The Full Moon by Amber Riel (books to read this summer TXT) 📕

don’t want to clean again.” Her tone was kind of rude toward them.

“Okay.” Shawn couldn’t believe that she was mad. “What happened to you today?” he asked.

Lacy didn’t answer him, she just sat there.

“What happened, Lacy?”

She still didn’t answer him.

“Lacy?”

“I’m not going to tell you.... I’m going to my room.” Lacy left the living room.

“What’s her problem?” Stina asked, walking over to Shawn, followed by Wagner.

“I don’t know.”

They heard her as she stomped up the stairs and then her door slam as she went into her room.

“That’s something that she never does.”

“Yea.” Stina agreed with Shawn. “I’m going to go check up on her. I’ll get her to feel better.”

“Stina. You might make things worst.”

Stina didn’t hear Shawn.

“Stina. Oh no.”

She was already out of the room. Shawn couldn’t stop her now. Lacy was going to kill Stina and Shawn knew it.

Turning the Truth to a Joke

Kyle and Millie were walking on the path that led to the cottage. They were walking back from the store. It had just stopped raining. Kyle smiled as Millie hugged his arm and laid her head against his shoulder blade. Kyle stopped walking, which made Millie stop. “What?” she asked.

“Before we go to the cottage.... Do you want to go hang out by the river?” Kyle asked.

“And do what?”

“We could sit and stare at the stars. And see if we can see any of the constellations?”

“I don’t know.... Seems a little over the top romantic of you.”

“Over the top?”

“Yea.” She couldn’t help but smile at his reaction. “You’re romantic but that’s just....” She had to think of the right words. “A little to far for you now. Isn’t it?”

“I’m insulted. I’m really insulted.”

Millie couldn’t help but laugh at Kyle trying pretend that he was insulted.

“My own girlfriend doesn’t think that I can be that romantic. I’m not moving until you say sorry.”

Millie couldn’t help but laugh even harder.

“Now you’re laughing at me?” Kyle asked, pretending that he was about to cry. “First, you insult me. Now, you’re laughing at me.”

“I’m sorry.... I just can’t take you to be serious right now.”

“That’s it.... I’m going to the cottage and I’m leaving you here.” Kyle started walking down the path leaving Millie behind.

 

“I’m sorry, Kyle. Let’s go to the river.”

Kyle turned to face her and walked over to her, smiling. He grabbed her hand and they started walking in a direction that was further away from the cottage. “I knew you’d change your mind.”
Millie shook her head, smiling.

At the river, Champ and Kat were sitting on a boulder, looking at the stars. Kat sighed and leaned against Champ. His arm was around her. “The stars are so beautiful,” Kat pointed out.

“Yea.” Champ pointed to a group of stars. “Look at those stars. They make a heart.” He looked at Kat and smiled.

“I see that.” She looked at him and shared his smile.

Nothing could ruin this perfect moment. It was just them two and no one else. It was their time. They didn’t have to deal with Millie or anyone else. They just looked at the stars. Everything was nice and quiet until.... 

“Do you hear that?” Champ asked, with his half human, half lycanthrope ears sticking up.

“Hear what?”

“Someone’s coming.” He listened carefully. “There’s two of them.” He listened even harder to see if he could recognize the voices. He did. “Uh-oh.”

“Uh-oh what?”

“It’s Millie and Kyle.” He jumped off of the boulder and helped Kat down. “You have to hide.”

“Okay.” Kat jumped behind some bushes which hid her scent and watched what was going to happen.

Millie and Kyle showed up not long after Kat had hid.

“Champ, what are you doing here?” Millie asked.

“Just hanging out. What are you two doing here?”

Kyle placed his arm around Millie. “I’m showing my date how romantic I can be.”

“Yea. This is a place that I’d bring my girlfriend too.”

“So, when do we meet your girlfriend?” Kyle asked.

“When I know that things are going to work out.”

“Don’t wait too long,” Millie jumped in.

“No matter what you’d probably kill her anyways.”

“She’s not another species, is she?” Millie asked, in a joking voice. “Because if she is, then I’ll have to kill her.”

“Oh yea. She is actually,” Champ joked. Now, what Millie and Kyle didn’t know was that it was the truth more than it was a joke. He couldn’t tell them that though. He would like to change that rule in the lycan code if he could. “Well, I’m going to go head home.”

“Okay.”

Champ left and Kat left before Millie and Kyle figured out that she was there.

“Let’s sit up there.” Kyle pulled Millie over to the boulder.

“Okay.”

They got on the boulder and sat down. Millie leaned against Kyle and his arm was around her. They looked at the stars and Kyle pointed out the stars that made a heart.

While Champ walked the path to the cottage, Kat showed up. “Nice save with that joke.”

