Fighting by Anaya Phoenix (black books to read txt) 📕

"See ya boys." I said, wiggling my fingers and swaying my hips as I walked away. IT felt nice to be a girl.

My eyes scanned the crowd, she chewed on the pickle cjips that I'd snagged from Cara's plate. I waited for the sign that my body would be used today, waited for one skin to stand up and go to the makeshift stage.

"Would you just relax." Jesse said, throwing a carrot at my face, smacked it away easily enough then went back to my, chewing and scanning.

"Seriously, Luna, you need to eat more than just a few pickle chips. You might go wolf in class." Libby said, her eyes watching me with wide eyes. I rolled my eyes, but kept sucking on my pickle. The acidity bought me to a different place, a place where, in my dreams, I could enjoy pickles daily without worrying about being a pawn in a war.

"YOU'RE NOT EVEN BLOODY LISTENING TO ME!" Anna screeched, making my eyes cross into each other. I looked up at her, not surprised to see her hair pin straight and red. I had no clue how she did it, seeing as her mother and fathers' hair was nothing but curly; hell I had a hard time managubg ti get it straight in the shower under the influence of water.

"I totally was." I said half mindedly, stairing at her long red strands, they were so similar to mine in color but obviously not in texture. Where mine was a mane, hers was a mop.

"Oh yeah? Then what'd I say?" She challenged, crossing her arms as a brow rose and her blue eyes sparkled in humor.

"You said I'm the best victor, and shifter, ever. To that, all I have to say is you're abso-spanking-lutely right. I am pretty awesome." 

I watched with absolute glee as her normally pale face turned bright red with anger and she clenched her fists. I couldn’t see her future, I couldn’t touch her fate lines because she was in direct relation with Ander. So when she graced me with her presence, I knew I’d either have a really really fun time or I’d want to positively bite her fucking head off. But really, with Anna, what difference did either emotion make? She opened her mouth to respond to me when music started and awareness filled her eyes. Mine widened and I gasped, standing up quickly. I had forgotten that the troupe, the one that I started, was supposed to dance today. I thanked every God I knew, and liked of course, that I had worn a resemblance to the outfit I’d told them to wear. Jesse threw me a stressed look and I knew he’d forgotten that his guys and my girls were supposed to collaborate. We stood up quickly and blended into the crowd that surrounded the dancers as they began to dance to Slight Work by Wale. I geared my body, ready to join in when it was my turn then looked for Ander. He was born to match me, therefore the music called to him too.

Jesse joined in on his point and danced with Anna, matching in time with her just like I would with Ander. Her hair was a fiery mess as she jumped and twirled, popped and locked.I ruffled up my hair joining after his turn was up. Ander ran out from the other side and automatically we were in sync. I geared up and jumped on his shoulders, landing on my palms so that I was doing a handstand on his shoulders and continued to do the moves. The crowd cheered, clapping and whistling as my skirt slid up. I jumped down and ran off, Ander following my league and we both watched as the rest of the dancers excluding Anna and Jesse did the rest of the song. They were a good troupe, something I prided myself on. His hands were on my hips and I looked down to realize that my hips were still moving slightly in time with music. I looked up to find his blue eyes blazing down on me, with a slight smile on his lips.

“ I can’t believe how good it felt to dance again.” He said softly and I smirked and shrugged a shoulder.

“You wouldn’t have to miss it that much if you just succumbed like I do.” I said haughtily, before removing myself from him and going out to join my troupe and congratulate them.

“You guys did beautifully, now y’all remember to practice upgrade you with yourselves because that’s gonna be a full frontal flash mob.” I said, putting my hands on my hips and sidling up next to Jesse.

“Yeah, we don’t know how you’re gonna do it. My boys have busy schedules and I’m sure all the girls are the same. But just remember it’s on Wednesday.” Jesse said, crossing his arms and analyzing everyone before succumbing to a smile.

“You can’t lie Jess, we did pretty good.” Moira said haughtily, wiping sweat off the back of her neck with her hand.

“I can’t really pass judgement because Anna and I were pretty sloppy.”

“I didn’t want to say anything… but yeah.” Veronica said, a smirk angled towards Anna at her slip up.

“Alright, bitch, yeah I was sloppy. Got a fucking problem with that?” Anna said, her eyes narrowing to slits as she made to move closer. The only thing holding her back was Jesses’ arm. Veronica took a step back, the smirk still on and haughtier than ever.

“Why, Anna, no need to get so defensive darling.”

“Enough, Veronica. I’ve told you about your catiness before. Another slip up, you’re out.” I said, my temper flaring slightly as my eyes settled on the black haired girl.

“Ugh, yeah. I’m one of the best dancers you have, you wouldn’t dare kick me wolfy. We both know that.” Her voice managed to push that comment into my back and make me snarl. I walked forward, so close to snapping her tiny little neck before arms wrapped around my waist.

