WEDNESDAY
"Andy, sit down here for a second. You're eighteen and a man now, and you'll be on your own at college soon. I just want to tell you...you know you can tell me anything, right? Absolutely anything. I'll always love and support you. You know that, right?"
"Yea, dad. Thanks. Can I go now?"
"Andy.... I know about the knot," I said, trying to be matter-of-fact.
"What? I don't know what you're talking about," he barked, having lost his poker face. "Look, I gotta go." He grabbed his baseball cap and book bag and sailed out the door, slamming it behind him.
Fuck. I knew that wasn't going to go well.
Andy's mom had bolted, too, right after he was born. The thicker-than-normal black hair on his tiny body was all the proof she needed that his real father's genes weren't dormant. Fortunately, my own hairiness, stemming from my Greek and Italian ancestry, answered whatever questions people had about how such a young man could have such a thick mat on his chest, arms, legs and back. "We're Mediterranean!" I'd joke. What else could it be?
For a long time, I thought the werewolf traits would be minimal, manifesting themselves only in his body hair, muscular and athletic frame, extraordinary vision and sense of smell. Oh, and a larger than average penis. Hehe. "So he'll grow up to be a champion on the field and in the bedroom," I thought. "Nothing wrong with that."
Although a full moon didn't seem to affect him (to my great relief), something worse did as he got older -- his hormones and instinct to breed.