Anything But... by A.G. Smith (a court of thorns and roses ebook free .txt) 📕

side so that wouldn't be a good idea. And Annabelle is kinda bossy.

I'll ask Steven he should be smart and reaonable about this.

"Hey Steven." "Yeah, what do you need?"

"I still haven't picked a side yet and everyone wants an answer."

"Just pick the werewolf side and be done with it."

"What if I don't want the werewolf side?"

"Are you saying you want to be accepted by the vampires, the demons?"

"No, I mean I don't know!" I had to scream a little cause he wasn't taking this seriously, I think I might cry.

"Sorry, but I mean I'm on the werewolf side."

"You are? But I thought Hades was evil."

"He is, kinda. But vampires have cheated death and that's what he's all about."

"Oh, that makes sense, I think. But that doesn't help my problem."

"I guess you have to pick the side that atracts you the most. You are a powerful witch so don't go trying to say you are going to be neutral." Steven told me as he walked away.

I get into my first period class and by then I'm extremely tired. After a minute my eye lids start to feel baggy and the more I have to open them, the more tired I get. I close them for a second it feels like and I'm in this new room.

All my friends are here. Annabelle and Mason are holding hands and smiling. Then Emily was standing near them with the same smile. Steven was beside me with his hand out. But before we could take it he pulled it away and whispered one word: Werewolf.

Then i feel this evil chill and I see four new figures in this black cloud. It was this girl vampire named Sami. She was in Jag's arms and then there was this mermaid that I haven't seen before. A voice inside my head told me her name was Katie. Then there was Gwen Crew. Katie came up to me and whispered one word like Steven but she whispered Vampire.

Then they both held out their hands for me to take. Katie was so small and innocent looking. Then there was my boyfriend cute, smart and always there for me.

I tried to make my hand join with Steven's but abruptly it went to Katie's. As our hands clasped together Sami, Jag and Gwen stopped what they were doing and their eyes read 'We won!'

Annabelle, Mason, Steven and Emily had a look of pure hatred in their eyes. I wanted to run to them and say it was all a joke and start laughing but it wasn't, this was really happening. Katie pulled me to the other's and I just stood there, feeling like I was looking out into the world.

"GWEN!" I woke up as Annabelle screamed my name.

"What?!" I yelled back.

"You slept through History, Spells II and Self Defense it's lunchtime now."

"Shit!" i said to myself as I flashed myself next to Steven.

"I heard you took a long nap and didn't wake up until just now." Steven told me.

"Uhhh well, I guess I'm just a heavy sleeper." I smiled hoping the lie would work. "This is a magic school, there's no such thing as a heavy sleeper." Darn! Didn't work.

"Ok, well I just had this dream. That's all."

"Oh, well sit down." He said like he knew there was something missing from my story. But I think this dream helped me pick which side I want.
Annabelle

