Chapter 5 "The Past and The Present"

Avery P.O.V.

The Past.

Five Years Ago...

"I am so excited to see the penguins," I heard Ashely say, sitting down on the bench biting into her apple. Then, I saw her take a big bite.

Oh, yeah, me too, but I want to see the monkeys," Natalie said with an excited smile, and she took a bite of her peanut butter and butter sandwich. I don't know why she likes them. But she swears it is good. 

'' Yeah, I love penguins and monkeys, but I'm excited to see the polar bears and tigers and elephants, " I told them with excitement in my voice. I said, and I took a bite of my mom's famous peanut butter and chocolate chip cookie from the scratch we made together.

"Hey! is that my aunt's famous Peanut Butter Chocolate Chip Cookies!" I heard Ashely ask in a shocked look with an exciting voice on her face.

"Yep, it is," I told them with a smug grin.

"Yes, I love Aunt Annabella's cookies," I heard Ashely saw taking a bite of the delicious cookie.

We were laughing and we were eating our lunch. We were minding our own business and doing nothing to anybody.

Me I had my back towards the zoo. So, I didn't know who was behind me right now, but the look on Natalie's face she looks nervous and scared, but I didn't know who they are staring at?.

 But Ashely rolled her eyes at whoever was walking behind me.

I was about to eat my sandwich when I felt someone sit beside me. I look over and I saw Camilia and Emilia right beside her.

They give me a smile, but it didn't reach their eyes.

"Well hello Avery, how are you doing?" Camilia asks me.

"Uhm, I am doing fine, how about you I give her a smile.

But she didn't smile at me now.

" Oh, I am sad because I heard someone trying to take my boyfriend away from me because, so slut has a crush on him?" She tells me and it's not a good tone in her voice.

It's like she knows something only I would know.

No! there is no way! 

I started moving in my seat because I am nervous and worried something would happen or someone would say something-

" Do you know who name came up when someone told me who has a crush on my boyfriend," she tells me giving me a serious look.

I licked my lips because I know what coming, I was staring at my friends, and they see the expression on my face. So, I begged them with my eyes to get me out of here. That was when Ashely saw what I was thinking.

That was when Ashely got up.

"Come on, Avery and Natalie," Let get out of here, let go see the animals we were excited to see," Ashely said but I try to get up, but she stopped me with her nails pushing into my shoulder with a deep pain with her freaking nails are digging in my shoulder.

"Hey what's your hurry? I thought you want to know who name I was about to say," That all 

oh, yeah there's something else to This person doesn't have a crush on my boyfriend but his three best friends too," she said with a smug grin on her face. I heard gasps behind me. I guess her friends were shocked at what they heard.

She loves to show pain to others. She feeds off your sadness and worries and fear.

Oh, God, no!

Please don't say my name.

There is no way she knows my secrets and crushes.

I stare over at her I am begging her not to say anything in front of them, but it was wishful thinking my old friend would keep it to herself now she knows I like her boyfriend and three of his friends.

But she didn't instead of being quiet. She said the thing I was hoping it didn't come out.

"Avery Williams", so my name was out of her mouth.

I wanted to crawl someone in a deep hole and die. 

I looked behind me when I heard his voice and I stiff up and I knew they going to find out.

"Hey babe, what's up, and why you are sitting over here with them?" I heard Elijah say I turned around I saw him and the other guys standing behind him. 

"Oh, nothing babe, we were just having a nice friendly chat." Is that right, Avery,"?

 she said still holding on to my shoulder with her crawl-like nails in my shoulder.

"Yes-," I said trying to yell in pain with her nails digging deeper in my shoulder.

Oh, okay babe, you ready I am starved," I heard Elijah I didn't want to stare at him.

She started staring at me with a creepy grin on her face. 

Oh, no, this is not going to be good.

" Babe, you want to hear something funny first?" She asks him.

He didn't know what to think and probably say.

So, he said.

