Chapter 2

My voice was able to attract the attention of all the students who were there.

“How dare you scream?” Jordan, with a small battered stick in his palm, walked up to me.

Seeing Jordan, who came and threatened me, I raised my arms forward, my palms facing Jordan’s body.

“Wuush!”

Instantly, Jordan fell along with his little stick. He’s scared.

“What are you doing? Who the hell are you?” asked Jordan while trying to get up and leave.

Seeing I can make Jordan fall with just the palm of my hand, making everyone stay away from me. They all took two steps back.

I herself did not understand what was happening to me. With a confused face, I saw my palm, which, indeed, when viewed with the naked eye, was no different from usual.

The four Jordan friends do not accept what happened to Jordan, so they jointly approach me and want to commit an anarchic act.

Without me noticing, my hands and mouth move by themselves.

“Khaaaa!”

I opened my mouth wide, resulting in a loud sound and protruding fangs; my eyes turned into wolf eyes.

With a scream and the position of the hands pushing forward, I managed to make the four campus gangsters fall in pain.

“Who are you really?” Chris asked with fear.

***

“I’m home!” I while walking with quick steps towards the room.

Josh looked at me with a strange look, his forehead frowning.

“Why didn’t she come home happy?” Josh grumbled while peeling some fruits that would be juiced.

Inside the room, I kept looking at my body in front of the mirror.

“What really happened to me?”

I brought my face closer to the mirror and slowly opened my mouth. I saw a neat arrangement of teeth and normal eye color.

“It was like I wasn’t being myself. Who was there with me?”

“Aw!” I added that suddenly, holding my neck level, I felt the pain again.

I slowly raised my palm and saw that there was a fang bite mark on my neck. My eyes widened.

“What is this? Wolf bite? But why is it suddenly here?” asked the grumbling that coincided with the memory of my dreams all this time.

“Does this have anything to do with the dream?” I continued to think of something strange happening inside my body.

“Alice, come here! I have something to tell you,” Shanun shouted behind the door of her room.

I hurry to take a scarf from the closet and then wrap it around my neck so that the wolf bite marks are not seen by Shanun or Josh.

“Yes,” I replied as I took quick steps to open the door of the room.

“Alice, do you have a show tonight?”

“Hmm, apparently not.”

“Alright, I’m planning to take you and Josh to a dinner party at a restaurant later tonight.”

“Can you come along?”

“Is this your show?” I asked.

“Yes, my shooting bonus has just melted, and I’ve earned quite a lot, so I intend to celebrate with you and Josh as well.”

“Oh, okay, I’m ready to enliven,” I replied with a sweet smile, my hands still holding the doorknob of the room.

“Are we just the three of us?” I asked again.

“Hmm, apparently not.”

“I will also celebrate with the people who have helped me a lot in the photo shoot.”

“Oh, okay, no problem; I would love to meet new people.”

Notice Shanun turning to the scarf wrapped around my neck, “Are you sick?”

“No, I’m fine, even much better.”

“But why are you wearing a scarf? You don’t usually wear it in the afternoon like this,” said Shanun, who then tried to take the scarf from my neck by force, but I quickly held it.

“No, hmm... I mean, I’m a little cold today because these days the sun doesn’t shine well. You know yourself, right? What if it’s winter?” I said as I smoothed back my scarf.

Shanun silently watched me. She felt like I was really weird today. “Well, take a break for the show tonight.”

“OK,” replied me, who again showed my sweet smile.

“Okay, I’ll see you tonight; dress up pretty,” suggested Shanun, who then left me.

I took a long breath. I don’t know why, even though we’ve been friends for two years, there is still a bit of self-loathing in me towards Shanun. Unlike Josh, I am more comfortable telling stories with the gay man.

Shanun’s job as a model, with her glamorous life outside, makes me a little awkward and insecure if I’m with her.

I saw a wall clock neatly displayed on the wall of the room; the time showed five o’clock in the afternoon. I walked to the front porch of the house, looking at the snow-covered winter landscape of several streets.

From a distance, I saw a cat stepping in the middle of the road. I tried to move my feet closer to the poor cat.

“Oh my god, you are so sorry,” I said, sitting on my feet.

At first, I felt sorry when I saw a hit-and-run cat with a little blood coming out of my body. However, the longer I looked at the cat, the more the cat’s blood spots looked like fresh drinks.

I sniff, bring my nose closer, and unconsciously lick the bloodstains that stick to the cat’s body.

Alice! “What are you doing?” Josh, who had just returned from the convenience store, yelled something.

Josh’s voice was so loud that it instantly awakened me. My eyes widened when I realized there was a cat’s blood in front of my eyes.

“Haasssh!”

I immediately moved away from the cat, making my body fall behind the snowflakes around me. My breathing was irregular; I held my chest.

“What am I doing, Josh?” I asked with a puzzled face.

should be the one to ask, “What are you doing with that cat?” Josh then grabbed my arm and took me home.

On the kitchen chair, I was silent. I thought about what really happened to me.

“Are you okay?” asked Josh, who opened the chat while making me a warm drink, which he placed in front of the table.

“I don’t know. I’ve been feeling weird lately,” I replied blankly to Josh’s drink.

“Does this have anything to do with your dreams?”