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Astoria's POV:
"You can go on ahead to lunch, I'll meet up with you in a minute, I have to run to the library real quick, I've got to return this overdue book" Aislinn said holding up an old, beat up, and torn book. I looked at her, "Since when do you read?" I asked she gave me a look, "Think what you want, but I actually enjoy reading" she said.
"Whatever, I'm hungry, have fun running to the library" I said and turned around and walked towards the lunch room. I'm not sure where Jasmine was, or Charlie or Anya, Jasmine's probably lost, and Charlie's probably with Joey. Losers left me to walk by myself, what if I run into the Creeper? Oh God, let's not think about that.
The walk to the lunch room was uneventful, and lucky for me, I didn't run into the Creeper. I looked at the extremely long lines to get your lunch, and inwardly groaned. Damn you Aislinn, you just had to spend forever looking through your locker to find that library book. I looked at the line, and tried to decide if it would be worth it to stand and wait to get gross, inedible cafeteria food, or just wait until I got to Aislinn's house after she got done with practice. I sighed and walked to the back of the line, and stood. This sucks.
Once I finally got to where you could collect your food, I grabbed a water bottle and a bag of chips, and quickly skipped everyone else in line waiting to get other things, and walked to the lunch lady waiting to take my money. The elderly woman smiled at me, and I handed her the money. She quickly counted out my change, and handed it back to me, and I tried to balance the water bottle, bag of chips, and try to make sure I don't drop coins all over the place. I walked over to the table that had Ketchup, Mustard, Ranch Dressing, napkins, and other things on it, and put my water bottle and chips on it.
I folded up the dollar bills, and quickly put them in my pocket, and put the coins my pocket too. I quickly grabbed my water bottle and chips, and turned around to head to the table. That is, until I accidentally ran into someone, and heard a loud clattering noise and someone swear. I felt my mouth drop unattractively, and I looked at the mess that had been created. I could feel my cheeks burning, and I suddenly wish I could turn invisible, and run the hell away.
Liam, a popular, and a straight up jerk, had what looked like mashed potatoes, some type of drink, and pieces of a sandwich stained his shirt, and jeans. His tray was lying on the floor in a mess of food, and whatever he had to drink. He looked pissed, his brown eyes were glaring daggers at me, if looks could kill; I would be dead a million times over. I felt like a fish, my mouth was moving, but no words were coming out. The silence was thick with tension, and I would have killed to have Aislinn run through the doors and do something incredibly stupid, and get the attention off of me.
"What the hell?" Liam asked anger evident in his voice.
"I'm sorry, I didn't mean to run into you" I said willing the bell to ring, and save me from this nightmare.
"You're sorry? That's all you have to say?" Liam asked his voice rising a bit.
What else did he want me to do? I'm not going to get on my knees and beg for forgiveness, and I'm pretty sure I won't regret this later, I just hate all the attention this is bringing. I sure wasn't going to suck up to a jerk like him. Yeah, I'm sorry I accidentally bumped into you, but let's just move on, and never speak to each other again.
"I'm not sure what else you want me to say, all I can say is I'm sorry" I said.
Liam glared at me again, and I felt a hand grab my wrist causing me to drop my water bottle, I gave him a look, and tried grabbing my wrist back. "Let me go, I'm sorry I ran into you, okay? Let's just move on, and never speak to each other to again" I said forcefully, feeling anger bubble in my chest as the jerk tightened his hold on my wrist. Liam roughly jerked me forward, causing me to drop my chips, and stumble.
"I don't think it's going to be that easy, Aislinn's not here to protect you now" Liam said grabbing my other wrist tightly.
"I don't need Aislinn to protect me, I just don't have as big of a temper as she does, but you're pushing my limits, let go" I said glaring at him. Liam just gave me a look, "What are you going to do about it?" He asked. "This" I said and I took my knee and kneed him in a sensitive area, he gasped, and I saw a look of pain on his face. He let go of my wrists, and just as I turned around to walk away, I felt a hand grab my hair, and painfully pull me back. I felt a noise escape my mouth, and I fell to the ground, "You bitch" Liam managed to say, his voice was high pitched. I felt him roughly tug at my hair again, I winced in pain.
"Story!" I heard a deep voice call out.
