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. novelxo.com fast

I said annoyedly, turning back in the direction I

through the woods alone,” he replied. “There

I know,”

before speaking again. “Not just

said; admittedly, it made me a bit curious. We walked in silence for a

eventually, just wanting to not

responded. ” There are low-tier shifters, which are

you mean by

go feral. When they wake up in the morning

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 human world are actually shifters in their

back to my childhood cat, Mimsy. Was she a

My parents always said she was just exploring, but now I wondered if

after that?” I

like Enzo,” Luke replied. ” People who 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 them: their own human conscience, and their animal

“Like split personalities?”

replied. “But both can be conscious at the same time, 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 some

all of its power.”

a

“Exactly.”

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

the view, but

you? Are you a

I couldn’t see his face, not that it

cursed to live for all eternity. But

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these bones start to disintegrate in

I was starting to feel genuinely bad for this strange talking

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

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