Note : I’ve started editing this story into third person’s pov. I hope you guys understand. I also know that there are many plot holes and grammar mistakes. I’m working on fixing that
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*ring ring*
Waking up to the sound of the annoying ringing of her phone, which was threatening to ruin her blissful sleep wasn’t an ideal way to start a new day. Groaning in her sleep, she tries to reach for her phone and when she got a hold of it, she press the answer button blindly and she hears the person on the other side talking like a car that was travelling at 100km per hour.
Her sleep induced mind couldn’t comprehend their rushed and excited words. She was tempted to just cut the call since she was already dozing off. Half conscious, it takes her a good few seconds to understand two things, that :-
1) The caller is her best friend of 4 years.
2) She is screaming.
She looks at the alarm clock, that she keeps on her nightstand, and her eyes widen incredulously when she see’s what time it was.
“Jesus Christ woman! Why are you screaming? It is four freaking am in the morning.” Serenity ask Courtney, her best friend, with disbelief lacing her tone.
They have known each other ever since we were fourteen. Courtney being the Beta’s daughter and Serenity, being the adopted daughter of the Gamma’s, their fathers were all close friends along with the Alpha’s Family.
“I need you to come back” she answered.
“What? Why??” Serenity couldn’t understand why Courtney would ask her such a thing after what happened. Courtney knew why Serenity left in the first place. She was the one who helped her to leave.
“Well, first, because I’m getting married and secondly, you’re the maid of honor, sweetie. So of course I need you to come back and everyone here misses you so bad.
Honestly, it’s been what? Like three years now? I think it’s about time you come back home, I miss my best friend.” She whispers the last part. Sadness laces her voice making Serenity feel guilty.
inhaling in a deep breath, Knowing that leaving the pack hurt not only herself, but Courtney and rest of her family. It would’ve hurt more, if she had stayed and watched her own downfall take place in front of her two eyes. She clear her throat, trying to push away the guilt and the sudden pang she felt forming in her chest away.
“I don’t know Court, it’s been too long and I don’t think I can handle-” she’s cut off by Courtney.
“You know damn well that you’re one of the strongest she-wolf I’ve ever seen in my life Serenity. You could just ignore him and you can also bring Matthew with you.” She could picture Courtney wiggling her perfectly arched eyebrows suggestively at her while speaking the last part.
Honestly speaking, Serenity didn’t know what she would’ve done if Courtney hadn’t come into her life. Courtney knew when Serenity started doubting herself and took it upon herself to remind Serenity that worth so much more that she thought.
She release a sigh in defeat and says “Okay”.
Regretting saying yes instantly when she hears Courtney squealing and scream on the other line, she pulls the phone away from her ears before Courtney decides to scream like a banshee again.
That girl had too much energy that too this early in the morning.
“Oh God, I hope I don’t burst my ear drums”, Serenity thinks to myself.
Her wandering thoughts are cut-off by Courtney saying “Well it’s fixed then. You should be here by Wednesday and the wedding is in two weeks. We have a lot of preparations left to do and you better not be late.” She threatens.
She gulp hearing the warning in her words. Courtney might look like an angel, but she’s a little firecracker. No wonder why her brother was whipped.
“Okay, I’ll be there bridezilla.” She mock Courtney.
She hears voices in the background. Someone was talking and Courtney saying “Okay. I’ve got to go. Bye. Love you”.
“I love you too Court.” she’s met with the beeping sound, reminding her that Courtney had hung up. It seems like she’s already busy with the preparations.
Serenity sighs. It’s been a long time since last she had spoken to Courtney and her family back home. Talking to them brings back memories of him and what she would’ve had. It’s useless thinking about it now.
Serenity had been there to see it all and endure the pain of seeing her mate getting married to her other best friend. she was angry and sad for the most part, but she couldn’t blame Emily. She was oblivious to the fact that he was Serenity’s mate and since she is a human, she will never have a mate of her own.
The worst feeling was when she had to give up on her mate even though she didn’t want to but she had to.
She left soon after they announced their wedding. she could not handle the pain of seeing them both together. She had not been in touch with the pack ever since, and it’s been three years since then.
Emily Christy was a human among their pack of werewolves. She was found abandoned in a small basket near the pack border by some patrol guards twenty years ago while they were on patrol.
The Alpha and Luna, being the kind people that they were, took her in instantly. They made her a member of the pack, not caring that she was a human and Serenity respected them for rescuing her instead of abandoning her like most would do.
It was uncommon to find humans among werewolves, since the are super naturals and like their peace.
Humans in between them meant trouble for the most part. You never know who would snitch about their existence.
Emily, Courtney and Serenity have been best friends since they were fourteen and the were all inseparable ever since. Emily was loved by everyone and was what you call ‘A Social Butterfly’. She was in a relationship with Damien Blackwood, which made her even more popular among the pack members. Damien was the future Alpha of Midnight Moon Pack and Serenity’s long time crush.
