: Eighteen

his brown eyes. It was four against one but, as usual, I already

ing wave of wind from Jason's fist made me anxious. I ducked, b

ere no match for his s

ell flat on my back an

heads off. Crystal Belton laughed the loudest si

r after year and, as a result of that, I had grown used to the blows and

father didn't care, I stopped hiding the bruises and

, getting up from the ground. The laughing cease

into my eyes without flinching, "dirty old Narah. Bastar

rvened, grabbing her by the hand, trying

ranger known as the Wolfman," she giggled, pointing her fing

Then, Harriet, the empty-headed br

er failed efforts to always suck up to Crystal only made her

Crystal's commanding

an they already had. Well, welcome to my life. I am Narah Smith,

my mother. He said I had ripped her s

erer of my real father. This monster had boasted about killing my real

said he was afraid I would turn. And I feared

happened to be my 18th birthday, I d

only friend I had. No-one in Lystvair wanted to associat

e books she buried her head, she let he

a creamy, green colored potion. She swore i

ldhood and with each passing year, they grew more v

ark figure in a forest. A man whom she called "mate" with another wom

in the next town, we had their t

. Although I bore a striking resemblance to the grey-haired woman in my dreams, I

s she flipped through her worn pages, observing

and pushed a small cup towards me. With a hin

n drink

, "you're certain?" And she a

ew minutes and slowly picked it up. I closed my

he counter, my face writhed in the swee

a locket as a present. It had our pictures on it. I didn't belie

soon, it was midnight. We squeezed together in her bed

y. I love you," Benny grinned at me

Benny. I l

before seeing myself at the edge of the w

t I sensed something in her that was even more terrifying than the presence

on't know what it is, but it's

hat was the first time I heard h

slammed her into a tree and sc

g filled with hundreds of people. I recognized the man whom she

ehind a tree. It was the woman who had stood next to Rei

, you can always count on me," another voi

s..." Reina's

scenes in the dream were new. I was

cing her with my gaze. I became shocked and paralyzed when s

ed and unfolded around me in a rapid motion, voices yelling at each other,