The Full Moon by Amber Riel (books to read this summer TXT) 📕

When they were on the other side, they started walking a little ways to a burger place. “Three dogs going into a burger place to get meat. Of course,” a voice said from behind them.

They turned around to see who it was. Millie recognized the brown hair, blue-green, cat-eyes, and the tone of the girl’s voice. She looked to be about eighteen. A cat-like human, who Millie hated when they were kids. She moved away and now was back. Millie was really ticked off about seeing her childhood enemy was just standing there, mocking her. “Kat,” she said with anger growing inside.

“Oh good. You remember me. So, Millie, are you still a cruel wolf to anyone that isn’t part of your pack?”

Kat asked in a mocking tone that made Millie hate her even more.

Millie started growling at the cat that was standing in front of her.

“I’ll take that as a yes. Growling is so.... Typical for a dog. As a cat I prefer,” she said as she rolled her tongue on prefer, “to hiss. But, that’s just a cat thing. Now go and fetch me something to eat.”
Now that really ticked Millie off. She went to attack, but Shawn and Kyle held her back. “Don’t worry about her, Millie,” Kyle said, trying to calm her down.

“Yea,” Shawn added. “She wants you to fight her.”

Millie calmed down by taking a few breaths. “Okay.”

Shawn and Kyle had let go of her.

“You better be lucky that they stopped me or you’d be dead meat. I’d feed you to my pack. That’s what’s going to happen next time.” Millie turned away from Kat. “Come on, Kyle, Shawn.” Millie, Kyle and Shawn walked into the burger place.

Inside of the burger place, there were people sitting at different tables. Somewhere in big groups. Others were in small groups. When Millie, Kyle, and Shawn walked into the place, everyone stopped what they were doing to look at them. A couple of people whispered about them. That made Millie mad. “I heard that,” she pointed to someone, “we are not freaks or monsters. If you notice we look and act like you. So, say that again, but looking in a mirror.”

“Millie, just forget about them,” Kyle whispered. “Let’s just get our food and go back to the store.”

“Okay.” Millie was no longer the uptight wolf that the others would describe her as. Now, she was frustrated with everyone and anyone. Kyle and Shawn knew that when she was frustrated about something just to leave her alone. They would say things to help her to chill out.

When they were at the counter, the blonde who was working the cash register looked at them, worried that they were going to attack her. She tried not to let them know that she was scared.

“Look,” Shawn said, trying to read the name tag, “Marcy?”

She nodded.

“You’re not hiding your fear from us. We’re dogs and we can sense your fear. Now, me and he won’t do anything, but my sister here will attack you. Okay?”

She nodded again, noticing that he was taller he than his sister. She tried to calm down. To do so, she did some breathing exercises. When she was calm, she asked them what they would like to eat.
Shawn smelled the air to see what he might want to eat. “The fries smell good. I would like a large fry with a cheeseburger, of course, and a large Dr. Pepper.”

“I would like a hamburger with a large fry and a large Dr. Pepper for me too, please.” Kyle moved away so Millie could order.

Millie took her time. She read the menus to see what she wanted. “I would like a.... Cheeseburger with a medium fry and a large Dr. Pepper as well.”

The girl got the orders and gave them to a guy that walked by. She told them the cost and Kyle paid her.  She asked them if it was for in there or to go. Shawn told her that it was to go.

After they had their orders, they left the burger place and they headed back to the store.

When they were back at the store, Kat showed up again. “What do you want, Kat?” Millie asked as she unlocked the doors.

“Did you three get me anything?” she asked.

“No.” Millie opened the door to walk in.

When Kyle and Shawn walked in, Millie closed the door and locked it so that Kat couldn’t get in. Kat was ticked off and she banged on the door so they’d let her in but Millie just stood at the door laughing at Kat.

“LET ME IN!” she exclaimed.

Millie just kept laughing at her. Kyle and Shawn looked at each other then to Millie. “Well, she’s laughing now,” Shawn told Kyle.

“Yep,” Kyle agreed with him.

Eventually, Kat grew tired and decided to walk away. Millie made sure that Kat was gone and unlocked the door. She changed the sign back to where the word close was facing her. She went back behind the counter and sat down. Shawn walked over to the counter followed Kyle. He set the bag of food on the table while Kyle set the cups down as well.

Shawn passed out the food and they each got their drinks. After Shawn was done eating, he threw away his trash, walked over to a little table, which had a couple of books and a CD player on it. He picked up the CD player, made sure that a CD was in it, put on the headphones, and turned the CD player on. When the music started playing, he bobbed his head up and down. Millie and Kyle started watching him dance around like an idiot.

“It’s a good thing that we don’t have any costumers or he’d feel so dumb.” Millie couldn’t help but watch her brother act stupid.

“Yep.” Kyle nodded in agreement.