Although Serenity had a huge crush on Damien, cue word “had’, at least that’s what she liked to tell herself, but she knows she was lying to herself and if she happen to see him again… all those bottled up feelings are ought to come out once again, all those feelings she tried to bury deep down inside of her would stir back up.
She had never acted upon her feelings for him because he was their future Alpha and plus, he was scary and intimidating and it’s against girl code to steal your best friend’s boyfriend.
‘Even if he turns out to be your mate’ Serenity’s wolf, Selene speaks up, causing her to scoff at her own line of thoughts.
Serenity was sure that someone like Damien would never even notice someone like her, a female with boring chocolate-brown hair and hazel brown eyes, when he has someone like Emily. She had golden blonde hair and blue eyes and of course she was his girlfriend.
Serenity was self-conscious of herself back then and used to hide herself in baggy clothes because they made her feel comfortable.
She had grown out of her shyness since then.
She didn’t want to ruin their perfect relationship. She had admired their relationship for a while too, even envied it.
Damien was cruel and cold most of the time. while Emily was an angel. They were polar opposites. Maybe that was the reason they got together in the first place. As the saying goes ‘opposites attract’.
Like some cliché story where the good girl changes the bad boy.
She pushes all the past memories away and smiles when her thoughts trail to a certain dirty blond-haired male.
She suddenly realizes that today is Monday and Courtney expects her to be there by Wednesday, she groans and realizes she had to call Matthew and let him know.
Dialing Matthew’s number, he picks up on the third ring.
“Hey Sera, what’s up?”… she doesn’t answer him right away, which makes him realize his mistake causing him to huff dramatically. “Okay I won’t call you that anymore, Serenity”.
‘He’s so sassy for a guy’ Selene, her wolf thinks.
He takes notice of her heavy breathing and her silence, making him alert and ask her in a voice of concern.
“Serenity? Are you Okay? What happ-?” she cuts him off by saying “We have to go back home.” She say it all in one go so she wouldn’t have to repeat herself.
“Why? Did anything happen with your family? Are they okay? Is it because of him?” He asks her causing her to draw in a deep breath and tell him how Courtney was getting married and that being the maid of honor, she would have to be there by Wednesday.
“So will you come with me as my date?” She waits hesitantly for his reply. “Serenity” he says.
“Yes-ss” she stutters, and curses under her breath for feeling so nervouse all of a sudden. Her stuttering causes Matthew to chuckle at her adorableness. She waits for his answer, fearing that he would say no.
“I would love to, but would you be okay?” He asks while emphasizing the word love causing Serenity to smile at his words of concern.
“Yes, of course. I will have you by my side. Okay I got to go. This girl needs her beauty sleep.” She reply with a bye and they hang up.
Honestly, this is the third time in the past two years that she had felt herself feel this way. Feel vulnerable.
She realizes that this was going to be her first time going back home, and seeing her family and the whole pack after three whole years of no contact with them, also including him after his marriage with Emily.
She sighs as a rollercoaster of emotions surges through her. She felt excited for Courtney and anxious and scared for herself.
One thing that she definitely was that this was going to be one hell of a ride.
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*3 Years Ago*
I almost fall from my bed hearing the shrill sound of my alarm clock going off. I groan and stuff my face into my pillow and try to get a few more minutes of sleep, while reaching to turn off the alarm.
Right when I’m about to doze off again into my dream world, my bedroom door burst open and hear a voice shout. “Wakey! Wakey!” Really? What am I? Four years old?.
“Go away and get your annoying ass out of my room and let me sleep peacefully for another 5 minutes.” I say sleepily.
I hear silence for the next few moments, so I assume she really listened to my request. Huh? That’s a first. My surprise is short lived when someone jumps and lands on my back. I groan in pain.
“No way! You are going to wake up right now or else I’m going to pour cold water all over you like last time.” Courtney replies.
I can practically see the smirk on her face, while she says this. Bitch. I think to myself.
My eyes widen when my brain registers her threat and I know she has no problem in carrying it out. I decide to wake up and escape her wrath by rolling over and I find myself lying on the edge of my bed. By my rolling over, Courtney fell off of my bed and landed on her ass with a loud thump and I burst out laughing.
“HA!” That’s what she gets for being so annoying in the morning. I stop laughing and see her glare at me and I sober up quickly “Okay. Okay.” I’m up. No need to go all cavewoman all over me… Sheesh!!” I say.
She huffs and replies. “You better”.
I swung my legs over the bed and stand up and enter the bathroom to freshen up.
Looking at myself in the mirror that is attached to my bathroom wall just above the sink, I see a girl with a round face, big brown hazel eyes and long chestnut brown hair.
My eyes move down towards my lower half of my body and I release a sigh. I have always been a little curvier than the other she-wolves in the pack. Some may consider me a bit chubby even. It’s as if my puberty is on a train that travels like 20 km per hour.
That fact alone makes me the subject to mockery of the jerks and bitches in the pack. This mockery happens only at times when I’m alone, because they know if the Gamma would come to know about the things they say to his daughter he’ll not spare them.
