A/N: Here you are my beautiful munchkins. :) Hope you enjoy.
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I bit my lip and chewed on it, trying to think of what I wanted to say. I knew that there would be many things that they wouldn't understand, but I couldn't tell them. Not yet at least. I needed to know if I could trust them.
"Rylan," a voice said, causing me to look back there again. Addy smiled at me. "You don't have to tell us if you aren't ready."I shook my head no. "I'm not, but if I back down now, then it will be a constant thing." I leaned back in my seat and fiddled with my sleeves. "The first time that I remember the Witherbrook coming to the GreenRock Pack was when I turned twelve. Alpha Cameron had thought it would be a good idea for me to actually celebrate my birthday with people that might actually care about me."
"Wait, your pack doesn't care?" Luke asked.
I smiled grimly. "If I die today, I can say that only four people would miss me." I shook my head and chuckled darkly. "My mate wouldn't be one of them." That was a fact that I knew to be true.
I took a deep breath. "Alpha Cameron had told me that he had asked a neighboring pack to come and celebrate my birthday as well as the goodness of the pack. I was ecstatic." I chuckled coldly. "How daft was I. When you all were about to arrive, Cooper and his goons had cornered me and started to hit me. They said that I wasn't worthy of being called a member of the pack of what I had done." I blinked back the tears that so badly wanted to fall out of my eyes as I remembered them spitting on me. "After they had beaten me black and blue, Cooper had told me that I should know my place. He threw my beaten and battered body into the attic and there I stayed."
"Didn't anyone try to look for you?"
I nodded. "My brother did, but Cooper lied to him about not seeing me. He had tried searching for me, however, you all had arrived." I shrugged my shoulder. "My brother tried to escape, but Alpha Cameron had pulled him over and started a conversation with him as well as Alpha Carter."
"What were you doing?"
"Healing and crying," I replied. "They had beaten me black and blue, and I couldn't really move." I shuddered remembering how Cooper had actually broken a rib. Thankfully it didn't puncture a lung. "I had to set my bones back myself, and that wasn't fun."
"When did you finally escape?"
"Luna Clair had to get something from the attic, and she found me there. Thankfully, I was more than enough healed and just had a couple of bruised ribs and a black eye. She had asked me what I was doing up there, and I told her that I was trying to get what she had needed. However, the door was locked and I couldn't get back out."
"Did she ask about the bruising?"
"She did, but I just told her that it was under whatchamacallits and thingamajigs, so I had to go scavenging for it. She wanted a roll of sparkly duct tape that I had given her on one of her birthdays."
"But why didn't you go down afterwards?"
"My place was not with the pack. She asked me to go, but I just told her that I was feeling tired and went to my small room."
"The other times?" Perry asked. "Why didn't you go then?"
"I didn't want to get beaten so I just told Alpha Cameron that I didn't want to go. He figured that I would get beaten and was about to hurt his pack, but I couldn't let him hurt them. I made up a crazy schematic saying that I wasn't into parties or large social gatherings so it didn't matter anyways."
"And Alpha Cameron believed you?"
I shrugged. "He didn't, but he understood that I was protecting the pack. If someone had gotten hurt because of me, then I would probably never forgive myself. It's why no one has gotten punished for beating me up."
"Didn't your brother try something?"
"Oh he did. It ended with me ignoring him for a few weeks until he apologized to the person. We kept getting into fights over the issue, but I told him that there will be a time when they will need my help, and I won't." A smirk appeared on my face while we pulled into the school. "I will not help them until they show me a reason as to why I should help them."
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Getting out of the car, I was kind of surprised that the group seemed to make a shield around me. It was as if they were wanting to protect me from the people, probably knowing that I was still kind of nervous about being at the school.
Eyes seemed to follow us while we moved to the front office. People whispered, and I was sure that there were going to be a few new rumors about me.
'Relax,' Liam said through the pack link. 'You look like you are going to break your bag.'
