Previously
So warily I made everyone hide in the living room and walked towards the door to find out who our intruder was. But as soon as I opened the door I realised what a stupid mistake it was for me to do that and I realised that from the start of the way the day is today then today is going to be one of the worst days of my life. I took in the face of the stranger as he stood there awkwardly on our doorstep and I couldn't help his name escaping my lips along with the sound of my shock.
"Sam?"
The man on the doorstep shifting even more awkwardly looking at everything but me, what the hell was he doing here? How did he even find out where we live? I made sure that it was impossible to find out where we live unless we told you ourselves. "Erm...yeah it's me" He answered, eventually; I could not believe he had the cheek to come here. Then as I looked past him I noticed that he had brought a car and parked it towards the end of our drive, also in that car there was the rest of the pack all looking just as nervous as Sam which was weird since they weren't the ones putting themselves in danger by sending the text and turning up at the door.
"What are you doing here?" I asked trying not to let my voice rise above a whisper so that the girls didn't know they were here, it could give them the wrong impression and that's the last thing I want to happen right now. But as I said earlier the odds really aren't in my favour today...so Spencer came up behind me about to ask something and then saw Sam at the door and I saw a huge smile spread across her face.
"Bella...? Why didn't you tell us they were here?" Spencer asked her voice portraying that she was hurt, thinking that I'd invite them round without telling her. But I would never do that and she must know that by now.
"He's just shown up I didn't know they were coming, go back in the living room please and tell the girls to get their stuff and make their way to the garage I'll be down in a minute" I asked her softly, pleading with her with my eyes but because she wouldn't let me dismiss her that easily as she tried to open her mouth to argue but before she could I used my alpha voice on her "Now." I commanded and she looked down, sulking into the living room and collecting the girls.
"So you're the alpha then" Sam said casually lifting his head and looking into my eyes. Then just as our eyes met I felt the whole meaning to the universe shift and suddenly the meaning to the universe was Sam. He is my world and that scared me more then it did make me happy. He'd imprinted on me and I'd imprinted on him he was now officially my soul mate and I'd never be able to move on from him or be with anyone else; great. I could see the happiness on his face but I wasn't happy about this at all.
I could decline the imprint but the only problem is that would inflict pain on both of us, but doesn't he deserve that seeing as what he did to us? No body deserves that pain but it's either that or I accept the imprint and have him as my enemy. But that really wouldn't work either.
"Yes. You and you're pack can go now" I said coldly, trying to mask the pain it gave me to hurt him, but sadly he noticed the pain on my face and that made him insist on staying more. I could hear my pack downstairs starting the cars for school and I realised that if I didn't drop it now and go into the garage we would be late for school. "Goodbye Sam" I added closing the door on his face trying to ignore the anger and hurt on his face by running down to the garage and jumping into my Mercedes.
Thankfully, Fiona had already thought of my school stuff, turning on the car and opening the garage door but then we all realised that they were still there and by the looks of things they weren't leaving school whether we did or not. "Put on your seatbelt Fi" I smiled softly as she looked at me with understanding. I guess Spencer had told them who was at the door but then again they're not stupid, they're far from it. I revved the engine and speeded out of the drive way leaving the rest of the pack behind and leaving the wolves too.
"Bella...? What happened?" Fiona asked as we found a parking space in the car park. She must have noticed my anger, either that or she's secretly psychic which is not common in shape shifters but very common in leeches. I got out of the car, locking the doors once she'd got out too and softly smiling at her trying to show her I was fine and nothing happened. But she saw through the act and looked at me disapprovingly "Just tell me, it can't be that bad" She sighed leaning against the door I was leaning against, obviously waiting for Hannah and Caomie like I was with Spencer, Anais and Elaina.
"I imprinted on Sam" I sighed, noticing the look on her face that showed she thought that wasn't bad at all and that she couldn't understand why I am so upset and angry about it. "I can't hate him now that I've imprinted on him, I can either decline the imprint or except it. Either way it hurts him and me" I ranted as the other girls pulled up giving me a look to say we know what happened and you are so explaining as soon as possible.
"It's not that bad, you could've imprinted on worse" Fiona laughed as she pointed at one of the pigs in the year below me who was sat picking stuff out of his belly button which is an image that will stay with me forever...sadly. "I told you" She added as she laughed at the look on my face as we all took in the scene in front of us.
