The Day I Realise

Chapter 1: Wolf's Meeting

Living in a modern life is depletes your peace to pieces. Robbery, Rape, Burglary, and every other crimes are starting to make their wonders. Living in such condition will make a child have 2 options: To struggle for living a good life, or to join the dark army of criminals. Both have the same promises, "a happy ending", yet there's no such things as a precise and definite future.

A child, born in a modern family who lives a fake glamour life yet struggle to leave the delusion of reality, was raised poorly by making him always feels righteous. In school, the boy had some friends in Elementary, less in Junior High, and what do you know? Lesser in Senior High. Lonely life isn't it? Not so much. The boy made 2 new "friends" that accompanies him all the time. 

The first one he met when he was in Junior High. The boy's family got a tradition that every end of the year, the families will meet up to spend Christmas and New Year together. There was one night that the boy stayed in a villa, a big villa which looks like built by a Dutch designer. The boy slept together with 7 of his relatives in the living room. Getting the urge to tinkle, the boy got up and gone to a toilet. Having finished, still drowsy, he came back to the bed, but he started counting while pointing at the bulky bed sheets, 

"1.. 2.. 3.. 4.. 5.. 6.. 7.. There! No one's missing!"

The boy doesn't realize that he counted wrong, why? Because he hadn't include himself in the count, yet he counted 7, who was the extra one that he counted?

The boy was bored, he couldn't sleep again. He decided to take a stroll on a slightly tilted street and gone upwards. There, he founded an abandoned building, a big one, that looks like a factory. He heard a howl, a loud one, that looks like a wolf's howl! The boy was very eager to examine whether there is a real wolf. And so he started his adventure in the area. Venturing the side of the factory, the boy finally found what he was expecting for. It was a wolf, but a very huge one! A claw as big as the boy, eyes as big as a wrecking ball, a broken white fur and body as tall as a 3 story building. The wolf was shackled by the neck, struggling to take it off, the boy saw the monstrous wolf in awe. Amazed by the wolf, the boy doesn't realize that an elderly man approached him.

"Young one, aren't you scared by the wolf?" asks the man.

"No sir, I'm very impressed by the size of it! How can it be so big? What did he ate to be so big? How much does he weight? How tall is he? How-"

"Hahahaha, you're an interesting fella! Tell you what? Why don't you bring him home?" said the man.

The boy was eager to say Yes, yet he found it impossible to bring such a monster to his home.

"Yes of course I really want to take it home sir! But look at the size of it! I can't possibly bring him home!?" the boy exclaimed.

"Ohoho, don't be afraid son, why don't you look at him now?"

The boy looked upward yet he cannot see the wolf anymore. Looking down, he found a very astonishing wolf cub with fur as bright as the snow.

"Hey, how did he become so clean now?" the boy confused.

"That, son, is the proof the the wolf has finally found its long lost master" said the grandpa.

"What? But I never agreed to take him home dear sir! My family is strict with pets, not even the cute face of the cub will suffice to take their hearts! Even the food, how can I feed him?" The boy was really anxious.

"Dear son, no one will be able to see the wolf beside you. Only those who are special, are able to see it. No worries for how you feed him, your love towards him is the only food that he requires"

Hearing the man's words, the boy started to shiver. He realized that he deals with something that is otherworldly exist.

"Wow, so you mean that the wolf is a Ghost sir?" asked the boy curious.

"I prefer to say he's now your forever friend, son" answered the man calmly.

The boy seemed to be enjoying his moment with the cub, almost ignoring what the man said.

"Hmm.. Looks like he finally made new loving master after all.." Said the man.

Morning has come. The bright shine of the sunrise has lighted some parts of the town. They boy realized he played too long and started to look for the man yet he found no one. The boy tried to leave the wolf cub alone, but the cub seems to keep following him wherever he goes. The moment he reached the villa, everyone was still asleep. One of the bed seems to be empty, and the boy just realized that he miscounted one person as himself. Who could that person be?