Pursued (Completed) ✔️

Chapter 24

Hello, I didn't notice how long it had been since I updated :-(
It's been more than a day and I normally do my updates once a week so for those of you that were waiting....I apologise.
XG
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Camille and Bobby immediately approached the car when I pulled up. The others were where they always stood until the last minute. I could feel Adrien's gaze burning me as I made an effort not to look at him when we walked up. Camille talking a million miles a minute but I didn't hear a thing as I walked up to, what I now realized was a pack of wolves. I suddenly stopped.

Was I afraid? Were they a threat?
Oh holy hell...They had to know. All of them knew about what I was to them.
What I was to them. What I was to Luke. They probably knew about the necklace that Ben had given me too and what that meant.

Camille was quiet but still plastered to my side. Bobby had walked over to the others.
"You alright?" She asked me softly.
I turned to look at her. I studied her face, like really studied and made an effort to remember all the times we had laughed together. It was surprisingly easy... and finally I smiled at her.
"You know what, Fluffy? I think I am."
A breathtaking smile broke out on her face and she threw her arms around me in a tight hug. I happily hugged her back.

Arm in arm we continued to the others. I looked at each and every one of them saving Adrien for last. I flinched in fear as I met his icy blue eyes. The same color as the ones I saw in the truck before I raced off. For a second I didn't know what to do but then I realized that he looked hurt. It didn't take much to understand that my fear had hurt him, after all, he had always protected me. Without hesitating I made a decision and threw myself at him like Camille had done to me just a few minutes before. I hugged him tightly and mumbled. "I'm sorry. Your eyes... I'm so sorry, I do know it wasn't you that frightened me."
His arms finally secured me to him and he took a deep breath. "I'm sorry too. My brother can be a real jackass."

"A boy that changes to a wolf, behaves like a cross between a horse and a donkey and has eyes that light up like fire flies... it quite understandable that he has an angry personality, poor guy is totally confused!"
A split second of astounded silence, Adrien looked at my face and then they all burst out laughing drawing the attention of everyone our way. Bobby was wiping tears from his eyes and told us. "You'll need to tell him that, freaking classic!"

"You tell him." I grinned back.
"I think you might be the only person that has a chance to walk away alive from that one. That was hilarious!" Bobby happily told me as the others nodded their agreement. The first bell rang, I shook my head pretending to be sad. "Wimps." I mumbled knowing they could hear me.

The rest of the morning was with spent Adrien or Otto glued to my side. Camille came with me to the bathroom, I knew she was making sure I wouldn't be alone and she didn't seem to mind. I came out of my stall before her and found a group of girls that usually hung out with Susan's crowd. They obviously didn't notice Camille enter before me. It took a split second to decide to stick to what Ben had told me when I met the pack. Head up, eye contact and attitude.

She had her arms crossed glaring at me.
I pushed her and another girl aside without a word, to get to the sink. They gasped and I took notice of the fact that Camille hadn't come out yet, strange. The girl brought me out of my thoughts when she pushed me, quite hard. I turned to her but she stepped back as the other girl pushed me from behind, I was lucky I had a good sense of balance and didn't fall. The last few days had been a lot to deal with and if I learned anything it was that all humans were simply prey. We thought we were at the top of the food chain when in reality 'no weapons' meant we were no threat to anything.

I'm not sure who was more surprised, her or me, when my fist shot out and hit her chin from the right. Her head snapped left and the other girls squealed. I took my moment and ran with it, well not literally, I looked at the girls with my fists up and asked. "Anyone else want to mess with me?" My voice like ice.
They suddenly moved in a rush, whispering that I had lost it. Just before my victim walked out she snarled. "You'll pay for that!"
I smiled wickedly. "I have a history of being bullied here, if I cower before the principal and stutter that you are lying, afraid to even look at you... will they still believe you? I'll tell them I saw you have an accident and only asked if you needed help, it'll take me ten minutes or so! Weren't you in a fight in class just last week?"
She screamed in frustration and I knew I'd won this round as I turned to the sink again to wash my hands. I was startled by the door of a stall hitting the wall after they walked out. Camille struck a dramatic pose hanging off the frame.