Chapter 15
Just as those two wolves jumped on me from behind, I woke up in a cold sweat, my clothes were drenched and breathing really heavily. I looked around and I was back in my room again, looking at everything that was familiar to me.
It took me a long time to settle down from that dream and I threw my legs over the side of the bed and rested my arms on my legs.
I noticed my hands were starting to shake and I couldn't make any sense of it. It was just a dream, why the hell was it bothering me so much?
"I'm worried about you Ella." Ava said.
"What the hell was that about?" I asked.
"What do you mean?" She asked.
"It looked like the wolves were having fun. The black wolves were chasing and playing with the white wolf. Why did they attack her? What the hell is the meaning of that?" I asked. I was trying to make sense of the dream. But nothing about it made sense to me. Why was I dreaming of wolves in the first place? I've never even thought about wolves until I moved here. Apart from Ava.
I know that they live around here. I've heard them howling a couple of times. But that's about it. I don't know why I would think that this is anything more than just the effects of moving to Alaska.
"Ella. I've told you that things are going to change soon. Don't be scared of them. Don't be scared of change. And remember, I will always be here with you. You never have to deal with it on your own." Ava said.
"I don't know what the hell you are going on about? What is going to change? Are you saying that I'm going to be attacked by wolves?" I asked.
"There's a lot that you don't understand about the world." She said. But I did understand that I was getting sick of all these vague answers from everyone.
"Actually, I think I understand more about the world than most people my age. At least the ones that have decent lives. All this crap that's going on around here is just a coincidence. It has to be. It's only because of the move. I didn't want to come here in the first place." I snapped.
"You really don't want to believe, do you?" She asked. Believe in what? There's nothing to believe in except that I have a voice talking to me all the time which made me crazy and that I hated Alaska. That's what I believed.
"Believe what? You haven't given me anything to believe in. Life is what it is. And this is the hand I was dealt. Luckily I'll be out of here soon." I said.
I got up and looked out the window and saw that the sun was starting to come up over the trees, so I got dressed and I grabbed my bag and left my room.
I walked down the stairs and I saw Marilyn in the kitchen. She just glared at me and I let out a sigh of relief.
I walked past the doorway when I heard her footsteps coming closer to me but I opened the door like I wasn't scared of her. But to tell you the truth, my heart rate did pick up a little and my legs were having trouble moving now, like they were turning to jelly. The courage I had the other night was gone now.
"Don't forget to tell Celie that she still owes us money. She only gave us one month's pay. She owes us for the first month that we were living here." Marilyn demanded.
"Okay." I said, softly as I closed the door behind me.
I then heard a bottle shatter against the inside of the door. Either she was still really pissed at me or she didn't hear me answer her. I didn't really care. I just walked down the stairs with more determination now that I had to get the hell out of this town and away from Marilyn and Jack. I couldn't wait until they weren't in my life anymore.
The day went by pretty slowly and I was eager to get out of class, but not to go home. I didn't want to have to go home and fight Jack today. I just wasn't in the mood.
But as I exited the building I heard someone call my name so I turned around and Wendy was running up to me.noveldrama
"Hi." I said.
"Hi. What are you doing tonight?" Wendy asked.
"I don't know yet. Probably sitting in my room and doing nothing." I said.
"I was hoping you'd say that. Mark is having a party tonight. Everyone's invited
and I want you to come with me." She said with a really excited look on her face.
"Are you serious? I'm not going to a party where everyone hates me. I'm not going just so everyone can bully me." I said, shaking my head.
"Listen, not everyone is like Leia. Listen, there's this guy that's going to be at the party. I have to see him. I have to talk to him tonight." She said.
"Why tonight?" I asked.
"Because it's driving me crazy not being with him. He's my destined one." She said. And I looked at her weird.
"What do you mean 'destined one'?" I asked.
"It's sort of like the other half of your soul." She said.
"Your soulmate?" I asked, skeptically.
"Yeah. Pretty much." She said. Maybe I wasn't the only crazy one in this town.
"Wow. I didn't know that you believed in soulmates." I said.
"You don't?" She asked.
