The companion

Toby

It was totally unexpected and magical. When I saw Melissa there, I smelled honey and wildflowers. My wolf went crazy. He didn't want to dance anymore and ignored the ballerina. She was the principal for Melissa. She's a cutie. She's studying to be a teacher and I want to take her to my pack. But I need to go meet her parents and participate in the next mating ceremony.

We agreed to meet soon to arrange everything. I was just worried about Vicky. But Melissa's brother, Frederico, was already having an affair with Vicky and I thought that in the end the two would end up understanding each other.

We were just worried that some werewolf would be in the audience and might mention this incident. What would happen?

Anyway, now we had to wait. They left the next day, after lunch. It was funny that I no longer felt jealous or horny for Vicky, only sisterly and affectionate love. But that was the power of the bond in me. I didn't know how she was feeling. And I didn't want to pressure her into telling me.

When the brothers left, I felt a little embarrassed and lost for words with Vicky. I could tell she was holding back.

Vicky

Toby, you look radiant. I'm so happy for him. The son of a bitch finally found a partner!

"You did it! Here I am, rejecting half the world, feeling sorry for you, and in one month you've solved your whole life! I hope she makes you happy, man, because if she doesn't, she's going to have a hellish enemy."

Toby

She laughed and then cried. It was good to see her like that. Authentic. I hugged her and cried too. We stayed like that for a while.

"You know I love you. I will always love you, in a different way. But you are my family."

" I know, you piece of shit, I can't stand to see you getting the best grade in school, I can't stand you with your partner."

"And what's up with Fred? What does he want with you?"

"Fred is cool, his partner died. He doesn't know if he has a second chance partner. And he asked me to try dating. I don't know yet, maybe, I need to take it slow, you know."

"By the goddess, if he finds out how many kisses we gave each other, how many times I touched your ass, he'll kill me!"

She made a serious face and burst out laughing.

" If Melissa finds out, I don't know if I'll have a chance to die an old woman in your house. I think she'll poison me the first time I show up there! You know how it is" — she sings: I like it here with my childhood friend... who can it be now?

"Let's just say it was a childhood thing, then, naive and pure."

We laughed like the two idiots we are. And we went to sleep happy. Not knowing what awaited us the next day.

Vicky

I wasn't feeling bad, but I wasn't feeling well either. Thinking about watching Toby and Melissa love each other and be happy did me more harm than good. If I were with Fred it would be even weirder. Doubly Melissa's sister-in-law. I didn't even know if I liked her anymore.

She was beautiful, tall, thin and muscular like a werewolf. Dark-haired, with green eyes, like her brother. She was sweet, intelligent and a little shy. I wanted to see when the mate bond became strong and she could really feel Toby's emotions, what it would be like with me.

Anyway, when I say that the moon goddess is at the very least a sadistic lunatic. No one agrees with me. Come on, please, she could stop chasing me. I wasn't even a wolf.

I felt a mix of sadness and... envy, yes, maybe.

Well, I was human. I'm not an angel. I was jealous, but I always knew this could happen. Maybe I should schedule a therapy session with Jean.

It had been a while since I talked to him in my life, and lately I had kind of run away from him.

It was as if he reminded me of when Madonna was alive. She always had me talk to my therapist.

Well, there was a time when I no longer had nightmares about "him", when I say "he" it's that vampire that I feel, I mean I feel the presence, I've never seen him very clearly, but I know he's a vampire. It's the same feeling I had when Madonna's boyfriend, who was a disgusting vampire scoundrel, was around. I suffered a lot after her death, but for him to never appear here again, for me, it was a gift from God.

And it was perhaps because I had been thinking about vampires that that night I dreamed about "him", he was playing a song on the piano and I was as if hypnotized. There were more people at my table in the restaurant, but I couldn't make out who they were. I was trapped by his voice, it was so sweet and so sad, a melancholy that I understood so well, it filled me. It was as if I had already heard his voice and that voice had already spoken to me many times, I trusted it. And then everything disappeared and the emptiness inside me was there pulsing, growing, as if it wanted to swallow me. I couldn't let it go, I needed to bring my mind under my control, as Jean said: "Take a deep breath, count to 4, hold your breath, count to 4, release your breath...

I woke up, went to drink some water, looked at the moon. I stuck my tongue out at his goddess, she could have waited a little longer to bring his companion, right? Well, I never really liked her that much. I laughed, it wasn't true, if she protected my friend, I liked her, just a little. I took a deep breath and went back to bed. Maybe I could still get some sleep so I could have a normal work day.