Bound By Betrayal

Ch. 10 ...and breathe

Last week at the Bon fire I had danced with Matthew and something special had found its beginning. I had been walking on clouds and finally thought I had things figured out. Then a few days ago I "remembered" under hypnotism things about my family I had apparently buried. Sessions had been increased after to once a day, with a different doctor from my treatment team to confirm each other's findings. It was a form of checks and balances that made sure that the stories that new wolves told remained consistent and the doctors compared notes to be sure. All in all it had been a hectic week and I was in need of some serious down time.

"Ok, this is getting ridiculous. We need to make a decision." Trin was sitting across from me, her impatience evident on her face.

"There has to be some compromise or we will achieve nothing," Dasia chimed in from where she had sprawled out on the floor, exhausted from the negotiations that seemed to be taking an eternity.

I knew I had to be the voice of reason. "Listen if we rush this we will all regret it, it's better to take our time and be sure we can all live with this decision."

"Ok,ok I got it!" Trin jumped up and took the pad out of my hand, several pages of which were covered in my favorite purple ink. "We will watch Harry Potter, in Ava's room, and order Chinese this afternoon. Then tonight we can watch scary movies, with pizza, in Dasia's room."

Dasia lifted her head slightly from the floor, her hair fanned out beneath her like a halo. "Which scary movie?"

Both Trin and I groaned at what would likely be the beginning of another marathon of bargaining. I leaned down and peeled off my slightly sweaty sock before rolling it up and glaring at her. Laughing as she tried to roll to her belly to crawl to safety I chucked it at her and fell to the floor laughing when it hit her in the back of the head. My mirth was short lived as trin's sock hit me square in the mouth.

"Ewwww it's salty!" I screamed as I bent over to take off my other sock, falling over to laugh again as the sock that Dasia had thrown at the back of my head narrowly missed and got Trin in the forehead. Six socks, none too clean, and ten minutes of screaming and dodging later we were all laying on the floor next to each other.

"Sooooo, did we decide on a scary movie?" No words were spoken as Trin and I rolled over to smush Dasia.

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Forty five minutes later we were settling down in my room with an assortment of Chinese food, courtesy of one of the establishments located here on Hidden Shadows territory. The size and secrecy of our pack had led to it becoming its own little town, with wolves bringing their own talents and developing new ones everyday. The Chinese place was actually only open four days a week and while it had a limited menu, it was all very good and super fresh since the ingredients were all raised or grown here.

Harry had just gotten his birthday cake from Hagrid when there was a knock on my door. Mouth full of food I yelled for whoever it was to come in, not even bothering to wipe the rice I knew was on my cheek off. Don't judge me, it was entirely too good to rely on manners. Sadly, I wish it had been stale or something when I glanced up to see who it was only to see Matthew there with raised eyebrows.

There was a quiet flurry of activity as the girls and I tried to retain what dignity we had left. I wiped my face as Dasia swallowed the ginormous bite of orange chicken she had just inhaled. Trinity was doing her best impression of a carpet as she tried to scoot behind my bed, hiding the fact that she had her hair in a style best described as bed head meets a tornado with a side of yikes with this cream she swore by smeared in various places on her face.

I jumped up and ran to the door, sacrificing myself in the hopes that my friends would survive. One hand on his chest I gently pushed him back as I closed the door a bit. They would be able to hear, but he couldn't see behind me.