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door. She jumped back from the door and watched the handle shake.
    “SOMETHING IS OUT HERE!”
    She grabbed the lock and threw open the door.
    He leapt in knocking her to the ground. She screamed as he pinned her to the floor. The huge wolf with the pale blue eyes lunged at the door. Its wide-open muzzle bounced off the open door, as if it hit a glass wall.
    Jake scrambled off of her and dragged her further inside of the house. He lifted her off of the ground and held her in his arms tightly.
    "WHAT THE FUCK! WHAT THE FUCK!"
    She tucked her face into his chest, squinting away from the wolf at the door.
    Jake’s arms wrapped around her, “What the fuck?”
    She shook her head.
    He put her on the couch. The door hung open. Jake stepped toward the door.
    “No Jake, no stay here. No don’t go over there.” She whispered putting her hands out. She never took her eyes off of the open door. A cool breeze blew in making the door creak. She felt like her heart was in her throat watching him take another step toward the door. He peeked around the open door frame.
    “I don’t see it.” He whispered.
    She could feel it though. She could hear it whisper in her mind. It wanted her. It wanted to do bad things to her. It called her a witch. It said that was its favorite.
    Suddenly Jake jumped back. The huge wolf growled, filling the doorway. He grabbed the door and swung it hard. The door slammed shaking the entire house.
    His chest rose with his breath.
    She had covered her eyes with her hands and was peeking through the spaces between her fingers.
    He turned at her, “What the hell was that?”
    She shook her head, “A wolf.”
    "Yeah I get that it’s a wolf O, but what the fuck is it doing in town? Why is it chasing us?"
    "I don’t know."
    He turned the lock on the door, “Why couldn’t it get past the doorway? It bounced on nothing.”
    She shook her head again, “I don’t know Jake. Why did you freeze in the truck? What was that?”
    He turned to look at her confused, “What?”
    “Lance’s driveway. We were kissing and then you froze.”
    “I don’t know. I never. I just looked out the window and you were gone.”
    She rubbed her hands over her eyes, “What? That doesn’t even make sense. You didn’t hear me leave the truck? You were frozen. I touched you. It was like a seizure.”
    He backed away from the door. He went to the windows and closed all of the blinds.
    "What made you come here? Why didn't you go in the party?"
    He walked over to her, his dark blue eyes looked concerned, “I just knew you were here. I had a bad feeling, like I needed to get here right away.”
    He climbed onto the couch and pulled his cell phone out of his pocket. He dialed and held it up to his ear.
    “Dad there's a huge wolf outside of Ophelia’s house. Ophelia. You know Dr. Peters. Ophelia Peters. Yeah.”
    He rubbed his forehead, never taking his eyes from the front door, “It was the size of a horse dad. It was huge. It jumped at us and tried to get us.”
    They both watched the door.
    “No we’re safe at Ophelia’s but you need to call the police and the forest rangers.”
    He pulled the phone away, “I’m staying here with you okay.” He whispered.
    She nodded, she didn’t know if that made her feel better but it didn’t feel worse.
    “I’m staying at her house. Yup.” He hung up the phone and started to fiddle with it.
    “I’m going to text everyone at the party and let them know. They should go home, this is nuts.”
    She watched his hands fly across the surface of his iPhone. She couldn’t help but notice how graceful they were for such large hands.
    He looked at her again, “You okay?”
    She shook her head again. Her words didn’t make it out of her throat.
    “That was bizarre. Why couldn’t it get in the house?”
    “I don’t know. It was in the alley, behind Lawts Hardware. It attacked me then but then, uhm, well- I got away.” She didn’t want to tell him about the six ghosts that had looked