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Disclaimer- Again, I do not own blood and chocolate or any of the original characters. However; Shay, Ebony and Thorne are mine.
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By the time we arrived in the small town it was nearly dark. As we drove through the center of the town I looked for any sign of life, which didn't appear to exist. I already new I would hate it here; I was too used to living in a big town with plenty of things to occupy me. At least the surrounding woods seemed as big as the ones I was used to, maybe even bigger. If it wasn't for that I would probably have jumped out of the moving car and made a run for it.
"The area looks good, honey. There seems to be a lot of space for us to run." My dad said, trying to be positive about the move. I could tell he was trying really hard to get my approval so I decided to humour him.
"Yeah, the woods look promising." I said, although my lack of enthusiasm may have given away my false pretence.
I looked over to the seat beside me. Ebony was looking out the window taking in every detail. She seemed so excited to be here, somewhere new. A little too excited I thought, but I bit my tongue for once. I was feeling a little anxious about arriving. We were heading straight to a clearing that was joined to the inn that the pack was refurbishing. The whole pack would be there to greet us; just the thought alone was daunting.
"How large is the pack?" I asked, surprised that I hadn't thought to ask this before.
"Not too large. It is growing in numbers though. They are hoping for more Weres of your age, that's why they were so eager for us to join them."
"Yes, that and the fact that their males need mates." I had merely stated the truth but my father seemed angry at my words.
"We are not going to talk about this now." He said sternly, but I took it to mean that we weren't going to talk about it ever.
Our argument was cut short by Ebony exclaiming, "We're here!"
I looked out the window and saw a big wooden inn. I had to admit, it looked beautiful, a bit warn down but beautiful. The clearing was a little way behind it, as my dad had informed me earlier in the car. We started to walk down a beaten path that looked like it hadn't been used very often in the last couple of years.
I caught the scent of our kind and felt a nervous flitter in my gut. I wondered which horny moron was going to seek me out as a mate. 'Let him try', I thought. I was contemplating what would be worse, a bunch of strangers fighting over me as a mate or a bunch of strangers not looking twice at me, when I suddenly caught my first glimpse of the clearing. There were a fair few Weres in the clearing, none of them had changed yet. They were all standing around talking to one another. They heard us coming and each set of eyes turned to look at us. We stopped just inside the clearing as a big, broad guy began to approach us. I assumed he was the pack leader, Gabriel. The rumours about his looks were true.
"I am the pack leader Gabriel and this is Vivian" He said gesturing towards the good looking girl beside him. I noticed Ebony give her the once over, apparently Vivian had noticed too because she gave Ebony an angry glare.
My father nodded to him and said, "I am Thorne and this is my daughter Shay and her friend Ebony."
Ebony and I both nodded to him. I glanced around the clearing once again. All eyes were on us but I could feel someone looking at us more intently than the others. I looked over to see a group of four males of my age, all staring at me and Ebony with heat in their eyes. One of them smiled coyly at me, but the rest just continued to look me up and down. I had been told before that I was attractive, although I didn't see anything exceptional about my appearance. I had long, dark, thick brown hair and pale skin. I was only 5'4 in my human form but I was much larger than a lot of females in my wolf form. One thing I will admit is that my eyes are beautiful, a beautiful, piercing blue. I looked away from the four hormonally driven pups and concentrated on what Gabriel was saying.
"There are no hunters around the area so we are safe to run without fear of being shot at. The boundaries of course are the roads and the town, never go close to them in wolf form. We will run tonight to welcome you into our pack." Gabriel then turned to face the rest of the pack. He took off his shirt and pants and I could see the change begin to take place in him. Vivian was next to change and then everyone around the clearing turned into their wolf form. Finally my father, Ebony and I began to change.
