Around Two Years Ago
I sat in the commons, where we were expected to be from 3-5 pm. I watched as a girl who looked around my age walked in. She looked around scared, then snapped her gaze to me, which caused her to look terrified. I had my knees pulled up to my chest, and hadn't been paying attention until I smelled that she was a wolf. Why?
It's okay, I'll protect you, I could hear in my head. It was that voice, he wouldn't leave me alone. After Trent threw me out, he'd taken over my, my, body. Now, I was scared of not being in control of myself.
The girl, after being checked in, made her way to me. She looked scared, but also pissed off. Like her terror made her mad. That must be why she came, to get over it.
"I know what you are. My mom's friend was a tiger." She could barely speak the word mom, hesitating heavily before spitting it out.
"Leave me alone." I say harshly.
"No." I grew anxious, what was she going to do to me? "My name's Addison, but you should call me Addy."
"I'm Warren." I say reluctantly.
"Does anybody ever call you War?" she asks curiously. I lean away from her as much as I can, Brin's laughter ringing in my ears. "I'll take that as a 'Fuck no don't call me that.' Tell you what, I'll call you Ren. You don't seem dangerous, so we can be friends."
"Okay." I didn't trust her, but as long as we hung out around other people it'd be okay.
Over the next two months, we'd grow to be close friends. Addy had told me all she knew about tigershifters, and shifters in general. It wasn't a lot, but it was a hell of a lot more than I knew.
"Make a goddamn move." Addy says, laughing. We were playing chess, something I sucked at.
I moved the rook to capture her bishop. That was a good move, right?
Two moves later, and it was checkmate.
"I don't understand you Addy. You're so good at chess! How are you so strategic?" I ask.
"I was the Beta's daughter in my old...pack. Before my parents kicked me out for being gay, I mean." Addy says nonchalantly. This was a habit of hers, saying important stuff like it wasn't a big deal.
"Shit, that's horrible."
The next night I'd tell her I was pan, and the night after that I told her about my previous foster parents. By the end of the week, we knew each other's secrets. By the end of the month, she called me brother and I called her sister, much to the supervisor's dismay. They didn't like how attached we had gotten to each other, when one of us had to go somewhere, chances were the other was going too.
"Let's go! They won't notice anything!" Addy tells me. I scramble onto the roof, cursing at how much of a scaredy cat I was.
We ran all the way to the forest, and shifted in front of each other for the first time. She had a brown wolf, with dark brown eyes. Cole and Amanda, Addy's wolf, played together as if they had been in the same litter.
That night we got in trouble for missing bed check, but it didn't do much overall. We had to do a lot more chores than normal for the next two weeks, but it was worth it. I loved shifting, it was the only thing that made me feel free, and untethered.
I remember the night Addy had to calm me down after a nightmare, it was really dark out, had to have been past midnight. I had nightmares a lot, but none that bad. It was of Brin and Trent, of course, but they were carving words into my skin, something they'd never done to me in reality. I woke up sobbing and unconsollable. This is the reason I didn't have many friends, I had nightmares and was considered weak. It led to the guys being asses to me, but it just was what it was.
One of the boys had grabbed a supervisor, who was trying her hardest to get me calmed down. The door was practically thrown off its hinges by Addy, in her desperation to get to me. She had been able to hear me in the girl's wing. This was about the time the supervisor's gave up on splitting us apart.
Addy rocked me back and forth for what felt like hours at I cried onto her nightgown.
I remember the pain I felt when she had to leave. There had been a couple of guys looking for her, from her old pack.
We were sitting on the roof, I didn't care if we made bed check or not. "I wish you didn't have to go." I swallowed painfully, the lump in my throat growing as I tried to blink back tears.
"It's okay, brother, I will see you again." We laid watching the stars for hours, before she finally left. Leaving me to be alone, again.
I held onto her words for a while, until I gave up on ever seeing her again.
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The Tiger and The Dragon (BxB)
Siêu nhiên{I know the title is sucky but I'll change it when I think of something better!} Warren hasn't had a lot of luck in life so far, if he was being honest, which he wasn't a lot. He's anxious more often than he isn't, but he's trying at least. His juni...
