Chapter 3 : Sloane
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It had been the most exhausting week ever, Sloane had been actively avoiding Asher. To top it off, Rafe had been acting super weird since he went to that conference thing with his parents.
"Rafe!" Sloane called out, catching the sight of him walking down the hall.
"Sloane I'm going to be late to class," he said sounding annoyed.
"What's going on with you?" she asked.
"I don't have time to get into this right now Sloane" he stated.
"Get into what?" she asked, "you haven't talked to me all week." As she said that she could feel the tears welling up.
"I'm sorry Sloane, I just have alot going on and I think-" he paused, "I think we need to take a break."
"Watson get a move on," someone called out.
"I have to go" Rafe stated as he turned.
"Wait, you can't just say that to me and then leave," Sloane called.
Rafe gave her this look, like he was apologizing and he ran off.
"What else is going to go wrong this week," Sloane said to no one in particular. The bell rang so she went off to class.
"Sloane" Carmella called.
"Yeah?" Sloane asked.
"Are you okay, you seem kind of zoned out." Carmella stated.
"Honestly, I'm not," Sloane sighed.
"You wanna talk about it?" she asked.
"I-" Sloane was cut off from Mrs Morris starting her lesson for the day.
"Talk after school?" Sloane whispered.
Carmella nodded her head.
Sloane was walking down the hall as she was pulled into the maintenance closet.
"What the" she paused "Asher? What's going on?" she questioned.
"What do you mean what's going on," he paused "You have been avoiding me."
"I uh no I haven't." She shuddered.
"Sloane" he said deadpanned, looked right at her.
"Okay I have," She admitted, "but you have to understand what I am going through."
"You don't feel anything?" he asked moving closer and grabbing her wrist.
"Ash it's not that I don't, but I have a boyfriend and that complicates things." She states.
"Then uncomlicate it," he said.
"Asher, I have been with Rafe for 2 years," she pauses looking at him,"I'm not going to break up with him over a feeling."
"Sloane, it's not a feeling, you're my m-" he stops and looks her in the eyes.
"I'm what?" She asked trying to look into his eyes.
"Nothing" he sighed looking at the ground.
As he went to open his mouth, they heard someone yell fight and ran out of the room.
The closer they got Sloan could make out 2 figures, trying to hit each other. Sloane also noticed Madison, a girl she cheered with, crying hysterically in the corner.
"Is that Rafe?" Asher asked behind her.
"No he would ne-" She paused getting a good look at the 2 figures. It in fact was Rafe.
She went to move closer as someone grabbed her arm. It was Liam, Asher's friend.
"Probably not the best idea." He stated.
"I don't care, I need to know what is going on." She moved towards Madison.
"Madi, what is going on?" Sloane asked as she got close enough.
Madison's eyes got huge when she saw Sloane.
"S-sloane" Madison stammered, "I can explain."
Sloane was so confused, but she got out some tissues to hand to Madison and tried to calm her down.
She recognized the guy Rafe was fighting as Shane, Madison's boyfriend.
"You think you can just kiss my girlfriend and I would just be okay with it" Shane stated, punching Rafe in the stomach.
"Yeah i***t, she's my mate," Rafe stated, side stepping away from a punch.
"What?" Sloane called out. Madison wouldn't look at her.
"Okay break it up," A teacher called out.
Just as the teacher, Rafe turned and looked at Sloane, he clearly was looking for someone else cause as their eyes connected, he looked away.
Rafe and Shane were taken away to the principles office, leaving Sloane with even more questions.
Carmella came up to her hugging her.
"You good?" she asked.
"I don't know" Sloane confessed.
"Rafe!" Sloane called as she spotted Rafe leaving after school.
He turned with apologetic eyes as he got into his car.
"What is going on!" Sloane yelled frustrated.
Carmella came up, "Everything okay?"
"You know what no" Sloane said, "Everything is not okay, my boyfriend broke up with me, an hour later he was caught kissing someone and gets into a fight, he wont talk to me, and I can't stop thinking about Asher" she snapped.
She paused looking at Mella.
Carmella smiled and placed her hand on her shoulder, "Do you feel better?"
"Yes, but that doesn't make you feel weird?" She asked.
"What?" Carmella asked.
"I just said I can't stop thinking about your brother," she said.
"Some things are out of our control," Carmella stated.
"What does that even mean?" she asked, as she did, she heard someone scream.
As she turned to look at where the scream came from, Asher was in front of her.
"Hello, come with me," was all he said before he lifted her over his shoulder.
"Asher what the hell, put me down!" she yelled.
"I promise you, Sloane, I will explain, but right now I need you to be out of here," he said.
"What about Carmella?" Sloane said, trying to lean up to look at her, but it was basically impossible since they were running.
Suddenly, Asher stopped, "s**t" he muttered, placing Sloane on her feet and pushing her behind him.
"Little beta, who do we have here?" Someone called.
All Asher did was growl.
"She's quite a pretty little thing," that man said. "I need a new play toy."
"Touch her and I promise you will pay with your life," Asher growled out.
Sloane grabbed Asher's arm, trying to get as close to him as possible.
Next thing she knew, Asher was pushing her and suddenly a wolf was pouncing on Asher. As she got up to run, she noticed there were 4 other wolves surrounding them.
A gray wolf began towards Sloane, but then there was a large black wolf in front of her.
Sloane screamed and fell back. The black wolf looked at her, but she suddenly heard Asher yell.
"Asher!" Sloane yelled, she turned to the black wolf and pleaded. "Help him please," she said on the verge of tears.
The wolf growled as if to tell her to get out of here and ran to help Asher.
Sloane started to run as she got closer to the woods she could faintly make out the figure of what seemed to be a human and possibly female so she started towards her.
"Hey, I need you-" Sloane was cut off as someone grabbed her, she began thrashing and screaming. When a cloth came over her mouth, it had something on it, it smelled funny.
Sloane tried to fight it however she was starting to become sleepy.
Sloane heard someone before loosing consciousness.
"I told him he would regret leaving me for a human."
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