Fated To Three Betrayed By All Until She Rose (Leilani) by Ahvahh novel Chapter 264

Chapter 264: Many reasons why.

Leilani.

EIGHT YEARS AGO.

I stood at the back of the line, lost in my world while the other girls chatted amongst themselves, talking about the events that happened in last nights’ run through the woods— not like I was invited.

By this time, everyone at the pack had already begun to suspect that I do not have a wolf. They already knew the curse that I was; So it was no surprise when the Alpha’s and Luna’s invitation cards to the run didn’t drop out of my locker when I opened it two days ago.

Goddess, I could even still remember their snickers, their snide comments, the way they had laughed between themselves when they quietly stood behind me, waiting to see if anything would fall out.

But then nothing.

Their sounds dissolved into white noise. Their jests felt like dust against my skin.

Tears brimmed in my eyes but I had refused to let it drop. Or maybe it would’ve dropped if it wasn’t for Jennifer and Agnes, my best friends, who then leaned over, their breaths fanning both sides of my neck as they whispered;

"It doesn’t matter."

"I never liked places like that anyway."

I turned to look at them, my bottom lip puckering, my knees wobbly. I was naive— too naive— and my naivety was what had pushed me into asking;

"So you both wouldn’t go?"

"I won’t!" Jennifer had been the first to respond, her blonde eyebrows scrunching up in annoyance as she regarded me and Agnes. "I do not wish to be around Betty and Abby and Chalice. They’ve been trying to force me into becoming friends with them."

"They what?!" I snapped, feeling my heart begin to race in my chest.

Chalice always wanted everything I had. Goddess, she had it all but always liked to take whatever was mine along with the abundance she already has— be it clothes, family affection... and now, my friends?

"They want me to be their friend. They say that I am close friends with the triplets which they wish to be close to." She answered softly, looking down at her feet.

"But I won’t!" She added, as if in a bid to reassure me. "I do not like them. I do not talk to the triplets that much. Moreover, whenever they talk to me, all they do is ask about you." She cried, and as soon as I heard that, my heart fluttered in my chest.

It was no secret between the three of us that I had a crush as huge as the whole of Antarctica on the triplets, but because I was too young, barely sixteen when most of the people in the same class as us were already pushing eighteen, my friends always advised me to never act on it.

I blushed and turned to Agnes. "What about you? Are you going?"

"I can’t," she simply said, "my parents are too poor to afford my running gear. Moreover I have no other friends besides you both."

So at the end of that day, we had all agreed that we would all not go there.

We had decided not to show our faces.

So now why was I hearing from these girls that Jennifer had been to the after party? That she had left a few hours into it with the triplets?