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

and whipped my flashlight around #Chapter 31 Pity

see Luke approaching.

back in

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

know,” I

a moment before speaking

admittedly, it made me a bit curious. We walked in

I asked eventually,

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

do you mean

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

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

childhood cat, Mimsy. Was she a shifter? She

said she was just exploring, but now I wondered if she was off somewhere in her human form

that?” I

versions of animals. It’s not just that they have the ability to shift, but rather that there are two beings inside of them:

“Like split personalities?”

other telepathically. Usually, when a shifter of this caliber comes of age, their animal appears to

all of its power.”

a spirit

“Exactly.”

climbing the hill and came to a small clearing. From here, we could

for a while as I took in the view, but

what are you? Are

see his face, not that it would make a difference

to live for

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bones start to disintegrate in millions of

I said. I couldn’t explain it, but I was

to it. That’s why I decided to hang out

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