My Mirror

Chapter 2

The shower felt amazing after a long night of not remembering fun. The water that was once clean now ran down my skin in brown rivers. My hair was full of dirt and twigs come to find out. It took three really good scrubbings before I was sure it was clean. Conditioning the knots out of it was a nightmare, that seemed never ending.

Scrubbing my body was the easiest part out of the whole process. Getting out of the shower I wrap my hair in a towel before drying off. Less worry of water dripping down. Once I'm dressed in a simple black T and blue jean shorts I wipe the mist off my bathroom mirror. I look a tired wreck! Sighing I put on my makeup.

Half dark half light fading into one another, an no, not a smoky eye. When I'm done doing that, I do my hair up into a high ponytail. It flows from my hair band like oil to mid-shoulders. I walk out of the bathroom to find Silvia softly snoring on my bed. Smiling I quietly search for my phone.

I bend over to unplug it and when I stand up she transformed. She now sleeps in her snake form, coiled in and out of her clothing. That, when she wakes up, will still be in the correct places of her human state. I set my alarm for eight, which will give her an hour to get to class and about two hours to sleep. Slipping out of the room I go to the kitchen and find Silvia had made me a morning snack of jellied toast and bacon.

I gobble up the food then wash my plate. I don't want Martha to get mad about the dishes. After all of this is done I decide I try and get some sleep versus going out and trying to study at the library. I'd just fall asleep and be late for class, again. So instead I slip back into my room and lay down next to Silvia. She slightly wakes up to my getting on the bed but doesn't hiss.

Instead, she slithers onto my stomach as I lay down and coils up. Smiling I lovingly run my hands down her coils and promptly fall asleep. My late night adventures haunting my dreams.

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I awoke to the sound of an annoying chirp of my alarm. Rolling over I realize Silvia wasnt in bed. Stretching I get out of bed and look around some more. Her clothes were gone as well. She's probably downstairs munching on some mice tacos. It had been an inside joke since we were little. A lot of people thought that snakes loved mice.

In truth the ones kept locked up do, but being a shifter, Silvia loved to eat everything. I go and brush the knots out of my hair, fix my pony tail, then go downstairs. The nap has helped me and I feel so refreshed. In all honesty, can't wait until my math class. Normally, Mr. Esche Wiese, was a bore.

Smart man, very good looking, but I'm not a fan. And he prefers Ashley, being another wolf, he preferred an American name. As did I, I loved Rose. Most people called me that. Only Silvia called me Stieg Schwarze, as well as any one else whom was a shifter. My human friends looked at me weird every time they heard it. I just laugh and tell them it was my name in German.

"Stieg Schwarze? Stieg Schwarze ?" I snap out of my thoughts and stop on the last step of the stairs. Looking over to see Silvia standing with her purse in hand and keys in the other. "Ready to go my beautiful flower?" Smiling I grab my jacket and notebook. The rest of my stuff was in my locker, which I was going hit after class.

Walking into my math class I see Ashley sitting at his desk writing something on his computer. I was usually the first person in class now a days. It had been a few weeks since me and Angel had stopped dating. We were still good friends but, we weren't the same. I love how Silvia tried to make things easier on the both of us. So, going to that concert wasn't going to be so bad.

Sitting in my seat I quietly flipped my notebook to a new sheet and started copying down the Question Of The Day. People started filing in as the minute bell rang and Ashley looked up. His dark chocolate eyes landing on, me. Nodding his head good morning he got up and started talking.

As I pack up at the end of class Ashley comes up to help me clean up. A jerk knocked most of my stuff off of my desk and it was just as the bell rang. His dark hair is short and slightly spiked, he was fit just enough so you could see his biceps but not so fit to look like a workout junkie. Looking up at me he smiles. Fresh out of school he was young, and he was a young wolf in a not so wolfie town. Most of the Canine creatures where Coyote shape shifters. So, you can see were this might lead. "Ash, you do know that we can't date. It's against the law."

"Human law. Most of our kind already have mates. You know that." Ashley looks at me sadly and grabs my bag before I could get to it.

"I just got out of a relationship. A long relationship, I can't you know that." Looking at me he kisses my hand before opening the door to let me out of class.

"You have me, remember that. I can help too." Nodding I walk to my next class which was English. An compared to my first period, it was, uneventful. In truth, my hole day was uneventful. Walking to class, not really talking to anybody but Silvia. I missed being around my boyfriend, ex boyfriend. I missed my friends I had when I was with him. The thing is, after we split I kind of became a loner. I only had a few other friends and they were scattered around the U.S.

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"You really need to get out more, you'd do less of that staring off thing you do." A male voice whispers in my ear from behind. Turning around quickly I almost hit, Jake in the face. Hitting him would be a bad idea, considering almost every girl in school would love to be with him and every guy would love to be him. With his medium brown, short cut hair and, warm chocolate eyes, plus his height. It made him the perfect playboy.

"You really need to stop doing that. One of these days I will hit you, and I will be attacked for it." Rolling my eyes I go and pack up the book I was reading. Silvia is on the track team and a bunch of other clubs and sports, I honestly don't know what today is, all I know is that I have to wait for her. She's my ride home.

Smiling Jake sits beside me and pulls the hair out of my face that I had let fall there. "He was an idiot you know."

"We both thought of it as best, well, we just. Why do you say that?"

"Just, you don't act like the other girls. Never have, you've always been less googly and more into knowing me."

"I always thought you were a good guy, always, even when we met freshman year. When no one knew you as the amazing football star. That's why I'm different. I noticed you when you didn't even notice yourself."