Unexpected Change

• Chloe Fraser, Grade 7
• Short Story
• 2019

I know I was forbidden to leave the house these days during the war,but I just couldn’t help it I had to find him.I need my best friend back.Ever since I was a young girl he was always by my side until the war started.Ever since then a cloud of sadness and sorrow floated over the town,except this one was always there looking down on us and enjoying the pain it saw.

I could see him.In his usual hiding place,behind the deteriorating walls of the old church.”Don’t come any closer it’s not safe!”He screamed.He looked terrified.
What could he possibly mean, it was the safest place I knew of.But It was to late, He started to change, first the feet and it just got worse from there.A minute later I no longer saw my best friend,I saw a hairy and ferocious werewolf ready to attack...