Chapter 31 My Party

#Chapter 31: Pity Party

Nina

I knew sleeping with Enzo again would have been a mistake. He didn’t even care about me enough to stay for the entire duration. Clearly he got what he wanted and realized that I wasn’t worth his time, so he bailed. When I got dressed and left the cabin, I didn’t see him anywhere at the party; he must have run off.

I jumped down the stairs and started to walk back toward the party so I could find Jessica and Lori and tell them that I was going home, but stopped when I overheard two of Lisa’s friends talking.

“Have you seen Lisa?” one said.

“Yeah,” the other replied. “She walked into the woods a little while ago. I just saw Enzo go that way, too.”

“Ooh!” the first girl said excitedly. “Do #cropter 38 Pity Party

you think they’re getting back together?”

The second girl giggled. “Obviously. Have you seen the way he’s been looking at her lately? Clearly he regrets messing around with that weirdo Nina and realizes that he’ll never do any better than Lisa.”

I didn’t want to stick around to hear

any more as tears started to well up in

my eyes. I just wanted to go home.

I ran down the trail that led back to campus. I kept running until I could no longer see or hear the people at the cabins. The waning moon was just a crescent in the sky, no longer illuminating the forest like it did the other night, so I pulled out my phone and turned on the flashlight so I could

see.

Eventually, I heard footsteps behind

flashlight around #Chapter

Luke approaching.

figured you’d follow me,” I said annoyedly, turning back in the direction I was going and

let you walk through the woods alone,” he replied. “There

know,”

silent for a moment before speaking again. “Not just werewolves. Other

pondered what he said; admittedly, it made me a bit curious. We

are there, anyway?” I asked eventually,

which are less evolved; like

do you mean by ‘less

night they shift and go feral. When they wake up in the morning –if they wake up– they

who can willingly shift into animals, but just regular animals. They still have a conscience while in their nonhuman form, but no powers. Believe it or not, many cats,

Was

sometimes disappear for days on end. My parents always said she was just exploring, but now I wondered if she was off somewhere in her

that?”

who can shift into much larger, more powerful versions of animals. It’s not just that they have the ability to shift,

“Like split personalities?”

talk to each other telepathically. Usually, when a shifter of this caliber comes of age, their animal appears to them, and they share a soul. Their animal — like Enzo’s wolf — can give them some or #Chapter 31 Pity

all of its power.”

it’s a spirit

“Exactly.”

and I finished climbing the hill and came to a small clearing. From here, we could see

was silent for a while as I took in the view, but then cleared my

you? Are you a

I couldn’t see his face, not that it

he said. ” Just a guy who fucked up and was cursed to live for all eternity. But not in a cool, sexy way,

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these bones start to disintegrate in millions

couldn’t explain it, but I was starting to feel genuinely bad

shrugged. “You get used to it. That’s why I decided to hang out in that anatomy lab. I like seeing

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