ZOE BELL PART 64

The next day was absolutely amazing. We had a yummy camper’s breakfast, and then we went back out to the lake where we swam and canoed for five hours before going back to the cabin for lunch.

That was when the most interesting things started happening. Cliff and Mason were becoming more and more blunt with their wolf jokes, causing complete confusion for Abbie’s poor little mind. I had to pretend that I had no idea what they were talking about so she wouldn’t question me. I knew if she asked me, I was going to slip up and say something that would put me in a ditch.

We were finishing our hamburgers when there was some howling outside. Abbie clutched my arm and the boys ran out the door. I noticed a huge grin on Cliff’s face and I assumed he was getting ready to reveal his secret to Ab. Mason called my name and I dragged Abbie out to see what was going on. She sort of whimpered as we went out there and the boys were nowhere to be seen. I could feel that Mason was out here though. Maybe its part of our connection, but I felt a tingling on the back of my neck. A good tingling.

"Where did they go?" Abbie was clutching my arm with a death grip and our bodies had no space between them as I walked her to the edge of the porch.

"They’re here somewhere. Probably trying to scare us or something." She pulled me to a stop on the top step and held me back before I could step off the stairs.

"You’re not afraid are you?" I teased.

She nodded and pointed to a bush that was slightly quivering. My heart skipped a beat, but I knew that nothing was going to happen to us with Mason and Cliff out here with us. Some branches snapped behind the bush and a deep red wolf appeared in front of us. I smirked at Cliff and held Abbie to me so she wouldn’t run away.

Mason came around to us, slowly, in his human form. He grabbed my hand and pulled us down to sit on the steps. Cliff squatted down a few yards away from us and he never took his eyes off Abbie.

‘There’s something you should know about us, Abbie." Mason began. "We’re not like normal people, and what I’m about to show you will help you understand some of the jokes that were tossed around today that you didn’t understand."

She nodded, but kept her eyes locked with Cliff’s wolf eyes.

"Are you afraid of him?" I gently asked.

She shook her head with a surprised expression.

"That’s good," I whispered.

"Do I know something about this huge dog?"

"Like what?"

"Well, I feel. . . some connections with it."

"That wolf over there is your boyfriend, Abbie."

She looked from Mason, to me, to Cliff, and back to me. "You’re kidding me right?"

Cliff formed back to his human appearance, and slowly walked up to Abbie. Mason pulled me inside, so I didn’t get to see her reaction when he told her about him personally.

"I’m so glad that’s over!" Mason dragged me into our room and sat on the edge of the bed.

"You had nothing to hide from her!"

"I had to listen to his complaining and you were worrying about keeping secrets from her."

He pulled me over so I was standing between his legs with his arms loosely around me.

"You poor baby." I patted his cheek and made a sad face with my lower lip trembling.

"Right?" He kissed me, but I started laughing at the way my mouth felt as he kissed my bottom lip.

He pulled back and stared at me like I was crazy. I laughed again and pulled him out to the fire pit where we sat on the wood stumps together. I linked my arm through his and laid my head on his shoulder. We were quiet for a minute and then I thought of something that I just remembered.

"Who was howling earlier? I didn’t see you or Cliff do it."

"Do you really want to know that answer?"

I raised my eyebrows at him. "Is it bad?"

He sighed. "It was your brother and Curtis. Curtis wanted to be here when she found out."

"Zagger is here?"

Just then a wolf leapt over my head and landed on the opposite side of the fire pit, staring at us.