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Ooc:// Yeah, it's definitely time to skip. To a little bit after school? Sometime in the evening?

Bic:// Vanessa scribbled over the physics problem she had been working on for the best twenty minutes, coming up with yet another different answer for the same equation, for the fourth time in row. She glanced at her clock whose hands told her it was about half-passed seven; it had been an hour since she'd pulled out the school books and she thought she deserved a break, especially if it involved dinner. She walked down the hallway that connected her bedroom to the tiny square dining room and kitchen but stopped as soon as she entered and noticed the dirty dishes piled up in the sink. She walked towards her father's study, where she knew she would find him as was his normal after-dinner ritual, just as her three half-siblings disappeared inside their rooms and her step-mother declined to the basement to work-out. Nessa knocked on the door, crossing her arms as her father looked up at her and his face fell. "Oh, sweetie, I'm sorry, I forgot you were with us tonight," he started to stand up from his desk, looking sincerely apologetic, even though it had been the fifth time to happen this month.

Nessa held up her hand to stop her dad from getting up. "No problem," she said in a voice that portrayed the exact opposite. Her father opened her mouth to say something, most likely about left-overs or frozen dinners, but Nessa was too annoyed to hear it. Instead, she headed straight for her room, packed away her school books, and headed to her car. She doubted anyone would notice her leaving, and at least her mother had some decent food in her pantries.

She drove across town to her mother's house, though she noticed all the lights were off as she pulled into the drive-way a few minutes passed eight. Wondering if they'd gone out, Nessa entered the house anyways, leaving her bag in the car along with most of her essentials. She switched back-and-forth between houses that she had taken to keeping all her toiletries and most of her clothes in the back seat.

As soon as she opened the front door, she heard a light gasp from the living room and was immediately blinded by a light flicking on. "Oh, Vanessa, it's you," she heard her mother say while she blinked again and again to get used to the bright light. "Is something wrong?"

"No, no, here just sounded better tonight than Dad's," Nessa explained, shielding her eyes from the light so she could actually look at her mother, her looked just a tad disappointed.

"Well, I just put the twins to bed and we're trying to catch up on as much sleep as we can while the baby's sleeping," her mother said as Nessa took note of her pajamas. Her mother had recently had a baby which had caused lots of sleepless nights for her and her husband. "Try not to make too much noise going to your room. Night." Her mother managed an attempted smile, which turned out more like a grimace, before she left Nessa alone in the room.

"Right," Nessa said after her, still standing in the open doorway. She flicked off the lights and headed out the door again. "Sounds just about right," she muttered to herself as she once again headed back to her car. As she drove towards the nearest fast food restaurant, which she had frequented more than she would have liked to admit in the last two years that she could actually drive to it, Nessa made a promise to return to whichever house called her first, though she knew fully well that would likely be neither. Her mother would be asleep until 3 AM when the newest baby Cooke had a habit of waking up and everyone in the Moore would likely not bother to see each other again until morning, let alone check to see if Nessa was still alive. By the time the digital numbers on her dashboard made it all the way up to 10, Nessa had completely stopped her tears and found herself in the grass parking lot of some park next to the town local woods. She knew it was probably the least safe place she could be, but the last thing she wanted was for someone to find her like this.

The woods that surronded the park echoed with nighttime wildlife. Owls hooting, creature scuddling too and fro. The sound of a gunshot echoed out from somewhere in the woods but didn't seem to phase the nightime chatter. Not long after that the bushes that surronded the area nessa sat in began to shake violently as if something where moving hurridly through them. Then it stopped. And a pair of glowing blue eyes shone faintly through the night, they peered out at her curiously, the pupils growing bigger as it watched in the night.

Nessa gripped the wheel of her truck tightly as soon as she heard the gunshot, completely forgetting her tear-streaked face and all the reasons she had been crying in the first place. She stared out the passenger side window as the bushes rustled suspiciously. She was just about to hit the gas when they suddenly stopped. She paused for a moment, knowing that she should leave but not sure where she would go. Maybe if she got murdered her families would actually notice her? Shaking off that idiotic thought, she jumped when a pair of bright blue eyes shone out of the trees. Immediately, Nessa turned the key to her ignition, frightened into action, but her engine stuttered and stopped. She tried again, but no lights her anything came on. She groaned loudly when she realized she must have killed the engine by staying idle for nearly two hours with the lights and radio on. Judging all her options, Nessa cautiously locked her doors and stared at the strong blue eyes, waiting for whatever they would do to her.

The eyes continued to watch her more curiously now. The creature that owned the eyes crept slowly out of the woods. It was a wolf. But an odd wolf. A massive wolf that walked on paws that looked like hands. It even wore a pair of jeans, or what had been jeans at once, they where tattered an torn now. It slowly approached the car, stopping at the front and looking over the hood into the windsheild. Blue eyes still curious and glowing as it remained on a ll fours.

