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 around

Luke approaching. novelxo.com fast

said annoyedly, turning back in the direction I was

walk through the

know,” I

silent for a moment before speaking

admittedly, it made me a bit

other sorts of shifters are there, anyway?” I asked eventually, just wanting to not

shifters, which are less evolved; like rogues.

do you mean

When they wake up in the morning –if they wake up–

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 it or not, many cats, birds, and rodents in the

Mimsy. Was she a shifter? She was very #chopter Rty

on end. My parents always said she was just exploring, but now I

after that?” I

versions of animals. It’s not just that they have the ability to shift, but rather that there are two beings inside of them: their own human conscience, and their

“Like split personalities?”

and talk to each other telepathically. Usually, when a shifter of this caliber comes of age,

all of its power.”

it’s a

“Exactly.”

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

took in the view, but then

what are you? Are you a

some time. He looked down at his feet. I couldn’t see his face, not that it would

up and was cursed to live for all eternity. But not in a cool, sexy way, like a vampire. Just cursed to slowly rot

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be dust, when these bones start

but I was starting to feel genuinely bad for

used to it. That’s why I decided to hang out in that anatomy lab. I like seeing all of the students

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