...Sixteen

December 4th.

I wake up from the cold air that makes my body shiver. I open my tired eyes, my head already aching with pain from the light I was now surrounded by. I look around and see Im still in Taylor's cabin. The sunbeams are shining through the windows, making it look like a warm summer day. It wasn't however since my whole body felt ice cold. The fire in the fireplace was replaced by dust and ashes and wasn't providing any kind of warmth anymore.

"She was here.." I whisper as I sit up. "It wasn't a dream."

I rub my eyes and get up from the bed. I look around the cabin, secretly hoping that she would be here somehow. Im disappointed rather quickly however, remembering last nights events now. And right in that moment, I feel as empty as I have ever felt.

"Please come back?" I whisper as I sit down on the chilly, wooden floor. "I need you." I sit there then, with my back against the bed, not moving, not crying. Just sitting there, feeling numb.

'How am I ever going to help her?' I think as I look down at the ground. 'We couldn't even beat him together, I wont stand a chance alone.' A deep sigh exits my body as I look at my hand then. My wounded hand that she had kissed so sweetly last night. I had felt so warm, so happy. But she took all that warmth and happiness right away when she left.

I get up from the ground, not wanting to sit on that cold floor again. Not even wanting to be in this cabin anymore. Everything makes me think of her, it even smells like her still. I grab my coat from the ground since thats where we had thrown it last night and open the door that leads outside.

The sun might seem to give the impression that its a nice and warm day, but the cold wind makes me feel quite the opposite. Its cold. I know that Im only wearing a shirt, normal denim jeans and a coat. But this type of cold is ridiculous, it feels like im walking here naked. Maybe its just because I miss Taylor's warm hand in mine.

I make my way back to my own place. Its Sunday morning and I was free today, no work and no school. I could do anything I want, which usually means going to the supermarket to buy some beer and get myself drunk at home. Yes, everything is fine. Im fine.

But maybe today is supposed to be different. Maybe I have to make a plan to safe her, the love of my life. But where do I even begin. I sigh as I make my way through the snowy surrounding in now my wolf form, since thats a lot faster than walking all the way back on my two clumsy, long legs. "Fucking hell!" I swear as I accidentally hit a sharp rock with my wounded paw. I look down and see it's bleeding again. "Great."

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When I walk through my front door, in my human form again of course, I immediately make my way over to the fridge to grab a beer. Its weak, I know it is. I just can't.. stop it. I need something to numb the sadness.

I throw my coat down on a close by chair while skilfully keeping the beer in my other hand as well. My hand stings when touching the cold beer glass and when I look down at it, I see that the bandage had fallen off somehow and that it was bleeding quite a lot again. Also the whole hand had a purple-ish, dark color. I take a few sips from my beer and open the freezer for a bag of ice, not that it will still help, but maybe it will feel less painful then.

A while later I lay down on the couch. I havent even looked at this couch for a really, really long time. It reminds me too much of that time Taylor followed home and kissed me right here. I close my eyes, my third bottle of beer of today in my hand, already halfway empty. I sigh deeply while massaging my temples. 'I don't even know where to start with this 'plan'.'

'I could just barge into that stupid cave.. If only I knew where it was..'

'Maybe I should just go look for it..'

'Maybe I can still find Cara's den and ask her for help.. If the borders to the vampire area were still open.. I would surely get caught if id try now."

A deep sigh escapes my mouth again before I take another large gulp from my beer. I throw my head backwards onto the couch. "FUCK!" I shout loudly, a small amount of all the frustration that is contained inside my body, spilling out.

I look at the clock. 11AM. I close my eyes and try to relax and come up with a new plan when I hear my phone ring somewhere in the house. I groan out of irritation and get up from the couch, my now empty beer bottle still in my hand and a bag of ice in the other. I follow the sound of the ringing phone and find it in the pocket of my coat. When I fish it out of there, the icepack now uncomfortably under my arm, I see its my sister Kariann calling. My three sisters seem to be taking turn in calling me every week, since last week it was Kimberly and the week before that, Kristine. I take the phone in my hand, walk to the kitchen to lay the icepack and the beer bottle away and take the call.

"Hello." I answer drily. I walk over to the couch again and sit down this time.

"Hi Karlie, its me, Kariann." My sister replies, as if I havent already seen her name on the screen when I took the call. "Im just calling to see how you are." She continues, her voice laced with some worry. "You didn't take Kimberly's call last week." She adds.

"Oh yeah, sorry. I was busy." I reply, trying not to sound too angry or annoyed.

"Oh." Kariann replied, disappointed of course.

"Sorry." I reply. "How are you?" I try to change to subject by talking about her, instead of me.

"Im okay. School is busy but thats fine." She replies. "How are you? You sound.. down."

"Yeah.. I.. Im fine." I reply. "Just.. busy."

"With what?" My sister asks quickly. 'smart'

"You know.. stuff." I reply, trying to keep the conversation natural.

"If you mean drinking too much shit, then I know what you mean yeah." She spits out, some annoyance in her voice. She's a few years younger than me, but she knows me and she knows that Ive changed a lot in the past few years.

