ZADEI am scanning the crowd tonight below, as they gyrate against each other at the loud heavy music, the club lights bouncing off them and the walls.Cass and Logan are still on the inner side, another whole world away from the club gambling. I needed air and decided to just catch a break and get a drink, as I saw if there was anything that would distract me from the way I am feeling.I wasn't given a match today; not a single person was strong enough to fight me, which just ended up ruining my mood even more. I had to find something to keep the edge off and keep my mind occupied, and here I am.I have been antsy since I stepped into the club and I have been wondering why I would feel that way. I have never felt like this before, always going out and debauching with the bys but tonight is a little different. Everything in me wants to go back to school …Hah. So that’s what it is. “fucking hell silvers,” I mutter as I slam the glass down the counter. These are not my feelings. Someo
ARI“Run! Run and don’t look back!”“But- but I can’t leave you!”“You will! You must,” his calloused hands cradle my tear-stained cheeks. “You must be the one who survives so that you will fight for us one day.”“But daddy …”“I know my love. You don’t want to but you must. You are the hope of this clan. So you must run and hide, grow up, and be strong. Then go find those who hurt us and bring justice.”“I don’t understand daddy, I just want to stay with you here. We can fight together. I can’t just leave you.”He pulls me in for a hug and I know he is crying too. I am sobbing as I clutch his shirt, my little fists not wanting to let go. I don’t want to leave my daddy, I can’t not see him again.”“I am not going to die,” he starts lying. “I am going to catch up with you when I am done curbing the spreading fire okay my princess?”“You promise?”He raises his pinky. “I promise.” Our pinkies intertwine. “Now go with Mommy, protect her for me before I get reunited with you okay?”“Okay.
ARIIs this a care package? And who would send me a care package? I know not to take it inside unless it is a package laced with acid or even tiny snakes to invade my room so I leave it outside and continue my way to the cafeteria.By now, all the students have had their supper and I know that if I want anything to eat, I will have to hunt. But going back to that forest is too soon, a little too fresh for me.There is no one in the dining hall as I sneak in, crouching low and going to the back where the door that connects the cafeteria to the kitchen.I hear sounds on the other side and it looks like they are preparing to leave soon by the sounds of it.I lay low, listening and waiting for them to leave until I hear a door shutting somewhere on the other side. I wait a little longer until I am sure none is in there before I push the door open and walk into the kitchen.The lights are off but that doesn’t affect me at all, as I walk over to the large cabinets and opening them all looki
THIRTY MINUTES AGO“I just can't sit down and let her have you!”“Do you think is a game livie? Do you think I want us to be arguing about this right now?” I am so pissed at her.“You have told me that you are doing something to rectify this situation and yet I don’t see you doing anything!”My head feels like it's going to explode. “So you think killing her is going to solve everything.”“You are here with me right now aren't you?”Sometimes I hate how sure she is of herself. I hate how she thinks she can string me along and I will be her puppet, say yes to everything she does. She thinks she is the one calling the shots.“Do you have any idea of what will happen when she dies? Do you?” I take another step towards her and that cocky look she has on starts to crack. Do you know what you almost cost me tonight?” Her long manicured fingers trail on my chest. “I know that Zack isn't happy with me, but I'm doing all of this for you. I want us to be happy he can bond with my wolf, I want
ARI“Open the door, Silvers.”That tone is too calm, too composed for me to open the door. Shit! Zade is here and I am pretty sure he is here to kill me. I wrecked his beautiful sports car, but I kind of don’t care.I take my time walking to the door, and as I open the door, I fake yawn and look at him with a bored expression. “What do you want?”He looks at me from head to toe, before pushing in. he is alone but I don’t dare close the door.“You need to leave, it’s the middle of the night and I have classes tomorrow.”“I am not leaving.”“What? Why?” I need him out of my dorm room now.“Did you forget the dal we had?”“What deal?”He goes and sits on the couch, sprawled and he easily fills it up, sitting like he is the king or something. “My wolf needs time with you otherwise he gives me a hard time. Tonight is one of those nights.”“Ew! Get out, get out!” I grab a pillow and start hitting him grossed out. “I am not some hooker you can come by in the midnight to satisfy you and then
ARIZade’s car explosion is the talk of the school the next day.I keep my head down, hugging my books close to my chest as I make my way to my first class, avoiding anything that might sell me out. If they knew I was the one who did it, they would all eat me alive.Zade is their beloved prince, the most feared boy, and the alpha of the academy. It's clear whose side everyone is on. Starting a war with someone like that is plain stupid because not only are you facing him off but the whole damn school.But I am done trying to be good, fit in, and be liked. He deserved it so I won't waste my time trying to police my morality. That doesn't mean that I slept a wink last night since I kept wondering why he didn’t seem mad, why he didn’t drag me by my hair and execute me for torching his beautiful car.He seemed to … approve too like I made a point and he was pleased with it. I have never been so confused in my entire life as I feel now.I am caught up in my own head I completely miss the s
