21 Pilots blasts into my ears from my headphones while I get jostled every now and then, when the car hits a bump. I'm Clary, and right now we a currently on are way to the town of Branwell. The only people who know about it are the people in it. That's how little it is. Basically my own personal hell.

I was fine where I was in the New York. But no my new step father, Valentine wanted to move. He said it was to loud and there were to many people, but that's why I loved it. And my mother just jumped on board with his idea, despite my protests. She didn't care about what I said anymore. It was about Valentine now and I was nonexistent.

We've been driving for two days with barely any bathroom breaks, all because Valentine didn't want to make pit stops. It's dark right now since it's like two A.M. So here we are pulling up the crap-ily paved road to Branwell. I couldn't really see anything except for the outs lines of small stores and houses. That would be the only good thing about this. Living in a house instead of an apartment now I wouldn't be so crammed in with them.

But no house was big enough to get me far enough away from them. Finally we pull into the narrow driveway of a medium size house. We get out of the car and Valentine and Jocelyn go up to the door. He unlocks it the turns to me.

"Clarissa don't just stand there start moving the boxes" he barks out. I just role my eyes before going back to the car. I mean it's not like I wanted to see are new home as well, I think sarcastically.

But I go to the car and start grabbing the stuff. Of course Valentine didn't want to pay for a moving truck so we put the stuff in the car. But it's only so big so Valentine had to go back to New York tomorrow morning to get the rest. Just imagine I was stuffed in the car covered in boxes and bags for two days. It was awful.

I start caring the first box into the house. The lights were on so I could finally see. The floors were wooden, the wallpaper was a cream color. Right now I was in a short hallway straight ahead I could see the kitchen on the left was the living room and on the right was the dining room. There was also a bathroom and a closet near the kitchen. Next to the kitchen was a stair case that lead upstairs.

I put the large box down in the kitchen. I could hear Jocelyn and Valentine upstairs laughing. No doubt exploring their new home while I did all the work.

It took me more than an hour to bring everything into the house by myself. When I was done I grabbed my covers and pillow to make my bed. Upstairs there were five doors. There were three bedrooms and another closet and bathroom. I chose the bedroom farthest away from theirs.

I opened the door and the room was basically empty. It had a white dresser, a closet, and a bed frame with a crappie looking mattress on top. I made the bed and laid down. But I couldn't sleep. I wasn't tired since all I could do in the car was sleep and it was to quiet. So I layer awake on my crappie new mattress and stared at the ceiling. After what felt like forever the sun finally came up at six A.M and I decided to get up. It was quiet in the house. When I went down stairs there was a note on the counter. Went with Val back to New York be back in a few days -Mom

Well isn't that great. The plan was for Valentine to go back by himself so I wouldn't be left alone in this foreign town. But I guess she didn't care about leaving her sixteen year old daughter in a place she's never been to. Mother of the year. But I can't complain to much cause life still sucks when they are here anyway. I'm hungry and it's not like there food in the fridge.

I decide to grab the key to the house sitting on the counter and go out to get some food. I start walking around till I see a corner store. I decide to go inside to look for some junk food to eat.

o~O~o

Got that guy was an ass. He didn't even apologize for running into me I think as I exit the store. I have to admit he was about the hottest guy by far that I've seen here. Something about him made me feel funny not really sure what it was yet. He kept staring at me too, but then again everyone is. Literally everyone I pass keeps staring at me like I have antlers on my head. They must not get a lot of new comers here and I can see why.

I get back to the house and house back to my room. I start studying the map I bought. It's summer time so no school. But despite it being summer time it's chilly and humid. But in the mean time I need to find something to occupy myself with. I like drawing and photography. I liked drawing/painting and taking pictures of natural landscapes. And this town has nothing interesting in it. So I plan on going out of town and into the woods where maybe I can get something good to sketch or take photos of. So right now I'm planning out my route with sharpie on the map. The old woman from the store said the woods were dangerous because there were wild animals. But I'll be careful and I'm sure it will be fine. Plus this was opportunity to see some real scenery.