"So miss alpha, to tutor?" Anais asked hooking one of her arms in mine and dragging me towards the school building. I had to laugh at how her and Elaina could easily convince anyone they were twins when really they were so far apart from being twins it is unreal.
"If we have too" I laughed to which she nodded her head sadly. But they were right I imprinted on one of the nicest guys in Forks, it wasn't his fault that he had to ditch us even if we needed them the most. They didn't choose to leave us so unexpectedly like that; I guess they've been trying to make it right for god knows how long now. But they haven't been able to because of me...I'm the one that's been stopping them from making it better, I'm the one that's been hurting my pack by keeping them away from their family. It wasn't the elders at all, it was me. "It was me, wasn't it?" I asked Anais, but weirdly enough she knew what I was on about.
"Sort of; in a weird way it was you. But we all knew you were trying to protect us from being hurt again and we all knew you were hurting more then you would admit. You're stubborn Bella, the elders hurt you and you secretly wanted to hurt them all by keeping us away. We all knew what you were going through so we accepted it instead of fighting against it. You needed this imprint to realise that's why we're all so happy for you" She smiled hugging me softly before we walked into our tutor room to see Sam sat right there smiling softly to himself. He obviously heard the tail end of the conversation which luckily for him happened to be the good bit.
"Thank you" I mouthed to her as we sat in our usual seats and the teacher came in lecturing us about how it's important in our final year to keep up on homework and finals etc. Luckily we don't need to worry about getting good grades as we have to stay in our reserve anyway.
But unfortunately I couldn't concentrate on anything even if I had to anyway, as Sam was sat right in front of me whilst this girl was flirting with him. Luckily, Sam being Sam hadn't realised that she was flirting with him and was laughing politely like the gentleman he is. Just watching him made me realise why I couldn't hate him, he was too lovable for me to hate him; he was too lovable for anyone to hate him even if you were set out to hate him because you're mortal enemies. Maybe, Sam and I, imprinting is the best thing to happen to our packs...we can finally speak to each other without their elders constantly nagging at us that we are mortal enemies not meant to speak at all. At least now they can't get in between a wolf and a lionesses imprint as it would cause us both too much pain to be apart from each other let alone to know that neither of us rejecting the imprint, that the only reason we weren't together was because they wouldn't let us. There would be a rebellion.
The thought of a rebellion made me giggle a little, to which I got a huge glare off of my teacher and then I got a questioning look off of Anais. So I got a bit of paper out of my pad and decided to explain it to her now whilst I can remember.
I just realised that the wolf elders can't stop our imprint otherwise it might start a huge wolf rebellion led by Sam and since he's Alpha he has more power over the elders. It would be quite amusing, don't you think? I scribbled down in my messy handwriting and quickly slid it under her timetable after our tutor gave them out; then I decided I might as well check my own timetable and from the look of it, it looked alright...I guess.
Zoning out, as always, I started to stare out of the window wishing I was out there running through the dark mysterious woods that were like a second home to me, but they were danger to a human. It was like they were calling my name, they were alluring me towards them and I just wanted to be there with my imprint. But I guess its more difficult then that.
Oh yeah, I never really thought about it that way. YAY FOR BELLA AND SAM IMPRINTING! Oh my god, we should have a congratulations on your imprint party! I read the note and again I got another glare off of the teacher. He gave me a look which said 'if I have to look at you one more time then you can't sit next to her now and I'll find out what you're doing'. Unfortunately, this is Anais we are talking about; she wants a party for EVERYTHING. I literally mean everything. Once we got our first pay check at our part time job and guess what? Yeah you guessed it she wanted a party. But this time I'm putting my foot down we couldn't really invite many people anyway so it wouldn't be the best party ever.
No. No parties this time. We don't have enough money for one and we also can't really explain what an imprint is to people and why it means so much that we're having a party because of it. I sent back and didn't miss the fact that she stuck her tongue out at me whilst miming what I said. She can be so pathetic at times...but I love her.
But please, I'll ask Sam and he'll say yes I bet you! We don't even have to tell people the reason for the party we can say it's a school party to celebrate being back with all our friends? I don't know I just want to PARTYY! Funnily, I could imagine her dancing around in her little crazy head of hers. All she wants to do is spend time with her friends...that are not the pack. She hasn't seen them all summer and she misses them; which is fair enough, since Anais is the biggest socialite out of all of us so if anything we cannot deny her, her friends and her string of flings.
