Chapter 1
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Chapter One.
Avery's POV
Despite the heavenly chaos, the only thing I could think about at that moment was my life. I could not stop predicting where it was going to and each time I decided to stay positive, the negativity came in triple portions.
I didn't expect it to be this miserable. I have done a lot of things to feel better, but honestly, it was a hard one to pull off.
Apart from the fact that my confidence was always floating in the skies, I didn't just like the way my life was. I wasn't moving forward and respectfully, I'll say I wasn't moving backward.
I didn't know how to feel when all those I knew had a grip of the wolf.
I was fed up with feeling human. Some days, I wave off this feeling, and the other days, I really take feeling this way really personally.
"Avery? Aren't you done with your hair?" Tatu said, frowning so well that the old lines and wrinkles on her face became visible.
"I'm back to the same point again. I don't know how to feel," I uttered slowly, trying to have a firm grip on the emotions rushing all over me.
"You look beautiful, girl. We are just going to get some things at the grocery," Tatu paused, rubbing my long blind her.
"You look good effortlessly," she added.
I was smiling. I didn't get compliments from anyone that often, so I didn't joke with the ones that came my way.
"Thank you," I blushed away the feeling of telling her she wasn't sure about what she was saying.
Tatu was my friend, and I would be joking if I said she wasn't the best thing I got over here. I admired her so much, and I would also be lying if I said I didn't feel jealous about her having to tell me about her wolf life escapades.
Because of my little, but mighty lack, I took time to arrange myself and look better. I started concentrating on the better things of life.
It was kind of hard, and slow at the same time. I took it as my own type of pace. I was doing all I was doing to get some things better.
"I'm really stunned to know you are doing all of this to get something from the grocery store," Tatu gave me a one minute stare.
I was literally tired of smiling at all the compliments she was throwing at me.
"You are making this look more difficult," I added
"How will I be confident in this look of you saying way too much," I complained.
"That's not possible, miss!" She replied.
I was silenced by her reply. I didn't know I was being too sensitive to her reply or, it was something that she said with no mere intentions to make me feel bad.
"Okay…" I grabbed my shoulder bag and moved towards the exit door of her apartment.
I only said the good things about Tatu, but the bad side of her would be something I will never try to address her about.
I didn't have a wolf, and all my friends did. It made me feel special sometimes, and at the same time, I lived in fear.
I felt inferior, I felt negative about all that happened in my life. I was literally my own hero in situations like that.
We left for the grocery store and it turned out that what Tatu wanted wasn't there. She decided we should stop by a coffee shop.
"I didn't do all of this to go to the Coffee shop in the middle of the town," I stuttered.
"Are you afraid of something I don't know?" She added.
As friends, we had challenges. This was one of those phases because she bullied me with the fact that she knew how bad I felt among our fellow age mates who had the wolverine thingy.
She was silent to fear being around them. Today's episode was different because I was more open than ever about not wanting to be around them.
I started having those hot flashes about my recent experiences and it was feeding my little fear.
With each stride of things, I saw myself with Tatu moving inside the shop.
"Damn," I whispered to myself.
Immediately we got in, others who knew Tatu walked towards her to greet her.
Usually, when things like that happened, I stood like I was her bodyguard.
But this time around, I moved away silently and I found an empty table.
I made myself comfortable.
In the matter of minutes, I saw others around the table.
"You!" Alna raised her voice.
I only knew her name among the others she stood with.
"Hello!" I smiled with a lot of fear swimming inside of me.
"How good a move for it was to come settle on our table?" one of them said while creating attention.
"You want to be part of us? Yes, but you can't say it. You are just too good with your actions. You will continue staying like the alien that you are," Alna added.
She acted like the queen among them. I was stunned and I grabbed my bag to leave the shop. The annoying part was something that I didn't want to dwell in, but Tatu did not do anything.
In the past when I told her about it, I felt like she ignored all my complaints so I could fight for myself, but no.
That day, I felt like I lost a friend. She was like a friend that I didn't need indeed.
I was playing everything Alna said to me. I didn't expect less because she was very good friends with the daughter of the beta, Natasha.
I walked out and started regretting all I did the entire day. I had no one to fight for me.
Some years back, I found out that I lost my parents. They didn't die because of ailments or old age.
They were killed.
I believed that, but when I was told that they were killed because of their horrible deeds, I was fighting with it.
I was fighting with Which one I should take. I had a good heart, of course. I never got to find out what the bad deed was. If they did a bad deed, I woke up to regret by remembering that I was cursed.
The pains of being punished for something you know you didn't do is something that can only be explained after experience.
"Not again." I whispered to myself after sighting Natasha Williams, the queen bee.
I felt like she was stalking me.
Every place I went was daunted with her. She was never alone and it was something I wished for because I wanted to know if she could bully me on her own.
I had to take another turn. I had the chance to escape the trouble and when I did, I took a taxi straight back home.
On my way, I realized that my life would be awful if it continued like this.
After some minutes after I entered the taxi, I realized the taxi man wasn't a taxi man.
My hands were sweaty, and my heart fell into my stomach. I could not speak.
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