"Apple" I immediately answered though I hated my weak voice but I knew that I should only talk when asked and that if I don’t answer I’ll get beaten, just like with the hunters. My voice was quiet and I didn’t look at them but kept my gaze to the ground, it was the rules.
"You seriously expect me to believe you broke into a pack house just to get an apple?" the man said and I nodded.
"A rogue who can’t fend for herself" one of the two guys who looked alike said with a frown "Are you just recently a rogue because that’s just the only explanation"
I didn’t understand a word he said so I chose the safest way in these situations and didn’t answer "it’s best if you cooperate" another guy said and I wanted to cry because I was trying, I really was I just didn’t understand "So speak"
"I don’t know" I said keeping my whole body still and steady, moving without permission was always bad.
"What do you mean you don’t know. You’re not making any sense" I could hear the irritation in the mean guy’s voice. neither are you I wanted to say because half of the words really didn’t make sense.
I heard the cell door open and my eyes flew up to see the nice girl from last night step in. "What’s your name?" she asked gently but firmly, it was obviously a command. Thɪs chapter is updated by novel⟡fire.net
"Wolf 376" I repeated in monotone, the name had been drilled in me. I didn’t know why they called me Wolf 376 maybe it had something to do with the experiments. To everyone I didn’t have a name. I only had the name Brett gave me: Celena. I remember choosing it because it meant moon. I loved the moon, it was the only thing that brought light in my dark cell at night when I was scared.
There was silence all around us and the girl asked again "and who gave you that name"
I hesitated a bit but answered as quickly as I could because taking my time ended up with a beating "Hunters"
I heard a growl from outside the cell and looked up, all the guys outside seemed tense now but the girl inside with me just looked at me gently. "And why were you with the hunters?"
"tests" I said thinking back to all the bad medicines and needles they gave me. Some of them caused me to just sleep but others put me in a lot of pain.
"Do you know why they made tests?"
"They said I was different" I stated in a quiet voice, barely audible.
"and do you know why they said it?"
the girl looked back at the group outside the cell and they all looked mad, but one of them in the back was shaking so bad he scared me.
The girl turned back to me with a smile "I’m guessing you don’t like to be called Wolf 376. So what do you like to be called."
The girl smiled but looked at me closely and then said with the scary commanding tone that would make anyone answer "You aren’t lying to me, are you, Celena?"
"okay then, interrogation over. can we get her out of the fucking cell now?" the guy who was shaking earlier said angrily.
The girl narrowed her eyes at the guy and they were both silent for a while until she smiled a big smile and turned to me. "Well, Celena. My name is Lily. The guys over there are Ethan" she pointed to the mean guy from last night "Xavier, Dave, Jim, Adrian and finally" she threw a wink at the guy who was shaking and pointed at him "Jacob."
I nodded as she turned around and walked away. She spoke to Jacob before she left with everyone and it was only me and him."
"You know you can come out of the cell" he said gently and I followed his order and walked out of the cell but didn’t know what to do. "So you don’t know anything about werewolves?" he frowned as I shook my head. I only knew what I read in stories and such but that was all. "you don’t talk much do you?"
I stayed still as he sighed "You don’t have to be afraid here, you know. We’re not like hunters at all." Again I didn’t answer but I wouldn’t trust them because Brett told me never to trust anyone unless they gave me reason to. "Alright, don’t talk." he lifted his hand and got near me and I flinched, waiting for the slap but he froze and his eyes darkened a bit before pulling his hand back. "Come one, we’ll get you something to eat."
It was weird how everyone was. Jacob sat me in the kitchen with the rest of the people who were downstairs and a few others and they were all silent but I didn’t even see them. As soon as I was in the kitchen I grabbed an apple and held it to me, feeling my stomach grumble. I looked at them all, scared they would take it from me.
"Hey, hey, calm down" Jacob said, his face gentle with worry. "You can have the apple, you can have any kind of food you want, okay?" I looked at him doubtfully but took the plate he had offered me that was filled with food with shaking hands. I looked at them and walked to the door. "wow, wait! Where are you going?"