Rejected? Deuces! A Gay Werewolf Novella

“Rise, my child.”

My eyes fluttered open to see the smiling face of my Mom- the Moon Goddess- as he helps me to rise to my feet. “How long was I out?” I asked, stifling a yawn. “It feels like I’ve slept for years.”

Mom chuckled. “Only for a few days, enough time for justice to be served,” she replied as she pointed to the ground that was inches away from my feet. “Look, my child, at how the proud have fallen.”

I looked down to the ground and saw that Regan was screaming and moaning in pain as the fires of hell were consuming him alive. “Whoa,” I breathed. “Is he-”

“As sure as the stars shine brightly in the galaxies from my hand, he has been given his punishment for all eternity,” she said firmly. “He cries out your name day and night since he has belatedly seen the light. Though he cannot be relieved of what I have given to him, you must say your final farewells to the one who shattered your heart in the past.”

I nodded, already thinking of a perfect idea to say that it was over between me and him. “Mom, can I sing it to him?” I asked. “When I was alive, Gia introduced me to a particular song that spoke of what could’ve been to him and I need to make sure that Regan gets my message across.”

“Of course,” she said. “Are you ready to sing it now?”

I nodded. “But the lyrics are going to contradict to what I really must say to finally let him go. It might sound a little off, but I know what I must say.”

“Very well,” she said as she let me step to the side and face down the boy. In a flash, I was able to hear Regan screaming and crying out my name as tears fell down his scorching face before they intermingled with the flames. “Carson! Carson, set me free!” He said. “I’m sorry! I’m so sorry! Please relieve me with your hand.”

Taking a deep breath, I felt the melancholy first bars of the song in my heart emanate from my heart and echoed throughout the void, heaven, and hell.

Don’t need no paper

Don’t need no pencils

Don’t need no love letters

’Cause I just wanna get along with you

No beeper, don’t need no cellular

Though Digital’s better, listen

I just wanna get along with you

Try me ’cause I’d be

The one that makes you happy

But the part that I don’t get is

Why me? You deny me

Now I’m forced to roam this planet sadly

Lonely like some loose baguette

You took my heartbeat from me

This is the saddest story

What was wrong with my love?

You took my heartbeat from me

Was it I loved you poorly?

Whatever it was, I just wanna get along with you

Don’t need no car

Don’t need no truck

Don’t need no vehicles

’Cause I just wanna get along with you

No planes, don’t need no trains

Don’t need to be passenger

Cause I just wanna get along with you

Try me ’cause I’d be

The one that makes you happy

But the part that I don’t get is

Why me? You deny me

Now I’m forced to roam this planet sadly

Lonely like some loose baguette

You took my heartbeat from me

This is the saddest story

What was wrong with my love?

You took my heartbeat from me

Was it I loved you poorly?

Whatever it was, I just wanna get along with you

Don’t need these clothes

Don’t need this house

Don’t need this land or skies

Cause I just wanna get along with you

These eyes, don’t need these thighs

As a matter of fact this damn life

Cause I just wanna get along with you

Try me ’cause I’d be

The one that makes you happy

But the part that I don’t get is

Why me? You deny me

Now I’m forced to roam this planet sadly

Lonely like some loose baguette

You took my heartbeat from me

This is the saddest story

What was wrong with my love?

You took my heartbeat from me

Should have just stabbed it for me

From ashes to dust

I just wanna get along with you

“Dear Carson, I guess you can say that this is truly the end for the both of us,” I said, letting the music play on as I saw him sobbing at my swan song. “You and I could’ve had a good thing. But you chose to be stuck in your arrogant ways. In fact, I knew that you and I were never meant to be. But that’s okay because I was going to be free from the pain you’ve caused me after all this time. I guess we were too star-crossed to truly fall in love.

I took a deep breath. “All the days I spent in this coma- and still am, I still believe- I took the time to reflect on why we were never meant to be. My guess was because you wanted someone to make you stronger and not with someone who can ‘bring you down,’ as you say,” I continued. “And when I finally cut all ties to the supernatural so I can live my life as a human, I was relieved. Because from the time I cut the bonds to the moment of the fateful car crash, I knew that things were never meant to be between you and me. So, even as I watch you beg and pleas for forgiveness, I knew that you’ll never change. So this song I’m singing is a way of saying my final farewell. It’s my anthem of making sure that you made your bed and now you must lie in it. Thank you, Regan Zallenda. Thank you for letting me know that you saw the light a little too late so I can finally make my peace. And just like that, it’s over.”

“NO!” Carson screamed, as I sang the last few bars of the song as others began to join me in the chorus.

You took my heartbeat from me

This is the saddest story

What was wrong with my love?

You took my heartbeat from me

Should have just stabbed it for me

From ashes to dust, I just wanna get along with you

You took my heartbeat from me

This is the saddest story

You took my heartbeat from me

Should have just stabbed it for me

The ground closed up as Regan’s voice was silenced, leaving me to face the Moon Goddess, who was shedding a few tears of my own. “I had to sing it,” I said softly. “I had to do what I must.”

“That was beautiful,” she replied. “Now I know that you’re ready to go back.”

“Go back to where?” I said, looking and feeling confused. “I thought Regan had officially killed me.”

She gave me a knowing grin, pointing to the sky where it revealed the hospital scene as her hand reversed all the damage that Regan had caused with his lifeless body now swallowed up in the ground as the mess and carnage were suddenly cleaned up and the dead began to come back to life. Even the female huntress known as Bianca was suddenly alive and now keeping watch over me as if nothing had happened.

“You have to go back, Carson.”

I turned around to see a petite-looking blonde who was the exact clone of the huntress in the hospital- but she was dressed as if she was getting ready for her high school prom, with her blonde hair in neat curls and wearing a stylish gown in a shade of purple. “Who are you?” I asked.

“I am Arianna, Bianca’s sister,” she said. “Like you, I was dealt a bad hand a love myself, but I don’t know if I can return to her unless you do. She needs you to make her happy, Carson. Your mates and family need you as well as everyone else does.”

“Please, Your Grace,” said a little boy- a vampire that walked alongside an older woman who looked like his mom. “My father is heartbroken already now that he lost me and Mommy. We all need you to return so we can have a chance to.”

I turned my attention back to Mom. “Are all these people waiting for me to return? Do their family know?” I asked her.

“Their families and friends have been praying for you to wake up, Carson,” Mom said. “These people- your relatives and newfound allies- are still waiting for a chance to return to their loved ones. But it all has to start with you. Are you willing to take a risk, my son?”

I looked back at the hospital area where my mates were joining the huntress as they rearranged my many gifts while the female guards brought in some food. I knew what I had to do. “I’m ready to go back,” I said. “How do I-”

“Close your eyes and let yourself rest,” was all she said. “Just know that I will be by your side through it all as everything will be made clear. I love you, my son. Always know that.”

I felt my eyelids grow heavy as I laid back down. “I love you, too... Mom,” I mumbled as I went back into a peaceful slumber.

And just like that, black gave way to ebon, then gray, and then a mixture of all the colors of the rainbow as I finally opened my eyes...