The Necklace That Protects Me novel Chapter 21

"Orion!" I hear a soft sing-song voice call through the trees, "it's time for supper, bring Noel before it gets cold!"

My heart stopped. I was that little girl! This was my dad! His name was Orion! We were happy! A happy family!

I see Orion grin at the little girl.

"Wolfy daddy wolfy!!" She cried begging something from her dad, then covered her eyes with her little hands. The man stepped a few feet away. Quickly, as in if I had blinked I would've missed it, he transformed into a ginormous brown wolf. The monstrous wolf walked up to the little girl and nudged her face with her nose. She giggled and uncovered her eyes. The wolf licked the girls face and she started laughing. She climbed onto his back and they took off through the trees. I longed to follow them, with tears in my eyes, but I could feel the scene being pulled away from me. Everything slowly faded to black.

When I was fully awake I just stared at the ceiling. I had always believed that my dreams were a deep insight into my brain, but there was no way that any of what I just dreamed could be real. I must be distorting things with all the craziness I was thinking of before falling asleep. I was unsettled but resigned myself to believe that. Today was the first day back to school and I wasn't going to let some crazy dream derail me.

I took a shower and quickly got dressed. When I walked into the living area a sting of pain hit me as I realized Brie was in the hospital. I made a mental note to visit her after school and headed out the door.

Days turned to weeks and Brie hadn't woken. The school was getting back to normal but Amy and I were really missing Brie. We visited her and would talk to her almost every day, filling her in on whatever was going on at school, weather she could hear us or not. Brian was a mess. He wasn't talking to anyone but he nodded at me a few times so I was hoping I was forgiven. I rarely ran into Michael and when I did he mostly ignored me or was short with me. I was sad but the irony of it was that it was exactly what I had wanted and needed to focus on my schooling. I was doing well in all my classes. With Brie in a coma, even any fun experience felt like it was always missing something. Amy and I slept over at each other's dorms frequently. I was feeling alone, that coupled with all the crazy werewolf dreams, I felt like I was going mad. I talked to Thomas frequently but left out my dreams, I didn't tell them to anyone. He always encouraged me and asked about Brie. We made plans to meet half way to visit over summer break.

"We're fine! How are you? How do you feel? We missed you so much!" Amy squealed while gently squeezing Brie's hand. I laughed to see Amy so excited.

"I'm tired but I feel okay, ready to get out of here but they won't let me leave." She replied. A tiny bit of her normal fiery self showing through at the end.

Just then Michael and Mr. Lincoln walked in. Brian drug himself in behind them and kept his head down. Brie stiffened at the sight of Brian. I turned to look at her face and saw fear written all over it. I turned back to the guys and glared. Michael met my glare with an emotionless stare. When our eyes connected I immediately got a head splitting headache. I hadn't had one in awhile and this one was bad. I felt my necklace become heavy and start to warm up. I broke eye contact and everything went back to normal. I grabbed my head and closed my eyes. Momentarily blinded to the world. This was getting ridiculous.