Five Years Ago
Mia
I was bored. I hated chemistry class the most and was happy when it finally ended though I couldn't say that this was what I learnt from the class.
I had only heard non-metals and asides that, I didn't think that I had understood any of Miss Brenda's explanation. It was lunch break and I walked to the cafeteria, already thinking of what to eat.I needed a hefty dose of lunch after enduring chemistry. It always felt like the metals or non-metals dug through my intestines in class and made me hungry than I was meant to be.I scanned the cafeteria for Rose but I couldn't see her. I frowned as I patiently searched through the faces at the tables, eating and laughing and yet Anna was nowhere to be found. This was unusual. She was always there, waiting for me after securing the best spot.I walked out of the cafeteria and went outside, searching for her. "Have you seen Anna?" I asked around as I passed students going on their way to the cafeteria.Some of them shook their heads while the others ignored me. Finally, a girl told me that she saw Anna moving towards the fields. I sighed, thanked my informant and rushed to the fields.Anna would never listen. I had told her not to wander off alone but she insisted that that was the only place she could get her muse. Anna was an artist and needed to be alone when she wanted to draw. I understood that but as her best friend, I didn't like it.I got to the garden and sighed when I didn't find her. I turned back, wondering where she could be. I was about to leave when I heard a shriek. The voice sounded a lot like Anna's and I wondered what she was doing there.The voice sounded from a corner far beyond the garden and I was already terrified before I got there. It was too risky there and I knew Anna wouldn't have gone there on her own, no matter her quest for privacy and chase for her muse."Leave me alone." I heard Anna shriek. She seemed to go silent all of a sudden and I picked up the pace, my heart slamming in my chest in fear as my mouth went dry. Her silence didn't sound like good news to me.I got to the corner and couldn't believe what I saw. Anna was there with three males and it didn't seem like she was enjoying herself. One of them had his hand clamped on her mouth and the other two were teasing her, trailing their hands all over her body.I felt pity for my best friend and was filled with anger at the same time. Who were these unmannered boys who derived delight in taking a girl who didn't want them?I brought out my phone, took a video recording for some minutes and then put the phone back in the pocket of my trousers.I hissed and charged at them, flying at the two who were toying with Anna. Seeing me, she kicked back at the one who was holding her and he groaned in pain. He moved towards the other two and they all glared at us, heated anger on their faces."Let's go, girl." I said and held Anna by the hand, glaring at the boys.I knew them. Everyone knew them. It was hard for someone not to know them with the way they were heavily built as compared with the other boys in school.Quinn, Jack and John. The triplets who commanded authority in school among the students. Everyone wanted to be close to them - boys wanted to for their strength and girls wanted to for their looks - but not me. I didn't know how Anna had walked into them.They could have been fooled into thinking that they could have everything they wanted because of the attention people gave them but that didn't extend to me. They thought wrong if they thought that they could taunt my best friend and I would let it go. "And where do you think you are going?" John asked, moving forward to block our path."We are leaving.""Who told you to leave?"I scoffed, bringing out my phone. "Don't come closer or you will force me to show this to the police." I was glad that I had evidence of their assault.They sneered. John growled at us, baring his teeth and we fell back, gasping in horror. I could have sworn that I saw fangs in his mouth and his eyes turned yellow. I looked at Anna and knew that I hadn't imagined that with the terror on her face.They laughed when they saw our reactions and realized that we were too terrified to move. "Didn't you say you were going to the police?" Quinn said as he bent low and picked my phone.I watched in horror as he smashed it on the ground and stepped on it, crushing it to pieces. I winced as I saw my damaged phone, knowing I was going to have to work my fingers off to get a replacement."Let's see what you are going to report us with." Quinn laughed as he stepped back. "Go." He growled.I jumped in fright, pulled Anna up and we both ran out."It's not over, hero." I heard their laughter as we ran out.It was truly not over. I groaned the next day as I saw the three of them moving towards me, realizing that I was doomed. I was bullied till I hated myself and everyone else in my life. They followed me everywhere, enjoying how the other students looked at me with disdain. They seemed to love my helplessness and the way I cringed the most.I had had enough. "Can you stop following me?" I said to them, a month after they turned myself into the bodyguards that I didn't ask for."No. You wanted our attention, don't complain after getting it."I couldn't believe them. They were too arrogant and I couldn't understand what others liked in them."I don't remember asking for it.""You interfered in our affairs. If that is not asking for our attention, I don't know what else it is."I snorted. Who were these people? I stopped at that thought, remembering how John had changed looking like a wolf. I didn't think they were people. I had a wild guess that they were animals which could explain why they behaved as such."I helped my friend.""Did you think we were going to hurt her? We were only playing with her?""She didn't seem to like it.""We weren't done with her yet. You made us lose our toy and so, you became ours.""I'm not your toy."They laughed as they walked away from me. "It seemed like we have to make you believe that you are."I was bullied by them till I was done with high