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

my flashlight

approaching. novelxo.com

me,” I said annoyedly, turning back in the direction I was

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

I know,” I

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, just wanting to not think

are low-tier shifters, which are less evolved; like

do you mean by

like the original werewolves. They’re like regular humans, but at night they shift and go feral. When they wake up in the morning

stepped over tree roots and started to climb a small hill, then continued. “The next tier are those who can willingly shift into animals, but just regular animals. They still have a conscience while in their nonhuman form, but no powers. Believe

back to my childhood cat, Mimsy. Was

My parents always said she was just exploring, but now I wondered if she was off somewhere in her human

that?” I

can shift into much larger, more powerful versions of animals. It’s not just that they have the ability to shift, but rather that there are two beings inside of

“Like split personalities?”

caliber comes of age, their animal appears to them, and they share a soul. Their animal — like

all of its power.”

it’s a

“Exactly.”

to a small clearing. From here, we could see the campus

was silent for a while as I took in the view,

are you? Are you a

face, not that

Just a guy who fucked up and was cursed to live for

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these bones

sounds… lonely,” I said. I couldn’t explain it, but I was starting to feel

to it. That’s why I decided to hang out in that anatomy lab. I

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