"No. I really don't." I said. And I saw Wendy's face change, like I had upset her or disappointed her or something. "I'm not saying that it's bad. I'm glad that you found yours. I just don't believe in them. It's my personal opinion." I added, trying to fix what I had accidentally said.
"I want you there with me." She said.
"Why? You've got other friends." I said.
"I know. But they aren't you. Besides, I like you more than them." She admitted. "Please?" She asked.
"Alright. I'll be there." I said, after hesitating for a bit. Knowing straight away that I was making a mistake to make Wendy happy. I guess that's what it means to have an actual friend.
"Thank you so much. I'll drive you home and then I'll go home and get ready." She said.
So we headed to Wendy's car and she drove me home, saying that she would be back in a couple of hours to pick me up to go to the party.
I walked inside and I didn't see Jack anywhere. I was confused at first because he's usually always right in my face as soon as I get home.
But I just shrugged it off and I went upstairs to my room and I found some nice clothes to wear tonight and when I found something that I thought was suitable enough I was about to go to the bathroom when I saw Jack standing at my doorway and I jumped because I didn't hear him.
That was odd. I always heard the floorboards creaking whenever he was moving
around. I guess I really wasn't paying attention today.
"I hope your mother didn't get you with that bottle this morning." He said.
"I'm surprised you even care." I said, looking away from him.
"You know that I care about you." Jack said. And I rolled my eyes before I turned to look at him again.
“If that's the case then do you think you could persuade her to let me go out tonight. She listens to you." I said.
"Why do you want to go out? We could have just as much fun here." He said, walking into my room.
I shuddered at the thought of that. I definitely didn't want to be home with Jack, and I knew that Marilyn wasn't working tonight. I didn't want to be here with either of them.
"I think Marilyn might get a little jealous if you're paying more attention to me." I said, trying to block my nose as he got closer to me so I couldn't smell the stale alcohol on his clothes.
"Well, she can be a very jealous woman." He smirked. He actually liked making her jealous. He used me to make her jealous because it made him feel good. It made him feel like a man.
"I won't be out late." I added, trying to convince him.
"And you're wearing that?" He asked, looking at the dress on the bed.
"Yeah." I said. And he pushed me aside to look at the clothes better. Actually picking them up to inspect them.
"What are you hoping will happen tonight? This town is turning you into a little whore, isn't it?" He asked, throwing the clothes back on the bed. "You're going there to meet up with boys, aren't you? You are just as bad as your mother. You'll sleep with anything that looks at you." He yelled, grabbing my arm with one hand. But the other hand was used to move down the side of my face.
I felt nauseous as he touched me and it took every bit of strength I had to not
resist. I couldn't. I knew that he would make it look like my fault and Marilyn would be on me straight away.
I couldn't risk it. I didn't want to be covering up any more bruises tonight.
"I'm going with a friend. That's all." I said.
He looked at me suspiciously for a minute before he let me go.
"I want all the money that you have." He said.
"What?" I asked. He was blackmailing me to go out tonight. What a fucking pig.
"I don't have any money and I want to go to the bar." He said.
I looked at him for a moment and I saw that he was serious and I knew that this
was the only way he was going to talk to Marilyn for me.
So I walked over to my cupboard and I grabbed some money out of the top shelf
and I handed it to him.
"That's all I've got." I said.
"Okay. You can go out." He said, leaving my room.
After my shower I got dressed and I didn't put on any makeup because I didn't have any bruises today. So I actually liked not wearing makeup for a change. When I heard a car pull up out the front I hurried outside, straight past Marilyn and Jack, and I saw the back door open of the car.
I realized straight away that this wasn't Wendy's normal car, but I didn't really care about that right now. I just wanted to get out of here.
The back door opened, so I assumed that there were other people in the car as well. So I walked over and got in the back seat.
I looked next to me and my stomach sank as soon as I saw Nathan sitting there.
Tristan was in the front seat and there was no one else in the car. Wendy wasn't here at all, and I froze as soon as I saw them.
I had told myself that what happened in the classroom wasn't going to happen again. I was going to stay away from the twins but I can't do that if they keep showing up everywhere.
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