one. when we said she couldn't leave, she threatened to confront you about us, which is what we didn't want. she got in the way, so we disposed of her. that day we skipped school was the day we were gonna convert you. but we saw that omen already got to you.
where did he bite you? your neck?"
i let out a small gasp, barely noticable.
"have you notice? it healed completely."
she was right, it ust have healed while i was changing for the first time. with all the pain i was going through i didn't notice. it was forgotten.
they've been lying to me from the beginning. everything i trust was a lie. they drugged me, cornered me, killed debra... "what about my father?"
"what about him?" that voice, it was him. he stumbled into the room.
"you too?!"

that's why he didnt' fight when omen was in my room. "we've converted him a year ago. lets leave it at that"
my face was hot with anger, and somethign else, but i don't know what. even as a wolf i knew it was him. he stumbled around like he did at home, i could smell his breath from here, alcohol, again. his dark blue ye's stood out from his light brown fure.
"daddy...."
miss killi sple again, "are you gonna join us?" she offered.
why not? all my friends were here. my dad. my teacher. sure they lied to me from te beginning, killed debra for resisting, converted my father and drugged me.
the effects were coming back as i nearly fell to my side. stay forcus, if i don't pay attention to the drug, it'll go away!
"no!" i shouted. every one's face looked disapointed, their ears drew back behind their heads.
"shame, are you sure?" asked mis killi giving me a second chance. i said nothing.
"hm... well... if we can't have you, niether can The Dying ROse." she shifted, and as if on cure a growl broke out from my side. i felt teeth clamp my furry shoulder and push me to my side. another set of teeth bit into my throat, another set into my back leg. miss killi sat as if nothing was happening. "shame" she said calmly, "shame"