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

whipped my flashlight around #Chapter 31

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figured you’d follow me,” I said annoyedly, turning back

through the woods alone,” he replied. “There could

I know,”

a moment before speaking again. “Not

what he said; admittedly, it made me a

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

shifters, which are

do you mean by

and go feral. When they wake up in

but just regular animals. They still have a conscience while in their nonhuman form, but no powers.

thought back to my childhood cat, Mimsy. Was she a shifter? She

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 human

after that?”

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

“Like split personalities?”

and 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

all of its power.”

a spirit

“Exactly.”

a small clearing. From here,

for a while as I took in the view, but then cleared my throat and asked

are you? Are

looked down at his feet. I couldn’t see his face, not that it would make a difference since he had no

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

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when these bones start

lonely,” I said. I couldn’t explain it, but I was starting to feel genuinely bad for this strange talking

why I decided to hang out in that anatomy lab.

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