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I started my long journey back home. I
thought about the night of the party. I couldn't quite remember it.
My memories go up until we land on the bed and then I can't
remember. It was quite frustrating- my first time and I don't even
remember it!

I was walking along the pavement when I
heard voices. They were coming from the woods. I was going to
ignore it when I heard a scream. My bag dropped to the ground and I
was running into the woods. My mind was telling me not to go,
warning me.

I couldn't stop
though.
What if someone was hurt? I
couldn't leave them.

I stop just outside of a clearing. I
immediately duck behind a tree and slap myself mentally for my
stupidity.

The scream wasn't even a scream- more
of a squeal.

From a rabbit.

I must have been so engrossed in my
thoughts that I didn't differentiate the two before I acted upon
it. Four very big -muscular- guys stood in the clearing. They were
all tall, very fit. They wore shorts with no shirt- didn't they
realize how effing cold it was out here? I stared unbelievingly at
the other thing in the clearing.

It wasn't even doing anything but
snacking on the now dead rabbit in its jaws. A wolf! The big brown
furry animal laid on its belly and listened as the four men
talked.

I decided to listen in too.

I didn't recognize any of them. A guy
with short brown hair spoke up after a quiet pause. "Alpha needs to
say something to his mate." The rest nodded.

"Yeah. He needs to do it before she
figures it out and overreacts. She may call the authorities and we
don't need to be dealing with those types of affairs at this
moment." One of the shorter of the four said with a grim
expression.

"Especially with the threat of war from
one of the rogue alphas." I don't know which said that but he had a
nasally voice, kind but had a hint of deadliness attached to it.
The biggest of them all spoke up, he scared me the most. Not
because of how be he was but because of the strange looking tattoo
on his back. I couldn't see what it was from my point of view. They
all were older looking men and this one had graying short
hair.

"She smells odd to me."

"Who?" Brown hair spoke up.

"Our future Luna. I don't know why
exactly but she smells...different."

"I noticed it too, when I was around
her house doing rounds. Her room smelt different than if I was to
go up to her..." nasally voice said to the group before running a
hand through his short hair.

"Well we better get back, the alpha may
sense we've been gone too long." The one who hadn't said anything
told the group before turning to the woods behind him.

I wondered what he was going to do when
they all started to shimmer. My eyebrows scrunched
together.

Suddenly, huge wolves replaced their
spots that they were just standing. It was all done in a matter of
5 seconds.

They all were way bigger than regular
wolves, huge even. Their head could easily tower over me. My eyes
widen and my mouth opened. They were quite beautiful I must say.
Their coat was a mix of all different colors of the forest. They
could easily blend into the night around them.

They took off and I watched, amazed, as
they hopped, zagged, and ran through the forest until I could no
longer see them.

I then turned and ran back to the
pavement. I grabbed my bag and pinched my arm. It wasn't a dream.
Werewolves existed. I had seen them with my own eyes.

All I could think
was,
what the hell just
happened?

Chapter 7: Elaina's
POV

I started my walk home, my eyes wide in
disbelief. Werewolves are real. My mind couldn't seem to wrap
around that fact very well. I stumble and look around, expecting
the big bad wolf to automatically know that I know about werewolves
and come and eat me.

Thinking about that, I hear a twig snap
near a bush close to me, I start to sprint.

I finally see my house and I jerk open
the door, run as fast as possible into the house and up the stairs,
to fling open my own door. My bag goes flying somewhere and I burry
myself under my covers. My head burrows itself into my pillow. In a
moment of insanity, I scream for about five minutes-dragging the
moment out.

No one hears me because of the pillow,
thankfully. I then realize that nobody but me may be
home.

Oh, crap! Did I lock the
door? What if I didn't? Can wolves open doors-wait! Werewolves can
change to humans!
I gasp as a thought hits
me.
THEY CAN OPEN THE FRONT
DOOR!

I bolt upright in bed, staring at my
door. I strain to hear anything coming from behind it, hearing
nothing. My feet slip out the side and I carefully stand on my
tippy toes. Tip-toeing to the door, I crack it open. I keep up with
my silent walk to the stairs.

I start my trip down, wincing at the
slight creak of the seventh step. I finally get all the way down
and I run across the open space of a doorway, scared to see some
type of monster lurking in the dark there. I make it to the door to
see that, thankfully, the door was locked. I don't remember locking
it but maybe I did.

I turn back to go upstairs and feel as
if the stairs just got farther away. I run up the steps as fast as
I can, thinking that a beast would jump out and pull me back down.
This whole situation has me jumpy and scared.

I shake my head, falling back onto my
bed. I try and get rid of all thoughts the past week and decide on
trying to get ahead in my sleep- if possible.

______________________
Next
Morning

I wake up alone meaning that Shane
hadn't jumped into the bed with me while I was sleeping. I had a
few wolf dreams but they didn't turn into humans. I was just glad
that they weren't nightmares.

I got ready in some skinny jeans and a
t-shirt, hidden by my hoodie.

I was in my third period, half the day
pretty much over, when it happened. This was one of two classes
that I didn't have Rane in. He actually wasn't here today
anyway.

The students were just sitting there,
having a free day in class. I was texting Layla because,
unfortunately, we didn't have this class together.

I raise my hand, suddenly feeling the
need to pee. After getting a pass, I walk out. I go into the girl's
locker room that they use for gym because they have the closest
bathroom.

