Unexpected Love
Chapter One

I lay there with tears rolling down my cheeks; sobbing. Pain still coming from the area between my legs. That stranger's cum was deep inside me, but some of it was dripping out. He was long gone by now. I curled up in a ball, crying into my tail as I lay there, crying. I didn't even know that wolf... He'd just forced me into it... It was simple as that. He got on my back and gripped my hips. I tried getting away, but he'd had my neck in his jaws. He would've killed me if I tried to escape or scream for help... So I just stood there... and let him have his way with me...

And this was the aftermath... Me, curled up in a ball. Tears, falling from my emerald eyes, down my cheeks, and staining my snow white fur. I had to get home... tell my parents. But I wasn't about to go back there just yet... I wanted to let out all my tears so I wouldn't get stopped along the way and have to explain the smell to everyone. So I just stayed where I was and cried into my fluffy tail, sobbing. "Why... why me...?"

I heard slight paw-steps nearby, along with the sound of rustling grass from the wind flowing through the grass. I ignored it, hoping not to be found with that wolf's cum seeping from me. "Lilly?" a female's voice called toward me. I lifted my head up at the mention of my mother's name. Even though it wasn't really my name, I still answered to it because I looked just like her... Except for my eyes. I looked toward the voice. It was a wolf I'd never seen before. She had black fur, the complete opposite from my pure white. Her eyes a deep blue. I didn't know her... Never even seen her in Jasper before. So how did she know my mother? "Are you okay, Lilly?"

"I'm not Lilly..." I turned my head back to my tail and continued with the sobbing.

I heard the girl's paw-steps coming toward me. I pushed my head deeper into my tail, trying to ignore her. But she wasn't going to leave. "I'm sorry... You just look so much like her..."

"She's my mother," I told her, not pulling away from my tail. The tears in my emerald eyes continued to slide from my eyes and down my cheeks to add more tears to the already stained area in my fur.

I felt her paw on my back, and it surprised me. Especially when she gently started to caress my back. "What's wrong?"

My body shuddered as I kept sobbing. "Don't act like you can't smell it... I know you can."

"You... you mated with someone... didn't you?" she asked me.

I looked at her. "Yes... Not intentionally though..."

She looked surprised. I guess it was a surprising statement though... Especially since this sort of thing almost never happened... "Th-they... forced you?" I nodded with sadness. "Who was it?" she asked. "I'll tell your parents and perhaps they might exile them from the pack."

"Wouldn't matter if you did or not..." I told the stranger. I sat up and looked at her. "He said he was just passing through... a lone wolf."

I heard a light growl escape her muzzle. And a bit of anger could be seen in her eyes... "Lone wolves... Think they can just do whatever they want... Fucking hate them..."

"Please... don't use that language..."

She looked at me, probably a bit surprised that I even cared about that sort of language considering what sort of situation I was in... "Oh... Sorry, miss..."

The girl was pressing for my name... And since she seemed nice... I told her. "Sara."

She made a warm smile. A friendly one that I was glad to see after the traumatizing experience. All I could do was jump toward her and hug her. I didn't know why... I just did. I really needed a hug. I could tell it surprised her because she just sat there. But after a second, her right paw went around me and patted my back. "It's okay, Sara..." Her paw patting on my back was really comforting. This was exactly what I needed... A warm, comforting if it was from someone I didn't know. "I'm Stephanie, by the way... But you can just call me Steph if you'd like."

I pulled away from the hug and gave her a small smile. "Can... you walk me home, Steph? I need someone with me to help explain this to my parents..."

She nodded. "Of course. I'm not about to leave you alone..."

"Th-thank you..."

Stephanie just kept her warm smile on her muzzle. I was glad she did... I really needed to see a smile... It made me feel better. Sort of forget what had happened just an hour ago... "Lead the way, Sara."

I nodded and started my way home; trying not to fall. There was a sort of pain coming from my vulva. It made my legs weak... but I could still manage to walk. So I led the way, with Stephanie following at my side. "Are... you new to this pack, Steph? I haven't seen you around here before..."

"Mhmm... Been here for two days."

So that's how she knew my mother... Stephanie had to talk with her and my father to be allowed to join the pack. Guess I hadn't been there when she arrived. "How do you like the pack so far...?"

"Well, as long as lone wolves don't come through here too much, I'll like it here..."

"Mm... No," I said. "The one from today that... had me... was the first that I know of to have come through here..."

Her comforting smile was gone now... "I don't care what's going through those minds of theirs... They shouldn't do something like that to innocent wolves like us..."

Us... That sort of made me think... Had this same thing happened to her? I thought it best not to ask... If I should know about it, she would probably say something. Plus... I didn't want to think about something like this... Not while the events of my experience were still fresh in my mind. The tears were still flowing from my eyes... but the sobbing had stopped. It was long before I realized that I was getting strange stares. And I could even hear some wolves muttering, "Smells like she's mated..."

I just ignored those statements. Stephanie and I reached my den after about ten minutes of walking in silence. My parents were sitting outside the den... sort of glaring at me as Stephanie and I walked up to them. "Mom... dad..."

My mom put up her paw to stop me. "Sara... What's this we hear about you mating with someone?"

"Mom, I didn't—"

"Don't even deny it, Sara," my father told me. His emerald eyes and the tone of his voice both filled with anger. "We can smell the scent on you. You've mated. What have we told you?"

"To wait until I'm married to do it... I know, but you don't—"

"That's right, Sara," Mom said. "You were supposed to wait until marriage to—"

"Lilly, Garth," Stephanie immediately stepped in, seeing that I wasn't brave enough to interrupt my parents. Mom and Dad both looked at her, looking her over and probably thinking she had something to do with it. "Sorry. Didn't mean to interrupt, but you don't understand what's happened."

