All Chapters of REJECTED AND REBORN; THE HOCKEY ALPHA'S REGRET : Chapter 31 - Chapter 40

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IN THE BASEMENT

Aurelia's POV Talia decided she would clean the house next morning, and I agreed.I only didn't mean it.I waited for as long as two hours for her to sleep before moving as quietly as I could to stop Talia from hearing anything that would wake her up to see me and picking up the bits and pieces of the things I had left broken and destroyed in my tantrum. Even now as I looked at all the damage, I found it difficult to believe I had done so much in so little time.We would be off to school the next morning, which meant that cleaning up would begin far later than Talia thought. I had to do it first, and now.It was all me after all.The whole place was a wreck, and I tried to salvage the things I had damaged the least. The rugs were ruined, and there were now deep scratches in the floors. Elsewhere, there was paper and torn cloth and bent metal damaged beyond repair or left with dents in them. The vases were broken and shattered in pieces, and so were a few memoirs.I set myself to clea

FACE OFF

Aurelia I had done it because I wanted to intimidate her.Except, I had forgotten that this same girl, as she had told me, was the reason I was alive, here. Not by my own force, but by her strong will. If she could do that, then I should have expected what happened next. I had changed forms with no intentions of hurting her, not even with the thought of avenging the slap she had landed on my face, but she was not messing around, so she changed forms too, while I stood back in surprise.Her transformation was soon complete and she rose to her feet, baring her canines at me. All of the fur on her back stood straight, and the skin of her muzzle gathered together as she growled, saliva dripping from her mouth. I found her refusal to back down as surprising as it was scary because her wolf was smaller than mine and she was looking up at me.Still, she was ready to fight.I stepped back, not wanting to provoke her. I had been angry in the beginning, but I only wanted to scare her off. Ho

HIM AGAIN

Aurelia.It was more or less my fault that I was alone in school that morning.Talia had already gone by the time I left the house for school, and I was glad that she had. Maybe it was because of my limited memories, but I could not remember her ever being so driven towards anger before.The words she said haunted me too:“While we were fighting, I wanted to kill you. I thought of it and I wanted to do it. I am the reason you are alive, and I could as well be the one you die if I think that you only want to cause me problems.”They were harsh and unfeeling—two traits that just did not fit Talia's persona and who I thought she was. I knew that I had driven her towards such an edge, and I did not want to see her because I did not want to see that anger in her eyes again, and remember her wanting to kill me.So I was thankful that we did not meet.The only other friend I knew, that I could have asked for company, had suddenly disappeared. I might have been worried, but he was online when

UNBOTHERED

Aurelia's POV He returned to the pitch, and I decided to watch him.As it turned out, he was super impressive, at least to me, and I decided it was so because of how fast he moved, and how commanding he was. I swore that he was pointing out what to do to his teammates, and each time they followed it, they would come close to or actually score their goal. I already had a clue that he was the Captain, as the ‘C’ indicated. If he had simply stuck to what he was doing, then he might have been a superb captain. Yet, he was just as unstable and irritable as he was when he was close to me, which was just as off-putting for his teammates.Sometimes, some made mistakes. Others did not hear the instructions that he gave. Other times, the referee gave decisions that went against them, and his response to each was an obvious, undiluted fit of rage.I wondered how his teammates put up with such behaviour.They were training by playing small games in sets that lasted ten minutes, and the team he

FIXING THINGS

Aurelia's POV Two junior students passing with flyers distracted me from him. They held a bunch of paper in their hands and handed one to Kai, who beamed at them and took the one they handed him before coming to me. It only took them recognising who I was to scurry away and run off. I looked at their retreating backs and tried hard to hold back the tears in my eyes as they panted, eyeing me suspiciously before giving one more sheet to the next person. “Is someone going to tell me what the hell is going on or am I to remain in the darkness,” Kai spat, and when I turned, he was staring at me with a piercing look in his eye that made me turn away as soon as I saw it. There was silence for a minute between us, and I stood up to run off but he was quicker and grabbed my hand so that I was back looking straight into his face. I tried to pull my hand away, but he was incredibly strong, far stronger than I could have anticipated, and I was trapped with him. “What are you hiding?” He