I'm just about finished when the school
calls for an indoor lockdown. I know that I can't get back to the
classroom before the doors close, so I turn back to the bathroom.
I've heard what they say to do in these emergencies so I go into a
stall and stand on one of the toilet seats.

I didn't expect for anyone to come in
here to check the bathrooms yet I hear multiple footsteps stop
right outside the door. I hear the creak the old door gave
alongside a person saying, "In here." The voice is high and
girly.

The footsteps all pad along inside. At
first, I think that they are seeking refuge inside the stalls like
I did, until I hear what they start saying.

"The plan has begun, we will start the
next step when the monitor outside leaves." I hear a snicker right
after whoever is talking finishes.

"Yeah, we will finally be
rid of Elaina Harper..." Their voices get lower and I almost curse
aloud. I strain to hear what they are saying but they are
whispering. I look through the slit in the door. There were four
girls all standing in a circle. A brunette seems to be the head of
it. A blond, a red head, and another brunette stand in the circle
with her. They all have their heads near each other. Their clothes
scream 's
luts!'
and
their attitudes scream '
bitches!'.
Altogether they look like the girls that I would
stay away from. I only get bits and pieces of what they are
saying.

"Mate... I will be... She has no
right... Rane... He's mine..." Some of the sentences are more
spoken in growls, to where I barely recognize what they are saying.
They talk for a couple seconds when I hear something that I
dread.

"Do you smell that?"
Oh, shit! What if they're werewolves?
I shake my head to get rid of the thoughts. Just
because I saw people turn into wolves that one time, doesn't make
everyone a werewolf too.

A low growl erupts from the
leader and she looks around the room, her long curls swinging from
the action. "It's
her."
I realize they are talking about me and if they can
smell
me, they are most
likely werewolves. Crap, just my luck... "Find her and bring her to
me."

When they start to disperse in looking
for me, my heart starts to beat really fast. The red head gets
close to my hiding place when the blond saves the day-at least for
me.

"Guys, we need to start or Alpha will
be mad." The other girls glower at her but nod in agreement. The
smallest one, with the short brown hair a shade darker than the
leader's, squealed.

"Yay, lets lock her in here
and burn the fucking place up!"
Hot damn!
The girl looks so sweet yet she seems to be the most
violent.
They all have mischievous and
deadly smiles upon their face at the prospect of me burning. I
shiver.

My body starts to shake when I see them
all leave. I'm tempted to try and run but I knew that they would
catch me and I would be given an even worse death. I didn't want to
die to these damn bitches anyway. I almost giggle at the
coincidence. Bitches are actually female dogs and I just called
female werewolves bitches. All in all, they were technically
bitches.

I hear the click of the lock and all is
quiet. I slip out of the stall and run to the door. I jiggle it yet
it doesn't open. These girls want to actually burn me. I try and
stay calm at the idea of burning to death. I obviously don't want
to die all alone in here. I mean, I wanted a kid first!

I pace around and look everywhere for a
door or something to get out of the locker rooms. I decide to go
back and check the door in case they were only kidding and unlocked
the door. Just before grabbing the door handle, I smell smoke. I
automatically think of a fire.

My thoughts are confirmed when my hand
touches the metal handle. I scream as the hot surface connects with
my cold skin.

The flames lick up the sides of the
door and I only have one thought.

I am stuck inside here with
nowhere to go and I will die of this fire.

Chapter 8

My desperation to get out of here is
almost touchable around me. I couldn't just die! I couldn't leave
Shane to the crazy ass person we call mother. No way in
hell!

I want to fall in love, get married,
have kids, jump off a bridge or two, and be that soccer mom who
bakes cookies and- I stop my ranting and try to concentrate on
staying alive. I can't freak out now, it would definitely mean my
death.

I spin around and look at all of the
lockers. It's getting hotter and hotter by the second and my skin
feels like it's on fire already. Smoke rises in dark tendrils to
the ceiling. I cough and stumble around the room.

The air seems to get thicker and I
choke on it. The air is thick and my vision hazy. I can barely see
five feet in front of me.

My knees finally give out and I start
to crawl. My panting breaths are low and raspy. I can't get a
breath in.

My eyelids droop and I fall right onto
the floor. My face is pressed against the colder floor.

I hear a loud
bang!
come from behind me.
I think it was the roof and I would be buried underneath the
rubble. That no one will save me or dig my body up. That I was too
much of a nobody to be cared for.

Just as my eyelids were about to close,
I see two booted feet in front of my face. Even though I barely
feel it, two hands pick me up. I see the ground get farther and
farther away. I can't hear anything. Everything is on mute, like I
pressed a button and it all got turned off.

My eyelids close but just before they
do, I see two clear and beautiful blue eyes.

_________________________

I feel my eyelids crack open, my head
protesting as light suddenly hits my tender pupils. I feel my eyes
dilate. I ignore my body's protesting as I flip onto my back. It
takes nearly forever and I groan.

When I look around, I notice
that everything in here is white. I automatically know that I am in
a hospital room. I think back to the reason why and am gifted with
the memory of all of the events of last night. I can go as far back
as to the two blue eyes. I already know who they belong to but I
can't believe he went in to a fire-a burning raging fire!- to
save
me
. The
nobody, the person who just happens to be Layla's best
friend.

Rane, the popular handsome
guy that every girl wants, saved
me.