Forever More

"Joelle!!! Wake up you worthless swine." I hear the Luna pounding on my bedroom door, which is located up three flights of stairs in the attic. I haven't been treated very well in this pack ever since they found me in the hollowed-out tree when I was only a few months old. I will never understand how my family could just up and abandon me as a baby. I forgive them, but what did they think would happen if they put me in the hollow tree? "Joelle! I said get up right now!" I'm pulled from my thoughts by the pounding. I rush around trying to get dressed to not make her wait any longer for fear of being hit. I ran to the door, throwing it open, and out of nowhere smack! "Joelle, you are our weakest person here, so what makes you think that you don't have to pull your weight?" Pull my weight, I think, I pull more than just my weight around here. "Yes, Luna, I am sorry to not be up in the kitchen already." "Just get there now," Luna Marie says. I run past her pulling on my shoes down to the kitchen to start breakfast for the pack. As I'm scrambling the eggs I smell him, our future Alpha Lucas. I am getting ahead of myself. Let me back up sometime. As you can already tell my name is Joelle and I am sixteen years old. I live in the Firestone pack which is one of the smaller packs in the area. My family isn't of this pack and everyone makes sure to let me know that I don't belong here. The teens all pick on me because I am a lot smaller than any of them. Standing at 5 ft 2 and 130 pounds didn't make for anyone to get scared. Throw in the fact that I am wolfless with purple eyes and silver hair that doesn't scream for anyone to fear me. Other than it's not normal to have those colors. Nobody knows where my family is or what my last name is and I was found in a hollowed-out tree at six months old. How can a parent put their baby in a tree and walk away? Am I that unlovable? Will I find a mate without having a wolf? I have so many questions and no answers. Claire wanted me to come to check on you where Lucas kicked you. I stand pulling my shirt up to my breasts and I hear him hiss. It must be bad. Claire was right they are going to kill you if given the chance. I will talk to the Alpha and see if you can be sent to one of the other packs. They are having that meeting with some of the other Alphas this weekend maybe one will take you. It's okay Beta Charles I don't want to be a bigger burden than I already am. Joe, your birthday is tomorrow, isn't it? I nod my head tomorrow I will be seventeen. Yet, so is Alpha Lucas'. He will be 18 tomorrow and he will become the legit Alpha. "Oh Joelle, where is the food?" "I'm sorry Alpha, I am running late and it's not yet ready." I still have the heightened senses but not like it would be if I had my wolf. "You know that you are to be here by 4 am to start yet you still blatantly disobey me." "Again I'm sorry Alpha." I go to turn with my head down and I feel the pain when he grabs my hair and pulls me to him. "Do you think that I like being a dick to you, Joelle?" "You need to learn your place, little girl. You mean nothing to this pack. I don't understand why dad lets you stay anyway. Probably because you are the scum under his boot. You mean nothing to us. Why not just end it, Joelle? You are a burden on this pack. You don't even have a wolf to protect you." He throws me to the ground as if to show me and he starts to kick me in the ribs. He gets down to my level after a few kicks, I feel his breath on my ear as he whispers, "I wish they would have left you to die in that tree." The pain is just too much to bear. I feel my vision starting to get blurry. I can't pass out because that will just make things worse. I grab onto the counter and drag myself up until I can stand. Why won't they just let me leave and become a rogue? Oh yeah, because they will have to have more people do what I do a day. As I finish getting breakfast ready, I smell too much Love Spell perfume and know that it's Claire, my only friend here. She comes running to my side, "Joelle, they are going to end up killing you. We have to get you out of here." "Claire, you know I can't go anywhere. They will never let me leave. They don't want to have to cook and clean for themselves. And their precious Lucas would have to do things on his own." "Shhhh Joelle you don't want them to hurt you more if they hear you talking like that. I don't understand why he wants you to call him Alpha Lucas when he's not even the Alpha yet?" "He is still in line to be alpha, Claire. I have to get this breakfast done before everyone comes down." As I finish up I grab my plate and head back upstairs to make sure I'm out of the way before anyone comes down. Claire is the only one allowed to eat with me and that's if the Alpha and Luna aren't mad at me. Which it seems they are today. I hear a soft knock and thinking it's Claire I tell her to come in. "Joelle, I'm sorry that I can't help with the beatings." I hear the Beta say. "Oh, Beta Charles you scared me I thought Claire was coming up."