Blood Moon

Chapter 2 - More Introductions and a Fight

Chapter 2

More Introductions and a Fight

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Ariel POV

   I sift through the crowd until I see Ashley sitting at a long table, the food in front of her lay untouched. Her brute of a husband is laughing and drinking heavily with his friends ignoring his poor suffering wife.

   I sit next to her and gently give her a hug. She sniffs and starts to shake but at a loud boisterous bark from Simon she straightens, wipes her eyes and smiles.

  “Lovely party isn’t it, not a grand as when my Trevor was introduced or even my Tomas, but lovely all the same.” her fake smile slips for a second before it steadies.

   “Everything will be alright, at least she is alive and will be well taken care of.” I try to reassure.

   Ashley dark eyes throw daggers at me, “It is no longer my concern.”

   But her eyes flick to the new baby Caitlin with longing.

   “I only meant-”

   “I care not and will thank you not to bring this up again!” grabbing her cup she storms off.

   Well you think you can help a person, anyone can see she is suffering, but she is too proud to admit it. Getting up I head off aimlessly.

   I hear “Hey, girl,” before a sudden weight lands on my back. If I had not been braced for it I would have been flat on the ground.

   “Hey, back,” I laugh as Sofi climbs off me.

   “What do you think?” she asks as she slowly pirouettes her eyes shimmering with excitement.

  At 4”8 she is a small little thing, even by our standard. Her slim form is decked out in a bright tight short red dress with a plunging neckline that hugs her petite frame before ending well above her knees with a wide black belt wrapped around her tiny waist. Her legs are covered in tight black pants that match the pattern on the belt and end in red matching slippers. Her short red hair is spiked at different angles and tipped with something black.

   She completes a second turn just to make sure I got the complete effect.

   “Wow,” I breathe, “Aaron is going to love it. But what will Griffin think? What’s in your hair?” I ask raising my hand.

   “Touch it and you die,” she warns.

  I drop my hand, she might be small but I don’t let that fool me.

“What that idiot thinks isn’t important. Do you really think Aaron will like?”

   She has had a huge crush on Aaron Majors for years, not that the dumb muscled moron has ever noticed. He has so many groupies following him around she almost gets trampled in the stampede.

   “Only a blind man would not fall down and worship you in that outfit.” Knowing her dreams will unfortunately come true tonight, poor Griffin.

   “You think?” linking her arms though mine we start to walk around. “Can you see him from your great height?”

   I laugh make a show of to looking around. At 5”8 both Leira and I were the tallest girls in town, we were as tall or taller then most of the men. I could have blamed this fact on being eighteen without ever having had a date, sucks to be me. Most man don’t want a giant as a wife and I don’t want to be looking down on my husbands head in twenty years and only see his bald spot, eeew. Plus being able to see the end of a relationship before it starts doesn’t help either.