Chapter 2

I wake up from a dreamless sleep, to someone shaking me. I quickly open my eyes afraid who it might be, lucky for me it is Adrian, but I still keep my guard up. Seeing that I am awake he backs up and towards the doors.

"Get up and get out. Zithanial will be here at 9am, I want you gone before too many people are up." Adrian says in a mono voice. As I nod my head he turns and walks out of the room, closing the door behind him. Well, that went better than I expected.

Adrian isn't a complete arsehole to use you know. My wolf decides to say.

Yeah and I am thankful, I know I could have got worse.

Jumping out of bed I quickly grab my towel, underwear, bra, black jeans and blue flannelette shirt. I quickly climb into the shower to refresh myself, I am in there only for enough time to clean everywhere and hurriedly shampoo and condition my hair. I have the temperature nice and hot to wake myself up more, I relish the feeling of the soothing water on my muscles before I have to get out.

I hazelly throw on my clothes and towel dry my hair as much as I can. As I do this I glance at the clock to find it is only 6:30am and I need to be out by seven. Luckily school starts at 8:00am, so I only have to find something to amuse myself with for an hour and a half.

I look into my bag checking that I have all the correct books for the day, because it is really frustrating when you don't have the right books, and you can't talk to the teacher to explain why. But then again I don't think the explanation 'I forgot' would be a goof one either.

I fast walk down the flight of stairs and head to the kitchen to grab a small box of coco pops. You know the small rectangle ones, bit bigger than an iPod, about 3-4cm tall? Yeah, well I grab I box for breakfast and a energy bar to go with it. I have money with me so I will pick something up on the way to school from the little cafe close to school for lunch.

"You really should be on a diet with all the extra weight fatty" Tiffany AKA the pack slut says.

I jump, not noticing that anyone else was in the kitchen. I wonder what she is doing up so early.

Judging by her smell and the bags under her eyes, I would say she just finished screwing Saxon.

A grimace at what my wolf says, and it doesn't go unnoticed by Tiffany. "What is that expression for you bitch, I was just trying to help our pack not have as much dead weight. Anyway, you didn't answer my question, why don't you go on a diet fatty?" Tiffany snared at me.

"Well you dumbo, you didn't ask me a question you said your opinion and two I like to eat" I said surprising Tiffany and myself.

Realising what I just said and that I even said anything, I bolting out of the kitchen, past the lounge room and out the door, trying to escape as fast as I could.

Oh no, oh no, oh no, oh no. What have I done! I just talked, I insulted someone in the pack. Given it was the slut, but still, even the slut has more respect than me. When I get back they are going to kill me. No doubt she would have already told Saxon, and he is probably gonna tell Zithanial when he gets there. I should just runaway right now, no one would miss me, no one would care.

But you are no a coward. States my wolf

Oh trust me I am.

You're not, the true you isn't. Remember when you were younger, YOU would be the more outgoing and adventurous, out of you and your brother.

But that was long ago, people change, I changed.

You will soon realise that you haven't, that you have only been hiding. One day soon you will see, and everything will be how it is meant to be.

What are you? A future teller now? What is with all the riddles?

Just wait.

'Just wait' until when.

....

Hello

...

What you have gone on me too. Great, now I am just talking to myself now.

You always were, we are one dummy.

Where did you go? What happened?

I am just gonna give you some me time.

I don't need me time!

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By the time I stop arguing with my wolf I have already make it to the little cafe near school. Walking in I am hit with the smell of coffee and baking bread. Yummy.

I walk up to the counter, already knowing what I want.

"Hello Amelia darling, how are you today?" A little old lady says from behind the counter. I smile warmly letting her know that I am fine.

Meet Gemma the most loving lady I have ever known, besides my mum. Gemma and her husband Peter own the cafe and are very happily married, and have been for 60 years. Gemma and Peter are like the grandparents I have never had, since they aren't werewolves they don't know about the pack stuff, but they do know that the other teenagers don't like me. I often come here if I need to get out of the pack house, which is often. Gemma gets me to help out in the back, with washing up and stuff like that and the best part is, is that she lets me cook.

I love cooking, it is my passion and one of the things I am best at. I can engulf myself in the food and create what I like. Gemma has taught me all I know in cooking, which is everything.

I smile a genuine smile, happy to see her and glad she is serving, I won't have to embarrass myself by writing it down for a stranger. Gemma already knows what I want, regular mocha with a chicken and salad sandwich. I place my money on the table, only to have it pushed back to me.

"Keep the money darling, save up." Gemma said smiling to me with a twinkle in her eyes.

I know not to protest, knowing that she will find a way to get the money back to me. Thanking her with I smile I go sit down and wait for my order. While I am waiting I take out my box of delicious coco pops, I open the box and plastic packet inside that contains the yummy cereal.

I start picking them out and eating them, my mouth waters at the chocolate-ly goodness. I don't have to sit there long as I am the only person here at this hour, people don't really start arriving until 7:30am, which is in half an hour.

"Amelia, darling, your mocha and lunch is ready." Gemma calls me over.

Carrying my coco pops with me, I return to the counter and see the amazing mocha waiting there for me. One of my pleasures in life are my mochas.

I take my bag off my back and unzip it and carefully place my nicely wrapped sandwich in there, not wanting it to get too squashed. I smile to Gemma as I take my mocha and mouth 'thank you'.

"No problem darling, have a nice day and be safe" Gemma says to me as I leave, I nod thanking her again and off I go.

I carefully balance my mocha and coco pops box in one hand and use my other to hurriedly finish my coco pops. Before I know it I have reached and finished my coco pops, as well as my beloved mocha. Throwing them all in the nearest trash can I set off to my homeroom and wait out there until I am allowed in.

Glancing at my watch I discover it is later than I thought, 7:30am. School starts at 8:00am so most of the teachers are already here and some students.

Not wanting to cause attention I sit on the concreted floor and pull out a book I recently borrowed from the school library, Blue Dawn. I am already half way through the book and I only got it yesterday, it is a very good book.

I am so into the book that I jump when the homeroom teacher unlocks the door to allow students in. I quickly realise that I have been sitting here for half and hour reading, when it only feels like a couple minutes.

Quickly stuffing my book in my bag, hoping I missed my sandwich, I get up and go into homeroom. So far I am the only one in but it doesn't take long for it to start filling up. Just as the clock hits 8:00am the last student runs in.

"No running in the classroom!" Yells Mrs McGlee. "You would think kids these days would have more sense, obviously not."

Mrs McGlee is a old, plump, grumpy, grey haired teacher that is the meanest one you will ever have the pleasure of meeting.

I zone out for the 10 minutes of homeroom, only interacting when my name gets called out on the roll, but simply putting your hand in the air, it's hardly interacting. I am the last one out of the room when we are dismissed, I walk a couple doors down to the art room, which is my next class.

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