As I removed my top layer of clothes I felt the eyes of the group of males from before once again watching me with intense interest. Sure enough, when I glanced over at them all four sets of eyes were on me. I turned my head away, deciding to ignore them. I felt the change prickle my skin and finally let it consume me. Gabriel let out a thunderous howl which was closely followed by Vivian's somewhat more feminine howl. The pack began to run out of the clearing and into the dense woods.
While I was running I kept a close eye on who was beside me. Ebony kept by my side like a golden retriever, never letting me out of her sight. Maybe she was scared that I would try to run away back home again. There were others running along side us too though. I new it was the four from before without even looking at them. They ran with us all night, which just fueled my anger. I wanted to lose them and I knew I could have but I was scared of losing Ebony in the process. So instead I had to endure the scent of their raging hormones all night. When I could finally sense the sun beginning to rise we turned to head back to the clearing. I was relieved that I would soon be rid of these pests.
After returning to human form Gabriel showed us to our house. It wasn't huge but it big enough. All of the pack's houses were near each other and some of them were even on the same properties. Lucky me, ours was adjoined to the same property as three of the four pups from tonight. I knew this was no coincidence but I was too tired to get into an argument with my father right then. Instead I climbed upstairs, chose a room and collapsed on the bed into a deep, much needed sleep.
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She looked at me and smiled, as If to let me know everything would be alright. But I knew it wouldn't be alright. She couldn't just disappear and then everything would go back to normal. It doesn't work like that. She started to walk away. She didn't look back. She was gone.
I woke up with a shock. I new what I had been dreaming about but I wished I didn't remember. It's not something I like to think about. I was falling back to sleep when my door swung open.
"Are you still not up yet?" Ebony yelled as she came bounding into my room.
"Humph" was all I could manage to get out. I had no idea what time it was but I knew it was too early.
"We don't want to be late for our first day of school" Ebony teased me. She was doing this on purpose; she knew I was wholly against starting at a new school.
I rolled over and popped my head out from under my doona. Ebony was already dressed in the school uniform. I still couldn't believe I had to wear that ridiculous thing. I watched as Ebony ran out of my room and downstairs. I then turned my attention to the clock beside me: 7:30am. I groaned as I rolled out of bed.
We walked to school through the woods, which actually put me into a slightly better mood. As we reached the road I could see groups of people walking to school. It was easy to tell who the popular kids were and who were not.
"Look carefully, we have to decide who to be friends with" Ebony said as if it were a life or death decision.
"You are not honestly expecting me to be friends with these people are you? They're human!" I said, pointing out the obvious. It was never a good idea to get too close to humans, mainly because they are so fragile.
"Of course we're going to be friends with them. We need to blend in! Although, maybe we could just blend with them," she said, turning to face the way we had just come.
I looked behind us and saw the four pups from last night. They were heading towards us with sly looks on there faces. One of them ran up to me and put his arm around my waste, pulling me along with him.
"Get off of me" I said, pulling his arm away from me.
"Awww, don't be like that. I'm just being friendly." He said, sticking out an exceptionally long tongue and wiggling it up and down. The others howled with laughter, and I'm ashamed to say that Ebony was looking amused too.
"Forget it Gregory, she doesn't like you. She likes me." said one of the other boys, blowing kisses at me.
"Like hell she does, Fin" Said Gregory, growling at Fin.
I noticed one of the other boys looking at me with a slight smile on his lips. He was the same one who had smiled at me last night. I glared at him and began to walk faster, towards school. Behind me I heard Gregory say, "Well, she certainly doesn't like you Willem". They all began to laugh and I was glad when I finally made it into the school gate.
"Wow Shay, you've got them fighting over you already." Ebony laughed.
"They're just a bunch of pups." I said, annoyed because I knew I wasn't going to get rid of them easily.
"They are not pups! I think they're gorgeous." Ebony was still laughing at me in amusement as she walked off to first period chem.
I looked at my time table and saw that I had literature in room 18. I walked off to find it, hoping that I wouldn't be in the same class as any of the pups.