PREDATOR•Born To Kill

Chapter 6: Too scared to face reality.

Nadia.

The door downstairs banged harshly and I almost fell down the stairs hurrying to open it. This had become the normalcy of my life. I don't know why I still expected that one day the door would bang harshly and when I opened it I'd see her.
Another sigh escaped my mouth for the millionth time as I faced the same old wrinkled face of our town sheriff.

"Good morning Sheriff Holmes" i forced a smile.
"How may I help you?"

"Hello Nadia. May I come in?"

I moved aside to let the sheriff pass and herded for the kitchen to see if my mom was in so I could tell her Holmes was here.
As usual she had a dry comment passed my way which I totally ignored and went to talk with the sheriff.

"Any news yet?" I asked as I offered him a cup of tea which he kindly turned away.

" I'm afraid I don't have any good news for you. It's been a month now and still not even a trace that your friend left the party that night. Miss are you sure that you saw her ?

"I'm positive. I know what I saw!" I quickly defended.

"Alright Nadia. It's okay, I'll inform you if anything shows up"

I knew that everyone in the entire town thought I was making some bogus story up about Amy. Some said it was because I was afraid of being convicted of alliancing her disappearance as everyone referred to it.
But I was sure, I saw the way Amy looked at me with pain in her eyes as if silently begging for my help. But I was also helpless, there was nothing I could do until the first guy disappeared as if he heard something coming and decided to make a run for it. I was confused at first, why was such a monster panicky?

Then I saw them.

I was just about to make a run towards her but they took her in a move so swift I could barely comprehend the impact.
They were three massive werewolves.

The one that seemed to be in leading was the biggest. It was white and it's size was horrifying. The other two were comprehendable one of those two had scary  eyes and the scariest scar across it's face.
It took me all I had to hold in that scream but as soon as Amy disappeared, I screamed my lungs out.
I remember that was how the party ended...our school homecoming dance had become the scene of a kidnapping ........

but no one believed me.

To them I was making this up and Amy had run away from her quarrelsome mother.
But no one knew Amy the way i did and no one had seen any of the things that I had seen so they couldn't understand.

All this while still not a trace of Amy anywhere. A month ago I was naive enough to think that people would care enough to help me , but now ...

I was certain  if I wanted answers I was gonna have to do the digging myself!
There was no way in the world any normal wolf could have a size that big and there was no way in the world any normal person could have skin that pale even in the moonlight.

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The morning sun escaped into the classroom through the window and onto my face blinding me and bringing me back into  the real world.
Lost in my head, I hadn't noticed that it was my turn to do the geometry problem on the board.

"Miss Harts, I believe your time to grieve Miss Ambers should have passed now. It was a month ago, I will not continue excusing you from school work"

Charged the over eighty year old man that took us for geometry.

I contemplated whether or not to correct him about my grieving Amy as if she was dead. I knew she wasn't dead, she was alive and out there somewhere..... kidnapped.
Anyway, silently I walked to the board and did the work making a note in my head to see Adrian before the end of the day.

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I hadn't spoken to Adrian since homecoming last month. I can't call it guilt , anger or regret. I just couldn't bare facing him and he hadn't made any attempts to talk to me either.

I watched ass he slipped on his jersey and force his locker shut with more force than intended to . Summoning up all the courage I had In me, I walked up to him and managed a hey just before Adrian could walk off.

"Hey"

"You been good?" I asked.

"Watchya think?"

I sighed. He kept his eyes away from mine avoiding me at all costs.
I decided to continue making conversation with him until he was comfortable enough to talk about her with me.

"So exams are in two weeks and graduation is month end, are you ready? You excited?"

"What do you want? Nadia?"
He suddenly asked out of nowhere.

I sighed.....this was gonna be harder than I'd thought, might as well get to my point.

"It's about Ammeliah isn't it?" He asked.

"Yeah" i nodded .

"Well I don't know anything and I want nothing to do with that name. The police have already visited my house often enough" said Adrian as he began to walk away just as I blurted out .

"Did you love her!"

"What!?" He stopped right in he tracks.

"Ammeliah, did you love her?" I asked a lot quieter now.

He stood in front of me and stared at me. His face void of any emotions.

"I said I want nothing to do with that girl"
And he walked away, shoving me out of his way as he left.

My emotions were everywhere. I leaned against his locker and burried my face in my hands. I sighed heavily just as I noticed Jennifer in the distance.
No way could I tolerate her intolerable nonsense right now, my head was spinning.
Why did it have to be my problem?
Why did I have to be the last person to see her?
And why did I continue having these nightmares about it!?

I knew the kinda person Ammeliah was and I was almost certain that her innocence had changed Adrian from being the insensitive jerk he was.
But maybe I was wrong, maybe the last few months of her life Adrian really had been playing around with her feelings and I'd been too naive to notice and warn her.
But that didn't matter now..she was gone. Dead even, who knew.
All I was in for was being her best friend and to her probably the only  person who cares.
Her mother must've whispered good riddance at her ceremonials ...but at least she was brave enough to attend them all.
Maybe I was still in denial actually I still am....it hasn't and won't register in me that she is truly gone
And maybe I was just a coward, too scared to face reality and accept that I couldn't help her and it was meant to be that way.

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A/N

Chapter 7 coming soon. Please read and like and comment. I'm still new at this

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