I felt Liam's hand roughly get ripped away from my hair, and I heard a crashing sound. I felt a pair of warm hands lift me off the ground, I saw it was Jacob; he steadied me, and was looking at me worriedly. "Story are you okay?" I heard Jasmine ask, I barely felt myself nod my head.
"Don't ever touch her again!" A deep voice growled.
I looked to see Seth glaring down at Liam who was using a table for support. I noticed that Seth was shaking, and looked furious. Right now, he wasn't the really nice, happy Seth, no, this Seth was pissed off. "Brady, Collin, Embry get him out of here" Jacob said and I watched as Brady and Embry grabbed Seth by his arms, and began dragging him out of the lunch room, Collin was following, speaking to Seth, but I couldn't hear what he was saying. "Jacob, what's going on?" I asked worried.
"It's nothing, don't worry about it, go back to the table, I'll be right back" Jacob said walking off in the direction of where Seth was drug off. I didn't even bother picking up my water bottle and chips; I just followed Jasmine back to our table, and sat down beside Jasmine. I felt like I was in a daze, I kept running over the events in my head, and it felt like a blur. I mean, Seth looked so angry, so unlike him, it was kind of scary. I'm sure if he hadn't been drug away, and Liam had gotten up and tried to fight him, Seth would have kicked his ass right there. All because of me.
I shook my head, that couldn't be the reason, I mean, yeah we're friends, but I don't see why Seth would get all worked up over it. Seth couldn't possibly get that mad because of me. Sure, Aislinn would have gone ballistic, and put him in his place, if she had been here, but I wouldn't have expected Seth to get so angry because of me. At least, I think it was because of me. Maybe it's just wishful thinking. Yeah, it's got to be that, my mind's just playing tricks on me.
"Hey guys!" I heard a familiar voice that could only belong to Aislinn. I looked up to see her quickly making her way over to the table.
"Where have you been?" Anya asked looking up from her phone. Aislinn sat down in front of me, and pushed a stray strand of hair out of her face. "The library, but who cares about that? Did you guys see Seth? I just saw Brady and Embry dragging him out of the school, Collin and Jacob not too far behind. Seth looked pissed" she said.
"Where'd they take him?" I asked, "I saw them dragging him out of the doors and towards the woods" she answered stealing a chip from Jasmine's tray. She didn't notice. "Why would they be going out that way?" Charlie asked joining the conversation. Aislinn shrugged, "I don't know, but I want to find out".
"How do you plan to do that?" Anya asked looking back to her phone, a smile stretched across Aislinn's face, and I narrowed my eyes at her, "What?" I asked cautiously. "Let's go follow them" she said I gave her a look, "What? Are you crazy?" Charlie asked. Aislinn just rolled her eyes, "You don't have to go, Story and I'll go, we can sneak out, and back in easier than if we all go" she said. "You're kidding me right? You guys can't sneak out of school!" Charlie said.
Aislinn rolled her eyes, "Who cares about school, I would much rather know why they have to drag Seth out there. C'mon Story, what do you say?" Aislinn asked basically jumping up and down in her seat with excitement. I'm not going to lie, I wanted to go. I mean, who wouldn't want to know? "Sure, but let's hurry, I don't want to get caught by a teacher" I said.
"Yes! Woot!" Aislinn fist pumped and jumped up out of her seat, I got out of my seat slower than she did. "Anya, make sure Jasmine get's to class, and doesn't get lost" I said to Anya who nodded her head, "Let's go! We need to leave before the bell rings, and the hallways full of teachers!" Aislinn said grabbing my hand and leading me out of the lunch room.
The main hallway with the large doors leading in and out of the school was completely empty, even the elderly woman that sits at the front desk in the office wasn't there. It was perfect timing. Aislinn looked around, looking nonchalant, and not like she was about to sneak out of school and into the woods. Then she calmly walked over to the doors, me following behind her, took a couple last few sweeps of the hallway, and quickly pushed open the door, and we took off running.
We ran all the way across the teacher parking lot, and up the small hill, and into the tree line. Once we entered the woods, Aislinn stopped running, and I didn't notice, and collided with her, and we both fell to the ground.
"Oof!" Aislinn's breath was knocked from her, and I landed on top of Aislinn's back.