SIX

Aurelia.“Haven't seen you both in a while,” he noted, stuffing his mouth with his meal. “Especially you, Aurelia. I haven't seen you since you marched off.”I did not think it was funny, because it felt as though he was teasing me. Even worse for me was that only Talia seemed to be finding the funny side of things, and she was laughing loud and reaching to touch him.“You know where to find us,” she told him when she finally stopped.“Eh. But I've been busy myself. At the hockey training, and there's the one about the Wolf Competitions. It was why I saw you both sitting here and decided to say hi. I'm so busy at the moment I don't know when I'll get to see you next. You gotta take your chances as they come, right?”“Right,”Talia breathed. And their conversation kicked off from there. I looked around me, suddenly aware of the stares again, while Talia and Kai laughed at each other, unbothered by it, and I would say it was only because they were not the centre of everyone's attention

THE BULLIES

Aurelia. I was taken aback by the size of Kai's wolf when I turned and saw him. His teeth were bare, and his black fur with white patches here and there covered a wolf body that was almost twice of mine, and I felt somewhat disappointed that they had not run off because of me, but him. Only the junior student remained now, still shivering. Kai changed back into his human form and walked to the student, who also changed, his eyes panicky as he knelt on the floor. I watched Kai squat and then pat him on the head, smiling at him. “Don't worry, lad. They won't hurt you anymore. They'll know they have me to contend with.” The boy burst into tears, while Kai pulled him and held him close, looking down at him solemnly. They remained like this for minutes, until the boy stood up, dusted his clothes, and said he wanted to go home. “Go on then,” Kai assured him. “They won't dare from now on.” The boy nodded, wiped his tears, and then ran off, while Kai got to his feet. I was proud of hi

THE BULLIED

Aurelia.Everything was silent around us but for the chirping birds when we pulled apart from each other and started to stroll deeper into the bushes.I sniffed, while Kai reached to hold my hand. I gave it to him too, without hesitating, and we were soon both walking hand-in-hand, saying nothing and savouring the air as the sun set in the sky above us.“You don't look like you were bullied as a child,” I told Kai.“What does someone who has been bullied look like?”I could not say I liked the turn that the conversation was taking towards sensitive, volatile matters. “I can't remember much of my childhood,” I admitted, but I thought that if you were bullied, you would be sort of timid and far less confident. I thought they would be sort of reclusive.”“I was.” He answered.“Did they hurt you that much?”“Far more than you think.”I squeezed his hand tighter, and he chuckled to himself for it and squeezed mine back as we walked on, listening to the bush sounds.“I would like to hear ab

REASON AGAINST EMOTION

Aurelia.I exhaled on his behalf.“The actual truth of why you think that I do not care, is that I do not give in to my emotions, and walk away at anything that brings me close to expressing them. Emotions of any sort have only brought me trouble.”I opened my mouth, while he, who was still standing, looked down at me and shrugged.“Fear. Fear was the first emotion I felt, and it put me in trouble by being such a powerless wolf cub. I would only make such silly wishes as waiting to be all grown up so I could change into my wolf form and fight. That kept me in trouble because it only gave people the chance to bully me.”“And what else? What other emotion?” I asked.“Anger,” he answered, without waiting. “I got expelled from that school.”“You couldn't have hit them that hard—”“I deformed them.”Those three words were dropped so coldly that it took me some time to absorb the shock, and he seemed to know that I needed it from him too.He did not speak for some time.“I was so angry that

TRUTHS

Aurelia.He only gave me a puzzled look.I was not so sure that I wanted to admit it to him, to share this feeling that in my head was a grid of a billion squares, but only tens of them were coloured and alive. The rest were black and blank, showing nothing.“What can't you remember?” He asked.“Everything.”“I don't think I can understand you.”I heaved a deep sigh and then went to sit next to him, burying my head in my hands. “Maybe we're telling ourselves the hidden truths about each other, so it's only fair that I tell you about mine, is it not?”“You were bullied in your childhood too?”“I can't remember.”“What are you talking about?”It was my turn to stand up now, because I did not know how to tell him even though I so dearly wanted to. I had listened to him while he spoke and understood every word he meant, and I wanted him to understand me this time. I knew he would understand, and I would feel better.“Have you noticed that everyone keeps looking at me?” I began.“I should

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