Two hours later, they still didn’t have any costumers and Shawn was still dancing. “If we don’t get any costumers in the next thirty minutes, then we’ll just close for the day,” Millie told Kyle.

“Okay.”

A minute later, a thirty-six-year-old man walked in, followed by a twenty-three year old woman. The man looked like a doctor and the woman looked like she was his assistant. They walked over to Millie and Kyle.

“Hello, sir, and miss. Who are you two?” Millie asked.

“I’m Doctor Jack O’Nail,” the man answered, “and this is my assistant, Jean.”

“What kind of doctor are you exactly?”

“I’m a veterinarian.”

“Oh, an animal doctor. If I were in school, I’d like to become a veterinarian because I’m not really a people person, but I do love animals though.”

“Yea, she hates people,” Kyle jumped in. “She about snapped today in the burger place if me and her brother didn’t stop her.”

“Yea. Now, how may we help you, Doctor O’Nail?”

“I was wondering if you have any books about how to turn people into animals.”

Millie and Kyle looked at each other then to the doctor.

“Well, I don’t think we do, but we’ll check. Kyle, can you check the fiction books?”

“Okay.” Kyle went to the fiction section and started looking for any books that had to deal with turning people into animals.

“No,” Jack said, kind of angry. “I’m talking about non-fiction.”

“Now I know, we don’t have any of those.” Millie couldn’t believe how Jack reacted about that. “Sorry, but there’s no such book.”

Jack sighed. “Fine, I’ll go somewhere else.” Jack and Jean left the store.

“Kyle, you can stop looking.”

Kyle looked at the last book and put it back. “Okay.” He walked back over to Millie.

“I don’t know about you, but I felt something bad about that guy.”

Shawn walked over to them and took off the headphones.

“Me too,” Kyle said, agreeing with Millie.

“Me three,” Shawn jumped in. “Now what are talking about?”

Millie and Kyle didn’t say anything. Now Shawn felt left out ’cause he didn’t know what was going on and it was really bugging him until he found out. They were leaving him in the dark which he hated.

At the cottage, Lacy was in the computer room, which was the smallest room in the cottage. Aside from the computer, computer desk, and two chairs there was a little bookshelf with some books. She was typing on the computer, when an eight-year-old, little brown hair, blue eyes boy wearing glasses walked in and sat next to her. “What are you doing, Lacy?” he asked.

Lacy kept typing. “I’m trying to find more books for the bookstore.”

“Why? You said that we haven’t had any costumers.... So, what’s the point?”

Lacy bit her lip. “You’re right. Wagner, can you go get Champ, please?”

“Okay.” Wagner stood up and walked out of the room.

Lacy thought about what he said. A couple of minutes later, an eighteen-year-old, dark brown hair, tall, brown eyes boy wearing glass walked in. Any seventeen or eighteen-year-old girl would find this boy to be attractive, except for Millie and Lacy. They found him to be more like an older brother. He stood next to the door. Lacy turned in the chair to face him. “Champ....” She tried to think of what to say. “Ah.... Ah....”

“What’s going on, Lacy?”

“That’s just it. I feel like something’s wrong, but I don’t know what.”

Champ walked over and sat in the chair next to her. “Lacy.”

“Yea.”

“Don’t do that to yourself. You always do that but nothing happens, now stop.”

“But....”

“No....” He noticed the computer and decided to change the subject. “You’re looking for books to put in the bookstore?”

“I was.... But then Wagner came in here.... Made me realize that we might lose the store because we don’t have any money.... I mean we do, but it isn’t much.... We haven’t had any costumers.... You’re the oldest, what do we do?” she asked with sadness filling her eyes.
Champ looked at her and realized that she was right. He was the oldest out of the whole pack, but he didn’t know how to answer her. He couldn’t think of anything at the moment. He hated those kind of moments when he couldn’t answer the others. “I’m the oldest, but Millie’s the leader. Listen to what she says.” That was all that he could tell her.

“But she’s a few months younger than me, and she comes to you for advice.” Lacy looked like she was about to cry. “We all come to you for advice. We talk to each other, all of us. But we come to you because you’re older and wiser.”

Champ knew that she was telling the truth. He thought about what she said. “We’re not going to lose the store. We’ll get costumers. It might take a while, but they’ll come.” He leaned over and hugged her. “Don’t worry about it anymore. Okay?”

“Okay.”

They broke out of the hug. “Turn off the computer and go get Stina. She’s kind of annoying. And tell her that we don’t a human dictionary.”

Lacy laughed. “Okay.”

They both stood up and left the room.

Later that night, in the living room, Millie and Shawn were sitting by the window. Lacy was sitting on the couch. Kyle and Champ were sitting in the two chairs. The moonlight was shining in through the window, kind of making a greenish color with the dimmed lights. Millie leaned forward. “Okay. Get this, today at the bookstore, some guy walked in followed by