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

see Luke approaching. novelxo.com

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

through the woods

I know,”

moment before speaking again. “Not

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

asked eventually, just wanting to

kinds,” Luke responded. ” There are low-tier shifters, which are less

you mean by ‘less

like regular humans, but at 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

next tier are 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

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

on end. My parents always said she was just exploring, but now I wondered if she was off somewhere in

after that?”

animals. It’s not just that they have the ability to shift, but rather that there

“Like split personalities?”

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 or #Chapter 31

all of its power.”

it’s a spirit

“Exactly.”

hill and came to a small clearing. From here,

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

you? Are you a

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

for all eternity. But not

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when these bones start to disintegrate in

I was starting to feel genuinely bad for this

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

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