When I finally climbed into bed that night I read a book for a little while before I finally fell asleep.
When I woke up the following morning I dragged myself out of bed and I headed downstairs to get a coffee that I made myself, and I sat in the kitchen drinking it. Even when the breakfast staff came in to start cooking. They weren't used to seeing a member of the family there, but they were going to get used to the fact that I'm not like the others.
When breakfast was served I ate in silence while Sandra made small talk with dad and Leo, deliberately not talking to me which I was completely fine with. And as soon as I was finished eating, I got up and went back to my room.
I got changed into baggy torn jeans, a loose fitting t-shirt and a hoodie with sand shoes on.
I put all of the books in my bag and I headed downstairs and straight out the front door without saying goodbye to anyone.
I left the property and started walking towards the city.
I always left early because it was a long walk towards the city and I refused to catch the bus or go with Leo.
I enjoyed walking, no matter how much dad hated it.
As soon as I got to school, I was walking around the side of the building towards the entrance when someone grabbed me around the waist and held his hand over my mouth.
He dragged me behind the dumpsters and when he let go of me I saw that it was the same dickhead that pushed me into the lockers the day before.
“Do you want to get your ass kicked by a girl?” I growled. And then someone grabbed me from behind. But it wasn’t one, there were two of them. One had each arm while that guy was standing in front of me.
“Skylar is one of my best friends.” He said, walking closer to me. And I used his friends holding me as leverage and I threw the bottom half of my body up and I kicked him in the face.
He fell back and his two friends pulled me back and slammed me against the brick wall.
One of them punched me in the face while the other one punched me in the stomach.
“Back off a bit you two.” The other one said, with blood pouring down from his nose.
“Oh, come on Bruce. Let us have a little fun with her.” One of them grunted. But he growled at them. So they stood back, but they were still holding my arms and they made sure that their legs were in front of my legs so I couldn’t kick Bruce again.
Bruce stalked towards me and he wiped the blood from his face and then he got really close and he put his nose in the crook of my neck. Inhaling my scent.
I looked away from him because he revolted me and I fought to get my arms free.
“Hurry up Bruce. This bitch is strong.” One of his friends said, struggling to hold me against the wall.
So Bruce kneed me in the stomach and punched me in the face, over and over and over again.
I could feel the thick liquid falling from several different places on my face and he just kept punching me.
Pretty soon, the only thing holding me against that wall were his friends.
“Hey. What the fuck are you doing?” Another guy started yelling, pulling Bruce away from me.
“Giving this bitch what she deserves.” Bruce growled.
“I think she’s had enough.” He said.
“Come on guys. We’ll see you later sweetheart.” Bruce said to me as his friends let me go and I fell to the ground.
I managed to sit up and lean against the wall and when I looked up I saw the guy that helped me was still standing there. It was the same guy that was always hanging around with the bullies but he was always at the back, never saying or doing anything to me or laughing at any of their snide comments.
“Are you alright?” He asked, kneeling down beside me.
“Why the hell do you care? Aren’t you one of them?” I asked.
“Not like this.” He said handing me a tissue.
I started wiping the blood from my face, but it was pointless. There was too much blood and I just leaned back against the wall trying to catch my breath.
“Listen, Bruce and those guys, they love pranks but they don’t really mean to hurt anyone ever, if you get to know them you’ll see they are actually very nice, sometimes they go too far but not on purpose. Definitely never this far. They were actually pretty nice people once. I don’t really know what happened. And I don’t know why they are taking it out on you so much.”He said.
“Yes, you do.” I said.
“Well, I mean because you’re the Alpha’s daughter.”
“Is that why you’re being nice to me? Because I’m the Alpha’s fucking daughter?” I asked.
“No. Because I don’t like seeing them bully you.” He said.
“Whatever.” I said.
“I’m Wesley.” He said.
“Congratulations. Look, you’ve already done your good deed for the day. You can leave.” I said.
“I’m trying to be nice to you.”
“Yeah. And Sarah was apparently being nice to me yesterday. Look at how that turned out. Just leave me alone.” I said.
He looked at me with disappointment and a little sadness in his eyes, but he nodded and he got up and left me alone.
I didn’t need his pity and I didn’t want his pity.
I pulled my hood back over my head and I walked into school and straight to the bathroom where I could use water to wash off the blood from my face.
I stayed there for a little while when I finally managed to clear away all of the blood and I headed to my first class.
I sat at the same desk as yesterday and I kept my head down because of the bruises that were covering my face now and the small cuts all over it.
My phone then started buzzing, so I dug into my bag to grab it and I saw that I didn’t recognise the number.
UNKNOWN - I know what you are!
ME - Who is this?
UNKNOWN - You don’t need to know yet. I know who you are and they are going to find out as well. Everyone is going to find out.
ME - Who the fuck is this?
I glanced up at everyone to see if there was anyone staring at me or playing with their phones. And a lot of them had their phones out, but they didn’t look suspicious to me. Not like they were sending cryptic messages to me or anything like that. But I wouldn’t know for sure who was sending me these messages. They could be pretending that it’s not them. I wasn’t sure if it was too much of a coincidence or not and I made sure that I kept my eye on everyone that was around me. My mother had always taught me to watch my surroundings. I didn’t think I would have to do so much of it here. But I guess I needed to watch my back more than ever now. By lunch time that day I went to my locker and I put my books in it and then I headed out the front of the school. I definitely wasn’t going to the cafeteria and I wanted to go somewhere where I knew that I could be alone. And I sat at the table out the front of the school. But I wasn’t alone for long. “Ava.” Someone said from beside me.
