“She will not be the same." Tisha's warning came with a tone of someone who already knew that my mind was made up.

“I know." I closed my eyes again and took a few moments before finally putting a voice to my thoughts.

“When it's over and the full moon sets, do they change back?"

“It depends." She settled her hands together on the counter and didn't meet my gaze.

“On what?"

"On if they have anything to change back for."

I slowly nodded and found the ghost of a smile tilting the corners of my mouth.

“Your name is Larry, yes? That was the name in the paper."

"Yeah, that's me."

"It said there that you had been injured."

“Did it?" I cocked a brow at her.

“Were you bitten that night?" The question spilled forth with such a burst of tension that it was clear it had been all she'd wanted to ask me since she'd Laid eyes on me.

“That night? No." My sad little smile broadened as I lifted my left hand. I could almost feel the teeth marks still there, simmering under the skin.

It hadn't been that hellish Halloween night when Jenny had bitten me.

It was when we were in bed together, when her parents had called me over to try and bring her out of her nightmares. I knew now why she'd screamed then. I'd had those nightmares too. They brought you out of yourself. They let the animal in.

That night, when I'd first looked into those yellow eyes of Jenny's, she'd Lashed out with hungry fangs at my already-bloodied hand. I'd lied to her about the bite and bandaged it over. Then, nothing had happened. Well, nothing had happened until a few weeks after the full moon when I'd woken up to find a pair of pointed ears flanking each side of my head in the bathroom mirror. I guess the blood needed time to get hot enough for the change to happen. Jenny had a whole month.

I'd only had a couple of weeks.

But that was changing, and the full-moon would soon rise again.

Tisha gave me a long, hard stare and I brushed it off before turning away and starting toward the door.

“Larry?” She called after me.