The Bite by Z. W. Taylor

Author:Z. W. Taylor
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Wattpad WEBTOON Book Group

Chapter

Twelve

We watched a horrible shark movie on the television while we ate our pizza. Derek and I had decided that it would be fun to have a picnic in the living room. Levi didn’t care. He was just happy to be in his recliner. I’ve never seen anyone that happy to be reunited with a chair.

“So, this time, the full moon—” I paused. “It won’t be the same, will it?”

Levi picked up the TV remote and turned the volume down. The shark was circling a girl swimming topless in the ocean. Her friends were on the shore, yelling at her, but she seemed to only have eyes for the surfer with dark hair and wild green eyes in the distance.

“It’s going to come sooner,” he answered.

“Sooner?” I almost choked on my wine.

Levi turned so he could look at me. “The days are shorter, which means the moon is going to be out earlier.”

“But will it be like last time?”

“Somewhat,” he replied. “You’ll get the fever again before the pain. It’s going to be harder, she’s close already and she’ll want to come out—”

“What if I just let her out?” I asked, the sound of a mother screaming in the background on the television drowning out the sound of rain. My hands rubbed along my thighs as tension filled my joints.

“It will kill you.”

“But if—”

The shark had eaten the girl in the movie. Her friends started to walk away like she had never been there in the first place while the green-eyed boy caught a wave, completely oblivious to the red staining the ocean nearby.

I looked back at Levi who was looking right at me. “It takes three moons for a reason. Otherwise it will kill you.”

I closed my mouth and nodded. “So hold her back.”

He nodded. “Hold her back.”

Derek took a seat next to me on the couch. “You’ll know when it’s too much.”

“Can’t you give me something for the pain?”

“No,” Levi replied into his glass. “You need your mind to be sharp, and those meds will just make you sloppy. Saw a human die badly that way.”

My stomach took a slight nosedive at the thought. “And if I don’t make it?”

“We all have to die, Charlie girl, all of us,” Levi said, and then turned the volume on the television back up, the shark’s jaws doing anything but drowning out my worries.

I tried to watch the movie and put it all out of my mind, but nothing was helping. Even as I dozed off to sleep, my nerves filled my slumber and anxiety fueled my dreams.

Soon enough, Nate was chasing me through the house into the little bathroom where a man with sickly golden eyes was waiting for me. He smiled, winking at Nate before he reached for me. I turned to Nate for help, but Nate’s fangs were dripping with blood.

“I always liked when you ran,” he said.

The thunder hammered me out of sleep.

Sweat was pouring over me while rain beat at my window. She was scratching hard at my mind, scratching at dark places both of us longed to rip out.

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