Tonight's the night, as soon as the sunset will be over, the entire Marron family will turn into their beast form, whether they like or not. Their body was already starting to change, there's nothing they can do about it, unless they can figure out how to change the phase of the moon. This also meant that now, they have to prepare.
Lupe: Please, we need to have the chalet to ourselves for tonight. You can always sleep at the beach house with Rudi's friends. They're lovely folks and their beach house is pretty big.
Tamara: Absolutely not, I am not letting an entire pack of feral werewolves destroy my entire house, sorry.
Yamuna: Yeah, can't you guys just run around in the wood until the morning or something?
Lupe: No, it's too unsafe. We need to be contained somewhere.
Tamara: When I first met you years and years ago, you were in full control of your beast form, and you never bothered teaching your own kids how to. What happened?
Lupe: You know what happened.
Yeah, everyone kinda know, it all started when Lupe's accidentally clawed her now dearly departed husband. It's not what killed him, he died three years later, and famously in a plane crash, but the guilt of injuring him never went away...Still, she never really admitted it, so while everyone knows, nobody can't be sure either.
Meanwhile, upstairs, the concerns were of...much more trivial means.
Ulrike: This is awful! I look so ugly and so gross and I have this huge pimple on my chin but I can't wear makeup cause my color vision is gone and I'm super super hairy and I can't shave cause it will just grow back within minute I HATE IT I HATE IT I HATE IT!!!!
Sandalio: Riquitita, Riquitita, calm down please, my hearing is cranked up to eleven...
Then, outside, Conan was playing like any other kids. Maybe it's him only being 12, but he did not understand why older people around him were treating being a werewolf like this horrible curse. Personally, he's at peace with it, he has always been, which helps me keep control of his beast form. Then again, at his young age, having barely hit puberty yet, he hasn't unleashed its full force.
Eventually, the night began to fall, and just like every month, Rudi ran away in the nearest wood to hide. Then, they squat down and stared at the moon, waiting. Soon, the transformation will begin.
Once they were done unpacking the luggage from the car, the group followed Rudi to Yamuna and Tamara’s chalet, where Rudi’s family was also gonna reside for the time of the vacation. So might as well present the ol’ relatives to their friends.
Rudi: Ok guys, promise me you won’t embarrass me? Like, I 100% support being a weirdo, but I mean don’t say shit like puta madre in front of my mom or something. It is not true it means beautiful in Spanish, I lied.
Daniele: Rudi, nobody believed you one bit when you said that.
The group went inside, where a plump, middle aged woman with grey streaks in her wavy hair greeted them.
Rudi: Here’s my mom, her name is Guadalupe.
Kino: Hello Misses Marron.
Lupe: Oh please, you can just call me Lupe. It’s fine.
Rudi: Where’s everybody else?
Lupe: Your sister is upstair, and your brother is outside with your dad.
And so they went upstair, where they found a blonde teenage girl laying around on the couch, looking obviously bored.
Rudi: Ok so this is my sister, Ulrike. Ulrike, say hi to my friends.
Ulrike: ...Hi...
Rudi: Damn, can you at least try to fake being happy?
Ulrike: No ok, it fucking sucks. I wanted to spend my 18th birthday in Puerto Rico with my friends, but nooooo. Cause I’m not an adult yet then that means mom can force me to spend it instead in bumfuck nowhere on that stupid Canadian island. At least we got wifi.
Audrey: Should we tell her Nova Scotia is not an island?
Rudi: Whatever, let’s go outside, I ain’t dealing with a teenager today.
Yeah, that’s the thing. Weirdly enough, Ulrike shares a birthday with Tamara, July 7th, obviously not of the same year. Which is why the Marrons got invited to their yearly vacation to Nova Scotia. As she was turning 50 that year, Tamara wnated to make this summer extra special. But then, Lupe decided to force Ulrike to come cause come on, she’s not missing her daughter’s 18th birthday.
And so the group followed Rudi outside, where indeed, their little brother and their step-father was.
Rudi: The little 12 years old dweeb with a skateboard over there is my brother Conan, and the older dude is Sandalio, my mom’s husband.
Conan: Hey!
Matteo: I thought your dad was dead. That’s like, a pretty major thing that happened...That’s like the only thing I knew about your family prior to today.
Rudi: Yeah, I said he’s my mom’s husband, not my dad. I mean, no offense to him, but my mom and him got married when I was 18, so I just cannot really bring myself to call him my dead. Especially since I was like, 15 when my actual dad died. But I also accepted to take his surname in exchange of him paying for my legal name change so now I’m legally Rudder Lopez Marron, but I don’t use it cause like...He’s not the one who came inside my mom...I mean he might have but if he did, it did not result in my conception.
Dawud: I am begging you to stop talking.
Daniele: Then what’s your actual surn-
Sandalio: Hi Rudi, what were you telling your friends?
Rudi: Uh...How mom is such a cougar for marrying you. Like, you’re such a young guy it’s disgusting.
Sandalio: Haha...Don’t listen to them, I’m only five years younger than Lupita, and at our age it’s not really weird of an age gap.
Rudi: I know, I know. I’m just kidding. Mom has always been into younger guy anyway, like my dad was also younger than her, but only by a year. That’s her little #girlbossfeminist trait.
Sandalio: ....What?
Alright, while they worried about their friends embarrassing them in front of their family, turns out the most embarrassing person here is actually Rudi themself!
