Claimed By Them

o clearly, like it wa

world. It was rather scary actually. I just remember it was night and the TV was blasting loudly from

e, his face flushed. "...the president has urged everyo

ed. I jumped and spun around to see that he was behind m

voice quivered with every word he said. I wanted to go to school the next day, we were supposed

x Sweetie, there's just something w

errupted him. "She s

n between my parents. My mom was biting the nails on her left hand, whil

at had a bunch of people crowding a stage where two men were standing at a

Let me make this clear to every citizen: we will not live in fear because of t

rowd appl

happening?"

ulder. "They found some

shoulder. "Don't worry," he s

in. "Now we're getting word of the press conference in Califo

really white skin, almost like a marshmallow. He smiled at the crowd, his teeth sh

you that we mean no harm. We vampires and werewolves just simply want the same

ucking liar," she muttered. She then tur

approached by a person with fangs, run.

ure where all thi

2 Year

es and werewolves weren't vengeful, nor did they seek to put us under them. They wanted to have

ters were counted as members of a pack. The covens and packs each took a county and ruled it. There are still some human communities, but most

e stuck in our town, which counted as werewolf territory. We registered as part o

like the fact that werewolves considered the pack to be a lifetime obligation. I was told of stories about people who would run away from the pack or coven, only to be

ly easy to tell who wasn't human. Vampires, for one, could only come out at night and had deathly pale skin. Plus, their teeth looked jagged. Werewolves were a harder to identify. Their canine teeth we

xth grade in our math class when one of the werewolf policemen came in and ca

we could hear another wolf sound all relieved