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 #Chapter 31 Pity

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

through the woods alone,” he

know,”

moment before speaking again. “Not just werewolves. Other shifters,

paused and pondered what he said; admittedly, it made me a bit curious.

I asked eventually, just wanting

” There are low-tier shifters, which are less evolved; like rogues.

mean by ‘less

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

who can willingly shift into animals, but just regular animals. They still have a conscience while

Mimsy. Was she a shifter? She

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

after that?”

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

“Like split personalities?”

comes of age, their animal appears to them,

all of its power.”

it’s a spirit

“Exactly.”

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

as I took in the view, but then cleared my throat and asked another

what are you? Are

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

live for all eternity. But not in

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

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

hang out

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