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Chapter 1: The Runaway

Melanie's POV

My heart skipped several beats as I got off of the plane all by myself. I was afraid that plan was going to fail big time but somehow everything worked out..

Things were better this way. Better for me and better for my mom. She's better off without me. I've been causing her a lot of problems lately and I just knew she would be better off if I left.

I was only eight years old and this was the first time I had gone anywhere on my own. It was scary but I could handle myself. I was sure of that. No matter how much I missed my mom I had to keep reminding myself that this was for the best. I was nothing but a huge problem for her. If she ever found out what I did or what I could do. Well I don't even want to imagine. She would be terrified of me and think I was some sort of monster.

I was a monster. A freak. Abnormal. I was all of that. I was anything but normal. I had always known that there was something wrong with me. I just didn't figure out what it was until a few months ago.

I remember it clearly. I was walking home from school when Andrea and Lucy walked up to me. They were in my class and I hated it because they were bullies. Actually most of my classmates bullied me because they thought I was a freak. Of course they were right but I couldn't let them know that.

They started teasing me and making fun of me because I was small. You'd think I was six years old if I didn't tell you the truth. I was the smallest kid in the third grade. That's also why everyone bullied me. I was easy to bully.

Anyway Andrea and Lucy kept teasing me no matter how many times I told them to stop. It kept getting worse. Suddenly I got really angry and started shaking really badly. Then I exploded. All I could really remember was the terrified looks on their faces. I didn't know what I was doing until it was too late. Somehow I nearly tore their faces off. I nearly killed them.

The official story was that they had been attacked by a bear. They probably thought no one would believe them if they said that Melanie had turned into a wolf and nearly killed them. I am Melanie.

I had no idea why or how I could turn into a wolf but I could. As a wolf my body was covered in gray fur but my face was white. I like a wolf pup rather then a fully grown wolf.

After that things got worse. My grades at school dropped. Not that they were very high anyway. I would not go home for hours after school because usually I was so upset from being bullied all day that I would explode into a wolf as soon as I was alone. Andrea and Lucy didn't mess with me anymore but everyone else did. When I finally did go home my mom would be angry at me. Then she would get more mad when I didn't tell her where I had been all evening.

Yesterday my mom started yelling at me and saying how I was nothing but a problem. That's all I ever did lately was cause her problems. She yelled at me for almost an hour straight. All I did yesterday was ask for more food at dinner time. Ever since I turned into a wolf it deemed like I was always starving so I was always eating and asking for more food. That just made my mom angrier with me and it seemed like she had just snapped yesterday.

After crying for a really long time I came up with a plan. It wasn't a good one but it was the only answer to all of my problems.

Once mom was asleep I snuck out of the house, got into a taxi, and went all the way to the airport. From there I snuck onto an airplane going to Seattle, Washington. I lived in Alaska and it was snowing pretty badly and I was afraid they would cancel the flight but thank god they didn't.

So that leaves me where I am now. It seemed like I had traded snow for rain because it was raining really badly here. Now I had no idea where I was going or what I was going to do.

I walked into a nearby forest and took off my backpack and the my clothes. I had kind of learned how to control my wolf. It took a few seconds but then suddenly I was running on all fours howling into the air.

I got scared when I suddenly heard more wolves howling back. I stopped running even. I could feel my heart pounding.

Then suddenly I saw a lot of wolves. Really really big ones. They were like three or four times my size. They were all staring at me as if I were an alien or something.

The two in the front, a large black wolf, and an even larger reddish brown wolf, stared at me curiously. They seemed to intelligent to be real wolves. Maybe they were like me. I wasn't sure. All I knew is that I was scared. They all just stood their staring at me like their was something wrong with me.

When the largest wolf, the reddish brown one, started walking toward me I ran like hell. I could hear all of them chasing after me and trying to catch me but I was too fast for them.

I didn't realize where I was going until it was too late. I had ended up on the highway and didn't realize it. One of the cars hit the right side of my body and broke what felt like every single bone on the right side of my body. I had also been to close to the edge and the force of the crash pushed me off the side of the highway.

I closed my eyes thinking that I was going to die. Then someone or something caught me just in time. I opened my eyes and looked around carefully. It was one of the wolves. The reddish brown colored wolf caught me by my left hind leg. He put me down for a second only to grab me by my neck like a dog or wolf does with puppies.

I tried to fight him but gave up quickly because I was in too much pain. He ran off while still holding onto me tightly. God only knows where he was takin me.

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