Chapter 6 C6

It had now been a week since Beck rejected Veronica and no one knew about it except her, Beck and Kiera. Kiera wanted to confront Beck about it, but Veronica begged her not to because he didn't know that she knew about it.

" Wow, what a lovely day to sleep and not wake up for a while," Kiera said, looking up at the sky, as they passed by the children's park.

" What do you mean by that? Don't ever say that, please. If you go, who would I talk to or where would I find anyone who would listen to me complain about everything all day long?" Veronica snapped at her.

" Relax Vee, I'm not going anywhere, at least, not anytime soon, silly," Kiera said, laughing. "It was just a harmless joke."

"A harmless joke? Really? Who jokes with something as serious as death?" Veronica snapped at her again.

"Hey, chill. I never said anything about dying." Kiera replied.

"To sleep and not wake up means what?" Veronica asked her, obviously angry.

"Fine, I'm sorry. Like I said, it was just a joke." Kiera apologized.

" Please don't joke about things like that ever again, okay?" Veronica said, squeezing her face.

" Yes, ma'am," Kiera said with a mocking tone.

" I'm serious." She said, with a stern look on her face.

" Okay, fine, I've heard you, I won't say things like that again. But weren't you the one who was talking about being in the afterlife and all that?" Kiera asked, teasing her and trying to make her calm down.

" That was because I thought I was dead!" Veronica yelled at her.

" But you weren't, you were just in the room." Kiera responded.

"But I didn't realize that!" Veronica exclaimed and began to walk away.

"Vee, wait! I'm sorry." Kiera screamed, and ran after her.

" Veronica, Kiera, wait up." A voice called out to them.

Kiera and Veronica both turned their heads to the back and saw Tom running after them. Tom was their friend and he was an omega too.

" Argh, what do you want, Tom?" Kiera asked, looking at him with annoyance.

" I got bored sitting at home and playing video games all day, so I thought I should come outside and take a walk until I saw you both." He explained, "So, where are we going?" He asked.

" We?" Kiera asked, looking at him before turning her head to look at Veronica. "What do you mean by 'we'"?

" I mean 'we', the three of us." He said, looking from Kiera to Veronica.

Kiera looked like she was about to pop out of anger, making Veronica smile.

"I don't really know why you don't like Tom. I mean, he is sweet and kind and he lets me play his video games and win." Veronica whispered into Kiera's ear and she gave her the side eye.

" Tom, you see, we're no fun, we just want to take a walk around town, get some ice cream, and go back to our rooms, burying our faces in our phones," Veronica said, trying to convince him to let them be.

" It's okay, I don't mind." He responded and Kiera began to grumble. She was about to talk, but Veronica held her mouth and all that could be heard from her was mumbling as she was being dragged away from Tom, while Veronica smiled at him.

" What? Why didn't you let me talk?" Kiera asked as they stood away from Tom.

"Can't you see that the poor boy is lonely and has no one to talk to besides the two of us? Veronica replied.

"Well, I don't care!" Kiera snapped back.

"Come on, Kiera. Can you at least be nice to him just this once? Please?" Veronica pleaded with her cute eyes and Kiera had no choice but to oblige.

" Fine, but just this once." Kiera said, and Veronica nodded.

"Okay, just this once. Thank you." She replied as she hugged her.

"I really don't know why you are so excited. Do I sense something fishy?" Kiera said and Veronica rolled her eyes.

"You wish! Come on, let's go. Let's not keep him waiting for too long." She replied as she dragged Kiera along to meet Tom and they began their walk around town.

It had now been thirty minutes since they all left to go get ice cream from their favorite ice cream shop. They took a walk around town a little more, but after a while, Tom got tired of walking around and went back to his apartment to continue playing his video games.

"You think Tom's going to be okay?" Veronica asked.

" Why'd you ask?" Kiera asked her.

" You said a lot of mean things to him, if I was in his shoes, I wouldn't be okay. I think you should go apologize," Veronica said, looking at Kiera with a serious look.

" But i-" Kiera tried to protest but was cut off by Veronica.

" Don't try to justify your actions," Veronica said, not letting her speak.

" But still I don't think i-" Kiera was cut off by a scream that came from outside the ice cream shop.

