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

whipped my flashlight

see Luke approaching.

annoyedly, turning back in

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

know,”

silent for a moment before speaking again. “Not just

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

there, anyway?” I asked eventually, just wanting to not think about

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

mean by ‘less

night they shift and go feral. When they wake up in the morning

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 in the human world

cat, Mimsy. Was she a shifter?

and would sometimes disappear for days on end. My parents always said she was just exploring, but now I wondered if she was off somewhere in her human form doing human

after that?” I

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

“Like split personalities?”

comes of age, their animal appears to them, and they share a soul. Their animal — like Enzo’s wolf —

all of its power.”

a spirit

“Exactly.”

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

a while as I took in the view, but

what are you? Are

that it would make

Just a guy who fucked up and was cursed to live for all eternity. But not in a

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these bones start

couldn’t explain it, but I was starting to feel

hang out in that anatomy lab. I like seeing all of

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