Help! I'm a werewolf

Chapter eighteen

I was outside sitting on the front porch under the stars when my dad saw me sitting by myself.

"Hey. mind if I join you?"

"Not at all."

"You seem kind of down, what's wrong?"

"It's nothing, I guess it has to do with my friends. Sometimes I think it would be better if I just ran away somewhere."

"You know something, I know how you feel. Let me just tell you something, even though things don't look the way you want them to, they'll turn around if you work at it. Here's another thing too; people will always tell you what to do but at the end of the day, what you do is up to you. After all, there is not a single person out there who is better at deciding what's best for you than yourself. You live your life and let others live theirs."

"Thanks, dad."

"No problem, that's what I'm here for."

"Hey, Nick." I told Nick as I saw him the next day at school.

I said this as I grabbed his hand

"You don't have to do this for me, you know."

"I know and I'm not doing this for you."

I held his hand fully

"I'm doing this for us."

This got me a smile from Nick and a couple of stares from onlookers but I didn't care. I was happy and that's all that mattered

I came home from school and couldn't help but look over my dresser drawer. I picked up a photograph of me and my friends laughing and drinking together at a bar. I then laid on my bed.

"I already miss them.." I thought.

I was sitting alone at lunch when Olivia noticed where I was.

For some reason, she thought it would be a good idea to talk to me.

"Hey.." she said gently

"Hey, what do you want?"

"Look Zayne, I'm sorry about what I said yesterday. I can tell that what I said must have hurt you and I'm sorry."

"Yeah, no kidding."

"Look, I know that things have been on and off between us, but I promise you that you'll feel so much better after I tell you the real reason that we decided to do what we did."

"There's a reason why we agreed to help Blade out. And don't worry, it wasn't because he bribed us into it or anything. The real reason why we helped out was that, if we didn't, he was gonna force us to swim with the sharks at Evergreen. We did it because, even though we knew you would be hurt, we figured you'd be even more hurt if you knew that we got into serious trouble."

Suddenly, I felt better. It seemed like Olivia was right.

In the weeks that followed, I noticed that our friendship was getting better and pretty soon, we were getting along again.