“Watch what you say, puta, before I have to make sure you can’t say shit.” I growled out, barely being able to control my hands from swiping her nose off. Veronica’s nose flared at the spanish expletive and I knew that I’d ticked her off, she hated it when I used her parent language on her.

“¿Cómo te atreves a amenazarme cuando puedo terminar su puta vida con un solo viaje a la policía.” She seethed, moving to hit me and I welcomed the swing, wanting… needing an excuse to fuck her up.

“Viene en mí perra, a menos que usted es demasiado cobarde de mierda.” I replied with a smirk and angled my face closer.

“No!” Anna growled “If anybody punches the bitch, it’s me.” In a flash she was there, intercepting the punch angled for my face with her hand then twisted Veronicas’ arm slightly.

“This is the absolute last time I’m giving you this warning. Stay away from me and mine, got it?” Anna said with a snarl into the whimpering girls face. Veronica nodded and I slumped in Anders’ arms. Anna held on a little longer before nodding and letting go, then storming out the lunchroom. I looked behind me to see Ander and Jesse looking at each other. I rolled my eyes and cocked my hip, crossing my arms I looked at the dancers who now looked anywhere but at Veronica and her hand.

“You guys go on ahead, we’ll see you tomorrow for practice.” They all left, grateful for the dismissal, including Veronica.

“Now, Jesse you should go, since Ander will only, most likely, aggravate her more.” He said nothing to defend himself, only a slight shrug of approval.

“I would do nothing of the sort, and I’m going to be the one to help my sister.” He said, a pout lining his face as he attempted to walk past me.

“Nuh uh, buddy boy. That girl has two elementals and is ticked off, I can’t afford to have her ticked to the max. If she uses her power in school, one more time, the principal will have no choice but to suspend her for five days.” I said, asking him with my eyes not to to go, to just stay and let my brother deal with the problems of his mate so he could deal with the problems of his. He caught the end of my thought and took a half step back, an exasperated sigh leaving his lips.

“No no no, I didn’t-”

“Luna, I can’t do this with you. I’m with Karen, and we’re very happy together,” my head jerked back as if he had hit me “you need to focus on other things, like the war, and I need to focus on her… well, currently on my sister. We’ve both got different priorities, you’ve made that extremely clear and I’m only just now seeing that after all these years. Guess I’m a slow learner, huh? I’m gonna go help Anna, I promise she won’t burn anything or demolish any walls… see ya later.” With a squeeze of my hand he backed away, his cool cobalt eyes not leaving mine until he turned away and jogged through the crowd of humans that always seemed to be a constant in the lunchroom.

“Luna, breathe. It’s fine, this is good right. Hadn’t you wanted him to give up in the first place?” I blinked my burning eyes, cursing them for tearing up and nodded. Jesse was right, I did want Ander to give up. I wanted to not feel like I was doing something terrible every time I turned him away, I wanted not to have my heart squeezed everytime he hugged me or winked at me. That’s when I realized, the thought nearly making my knees falll out under me, I never wanted to not have Ander. All I wanted was to not hurt, but sadly that wasn’t possible. My Goddess saw to that, she saw to the fact that I’d always feel, regardless of what I wanted. And for that I hated her, I hated her from helll to high heaven.

“Luna? You still aren’t breathing.” Jesse said softly, making me float back to my body and realized I was shaking with silent soft sobs; something that could easily be interpreted as rage, was actually it’s more powerful sister. Depression.

The rest of the day sucked more than I could have imagined, a headache began to grow in the back of my head giving me the tell tale signs of an oncoming meeting. Every once in a while the Gods and Godesses decided to check up on us and make sure none of us had turned to the dark side and we all still remembered that war was coming soon. And this was the most fucking oppurtune time for this. I growled softly, shaking my head and cursing the Gods for choosing now of all fucking times. A skin moved in front of my way and I snarled, narrowing my eyes as it skimpered away.

“Whoa, whoa whoa. Hurricane Luna heading to the parking lot.” Leo joked and I rolled my eyes, quickening my pace. I knew it was useless, his legs were at least five inches longer than mine. He could cover twice as much distance as I could in 2 steps with one long one of his.

“What’s wrong?” I shook my head, not wanting to have another taste of that horrid Depression. It really did not suit me well and did nothing but anger me more.

“Luna?” He asked, the concern lacing his voice made me look up into his green eyes that were speckled with brown.

“I’m just… I’m not up for talking right now. Or anything for that matter. I’ll see you at the meeting, OK?”

“Rose -”

“No, please. Later, k?” I didn’t leave him time to answer and stormed out of the school, suddenly needing to be free of the caged building. Once outside