I started looking around frantically and I heard something in the distance. Footsteps that were slowly approaching us. I got a glimpse of the gun in a man’s hand who was walking directly towards us and I started to panic. My first thought was to run off and save myself, but then I saw Wesley laying there unconscious and I knew that I couldn’t leave him. I managed to pick him up and get him onto my back very awkwardly and I started trying to run through the woods. It was harder than I thought it would be with Wesley on my back and I knew that I wouldn’t be able to make it back to our clothes and the car like this. So I decided that I needed to find somewhere to hide. I started running in different directions and even backtrailed a couple of times, running around in circles so that man couldn’t catch up with us. I came to a rock formation and I got Wesley up on the rocks while I covered my tracks and got back to the rocks without leaving tracks in the dirt. A trick that my moth
When I arrived at school the next day, I saw that everything was back to normal. Well, my kind of normal. Everyone was staring at me and whispering about me while they were covering their mouths and whispering to their friends so that I couldn’t hear them. I just rolled my eyes, thinking that maybe they had learnt their lesson about pissing me off, but I guess not. Or I guess they just had something else to talk about today. It seemed to be going around though. I saw Leo walking past with a few of his friends, who seemed to have grown in size overnight. He didn’t have that many friends yesterday. But he was showing them something on his phone and when he saw me he made sure that they hushed their voices. I knew that he was behind this. He was doing something to make everyone hate me again. And I wish I could say that I was surprised. But I’m really not. I did think that people were going to start leaving me alone though. So, I put my things in my locker and I walked off towards the ba
As soon as the teacher arrived Wesley let go of me and he winked at me before he walked off to his class and I made it to my desk. During the whole lesson I was sitting there with my hood up, not looking around, although I could feel people looking at me. But I was too preoccupied by Wesley and that kiss and how he just grabbed me like that. The feel of his warm breath on my face and how soft his lips were. How gentle he was, considering how big he was, I wouldn’t have thought that werewolves would be that gentle while kissing someone. It took my breath away and now I couldn’t think of anything but what happened. I didn’t really want my first kiss to be like that, but I can’t say that I’m really disappointed. I really liked it, but it wasn’t how I imagined my first kiss would go. I tried to get it out of my head and I looked up towards the teacher and he was rattling on with stuff that just sounded like a blur to me. I couldn’t make out anything that he was saying at the momen
I ran out the side gate of the house and I kept running until I was far enough away from the house that I knew they weren’t following me. But even then, I didn’t slow my pace. I kept running at a steady speed until I hit the highway and I was running along the highway. It was getting later in the afternoon and the chill in the air was getting more prominent. But I still had my big hoodie on and my boots. Plus I was running, so I wasn’t too concerned about the weather. The cold didn’t bother werewolves as much as it bothered humans. We had a hotter body temperature to them on any given day. So we were pretty fortunate like that. But when I decided that it was going to take me hours to get back to the cabin like this, I ran until I got to the woods. I got deep enough into the woods and I took my clothes off and I put my phone and wallet in my pocket and I shifted into my wolf. I then picked my clothes up in my mouth and I kept running through the woods. A lot faster than I would
When we got back to dad’s house I got Wesley to park the truck down the road, so no one saw him with me and I got out and started walking towards the house. But I heard his car door open and close as well. “Ava. Can we talk?” Wesley asked. “What about?” I asked, turning around to look at him. “About what happened today. I know that you’ve got a lot on your mind with your mother and everything. I just need to say what I have to say.” He said. “Alright.” I said. “I’m sorry about everything that I did today. I know that I shouldn’t have grabbed you like that, I shouldn’t have kissed you. I shouldn’t have done anything like that...” He explained, and I started looking down at my feet. “But I don’t regret it.” He added, and I quickly looked up at him. “You don’t?” I asked. “No. I wouldn’t have done it if I didn’t want to. I just know that I shouldn’t have done it in front of the entire class. And I’m sorry for that.” He said. “Why do you like me?” I asked. “Because I know
I was glad when school was over that day, Wesley met me at my locker and I saw Leo standing across the hall with his friends. I knew that he was pissed about all the attention that dad was giving me. He had been living with dad for a couple of years before I came into the picture and I know that he definitely thought that he was going to get the pack. I’m not even sure if Sandra and Leo knew about me before he brought me home. But dad was planning a coming out party to introduce me formally to his entire pack. It was going to be a huge affair and it was definitely not something that I was up for right now. I had way too much on my mind, but there was no getting out of it. Dad gave me his credit card this morning, something else that would have pissed Leo off, and he told me to buy whatever I wanted. Even if it wasn’t a party dress. Dad told me that I was still dressing like I was living in the woods, but that’s only because it’s comfortable to me. But then again, I wasn’t us
I stood in the street really awkwardly as this beautiful woman was looking me up and down, while still wearing my rags for clothes. She was shorter than me, but she showed off everything she had. It wasn’t much, but she made me feel insecure with the way I looked at the moment. She saw Wesley holding my hand and I saw a smirk appear across her face. “I thought you were going to call me. Why didn’t you?” “Because I told you that we were over. And I meant it.” Wesley said. “You always say that we’re over. But we always find a way to work it out.” Claire said, stepping closer to him. But he took a step back. “Claire. This is Ava.” Wesley said. “I don’t care.” Claire spat, looking at me. “Well, I do. We haven’t spoken in two months and now I’ve met someone else. So, you need to back off.” Wesley said. “You really can’t be serious. You’re choosing this thing over me?” Claire asked, looking me up and down again. “Don’t refer to her as a thing. But yes, I’m choosing her over y