Vanessa held in a scream as some large, dog-like animal approached her car. She had never seen a creature like it; in some strange way, it almost resembled an actual person. She prayed that she would be safe inside her car, though she was tempted to try and make a run for it.

It continued to watch her, before its lips curled and its snout crinkled into something that resembled a smile... A somewhat crooked and familiar smile. It slowly raised up, placing its front "paws" on the hood, again, with another slow motion it hauled itself up onto the hood. The car bounced under the creature's weight. It stood, crouched on the hood a moment, ears perking as it sat back on its bum, and in a frigteningly humanlike way, it sat "criss cross" legged, right there on the hood.

Vanessa could only stare wide-eyed as the creature made itself comfortable on the hood of her car. All she could process at that moment was that the thing she was seeing was impossible. It wasn't a bear; it wasn't a wolf; and it sure wasn't a human. And yet she could have swore she saw it smile! She glanced at the empty fast-food bag on the passenger seat, wondering if she had somehow gotten drugged and was hallucinating this whole thing. Either there was a strange creature on her car or she was about to get date-raped, and both choices told her to keep her car door locked.

It leaned in closer to her, the only thing seperating them was a thin peice of glass. Something the creature could've easily broken. At one point it even raised a clawed finger and tapped on the thin glass. It gave a snort and the glass fogged, making it jerk back and tilt its head. It then made that smile before leaning forward and snorting several times so the window was good and foggy. It then to its "finger" and began to messily draw a smilee face with a tongue sticking out.

At that moment, Nessa was caught somewhere between screaming, laughing, and pinching herself to test if this was a dream. Instead, she did the only reasonable thing she could think of; she quickly tried her engine again, in a desperate hope that she'd be able to make it to humanity before she completely lost her mind, but of course there was no sound of an engine revving up. Desperate to do something and with her helplessness pushing her to the brink, she finally made a decision, though the logical side of her mind that hadn't gone crazy yet told her was stupid. As inconspicuously as she could, she manually unlocked her car do before quickly jumping out and sprinting across the large expanse of grass. After about two steps outside, she immediately knew that either the thing behind her was going to kill her or in her crazy state of mind, she would kill herself, but both of those options sounded a lot more appealing than sitting inside her car and trying not to wet herself.

The creature watched her run, its ears perking as it watched her. Despite its sheer size it moved quick and swiftly. It bolted off after her, nearly flipping her car when it left from the hood to the grass. It wasn't sure what it would do once it caught up to the girl, but it didn't matter at that moment. His tounge lolled out of the side of his mouth as he galloped happily after her.
The closer Ness got to the road, the slower the creature would run. There was no traffic this time of night, but one truck came speeding down the road, a drunk driver who struggled to stay awake at the wheel. The truck swerved before turning and speeding right toward Vanessa.
Seeing this the creature made a sound like a gasp before growling and charging full speed. He swerved around Ness and clashed into the drunkards car. Stopping it instantly before it had a chance to reach Ness. The creature then stood on it's hind legs. Looking at the dent it'd made in the car. Then to the unconscious drunk driver. He'd be okay. The creature carefully pushed the car away, as if it could still hut Ness if it was too close.

Ooc:// hope all that's okay lol I can change it if you want.

Ooc:// No, it's perfect!

Bic:// Nessa was barely watching as she blindly ran closer and closer to the road, not even seeing the headlights until they were nearly on top of her. She quickly stopped herself, but her momentum caused her to crash into the ground, barely managing to not break a limb. In her tumble, she missed the large creature leaping over her but looked up in time to see it crash into the car. Whether on accident or on purpose, it saved her life. Nessa was too stunned to picker herself up of the ground and only managed to crawl onto her hands and knees, making herself mobile if the need be.

It pushed the car over so it sat infront of a tree. Staging the scene to make it look like that was what the driver had hit. It then turned its head to look bad at Ness, his ears angled and his head tilted as he looked at the girl. It dropped back to all fours and slowly approached her, stopping and sitting down when it was only a few inches from her, its tail wagged slowly.

Ooc:// lol alright x3

As the creature walked towards her, Nessa slowly crawled away at the same pace, stopping only when the... whatever it was sat down and looked at her, like a dog. She couldn't decide if it was the logical or insane side of her brain telling her that no matter what the animal was, it had just saved her life and she should show some gratitude and at least pet the darn thing. Then again, with its size, it could eat her in one giant bite and she'd never know it until she was dead. "I swear, if you start talking... my body might just implode from over exposure to... weird...ness..." she said, not quite sure why she was talking to the thing but sometimes talking helped her get a better grip on the situation. Not so much this time.

It huffed with amusment as she talked to him, threatening over exposure to weirdness if he spoke. That was silly. Animals can't talk. But he could show her he thought that was funny. So after clearing its throat, he "smiled" at her once again, he wasn't able to do that long though. He just wagged his tail a little faster then.

Vanessa rubbed her face with her hands as she tried to comprehend this whole situation. "I must be going insane because it seems like you actually understand what I'm saying," she said, trying not to stare at the large animal.