school. I couldn't bear the judgmental gazes of my classmates and wanted to hide out somewhere. They seemed to think I had done something to make them focus on me instead of the others.If only they knew I was being bullied. When we had audience, the boys acted all sweet to me and made it seem like I was their friend, making the other girls hate me more. I didn't want to come to school anymore but I knew mum would ask me for the reason. I couldn't tell her that. I was only going to cause her heartache.I was forced to do a lot of unpleasant tasks, like dealing with the teachers they didn't like. They would send me to submit their assignments, reports or whatever the teacher wanted to give them and they didn't want to show up for it. I got into trouble more times than ever with the teachers but I didn't dare tell them that I was being bullied. The boys reminded me cruelly of how John's face had changed and threatened to tear me to pieces like they had done to my phone if I speak a word about them to another soul.I helped with exams and homework, cracking my little skull on how not to get caught. The most annoying part of their bullying was buying condoms for them to use at chaotic parties. I suffered through high school because of them and my nightmare started that day I rescued Anna and John bared his fangs at me. It wasn't easy suffering and smiling but I did it because they gave me no choice.It was either I moved along with their bullying or I dared them and find out if they would tear me to pieces. I didn't think I wanted to make a bet with my life, knowing how unruly the boys were.MiaI was glad that it was sports day in school. I was going to be free of them for a while. The girls and the boys were separated and didn't participate in the same sports. They weren't going to be able to follow me around and harass me. Even though we were all on the same field and I could feel their eyes on me, trailing after me everywhere I moved to, I still tried my best to ignore them and have fun.I wished that the games weren't going to end. Anna noticed where I was looking at as we jogged and winced. "I'm sorry I got you into this mess. You wouldn't be bullied by them if it was not for me."I waved off her apology. "Don't worry about that." I told her as I had been telling her for the past four months since the incident.She felt guilty and I hated it. I had enough negative baggage to deal with and I didn't need her guilt added to it. It had happened and I didn't blame her. I couldn't understand why she insisted on blaming herself.It had been long since I had talked with h
Present DayMiaI turned back to the table and hissed as I angrily removed the hand on my head and glared at Jack. I lowered my gaze, afraid of making him angry and annoyed with myself that I was still afraid of them after all the years that had passed.John smiled and crossed his arms. "It seemed like the little sister doesn't like brother very much."I glared at him. The pretentious little bastard. Who gave them the right to call me little sister?I couldn't wait for dinner to be over and I breathed in relief when it finally was. How I had cleared out my plate, I had no idea. I rushed to my bedroom as soon as I could leave, counting down to when I was going to leave and already thinking of the excuse I was going to give mum for leaving earlier than planned.I heard a knock on the door and rushed to it, thinking it was mum there to ask if I was enjoying my stay.I stared in surprise as I saw Quinn at the door and winced as he pushed his way and closed the door."What do you want?" I
MiaI was shocked when his eyes suddenly softened at me, gazing at me with affection unlike the cold ones staring back at me a while ago."What?" I asked, tired of all the confusing emotions that they wrought in me.I wondered if they had a particular gift for that. Making people like them and hate them at the same time. I wasn't confessing to liking them, I was just annoyed. After all, what was there to like in them?I would be a fool if I ended up liking the boys who had bullied me and treated me like I wasn't worth shit.His eyes gleamed with amusement. "Are you still angry?""Don't I have the right to be?""It happened years ago, Mia." He said as if I didn't know. "You should have moved on. We have."I snorted. "Easy for you to say."Easy for them to do. I was the one bullied, it wasn't them. I was the one with sleepless nights and nightmares and not them. I bet that they slept fine on their beds. It wasn't like that for me. I couldn't sleep unless the bed was soft enough and even
MiaI couldn't calm down when I got to my room, no matter how hard I tried. I paced around the room, biting on my lip as I thought. I cringed as I stopped biting my lips, remembering that Quinn had just kissed me.I was disgusted as much as I was annoyed and went to the bathroom. I brushed my teeth as if I wanted to peel them off and it wasn't until I was satisfied that I had washed him off that I stepped out of the bathroom.I knew Quinn, regardless of his speech that we should let sleeping dogs lie, wasn't someone who was going to let things go. He would get back at me for what I had done, for daring to bite him.I remembered the way his eyes had sparked open when I had bitten his lips and they had turned yellow before I ran away.Yellow. Just like they were years ago in high school. Just like the ones of the wolves in my dreams sometimes.Werewolves. I realized that there was a theory there I needed to go after.I brought out my laptop and began to search for werewolves. I was amaz
QuinnI hadn't liked it when I had heard, of course, but I liked and respected dad a lot. I couldn't deny him anything and knew that Jack and John couldn't as well. Even if the other two didn't want to go somewhere, I could convince them to as the eldest. That was why we were always found at the same place at the same time. We were never far from one another.Looking at my new step-sister, I was happy that I had decided to come back home. Our boring lives were about to become interesting with her arrival. She looked beautiful and I hoped that she was still as interesting as she was years ago. I couldn't forget the way she had charged boldly at us in order to save her friend. That was hot and even though it had been years, I felt the same jolt of desire I had felt for her then.I briefly glanced at her mother and let my hands wander back to her. I lowered my gaze to her wavy long hair. I wanted to pull her away from her middle-aged mum and thoroughly kiss her, slipping my hands into h