"What the hell? Story get your fat ass off me!" Aislinn gasped, still struggling to get her breath back, "I'm not the one who just randomly stopped, and didn't give me any warning!" I said, "So I have to announce when I stop? I thought you'd realize I stopped when I stopped moving" Aislinn grunted "Now get off me!" She yelled. I got to my feet, and Aislinn slowly got to her own feet, dusting herself off, and picking some leaves out of her hair.
"I wonder which way they went" I said looking at the mass of trees in front of us. "I have no idea, but they couldn't have gone too far, I think" Aislinn said, "You're real helpful" I stated and she just glared at me. "Shut up, and let's just start walking" she said and with that, we began walking.
Aislinn's POV:
Walking around in the woods completely lost and not sure where we're even going wasn't what I was expecting when we snuck out of the school. I don't think that Seth and them would have gone far from the school, but then again, we didn't know that. That was kind of the whole idea of following them out here. To find out why they had to drag a pissed off Seth into the woods. However, instead of finding them, we only got ourselves lost. Which kind of sucks.
I think we've been out here for about fifteen minutes, and haven't had any luck. I wish I had my tennis shoes on instead of my bright neon pink and neon green laced converse. It would make running from bears and other animals trying to eat us easier. Maybe that's what happened to them, maybe they ran into a bear, and it ate them…..nah, I don't see that happening. With our luck, they're back at the school, and sitting in Biology right now. If they are, Mr. Parker has probably reported our absence and skipping class, and Anya has probably told Seth and Brady why we aren't there.
Seth would worry about Story, and Brady…he probably hopes that I get eaten by a bear. That would be my luck, a bear would come out of nowhere, and start chasing us, and Seth would randomly show up, and save Story, and Brady would be watching from the sidelines while I got eaten. Hmph, Story would get a knight in shining armor, and I'd get a bear trying to eat me. Funny how that works. Maybe if I was lucky, Seth would save me too since I'm Story's best friend, and she'd be devastated if I got eaten….at least, I think she'd be devastated. That would suck even more!
Who am I kidding, Story would be too distracted by Seth's abs to ask to save me. Loser. Then I'd get eaten, and the last thing I saw before I die is Brady's laughing face, and Story drooling at Seth. What a way to die. I bet if I managed to evade the bear, Brady would throw me back out to it. He would do that. He's hated me ever since the bonfire. All I did was tell him to move, and call him Bigfoot, he didn't need to get all offended. In my defense, he's so tall, broad shouldered, and muscular, has really dark brown eyes, and—wait a minute! What the hell am I doing? I shook my head, I need something to smack me out of this.
"Aislinn watch out for that branch!"
"What?"
SMAACKK!
"SHIT!" I covered my face with my hands, as my face flowered with pain. I could feel myself lying on my back from where I fell backwards from my collision with the tree branch. Oh God, that hurt. I'm definitely going to have a bruise tomorrow. I'm going to look like I let someone beat on me, I still have a small bruise from where that bitch Annabelle smacked me, and now I'm going to have this big ass bruise from where a tree limb smacked me. I'm having some serious smacking issues lately.
"BAHAHAHAHA!"
I could hear Story laughing at me. "I didn't mean that literally!" I yelled at the sky through my hands. I blame it on Brady, it's his fault. He was the one distracting me. Story was still laughing at me, and I was still lying on the ground holding my aching face. I could feel liquid running down the back of my throat, great, I guess my nose is bleeding now. Damn tree. I slowly sat up, and pinched my nose with my right hand. I'm going to need some pain killers.
"It's okay, no need to make sure I'm okay! I'm perfectly fine!" I said glaring at Story who was still laughing, he face was really red, and she had tears falling down her cheeks.
"I'm—haha—sorry—haha—are you—hahaha—okay?—ahaha!" Story managed to say between her fits of laughter. "What do you think?" I asked her sarcastically, reaching out for something to help me up since Story wasn't going to be helpful.
I used the tree that's limb smacked me in the face, and slowly got to my feet, which was kind of a bad idea since my vision blurred a bit and I swayed, I thought I was going to fall back down. Story quit laughing long enough to reach out, and grab my left arm.
"Okay, I think we should head back to the school and take you to the nurse" Story said her laughing fit forgotten. I didn't argue, my head was killing me, and my face really hurt. I wonder how I'm going to explain this to my mom….eh, I'm not going to worry about it too much. I'll start worrying about it once I have some pain killers.
