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

see Luke approaching. novelxo.com fast

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

the woods alone,” he

I know,” I

a moment before speaking again. “Not just

he said; admittedly, it made me a bit

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

low-tier shifters, which are less

do you mean

night they shift and go feral. When they wake up in the morning –if they wake up– they won’t remember anything.

then continued. “The next tier are those who can willingly shift into animals, but just regular animals. They still

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

disappear for days on end. My parents always said she was just exploring, but now

after that?”

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

“Like split personalities?”

each other telepathically. Usually, when a shifter of this caliber comes of age, their animal appears to them, and they share a soul.

all of its power.”

it’s a spirit

“Exactly.”

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

in the view,

are you? Are you a

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

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

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I’ll just be dust, when these bones start to disintegrate in millions

it, but I was starting to feel genuinely bad for this strange talking

out in that anatomy lab. I like seeing all of the students

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