Chapter 3 The First Party

• -Corrine-
• Trevor unloaded my luggage from the trunk of his car and then caught up with me beside the car. I looked up at the four-story high red brick building that will be my home for the next few years. I officially started my life as a student at Golden Valley University.
• I picked up the duffel bag that Trevor had dropped and turned around to take another look at my dorm. I took a deep breath and said, “Campus life, here I come.”
• I stopped in front of a door marked with the number 305 and took a deep breath. I hope the Moon Goddess granted my wish. When I raised my hand to open the door, it suddenly opened from inside and someone walked out while looking down at the cell phone.
• She was surprised when she looked up and found me standing in the doorway.
• “Oh, hey!” she exclaimed. She grinned ear to ear and quickly shoved her phone into the back pocket of her jeans. After that, she reached out her hand, inviting me to shake hands. “Are you my roommate?” she asked. “I’m Evangeline. You can call me Eva.”
• The sound of a cell phone ringing interrupted our conversation.
• Eva grabbed her phone and read the message, after which she looked at me.
• “You want to join the party?”
• I blinked in confusion. “Party? Isn’t it too early to join the party? We haven’t even had one day as college students yet.”
• Eva chuckled at my words. “Relax! This is a welcoming party for new students at a sorority house.”
• “Sure,” I said then. “Let’s go to the party.”
• *
• The party wasn’t as wild as I imagined. Maybe I had watched too many juvenile delinquency movies, so I was imagining terrible things.
• The sorority house we went to blew me away because it was so nice, like the mansions in Wesgrove. This place even had a swimming pool in the backyard, where the party took place.
• Eva and I drank coke from red plastic cups. We stood by the pool, in a less crowded place. Eva introduced me to her high school friends, after which she chatted with them while I watched the people dancing by the pool.
• “I’m going to the restroom,” I whispered to Eva.
• “Do you want me to go with you?”
• I shook my head and handed her my glass of coke. “Just hold this for me.”
• “Sure.”
• I headed to the restroom by the pool and cringed at the long queue. I then decided to go into the house to find another restroom.
• And that’s when I saw something that made me sick.
• Daniel and Kasey were making out. My ex-boyfriend and my ex-best friend.
• I stood frozen at the end of the hall, looking at the two of them and feeling my stomach churn.
• Not many people passed through this hallway so they could make out to their heart’s content. They were kissing as if they were going to devour each other.
• Daniel had never kissed me like that, so passionately and with so many moans. He was like a mating animal.
• They seemed to notice the piercing stares I gave them because they stopped kissing and looked my way.
• Daniel was silent while Kasey smiled sinisterly.
• “Oh, hi Corrine,” she greeted. She took Daniel’s hand and placed it on one of her breasts. “Watching something interesting?”
• After that, Kasey kissed Daniel’s jaw, then her lips moved up to the corners of his lips. Daniel let out a low sigh, and that’s when I realized I should have gotten as far away from them as possible.
• I kept my mouth shut and turned around, with hurried steps out into the backyard to find Eva.
• She was still where we were standing earlier, laughing with her friends.
• As I was about to approach her, there was a roar of engines from the front yard and everyone stopped talking.
• “They’re coming,” said someone standing near me. “The trouble-making mob.”
• The music was still thumping, but no one was dancing anymore. They looked agitated now, and I became uneasy, too.
• I walked over to Eva and held her hand. “I think we should go,” I said.
• Eva nodded, and we walked towards the exit, but we were stopped when a group of young men in leather jackets walked into the backyard. Each of them took a girl in a sexy dress and carried booze. Some of them even looked drunk.
• One of them raised their drink bottle high and shouted, “Let’s get the party started!”
• After that, he jumped into the swimming pool with his partner screaming.
• “Who are they?” I whispered to Eva, but Eva didn’t answer.
• I glanced at her and saw she was staring at the crowd. I followed her gaze and my eyes locked on someone who looked different from the others.
• He walked alone, like a leader in a pack. His facial features were so defined and his body was bigger and more muscular than his friends.
• Then suddenly he turned his head, and our eyes met. It was then that I realized something.
• Werewolf. He was a werewolf.
• The young man walked towards us. I widened my eyes and inched closer to Eva. He must have known that I was just like him, a shifter. Was he going to make a scene with me?
• My heart raced, and I squinted and looked away as he stopped in front of us. Then I realized he was looking at Eva and not at me.
• I looked at Eva and saw her shoulders tighten. “What are you doing here, Andrew?” she asked curtly.
• I widened my eyes, surprised by Eva’s courage and the way she spoke to this dangerous-looking young man. And it seems like the people around us were just as surprised as I was.
• He crossed his arms and tilted his head, then stared at Eva for a few seconds before saying, “Is that how you speak to your older brother?”