I am stunned by what Dane says.
The Legend of the chosen one is a story that every little is told during their fledging years so that they can feel special and important to the pack members. It is just a story and now, I have to listen to it so I can feel special. This is what I believe because why else would Dane try to remind me of the story.
It is about a woman Bay who was destined to save her pack because she can see things that are yet to happen. In a very dire time, she rises to the responsibility of being Luna and becomes a bearer of peace. She saved generations of werewolves over the years through her sacrifice and well, I am nothing like her.
I drop my fork on the table and pick up a napkin to clean my mouth.
”Dane, I think I know the story very well.” You don’t need to start from the basics. I say to him as I carry my plates from the table and head over to the basin to wash it.
“My brother believed it.” Dane says and I pause for a moment.
What do you think that scar on your head stands for? He asks me and I begin to wash the plates aggressively.
Did you know the legend Bay had a mark on her forehead too? He says to her and she turns her back to him.
Wow! So, if I’m Bay. “Then, you must be Dimitri.”
You must be the legendary alpha if I am a legendary Luna! I say to him, opening the tap to wash the plates.
Maybe, I am! Dane says and he stands from his seat and heads over to me.
Does any of this even make sense to you!? I scream at him because I know he is walking towards me.
The scar of a crescent moon on your forehead, what does it mean? Dane asks and I turn to him trying not to answer his question.
I don’t know.
“Yesterday, you called me a curse and today…I’m supposed to be a legendary Luna whom our people still worship.” And you have chased me all over Lakewood on this laughable, baseless, stupid assumption!
You are different Maria! Dane says and I take a breath.
“You cannot change to a wolf.”
“You are one but you are also apart.” Dane explains what I already know.
And? Do I look like someone who can save another person or …our pack members? I’m under probation in this house of yours and on top the fact that I feel like shit…you just have to make me a hero.
“I do not want to hear of this anymore. “ If you want me to continue to stay here then, you should never speak of that to me. I say as I step out of the kitchen and begin to make my way back upstairs.
“I need you to meet me here in an hour.” Dane says to me and I turn back to know why he would ask that.
Why? I say to him.
“Your life is in Lakewood. You should continue from where you stopped, school, you friends.” I didn’t bring you here to make you a prisoner. Dane says and for a moment, I am confused trying to remember what my life used to be like before this drastic moment.
Everything was swept under the rug the moment my grandparents were gone and I cannot even make sense of that memory.
Maria, did you hear me? Dane asks and I come back to my senses.
“No, I rather be a prisoner.” I say to him and walk back into my room.
I shut the door behind and crawl onto the bed to ponder about wall what he has said to me and I cannot get used to any of it. Being here, listening to all he has to say today has brought me to no conclusion or end. I still do not know what plan my life has and I do not have time to think about it.
I rest against the pillow not wanting to think about it but what else is there to think about when this is all my life is. I close my eyes feeling the softness of the pillow against my head and I know that if I sleep I would forget all about my disheartening thoughts.
Later, I wake up to the clamming and banging sounds right on the door of the room and I wait for a second trying to understand all that is happening. I get off form the bed and open the door to find out who is banging at it restlessly.
The moment I open the door, there are three girls who I
Do not recognize at that moment. I step back when I see the glares of their faces and the way they barge into the room with baseball bats and I assume the worst already. They are here to take revenge because they lost someone and it doesn’t matter what I say or do, they will do what they came here for.
Who are you? I ask as my eyes go over each and every one of them as they waste no time in invading my space as if I was irrelevant to be even given respect.
“If it isn’t the cursed Luna.” The girl who is standing at the front of the both of them say and she swings the bat in the air and it almost hits me. I look around the room but the windows of the room are locked because Dane believed she would escape or something.
“Beg.” The girl says as she walks closer to me but I’m quiet and the two girls that came with her walks towards me and grand both of my arms using their strength as wolves and I wonder where Dane is.
In this moment, I hope for his presence so that he would save me but he is no where to be found. The girl with the baseball bat readies her fist and I wonder why she isn’t using the instrument she brought with her.