ARIMy shackles rise as the tall girl approaches us, her mouth curled in a smile. Her eyes scan me up and down before turning to the person right beside me.I feel Mimi tense up as Olivia takes a step closer to her. “I was waiting for you.”I expected this, but that doesn’t lessen the twinge of disappointment I feel when Olivia takes Mimi’s hand and drags her away from me.“wh-what do you want?” Mimi’s eyes widen as she trips on her feet, almost falling as Olivia drags her away.“My homework, where is it?”“Oh, I have it, I finished writing last night. The theories explained are all-““I don’t need to hear about the homework, I gave you to solve it for a reason,” Olivia smiles, her voice cloyed with such sweetness you wouldn’t think that she could ever be malicious.I haven’t seen her since she left me for dead. I am angry, as she moves about as if she didn’t stab me. I look around the filling classroom and notice that we are the center of attention as if they are all waiting for a fi
ARIAll the anger I have been trying to smother down starts bubbling and I frown, looking at the blond. This is poking the bear in its cave but I am done. I am not being a sheep. I didn’t ask to be here in the first place.“Are you going to let her sit with us?” the flirt asks Zade who has been ignoring all of this and reading in his little book.“I don’t give a fuck what she does.”“Run along now,” one of the girls waves me off.“I will just tell the teacher we are not compatible then,” I smile, before rolling my eyes, smile dropping as I walk over to the teacher at the front of the class.“Is she seriously tattle-telling on us?”“Can I change the group? I don’t think-““You are Ari Silvers, right? New student?” she cuts me off.“Yes ma'am.”“In this school, we all try and get along. You are new here yes, but this is an opportunity for you to get to know your classmates.”“But they-““Is this going to be a problem?” her gaze turns cold.She is not going to help me. What was I thinkin
ZADEEverything should have gotten better.No, everything should have changed once I decided not to let my dislike for silvers get in the way of me making amends to her. But she has been avoiding me and acting like I don’t exist at all.I haven’t been able to get her out of my mind before but now? now she is all I see. Now she is the epitome of my existence.She is posing a challenge and that is to ignore me and treat me like I am inviscible. Like we are not bonded and I cant sometimes fele her when she hasn’t blocked me out.Like I cant feel her so close to me like we are sharing the same skin, breathing the same air. We are intertwined, I am wearing her mark on my skin, and she is wearing mine, a sign that we are meant to be together, wheter we like it or not.I haven't liked it for a long time and I hated her some more for it. But even then, when I was swimming in my denial, I knew that my life would never be the same once she busted in.She is not someone you simply forget or even
ARII learnt how to drive when I was thirteen.My mother was so sick in the middle of the night, and it was the month we had to stay in a cabin away from towns and civilisations because she feared that the ones we had been running away from had caught up to us.I still don’t have a driver’s license, but I am a decent driver.The car, too, is so good and so sexy that I can't help the laugh that bubbles out of my throat. When I told Mr. Parker that I needed a car to get out of school like other students, he told me he already had one for me.It was a gift that he didn't think I would like but bought anyway. He is … thoughtful and trying to fill in my father's role.I appreciate that.I run my hands on the steering wheel, smiling so widely my cheeks are aching.A black mustang; sporty, sexy, just how I love it. The interior is all dark red and leather too, that new smell making my norse itch and I giggle as I start it, gearing as I speed out of the gate.Weeks ago I couldn’t get out of t
ARII am a girl that is broken.I have tried not to let it consume me, and when it was too much for me, I have tried containing it so that it won't consume those around me.Life for me has not been easy. It has been an endless darkness that threatens to twist me and fold me, shatter every new vine, every bone I form, and render me helpless, weak all my life.You can say I have tried not to let it show that I am drowning and just how broken and damaged I am. My mother can't tell you that I have been dead; she thinks I am fine.How can she know when my one purpose in life was to ensure that she never once realized the truth about me?But I am tired of keeping the darkness away. I am tired of carrying it like it weighs nothing, when it's only I who knows the truth about it—about the weight. I have been dead for a long time, just floating in the world.I have had to be with nothing, be nothing that it has infused in my blood, in my psyche. If you are nothing, if you don’t know anything, t
ARI“Are you sure you're okay?”“I am,” I take Max’s hand. “I promise if I feel any discomfort pain, I will tell you immediately.”She laughs. “You better.”“Okay, Mom,” I roll my eyes as I get off the bed. I have been cooped up here for some reason, but I have had enough.“I am just taking care of you, I feel partly responsible for this.” She isn't looking at me, head bowed in guilt.“You have no reason to. You aren't the one who pushed me off the roof,” I shrug. “I was a little reckless too, going up there in the middle of the night to meet with the same girl who beat me to death a few days earlier.”“Why did you?”I sigh, leaning on the small closet in the room where my clothes have been put. “I wanted to get it over with? I knew we had to talk at some point, so getting that out of the way … and I was curious what she wanted to say.”She frowns, obviously disagreeing with my choices. I can't blame her, I mean, look where it got me. "What did she want?”“She wanted me to stay away f
ZADEI get to my room, feeling like I am about to lose it, only to find …“I have been waiting for you.”Olivia. Naked in my bed, waiting for me.“I knew we had to talk alone,” she kneels on the bed.My strides are quick as I reach over to the bed and clamp my fingers around her neck, making her gasp and look up at me with wide eyes, confusion, and then terror reflecting in her eyes.“I told you I don’t allow anyone in my bed.” I don’t feel a thing, not even as she starts to scratch my hand, trying to get me to let her go.“I thought I made myself clear when I told you that me amd you are done. Why don’t you get through that your little skull?”I squeeze tighter, all the mindache that has been assaulting me since I got away from that hospital room, finally zeroing in on the girl in front of me. Maybe she should die.Would Silvers forgive me if I killed her? Would she see this as a good form of apology? Will it be enough?Olivia starts to lose consciousness, the fight leaving her body.
