Chapter 13: Burger

I began to fill the small potion bottles and I managed to make a total of 15 healing potions and 10 anti-poison potions. I was left feeling exhausted and sweaty that I went to take a shower and wore clean clothes. The sun was about to set, making me realize I haven't eaten anything at all.

"Hey Era" Olivia greeted me as I joined them at the round table, I only joined because there was food on the table. " Why aren't you eating" the others were eating but she wasn't. " I was waiting for you, just like I did when it was breakfast and lunch" is she saying she didn't eat because of me? As annoying as she is I felt guilty that she starved herself because of me. " Well I'm here now so let's eat" she nodded and as I was enjoying the food my mood was ruined the moment Arina opened her mouth.

" I have informed Alpha Vale of the amount of potions you made and he told me that you must continue making this amount daily" beside wearing long skirts what is her job around here? Anyway I don't care what she does because she's not a threat but the woman that was in my room this morning is dangerous. I'm not crazy, I know what I saw when she looked at me. It was something close to what's in Serena's eyes every time she looked at me.

I need to know more about her, maybe I should ask Zik or Olivia about her. It's all Vale's fault, what he did to her made her hate me! He is as reckless as she is! After I was done eating I left the elixir house, I think the terrible name was Arina's idea. She tries in every way to make herself feel important, I'll have to ask Olivia later on whose idea it was. I wanted to talk to Zik and since he never showed up after what happened in the morning I'm going to check if he is not in the pack house.

Even before reaching the double doors I could hear laughter and chatter, I pushed the double doors open and it earned me immediate silence as their eyes were on me. I decided it's best for me to get in and just stand where I am, they are all capable of doing what that lunatic did to me. Gosh it looked like I was going to deliver a speech or something, I first scanned the place searching for a red head. He wasn't here and I'm now wondering if I should leave but that'll be too awkward cause they're expecting me to say something. Gosh why are they looking so serious and it was even more crowded than the last time I was here. Are they about to have a werewolves meeting only? No they were too loud and relaxed before I pushed the door open. I heard one of them clear their throats, it was actually Jason who cleared their throats and fake coughed causing me to glare at him. He winked in return.

I also cleared my throat while finally decided to take two steps inside. " Um...Hi everyone, so I'm looking for my babysitter. Zik he is supposed to be popular around y'all. Red hair? Black eyes? Weird love for jeans?... hahaha ahem so do any of you know where he is?" No one answered and I was at a loss until I heard a voice behind me making me jump in fright " I'm here ", " idiot you scared me!". All this time he was standing behind me and I was right, black jeans and a dark green t-shirt. I was curious about the small plastic bag he was carrying on his right hand. " You were the one blocking us from entering" us? " Boo!" I jumped again because whoever said that was too close to my ear. I was even more frightened when seeing who it was, they didn't go silent because of me. It was because of him, their leader. I must've looked like an idiot and that's why that idiot Jason wanted to laugh.

"Where have you been, aren't you supposed to be around me like a fly?" I don't know why it was easy and less tiring talking to Zik. " Flies are attracted to poop so you're only insulting yourself when you call me a fly" he replied with a smirk and I unknowingly smiled. He then handed me the Plastic bag " heard you didn't eat breakfast or lunch so I bought you a burger. I heard you have a weird love for burgers" I snatched it from his hand opening it and it really was a burger. I took a bite right there and then noticing that this one was even better than the last one. " Your face says it's delicious" that's because it is. Tch I really didn't want to do this but the deliciousness of the burger is forcing me to " thank you " I whispered but I knew he heard me because of his shocked expression. " What did you say? I didn't quite catch that" I rolled my eyes cause there was no way I was going to repeat that.

" Whatever it is you wanted him for can wait till tomorrow, as you can see we are having a meeting" Vale's voice interrupted us and I could've been imagining things but he sounded a bit annoyed. Is Zik not supposed to buy me a burger? Yes that must be it, I took a deliberately slow bite of the burger while not taking my eyes off him. It felt good that I was at least ruining his mood, his cold eyes remained...cold 'yeah eat that sucker' I said to myself as I took one last bite then left them to have their meeting...

That...kinda made my day better. But why the sudden kindness, I thought he didn't enjoy following me around. Is this their plan, make me see Zik as a friend and end up trusting him, no it sounds like a dumb plan and an obvious one. I really need to stop overthinking things, he bought me a burger because he heard that I didn't have breakfast or lunch. I felt really sad that instead of enjoying the burger I was distracted by my thoughts that the taste didn't linger as much as I wanted it to. Well I just hope it's not a one time thing, maybe he'll get me another one next month, next week or in the next couple of days. It could even be tomorrow.