Her fangs grow out from her nail and her eyes turn red, I shift back in fear because I know she wants to make me suffer. Unlike, other werewolves, I don’t have access to my strength and so when I injure, I don’t heal rapidly.
“My eyes are glued to her sharp fangs and she heads over to me.” She pulls me with one hand from both girls and begins to scratch my back with her fingers and I bite my lips in pain hoping that he would come in time. I can feel blood rolling off my back I bite down my scream and she rips my shirt off my back when she sees that I am not screaming.
I will not beg her for mercy if that is what she is searching for. I fall on my knees and she tilts my head above while the other girls chuckle and wait for their turn to harm me.
“I could snap your neck in one bit but I want you to suffer so bad.” She says and raises her hand in the air to scratch me but Dane steps in.
He pushes her with one his arms and she falls towards the wall. The other girls in the room run out in haste when they see him.
“Get out before I end you.” He growls to her and she runs out in haste forgetting that she wants to end me.
Dane bends to look at me and my hand is tightened in a fist as I choose to not look at him. I can tell he is looking at the injury this girl that I do not even know has done to me.
“Let me help you up.” He says to me but I do not answer.
“I just want to die.” I can’t take being a rejected luna anymore.
He picks a towel from the closet and damps it with water. Dane puts it onto my back and I flinch.
“I’m sorry this happened.” The people who did this will be punished. He says to me and I face him.
“Kill them. “ Will you kill every one of them? I ask and he doesn’t answer.
“You marked me as your mate.” I am a luna whether they accept me or not!
“And as Luna, I want those girls dead.” I don’t care how you do it. I say in anger and he can see that.
“You are angry.” Dane says to me and I can tell he is trying to calm me down.
“I am not just angry.” I am hurt and as you have chosen to be my mate, what would you do about it?
Your brother died trying to save me. You cannot even protect me in your own home? Why should l listen to anything you tell me? I say it calmly but my fists are jacked.
“I’m not my brother.” Dane says to me.
I am silent when he says that in reply in the first few seconds.“And I am not your mate.” I say and he is quiet as if he is thinking of something to say too.“I’m sure you are low-key that this happened to me.” You cannot hurt me because you made a pledge to your brother but it’s not a bad idea if someone does it to me. Right? I ask but he doesn’t give me an answer.I take the towel from him and head out of the room. I need space, away from him and his stupid little pack. I don’t even know what I am doing here. My back stings and I just want to cry but I wouldn’t break down in front of the people I hate.I can hear his footstep behind me as I walk downstairs and I do not give a second thought to why he is following me until he grabs a hold of my hand. I face him and he is staring at me seriously.“You are injured.” Stay still while i tend to your wound. Dane says as he heads over to the cupboard and pulls out a first aid box.I stay still holding tears as he returns back to me and ke
It is as if he understood and that is shocking. How would he understand? He doesn’t even know me. I let go of him as we both stand at the staircase and I let go of his sleeve that I didn’t even realize I was holding.“I’m…I’m so sorry.” I say, am slipping on my sentences and still trying to hold onto false bravery. I look at him and wonder why he is quiet at the scene I have caused.I need him to say something to at least save me face it his moment where all of my walls are all coming down.“You should go back up and rest.”“I will have the pack doctor come check on you.” He says to me and his voice is lacking arrogance or anything that shows we hate each other. As if he can sense all of my distresses and puts all of our differences aside.I nod my head after he speaks; there is nothing to say because in this secondi have realized that Dane is not so horrible. I can adjust and find out what and who I really am if he is at my side. Maybe, it will somehow be a consolation of his brother
After, we get back from the trip to the mall; I get out of the jeep and head into the house without making another eye with him after what we both had spoken about. It is like he knows I am trying to escape him and at this point, I don’t even care about what he thinks because I am flagger basted at what I have just learnt.He follows me inside afterward even when I am in my room, I can hear his footstep as I drop some of the items I have bought including my new phone. I take a deep breath think about what he has said and how it falls in my ear.“Later, that day, a slight knock comes at my door and at this time I know it is Dane.” I am shocked at myself for knowing what his fist on my door sounds like. I get up from the bed and open the door.“It is him.”“The pack members are having a cook out, would you like to come?” I think it is a good opportunity to meet with them instead of staying here all day long. He says.“Sure.” I say to him and I open the door.He heads out and I follow hi
I follow Dane inside after the cookout and I cannot really express what I feel at this moment. I stand at the door and he heads over to the fridge for a drink. He looks back at me and asks.Would you like a drink? Soda or beer? He asks me.“Beer.” I respond and it is almost as if that answer shocks him as I head in to the kitchen and lean at the counter has he passes it to me.I use the counter to open the bottle of beer and we both take a good gulp and suddenly we smile and it turns to laughter after. I tune my face away wondering what this is and how we became familiar to this extent.Is it because we went grocery shopping? There is lasting silence after that but then he speaks.“You saw us.” Dane says and I pause before going in for a second gulp.Didn’t you? He says again and I have inkling to what he is thinking about but I will not accept that it affects me.“You must love her.” I say and take that second gulp that I definitely need this time and he is silent when i asked that.
