Bling! Bling! My phone was what woke me up. I am not usually a light sleeper, but it seems even the smallest sound can wake me up these days. I sleepily grab my phone from my side table; it reads 9:27 Tuesday. The text was from Kelsey, my best friend of two years.

Kelsey: what time are you picking me up 2day?

She knows I hate it when she uses those stupid abbreviations. I somewhat reluctantly text her back

Me: I'll coming to get you in like an hour and a half is Jen coming?

Almost immediately a reply text came in.

Kelsey: yea she doesn't need a ride tho. I am sooooo excited! It's our first back to skool shopping trip. I can't believe skool is only a couple daz away.

Annoyed I decided to end the text conversation at that. I sleepily stumbled into my bathroom and splashed some water on my face to wake me up. The water was ice cold, but refreshing. Blindly feeling for a towel to dry my face I knock over a glass bottle of bath salts instead. Without even thinking about it my hand flew out too catch the bottle. My hand moving at normal speed while the bottle moving in slow motion. While some of the other stuff sucked like the gross long nails and the hair knuckles I had to admit that there were some perks to being whatever I was. Super fast reflexes, ears so good I can hear when people mumble about me under their breath. The only thing was that I wished I knew exactly what I am. It started like three weeks ago. Mood swings and a fever, my friends thought I was pregnant or something, throwing up at random times and eating my weight in sweets. That or they thought I was bulimic because I still didn't gain a pound. A week later after the worst of my illness and I was bed ridden for a day or two, my fever went away and I stopped getting sick. Since I felt instantly better I decided to take a shower since I hadn't in those two days. I walked into my bathroom and turned the shower on. I had to wait for it to heat up so while I was waiting I walked into my room to get my robe. On the way back to the bathroom I hear a cat meow. The neighbors across the street have a cat that sometimes wonders into our yard but my window is closed so even if it was over here I wouldn't be able to hear it. When I glanced out the window the meowing cat was across the street. That's when I heard the water rushing through the pipes and a distant car honking and my dogs sleeping breaths from his bed in the downstairs living room. Completely freaked, I went to the sink and splashed water on my face. When I brought my head up I saw two piercing red eyes staring at me from the mirror. My piercing red eyes. To make a long story short now I grow discussing long nails and hair when I'm pissed off and I don't even know how or why this is happening to me. Well anyways, I go to pick Kelsey up at 11:30 ish dreading to hear her complain about my being late. On the drive to the mall that's all I hear. We get there and meet Jen at forever 21.

"Can you believe Jackson moved to London?"

"I know I am going to miss him so much" Jen and Kelsey were gossiping between each other.

" I'm sure he's glad to get away from loony Lydia" I interjected "he told me she was like pretty much stalking him last year."

"I know right! I can't believe we were ever friends with her. It grosses me out to even think about it." Kelsey says. Lydia had been my best friend before Kelsey. We were the two most popular girls in school until some guy assaulted her and she went completely insane and walked through the woods naked for three days. Also when she and Jackson broke up she kind of went crazy then too.

"I thought we agreed not to bring that up. Its bad enough we were friends with her we don't need to remind ourselves about it." With that the conversation was over apart from a giggle that escaped Jen's lips. She can be so stupid.

2

After making it threw the shopping trip I decided I was going to dodge my friends for awhile. Don't get me wrong though I love shopping and socializing, but lately that stuff doesn't have as much appeal anymore. I decided to tell my friends that my family wanted to get in some summer fun before the school year starts up again. Obviously that was not true, but my friends and I weren't the touchy feely type so they wouldn't know. When Kelsey texted I told her the lie and then had to press ignore to endless phone calls and texts from people I barley even care about.

Dania miracle: I can't believe your not going to Danny's party. Were gonna miss you

Jenn: Olivia I can't believe you can't hang out the week before school starts. Call me 3

Danny: im gonna miss you at my party liv cant wait to see you at school though!

Bla bla bla bla….

I decided to just turn my phone off for a few hours.

3

Those hours turned into days and I ended up spend the whole week before school with my phone turned off, Netflix turned on, and my hand buried in a bowl of popcorn. It's the night before school and I decide to shake off my funk by going on a run, track season is about to begin anyways. I shake of my popcorn covered sweat shirt, put on some leggings and my running shoes, and head for the door. I hadn't been on a run all summer, the beginning of it I was busy partying with my friend and at the end I was distracted by my new found self. I expected to be out of shape and out of stamina since I had spent the past week on the couch, but when I started to hear my shoes slapping the pavement and expected me breathing to start to quicken fast it never did. After running for close too an hour my plus still remained at a steady pace not effected by the sudden activity I was putting my self through. It's not the strangest thing that has happened to me. It defiantly beats glowing red eyes and a nasty manicure. Now I can never loose my breath.

When I started running I couldn't stop. It's like I was not even there just my long legs pushing me forward. When I was running it was like my brain wasn't processing what my eyes were seeing so when I finally stopped to think I had no idea where I was. Somehow I had ended up in the woods. I don't know how long I had been running for because it was suddenly light outside from the almost pitch black I had started in. Maybe not exactly light, but everything was visibly like I was watching through a night vision camera. Then my vision went back to black. The only thing that gave even a hint to civilization was distant hum of car engines and the tick of a traffic light turning colors. I knew these new changes would come in handy. I started running not being able to see in front of me, but somehow avoiding running into trees, too the sound of the screech of the tires and the sound of a foot hitting the breaks and…. A heart beat... a really fast heart beat… and panting and feet hitting the dry leaves and under brush. Not human feet, different… hooves? Then the loud fwap of my sneakers hitting pavement. I made it to a road and I could see the gleam of head lights in the distance, two sets. Then the panting got closer and the crunch of the under brush turned to click of pavement under the unidentified feet. My vision glowed again and the muddy darkness turned to clear. The heart beat had come from a deer running strait down the road. Full speed. The deer's heart beat could only be described as frightened and with all that fear it ran strait past me. Headed for the idling cars down the road. Deer are naturally skittish right? They generally stay away from people right? Wrong. A squeak escaped my lips right as the deer ran into one of the cars. I heard two distinct screams, female screams.

"Oh my god." I heard a male voice say in a worried tone followed by the slam of two car doors and the thud of two pairs of feet running in the direction of the wrecked car and the deer that no longer had a heart beat. Then two more car doors slam and I hear the frightened breath of two girls. I focus in on their faces. Its Lydia Martin running to fearfully embrace one of the boys from the second car. He is from my school I recognize him. Stiles something. Her now best friend Allison Argent is with her and her ex Scott McCall.

"Are you ok?" Scott asks Allison.

"I think so," she replies out of breath.

"Well I'm not," Lydia squeaks still holding onto Stiles. "It just ran right into my car… like…like it was crazy or something," she would know what crazy looks like wouldn't she I think to my self. I unintentionally start to reseed to the cover of the trees, but still able to see my four class mates standing in fear around the car. Scott starts to move closer to the dead animal. He puts his hand near the deer's lifeless body.

"Not crazy… scared. Like it was running from something." Scott says as he starts to gaze around the forest in my direction. I instinctively inch deeper into the trees not that he can see me this far down the road in the pitch black. Even though I know Scott didn't know I was there I had a feeling of guilt as I walked home like I caused this to happen. His words seem like an accusation as I run them through my mine.