I Turned Into A WareWolf!

• Hayrullah Konak, Grade 9
• Short Story
• 2008

It all started in the morning of my Birth-day. The Sun that shone through my window finally hit my face as it was at its peak, and forced me to wake up. I moved from side to side urging myself to get back to sleep, but I couldn’t. I finally gave in and stood up; sitting from my bed, giving a huge yawn that had a rough sound. It felt very different from a normal yawn from me.
“Hmmm….. That was weird” I said to myself. My voice felt rough again. “Why does my voice sound rough?” I questioned. And when I continuously talked in the same manner, I jumped out of my bed and scram, “Oh no!” A chill trailed through my spine and I started feeling a bit itchy on my arms. I scratched and felt something that was like the hair of my head, “Oh no!” I said again. I felt itchy on my legs. I itched and again I shouted, “Oh no!” I stared feeling itchy around my side-burns and then burst out, “Oh No!” A frightened feeling came upon me. I started running around my room shouting, “Oh no, no, no, no, no, no! It couldn’t be, not now and not so quickly, I mean, I just turned thirteen. I need just two more years to enjoy my self. Just….. Two…..more” I looked in my mirror that was stuck on my wall. Fear kept rising as I saw thousands of pimples around my face and an overgrown side-burn and no, this couldn’t be. I felt hair around my chest as well. I now began to scream and ran out of my room shouting my loudest, “Ahhhhhhhhhh!!!”, while putting my hands on my cheeks. As I was out of my room, I heard someone in the living room. I ran to see who it was and saw my dad lying on the couch watching some early TV. “Dad, dad, dad!” I shouted. He looked at me and laughed saying,
“Yes Dave, what is it?” As quickly as I can I rushed all the events in a panicking voice,
“Dad, I just woke up and suddenly all I see on me and feel on me is a bunch of hair totally expanding on my face, legs and arms and….. What on earth is hair doing in the lower part of my body and which prankster rubbed soap under my undies!!?” I was just about to shout further on until my dad interrupted,
“Calm down my boy, you’re just going through puberty!” he said laughing. I replied, confused,
“What! Ok, I understand that I’m going through…. Puberty, but why so quickly, I mean, yesterday I had nothing and today, I don’t even know if this is me or not!” My dad then replied in a wise sounding voice,
“Ahhh, my son, those that go through puberty fast, are known to be a Werewolf”. And that is when I gave the biggest shout. It was probably louder then a girls shout and probably as loud as a jet.
“Ahhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh!!!!” and I ran away into my room and back to bed hoping this was a dream, but it wasn’t. But as I was running I heard my dad say,
“Only joking son, oh dear, oh dear!” and he laughed away.

This is a true story. It happened to a friend of a friend of mine.