Well this is Painful

Pain shot through Levi’s entire body. He didn’t want to move or open his eyes. It hurt even to breath. Each one shot lances of pain through his battered frame. One of his ribs must be broken Levi thought dully. Although right now nothing seemed to be working and everything might be broken for all he knew.

The last thing Levi remembered was walking home. The light from the sun had set and now the twilight glow was all that was left. His phone rang again; he looked at the screen monotonously. It was Emily; she had been calling for the last hour. He watched his screen until the light stopped flashing and it went blank. He sighed, he felt guilty for not answering. But at the moment he didn’t want to talk to her.

He was almost home, his steps slowed noticeably as he got closer. It wasn’t that he didn’t like his foster family. He did, but then again he didn’t. Interesting would be the best word for them. Levi’s foster father drank a lot and played jokes and pranked people a lot. When asked what he did he always had a different answer but Levi always thought of him as a con artist. Levi’s foster mother worked long hours at a butchers and always wanted to know where he was at and what he was doing. Half the missed calls on his phone were from her. There was the older Goth sister who liked to play zombie. She was okay half the time. There was the older brother who worked at the pet store. He shaved his head bald and had a snake tattoo that covered his entire body. Then there was the dog. Levi didn’t know why he always included him with the family but it just seemed right. It was the biggest dog that Levi had ever seen. Levi foster father laughed and said he was some malamute, husky, wolf mix with horse thrown in for good measure. He was chained up in the back yard and stayed there with his head poking out of his too small dog house. Baleful eyes watching and waiting for someone to make the mistake and come to close to his domain. Ironically it was Levi’s foster father’s girlfriend that Levi liked the most. She was nice and loved horses and liked to tell Levi about them.

Lost in thoughts about his foster family and how he was going to convince Brett he didn’t tell Emily anything. Levi had no idea what happened. He was walking the next thing he knew he had the wind knocked out of him and his face smashed against the sidewalk. He was desperately trying to suck in air when pain ached up his body from his arm and he blacked out.

Levi opened his eyes now. Squinting down he tried to look at his arm. It was hard to see anything it was so dark. He had his back against a pine tree and it looked like he was in the forest that surrounded North Vancouver. He was shirtless and cold. He could tell his back was scrapped up and he was sure that he had cuts all over his torso.

The ground elevated to the right and was the forest proper. To the left the ground sloped down and Levi could see a ways into the distance the forest broke in a long clearing a road running through it. Further and a little past the clearing and road Levi could see house lights.

Turning again to the right his view was obscured by white teeth and yellow eyes. Levi screamed and fell over onto his side coughing and curled up in pain. For a moment Levi thought it was the family dog. But the giant gray wolf wasn’t him. There was the crunch of boots in the dead foliage and Levi looked up into the face of what he thought was Camdon, before realizing it wasn’t him, a moment before he blacked out once again.