A Girl Adopted by Wolves
Chapter 16- Amara

As soon as I got home, I packed my stuff for the beach. I told Ryder andpapa about my plans. Ryder is happy as long as it is not the Knights Iam hanging out with. Ryder dropped me off at the back of the school.Its five minutes to three right now. Aaron pulled in at exactly three.Someone's punctual. I ran towards his car and got in. I turned my headtowards him and he was grinning like an idiot like before. Well this isn'tcreepy.

"Are you going to kill me and dump me in the ocean?" I asked him inmock horror.

"Is it that obvious?" he asked seriously. But I can clearly see theamusement in his eyes.

"If you kill me, I will haunt your ass for eternity.” I said poking mytongue at him.

"Fine by me." He said grinning.

And with that we laughed out loud like crazy.

Aaron continued grinning at me,” 1 am so excited for our little picnic,you can't even imagine. I just wanted to spend some time with onlyyou."

"Yeah me too." I said copying his grin. He is starting to grow on me.We reached the beach in about half an hour. Not the beach exactly, butthe cliff. So he was serious about cliff jumping. It looks like a dead endbut theirs are trees everywhere, so the cars can't go any further. It's coldhere. I would prefer diving with a few sweaters on if that's an option.Aaron got out of the car and started stripping to his swim trunks whichhe was wearing underneath his cloths. I removed my t-shirt and jeans. Iam now in a black sports bra and black tights that reached a littleabove mid-thigh. I never liked swim suits, I don't know why. The packsymbol on my shoulder is clearly visible now, but I covered it with myhairs. Thanks to my long hairs. We shoved our cloths in the car and rantowards the end of the cliff. It's not that high, maybe a height of a threestorey building. We looked at each other grinning. I was about to jumpbut Aaron held my hand.

"Can we talk first?" he asked nervously. Is he alright?

"Sure." This looks really serious by the face he is making.

We sat down at the edge of the cliff, our feet dangling in air. He took adeep breath.

"You remember the first day of the school, in the canteen?” he saidtwisting his fingers nervously.

"Off course I remember those butt holes bullying you. I seriouslywanted to beat the shit out of them. But what about them?" I askedconfused.

"You know why they used to bully me?" he asked.

"Because they are gits.” I said with a lop-sided grin. “Did you murder hiscat or what? Because I will bully you too if you killed mine." I said inmock horror.

He laughed, but it sounded forced.

"Everything started last year. They started bullying me. My friendsturned their backs on me. My family loved me anyway. Then youshowed up and saved me from getting beaten by them." He saidlooking straight ahead towards the vast sky.

"Why did everyone do that?" I asked, angry and confused at the sametime.

"Promise me you won't leave me too after I tell you this. I know I soundselfish right now but I think you should know the reason behindeverything before it's too late.” He said uncomfortably.

"I promise not to leave you ever. Even if you want to get rid of me, thatwon't be happening.” I said raising three fingers in the air.

He took a deep breath and blurted out,” I am gay.”

There was a long silence. I was waiting for him to say something. Butnothing. He was looking down at his hands. I should just encouragehim to talk.

"Hey you can tell me what it is. I am not going to judge you." I saidsmiling at him.

He looked at me like I am crazy. What did I do now?

"I said I am gay.” He said incredibly.

"Okay. But that can't be the reason they were bullying you." I saidirritated

I turned towards him to see his eyes getting watery. My eyes widened.Oh my god this can't be happening.

"Are you telling me that everyone started acting that way because youcame out as gay?" I asked.

He nodded. My jaw ticked in anger.

"I am going to murder every one of them painfully.” I said clenching myfists. They are so dead.

He hugged me all of a sudden that my breath was knocked out of me.He started sobbing uncontrollably. I hugged him back and let him cryrunning my hand through his hairs. After few minutes he let go of me.His face was red and eyes were puffy from all the crying.

"You don't hate me for being gay?" he asked.

"Why would I hate you for your sexual preference?" I asked confused.He hugged me again giving me his goofy grin. I grinned back at him."Let's jump. I can't wait to dunk you in the water.” He said getting up.

I slapped him on his arm making him laugh. I got up and we looked ateach other. If I say I am scared, it would be a complete understatement."Ready?" he asked.

I nodded not trusting my voice. He smiled at me and we jumped. For amoment I felt the air rushing past my body, whipping through my hairand next moment I was under water. I surfaced and looked for Aaron.He was a few feet away from me towards my left. He swam towards me.We looked at each other and burst out laughing. I threw water at himwith my hands and he accidentally swallowed some. He shuddered a bitfrom the saltiness and playfully glared at me. And that's how ladies andgentlemen we started dunking each other. I shuddered a bit from thecold water.

Aaron said,” We should swim to the beach. It's getting cold here andthe sun is almost down as well."

"Yeah let's go."

While swimming towards the beach I thought if I should tell him aboutmy family. I trust him enough even it's been only a few days of us beingtogether. But this secret is way bigger and it's just not mine alone. Idon't know. I think I should tell him. I can't keep hiding it forever. Wereached the beach. Our cloths were up the cliff, so we have to walk allthe way up. I looked at the cliff. It is covered with those trees that arepointy at the end. I don't know much about trees. It looks like a hill cutin half, a huge hill at that. Just the corner of the top end cleared of thetrees. It looks like the beach is surrounded by the hill. You can even hikethere. The hill slope fades at one side of the beach so you can climb upto the cliff on foot. There is a different road for the cars to come there,from which we came here. It's beautiful though. Aaron removed thehair from my left shoulder.

"Whoa! You have a tattoo." He exclaimed “When did you get it? Is thata wolf in it? What does it mean?”

Holly shit.

"Yeah about that. I have to tell you something too.” Now this is my timeto get nervous.

Okay. Let's get this over with. I hope he won't freak out and make a runfor the hills.