I honestly at this point don't even know how to explain to my friend all of the things I feel at once. I mean, it's such a great thing that Georgina is here. She doesn't hate me, she still wants to be friends with me and she never once was the way that I thought she would be because of my absence. I have been so stupid at this point, how could I have stayed away from her because of what I thought she would feel against me. But it is the opposite. “For a good time, I felt so burdened by the fact that she could have been easily caught by beast and the rest of the men.” And that would have been a crazy thing to happen. “I really am not trained to understand what exactly I am to say or feel about what I am seeing.” Right on the wall of her rooms are papers from different sources, tracks and several other things that show that she tried to find me.The fact that she knows something that leads to werewolves makes me even more scared that she is closer to finding where I am and that sh
I follow Dane back into the barracks and he pulls over and parks his car. I get out of the car and I'm quite worried because throughout the entire time he was quite quiet. He did not say a word.It was just a silent journey back home. And I designed it to be quiet because I did not know what he was thinking even when I knew I had a lot to say. "Perhaps, I'm becoming too close to this man and I'm trying to fit in so good that I did not realize that I'm here against my will." "I'm not even supposed to be here, I'm a rejected Luna." I remember and try to stand with that notion. I step out of the car and I'm looking at him as his demeanor is quite different. I wonder if it has to do with the conversation that he had with Elena because right before we left to Georgina's. He was in a jovial mood. at least he is the one that brought me outside to meet Georgina so whatever is going on now. It definitely has to do with that intent. I enter into the house first and head upstairs into my ro
At every angle, there is one wolf who is trying to attack us. And standing right next to him, I hope he can see that I'm doing the best to protect him rather than let him fight alone. It probably doesn't look like what I think I'm doing for him, but it's definitely what I mean. And I was not going to back us from the fight so easily. I wasn't going to let him lay down his life and it did not matter whether I was going to be capable of fighting this oops, all that mattered was I was going to prove myself to be an human. A person with emotions and I just wanted him to see beyond what everyone says about me. They all talk about me saying that I'm rejected and how everyone has made sacrifices for me.They say my parents sacrificed their, life my grandparents did the same thing. And my ex mate also did the same. So, now I do not want them to ruin all of what I believe of myself and I just want Dane to see me in a different light or know that I'm different from what they believe me to
I am in shock. It is written everywhere on my face. I look at everything that has just happened in the brink of the moment. It feels like I should just keep to myself but there's no way especially when I have been living with this body over the years, I can't easily express my shock. I just want to so much to express and understand everything just keeps unfolding quietly under me. I look at my hands. I touch my forehead. I'm wondering what I am. What exactly am I made of to be able to do something like this? It makes no sense. Where exactly do I get the power? To make such a move? It makes no sense once again, and I needed to make sense. I need there to be some meaning tied to this point. The only thing I have is silence. The silence is definitely not I'm trying to understand where exactly I'm going with this. Should I walk downstairs and let Dane know about this or should I remain here and try to figure it all by myself. It is a crazy scenario because first of all, I do not eve