How about a campfire instead? I'm really not in the mood for a party and whilst the campfire is going on we can get away and still do the patrols without questions being asked. But we'll have to tell the elders about the imprint first so that no questions are asked to why we are suddenly hanging out again against their orders. I give up, she wants to see her friends but we can't have a huge party at our house...she should know that by now we have too many books about the legends of our tribe and our past lionesses. If we are found out it has a different effect on us to the effect it has on the wolves...for us the person that helped the person find out about us (if they're not an imprint or another shape shifter or our parents) they loose their ability to shift. Whereas with the wolves they just have another person lying for them, so we could loose everything easily and I know Anais loves being free in the woods just as much as me.
THANK YOU, THANK YOU, THANK YOU! Was her only reply, but luckily the bell went so and we had separate classes on separate sides of the school so I didn't have to hear her yap on about the campfire and when its going to be etc. I was by myself and that is when I feel more comfortable. It may sound quite depressing but I enjoy being by myself more than I enjoy being surrounded by people, especially when I have so many thoughts running through my head that needs sorting out as soon as possible.
Karma is never with me though, as when I walked into government Paul was sat right there giving me a cheeky smirk and since Paul is the most intimidating person ever no one was sat by him. So that left me and him together, for the whole entire year...woop. It's harder for me to forgive Paul though; I was closest to him out of all of the wolf pack...he was my best friend and always had been. He had no reason whatsoever to just abandon me like that, all I'd ever done was stand by his side and help him but when I needed HIM the most he left easily and he knew what was happening to me.
Awkwardly, I sat by his side and got out my government book and notepad; fully planning on ignoring him the whole of the lesson but I guess he had different ideas as usual. He wasn't going to stop annoying me until I forgave him and I knew that already so luckily my hair was already down and my headphone was already in place so I started to play Good Charlotte loud enough for me to hear but not loud enough for everyone else in the room to hear.
IT'S A NEW DAY BUT IT ALL FEELS OLD. IT'S A GOOD LIFE, THAT'S WHAT I'M TOLD BUT EVERYTHING IT ALL JUST FEELS THE SAME. AT MY HIGH SCHOOL IT FELT MORE TO ME LIKE A JAILCELL... next thing I know I couldn't hear music at all and Paul was shaking. I knew I'd pissed him off but what could he expect me to do talk to him like he'd done nothing wrong? Surely he knew me better then that. Well at least I thought he did I guess years of friendship don't mean anything to him anymore.
"Not here. Do you want to get us exposed?" I whispered yelled at him only loud enough for him to here and too quick for humans to hear any way so I knew I wouldn't be caught unless I forgot we were in public which I am most likely to do since I can be so forgetful it's annoying.
"Oh now you care. Worried about me? Nope worried about the secret? Yeah just like everyone in your pack always being so damn selfish." He practically shouted at me but it was still too quick for humans to hear so it wouldn't really matter that much unless he got too angry and phased in front of all of them. The only thing I could really do then is act as scared as the rest of them but I would never betray Paul like that, I still care about his welfare much to his belief. It was then I noticed his shaking was getting worse. Shit. His anger really hasn't got better since he phased at all, why has Sam even let him go back to school? He's way too unstable for school just yet!
"I'm always worried about you Paul. How could I not? You were the only 'family' I had that didn't desert me." I spoke softly begging him with my eyes, knowing we really couldn't get caught right now as the teacher was looking at us weirdly. Then I thought back to how he was the only family I had that didn't desert me but even he did in the end. I still remember his pathetic excuse he said to stop seeing me...but I saw past it, I always see past it. He left me there in the woods sobbing, but if it wasn't for him I wouldn't have phased when I did. It's a shame that doesn't make everything better.
Zoning back into the real world I noticed I was shaking really badly and I had to get out of there I couldn't face it anymore I really needed to get away and be with the wild. Maybe I'll come back at lunch time so my pack knows I'm alright but I doubt I'll be alright by then. "Are you ok?" I heard Paul panic, he knew I was still not alright with all that happened in the woods that day and he knew it pissed me off hugely.
"Whatever. Sir, Can I please be excused?" I asked gathering my stuff together as quick as possible before storming out of the class, to my locker to put my bags in my locker and then straight out into the woods to phase and calm down. The feeling was immense, as it was just what I needed to do right now.
It was then I noticed the black wolf walking towards me with worried eyes that I knew all too well.
I'M SORRY IT'S SO LATE. I'LL UPDATE AGAIN TOMORROW TO SAY SORRY.
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