" What was that?" Veronica asked, visibly shaken by the noise and commotion. They both immediately took cover under the table.

The crashing of glass and aggressive growls from deep within their chests were heard next.

" Wait, I feel like I've heard that growl before," Veronica said, as she tried to remember where she heard it from. She looked up from under the table, only to meet eye-to-eye with the brown and gray wolf she fought and chased away in the woods about a week ago.

She immediately lowered her head, hoping they didn't see her. She could hear them getting closer to where her and Kiera were. She silently prayed for them not to come any closer.

It was like the Moon goddess heard her prayers at that moment, because they immediately heard clawing and growling from other wolves that were fighting with the rogue wolves.

" We better get out of here," Kiera said, holding her hand as they carefully started making their way away from the scene, crawling on the ground, so they wouldn't be noticed or seen. As they crawled away silently, they found a couple of dead omegas on the floor and Veronica held her breath, trying to prevent herself from crying and putting both her and her friend in harm's way.

They successfully left the vicinity and started running for their dear lives. Halfway to their apartments, some rogue wolves came out of nowhere, and Veronica immediately recognized them as the ones who were running away from her in the woods the last time.

" Stay behind me," She said to Kiera, holding her hand and pulling her behind her. " They're not going to hurt us. Well, me, but I won't let them hurt you." She said, leaving Kiera so confused.

" What do you mean they won't hurt us or you? I don't know what you are talking about, I'm confused because as you can see, they are rogue wolves, they hurt or kill anything they see." Kiera whispered holding her clothes, "We're underdogs, we can't take them, so we better run for our lives if we want to live."

" They are the rogue wolves I said were running away from me the night of the full Moon festival." Veronica whispered back to her.

" Oh, I see. But I still suggest we run because they don't look too friendly." Kiera said, still whispering.

"Do you think they won't chase us if we start running now? That's just the easiest route to die." Veronica whispered to her, getting frustrated. "Let's just try to go silently, if we run, we'll make matters worse." She added and they started walking as gently and silently as possible.

Veronica was careful and steady with the wolves growling and barking at them. They had almost gone past them wolves when all of a sudden, one came right at them and took hold of Kiera's left leg.

Kiera cried out in pain as the rogue wolf was dragging Kiera by the leg, roughly, while Veronica was pulling her to herself with her hand.

The other rogue wolf ran towards them and started slashing Kiera's stomach and body with its claw.

" Stop it, get away from her," Veronica screamed and kicked the wolf who had been slashing Kiera's body, before doing the same for the one that was pulling her leg. They both winced due to the force she used to kick them.

She then turned around to look at Kiera, who had cuts and was covered in her own blood. She couldn't stop the tears that were pouring out of her eyes at the sight of her friend in the pool of her own blood.

" Just hang on, you're going to be fine." Veronica said and looked up to see some wolves who were watching what was happening, "Help me, someone, please help us!" She screamed for help, but it seemed like they were too scared to come to help them or they were not interested in helping her because she could hear them whispering and saying different things about her.

"It's all her fault." One wolf said.

"Yes, I think she is cursed." Another wolf concurred.

" Just look at her, all this happened because of her!" She heard another one say and all she could do was wail.

She looked back at Kiera," You're going to be fine, okay? Just hang in there."

She tried lifting her, but she screamed out in pain.

" I'm sorry, I'm sorry," Veronica said, crying even more for causing her best friend more pain.

She turned her head to see the rogue wolves staring at her. She looked at them, confused as to why they weren't doing anything but just staring at her.

" Vee." Kiera called her, weakly.

" Yes?" She answered, turning back to look at her.

" I'm... I'm sorry for..." Kiera began.

" Don't talk, please, save your strength, you're going to be okay." Veronica immediately stopped her from talking.

Smiling at her, "I apologize for leaving you...like...like this." Kiera said, coughing out blood.

" I told you not to talk. You're not going anywhere, you can't leave me, please." Veronica said, as tears kept pouring from her eyes.

" I will always love you, and you will always be my best friend in whatever life we may find ourselves in," Kiera said, as tears rolled down her closed eyes and at that moment, Veronica could no longer hear her heartbeat anymore- She had passed away.

"No!!!!!!!!!!" Veronica howled in pain as misery enveloped her.