"How could you not tell me?" I coldly asked Mat as I paced in front of her desk where she was watching me. I faced her, "I'm your sister!"

"Because I had a feeling you might have reacted like this." she said as she sat back in her chair.

"Of course I am! Mat, these are my people-"

"No, their not." she said, her hazel eyes getting hard as she looked up at me. "You're apart of my this world now. You left that world, remember?"

"Yes but Mat, this isn't right. The woods is all they know. You can't just--just--just kill them!" I yelled as I banged my hands on the desk.

She scoffed, "Kill them? Who on Earth told you that? I want to gather them up and teach them to live in the modern world like you. I don't want to kill them."

I shook my head, "Still doesn't make it right. You're taking them from the only world they know. I left on my own but you're taking them!"

She stared up at for a moment, "This is the right thing to do, Ellie. They are becoming more dangerous towards our secret."

I breathed out heavily as I turned away, "This whole secret thing that made you 'famous'. Now that your fifteen minutes are up, you're trying to find a way to stay in the spotlights." I said as I turned around to see her behind me. "Using them isn't gonna help-"

She slapped me across the face. It wasn't hard, just enough to shut me up. I brought my hand up to my face as I looked up at her cold face, "You don't get to talk to me like that, Aeriela. Everything I have done for you and this is how you treat me? You don't know how much the world is changing because your still getting use to it! Woods are becoming smaller and smaller. Soon, they'll have no where to go. They need to get use to modern day life before it's to late. Now, this isn't your business. You deal with your last two weeks of school and stay out of my business."

I stepped towards her, "This is my business! If it about the people who I spent most of my life then yes it is. Mat, you can't raid their packs and bring them here. I was willing to learn how to live in this world but their not gonna be. You wanna change thousands and thousands of years of traditions!"

She stared at me, "I can feel it." she said, confusing me. "That same feeling Ramses gave off. That Alphaness." she said as she turned around and walked over towards her desk. "You're eighteenth birthday is near it seems like. You change everyday but I'm not sure if for the greater good or not."

"What does that mean?" I asked. Yes, I knew there was Alphaness in my blood but I never thought much of it since many other wolves also did.

"It means you're only gonna get more stubborn." she said before opening the drawer to her right. She pulled out a envelope and placed it on the desk. "Aeriela, look at how much the world has changed since those thousands of years. Use to be a ton of us but over the course of time, our numbers declined. Everyone country has their own pack now and only a couple few handfuls of wild wolves. Their out numbered because many in history knew how much time they had left. We have to help teach them how to live in the modern world. Here, take that. Zakaria wanted me to give it to you."

I stared down at the envelope and thought back to saturday night after prom where he kissed my forehead. I was determine to just tell her to throw it away but also curious. Yesterday I thought about going with them to the airport but I locked myself in my room because I was afriad.

"Take it." she said, grabbing her tablet and ignored me as I stood there. Breathing heavily out my nose, I snatched the envelope from the deak and left the room, slamming the door shut behind me.

I walked down the staircase and pasted Killian who was coming from the kitchen.

"Ellie," he said, making me freeze. I froze, glaring at the ground as my teeth roughly grinded together. "Everything will be alright. Stressful times, it can cause a family to fight with each other."

"Family? This isn't my family." I said as I left the house. I hurried down the steps and walked away into the woods for the shortcut. I brought the envelope up and opened it but all that was inside was Skype username. I scoffed, rolling my eyes.

I sat down on a large rock and brought my hands up to my forehead. I shook my head, wishing Mat understood my point of view. Yes, the world is different but how could she want to take them from the only place they known? Thousands of years of traditions to rippped away and to be long forgotten.

I took my phone of my pocket and opened up Skype. Feeling like I need to focus on something else. I typed in Zakaria username and sent the request. I put my phone back in my pocket and fell back onto the ground. I stared up at the sky blinking wishing Mat would do something I wanna do for once. There's hardly that many Wild Wolves here in America. Why can't she let them be? It's like taking a lion out of the jungle. Soon, there won't be any lions in the jungle anymore. No more true to nature lions. And in those Wild Wolves, it's their nature to live in the woods. I came here young, I had enough time to learn.

But they won't.

I felt someone come near me. I lifted myself up on my elbows and turned my head around to see a pack wolves. I recognized him, it was easy. Even, no other wolf would just stop. They would just go on by their way.

"Ulric, go away." I told him, picking up dirt and threw it at him. He ignored that and walked over next to me. I breathed out heavily as I turned my head away stubbornly. He left the house when Mat and Killian returned.

He shifted back to his human form, "Guessing it didn't go well, huh." he said. "What she say?"

"She wants to raid them up and bring them back here to try and tame them." I said, snorting.

"Doesn't sound like a bad idea." he said.

My head snapped as I looked at him with a cold look, "Doesn't sound like it? These are Wolves who won't be to easy to learn. You can't tame them, Ulric. Look at Aydin, there's a bunch of hims out there. Having allot of pride for sticking to the old ways. They say tame pack wolves are traitors to them and to themselve. It's beaten into our heads that the wild is the true way to live!"

"It doesn't matter what way true or not. The world isn't the same as it was five, ten, fifteen thousand years ago." he said, making me look away. He sighed as his voice was soft, "Aeriela, I know you still care about how that side of you. No matter what, where you live now I know you'll always have that wild part of you. That part I know you still love."

