The Imprint: Night Shift (Complete & Editing)

Chapter 6: Destiny

When I got home, I told my mum what happened and we cried together. She made me some Swiss, hot chocolate, added in real marsh mellows and gave me some brownies. She kissed my forehead and hugged me, comforted me and reassured me that everything would be fine, you know how mums are.

I went to my room, lied down, added Ambs, Nel and Lily to messenger, watched the series I missed. Hachi came and lied on my bed with me, he licked my hand and I rubbed his head. He was there trying to comfort me too.  I remember watching Pretty Little Liars, smiling at Caleb aka Tyler Blackburn and thinking about Brian.

Soon after, I was fast asleep

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Waking, up I looked over at my laptop to see that I had been messaged by friends. I typed to them, ‘Hey, I missed you’.

I had amazing conversations with everyone, thankfully no one asked about Max, but they did ask about Hawaii and I told them it was breath taking, and about my three new friends. I was so happy to be back at home being my normal self, but, I’d never be the same, I have had so many changes during the past week, that I forgot how good it felt to chat my besties.

My happy reunion with my girls was cut short after Amber asked where I found Max. I added all of them to one conversation and told them all about the douche bag. Of course I couldn’t tell them about the part where I am a werewolf or that I met him at the summit or anything like that. We had our little pity session over Skype and talked about ways to forget to about him and painful ways that he could die.

 Lily suggested that I go out with all my besties that I have Barbados, we agreed and made plans. I only wished they could all be with me.

Brian popped in to my head again while I was eating dinner, my appetite barely existed and I had an empty feeling inside. My brother was making noises as little boys usually do and my mother was trying to get him to eat. My niece ate everything on her plate and tried to eat my brother’s chicken, that was funny but my sister stopped her, and took her home.

Sigh... I was just not there right now, I needed someone who could understand this hurt that I was feeling. My mother was there for me but she couldn’t really understand.

There was a knock at the door, my brother jumped up and answered it.

“Hi, goodnight, I’m Brian. Is Cherise here?”

“Yeah, I’m right here.”

He looked over at my mum, “Can I speak to your daughter outside? It’s kind of -”

“Sure!” My mum cut him off, “Go.”

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We went for a walk in the playground and sat on a bench. Brian put his hand on mine and I felt warm and achy all over. I looked up at him. He looked so sweet and understanding and I couldn’t contain myself anymore, I exploded into tears and told him about the trip and the cheating, and the way Max treated me.

Brian put him arms around me and pulled me in close to him.

“There is nothing that you feel that I don’t feel too. I understand what you’re going through.”

“How can you? I doubt you’ve ever been hurt like this.”

“Not exactly but I can always feel what you feel.”

I pulled away from him.

“What do you mean?”

“Three years ago my dad picked up a vibe from you, you may not remember us, but you passed us in Cave Shepherd one day, you were in the stationery section, we could sense that you had abilities but you didn’t even know about them, so he told me to watch you. And I have been for three years now, I feel it when you’re sad, if you’re mad, if you happy or if you’re just plain hurt.”