**ADDIE'S POV**
I told them that I didn't want to have something big done for my birthday. And yet, here I was getting ready for the event that they had planned for it. I had spent the last couple of days talking to Nolan and Briar about when I was going to become a werewolf, and that made me forget that I also had this whole birthday party coming.
I didn't mind my family throwing me a party. I knew that a party with them was just going to be the family and nothing else. Tonight though, there were likely going to be dozens of people that I didn't know, maybe even hundreds. And I would be expected to act like they were all my friends and that I was happy to see them. It was going to be a nightmare.