Life Without Love

Chapter 1

By: Ashley Williams

"Then I leapt for his throat. The look on that leech's face was priceless!" Lind laughs. "That thing is just a pile of ash now, Right?" Tawny asked my younger brother.

"Course!" he exclaimed mocking fake hurt. Lind then flipped his shaggy black hair from his eyes. I leaned back against the tree behind me and watched as Tawn and Lind tussled. I could hear Remus, Romulus, and Maria laughing as the slipped into the meadow. Michael was collecting firewood somewhere.

"Hey, Harley! Dinner's ready!" Michael yelled up to me. I hopped down from my tree limb flipping and landing on my feet. My dark brown hair following. Michael's sky blue eyes rolled as I strutted past him. I think I heard him mutter something like 'show off' but I'm not sure.

"Hey sis! You would never guess what I did today! I was running the perimeter and I got the most horrid sickly sweet stench. I decided to follow it. I walked for about 20 miles following the trail and there she was! A full blown Vamp! I-"

" You went without notifying me?" I cut him off.

"Well...yeah…. But, sis-"He started again just to be cut off once more.

"Lind Lewis Lupa, You know the rules. We either hunt as a Pack or we don't hunt at all. You are almost 90 years old Lind. I shouldn't have to remind you of these things. You are on probation."

"But Harley I was protecting the people. If I didn't act soon there probably been a major killing spree."

"Lind, that isn't the point you disobeyed my rules. I am the Alpha of this pack and it's going to stay that way until one of those damned leeches kills me. Is that understood?" I ask authority dripping from my voice.

"Yes sister." He said with his teeth clenched.

"Now go eat." I said nudging him in that direction. His 6'1 stature towering over my 5'4 one. He started to smile slightly. He wrapped his long skinny arm around my shoulder and we walked to the fire together. We joked around talking about anything and everything. I looked at the variety of people. My mind slowly starts to drift. It drifted from the fire over 110 years worth of time. I was only 24 years old and an only child. My dad was still the Alpha of our massive pack. There used to be over forty of us. Then The Coven came.

Michael shook me out of my daydream looking quite worried.

"What?" I asked suddenly back in the real world.

"I asked if we were going to stay the night here. Are you ok?" He said very slowly. "Oh I'm fine. Just tired that's all. But, um, yeah were staying the night here. Set up camp you guys!"I reply getting my wits back. I go and grab my small quilt out of the tree and lay it on the ground next to the fire. I curl up on it and stare up at the stars. I glance at my friends and slowly drift off to sleep.

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"It is time my darling." The mysterious man across the meadow whispered...

So….watch do you think? Is the pack to Mary Sue? Review Please!