"I..I.." I stutter, but she interrupts me quickly.

"Please don't deny it Karlie. We've seen you last month when we visited you. We've seen the bottles. We've seen you.'' She says. "I know you miss her. But you cant dwell in your sadness and anger forever. She left.''

I had told my sisters about Taylor. Well, not the whole story of course. I left out the parts that included werewolf's, vampires and any other mythical creatures.

"She didn't." I say then. "I left."

"Well you told me you had to. She told you that she had to stay in her own city. So actually she kinda left you." She says, explaining the situation to me as I had told her before.

"Yeah but.. Kariann, you don't understand it.."

"Because you're leaving things out Karlie!" She replies rather loudly. "I cant understand shit if you leave half the story out!"

"I told you I cant tell you everything. Its dangerous okay?" I say for about the 100th time.

"Who is this girl, some kind of maffia member?" She asks seriously.

I cant help but let out a dry laugh. "I wish."

"Jesus Karlie, who is this girl and how can you be so captivated by someone who brings you in danger?" My sister asks, her voice worried. Like all of my sisters voices always are when they talk to me.

"Its not like that." I sigh. "Its not her fault."

"Yeah okay. Well get her back or try to forget her. You're killing yourself with all that drinking. And stop wearing those damn sunglasses inside your house." She says.

I had been in a huge panic when my sisters rang the bell about a month ago. They always seem to come for a 'surprise' visit. I didn't want them to see my eyes and so I wore sunglasses the whole time when they were here. They tried to get it off my face but I had told them I had a lot of headaches because of the light.

"You sound like mom." I reply drily.

Kariann snaps then. "Yeah well Karlie, I have to. Since mom is too stressed about her daughter to call her herself!''

"Im sorry.." I say, and I mean it.

I hear Kariann let out a deep breath. "I know you are.." She sounds like she is about to cry. "I just hope you will feel better soon and that you will stop drinking that damn beer Karlie.." She says. I can feel the tears burning in my eyes but refuse to start crying.

"Im really sorry Kariann.." I say, swallowing the lump in my throat away. "It will hopefully be better soon. Once I have a plan."

"Well, I hope you'll have that plan soon." She says, I can hear a small smile on her face then.

"Will you guys visit again soon then? You live so far away now. I miss you." I say. My family had moved a while ago, from Wadeson to another town about five hours away.

"Yes. If you work on your stuff, yeah. We miss you too." I hear Kariann say.

"I promise ill try. Thanks for calling Kari." I say, wanting to end the call on a good note.

"Laters Kar." She says. "Love you."

"Love you too." I say and I press that small, red button on my phone. I lay my phone on the small table next to the couch and lay down, thinking about my 'plan' and how to make everyone, including myself, happy again.

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December 15th.

I roll out of my bed, another day has begun. Another day of thinking, thinking and more thinking. When walking down the stairs in my pyjama's, I check my phone for any messages.

"You can do it!'' One message said. It was from Kariann, she had messaged me every day since that one phone call we had. She had shook me awake, she had made clear to me that I had to work on myself again in order to become happier step by step.

I walk over to the fridge and see the closed packages with beer bottles staring at me. The temptation is big. Huge actually. But I grab a bottle of water instead and make myself a sandwich for breakfast. I have to go to school today.

I am in my last year of coding classes and am becoming a professional with computers, electronics, apps and all that. I enjoy school, I really do. But I just miss my blonde wolf too much to pay attention most of the time. Today is different, hopefully.

I still miss her, of course. I always do. And I worry about her all the time. I have a plan now though.

In a week or so, I will go to the dark forrest and ill go find her. I will not stop until I find her since I don't have anything else to fight for than for her. She is my all, my everything.

Im training every day in the woods here, to get stronger again. I have lost a lot of power in the last few years and Im working really hard to get it back. When Im strong enough to beat Adam, I will.

I will go there and I will safe her, before its too late.

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December 22th.

Ill leave in two days. I will be there at the 26th and I will kill Adam. Thats the plan.

I just had a training session in the woods close-by and have grown loads, loads stronger these past days. 'what a alcohol free diet can do for your body'.

Im eating a self made salad together with a glass of actual lemonade and im feeling stronger than ever. After my last few bites of dinner, I get up and put the dishes away in the dishwasher. Im walking to the living room when I hear a strange sound coming from my bedroom upstairs. I sniff around and smell that theres someone else in my house. My smelling has gotten a lot better and I can smell that this 'someone' wasn't a human nor a wolf.

"Who's there?!" I shout into the darkness as I walk a few steps onto the stairs. "SHOW YOURSELF!" I shout then, louder this time.

"Of course, love." A voice then says. Next thing I know is flying backwards and fall onto the floor with a loud bang. When I open my eyes the whole room is spinning and a dark figure is walking closer and closer to me. I get up from the ground, holding onto the couch and get ready for a second hit. It doesn't come however since the figure is now standing still.

