Quick Shift

Chapter 3; Alayna

I stormed into my room, slamming the door in anger. I threw my bag on my bed, kicked my boots into my closet door causing a loud bang. I flung myself onto my bed and screamed. It was muffled by my blue and purple pin striped comforter, but it was just loud enough for Addie to hear.

She came running through the door; I turned to see her worried expression quickly fade as her eyebrows furrowed and her face turned hard. “Wanna keep it down!? There is obviously no one in the room trying the rape you and there’s not any blood, so chill out!” With that she slammed the door so hard my picture frame of Kamren, Dylan, Sky and I from homecoming two years ago shook on the wall making it crooked.

The usual was what was wrong. I slammed myself into my pillow. “Ugh!” I exclaimed. What’s got me so angry? Oh, the usual. Dylan needed me to babysit her until 8:30 at night because Hayden has to do someone else’s job. Then I had to call Sky and Jeff to come get me while Hayden and Dylan made out in front of me. None of this would be a problem if Daniel wasn’t out doing God knows what with whatever female with a pulse walks through the room.

I went into my bathroom, turned on the shower and stripped. I turned on my CD player and listened to Mayday Parade sing Miserable at Best. I got in closing the music note curtain letting the hot water run down my newly toned body. I sang with the music as my wolf kept taunting me. My body yearned for a run. I knew I had all the vocabulary Mrs. Tyler had assigned. Why I ever decided signing up for English 4 Honors was a good thing, I’ll never know. Especially because she is always the honors teacher. I’ve had her the last four years. Whatever possessed me to take honors again should be taken out back and shot.

I stopped the shower and hopped out without my towel I opened the door to my room then continued to the far window. Opening the window I quickly shifted. I looked over at my stand up mirror. I was beautiful. My white she wolf growled in agreement to my thoughts. I jumped out of the second story window landing softly on all fours. I quickly gained my balance and ran into the woods. It was nine and there were still traces of pink in the sky from the sun set, even though the moon was high in the sky. I hopped over surfaced tree roots and mud puddles still around from last week’s thunder storm. I had to duck under a couple branches, but it wasn’t excessive. I made it to the river signaling if I were to cross I’d be on enemy lines. A feeling of adrenaline washed over me, my favorite feeling in the world.

                It’s the wonder of not knowing what could happen if I swam across the river and placed a foot, or paw on their land. Would they kill me on the spot? Would they warn me first? What if I was captured? Would they eventually kill me? What if I met my mate?

                Okay, maybe that one went a little too far. I mean sometimes I really wish I could find him; especially when I’m with Skylar and Dylan when they’re with Hayden and Jeff. But, it all seems like it’s too much for me to handle. Like, I’m 16; I’ll be 17 in two months. I don’t need to worry about someone other than myself. I don’t need to worry about weather my mate will make it out of a fight. I don’t need to worry about our territory being taken over and our alpha being thrown down, partially because he’s never around to be taken down. But that’s beside the point. I get what Kamren said earlier about needing to grow up and actually take responsibility for something other than myself, I’m just not ready to.  The real world just feels like it’s too much. It’s my senior year of high school; I don’t want to spend it worrying about what the rest of my life will be like. I understand what Kamren has gone through to make her say that. No, actually I have no idea what she went through with losing her family. She’s had it rough, she had to grow up at such a young age, I didn’t. I’ve always had my family around me at all times, she didn’t. I’ve had the privilege of all of this stuff for free while she has to work for it. All I need to be responsible for is my school work. I just need to get into Indiana University. That’s my main goal in life. Her’s is to get by. To be able to go to college and start a life for herself distancing herself from the heartache Riverside has brought to her.