Wolves by Ash Faith (freda ebook reader .txt) 📕

“Do you think we should call Judy-Jennifer-stick-up-her-ass or not?” I said while poking at the leftover lemon from my now empty shot glass.

“Lana!” Julie-Anne loudly whispered angrily, “Don’t call her that!” She looked around and whispered quietly “she’ll hear you with her supersonic eagle ears” she broke into a giggle God I love her so much I couldn’t help and started to chuckle a bit myself before we were abruptly interrupted by the bar tender “Y’all want another round?” He had a seriously cringey ‘southern’ accent, it was obviously fake. Julie stared at him blankly and then started clapping like a dumb cheerleader

“Oh, my god, that was amazing speak again, I think I love southern accents” she can’t be serious I knew she was a lightweight but one shot and her braincells seemed to have got the fuck out of there. For the brunette, she sure is blonde on the inside…

The Bar tender chuckled “Oh no, Honey, it was a joke because I could hear your Australian accents from across the bar so I decided to mess with you,” he paused and took in the fact that she was still clapping like an idiot, I quickly shot out my hand and pushed her hands to her sides and gave her a ‘don’t make yourself look like such an idiot’ look that made her pull a face like scolded puppy.

“Sorry about that, yeah about the rounds - I’ll have one more and” I shot Julie a look “She’ll have the lightest thing you’ve got.” He grinned at Julie and nodded as he went to get our drinks.

“Unfair” Julie huffed and crossed her arms “Why can’t I- “

“Not happening” I interrupted her “You’re already drunker than you should be, which means only one more drink for us” I pulled out my phone and Looked for Judy Jennifer’s number, “I’ll quickly call the Tour/Eagle woman Judy and tell her we’ll just stay in this bar & hotel place for the night and be back late tomorrow morning” I told her as I got up to go to the bathroom for a hopefully quieter area for a phone call other than the busy late night street and bustling bar. I pushed at the door and made quick eye contact with a tall guy in the corner. I shuddered. His eyes were dark brown but they had an icy feeling to them that creeped me out. I pushed at the door quicker and got into the room faster than I thought was possible, my heart beating and adrenaline pumping through my veins as I stared at myself in the bathroom mirror looking deep into the fear in my eyes. “Hello?!” an all too familiar annoyingly loud voice came from the phone in my hand, I quickly pulled it up to my ear and cleared my throat “Hi Judy, just calling to tell you that Julie and I are going to spend the night at a hotel near us so we won’t be back till’ around 10 or 11 am tomorrow okay?” I didn’t wait for her protest, and hung up in her mid-sentence of refusal, I wasn’t in the mood for an argument.

I gave myself a quick look over, smoothed my tight crop over my light blue skinny jeans, set my foot into my thick wooden healed ankle boots more comfortably, pulled my shoulders back and mustered my spirit to leave and have a bit of fun with my brunette best friend on our trip to America from Australia. I grabbed at the handle and strode out confidently, but I felt the icy feeling again, he was staring at me again, I pretended to ignore it and sat back down next to Julie, the bartender must have just gotten our drinks because he only just left our side of the bar and went to another customer on the other side, but turned around swiftly to wink at Julie – wait what? Julie turned slightly red in the cheeks and put her hand to the side of her face and whispered to me “I think he’s pretty cute” she giggled like a little girl

“You’re kidding, right?” She just looked at me like I wasn’t speaking English, I sighed and called the bartender back over “Hey, how much is it for a night in the upstairs hotel” I even sounded tired now.

