Audrey

"...only dating her because of that stupid dare."

That was Max who I had just heard. My boyfriend. And tonight, on the night of Grayspring Academy's New Year's Eve dance, he was admitting to only dating me on a dare.

I stood outside the door, my fingers curling up into tight fists around my skirt-so hard that I thought my nails might rip straight through the lace.

"It's gone on for so long now. How could you put up with her all this time?"

There was scoff, this time in a familiar voice that I recognized all too well: Linda O'Malley, one of the most popular girls on campus and my biggest bully. Of course it was her who he was complaining to; she had been torturing me for months.

"It was hard. But it's almost over..."

Silent tears streamed down my cheeks, leaving streaks in my foundation and dark black blotches of mascara on my skin.

Although, everyone at this academy hated me. I was the only human amongst an entire academy full of werewolves, which made me an untrustworthy freak in their eyes. I had come to expect it, had even accepted it at this point.

But not from Max. Not from the sweet boy who supposedly fell head over heels for me three months ago. I had thought that he was... different from the others. That someone had finally seen me for me and didn't care that I was a human, or that I was a bookworm, or that I was a fashion addict.

Apparently, I had been dead wrong.

sickly Victorian child. And everyone knows she dyes her hair black, too." Linda said

Linda was right; I did dye my hair. But I only dyed it because its natural color was a strange silver hue, and werewolves hated silver. I only did it to fit in, and apparently, even

her that those outfits she makes are

I might be sick. My fingernails finally began to pierce through the lace on my skirt-the skirt that I had been painstakingly working on for a month now in preparation

fabric was my favorite color, and it fell around my ankles in just the right way. I even made a little matching top which connected to the skirt with a silk sash that

I finished it just this morning, barely sleeping so that I could

finally sleep with Max. He had been begging me for weeks now.I had even made my own lingerie, which I now

lifted my bleary-eyed gaze toward the mirror that hung on the wall down the hallway, I felt like a clown.

rang out. "Honestly, I thought she was super smart, too;

constantly has

and at that moment, all I wanted to do was get away. Somewhere

slow. Before I had a chance to run, the door suddenly creaked open the rest of the way. I whirled around, my heart

widened into saucers the moment he saw my tear-streaked face. "Audrey!"

tilted

"We're through," I said.

come up with an answer, I spun

didn't remind me of the boy who I had been dating for the past three

I couldn't imagine

and ordered a drink-rum and coke. Here, amongst werewolves, the drinking age was

contact with me through the haze of cigar smoke as

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