Chapter 5 (Monster)

I was terrified hearing his words.

“I am sorry for crossing your paths. I promise I will never do that,” I said, still shivering.

“Oh baby! We are not at all disturbed by the fact that we met you. In fact we are glad,” he smirked and I felt disgusted.

He picked me up and threw me on his shoulder like I was a sack of rice and immediately transported to an area I was stranger to. His other friends followed behind him.

When he stopped, I immediately struggled. Trying to free away from him and started calling for help.

“Help. Anyone please. Help me.”

He started laughing. "No one’s around baby. No one ever comes anywhere near this place. It’s all booked for us.”

He dropped me on the ground and I fell on my knees.

“Please let me go. Please don’t hurt me. I am sorry,” it all felt like déjà vu. Two whole years have passed and I still had not escaped from hell. Before it was my adoptive father, now it was these bunch of a**h****.

The muscular boy walked forward and jumped on top of me. The strong scent of alcohol disgusted me and tightened the knot in my stomach even more.

“Trust me. You will like it baby.”

I gathered all my strength and pushed him aside and without looking anywhere I ran.

I don’t know where I was, I don’t know where I was running towards, I just ran without any destination until my body halted when it dashed with another body. I looked up and it was that muscular boy.

I tried running the other way again but then he grabbed my back collar and ripped it. I still ran. My back could feel the cold air but it was not important. I ran as I held my hand near my chest, supporting the front part of my t-shirt from falling. I ran.

But soon, another boy caught up and grabbed both my hands. I started struggling until the muscular boy reappeared and slapped me hard on my face making me fall on the ground.

“I hate girls who play hard to get. This is not a novel and I have no patience.”

I crawled backward, still facing all those lustful eyes until I dashed against a tree and had nowhere to go. Yet I still had no intention to give up. I slowly got on my feet and when I was about to run away, the boy pushed me against the wall and tried kissing me. I avoided as much as I could, scratched his face, deep and hard.

“I told you I’m not good with patience,” he shouted at me and threw me on the ground again and jumped on top of me.

Tears started falling heavily from my eyes, but no sound came out from my mouth as his filthy nose sniffed my scent, his face as close as it can get to my neck.

“Please let go. I am begging you,” I pleaded but those words had no effect to them.

And just when my body was about to give up, the boy was thrown away like a piece of trash.

I was still handling myself, trying to calm my quivering body when I recognized the face of my savior. Ethan. Again.

He snarled at all of them and I saw those golden eyes yet again.

One by one, he went against everyone, somehow no one was a match to him. And when he finally went against the muscular boy who was still healing and was no more muscular when compared to Ethan, I saw the monster in him.

He was right.

He was a monster.

We all were monsters.

He went on him like a beast and started punching him, hurling him like a little angry boy playing with his toy. I will not lie. I was now more scared of him than anyone else in the world.

But somehow I got a hold of myself and went to stop him from harming that boy any more. He was becoming something he abhorred because of me. I could not handle having to live with that burden on my shoulder.

When I went near him and grabbed his arm to stop him, he pushed me hard and my body leaped like a frog until it hit a tree nearby.

It didn’t take him a second to realize that he’d harmed me. He left that boy and immediately ran towards me.

“Zayla, I am so sorry. Are you fine?” I looked at him and there I saw those beautiful brown eyes I’d bear anything for.

I nodded and he immediately hugged me. “Thank god!”

“Yeah! And thank you!” I pressed his body closer to mine. His embrace was one thing that would make me calm my shivering body, that would make me forget pain, and that made me feel safe.

He noticed my bare back and like last time, he took off his shirt and gave them to me. I wore it and we walked back to our tents.

“Hey Zayla, thank god you came. I was so worried when I couldn’t find you.” Hannah hugged me the minute she saw me walk out of the woods.

“Yeah, sorry.”

She broke the hug and froze when she saw Ethan. “Um, you do know that you are half naked right?” she said pointing at Ethan and his little abs.

“Excuse me,” he walked pass us and I couldn’t help but smile. Was he embarrassed?

Her concentration was back on me. “And again, you do know that you are wearing a man’s shirt right?”

I looked down at them.

“Oh my god!” she raised her voice. “It’s Ethan’s isn’t it?”

“Shhh.”

“What did you guys do in the woods for you to walk out wearing his shirt and him not wearing one?” her mouth didn’t close.

“Shut that dirty mind of yours Hannah,” I ignored her and entered the tent.

I was changing when Hannah too entered the tent and she immediately gasped. “Zayla, your back.” She stated and I promptly wore back his vest as that was the nearest clothe at hand. “What really happened in the woods huh?” she questioned with a teasing tone. “I am not against it but you know, just warning that we are too young to be mothers.”

“Can you close that mouth of yours for a second?” I shouted. I was at my limit. What happened to me did not deserve a wrong interpretation that people would make fun off. “Just cut it.”

I didn’t even turn back to face her. I just heard her walk out and close the tent. I felt bad for hurting her, but I knew that, that night, no one was hurt more than me.

Since my wolf wasn’t such a big fan of me, I was slow when it came to healing too. With lots of pain throbbing my whole body, I laid down and just stared towards the sky that was clearly visible from the transparent ceiling, until my eyes felt heavy.