"Just in case you're still dizzy…" Story trailed off, and put my left around her shoulders.
Snap.
We froze.
We slowly turned around, the noise had come from behind us. Oh God, please don't let it be a bear, let it be Seth, Collin, Embry, Brady, and Jacob just trying to scare us. At least, if it's a bear, don't let Brady show up laughing at me. That would suck.
I felt my eyes widen. Holy. Shit. Well, at least it's not a bear, instead it's three huge wolves. Definitely not a bear.
The three wolves looked at us, the middle one was looking at Story, and it almost looked like its own eyes were widened in shock. Like it was saying, "What the hell? You guys aren't supposed to be here! Don't you know we can eat you?"
It was almost funny, and I would have laughed if wolves the size of horses—if not bigger—weren't standing in front of us.
I looked to the wolf on the right of the wolf staring at Story, it was looking at me. It's eyes looked at my right hand pinching my nose to stop the bleeding, then to the bruise forming on my face, and then to the face that Story had one of my arms around one of her shoulders. It made a noise in its throat, it sounded like a growl, and I subconsciously stepped back away from it, pulling Story with me. Its eyes widened and it shook its furry head.
Story seem to come out of her shock because….
"PUUUPPPPYYYYY!"
Oh dear God.
Story let go of her hold on me, and let my arm slide from her shoulders, and rushed forward toward the wolves. I completely forgot about trying to stop my nose bleed, and my throbbing head and face, and reached out, and grabbed Story and pulled her back.
"Story that is not a puppy! That's a wolf on steroids that could eat you!" I yelled clumsily pulling her back towards me, and having to use her to help support myself. Damn tree limb. It's still Brady's fault. "I don't care, it has four legs, and its fuzzy; it's a puppy!" Story said trying to get out of my tight grip. It might have just been my slightly dazed and confused brain, but I saw the two wolves beside the one in the middle look like they were trying to smile, and laugh.
"Yeah, it also has really sharp teeth and claws and can eat you!" I said backing away from the wolves, bringing her with me. I really hope I don't get dizzy again, I don't want to get eaten. The wolves seemed to glance at each other, almost like they were sharing a private joke. I must have gotten hit harder in the face than I thought.
"I don't care! I just want to pet the puppy!" Story said pulling away from my grip, I tried to reach out and grab her again, but the sudden movement caused me to get dizzy again, and I had to use a nearby tree to keep myself from falling on the ground. Damn it. If she get's eaten, I'm so laughing at her.
"If that's a puppy, then I don't want to see Momma, now let's go! I need some pain killers!" I said feeling the throbbing in my head and face return. "They haven't eaten us yet!" Story said slowly walking towards the middle wolf. "Yet being the key word" I pointed out. Story didn't listen to me, she just kept slowly walking toward the wolf.
Astoria's POV:
I smiled when my hand finally landed on the top of the wolf's head. It's fur was so soft, and thick. I watched as the wolf closed its eyes as I continued to pet it. It hadn't eaten me yet, which was a good thing. I glanced behind me to see Aislinn holding onto a tree, and pinching her nose again. I guess I should probably go take her back to the school to the nurse. Damn.
I looked to the wolf in front of me, that was probably bigger than a horse, and it was letting me pet it. This was so awesome! How many people who've seen a live wolf can say they've pet it? Well—probably not many….since they probably got eaten…but still!
"I'm going to name you Mr. Cuddles!" I said still petting the wolf. It opened its eyes, and gave me a look, and I saw the other two wolves stretch their mouths into what I assumed was smiles, and barked laughs—at least, I think it was a laugh. It was so weird, these wolves almost seemed human.
Snap.
I felt myself freeze, and I heard Aislinn swear. The wolf tensed beneath my touch. I looked in the direction of the noise.
"OH MY GOD! IT'S MOMMY!" Aislinn yelled pointing in the direction that a huge, black wolf that was bigger than the three wolves in front of me.
Oh. My. God.
Then, as if there weren't enough wolves around, an even bigger one showed up. It walked up next to the big black one. "Holy. Shit." I managed to say. "HOLY SHIT! IT'S DADDY! Story we are leaving!" Aislinn yelled and I felt her grab my hand. I felt myself come out of my shock when Aislinn started running, leading us away from the wolves.
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