The moonlight

Dara’s eyes opened due to the bangs of the alarm. The brightest rays of the sun entered the room and the cool breeze coming from the half opened window lifted the curtains made of fine cloth up in the air.“Uh another boring day!” sighed Dara as she got up from the bed. She moved towards the calendar on her wall and crossed 14th May on the calendar with a marker, “Just four more days to go.”She ran downstairs to the kitchen to have her breakfast, “Morning Mom! Morning Dad!” she grabbed up an apple.“Morning Honey!” her mother Ellen greeted her.“Can I skip school today?” Dara asked her father while taking a bite from her apple.“You skipped the last whole week of school. What are you up to young lady?” Greg, Dara’s father replied to what Dara asked.“Who told you that? I never skip school and besides I’ve got really good company there.” Dara gave a mock smile.“Dara, sweetheart your teacher called us the other day. She told us yo

“Dara!” he whispered in her ear. It was thundering outside in the middle of the night. Dara’s eyes opened. She got up and turned around but found no one. She was about to sleep again when she saw him standing in front of her. She screamed. He put his hand on her face and asked her to be quiet. In an instant, Ellen came to Dara’s room and he just disappeared somewhere.“Is everything okay?” Ellen asked her. Dara told her that she just had a bad dream.“Do you want me to stay with you for a while?” Ellen asked.“No mom I’m okay.” Dara replied. She asked her mother to keep the lights and the door of her room open.As soon as Ellen got out from the room, Dara got up from her bed and checked everywhere in her room but found no one. She came back to her bed and started to think, “Was that a dream? But it didn’t seem like one.” She rolled here and there on the bed and finally went to sleep again.Her eyes opened. The brightest rays of the sun were coming insid

Dara came back to her seat. That boy wasn’t there. “Where is he?” time passed but he still wasn’t there. William came and sat beside Dara. He teased her during the lectures and the boring day turned into a pile of fun and laughter.On the last period, that boy showed up. William rolled his eyes and got up from his chair. That boy sat beside Dara. “Where have you been?” she asked. He ignored her and only peeped outside the window. “Why is he like this?” Dara thought.She tried to focus on her lectures but could not. There were many things popping in her head. She wasn’t thinking about Wade. She was thinking about what wrong had happened to that boy. Meanwhile in a period while the teacher was out a boy threw a pencil from behind towards that boy’s head. It hit him on his head. Some of the students started to laugh. “Stop it!” Dara got up from her chair, turned around and yelled. It was silences in the class. Everyone stuck at their place. Dara then sat back on her chair.

Dara ran and ran to make her way out from the jungle. She could see nothing but the big trees all around. “Can anyone here me?” she screamed but there was no one who heard her.She suddenly felt something running behind her. She quickly turned around. There was nothing there. She felt it again and soon she could see something running in the woods. It was black and huge. “Stop!” Dara ran towards that thing. It was the same thing she had been seeing in her dreams.That thing stopped and Dara went close to it. She went closer and closer. It was dark, hairy and big. It was huge. She could hear it groan. She went closer. She was scared but at the same time she wanted to see what that thing was. It was huge and sounded fierce. “What are you?” Dara asked in a scared tone from behind. It turned around.“Uh…” Dara’s eyes opened. Her head felt dizzy. She moved her hands towards her head and suddenly saw blood on them. She got up with a scream.“Is everything alright?”

Dara moved here and there on her bed but couldn’t sleep. Her eyes remained open. She was feeling hungry. She got up and sat on her bed. She started to think about her time with William. Her stomach gave a sound, “Huh I should not be going to the kitchen in the middle of the night.”She got up and gazed outside the window. She stared at the big round shinny moon in the sky. It looked as beautiful as anything could be. She opened the window to let the cool fresh air come inside. She stared at the moon and cared about nothing. She started to feel strange. Her head started getting dizzy. Her nails started to grow. She could feel her bones moving and changing their places. She could feel hair grow on her skin. She didn’t know what to do. She turned to the mirror and saw hair grow all over her body. She saw her clothes tearing off. She was scared. It was painful but ticklish too. She saw herself turning into a wolf.She was big. She was huge. She was all covered with dark hair