Sweet Little Mate

Vanessa Holt Paranormal

Do you know that little voice in your head? Lila has that voice, but it's like someone else suddenly takes up space inside her mind. That little voice isn't so little in Lila's case. Lila has always wanted to escape her life, and now that chance is coming sooner than she ever expected, but what is she escaping or falling into? Lila's world gets turned upside down when she discovers she is a wolf shifter. To top it off, everything she thought she knew about her mother is brought into question, and her father, the only family she has, suddenly betrays her in the worst way possible.
“Lila!” My dad screamed at me from the kitchen. I hurried out of my room to see what he needed. I only had a few minutes left before I needed to start walking to the bus stop.
“Yeah, Dad.”
“Lila, do we have aspirin? My head is killing me.”
I walked to the cabinet where the aspirin is always in and grabbed the bottles, dumping two pills in my hand, then grabbing a cup and filling it at the sink. I handed them both to my dad.
“Thanks.” He grumbled.
I left the house and started making my way to the bus stop. That one thing about living somewhere so rural the bus doesn’t come to your house I need to walk a mile just to get to the bus stop to get to school. Thankfully, it's my senior year.
“Does he ever wake up without a hangover?” Lately, my thoughts have taken on their own personality. It’s weird that I always had just my line of thoughts, but recently, it’s like a separate person is in my mind. Maybe I’ve spent too much time reading that I started thinking in a separate inner dialog, or maybe it’s because I feel so alone sometimes that this way of thinking helps me feel like I’m not going through my life entirely alone. Either way, I know it's weird, but it’s also comforting.
“Well, if he doesn’t wake up hungover, he’s either still drunk or sober and angry,” I respond to myself. It started to feel strange talking to myself, so I named my inner dialog. I know, I know, I sound crazy. I call her Nova. My thoughts just kind of named themselves. One day, I said out loud What should I call you and my thoughts answered me with Nova.
Seriously, I know it sounds weird. I had just woken up one day, and it was like a separate person was living in my mind with me. I honestly don’t know how else to explain it. Maybe I’m losing my mind. I was worried at first, but if I am losing it, I’m kind of okay with it because since Nova joined me, I have felt less alone, and life doesn’t feel quite as hard with her with me. I looked up what Nova means, and it means new. It's also a term for bright stars that suddenly appear, releasing powerful energy.
“Your dad is going to drink his life away. I don’t know how he holds down a job.” Nova says with a frustrated huff.
“It’s his life, Nova. If he wants to wash it away with a bottle, that’s his choice. I accepted this long ago, and you need to do the same.”

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