Blue Wolf Moon

6. What Had She Done?

!TRIGGER WARNING! -  Contains sexual harassment/assault. 

The next class was English and Riya was the best at it so it didn't matter that she wasn't paying attention. She thought about whether she should tell her parents or not considering everything the principal had said. She decided not to for now.

School ended and they got ready to leave.

"You know, I'm kinda jealous of all these powers you have. I wish I could do something like that." said Nidhi as they walked out of class.

"Trust me, you don't. It's stressful as heck. Anyway, I have to go. Bye!" said Riya.

"Bye! See you tomorrow!"

It had been such an eventful day for Riya. She allowed her mind to drift away as she laid her head against the open car window.

"How was you day?" asked her mom.

"It was good. Yeah."

She was waiting to reach home as soon as possible and text Maya and the rest of the pack. 

"It's almost 4, they'll be online." she thought as the car made a turn towards their house.

She quickly freshened up and made a groupchat including all the five people she had met today.

"Hey guys! It's Riya. Wassup?" she sent.

"Bored. Just had some snacks. Wbu?" she got a reply from Kishan.

"Hey guys, we're planning to meet today to practice and work out. Wanna come?" said Maya.

"Oh..sure. I don't know anything anyway so maybe you guys can teach me. I'll come." replied Riya immediately. "Where tho?"

"I'll text you the address later. It's our usual place. It's an old factory that was closed down for some reason. No One goes there so we've been training there for the like the last eight months." said Maya.

"Oh wow okay that's kinda cool." texted back Riya and put down her phone.

A few moments later Maya texted her the address and Riya got ready.

"Mom! I'm heading over to meet some friends near the Petrol Bunk okay?" she asked.

"Yeah okay, just be back by seven!" said her mom and she headed out on her bicycle.

It was about a fifteen-minute ride to the factory and Riya started to overthink. What if she was really bad at fighting?..or whatever they do? What if everyone hated her? What if she wasn't the leader they wanted? By the time she tried to come up with answers to these to calm herself, she had already reached. She walked into the factory and found Maya and the others waiting for her.

"Oh good, you're finally here. Let's start, shall we?" said Maya.

"Uh sure? What first?" said Riya looking at the boxing ring and gym equipment all around her.

"Why don't you start and then we can teach you depending on that?" said Manish.

"I don't really know anything actually." said Riya awkwardly.

"It's fine. We'll go one-on-one in the ring." said Maya stepping into it.

"Oh God, okay but go easy on me please." she said, stepping in too.

"Yeah no. You may not know anything, but you're definitely stronger than all of us here." said Maya getting into position.

"Sure." said Riya doing the same.