• Why must I always choose the crummiest of guys...I just want to be happy and everytime I try it fails...
    "Arietty? Did you hear me? I asked if you wanted to go to dinner with my family?" This is my newest jerk his name is George.
    "I'm sorry I can't I have tech rehersal. Maybe another time." not a lie, not trying to escape dinner with a normal family just busy after all i'm a junior trying to figure out my future, this guy is only a freshman and never understands.
    " So tech is better than me? You never even want to hang out anymore." also not true anytime I make plans with him they get cancelled because my family doesn't like me dating and my studies get in the way, I am currently trying to get in the army, he doesn't know yet." Do you even want be with me anymore?"
    "You ask me this everyday my answer has not changed." I lie everytime I tell him i want to make it work but the truth is i'm too scared to dump him.
    "Ok good, I love you." A fake kiss and hes gone off with his dad leaving me there not even trying to discuss things. Why do I stay?
    "I'm here! Is the sound on?" setting my things down in the balcony to do sound with one of my closest friends Arianna.
    "Yeah its all good, where were you? Whats wrong?" she can read me like a book.
    I plaster one big fake smile and simply replay with "I'm fine."
    "Yeah meaning F.ucked up I.nsecure N.eurotic and E.motional yeah I use that all the time, what did jar head say this time?"
    "Nothing just doesn't understand how things are." I get the signal to turn the mic up and the track down so I do
    "We will talk later." both of us quiet down and do the sound for Zombie Prom till about 5a.m. we turn everything off and head down stairs to the cast and the rest of the crew
    "Great job, same time tomorrow." the stage manager dismisses us all and I start to walk home unfortunately its a full moon meaning, time to change.
    At Hillview Art University we arent normal students, plus its a night school, you'll understand soon. "Arianna we need to find somewhere secluded quickly!" I hide my arms in my leather jacket and we meet up with Belle my adoptive sister, she adopted me when my family kicked me out for being too different. "There the old house a few blocks from the Hallow."
    We run but the change is coming faster than normal "Arietty you first! go!" A bust a window and crawl through, I toss my jacket to Belle and go in the other room. "Were coming with you."
    "No just call Luka and tell him." Luka is a great friend of mine. My skin starts to ripple, a crack is heard before I collapse to all fours "get back." My voice distorted, more cracks and ripples,hair begins to sprout my legs begin to snap and twist until they resemble a dogs legs. I cough and hack, the stench and sting of bile surrounds the room, blood spurs from my back where most of the cracks and snaps are coming from, my ,burgundy with black lace over it, dress rips and tears appart.
    "I got it! Arianna picks up the scraps as Luka walks in and sees the grotesque creatue looking at him in pain.
    "She's changing again? Let me fix the dress again." the three sit and wait the painful change to finish.
    One more crack as my bones settle into the new shape of a husky brown black wolf. One last spurt of bile and the hour and a half of change is over. I howl low and soft "can you hear me?"
    All three nod as I speak through their minds."To The Hallow?" I stand and shake off the dust and dirt before cleaning up the mess I made.
    "So does it always hurt? The change." I nod and jump out the window last. Now lest get you caught up on this situation, so far we have meat Bell she is a vampire not the ones that sparkle, Luka is a rotting corpse who always smells of graveyard and old spice, Arianna claims to be a vampire but I haven't seen her fangs yet, and me well im a werewolf. The school we attend is for people like us its a night school for the 'special'