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THE END
(until the next full moon)

This year he’d stolen a car, been bitten by a giant wolf, turned into a werewolf, eaten his biology teacher, and been drafted into a secret government organization.
This is my life as a teenage werewolf.
He wiped a hand across the mirror to clear the condensation. “Not a loser,” said Colin.
His reflection agreed.

^ hmm it feels like he's talking about puberty.

“You’re worried how it’ll change you as a person?” said Silas. “That’s easy. It doesn’t. Whatever you are inside, whoever you were before I bit you and turned you into a werewolf, that’s still who you are today. You always had the potential to be whatever you wanted to be. Everyone does. Whether you step up and make the decision to use that potential, well, that’s the difference. That’s what makes you who you are.

Becca and Colin said good-bye at the school gate and agreed to meet up later for a movie night at Jeremy’s house. Being a powerful werewolf did wonders for Colin’s self-confidence; no longer an introvert, he’d become far more social. It also helped to date the cool, creepy redheaded chick at school.

Turns out that he had cracked the formula for turning from zero to hero in the eyes of middle-school students: you just have to eat the teacher everyone hates the most.

The three of them headed into the school where people either greeted Colin or avoided him like the plague because they were mentally and emotionally scarred by what he was.
It didn’t matter to Colin. In fact, he was more popular now than he’d ever been.

“Do you think your dad is ever going to like me?”
“Well, you did hurt a lot of his men.”
“True.”
“You did knock him out.”
“He was going to shoot me!”
“Don’t worry. I still like you.”
“That’s all that really matters.”
They kissed again. Because they could.
“Enough, please, yuck, gross, and just no!” said Jeremy jokingly as he joined them.
“Morning, Jer,” said Colin.

^ so people didn't know about this until this incident.

While undergoing tests at the army base, the scientists had made the discovery that every human had a werewolf gene inside them. They concluded that the gene was likely more common in the past
but had grown increasingly recessive. A werewolf bite activated that gene and triggered the change. The more prominent the gene, the stronger the werewolf.