Free Hair, Greg - Werewolf 01 by Werewolf (v5.0) Page A

I’ve got things I gotta do.”
    “Look, we’ll talk in the car,” said Landon. “We gotta go.”
    “Fine. Shouldn’t we change back so someone doesn’t see three naked people running around?” Jamie asked.
    “Do you not know how fast you can run even in this form?” Landon asked. “Never mind. You follow me. She’ll be right behind you. It’s not far; it’ll only take a few seconds.”
    Jamie watched Landon take off. Within a few seconds, he was a football field’s length away.
    “Well, what are you waiting for?” asked LillyAnna.
    Jamie looked at her naked body in the light of the street lamps.
    “Forget it,” she said. “You’d better go.”
    Jamie turned back toward Landon’s direction and began running. The storefronts flew by, and he reached Landon’s car within a minute. He had just run about a mile. LillyAnna was right beside him. The three quickly got in the car and into clothes. Jamie took the back seat as Landon pulled onto the road toward home.
    “So, Jamie, are you from around here?” asked Landon.
    “No. East.”
    “So, Jamie,” started LillyAnna, “been mutilating animals long?”
    “What the hell, man. I don’t need this. Let me out,” Jamie demanded.
    Landon shot her another look.
    “What?” she said to him, looking annoyed at his demands.
    “Jamie,” said Landon, “this wasn’t the way I wanted to do this, but the question is valid. Are you aware that you’ve been mutilating animals? What’s happened to you doesn’t work the same for everyone.”
    “Yeah, I know what I’ve been doing. I don’t have any money, and I gotta eat,” answered Jamie. “What do you mean, ‘It doesn’t work the same for everyone’?”
    “Not everyone who shifts is aware of what they’re doing. Some people lose their minds during the first change, getting locked inside. Those individuals need to be hunted and terminated. How much do you know about what you are?”
    “Well, I’ve learned that full moons are a myth.”
    “That’s not entirely true,” said Landon. “They just don’t cause the transformation.”
    “So what do they do?” asked LillyAnna.
    “I’ll get to that later. Jamie, I would like to offer you the same thing I’ve offered her. That’s LillyAnna, by the way. I want to help you. LillyAnna is fairly new to this, too, so I’m also helping her. I’d like for you to come with us.”
    “Come with us? Where are we going?” asked LillyAnna. “This isn’t the way home.”
    “Hey, I’m not going anywhere,” said Jamie, growing angry. “This is kidnapping. Let me out.”
    “I’m not kidnapping you, per se,” said Landon. “You need help, but you’re too young to be able to make the kind of decision necessary to help yourself. Plus, you could move up to something other than killing animals if I don’t intervene.”
    “You can’t do this. Let me out,” Jamie demanded. “I don’t know who the hell you are.”
    “Where are we going?” asked LillyAnna.
    “If both of you are going to get the kind of support you need, I need help. We’re going to see some friends,” said Landon.
    “You have friends?” she asked.
    The car had taken a detour and soon pulled off the road, onto Bowman Field, and into a hangar. Landon parked next to a private jet. He spoke with a thin man waiting at the hangar, giving him instructions regarding the rented tux in the trunk.
    “Whose plane is this?” LillyAnna asked.
    “I don’t have time for this,” said Jamie. “Good luck to you. Hope your kidnapping of other teens goes well. I gotta go.”
    “No,” said Landon. “I cannot allow you to roam the streets, mutilating animals. Get on the plane.”
    “Screw you, man. I ain’t going nowhere.”
    “Screw me? I don’t think so,” Landon said, as LillyAnna positioned herself between him and Jamie. “Look, go with us. If it doesn’t work out, I’ll bring you back to Louisville, the first time you say it. You have my word. We are the only other ones like yourself