Jace

It's finally night fall when we set off for the hunt. Me and fourteen betas in including Alec and Izzy leave camp. We split up into three groups of five so we can cover more land. We all turn into are wolf form and sprint into the dark depths of the forest. The hunt was going fine my group had taken down a large buck when all of a sudden we heard someone from the pack give a distress howl.

My group abandoned the buck and sprinted towards the noise. I was the fastest so I got there first. The wolves were huddled around something. I pushed my way through there was a large hunting knife on the ground and it wreaked of the scent of a human. "Hunters" the pack growled out.

I knew they were correct. Humans a wolves who weren't in the pack weren't allowed on our territory. But most humans don't know about werewolves so they don't know about territory lines. Every now and then humans come hunting and they step into our territory. We don't want humans to know about our existence and we can't have them on our land hunting the food we need to survive.

So usually we scare them off they tell their friends and they stay out of this part of the forest for a few years before another naïve idiot comes stumbling along. This knife is proof that a human was on our land and we didn't even notice.

I tell all the betas to go back to camp and tell the others. I also now have to bump up security to make sure we know about the next time they come back.

Two days later

Valentine and Jocelyn are back and god are they annoying. She keeps laughing at his dumb jokes. And they keep talking about how great the house is and how their life is going to be great here, all while ignoring my existence. I decide that I have to get out of here I can't spend another minute here with them.

I go upstairs and grab a small backpack. I put my sketch book inside, along with a few pencils, my camera, a chocolate bar, a water bottle, and the map. I leave the house without my "parents" giving me a second glance. I head to the road out of town. After a few minutes I reach the woods. I go in and start walking not really having a destination in mind. Try my best to walk straight so I don't get lost.

The birds are humming and the sunlight shines through the trees. I see a bright red bird and take out my camera to take a photo. I start taking photos of the trees as well. I get so caught up in taking in the scenery that I walked for almost an hour. I sit down to take a break and drink some water. Then I here a branch snap my head whips up to the noise. But I calm down when I see it's just a little boy.

"Gosh you scared me kid" I say

"I'm sorry" he says

"What's your name are you by yourself" I question

"I'm Max, and I'm with my sister" he says smiling

"Oh okay do you guys live in town" I ask

"No we live here where do you live" he says cheerfully how strange I think.

"I just moved into Branwell" this kids pretty adorable I wonder if he'll let me take a photo.

"Mind if I take a photo" I ask and he nods cheerfully. I lift up my camera and snap a photo. I look down at it to see if it's clear. Then thats when I notice in the background there's a giant black wolf staring directly into the camera. I look up slowly to see the large wolf still there staring directly at me with its bright blue eyes and I just freeze. Max catches my gaze and looks behind him. He turns around and looks at me and smiles "Oh that's just Izzy" the wolf then starts to growl at me and stalk towards me.

I scream louder than I knew possible before I take off running. I didn't even notice that I had left my bag. The only reason I still had my camera was because of the strap around my neck that it was attached to. I was sprinting away quickly not even sure if the wolf was s chasing me. I tripped and my camera fell from around my neck but I didn't even notice. I just got up and kept running I don't think I've ever been so scared in my life. Some how I made it out of the woods and I ran back into town back to the house.

I ran into the kitchen where my mom and Valentine were. "Honey your tracking mud into the house" she screeched.

"I...I" I stutter out

"You need to go clean that up this instance" she says

"But I..."

"No buts clean it up now" she say irritably.

"You heard you mother do it now" Valentine says. I just stand there shocked.

"Clarissa why do you have to be so stupid clean up the damn mud" he yells. Oh I just can't take it they can't give me five seconds of their day can they. Instead of cleaning up the dirt I just run upstairs to my room.

"Your grounded" Valentine yells at my retreating form.

I slam the door shut and lock it I then sink to the floor in front of the door in frustration.

God I hate them.