A Girl Adopted by Wolves
Chapter 7- Amara

The week went by pretty quickly and it was already Friday. This pastweek was a very interesting one. Elena made small conversations withme, which went quiet good I must say. We are somewhat on a talkingterms now and I can actually call us casual friends. She invited me andAaron to her lunch table yesterday. All of us including her, her friends,Aaron and I got along pretty well. I am at the diner working my shiftright now. School ended few hours ago. The diner is almost packed,today being Friday. The town people come here with their family tohave dinner sometimes on Fridays and the weekends.

The bell chimed signalling that someone came and sat on one of thetables assigned to me as others were already occupied. I finishedserving the family I was currently attending to and started walkingtowards the customer that just arrived. Their backs were towards me. Itwas a man and a girl. I stopped beside their table and took my notepadout without looking at their faces. I put my best smile and looked upfrom the notepad and asked them,

"Good evening. I am Amara and I will be serving you today. What can Iget you?" The smile slowly slipped off of my face.

Holly shit. I stood there in shock. They were father and Elena. Fatherlooked up from the menu and he was shocked as well but he recoveredfrom it quickly and a stony look settled on his face.

"I would like a Hamburger and a cappuccino.” he said in a hard voice.

I wrote it down, turned my attention towards Elena and asked her whatshe would like. She said,

"A medium rare stake and hot chocolate.”

I gave her a smile and wrote it down.

"Your order will be here in fifteen minutes.”

"You work here Amy?" Elena asked.

No shit Sherlock. I am serving you, aren't 1? But we were finally gettingon good terms and I don't want to ruin that. So I answered nicely."Yeah. Except for Sundays."

"But why do you need to work anyway?" she asked confused.

Well don't you know anything about me lady? Or you are beingoblivious on purpose?

"Well I need to feed myself and pay the rent and I don't have anyone todo that for me. So I got to take care of myself.” The words came out ofmy mouth quiet harshly and I saw Elena wince. “Living alone in thisworld is not that easy you know. Some people are so cruel that theycan't stand people being happy and they do anything they can to ruintheir lives.” I said quite pointedly and they knew who I was talkingabout. “Everyone does not have rainbows and unicorns for a life. Iwould like to get going so you can get your food real quick. I will beback with your order." I finished giving them a tight lipped smile.Father was sitting their stiff throughout our conversation. He lookeduncomfortable. Well you had that coming. Not my fault. Elena flinchedat what I said. But girl you should know better before asking somethinglike that. I mean you know what I have been through. You were a partof it sometime back. I know I lied a bit about living alone to try to makethem feel guilty, but still she started it. Anyways, after fifteen minutes Itook their order to them and placed the contents of the tray on theirtable. I gave them the best fake smile I can muster and turned aroundto attend to another customer.

After 45 minutes they were done. They paid their bill at the counter andleft. Elena gave me a small wave and I returned her gesture and thenresumed my work. After my shift was over, I started walking home. Thisis getting really tiring. My feet will disintegrate someday by all thewalking I do. After reaching home, I took a quick shower and curled upon my bed thinking about the events of this week. I already ate at thecafe, so no need for cooking dinner. I didn't even get much time withpapa and Ryder or for my homework which is piled in heaps. Why dothe teachers give homework in the first week of school?

My family got smaller in size. It is just me, Ryder and papa now.Everyone merged with their humans already in merely a time period ofone week. First Raven then Tyler and others followed suit. It's becausethe vampires moved back here. Papa said I will meet the shifters soon. Iam looking forward to seeing them. I miss my family already.

They live in the southern part of the town near the Greycoast beach.This town got its name from there. I heard the beach is always gloomydue to the weather that is why the name and there is a cliff too. I willask Aaron to take me there someday. I don't want to walk all the waythere. I know I am sounding like a brat but, I just can't. Walking toschool and work is more than enough. I said good night in the mindlink and heard two replies. I love them so much. A smile formed on mylips as I closed my eyes and went to the dreamland.