I lowered my eyes, biting the inside of my left cheek. I know I spent so much time trying to make people believe I'm no longer wild but Ulric was right. I can't let go of the past, it apart of who I am no matter how much I try to forget I was ever born and raised most of my life there. I wish so badly I was born tamed but that like someone wishing they were born a different race or born with curly hair and wanting straight here. I need to accept the fact that I'm wild no matter where I am now. But I'm afriad to do that, afraid of being judged by others. I have to survive being something that isn't gonna please people.

"I wish I could help Aeriela." he said. He wants to help me? I rolled my eyes, seeing how this was him trying to prove he was someone else. Well he ain't fooling me! As I sat there in quiet for a moment, it did hit me that Ulric could help. He could help me try to stop this.

I turned to face him and grabbed his arm, "You can help." I said. I gave him a smile, tilting my head a little and he arched his eyebrow, "Ulric, you can go with them when they try to raid the packs. You can stop them all, try to sneak some of them away."

His eyes widen as he shook his head and pulled away, "Oh no Aeriela, I'm not doing that! You know much trouble I can get in?" he coldly asked as he stood up and I followed.

I grabbed his arm again, "Ulric please! You won't get in trouble and I won't let Mat kick you out. You said you'll do anything to prove to me you care about me still."

He scoffed as he pulled away, "You can't use that against me, you can use me like that."

"The old Ulric I knew would be brave about this." I coldly said as he turned away a little breathing heavily. "The old Ulric who I knew did care for me a moment would do this for me. The old Ulric would find this exciting and fun-"

"Key word Aeriela 'old me'." he said as he faced me again. "I'm not seventeen anymore! I grew up. After my eighteenth birthday, I matured allot. It was like a whole new me was born. I knew I had to change, stop childish things that'll get me in allot of trouble. When I said I wish I could help you, I didn't mean help let thek escape. I mean, help you get through this. It's been two years since you were in the wild! Allot of thing changed probably. Their taking drugs now!"

"That was Aydin!" I coldly said. "And all of them are doing it, then one of them must have all forced them to take them."

"This is the right thing to do, Aeriela. Alpha Matilda doesn't wannna hurt them, she wants to help them. Let her!" he said.

I scoffed, "That's what Christian try to do when they invade new lands and try to force them to make them believe what they believe-"

"This is not about religion! This is about survival. Aeriela, our population is declining. Wild Wolves are only making it more dangerous. We need to survive in this world, by any means necessary." he said, making me stare at him. I shook my head, not believing people are agreeing to do this! It's wrong. "I know you believe it's right to--"

"No!" I yelled. "All of you are wrong."

He stared at me, "You know what humans would do if they learn about wild wolves? They'll track them down and kill them. Do you want that? At least Alpha Matilda wants to help teach them to live in this world."

"Shut up!" I said, bring my hands up to my ears and squeezed my eyes shut. I shook my head, knowing this is wrong.

Ulric gently put his hands around my arms and pulled me close towards him. I rested my head on his chest, wanting to take comfort in these familiar arms. They were bigger and stronger but still had that familiar way of making me feel safe in them. I felt the world disappear in them but I knew it was all fake. I pulled myself away from those arms and walked away before that same heart will hurt mine again.

*

I was hiding under my blanket when my phone lit up. My eyebrows furrowed together as I picked up my phone and saw some message alert. I opened my phone up and saw it came from my Skype so I opened it.

I saw a picture of Zakaria near his username grinning at the grinning and I rolled my eyes.

Zakaria: goodnight, Aeriela.

My mouth formed into a stiff line, Ellie709: I thought you couldn't read or write in English. I typed and I actually laid there waiting for a responce.

Zakaria: I know a little. English translation book helps aswell

Ellie709: go away.

My phone then turned blue with his profile picture coming up as he video called me. I sat up on my bed quickly with wide eyes and nervously bit my cheek. I looked around for my earbuds and when I found them I plugged them in.

The call stopped and I froze, closing my eyes praying he doesn't call again. My heart speed and I held my breath in those second. My phone vibrated again as he called and I breathed out heavily.

No Aeriela, ignore Zakaria. I forbid you from ever talking to that boy again. I thought to myself. But why be cruel to him? He did nothing wrong and he took you to prom. Oh jeez, that's true. He's a guy, he was to flirt with the alpha of Oregon little sister he thinks could fall for his European charm.

The devil and angel took a battle out on my shoulders as my conscience heavied on me. I rolled my eyes, "What the hell." I said before pressing the answer button. I brough the phone up to see Zakaria.

"Oh hey! You take so long to answer." he said, the screen kind of fuzzy here and there.

I narrowed my eyes, "What do you want?"

The amused look dropped, "Er, to say hi. You did not come to airport."

"I was busy." liar. "I see you made it home safe." It seemed like he was outside on a porch with it bright with sun.

"Ah yes, we just got back an hour ago. Long plane ride home, horrible." he said, stretching his arms.

"Hm, come back then to back home again." I said.

He laughed, "Funny Aeriela." he said, making me roll my eyes because I wasn't trying to be funny. It wasn't funny. "I wanted to tell you goodnight."

"You called to just tell me goodnight?" I asked.

He shrugged, "Friends tell each other goodnight."

"We're not friends." I told him.

He grinned, "Yes we are."

I scoffed, "No we're not."

"Aeriela," he said, running his fingers through his hair as his grin widen and my heart speed up. "Yes we are."