My Hockey Alpha

Chapter 31: Pity Party

Nina

I knew sleeping with Enzo again would have been a mistake. He didn’t even care about me enough to stay for the entire duration. Clearly he got what he wanted and realized that I wasn’t worth his time, so he bailed. When I got dressed and left the cabin, I didn’t see him anywhere at the party; he must have run off.

I jumped down the stairs and started to walk back toward the party so I could find Jessica and Lori and tell them that I was going home, but stopped when I overheard two of Lisa’s friends talking.

“Have you seen Lisa?” one said.

“Yeah,” the other replied. “She walked into the woods a little while ago. I just saw Enzo go that way, too.”

“Ooh!” the first girl said excitedly. “Do you think they’re getting back together?”

The second girl giggled. “Obviously. Have you seen the way he’s been looking at her lately? Clearly he regrets messing around with that weirdo Nina and realizes that he’ll never do any better than Lisa.”

I didn’t want to stick around to hear any more as tears started to well up in my eyes. I just wanted to go home.

I ran down the trail that led back to campus. I kept running until I could no longer see or hear the people at the cabins. The waning moon was just a crescent in the sky, no longer illuminating the forest like it did the other night, so I pulled out my phone and turned on the flashlight so I could see.

Eventually, I heard footsteps behind me and whipped my flashlight around to see Luke approaching.

“I figured you’d follow me,” I said annoyedly, turning back in the direction I was going and continuing to walk.

“I couldn’t let you walk through the woods alone,” he replied. “There could be-”

“Werewolves, I know,” I interrupted.

Luke was silent for a moment before speaking again. “Not just werewolves. Other shifters, too.”

and pondered what he said; admittedly, it made me a bit curious. We

other sorts of shifters are there, anyway?” I asked eventually, just

There are low-tier shifters, which are less

you mean by ‘less

go feral. When they wake up in the morning –if they wake up– they won’t

but just regular animals. They still have a conscience while in their nonhuman form, but no powers. Believe it or not, many cats, birds, and rodents in the human world are actually shifters in their animal

cat, Mimsy. Was she a shifter? She was very clever, and would sometimes disappear for days on end. My parents always said she was just exploring, but now

after that?”

can shift into much larger, more powerful versions of animals. It’s not just that they have

“Like split personalities?”

caliber comes of age, their animal appears to them, and they share a soul.

a spirit

“Exactly.”

and I finished climbing the hill and came to a small clearing.

in the view, but then cleared my throat and asked

what are you? Are

He looked down at his feet. I couldn’t see his face, not that it would make a

” Just a guy who fucked up and was cursed to live for all eternity. But not in a cool, sexy way, like a vampire. Just cursed to slowly rot

I’ll just be dust, when these bones start to disintegrate in millions of

I said. I couldn’t explain it, but I was starting to feel genuinely bad for this strange talking

to hang out in that anatomy lab. I like seeing all of the students come and

some reason, the skeleton’s words made me smile. It was strange to think that a talking skeleton might be becoming

better as we sat together on the hillside, and started to think to myself as I sobered up that maybe it was a good thing that my sex with Enzo got interrupted. It

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