"I'm telling you Mason it was really wierd."
"Well, maybe your just over reacting Annabelle."
"Maybe but I mean either someone put a curse on her or she had a powerful dream. I studied it in one of my classes last year."
"Oh,cool. But still I couldn't feel any powerful magic being used at the time so, that leaves a powerful dream." He told me as I walked over to Gwen. I have to ask her what happened.
"Gwen."
"Yeah Annabelle."
"What were you dreaming about for the last three periods?"
"Uhhhhh ummmm here can I talk to you over here for a second? Thanks." She took my arm and pulled me away from the table.
"I can't tell you right now but I an say that it did help me pick which side I want to be on."
"Ok, great so which one is it." I said knowing she would pick the werewolf side.
"I'll tell you later, ok? Great." She said as she walked back to her table. I can't believe her. I thought to myself as i sat back down between Jag and Mason.
"Gwen said her big dream helped her decide but she won't tell me."
"Well, I wonder which side it is." Jag said over hearing what I said.
"It's a pretty good chance it'swerewolf. You were the first friend Gwen had here." Mason told me. I could see in Jag's eyes he thought otherwise but I didn't say anything.
"I'm going to go catch Emily up." I said as I got up and made my way to Emily's table even though the repeated scream of the vice prinicpal's
"Sit down!" were really distracting. I got to her table and sat down beside Emily. Across from her another shape shifter named Travis sat there.
"Hey Travis what's up?"
"Oh, not much Annabelle."
"So, Emily I got back Gwen yesterday in Self Defense.. I almost killed her boyfriend." I said with a smile. Travis was trying to stifle a laugh.
"Awesome! I was just about to tell Travis about the battle plan I made the other day."
"What battle plan?" Travis asked us.
"Oh, well Emily had this brilliant idea to get the shape shifters and me to transform into weapons. And when the vampire side takes us back to wherever we will attack from the inside."
"That's a great idea, Emily."
"Thanks." Emily said calmly. But I still noticed the look Travis had on his face. He liked her, but Emily was really cool about it. Anyways once I finished explaining I needed to tell Emily one more thing.
"Hey Em, Gwen had this dream for the last 3 periods and she said that it helped her make her decision. But she won't tell me which side."
"That's wierd there's no chance she'll pick the vampire side, so don't worry." She told me.
"God, I hope so." I said back.
I got up and walked out of the cafeteria with everyone for fourth period. Sadly it was science for me. The teacher in this class is so unorganized and takes up the whole class talking about her personal life. Like everyone else in her class, I was daydreaming knowing tomorrow we would get this exact same speech. The bell rang for fifth period and her students left without her knowing they didn't hear a thing.
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Ok so it's half way through survival and Gwen is trying to mouth something to me. I recognize the word side, so I know she's trying to tell me which side she picked. No that can't be right. Maybe I misread her. She couldn't have said what I think she said. Did she really just say vampire?!
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This can't be possible. Maybe I miss read what she said. Maybe she said I don't want the vampire side. Yeah that seems possible. I'll have to ask her. So right in the middle of class I stood up and said, looking straight at Gwen, "What did you say?"
Gwen was shocked.
But before she could get over the shock and answer me the teacher said "Annabelle sit down right now!"
"Yeah, once I get me an answer I'll do whatever you want me to do." I told the teacher with air quotes around the last part. All of the teachers know I'm stubborn, if I want an answer I'll get it one way or another. There was no point in her to argue, once she realized this she waved her hand at Gwen for her to speak.
"Uhhhhhh I said there's no one on the vampire side for me so I'll be with you." She hasn't spoken like this in class before, I could tell.
"Ok, that's great, now you can continue teacing." Once I finished what I said to the teacher the bell rang. I got my stuff and as I walked past the teacher I gave her a sarcastic 'Oops!'
"Annabelle we have to find Jag now! I've been trying to do this for two days but I could nevre get you guys in the same room, while I wasn't running for my life." Gwen said pulling my arm. So, before we could start to 6th period we found Jag in the hallway and he looked almost scared. I guess he's suffering from our hex. Wait a minute!
That's why Gwen was so keen on casting this spell on this person. She's trying to get her proof. "You can't lie now Jag!" Gwen said confidently.
"There's nothing for me to lie about." He said back with a menacing glare.
"Look, Gwen we have to go to class can't we do this later?"
"NO! It's got to be now the spell is going to where off in 5 minutes, so just let me talk. Now Jag tell Annabelle the truth." She snapped back.
"Like, I said I have nothing to tell her. Annabelle you have to believe me." Jag pleaded.
"I..I.....I don't know who to believe!" I said as I stormed off down the hall.
"I'll get you evntually Jag. This spell will where off then I'll cast another. And I'll keep casting until I can get Annabelle to see that your nothing but pure evil."
"Don't worry Gwen by then she'll already be on my side." Jag said as he faded away.
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Alright I definately need to talk to Jag. But who should I believe? I guess it wouldn't be that bad if I were on the other side...

No! I can't think like that I am dating Mason who is a werewolf. I'm on the werewolf side, with my friends. I thought to myself as I lkooked around the room, making my eyes stop at Gwen, Emily and Mason. I looked back at the teacher just as the bell rang to go home. I got my stuff and walked out of the school with Jag.

"So who do you believe?" He asked me after a while of silence.

"Well, truthfully I don't know. It's whatever. So it's Friday right after school what are you going to do?" "Well, since I'm a demon I'm probably going to do something I know I