I wish I could tell you when I started to fade into the background.

Maybe when Ms. Marshall died. My family took that pretty hard.

Maybe when Hope started to avoid me, that hurt but I understood the reason why. I reminded her of a past with her mother that she didn't want to resurface, I couldn't blame her for that, she's felt enough heartache for one lifetime. Who am I to bring on more?

Maybe it's when Penelope left, yeah it was probably that.

My family had Marcel in our corner in exchange for my parents cooperation, they never go into detail about what they did but by how closed off they are about it.

I assume it's nothing good, but they're good people and I think Marcel knew that.

He gave a heads up to my dad the second the Mikealson's got into town, saying they only bring destruction and extinction wherever they go.

With a family in the forefront of their minds, they had no choice but to run. We stayed as far away as we could, they built a successful company, and I was born there.

When I triggered my curse I was 6.

I was playing with a friend on the trampoline when I decided to be bold and do a backflip, then I told her to try. Amy did it without a second thought in her mind.

She ended up not fully committing to the flip which led to an unfinished rotation and hit her neck on a weak point of the trampoline fabric, falling right through and breaking her neck on the concrete ground below.

Everything happened very quickly after that, my parents came running outside of her house trying to help. They tried everything they could but it didn't work.

When the paramedics arrived they pronounced her dead, and that's the night my parents took me into the forest, under the cover of the tall trees that surrounded us, with the only light being the half moon that was peaking between the leaves, that's the night of my first transition.

I remember my parents also transforming and us running through the forest. Always stopping for me when I would fumble over the newly formed paws causing me to fall behind.

That week I was enrolled into Gregor Passenger Boarding Education. Apparently the headmistress knew the guy enough to name a school after him.

That's where I met my best friend, Penelope.

She was such a sponge for knowledge at that age when I told her I was from one of the original werewolf blood lines she insisted on meeting my parents.

That night my parents invited her mom over for dinner even though most of the dinner consisted of my parents telling stories that were passed down the pack and Pen not listening to a single word anyone else had to say.

We also found out thanks to Pen's mom, Iris, cutting into the stories I've heard a million times to tell my family they are descendants of a witch line that comes from Salem called the Bennett's.

Now it was my turn to be intrigued while Penelope had to basically hold in her groans of protest.

Our parents bonded after that, almost becoming as close of friends as Pen and I were, they became so close to the point that when they learned of Iris's yearn to travel they offered her a position at their company with those exact qualities to the job.

It became an odd conjoined family at that point.

When she would go on short trips Pen and I would go with her, the parents saying it would be a good opportunity to broaden our knowledge and learn about other cultures.

When Ms. Park would go on longer trips Pen would stay with my family, she even had her own room in our house, but we loved it because we knew sometimes family is all you have, blood or not, they are family.

I remember the day perfectly when I was told we were moving to Virginia.

"Cy, Will and Taylor just called, they want you to head home so that they can talk to you."

"Okay, yeah sure tell them I'll be right there." I reply as I start gathering my things from around Pen's room.

"I'll see you later Pen."

"Yeah of course, see you later."

When I get to my house my parents are waiting for me. My mom speaks first.

"Hey honey bear, how was Penelope's?"

"Um, it was good." I answer hesitantly, getting the sense this might be a trap.

"That's great sweetheart, so we wanted to ask you something." I nod giving the go ahead.

"Your mother and I are opening up in the United States, actually in Virginia near D.C. and we have to go set our tracks down there. There's a supernatural school not too far from where we want to live, is there a chance you want to go with us?"

"What about Pen and Ms. Park."

"We need all hands on deck which probably means that Iris is asking the same question to Penelope right now."

Well Pen doesn't like the school we're at right now too much in the first place so I am almost positive she'll be game, plus we're about to go into 8th grade so it's a good time.

"Yeah I want to go with you."

My parents were so excited that they jumped up and attacked me with hugs.