The Blessing and The Curse - Part 14
"Gregory and I are going to the dance tonight." There, I said it. As plainly as I could, without trying in vain to dance around the subject or make it sound like my relationship with Gregory was anything less than it really was. I guess I...
The Blessing and The Curse - Part 13
Run with him. It was a simple request, and not the first time I'd heard it. In the two months since I became a werewolf, Gregory asked me to run with him at least a half-dozen times, always as we walked home, so that others wouldn't hear; always...
The Blessing and The Curse - Part 12
I couldn't remember the last time I actually looked forward to going to school. Maybe in first or second grade, before everyone started to ostracize me, but even then I wasn't very fond of it. As the years wore on, I looked at the mandatory practice of...
The Blessing and The Curse - Part 11
Serenity. It's a sensation that people often talk about, but not many of them have ever actually felt. Imagine being weightless, bathed in sunlight from all angles, your body laying in whatever random position you find most comfortable. A...
The Blessing and The Curse - Part 8
I guess I should've known that something was bound to happen when I went to Gregory's house. After all, Gregory's attraction to me was so overt that being in the same room with him, for an extended period of time, away from anyone else's prying eyes,...
The Blessing and The Curse - Part 7
In all of my years of being teased and mocked at school, I never had designs on anyone in a romantic way. Why bother? If you're just going to get summarily rejected, and then subjected to even more ridicule just for having the audacity to ask, then...
The Blessing and The Curse - Part 6
Entering the locker room for my last class of the day, I could already hear the murmurs of gossip going on between the undressing students. Robbie had already put out the seeds of his rumor: that Gregory and I were gay lovers, and had already gone as...
The Blessing and The Curse - Part 5
That afternoon went by like a breeze. I'd never done so well in a physical competition like that since, well, ever. When we played football, I couldn't catch, couldn't block, and couldn't defend. In baseball, I'd swing the bat so slowly that I was...
The Blessing and The Curse - Part 4
The weekend was spent in a fog. My parents never did find out what I'd tried to do - I put the pills back in the kitchen once the wolf left and fell asleep soon after. Saturday came with the usual yardwork, and it seemed there was a bit more of it this...
The Blessing and The Curse - Part 3
The best result that I was hoping to get out of my disappearance would've been something along the lines of this: I get home, and see the relief and joy of my parents that their only child had returned from God-knows-what. After a slight admonishing...
The Blessing and The Curse - Part 2
I used my allowance that weekend to buy some essentials at the local supermarket: A few big bottles of water, some food, and enough batteries to power my handheld video game for a few days, since I knew I'd have to have something to pass the time. The...
The Blessing and The Curse - Part 1
I ran home from school that afternoon. In tears, as usual. It had been just another day as the single most teased and ridiculed student in the school, and probably one of the most ridiculed in the world. You'd think that by the time your...