THREE

I took a long bath. My body ached, I had deep marks and finger prints imprinted on me and the places he had viciously touched me were still painful. After my bath I went to my sister and cried as I hugged her and told her the story. She felt remorse for me. I did not even know about my first transformation until I went to school the next Monday. Rumour was circulating and I was popular and i did not know why. First people who never ever knew I existed where speaking to me as if we were long time friends the most popular guy in school wanted to have lunch with me. I agreed but he never showed up. Later I would find out he did not even know what I looked like so he sent his friends to talk to me and take a photo of me. My friend told me my previous date, had gone crazy and was telling eveybody that I had turned wolf on him, literally and ran away during our date. Had he seen me? I was scared. What if this story got out of hand and I ended up in a lab with scientists conducting experiments on me, my imagination was running wild while I was still oblivious to the fact that maybe this premonition could have a chance at becoming a reality in future. In the afternoon while in class, I received a note from my previous date, from Friday imprinted in dark ink, cursive hand writing. It said

'sorry, i did not mean to make you uncomfortable, i thought it was okay because we were an item. Just so we clear, if you tell, I'll also reveal your secret. I have pictures and i recorded a video.'

My heart skipped a beat. I did not want to believe it but if I really had not morphed that fateful Friday night, how would he know about it? So I replied to his note and returned it.

'What photos and videos? We never really did anything and you can't black mail me because you'll just be exposing your self for molesting me.'

I passed it to my friend Kairi who gave it to him. He looked in my direction and gave me a smirk. He brushed his hair with his hand. His leather jacket's zippers dangled making a jiggling sound from far away. Gossip had started circulating in class, the popular girls were gazing at me with killer eyes. The resentment within them sent chill down my spine as my wolf side sensed their ambiances. He then passed me another note.

'Dont play dumb with me. I saw what you are, wolfie, I recorded you change and with one single button the video is gonna be viral online. Your whole life would be over. Don't test me because I can ruin you, baby '

Tears streamed down my face as I read it. I was deathly afraid. I thought about my whole family.

'Ok Dumuzi, what do you want from me and what will it take for you to delete those pictures and video'

I replied. He then sent another note.

'Well come with me Anathi, after school so we can 'properly' finish our date. Then maybe I can consider deleting them. If you try any tricks on me, you'll see for your self what I can do. Meet me by my car'

I was scared. I did not want anything of that sort to happen to me but the thought of me being the one who exposed the secret of our kind to the world and putting all my kind in danger sent chills down my spine so I was going to let him do what ever he wanted with me. I followed him after school. I went with him to his grand home. His father was a millionaire who worked for the Pentagon, a company that dominated the scientific and matrix world in Atlantis. It is said the originator was an Atlantic Pharoah, king Mer-tum- Re the first. Meanwhile, me and my family were just Atlantic common citizens of Atlantis going about our normal days to attain minimum wage. His home was fancy. The mansion was grand with expensive wear. His parents were not there but he had a few servants moving about going about their daily tasks. He took me to his kitchen were he poured two glasses of red wine, one for him and one for me and he offered me snacks which I declined at first but then he insisted.

"You like this place?" He asked me. Smiling.

I nodded. " Its nice! Listen, i didn't come for chitchat, let's get down to it so I can leave." I said.

"This is it!" He said, looking disappointed." You know, if I were you, I wouldn't be rude to me knowing that my life depended on it. But since you insist then come on." He grabbed me by the hair and dragged me out of the kitchen and upstairs to his room, while I struggled and screamed. Sadly the servants just watched in sadness and did not even dare to help me,

His room was large. As soon as we entered, he banged me against the wall and planted kisses all over my body while biting me so hard that tears were streaming down my cheeks. He was ripping my clothes off in a frenzy. That day I let him do it out of desperation. All I wanted was for him to delete those photos of me.That is the day I had vowed that all men were jerks who wanted nothing more than to hurt people like me. After he played music and made me dance for him while he complained that my body was ugly, that I was almost eighteen yet my breast looked like I had not hit puberty. Then he asked me to morph for him and i told him I did not know how to do it. I went home and wept.