Ash stopped when she protested and turned back to her, admiring her bravery yet cursing her nativity as well. He hesitated, listening to her caring tone then sighed.<br/><br/>"Of course you're still my best friend..." he said. Hesitating, he then quickly walked to the balcony and pulled the curtains across. He walked around the living room, turning off lights and also in the kitchen. In the nearly pitch black apartment, he walked back to the coffee table and pulled a pack of matches from his jeans, lighting the candle Rebecca had in the middle. Then taking one last look through the curtains to make sure no one was watching, he turned back to sit on the couch beside Rebecca.<br/><br/>"I want to make sure that anyone outside thinks there's no one home or at least can't see inside." he said, "This will make sense in a minute." Ash fidgeted with the matches for a moment before setting them on the coffee table.<br/><br/>"Right out of High School I decided to do a road trip across the country, mostly to visit all the different campuses to see where I wanted to go to college. I ended up taking several months sightseeing instead, seeing all the famous landmarks and whatnot, until in early December of that year, I ended up in a car accident when a driver without winter tires on came over a blind hill sideways.<br/><br/>"After that, I don't remember much until I woke up in what I thought was a hospital, but was way too advanced and seemed to be more of a lab. That's when I found out they changed me."<br/><br/>Ash stopped to take a sip of his now cold coffee and continued on.<br/><br/>"They were experimenting on people up there, wherever I was, I don't remember much about getting out, but I do know what they had made me into. When I regained my senses, I was a beast.<br/><br/>"They turned me into a Werewolf."<br/><br/>Ash held out his arm to the coffee table and rolled up his sleeve. It started to swell as his muscles rippled and enlarged, his skin becoming covered in a dark black fur. His hand widened and nails became sharp talons. When it was done, Ash flexed a beastly hand and forearm, clearly too big for his frame.<br/><br/>"Becca...I... I don't want to scare you."