Chapter Three
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The knock on the door makes me feel very nervous because I already know that it definitely has to be one person. I have not heard anyone trying to knock ever since I got into here and that knock tells me that one thing is for certain, it is definitely Valeria knocking at the door.
I hesitate a little but soon enough she is yelling out my name. “Elaine, I know you are in there! get out of there right now before I knock this door down myself and get you in trouble with your mother”. She threatens me an it is very clear that she knows just what to say to me and she knows that it's exactly how to get to me because I definitely did not want to ruin my parents house.
So huffing really loudly, I walk all the way to the door, dragging my feet hesitantly, annoyed because I really don't want this to be happening. But soon enough, I open the door and roll my eyes at her.
“Why are you hiding down here?” She asks.
“Took you long enough to wake out that I was gone”. I say to her, And as much as it sounds like I'm angry about it, I'm actually very glad about it. I actually wish she had taken a bit longer to discover that I had been hiding in my room all along. I had decided to take cover in my own room, locking myself in after locking my parents room to make sure that nobody desecrated with whatever heinous acts that they had in mind about doing at this party today,
This party that I did not organize, this party that was definitely going to get me into trouble once my parents got back home tomorrow. I was very glad that Valeria was not paying me much mind. She had way too many people focused on her to even realize that I had been in here for definitely for 30 minutes.
“Elaine, it's your birthday. I know I'm very distracted, but I really want you to have fun, I want you to open your mind up to this.” She says to me and I shake my head instantly.
“I really do not feel open to this and you already know me, you already knew that I was not going to like this”. I say to her, admitting it and she just sighs loudly before crossing her arms over her chest and closing the door. Taking a seat on the bed, she pets the area next to her, beckoning for me to sit next to her and hesitantly I decide to accept her offer.
“I really don't want to ruin your birthday, I just want you to be open to there's not come downstairs. Everything is a little bit more chill now. All the people that were throwing up in the sink have calmed down, whoever was drinking up like a fish is definitely passed out right now and whoever is wasted, it's not going to be that much of A bother anymore” She says to me. And my jaw is just on the floor.
“Someone threw up in the sink? Are you serious, Val?. Do you know that my mother is the most squeamish person I know? If she sees even a single hint of that, she's going to absolutely freak out.” I remind her and she just nods along long.
“ Yes, I know your mother very well. Trust me, I know that she would absolutely freak out if she heard that. So don't even worry, I just want you to enjoy your birthday”. Valeria has been saying this to me over and over again, and as much as I've tried to consider it, I definitely realize that we have different views on how I should be enjoyed my 18th birthday. 18th birthdays were a very big deal when you are a werewolf, but I have definitely forgotten that part about myself and I did not want to be thinking about it.
It was very hard not to, especially since I knew while I was growing up, before I was adopted by my parents, that I had to be awaiting my 18th birthday. That will be the time when I discover so many things about myself. When I discover my mate, which was the most important thing to us wolves, for some odd reason I did not like the idea of being mated to someone.
I was so glad that I did not have the opportunity to find my mate because clearly I was in the human lands and it was impossible to have a human mate. I was more than happy for that fact. So basically, this birthday was just like any other birthday to me. I was not treating it any different. I suppose I was definitely going to be considered an adult now, but it still did not make me feel any better.
I still felt like I had to celebrate it the way that I celebrated all the others. It still felt special, and hosting a huge party was definitely not the way to go about it. It was definitely not how I was thinking I would make it more special. But Valeria had something else in mind.
“Well Elaine, I promise you if you go downstairs and you actually hate this party like every single second of it, then I owe you something huge” She says to me and I furrow my eye brows at her.
“You owe me something huge?. Something like what?” I ask her and she just shrugs.
“I am telling you , whatever you choose. I know you have a lot of things that you could possibly choose for me to give to you.” She says to me and I just roll my eyes at her. I'm not sure if I should actually be trusting that she will do such a thing or if I should know that she is just going to say this one minute and then the next time I remind her that she owes me something because she absolutely made me hate my 18th birthday and she would just pretend she never made a promise to me. It would not surprise me if that is exactly what she chooses to do. Because I know she means well and wants me to have fun and let loose for once and that means she is willing to say anything to me now.