AITL for running off?
I (ya, m, werewolf) dated this one girl, T (ya, f, human) all though high school. We met in our freshman year of high school, and dated until our senior year of high school.
A bit of background, I have a twin brother I never talk about, J (ya, m, human), who is a real piece of work. He has two sons by two baby mamas, both of whom he impregnanted while dating his girlfriend, S (at the time, teen, f). While dating S, he began to date W (at the time, teen, m) in our senior year.
Now here's the big thing, my brother's always been trouble. Drunken benders that ranged in ridiculousness from splashing around in a fountain pretending to be a mermaid, stealing ice cream from an ice cream truck, teaching a parrot in a pet store to use forbidden words, trying to fire dance and that was just one of his benders. Another one he went to a car repair shop and tried to order a falafel. When that didn't work, he stuck his fingers in his ears and started belting out Eliza's song at the top of his lungs which lead to security escorting him out. He then went to a night club, bought some random guy a drink and somehow that lead to him getting mugged, he then took a limo for a joyride and that landed him in the drunk tank.
Then there was the drugs. I know weed for sure, I suspect LSD and coke as well, but I can't say I ever saw any definitive evidence of it. He actually got expelled for going to school blitzed all the time. He was in and out of rehab while mom was battling breast cancer.
The last time mom caught him, she told us she was changing her will for me to hold onto Jas' part of the inheritance in trust until he hit 10 years sober. I thought she made a mistake telling him that, and expressed as much, she told me she hoped it would force him to rethink his priorities. Well, it did.
One day I was at my girlfriend's house for a few hours after school so my girlfriend could focus on her school project while I took care of her little sister A (at the time, toddler, f). After we fed A and put her to bed, and my girlfriend had finished her homework, we went into her room and messed around for a bit before her Dad got home (she's on the pill just incase we forget a condom in the moment).
I ended up falling asleep cuddling with my girlfriend and snuck out before the sun came up, only to find my mom had passed away, on her night table was the mug I'd brought to her before I left for school, it was empty and mom's body was cold. Grim came and did his thing, then we found out there was an inquiry into her death, was was procedure when someone dies at home.
That's when Jas told me, "Can't wait for the toxicology report."
I asked why, and what he said made my blood run cold with panic: "Let's just say there was something 'extra' in mom's tea yesterday... the tea you served her. So the spare gets tossed away and the first born inherits it all."
So I ran away to moonwood mill, if anybody asks I always just say that I stole something I shouldn't have and I was on the run. The second part is true, but I'm really downplaying why I was on the run.
After all of that, I became a werewolf after I tried to protect my date, C from a werewolf named Greg... and became a werewolf myself afterwards. I honestly hoped whatever illness struck me would finish me so I wouldn't have to wake up every morning wondering 'is this the day it all comes apart'?
I started working as a photographer, and got a business deal with a fashion stylist, I had to blink at the name several times, same first name as my high school girlfriend, different last name.
When we met up, I found out the stylist was in fact my high school girl!.... and that she had a daughter. My daughter, Myla.
So now, I feel like an absolute eel and I gotta ask: Am I the llama for running away without knowing that T was pregnant with Myla?
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