Pete:
I had grown up in the Zeme pack named after Adomas' third son. I was born an orphan so the pack took on the responsibility of raising me together, I was given a room in the Johnson's house and grew up out on the reservation.
Tonight was my eighteenth birthday, I had yet to turn yet and so I was looked at with pity. If you did not turn for the first full moon after your eighteenth birthday you were no longer allowed to live on the reservation. This was the only family I knew and I was very scared. Sensing my worry my best friend Mike came over to the log I was sitting on. Unlike me he had changed at the young age of 13. He was an Adonis, jet black hair, striking ice blue eyes and a smile that could make a women swoon. Not to mention he was the next Alpha in line, when the current alpha Jarrod steps down Mike will take over, if you couldn't tell I was hopelessly in love with him. Of course that would never happen, but one could hope that is until they meet their mate.
"How's it going buddy?" Mike asked me.
I looked back at him with a pitiful look and he could tell I was not doing well.
"Don't worry bud, I can tell, tonight's the night" Mike said.
"You've been saying that every full moon since you changed Mike!" I looked at him incredulously.
"Well tonight I'll be right" He replied and looked at me in a way that told me not to say anything. He draped his arm around me and we just sat there. If I didn't change tonight we could never see each other again. One of the rules of the lycans. If you were not a lycan, or a lycan's mate you could no longer have any communication with the pack. I hoped against all hopes that I would change tonight and that I could at least remain friends with Mike.
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It was time, it was getting dark and the full moon was high in the sky. I was standing nude around the campfire with all the other children over the age of 13 seeing if tonight would be the night I changed. All of the adults changed first.
Nothing was happening, my heart dropped. I wasn't going to change and I would never see Mike again.
I dropped to the ground in pain, my whole body felt like it was going to explode. I was going to die, well better to die than be without Mike. But I didn't die I changed. I changed into a beautiful white wolf, like in the legend. Everyone gasped and the adults took off. I saw Mike's jet black wolf in the distance and took off after him.
That's when I noticed the smell, like heaven. I followed the smell away from the pack into a densely wooded area. As I got closer I could tell it was Mike's smell, but he smelled even better than usual. His jet black form stood in a clearing waiting for me.