ZADE“I did it for you.”Experated sigh, then an eye roll. “I didn’t think you were attached to her like this. Don’t you hate her?”The longer Olivia keeps talking, the angrier I get.“Get out.”She looks at me, surprised. “What?”“Get out.”“You can't be serious,” she huffs, flicking her hair over her shoulder. You can't talk to me like that and tell me to leave just because of her.”I have a feeling if she doesn’t move, I might remove her myself. “I am. Now get out while I am being nice.”She tripped. I am not to blame that she is clumsy! What was I supposed to do when she fell? Jump after her? I called you, that’s enough to show I care.”“you didn’t call me, I found out on my own.” my hands are shaking. I a barely holding myself back from making sure she gets what she has done to ari only worse.“Whatever, all I am saying is, I did it for you. I called you and found you not because of her but for you.”“Olivia.”“You only call me that when you are serious.”“I want you to listen ca
ARII shouldn’t have agreed to come here.I don’t trust her, but I couldn’t ignore the call either. I wonder what she wants to say now that she has called me.The location too is very strange. I mean, who call someone up a frooftop in the middle of the night all in the name of talking?Olivia, that’s who.“I thought you wouldn’t come.” Her voice echoes before I see her. She shows herself from the stone she was leaning against, blending in with the shadows.“I was curious as to what you wanted to say to me.” I try not to show that I am intimidated by her. She did try to kill me, so of course I am wary. I would be a fool if I weren’t.“I suppose you would be,” she chuckles, tilting her head to the side. Her long hair slides off her shoulder, making the angle even more alluring. I still cant see her face, as her back is facing where the moon is illimunating from the sky.Soo, talk,” I shrug, hoping she will start already and I can go back to sleep. Not that I was, but she doesn’t need to
ZADEI don’t move an inch from where I am, exhaling slowly as Olivia sits next to me, shoulder to shoulder. I didn’t hear her coming up.I must have been distracted. Again.“can't sleep?”“When have I ever been able to?”She chuckles, before laying her head on my shoulder. “sorry, I forgot you are an insomniac like me.”When I don’t say anything, she sighs. “Just one of the things we are alike, don’t you agree?”“I guess.” I have been trying to spend less time with her. She must have noticed that he sought me out like this.“You haven’t come to see me for a while. I am starting to think you are ignoring me again.”“I have been busy.”“If its school work, I know you are way ahead and you have already aced the exams even before they are announced.”“I have other duties other than academics.”“I know, I have your full schedule, remember?”Right, I forgot.“Why have you been ignoring me?”“I thought it would be easier if we slowly got out of each other's lives.” Not even my grandpa is sup
ZADEShe has changed.It's in the way she is talking and interacting with others, or lack thereof.It's in the way I can't seem to be getting under her skin anymore. Even the way she is looking at me nowadays, like she can see me but not really. As if she is looking right through me. Together and in front of me but not truly with me.It's annoying me.We are back to the academy, thank hells for that because I couldn’t take more of that camp any more. I dont want to be around her, so close yet so far away and I don’t know how to even fix it.She was starting to look at me differently, too. It started as wariness, then to fear and then to something akin to … familiarity. Comfortable.But now it’s something I hadn’t seen from her before. She is looking at me like I don’t matter at al. she can see me and in her mind, I simply don’t matter, don’t hold anything of importance for her to regard me as anything but someone who she has to deal with in the specific moment I am with her.I don’t l