Love Grows In The Dark by Eli Lowe (ebook offline txt) 📗

the surrounding seemed a bit smaller from up here, as I saw all the houses, trees, the empty streets and everything else was sleeping peacefully under the dark night sky.

I looked up only to realized that even the stars have voided to twinkle its starlight upon us.

No, not us. It is only me, who is that unfortunate.

I was sitting on the roof for long, engulfed with my loneliness while several thoughts kept crossing my mind every now and then for no particular reasons. But still, I was feeling like I am not caged at least.

A loud sound of shutting the front door of my house pulled me out of all those needles thoughts that I was involved with, just before I saw Kaith was rushing out to get the bike.

Realizing that it was past midnight, I wondered where he was going at this hour and that too with such a rush?

“Hey! Where are you going?” I shouted from the rooftop which made Kaith stop on his track but still it seemed that he couldn't get from where my voice was coming, as I saw him looking around in confusion.

“I am up here. The roof.” Just when I said he could finally spot me and made his way up towards the roof as well in no time.

“What? I thought you were in some kind of hurry? Weren't you going somewhere?” I couldn't help but ask out of curiosity, as I saw Kaith was no more intended to go out and settled himself beside me lazily.

“No, I was going out to look for you again because when I went to your room to ask you for dinner, you know what happened?” He asked raising his eyebrows up a bit.

“What?” As soon as I asked the very word he made me realize why he was reacting like this, as he said,

“I was greeted with an empty room which was enough reason for me to freak out. Isn't it Sam?”

I sighed, only to let the silence creep in as neither of us talked for a while, keeping our sight straight on nothing but the emptiness of the air.

“What would you do if you find your mate one day?” I asked out of the blue, taking Kaith off guard, and causing him to look into my eyes for quite a while.

I wondered if I had just asked something dumb or not.

“What would you do, Sam? You know the time is not so far when you would be turning for the first time. Right? And after which you can be found by your destined one. What would you do then?” Kaith's words made me absolutely clueless just when something inside me stirred all of a sudden which I had buried within me for a long time.

At least I thought so.

But it is always better to avoid each and every possibility to get hurt, so I decided to ignore it once again.

“What is it like? Does it pain a lot?” I asked in a low voice and leaned my body backwards to sit in a comfortable way.

“What? I don't know. I didn't find my mate yet, you know that.” A little awkwardness might have trapped Kaith in an instant, as he answered me back, rubbing his neck in a clumsy way.

And I knew why he was feeling all embarrassed. Because he had mistaken my question for something else, that only Kaith could think off.

“I wasn't asking about mating, you dumbass.” I uttered with a tight spank for his nasty thoughts.

“Ahh, then what?” Rubbing his back where I had just hit him, he enquired keeping his impatient eyes on me.

“The shifting, obviously, what else?” My words made him relaxed than before as his one big sigh confirmed so.

“Yes, during the first time, it would hurt like crazy. But you will survive, everyone does, so did I.

And with time, changing shapes won't cause you pain anymore.” He paused for a while to look at me with concern only to comfort me with his words again, saying,

“ Don't worry. I will always be with you. And together we will go through this, ... You won't be alone Sam.”

Though Kaith's words indeed lessened my anxiety for the time being, still something caused me to fear about the coming future.

“Oh shit. I had made noodles for us. It is probably all ruined by now. Tsk, I was hungry you know? Really.” He stood up all of a sudden to jump down from the roof and waited for me to do the same.

I sighed as I followed him inside as well.

Today was a long day.

And I already knew that tomorrow will be even longer when I have to go through the same routine all over again giving myself each and every reason about why my life is all meaningless.

Yes, the same school, the same rival faces, the same fight and the same everything else.

It is my life, and it will be the same.

At least I thought so.

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Time had passed ever so slowly just like a tortoise. Every day I had to deal with all those things that I never deserved.

But, Kaith was always with me as he had promised, even when I had my first shift on my birthday.

No, I must say there is another one who is becoming even closer day by day.

Yes, Jenny.

And I am glad to have her as my friend.

Kaith also likes her very much and I know, even though they don't acknowledge but they do have a huge crush for each other.

Anyway,

Except them, nobody bothers anything about me, so I guess, others don't even know that now I have my wolf. Or maybe because I made sure of that right after I had shifted.

You can call it fear or whatever. But I