My mind then wanders to a different topic. The topic of ‘Mates’ makes me think about my mate. Will he accept me or reject me? Well I hope he doesn’t reject me.
Ever since I’ve learned about the concept of mates, I’ve been excited to meet mine. I have had no luck so far.
I’ve already turned eighteen and most of the young females like me have already found their mates. They usually find them when they’re seventeen, which didn’t give me much hope. There is also the fact that I’ve had no good experience with males in my previous pack.
Past memories flash behind my eyes, haunting me with all the torture and abuse that I have suffered.
I hope he will be from my pack.
Sometimes, I envy Courtney and how easily she found her mate. After all she is mated to Alexander, Alex for short.
He is my overprotective older brother. They found out they were mates on Courtney’s seventeenth birthday and are happy with each other. I’m happy for them.
I release a huge breath and I continue my morning routine, while Courtney sits on my bed and scrolls through her phone.
I dress myself in some black jeans, a mustard coloured top and my all-star converse shoes.
“So, why did you decide to grace me with your presence this fine morning?” I ask Courtney, while glancing at her through the mirror in front of me.
She lifts her face from her phone and scrunches up her face a little bit and replies “You don’t know?”.
“Don’t know what?” I ask her and wait for her to reply.
“Damien is coming back from Alpha training” she replies.
My eyes widen and I turn towards her fully.
“What!” I shout. My best friend rolls her eyes and mumbles something along the lines of ‘dramatic much’, which makes me narrow my eyes at her.
She replies after a few moments in a voice filled with sarcasm.
“Damien Blackwood, as in our future alpha, is coming back from alpha training to take up his position as the Alpha of our pack and the pack has decided to throw him a surprise welcome party.”
“Oh.” I realize how stupid I might have sounded. Of course, Damien is going to be our Alpha.
Damien Blackwood, was the future Alpha of the Midnight Moon Pack. It is located in the rainy forests of Beacon Hills, which is situated in the center of California. He was eighteen when he had left for the training that is meant for Alpha’s and Beta’s all over the world.
He was also someone who I had a huge crush on. The only person who knew about my little crush on Damien was my best friend Courtney.
I never choose to do anything about my crush. After all, he is dating Emily Christy, my human best friend. Emily, Courtney and I have been best friends since we were fourteen. Emily is a year older than us making her nineteen.
I used to be jealous and get angry seeing them together. They were always happy and smiling like a married couple. I brushed it off as a stupid crush. Thinking my feelings would subdue over the year, but it never did.
In time, I got used to them being together and that help in reassuring myself that nothing is going to happen between the good old boring me and Damien.
I often wondered how someone like Damien got in a relationship with Emily… Like they were polar opposites… If she is sugar, he is salt… If she is lemonade, he is Vodka. Okay. Okay. I know that was a bad example but you get the drift?!
Damien was the silent, brooding type of guy. He was ridiculously good looking. I assume he’s over 6 foot 3 inch tall. He was huge for starters. He was like a sin waiting to be committed.
His eyes are something you wouldn’t notice. He had alluring grey eyes with a black ring in the center. The grey in his eyes bleed to black from anger, just like the shade when the sky is before the storm.
His chocolate brown hair, which he preferred to be slicked back, gave him a sexy look. It’s not that he is not sexy already.
He had a hulking frame packed with muscles. He had tattoo’s covering almost all parts of his body, his neck, legs and his body, don’t get me started on his body it is as if he was personally sculpted by the god himself. Each and every muscle in his body is defined and ripped… My thoughts make me blush.
I remember that each and every girl in the pack used to drool at the sight of him and would do things like hiking up their skirts or unbuttoning the top buttons of their shirt to flash him their cleavage, just hoping to grab his attention so that they could try to flirt with him. He never paid any heed to them.
Most females in the pack had a crush on him, but he stayed away from them or growled in warning when someone tried to make a move. Well, there were also the shy one’s who use to admire his beauty from afar a. k. a me, no surprise there really.
I guess the only one who was able to catch his eyes was Emily.
“Well, what are you waiting for then? Let’s go. He is going to be her at 11 am.” Courtney says. I look at the alarm clock and realize that there is only fifteen minutes left before he is to arrive and reply “Okay. Let’s go.”
I drag Courtney with me downstairs and upon reaching the last step, I realize that almost all of the pack members are running around to prepare for his arrival and they seem excited.
‘Well, aren’t I too oblivious to my surroundings’ I think sarcastically to myself.
My thoughts are cut off by Emily, who is rushing towards me and Courtney with a smile on her face.
“Oh. Hey guys! Where were you? I didn’t see you two earlier.” Emily asks us.
“Well, somebody decide to sleep like a baby this morning.” Courtney replies while glancing at me sideways. This makes me scowl and Emily’s smile widens.
“Oh, well that’s okay and I think he is going-” Emily starts to say but is cut-off by a fellow pack member shouting.
“The future Alpha has arrived” and my heart skips a beat.
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