“normally $75 but” He gave a quick glance at Julie-Anne “But for you m’lady, I’ll make it $40” he winked and grinned at her, but I was too tired for this bullshit and Julie was too drunk for me to not keep an eye on her since she’d drunk both mine and her own drinks. I cleared my throat loudly and interrupted their little scene “So,” I said pulling out my wallet and grabbing $40, he took a second to register as I put the $40 in his hand forcefully and then he turned around and opened a small locked cabinet and pulled out a key.  “Uhm, there’s only one room left and it’s a double bedder but I could go and get you a- “He started but I cut him off

“No need, thank you and goodnight” I said as I snatched the key out of his hand grabbed my slouched friend and put her arm around my neck and began towards the stairs. I realised then that the once loud and bustling bar was now completely empty – almost completely empty – I felt the cold icy stare again and I felt my knuckles go white and I gripped my friend and the key tighter, I heard the bartender tell him to leave as its closing time, he was replied with a deep grunt and the feeling left as the man left the bar and the bartender locked the door behind him and started to close the shutters as I realised Julie-Anne’s legs were practically limp and she was out cold now “lightweight” I mumbled as I put her into a piggy-back position on my back and started up the stairs.

We reached room 6 and entered the room, it was nice for a bar motel type place, but it smelt like cigarettes and alcohol galore, but it was simple and small consisting of a chair in the corner a random sink in the other corner and a fat bed in the centre of the room. I closed the door with my leg, dropped the key on the side of the sink and Julie on the bed. I sighed and went to close the one window in the room with its dust old curtain, but as I reached to pull the old curtain across the window a person flew past it in black clothing, like the bartender was wearing wow, imagining flying people, I really need a good night’s sleep I thought to myself as I continued to close the curtain. I turned to go tuck myself and Julie-Anne in bed but she was up and at the door giggling like a maniac

“Julie, come on, we need to go to bed” I walked slowly towards her, knowing all too well that after she drinks she randomly passes out then comes back up all hyper. She just giggled harder and swung the door open violently and launched out the room. I started to run after her, pissed off and tired were not a great mixture for me so I was so not in the mood to chase after Julie but she tends to get into big shit in these moments. I saw her leave through a door on my left, a fire door. Shitshitfuckshit please dear god do not set off an alarm I grimaced and raced to the door to grab her but she was halfway down the fire stairs. But The only alarm was the one going off in my head. I started skipping multiple stairs at a time trying to catch up to Julie but she was already halfway out the door, I leaped past the last few steps which hurt my ankle like shit but that didn’t stop me as I continued to sprint after Julie why is she so god damned fast “Julie! Stop!” I called after her but it didn’t phase her at all as she ran straight for the woods “oh come on…” I mumbled to myself and cursed as I forced my body to try and run faster as we entered the woods and the night seemed to only get darker making it harder to see and I lost track of Julie oh shiiit I stopped in my tracks, this is not good I listened for her footsteps but everything was silent, until I heard her blood-curdling scream, the alarms in my head began louder and I followed the direction of where her scream came from, wait, what am I doing I don’t have any weapons or anything I realised as I walked in on the small open area where Julie-Anne stood shaking in fear and bear-like creature hovering over her holy fuck that’s one big bear, I ran for Julie, my plan being to grab her and run like the wind, it was a shitty plan but it’s not like I had a choice if I was to get us both out of here alive. I’d barely started running but the creature’s eyes were already on me, I shuddered oh shit I recognised the cold icy stare, there’s no fucking way, I didn’t care what happened, I was almost at Julie and that’s all that mattered to me right now.

Just before I reached Julie the creature reached its front leg out and swiped Julie a good 15 metres at an incredible speed and her body went limp as she slammed into a tree and I heard a sickening snap oh hell to the fucking no my blood pumped harder with more adrenaline as anger took over my actions and I headed straight for the creature with my fists ready my punches might not hurt it but I sure as hell will try I clenched my teeth as my left hand scratched at its eye and my right hand landed a hefty right hook on the side of its face that surely would hurt the bastard. But it just looked like I’d pissed it off. Fuck. I cursed under my breath and it seemed to quiver its muscles as if to prepare them. Today is not the fucking day I get torn to pieces by this piece of shit. I sent my right leg into its bottom jaw and I heard two different snaps, one from what I realised was my already injured ankle and the other from the beast. Too angry to feel the pain I got ready to give it another hit before I saw something in the corner of my eye move, I turned my head to see somebody picking up Julie’s limp body from under the tree “DON’T YOU TOUCH HER YOU BAST-“ My mistake was turning away from the creature, and