I knew that everyone was waiting for my 18th birthday for me to shift. And before I knew it, my birthday was upon us.

I didn’t want anyone to make a fuss over it so I hung out with the twins and Wendy that day but by night the twins took me to the woods on the other side of town. Not the one near their house.

We sat there in the woods, feeling the magical powers of the woods and letting it seep into us. The twins thought it might help, so we sat on the ground leaning up against a fallen tree and we were staring up trying...