Champ turned to face her. “What joke?”

“The joke.... The joke that you’re dating someone who’s not your kind.... Or just a human.... Someone like me.”

He noticed that she was going to cry.

“I know that was just a joke to you, but it’s not a joke. I’m going to die when she finds out. She’s going to kill me. Do you even care about that?”

Champ grabbed her hands and held them up. “Yes. Believe me. I will not let anything bad happen. I promise.” He go of one of her hands and with his free hand, he touched her chin.

Not Feeling to Good

The next day, Millie, Kyle, Shawn, Stina, Champ, and Lacy were in the living room. Champ looked more like a wolf than a human. Millie, Kyle, and Lacy looked half human and half wolf. Shawn and Stina looked more human but they were getting the features of a wolf. 

“Well, tomorrow’s Halloween and we still have to stop Doctor O’Nail,” Millie said.

“Yea, but how?” Shawn asked.

“I made an antidote using the strand of hair from Kat and it should work on the animals that were once people,” Lacy was proud to admit.

“Good.” Millie stood up and walked around. “But that doesn’t have anything to deal with how we’re going to stop this guy.”

“Yea. We can’t attack humans,” Kyle agreed.

“Lacy, we’ll have to find out information on Jack O’Nail,” Champ jumped in.

“Okay.” Lacy nodded.

Millie had to think. “Tell us if you two find anything out about him that might be interesting.”

Lacy nodded again. “Okay. Anything else?”

Stina raised her hand.

“Stina, you don’t have to raise your hand, we’re not in school. Now, what were you going to say?”

“I was wondering,” Stina didn’t say anything else.

“Yes, you were wondering?”

“Oh that’s it. I was just wondering.”

“Wondering about what?” Champ asked.

“No. I was just wondering.”

“Never mind.” Lacy stood up. “I’m going to look for information on Doctor O’Nail. Champ, do you want to come?”

“Sure.”

Champ and Lacy went into the computer room. Millie sat down. She was holding the left side of her face.

“Are you okay?” Shawn asked.

“Yea.” She started rubbing the side of her head. “It’s just a headache. I’ll be fine.”

Kyle stood up and walked over to her. When he got to her, he sat down beside her. “Are you sure?” he asked.

“Yea.” She looked over at him and faked a smile.

“Millie,” Shawn said as he walked over to them, “you don’t look so good. Are you positive?” He was worried about her.

“I’m fine, Shawn. No need to worry.”

“I don’t believe you.” He touched her forehead. “You feel warm.” He removed his hand off her forehead. “Kyle, feel her forehead and tell me she doesn’t feel warm.”

“Okay.” Kyle felt Millie's forehead. “You do feel warm.”

“Guys, I’m fine. I swear.”

Kyle and Shawn looked at each other then to Millie. “Yea, Millie,” Shawn started, “ we don’t believe you. Now go to bed.”

“No.”

“Okay. Then you’ll have to suffer. Stina, tell Millie all of the new words you learned.”

“Okay.” Stina walked over to them. “Mystery.... Something that is kept secret or remains unexplained or unknown.... Anything, affair or person left unexplained.... A problem or puzzle.... An enigma.... A Christian sacrament. Pyromania.... A compulsion to set fires. Indubitable.... Too evident to be doubted....”

“Okay.” Millie faked another smile. "Thank you, Stina, but I don’t really care. I’m going to bed.”
Kyle and Shawn smiled at Millie as she stood up and left the room.

Millie's Death Wish

Later that night, Lacy, Millie, Kyle and Shawn were on the balcony. Shawn and Kyle were sitting on two of the lawn chairs. Millie was leaning against the wall, looking up at the almost full moon. Lacy was leaning on the railing with her back facing the other three.

Shawn stood up and joined Lacy. “Why were you mad yesterday?” he asked.

Lacy took a breath. She couldn’t lie to Shawn. Even though they weren’t related, he was like her brother. They basically told each other everything and she did have to apologize for yelling at him. It wasn’t his fault. Actually, he didn’t do anything to her.

“Lee came over.”

“Yea. What happened?”

“Well.... He asked how everyone was.... I told him... He asked about my parents.... I told him that they were dead.... I told him how my mom had cancer.... He said that he didn’t know that dog’s can get cancer.... I told him that they can and I was mad because he sounded like everyone else.... I told him to leave. He tried to apologize but I didn’t give him a chance.... I told him to leave.”

“You know that he’s not like the other humans.... Right?”

“I know but.... It’s hard.”

“Lacy, he likes you and he would never do that to you on purpose. You know that not all of us guys know what to say to a girl that we like. He didn’t mean to say that to you.... It just came out wrong.”

“Really?”

“Yea.”

“Tomorrow....” Millie interrupted.

The other three