"Show yourself!" I shout again, a little less intimidating now, since my voice is quivering from the impact.

The figure tilts its hood of its head and I immediately recognise who it is.

"Cara!?" I shout, looking at her with my mouth hanging half open. Its the vampire girl who had been so helpful when Taylor and I were on our way to the cave. She was staring at me too, her face showing quite a lot of anger however.

"Cara?" I ask when she just stands there for a few seconds, staring at me with her angry face. "What are you-"

"You fucking bitch." She says then, walking towards me with her fists bawled.

"Woah wha-" I stutter while walking backwards, away from the angry vampire. I can't step back any further after a few steps though, the couch in my way.

"You promised me.." She starts, still walking towards me. I can see her fangs sticking out, which is new and terrifying. "That you would take care of her." She stands still in front of me then, staring into my eyes with her furious ones. "That does NOT include leaving her and feeling so sorry for yourself that you start drinking to forget about everything you did wrong. Fuck you."

Her words stab me like a 1000 sharp knives. The worst thing being, that I know she's right. I see her raise her hand in the corner of my eye and know she wants to hit me or at least hurt me, but her hand just stays there, floating in the air, close to my face.

"If I wouldn't have promised Taylor not to hurt you, you would've been laying on the floor again now, Kloss." She says, her voice soft now as she leans into my ear.

"She.." I stutter. "She.. send you here?''

Cara steps backwards then, examining my apartment. "Yes." She replies. "We figured you would need some help."

"Thanks.." I mumble. "I guess.. I do."

"Whats your plan?" Cara asks then, sitting down on my couch while still looking around her.

"Well.. uhm.. go there and.. well.. uhh kill him." I mumble, still standing with my back against the couch, afraid of the remains of anger in Cara's body and mind.

"Great plan." Cara says sarcastically. I can see her raise her dark eyebrows. "Not gonna work alone. Sel and I will fight with you."

"Selena is also here?" I ask.

"She's waiting outside. She was scared that I would hurt you and didn't wanna see it." Cara replies easily, pointing towards my front door.

"Oh.. haha.." I laugh nervously. "Well umm thanks." I mumble quickly while walking over to the front door.

"Oh thank god you're still alive." Selena breathes in relief when she sees me standing in the hallway. She practically jumps forward and envelopes me in a hug. "Yeah.." I reply awkwardly.

"Shes so pissed at you." Selena says then, walking into the hallway and hanging her coat on one of the hangers.

"I.. I know. Im pretty pissed at myself too." I say, really embarrassed of myself.

"Good." Selena says. She is smiling at me but I can hear some anger in her voice too.

"So.." I say when we all sit down in the living room. "I.. I am sorry that I have been so weak.. and stuff. I.. Im working on it now though. I changed."

Cara starts clapping then. "Bravo, after five whole years." She says drily.

It stays silence for a long while before Selena speaks up. "Its.." She lets out a sigh. "Its okay now. We just have to save Taylor from being crowned and from connecting with that asshole."

"And if you'll do any shit like this again-" Cara says but she's interrupted by Selena.

"Cara, stop. Its okay now. She is sorry, it was hard for her too." She says.

Cara sighs. "Fine. Were leaving tomorrow morning." She gets up from the couch and walks out of the apartment.

Selena and I stay silent for a while, both looking anywhere but at each other. "She will cool down. Just give her some time."

I look at her and nod. She smiles a small smile at me. "Where will she sleep tonight?" I ask.

"She wont. She will probably walk around in town or go hunt or something." Selena replies.

"Oh yeah. Vampires are strange." I say, making Selena laugh a little.

"How is Taylor?" I ask the girl. This is first time I have felt comfortable enough to ask this, since Cara would've probably killed me.

"She's nervous and sad. But she is okay." Selena replies.

"Im so scared, Sel." I say to the dark haired girl. "Im so scared that Adam will hurt her."

Selena stays quiet and just looks at me with a sad look on her face. "He.. he does sometimes already. He.. hits her when she doesn't listen."

My breathing and heart rate go up in less than a second when hearing this.

"He what?" I hiss. I start sweating.

"No, no, no, no. You're going to wilden. Calm down."

I take a few deep breaths and try to calm myself down. "We will safe her. Okay. And it will be okay."

I nod in silence again and she lays her hand on my shoulder. "Lets sleep and just think positively about tomorrow."

"Yeah." I mumble looking at the small smile on Selena's face. "Thank you so much for helping."

Her smile grows a little bigger and we both get up from the couch. "I have a small guest room." I say. "There are clean sheets in the closet there."

"Thanks." Selena says then. A second later were both walking up the stairs and saying goodnight before we both get into our own rooms.

I get into my pyjama's and lay down in bed, my mind on my beautiful blonde wolf girl. "Were coming to save you, Taylor." I whisper while staring at the ceiling. "And were finally going to be together." I smile at the thought. "And we will be happy."

"I promise."

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Hi!

New chapppp! Not a lot of Kaylor in this one but well it was a bit of a filler. Hope you liked it though. I enjoyed writing it.

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