 "Sure" Why not."

Oh, please I thought when I looked down. I didn't want to see their face and hear how disgusting I am and laughing.

" Okay, Avery here, has a big oh crush on someone you know," she said with a smirk on her evil sinister face.

He chuckled like it was a joke that I have a crush, or anyone would like me? Really am I that ugly and loser.

"Oh, wow is that right, who is it," he said smirking over at me, I know I can feel his heated stare on my back.

"Yeah, babe, she giggled. 

 Are you ready to hear it,"? 

"Yeah, come on, " I heard him say with a smug look on his face.

Wow, I didn't realize he could be that cruel. They smile with hurting me.

What did I ever do to them to treat me and my friends like crap?

"Oh, let's see Jake, Andrew, and Matthew or yeah you, baby," she said 

I heard crickets and then a heard them laughing except Camilia.

"What, your joking right babe," Elijah said.

"Nope, I am not."

"Huh? he said with unbelief.

Yes, babe, "Little Miss Avery here got a crush on you too."

She started crying, I knew it was fake. "You're not going to dumb me now. Now you find out she likes you?"

I know you like her, and she is beautiful." She said holding on to his shirt staring up at him with glassy eyes.

" Oh, princess you don't have to worry about me liking her because I would never catch dead being with someone like her," he said. I felt heartbreaking. 

"What about you Jakey poo?" I know I am not as beautiful then Avery," I heard Queenie asking him.

Heck no! I don't want that nerd!" He spoke and I felt another piece of my heart-shattering.

Next was Matthew and then Andrew they all much said the same thing.

They all kissed the guys on the lips and giggled and walked past me and the guys had their hands around the girl's waist.

 I didn't want to stare over at them. That was when I saw she was staring at me with a knowing look.

"Remember what I told you, you have no chance, and I was in my thoughts when I heard them starting to walk away. They were in hand and hand with them.

I felt my heart shattered into pieces. I felt jealous bug biting me because I want to be in their shoes right now in the arms of Eliah Woods, Jake Stone, Andrew Bradford, and Matthew Steele.

If I could go back and not go that day. Maybe this would never happen.

Yeah right. You know for a fact Camilia would have said something if I was there or not. So, you can't change the past, but you have to live with it.

But I could go back in time and stopped her and erased her memories and maybe the bullying and teasing didn't start, and I would still have my secret and it wouldn't have come out about me having a crush on Elijah, Jake, and Andrew, Matthew back in middle school.

I thought I was careful hiding my feelings, but I guess I wasn't because Camilia told them, and everyone was there on the trip after we got back from the zoo. I remember the next day. That is when it all started the bullying...

I was in a daze, and I went back in the past.

I didn't know I was sitting at my desk staring into space.

I shook my head I saw Miss. Weber stared at me with a worried look on her face.

Avery, sweetie, hey are you okay?" She asks me.

"Yes, ma'am, I am fine," I tell her. 

"Okay, she said, with a sweet smile.

I see you tomorrow," she tells me.

Okay, have a good day Miss. Weber."

"You too sweetie,"

No, I am not because I am going to be dead pretty soon! I thought with fear.

Yes," I told her while I was packing my stuff up in my bag. I was walking towards the door. I was almost out the door when I heard her say that already had my stomach all in knots anyway about what happened today it's not even over yet.

"Oh, like I told everyone after class, your seat is your resound seats for the rest of the full year." She tells me.

I wanted to die, now the flagpole and running into the schools' bullies and the four horsemen made my school life hell for five years.

I hope they don't follow me to college.

I was walking around the corner when I ran into Jason Tyler and Sean Worthell and Adam his twin brother.

"Well, well, what we have here, boys,

"Yeah, little miss nerd in her glory self," Sean said with an evil smile on his face.

"You're not going to get your bodyguards to save you this time now," I heard Jason smirk and grabbed me and pulled me into a dark classroom with Sean and Adam following right behind us.

