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Chapter 10: The unsuccessful date.
Friday...
After an exhausting week of fighting, glaring, hating and more fighting with Nick, Friday finally arrived. Brooke and I were waiting in our dorm for our dates to pick us up. Our expectations about these dates were completely different. I was going out with a friend, so I didn't try dressing up to impress him, wearing only a pair of dark blue jeans, a black dress shirt, and sneakers. Brooke, on the other hand, was ready to kill. It was obvious the girl wanted Nick. She was wearing a mini mini-skirt that looked more like a belt than a skirt, and a tight corset that made her boobs look bigger. She looked like a stripper, but I wasn't the one going out on a date with her. Nick was, so he was the one to judge whether she looked like a slut or not…Maybe that's what he liked?
For some reason, the mere thought of them dating made my blood boil. My body ached to let the wolf out and rip this girl's head off. But I needed to relax. Brooke was doing me a favor, Nick wasn't the one for me. In fact, they were perfect for each other.
"Do you think I should change the skirt into a shorter one?" Brooke's irritating voice asked.
What did Nick see in her? I mean, she wasn't that pretty, and well, maybe she had a nice body but she was insufferable, fake and ungraceful.
There was a knock on the door. Thank God! Brooke opened it and there was Nick. She let him come in and I took a good look at him. He looked nice. He was wearing light blue jeans and a black shirt with the sleeves rolled up, revealing his strong forearms.
When he saw Brooke his eyes widened but not in the 'Wow, she looks hot' way, it was more like 'What the hell are you wearing?' kind of way. I chuckled at his face, making him turn to me. When our eyes met, his softened as they ran down my body. Brooke noticing this, leaned closer to his face and kissed him right in front of me.
Suddenly he pulled away, saw that I was pissed and smirked.
"Where are you taking me, baby?" Brooke asked seductively.
"Um, I don't know yet." He still looked at me with that stupid smirk on his face.
"Can we go to the cinema and then have dinner?" she asked, grabbing his arm and trying to take him outside.
"I don't know. Watch a movie, and grab some dinner? Why don't we just stay here?"
Oh boy! I guess the furthest they were going tonight was to her bed. Brooke seemed to like the idea.
There was another knock on the door and I ran to open it. It was Julian. He looked…nice, I guess. His usually messy brown hair was combed neatly. He was wearing black jeans and a green t-shirt that complimented his green eyes.
"Hi, Leah! Wow, you look nice! Ready for a movie and dinner?"
"Let's go!" I grabbed my coat and started to head out of the room when...
"Wait, we're going with you. We're also going to see a movie and then eat. We can go together in my car," Nick offered.
"What? You said you didn't want to-" Brooke started to complain but Nick put his hand over her mouth to shut her up.
"Thanks for offering but I was thinking of walking to the cinema. It's not so far away from camp-"
"I insist we should go in my car," Nick cut Julian off, pushing us all out of the room.
The date only got worse from that moment on. After an awkward time at the cinema where Nick managed to sit me in between him and Brooke, we exited the movie theater.
"Do you want to go grab something to eat, Leah?" Julian asked, holding my hand.
"That's a good idea!" Nick answered and separated Julian from me.
"Um, I was inviting only Le-" Julian started saying but was cut off by Nick.
"Oh, man! I'm hungry too!"
"Nick, they want to go alo-" Brooke started but Nick cut her off with his hand over her mouth again.
Suddenly Julian's cell phone started to ring.
"Hello. Yes, I'm Julian Chains. What? Is she okay? I'll be there in ten minutes." He hung up and looked at me. "Leah, I have to go. My mother's been in an accident and I need to go. I'll see you tomorrow."
"Okay…"
"Sorry! Bye." He kissed me on the cheek and left.
I turned around and saw Brooke trying to kiss Nick but he was pushing her away.
"Um, I'll be heading back to campus then," I said.
"No! Why don't you come with us to eat something?" Nick offered. Well, it sounded more like a plea than an offer.
"I don't want to ruin your date…"
"You won't! I don't want you to go walking alone at night, it's dangerous."
"Don't worry about me, I'll be fine."
"I insist. I know there are a lot of pervs that take advantage of lonely girls and I wouldn't like to leave you unprotected."
"Nick, let's go. Leah can take care of herself," Brooke said, glaring at me.
"No, she's coming with us," he ordered.
A few minutes later, we were sitting at a nice restaurant. Brooke went to the bathroom, leaving Nick and me alone. He was sitting on the chair next to mine. This brought some memories of our encounter in the empty classroom. I looked at him and he was staring at me with an unknown emotion in his eyes.
"What?" I asked rudely.
"Nothing."
We stayed in silence for a moment.
"Why are you doing this to me?" I asked.
"Doing what?"
"You know. Inviting me here. You're on a date with Brooke. You're just trying to make me jealous, right?"
"Are you jealous?" he asked, leaning closer to me.
"Pfft! No!" Yes. "Don't avoid my question. Am I here so you can make fun that I have no date?"
"No, actually it's because I wan-" He was cut off by Brooke coming back to the table.
*30 Minutes Later*
Please, God, let me just sink into the floor and vanish! This can't get any more humiliating…
While Nick and Brooke were laughing, talking about their lives and flirting, I was just sitting there, listening to whatever stupid stuff Brooke had to say. I felt so out of place, I should have never agreed to this, I lamented on my seat feeling uncomfortable. Every time she touched him, my blood started to boil, and he noticed that it bothered me, so he encouraged it by smiling at her and touching her back.
Why couldn't this night end already?
"I'll be right back," I said getting up from my seat.
Nick and Brooke finally stopped talking and looked up at me.
"Where are you going?" Nick asked.
"Bathroom," I answered.
I zig zagged my way to the bathroom, pushed open the door and went over to the sink. I looked at myself in the mirror. What was I doing here? I turned on the water and washed my face.
I walked out into the crowd of people and made my way to my table. I was about ten feet away from them, when I saw Brooke kissing Nick, and he was kissing her back. Something inside of me twisted. I suddenly felt a rush of sadness and my eyes started to sting. I noticed Nick looking up at me and his eyes grew wide.
"Leah!" I couldn't face him, not in this state. I turned around and ran out of the restaurant and into the night. I didn't care where I was going, just as long as I was away from him.
I kept running until my legs hurt. I looked around at my surroundings. I had ended up in the forest behind campus.
I walked over to a big rock that was in between some trees and sat on it.
What was happening to me? Why? I buried my face in my hands and I kept telling myself to stop feeling this way, but that didn't happen. I didn't know what hurt more, the fact that he was kissing her or that I was feeling like this over it.
I promised myself never to be fooled by a guy again, and I arrived here and what happened? I think I fell for him. How did that happened? When did that happen?
I sat up straight inhaling the fresh air. I needed to phase and let the animal control my mind. The animal was going to help me stop feeling. That was what I needed.
I took off my clothes and phased. The transformation was a relief to my senses. The wolf gave us some kind of freedom of our human feelings, we still felt every emotion, but in a less intense way.
I ran for a while, enjoying the peace in my mind. But my harmony soon ended when I started thinking about Nick and Brooke. It was pointless, not even in my wolf form could I stop thinking about him.
I phased back. When I was changing into my clothes in the middle of the forest, I felt like someone was watching me. But it was a ridiculous. No one would come into the woods in the middle of the night. I dismissed that idea, but then there was a noise in the bushes nearby me. I looked around, waiting for some rabbit or little woodland creature to run out of the bushes, but my eyes widened in shock when out of nowhere, a human figure started to run away from me.
Oh fuck! Someone saw me…in my wolf form!