"And you do?" Dad asked her.

Stephanie nodded. "Yes. Can't you see the tears in her eyes? She's obviously upset about what's happened to her." Mom and Dad both looked back to me. And I took a guess and thought that they hadn't seen my tears before now. I wiped the tears away from my eyes after I knew they saw them. My parents looked back to Stephanie when she continued. "She didn't want to mate with that lone wolf. He—"

"A lone wolf?" my mother asked.

"Yes," Stephanie said. "He forced her to do it. I found her when she was crying beyond the tree-line."

Mom immediately looked back to me and I could see that tears were stinging her lavender-colored eyes. She stepped up to me and hugged me tightly. "My poor baby!"

My dad's voice came, but I couldn't see him because my mother was blocking my view now. But her hug made me not care about anything I could and couldn't see. "We're sorry, Sara... We didn't..."

"I know, Dad... You didn't know... Someone clearly misinformed you..."

"Are you alright, sweet-heart?" Mom asked me, looking me over for any injuries.

"I'm fine Mom... He didn't hurt me... Not on the outside, anyways... I'd rather not talk about it..." I walked past her and went inside. Laying down, I watched as my mother and father turned back to talk with Stephanie. I could just barely hear the conversation.

"You said you found her?" Dad asked her.

"Yes," Stephanie answered. "I was at the river trying to catch some fish when I heard her sobbing. That, along with the smell of mating, caught my attention an I figured something was wrong. So I tracked her down and found her lying there... crying. I just knew I had to help her."

I bet my mother smiled at this. I couldn't see it if she did, but I still hear her voice. "You did right, Steph. Thank you for bringing her home."

"No problem," Stephanie replied. "I'm sure anyone else would've done the same thing."

She looked behind her as if she'd heard something. Though I sure didn't. Of course, I was an Omega. I wasn't really trained to pay good attention when it came to hearing distant noises. Stephanie was probably a Beta or an Alpha. Trained for long-range hearing to make tracking prey much easier. She turned back to my parents and said, "I must get going... My parents are expecting me home soon."

"Of course," Lilly said. "We won't keep you if you need to get back then."

She smiled and looked inside the den at me. "Would you like to hang out tomorrow, Sara?"

My parents both looked back at me and smiled. They could tell that Stephanie was a new friend of mine now. And with what's happened to me today... I was pretty sure they wouldn't deny me some time with a new friend. They knew it would comfort me. And so did I. So, I lifted my head and nodded. "Sure. I'll meet you at the river?"

"All right," Stephanie answered with a nod. "See you there." She looked back at my parents. "It was nice seeing you two again."

"And you as well, Steph," Garth responded. "You're a good wolf."

All she could do was smile at this. There was a moment of silence as my parents stood in front of her at the den's entrance. An awkward silence. Hadn't she said she needed to get home? She laughed a bit. "Awkward silence..." My parents both chuckled and I couldn't help but let out a giggle. "I guess I'll just go then," Stephanie said.

"All right. See you later," Mom told her.

"And don't forget the Alphas go hunting early in the morning. You said earlier than you're used to?" Dad reminded her.

So she was an Alpha... Just as I suspected. "Oh yes," Stephanie said. "I forgot about that. Don't worry; I'll be there. I'll have my parents wake me up until I'm used to it the time change. They're early-risers anyways."

Time change? What did she mean by that? I'll ask her tomorrow... When we're "hanging out" as she put it. My family just called it spending time with friends. My uncle Humphrey called it hanging out as well, which I really didn't quite understand. It's not like you did any hanging... Right? "I'll see you after the hunt tomorrow, Sara."

Lifting my head, I sort of jumped a little when I realized that Stephanie had walked inside the den and was now standing in front of me. I'd lost my concentration, so I hadn't noticed her come in. I smiled, feeling a bit dumb that I'd been frightened by a wolf such as herself... Though... it was surprising how quiet she had been about approaching me. She made an excellent Alpha after all...

I responded to her statement. "Right. I'll see you then."

Then she did something I didn't expect... She kissed my forehead. It didn't bother me. My mother and father always did that. But Stephanie... I'd only known her about fifteen minutes and she was already kissing my forehead? She wasn't very shy, was she? "Have a good night, love."

Love? Did she really just...

Before I could say anything about that, she left. Running for her den. I looked at my parents, confused. "Did she just... call me 'love'?"

"Yes," Dad said, coming inside the den and laying at my side, making me feel protected. It didn't bother me. Not today at least, considering what had happened.

I asked him and Mom, "She knows I'm a girl right?"

"Yes," Mom answered with a slight giggle as she also laid next to me. I was now laying down between both of my parents. They were so caring for me... Probably because I was the only child they had. "She's just from a different part of the country, Sara. It doesn't mean what you think it does. Where's she's from, everyone calls their family and friends 'love'."

"Oh..." I felt a bit stupid now. Of course that's what it was... I mean... She couldn't actually have feelings for me... I was a girl, and she was a girl. That was just wrong... I sort of giggled at myself for taking it the wrong way. "Okay then. I'll just have to keep that thought in my head so I don't think it wrong again."

My parents both chuckled at what I'd said before laying their heads down. I laid my head down as well... I really needed the sleep. It might help me forget about what had happened earlier... Though it was still light outside, me and my parents usually went to sleep early. Partly because my parents were still trying to recover from having to wake up early, since they'd spent all Winter getting up early to train the Alphas. Alpha school had ended just a week ago. And tomorrow would be the first real hunt for the Alphas after a week's rest from the training.

So I was guessing that Stephanie had finished her Alpha training before her and her family moved here. Stephanie... there was something about her. Something different from other wolves in the pack. From everyone else... But I couldn't figure out what it was...

With these thoughts flowing through my head... and with my eyes already closed... my head fell to the side as I fell asleep.