Shifted
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My temperature evens out and I look into the lake's reflection. I've never seen my fox or myself shifted before. My chest colors match my normal hair color, but everything else is a much lighter golden color. I'm smaller then I thought I'd be. I always read werewolf books and my aunts fox anatomy books always talk about size, but it never really sets in until you see it.
Why did I shift? The question suddenly flies into my head. My books normally say moon cycle.. but when I look up there's no way that's it. The moon isn't even close to our cycle. I'm not relaxed any more than usual. I'm honestly more on edge of being seen or people wondering where I went. My friends hopefully don't notice my absence. My mate isn't here, I feel like I would know. I don't have any signs of that. There must be an alpha nearby. I know that sounds odd normally foxes don't travel in packs, but because of our human world around us some have been forced to for safety and they handle themselves like wolves. And it all has the same effect on us.
I hope I'm not stuck like this for the night... and I don't want to risk being seen. If there are other foxes nearby then I might also be in danger. I know how to defend myself as a human, but I'm a fox right now. Everything is different. I decide my best action is to gather my clothes, which takes a while since I'm carrying them with my snout, and curl up in a nearby Bush until I can figure out how to shift back. I'm supposed to be able to control that, but obviously I don't know how.
After 20 minutes I hear my friends heading outside to the lake. I'm happy I hid everything in this Bush. I see everyone... except one of the guys that Zach had invited over. They all look drunk though. I don't know where the alcohol came from. I didn't think anyone had any when I was in there. They splash and play and dont notice me, thank god.
Finally I start to shift back. I'm not sure why. I'm just happy I can get back to Zach's gathering. I get dressed and quickly splash myself with water on the way over. No one seemed to notice I was gone.
"FAWN I'M KING OF THIS LAKE. TELL EM'" he slurs and shouts all at the same time.
"Obviously that means that I'm the king's sister and that either makes me like a princess, or a queen, or whatever. So this is my lake!" Delilah protests.
They play around until it's 2 am and we all decide to go to sleep. Alice feels sick so I decide I need to help her to the bathroom. She was so intoxicated she decided to just start word vomiting on me,
"I slept with Zach. He wont talk to me," she admits
"Alice, I think you should wait until you aren-"
"No!" She breaths holding back tears "You're like my real friend right? And I need to talk about this," she's still slurring, but I make out her words through the intoxication and tears.
"Are you okay?"
"I'm not sure. I'm feeling a lot of emotions right now... I know I'm 18 so I'm an adult.. it's not like a kid having s*x right?" She raises her brow
"I don't feel like an adult most of the time and I'm almost 18," I remind her.
She smiles and wipes away a fallen tear that escaped "That makes me feel a bit better..." she pauses then thinks.. "have you had s*x, fawn?" She asks
"No.. I haven't," I admit.
She's so tired and intoxicated she sits up against the bathroom wall and leans into me. I don't care if she touches me. I feel bad for her. I wrap my arm around her to kind of give her a reassuring side hug.
"Do you think Zach will talk to me? Did I do something wrong?" She lowers her head.
"I think he will... but even If he doesn't just know you are awesome. Confident. You won't have any trouble finding a guy better then Zach. Don't get me wrong. Zach is my friend. But he can be an i***t," I hope that makes her feel better.
She smiles and passes out on my shoulder. I hope friends like Alice I get to keep. I don't want to have to leave and have to lose all my moments and memories like this. It's not great. Yeah she's drunk and we are on a bathroom floor together at 3 am, but she feels close enough to me to tell me things like that. I've never had someone trust me like that.
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My neck is kinked. I open my eyes and realise we passed out here in the bathroom. Alice is still leaning against me and it looked like I leaned against her in my sleep so we stayed sitting up. I look at my minute phone. 8:15am. I nudge Alice awake,
"Hey Alice, I don't know if you want to wake up at all... but you should move at least," I nudge her and try to get a response. Finally she wakes up.
"My head. Is. Pounding. Fawn, why does it hurt so bad....?" She covers her eyes "and the room is spinning..." she adds before turning to the toilet to throw up any remaining alcohol out of her stomach from last night. All I can do is look away and pat her back. Her hair is pulled back so lucky I don't need to help much in that department.
Eventually I'm able to get her up and to where we were all sleeping. Everyone was so tired one of the extra guys fell asleep on the couch, he's extremely attractive, I'll admit, and he's half way sliding off, the other guy that disappeared is asleep in a chair off to the side and all our friends threw a bunch of blankets in the middle of the floor and crashed. I grab a big bean bag chair and plop onto it by my pile of friends and slide down more into it so it's hugging me. My aunt will be here at 11am to pick me up. So I probably won't see much of my friends this morning.
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