Chapter 8: Freedom

Now that leaved this house, I don’t know how to feel about this, because now I don’t know where to go. I know that my life could never be like before, no more routine. But that’s not bad at all, I just have to go far away from here, change my name and begin a new life in another town. All I need is money, but it’s something I don’t have.

All I have with me is what I wear, a blanket and Yan (in Yuri’s form for now). I need to find something to dress him and somewhere to wash him (he is partially covered with Sam’s blood). I have no family and Yan nether, so we are two orphans that need somewhere to live. We are lucky summer is coming so we can sleep outside for now, but when winter will come we will really need somewhere to live.

For now we are sleeping in the forest at night and traveling during day, by feet and by car when someone take us on hitchhiking. We finally stole some clothes for Yan so he can now be in his human form.

I still don’t know how to feel about him, I do feel happy to be with him, but just because I don’t want to be alone. I don’t feel anything else but gratitude for him and I know that he feel different for me. I really would want to be in love with him, but I can’t trust man for now. So for now he is only my friend and my confidant. One night Yan said me:

- You know Soraya, even if I know you for a little more than a week, I can’t explain why my sentiments for you are so strong. I feel like there isn’t anyone else out there for me. I will wait for you all the time I have, even if you fall for someone else, I would wait. I feel that in some way you’re the person just for me and I need to be near to you. If you ask me to be only your friend I will be, but if one day you can have confidence in me and you want to be by my side I would be happy to show you how much I love you.

After a week of travel, we are at 250 kilometers (about 155 miles) from where we start and we plan to go much further just to be sure Sam will never find us. We planned to go in a small town and find a job and somewhere to live to begin our new life. For now on my name is Sarah and I’m 19, but Yan said that he would keep his name and that I could keep calling him Yuki in his dog form.

I wish that someday I would know what happiness really is…