Hailey's P.O.V

It was dark too dark. I felt like I was floating in darkness with nothing in front of me. Then suddenly flashbacks of my life started. I saw all the beating and abuse I endured. I saw all the insults thrown at me. I saw all the times my parents hit me and called me a worthless brat.

Then all the good memories came. Me at the fair with my mom and dad. My father giving me a piggyback ride. My mom feeding me ice cream. Me playing with my big sister. My big sisters body all beaten and torn because of the rouges. Then my most hated flashback started

I was playing with big sissy. She said she will hide and I will find her. I was finding her for a lot of time and I found her. She was with her boyfriend. He was angry. I didn't like him. He had cooties. And he smelled. Mommy and daddy didn't know about him and sissy said not to tell because he was a-a ro-rou-rouge. Yeah, that's the word. Sissy said he is not bad, but I don't like him. He was fighting sissy and then he became a wolf. He was a dirty wolf and he killed sissy. I couldn't do anything but scream. Mommy and daddy hear me scream and come to us. They said sissy die because of me. They beat me because I was bad girl. They said bad names to me. They said they hate me, I hate me.

I suddenly sat up. Cold sweat covering my body. The same nightmare came back to me. I looked around me and saw I was in a bedroom but it wasn't mine. I started freaking out when a calming sensation came over me. It felt like drugs I wanted to panic but I couldn't. There was a knock on the door and a girl my age came strolling in like she owned the place and she probably did. Right then I was envious and jealous of her that she was so confident in her skin and I wasn't. Then I remembered that I was supposed to be cooking dinner for the pack. For a moment I panicked then I remembered that I was rouge since I rejected my alphas order and left the pack land. For a second I didn't know to feel happy or sad, so I settled on fury. Now that I was free I could finally take revenge on all those who treated me like trash.

I looked up at the girl and thought man I made a lesbian crush. She was perfect in every way. I then thought why my stupid alpha would reject a girl like her. And I got the answer. Because of power, he was a power-thirsty man and thrived on it. If you took the alpha status from him he would be like a shell and I knew it better than anyone else. After thinking for what felt like hours I could see the girl drooping like she was about to sleep. I then decided to speak.

"Why am I here?"

When she was about to speak it was like she went into a trance and I was thinking of snapping my fingers in front of her face. Then all a sudden her eyes turned silvery white and I was beyond freaked. Then the ground rumbled like an earthquake and the air in the room resembled like a twister things flew in every direction and I saw outside the window the calm sunny day turned stormy with lightning and thunder. I felt a whimper escape me and like a flash, it was all gone. Everything returned to its place and I was embraced in a hug. I was beyond shocked what is going on? But I felt calm in her arms like...... like a sister. I hadn't had that feeling in eleven years. I felt tears spring into my eyes and the girl pulled back.

"Shh it's okay now you've got me. I won't let anyone hurt you"

She cooed wiping my tears. Then she smiled and held out her hand.

"I keep calling you girl all the time. Let's introduce. Hi! I'm Melissa. Nice to meet you. And you are"

"Hailey"

"Well, Hailey let's get you cleaned up. You can use the shower there and there are clean towels, I'll get you my clothes and then we can go shopping. After we eat HAPPY."

She yelled the last part like she was telling someone and I heard a squeal of delight from what I assumed was downstairs. She saw my confused look and shrugged

"My mom wants to feed you till you can't move."

"I have a question?"

"Hmm"

She saw the scared look on my face and smiled kindly at me.

"Don't worry hails. I won't bite. I just had blood in the morning and I don't need it for another week."

She then laughed like it was a joke but I had a feeling it wasn't. I laughed nervously and asked my question.

"I'm a rouge what will I do. I don't have any money or family."

"Silly girl you'll stay with us in our pack. And about money don't worry I have enough for the both of us."

"But I'm useless; your alpha won't allow me in the pack"

"Hmm, you fear that. HEY WOMAN CAN SHE JOIN THE PACK?"

"BE READY AT EIGHT!"

"KAY! Happy?"

"Your mom's alpha?"

"Yeah. Don't worry she's a softy. Just give her a pot of coffee some chocolates and a tub of cookies and cream and she'll melt faster than the icebergs in Antarctica."

After that, she pushed me into the bathroom and I washed as best as I could. Since I never had warm water in my life except for the boiling one the old pack members threw on me to burn me, I took the most calming shower in my life and washed my hair thrice. When I walked out in a towel I felt fresher than I felt in my whole life, like I washed my troubled away. During my shower, I thought about the girl Melissa. She was a puzzle but I felt like we would be best friends.

"We'd be sisters"

Melissa said walking in. I looked at her questioningly.

"Oh, I read your mind. I didn't want to but you practically scream your thoughts"

I gasped at what she said, read minds? She just smirked at me and motioned me to wear the clothes she bought. I walked into the bathroom and she began telling me the story and when she was finished I was staring at the mirror open-mouthed.

"You didn't fall asleep on me did you?"

"No um can I come out?"

"Not like I locked the door"

I walked out keeping my eyes on the ground since she was a royal and I couldn't look her in the eyes. She groaned loudly.

"Don't be like that. I hate it when people do this. I made an alpha command on the pack to not act like that. I hate the entire princess stuff. I'm only in it to protect everyone and fulfill my role as a royal and the chosen one."

I looked up and smiled at her she smiled back before I burst out giggling. She looked at me quizzically.

"Marcus. He said the queen is his girlfriend and he rejected you for that. He didn't know you are queen."