I let out a breathless chuckle. 'You try having people stare at you,' I replied. 'Most of them are staring because I'm the new girl, and it looks like I'm in the "popular" crowd. You all haven't had a new memeber since...'
'Me,' one of the other wolves, in the group, said. 'Nathan is my name.'
'When did you join?' I was curious.
'Two years ago,' he replied. 'After me, no one really hung out with us until you came along.'
I nodded my head and went to get my schedule, because we had arrived at the front office. I couldn't help but chuckle when I saw that I had my classes with mostly people in the group. "Well, at least I'll know some people," I chirped, glad that I had friends. "And we all have lunch together."
"But you have my father for first block," Luke said. There was pity in his voice.
I shrugged and scowled. "Doesn't matter, we are going." I looked at the others. "I'll see the rest of you in other classes, and I think I'm sitting with you at lunch?
"They nodded their heads. "Good luck with Mr. Jacobs," Addy said. "You'll need it."
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"Class, we have a new student-" Mr. Jones began. He turned to look at the door to see that it was me. "Oh." He frowned at his son, causing him to growl.
I nudged Luke, silencing him. "Where do I sit, Mr. Jones?" I asked. "And would you like me to say anything?"
"Take a seat in the back, Miss Reece. We are drawing a picture of what happens during time. I'm sure that you know something that ages."
I nodded my head, an image of me looking in the mirror five months before the death of my parents and five months after. "Ya, I know of something," I said. I walked over and sat down in a seat close to Luke. 'I know you are trying to protect me, but no growling at your father. He wants to be an ass, let him. I really think that you have his all talk no bite attitude.'
Luke growled through the link. 'I would like you to say that when I beat your ass.'
I sent him a picture of me mentally rolling my eyes. 'I am not going to be putting your mate in danger. She felt the pain when I punched her in the stomach.' I went into my bag and pulled out my colored pencils. I knew what I was wanting to do but didn't really want to use anything except colored pencils.
Luke was quiet for a while. 'She felt it?' he asked.
I scoffed. 'How do you think you landed that fucking hit on my forehead?' I growled at him, while I started to draw. 'It was because I realized that I was hurting someone else because I was hurting you.' I pulled out a black marker and wrote the words: Valeo, quoniam infirmus sum on the top. It meant, 'I am strong for I was weak'.
'Is that why you stopped?'
'Yes.' I drew my oval face underneath the saying before starting the details of my eyes and lip. As I drew, I couldn't help but catch my breath. I could still feel the happiness as well as well as the pain that the had caused me. I sighed and glanced to see that he was drawing an apple. 'I am giving you two weeks to make it up to her and change before I tell her to accept the rejection.'
There was a loud snap, and I knew that he had broken the pencil. I could feel his glare on my back. 'And why do you think that she will listen to you?'
'She feels it every time you have sex with someone. I can tell you from experience, it fucking hurts. I have no idea how she had lived in the same house as you for how many years after you started to fuck women.' I didn't let him miss the growl. 'Think about this, do you want someone else to make her feel beautiful? Do you want someone to take what is supposed to be yours? Do you want someone's hands-'
'NO! SHE IS MINE!!!!' Luke yelled, getting up from his spot. I could feel his angered glare at me, and I couldn't help but smirk.
I looked up and met his eyes. A small smirk appeared on my lips, which caused him to growl murderously. 'After your run to cool off your Wolf, go to her. Proving yourself, that you can be the Beta of this pack, starts now. That is an order.
'Luke blinked, and I could see some of the anger seem to disappear as if he realized what I had done. He nodded his head before walking out of the classroom, ignoring his father who was calling him to go back in.
Mr. Jones looked at me. Hatred and anger filled his eyes. "What did you do?"
I stared at him, my face blank. "I gave him a wake-up call," I replied, getting back to work. "Yours will be soon."
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A/N: So, how did everyone like this chapter? Did ya'll like Luke's wakeup call? And what's this wake up call that Mr. Jones (Rodrick) will get? Think it has something to do with a picture that she is drawing?
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Thanks for reading,
Peace,
Rissa