Chapter 16

Lilly

We had finished our classes for the day, and we were making our way to the path we had chosen to run along of an evening. Ever since Lena had moved into the dorm with us, she had been working out like she was possessed. A week ago, she had announced to us at breakfast that she was going to get us girls into the routine of running and exercising every day to build up our fitness levels.

I had to say, I enjoyed the time we spent exercising with Lena. Lena pushed us to challenge ourselves, and it felt good to know what I could do. The thing I liked most when it came to exercising with Lena was that I had learned I was much stronger than I had first thought I was.

The first few times we had exercised with her, my sisters and I had felt as though we were going to die the next day. But we still looked forward to our afternoon exercise sessions. What surprised me was how much energy Lena had. She ran three times a day and worked out in the gym morning and night. I honestly didn’t know where she got all her energy from.

As we slowly made our way to the point along the path where we usually started our afternoon run from. I was amped up and ready to go, but my heart sank when we reached our starting point and I saw the group of guys who had been hanging around my sisters and me. I didn’t think much of them, and I didn’t trust them. They were incredibly sleazy.

As soon as we arrived at our starting point for our afternoon run, the group of boys came over to us. They were trying to flirt with us, but as far as I was concerned the drivel coming out of their mouths was just filthy, sleazy, vomit. Whenever they were around, I tended to stick by Lena, because I knew that the boys didn’t mess with her. I was getting the impression that these boys were afraid of her.

“Hey, lovely ladies, how are we this evening?” one guy called out as the group made their way over to us. When we didn’t answer them, the boys continued to call out, trying to get our attention. But we just stayed quiet. To stay away from them, I hid behind Lena. I don’t know how I knew it exactly, but I just knew deep in my heart that if I needed her too, Lena would protect me from them.

“Oh, I love a lady who plays hard to get,” one guy said, while looking right at me. This remark earned him a hard glare from Lena, which had him shrinking back away from us. I noticed that his friends were now watching Lena, as if they expected her to wolf out and attack them at any second. Smiling at the fact I knew I had been right about Lena; I began to warm up for my run.

Leah

We had just arrived at the spot we had been using for our evening runs with Lena. It was a four-mile path around the university campus that we took. We averaged the whole four miles in less than an hour which Lena was very happy with, considering that my sisters and I were not athletic in our human form. Sure, we were slim, but if you took a moment to look around, it would soon be obvious to you that slim didn’t always mean fit.

As I looked around at the group of guys vying for our attention, I noticed that Lilly was uncomfortable around the guys, and she was hiding behind Lena. They had been hanging around us for the past few weeks and I could not for the life of me understand why? If it was so they could flirt with us, then they were wasting their time. We could not have made it any clearer that we weren’t interested in them.  Lilly had always been a quiet person, and she stuck to Lena like glue whenever these guys were around. I had noticed that the guys always steered clear of Lena. The guys were obviously scared of her. Maybe they feared her because she was a rogue. Maybe it was something else. Whatever the reason for their fear, their fear of Lena made me appreciate how much safer my sisters and I were around her. If those guys were that scared of her, then they obviously had a reason to be afraid. Funnily enough though, their fear of Lena only made me feel safer around her!