Chapter Six
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I immediately pull away, feeling very awkward about doing so. Everyone burst into the laughter.
“What is wrong? Was that a first kiss?” Laura asks and for the first time she actually looks satisfied. Ever since that border landed on Logan and she knew that I would be the one in this position.
“Logan, how about you rate that one out of 10?” She says and he just looks at me really quickly before darting his eyes back to Laura
“ negative three” He says and everyone just burst out laughing. That's it
. I decide I just run up of this room and go back to my room. Valeria had said I would enjoy this, but this was definitely nothing like I imagined it would be. It had not been anything that I would have chosen to be in for no good reason at all. Even if you paid me, I would not have chosen to be in this position right now on my 18th birthday. Valeria comes running after me, yelling my name.
“Come on, it's not that bad”, she says and I immediately get into my room trying to lock her out, but she is quick. She makes it inside quickly.
“ Look, I'm sorry, OK? I did not think that that was going to happen,” she says.
“Well, Elaine . Why didn't you just take advantage of him? I thought you liked him?” she says to me and I shake my head at her
“No, Valeria, I just embarrassed myself out there. Do you know they're not going to let me get the end of it?” I ask her, shaking my head in disbelief. I cannot believe that actually just happened. I cannot believe I actually let myself kiss him. It's almost as though something had taken over me.
Like I had not even pushed my body forward at that moment. Like I had not been the one that pressed my lips and intentionally felt how soft his were. Like I was not the one hailing his scent. Like it was some intoxicating drug to me. It felt all too strange that I was glad that I had got nowhere from it, even if it meant that I had absolutely made a complete fool out of myself.
“Oh no don't worry they're not actually that mean. They will not have to say anything about it, I promise you” . She says to me and I look at her with their eyes. You promised me that I would also enjoy that but here we are. We are.” and she says before sticking a sit next to me on my bed. Well I will tell them to make sure that they don't bother you about it and I promise that they will not bother you.
OK ?”
She says to me and I just feel totally done at this point. You know what I'm going to do I'm going to get them out of the house and it's going to be a false alarm and between your parents are coming back and I know that I'll get them to live quickly. She says to me promising me and this time around she does to live on her promise. Soon enough the house is back to being empty just me and her and we are left with a whole lot of cleaning to do.
“I'm so sorry you have to do all this cleaning on your 18th birthday”. She says to me, and I can just tell that she actually means. It's like she's actually sorry about what she did. I know, I know you meant very well, but please never ever do that to me again” . I say to her, giving her narrow eyes again.
“I promise”. She raises her finger at me, her pinky finger, and I shake my head.
“ I'm not going to take that pinky finger because I don't want to get mad at you because I already know that you might just break it. Remember, pinky promises forever and I do not trust that in two years, three years, five years, you want to try to do this again”. I say to her, and she narrows her eyes at me too.
“Well, you did promise that in two years you will be having the time of your life. At one point you said You're waiting for college. I doubt that though.” She says and I shake my head at her before we finally get the very last of the alcoholic bottles and take the trash outside Before where my parents will not find it.
“Wow, that was exhausting”. I say to her before. Throwing myself at the couch. I do apologize again and I promise I will make it up to you. We will have a much better birthday celebration next weekend OK I promise she says and I feel like she has been making promises all night long but feeling to deliver on them. I just shake my head at her.
“ I know you meant so well but please I mean do not let this happen again.” I say to her and she shakes her head. I will not do it. You have to trust me when I say I promise OK She says and I just never long soon enough. We say our goodbyes and I still feel very strange. I have not felt that way for a long time, and definitely since my parents found me that day, after I had been running for hours upon hours trying to get away from the people that murdered my parents and my family.
I had not felt it because I had been away from the werewolf lens. I had made sure that I tucked to the back of my mind. I had erased most of my memories about this, and still, all it took was to be around, looking for a split second to be around him for a couple of minutes to feel like everything had been reversed. I did not like it. I did not like feeling like I had no control over myself. It was not a very nice position to be in right now and I did not want to be in it any longer. So I had to make a point to myself to avoid him as much as I can. If he had something about him that triggered the wolf inside of me, then I had to keep away from him.
Maybe it was my crush on him, maybe my wolf fancied him as well rather. And as much as I was able to be sweet about it, I suppose my wolf was not going to be sweet about it. So whatever it was that would suppress her, I had to do. I had to make sure that I stay away from Logan, even if it meant that I would have to keep doing the most in order to avoid him. At least if Valeria does keep her promise, I will not have to end up being in that position yet again