Oh, God, I don't know what's going to happen to me. Maybe they want help with their homework or something?

What are you crazy about! Yeah, right need help with their homework.

Now, you got to make up a plan to get out of this because now you don't have anyone to help me and protect me now.

Just like Jason said.

 So, there no one is going to come to help. So, how if no one saw them grab me and pull me into a dark classroom...

"Please, I am sorry, I can do your homework for the whole year if you let me go," Do we have a deal," I pulled out my hand to show them what my daddy told me when your making deals with someone.

He throws my hand away from him. I saw him roll his eyes. Then he opens his mouth up to speak to me.

"Shut the hell up!" Do you ever be quiet," I hate when bitches talk" I heard Jason say close to my face.

"One I don't make deals, and two you're going to do my homework and my boys too, and third there is something we want from you," he said staring down at me. I saw Sean and Adam step closer, and now I am close to three tall strong guys and they are blocking me on the wall where they got me hostage in the dark classroom.

Don't worry I won't show them I am a werewolf and shift. I can take care of this myself. Well, usually you can. But they're not

 normal regular human's It like they know I am not human like them. It's like they can see right through me. They can see right through my shell and they wanted me to know that they can see through my normal nerd that doesn't stand up for herself. No, sir, they see more than that.

I don't want to think that. Maybe they want to be friends or...

Oh, no, they gave me a strange look on their face. They are giving me a what the fuck look.

I started to blush because I leave but I am still in the room when I go back in my mind to think.

 I am not going to lie, they are hot and all the girls loved them as much as the horsemen and jocks in school.

There is someone regular and nerds guys too are smoking. 

But they would never date me or yet kiss me.

Then there I am getting this bad vibe from them here. But again I don't know if they would hurt me or not. It's fifty-fifty with me what's going on right now.

" Okay, here's the thing we know about you and your kind," Jason said.

Oh, NO, I know it! We are all in big trouble. Jason and his buddies going to out us then we would have to move all because of me.

Why? I wanted to yell and scream and kick something. That was when Camila and her goons came to my mind when I thought about kicking something.

I wanted to chuckle.

No! focus Avery! Pay Attention to my inner voice telling me.

Just playing like you don't know what he is saying.

I let out a tiny chuckle and I was showing him like they were nuts and there was no such thing as werewolves and magical creatures.

"What! you mean by that you know what I am are and your kind?" I ask him.

He looked down at me with a serious look and he open his mouth.

Werewolf and I know there are others here too." He said.

I swallowed and I drop my calm fake expression on my face. 

They knew I did. Because I showed them it was all true.

Oh God, why I didn't see it before. It's just hit me with their scent and smell.

I was staring at Jason and I moved my eyes on Sean and then Adam I didn't want them to try to hurt me.

I am keeping my eyes on them and my back on the wall. 

I need to get out of here.

But how am I going to get out of here? I asked myself.

"I don't know Avery! But we need to shift now! I take care of these humans" I heard Angelstar and another voice I am not heard since that day in the woods by the waterfall.

No! I am not going to shift and killed them, maybe they're just harmless.

She rolled her eyes and stayed back inside my mind and didn't talk to me again.

"Okay, what you want from m-e," I said with fear in my eyes.

I can't lie, yes. I am a werewolf but I am not going to take them, not yet to anybody in the school.

After I ask them what they wanted.

I don't like the way their facial expression is giving me bad stomach vibes. 

Why? I know they are harmless assshole but they nothing more than a- I stop and looked and that when 

I started to panic and oh, God, there was no way it could be.

There's not been for hundred years and my parents told me and my grandparents before they died.

 But they never told me, there could be still alive and they had kids and they were trained by their parents to be an-

I licked my lips and I started to shake because I realized they are... 

HUNTERS!!! It's screaming inside my mind over and over again. 

Run! 

Quick! 

Now!

My inner voice was telling me and Angelstar to get out of there and now!