Then I laughed some more and soon she joined me. When we got our breaths back, she motioned me to turn around and when I did she picked up a brush from the dressing table and began braiding my hair in a French braid. I looked in the mirror and couldn't believe the girl I saw. I saw a pretty brunette in new clothes whose grey eyes shone with happiness instead of the regular empty ones. Her skin was clean and shiny of any scars and she looked all the most normal. And that girl was me.

After Mel finished with my hair I went downstairs almost scared of what her mother would think. She was a royal alpha for goodness sakes. But what I was met with was certainly not what I expected. An older version of Mel came running from what I think was the kitchen and embraced me in a hug. Again such a small act of kindness and love brought tears to my eyes. When she pulled back she too like her daughter wiped my tears and gave me a kiss on the forehead.

I felt so full right now. Mel's mom who asked me to call her Harlene instead of MS King, made me eat so much food I had a case of food baby and it was making it hard for me to move. Nevertheless, I loved every bit of it. Mel's grandparents made me call them ma and pa instead of Mr. and Mrs. King, made comments on how thin I was and made me eat a chocolate pie ma made for me. All this time I wondered that Harlene had her surname as king and ma and pa were her parents so wasn't Lisa supposed to have her father's name. But my question was answered when Lisa said that her father left her mother before she was even born. When it was time for the shopping trip Mel promised me she had to drag me to the car and buckle me in since I could barely move.

On the way to the mall Mel took me to a parlor so I could get my hair cut and some serious work on my nails and also the eyebrows and upper lip, basically when I walked out after an hour my hair had no split ends and were an inch shorter than before and landed till my back. Every other inch of my body was waxed cleaned and pampered.all in all I felt violated with so many girls passing me around and poking me. Mel thought it was funny and almost fell over laughing.

When we arrived at the mall I was in awe of how huge the place was. There were humans and weres alike everywhere. I also saw a couple of vampires which made me scared but Mel assured me they wouldn't do anything in public or private since she was future queen and also they were on pack land. When I entered I could feel my mouth open even more like a door with broken hinges. 

There were so many shops and since I never came shopping in my life I was thinking we would visit only one or two shops but boy was I wrong. Mel dragged me to every shop in the mall till I was thinking she took the proverb 'shop till you drop' a little too seriously. What confused me most was that whatever she bought for herself she bout an extra pair just in men's clothing. After Mel made me buy at least twenty pairs of different shoes twelve pairs of pants, thirty pairs of shirts in all different styles. Sixteen dresses, five pairs of shorts and a whole bunch of lingerie I was seriously thinking of dropping dead on the floor so she could take me home. I didn't even want to see the amount of money she spent on me. 

I felt guilty for using all her money but she reading my mind told me that it was a no biggie and that I could pay her back by food. I was just thinking of the types of food I could make for her when she dragged me off to a dress shop. When I raised my eyebrows at it she rolled her eyes

"We have to get one last dress for the ceremony tonight. Now go look for something long but not too long and short but not too short."

She shooed me away and when I saw a blue dress and turned back she was standing behind me with at least a dozen dresses. I jumped out of my skin when she was just standing like that. She laughed and pushed me into a dressing room to try the dresses. I tried each one after the other but it was apparently not my style according to her. I rolled my eyes at that one and thought how my life changed in the last twelve hours. Twelve hours ago I was being beaten up by my pack mates for nothing in particular with an empty stomach for two weeks. Now here I am spending money like water on things that were way out of my league before today.

Here I was with a girl who saved me and called me a friend and her family who made me feel like I belonged. I was snapped out of my thoughts when Mel gave me a white dress.

When I wore it I fell in love with it. It was sleeveless and had a sweetheart neckline with black jewels on the top and a black belt under the bust. It flowed down perfectly like a flower and reached till a little above my knees. When I came out Mel squealed and said this was the one. I smiled and did a twirl for her. When I came out she cashed the dress and my eyes bulged out of my sockets when I saw the price. 

The dress alone was for three thousand and the black heels she bought on the way were for six hundred itself. I made a mental note to cook something special for her tomorrow. We were just loading Mel's car with the bags and the last minute bags of cosmetics she remembered to pick up.

I was just about to move to the front of the car when I heard a whoosh. When I turned Mel stood there with two slim swords like the ones the ninjas use. They were completely made of silver, hilt and all. Silver was a deadly substance for all werewolves but maybe her being the chosen one and all made her immune to it and all. But I was confused why she was on alert then I was answered when at least thirty rouges sprang out of the forest surrounding the mall. 

The parking lot was clear of any humans, only the vampires who stood on the sidelines not moving or helping. I was confused but my confusion was cleared when in just three seconds all the rouges were dead on the ground. Some of them had their throats slit and some had missing body parts. Then I noticed the lone rouge standing or rather shaking in the middle of his dead comrades. He was shaking so badly with fear I wanted to make him sit down and have some water before continuing whatever was going on. Then Mel laughed and it sounded menacing. It was a cold laugh and it made a shiver run down my spine.

"Tell your pathetic boss by this move he raged a war on the midnight howl pack and there is now no alliance between these packs. If he loves himself he should keep that in mind."

"WH-who is the message from"

"Say it was alpha Mel"

With that, the rouge scurried off with his tail tucked between his legs and with one snap of her fingers all the bodies vanished and all that was left was the faint smell of blood. By now the vampires were advancing on us and I gulped loudly. Mel saw this and smiled at me. She just killed at least thirty men and she didn't have a single drop of blood on her.

When the vampires reached us I saw there were six of them and all had the signature pale skin and coldness in the way they walked. I huddled closer to Mel since she was the one with the killer moves and all. As the vampires reached us I saw one of them had violet eyes. Just like Mel's. I furrowed my eye in confusion. What happened next was what shocked me. 

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anywho..........thank ya'll for reading and ill see ya'll later.....bye!