Cursed

The next day when I saw Kieran, I felt my face instantly light up with a bright blush as I remembered what I'd done for him the night before. I loved how he moaned and I was glad that someone like me could make him feel so good. And I know that we've done sexual things before but this was well... it was a little more intense and it well... I used my mouth... I think that was what made it so very intimate for me.

Kieran got up onto his tiptoes and kissed my cheek as I asked if he had everything he needed for school inside his room. It felt like the safest place that we could kiss or even be together since Shailey's parents were warranted to visit my house at about anytime. I hated not being able to love him openly.

"Thinking about last night?" He whispered into my ear as he stood on his tiptoes. I shivered at the feel of his lips against my ear and his breath against my neck.

I almost wanted to groan over the contact but if I did that, I might start something we didn't have the time for because school was going to start soon.

"Hush you," I hissed before grinning against his cheek as I kissed it.

"I just wanna fluster you because I love you!" He laughed as he pinched my cheeks.

"Well, you're good at it," I groaned into his ear throatily before chuckling at his reaction to that. But then he grabbed my hand and pulled me back out to the car before we did, in fact, start something that we didn't have any time to finish, as much as I assumed we both wanted to. I just wanted to bask in his touch, spend my entire day wrapped up with him watching movies, kissing, playing video game, or even do something more.

But we could never be able to do that because I would be a prisoner of my own birth, hounded endlessly for loving someone.

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I sat at home, bored because I couldn't see Kieran. I wish we could just be a normal couple and go out to the movies, out to eat, or just... out. But that was dangerous if we didn't keep a lookout for Shailey's parents. Either way, he had to stay home because tomorrow was his mom's due date for the baby. He said he'd give me a call if anything happened with his mom. Sometimes I even forgot that his mom was pregnant. Until I saw her anyways.

But either way, I was surprised when Shailey showed up at my door with the most serious expression I'd seen her wear in a long while.

"We need to talk," she said. Her tone scared me to death and I had a strong urge to slam the door in her face. I didn't want her to tell me I couldn't see Kieran again or maybe that she was going to tell her parents about us.

But I silently let her in before I went to the kitchen to start making tea so that maybe I could keep my hands from shaking out of fear. She took a seat at the kitchen table as I made the tea. My parents, I learned, were at Shailey's house. I must have been too wrapped up in the video game I had been playing to hear them leave.

I sat down with two cups of tea at the table. Shailey poured a shit ton of sugar in hers because she had a huge sweet tooth.

"You seem so stressed lately Finn..." she started.

"Whose fault do you think that is?" I replied bitterly, not quite towards her but towards her absent parents.

"I know Finn... I'm sorry. I really am," she whispered to me, her voice full of regret.

"I know it's not your fault, okay...," I told her, sighing. "I just wish I hadn't been born as this... thing."

She wrinkled up her nose when I said that and took a sip of her sugar with tea in it. "If it's any consolation... I don't think you're a monster."

"Why the sudden change of heart?" I questioned.

"The way you handle Kieran so delicately and genuinely seem to love him. Also, I've known you forever," she said before looking down. "Which is why... I want you to know that if you and Kieran run away, I won't stop you or give away your location."

I honest-to-God spit all my tea out and began to choke on what I hadn't spewed over the table. "What?"

"It's just what I said. I want you two to be together. You're meant for each other. I can just see it in your eyes. I know I can trust you with his life even as a werewolf."

"But... why...? You'd get hurt," I was honestly appalled. I could barely believe that she wanted to protect us even though it meant she'd get hurt.

"I just told you! I know we haven't really been close, but I've always considered you a friend. I know that you're a good person. I can't believe I ever doubted it," she said, giving a deep sigh.

"And you're not lying," I asked quietly.

"No! I know I might get hurt for this, but I promise. I care about both of you," she told me. "I couldn't live with myself if I let both of you get killed just because of me."

I was speechless, literally speechless. I didn't expect her to go this far for us. But here she was, laying down her life on the line just for Kieran and I to be happy. Not that her punishment would be as bad as ours, but she was taking on our problem and paying with her blood.

"Are you-" I was about to ask whether she was serious or not, but then my phone rang loudly and normally, I wouldn't have been rude to someone who just said she'd get hurt for mine and my boyfriend's happiness but it immediately struck me that it might be Kieran calling me about his mom.

"Finn! My mom-" It was all he had to say for me to stand up and signal to Shailey that she could follow me if she wanted to.

"I'll be at the hospital in a few," I told him quickly before saying goodbye.

"What's going on?" Shailey asked.

"Kieran's mom is having her baby," I answered before getting out to my car, Shailey followed behind me.