A thirteen year old Ashlen wondered into the forest behind her house. Her eyes filled with tears, she's been crying since the end of school. Marcus had been flirting with her and she didn't know that he was still with Brook. When Brook found out she was angry at the least. After the last bell rang on her way to her brothers car Brook and three of her friends beat her up, saying that if they every caught her near Marcus again it would far worse than this. Ash let out a sob as she sat herself on the ground leaning against a fallen tree.

"Aww, why is a girl as pretty as you all alone out here. Its not safe you know, things, terrible things, lurk around here. I suppose you're lucky that I found you, and not someone else." the voice belonged to a male, Ash shot her head up and was awestruck there stood the most handsome boy she'd ever seen, his pale skin contrasted against raven hair fell just below his ears and it looked like he'd just woken up. The most stunning of his features had to have been his very dark red eyes. Ashlen felt drawn to him, compelled to be close to him. She stood even though her mind wasn't working, and moved closer to the red eyed stranger.

"See that's it I wont hurt you sweetheart, there's no need to be scared of little ol' me. I don't bite hard." he chuckled at the end like it was some joke that him and his close friends would understand. Once she was right in front of him, his arms snaked around her waist pulling her into his chest. Ash could feel his cold mouth against her neck, and then the shock that she'd been waiting for kick in. But, her body couldn't move, the nameless man stiffened when he heard a few twigs snap. Out came Neil, he was quivering at the sight of his sister in distress. He ran at the man with alarming speed that even he didn't know he possessed. The man threw Ashlen way as he braced himself for the attack. But instead of her brother a huge light brown wolf stood. They fought ruthlessly until the man fled from the scene. The wolf thing turned to Ash, she automatically knew that it was her brother there eyes where still the same bright hazel color that she loves. Timidly she reached out to touch the wolf, it moved its head forward so his ear came in contact with her hand. She was surprised at the softness of his fur, Neil ran of into a set of bushes as he felt himself changing back.

"Umm, Ash do you by an chance have your gym sweat pants in you bag?" he asked his sister.

"Yeah, hold on," she fished them out of her bag and tossed them over to the bushes where he had ran. Thankfully the pants landed on top of them. A few moments later Neil came out clad in Ashlen's gym sweats. On the walk back to there house she told him what happened at school, and then they both wondered what caused him to turn into a wolf. When they got back home they told their mother, who was not happy about it. A week later Neil's father showed up and told them all about werewolves and vampires, Ashlen was so freaked out about how fast her life could have ended. But, it all calmed down, every night Neil went looking for any vampires that might be near.

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"Neil, I missed you so much. It felt so much scarier with out you there." she said barely above a whisper.

"I'm sorry I left you Baby Girl, I just needed to be with others like me," Ashlen could tell by the look in his eyes that he really did feel bad.

But, that didn't matter to her anymore, she was back with her best friend.