JackGazing at my beautiful step-sister, I couldn't control my inner joy. I couldn't believe that I was going to see her again and it was so good to see her.Of all the girls to be our sister, I couldn't believe that it was her. I was happy at my dad's marriage but now, I was excited. I wanted to run to him and hug him for letting us meet Mia again.I wanted to thank him for falling in love with Mia's mother. I grinned as I remembered how fun it had been with Mia then, I couldn't deny that life was about to be a lot more fun than it was, for me as well as my brothers.I didn't like staying at home and preferred the seas. I always counted down to when I was going to leave and go back to the shores, whenever we were at home but I didn't think that was going to be the case now. Staying at home always brought out memories that I would love to keep buried but it wasn't going to be the same now. Mia was going to change that with her interesting and unpredictable ways. There was no doubt a
JackI looked for Quinn but I couldn't find him afterwards. I wondered where he had gone to. After searching for him till afternoon, I got bored and went out to entertain myself. It had been long I saw the few friends around here and I took a drive there, hoping that I would be able to clear out my head while there. I couldn't stay home and drive myself crazy with Mia around. She infiltrated my thoughts both day and night and if I wasn't careful, I was going to end up going to her room and make a fool of myself. I got back home that night and decided to search for Quinn. He should have been back from wherever he went. I saw him on the villa's balcony as I was driving back home and breathed in relief. That was good.I sniffed as I got closer and frowned. He was drinking red wine. Quinn had stopped drinking and partying and only drank when he was bored or had something on his mind.Since we were naval officers and always busy, it had been a long I saw him bored and couldn't remember w
MiaFew minutes into the meal, John turned to me, his eyes sparkling with curiosity. "When is your birthday, sister?"I almost choked on my food at the unexpected question. Much more surprising was the look in his eyes. I wasn't used to seeing any emotion other than mischief in their eyes."It is the twelfth of November." Mum answered for me when it didn't seem like I was going to say anything."You already celebrated it. Ouch. We thought it is not so far away." Jack groaned."Why?" That was all I could say.John smiled at me. "Is there anything wrong in brothers wanting to celebrate their sister's birthday?"I had woken up with a hearty appetite but I could feel my appetite draining by the moment. My stomach was getting unsettling and I became anxious with the way they were looking at me.They looked at me like I was a treasured jewel to them and seeing them as mild and sweet gentlemen wasn't something I ever imagined. Not in a million years.They passed the food my hands couldn't re
MiaFinally. It was done. I was mated to the boys. The mating ceremony was over. Some of the new wolves who didn't know were shocked that I was getting mated to the boys as they had assumed that I was getting mated to Quinn only but they had also moved on quickly and were happy that we were officially mated.Not all the wolves were around for my Luna ceremony and ritual or they would have found out about the intimacy between me and the boys.I was proud that mum was there to see mating ceremony and that there wasn't any knife cutting in this own. I didn't think mum was going to stand still if she saw that bloody crooked traditional knife cutting into my skin. I hoped that she wouldn't ever see the scars on my back. She had asked if I was keeping any more secrets from me but I didn't think I was going to tell her about the scars on my back. She was going to freak out if she saw them.She was just getting warmed up into the world of the werewolves and I couldn't show her the scars and r
MiaI had thought that mum would never want to see us again after last night's fiasco. I couldn't blame her. We hurt her and she had a right to her anger. I would have been mad as well if I was in her shoes. I was surprised when she came out and joined us for breakfast. That was good. That meant she was slowly letting go of her anger and would soon warm up to us. Maybe she would be forgiving us anytime soon. I had thought I shouldn't hold my breath on waiting for my mum to forgive us but now, it seemed possible.I was glad that I had told Albert to let us call her to join us for breakfast when he was about to ask the maid to send her food to the guest room that she had slept in. I knew Albert was affected that she had slept in another room. He looked worse, much worse than I had ever seen him. He seemed like he hadn't slept a wink last night with the absence of his wife in their shared bedroom. I didn't think I had ever seen them apart when they were in the same vicinity. He missed mu
VanessaI couldn't believe it. I still found it hard to believe that my own daughter could keep that much secret from me. I thought that we were close. I thought that we were as close as thieves. I thought that we didn't share any secrets. I thought that... Oh no, o stopped thinking as I didn't know what to think of anymore.She had to be kidding me. I felt like a fool, living in a house full of secrets and I was the only one who knew nothing about it. Asides the revelation that had happened in Mia's room after I found her kissing her brother, I had gotten more from her and I couldn't believe it.I still couldn't get the image of her kissing Quinn out of my head. I wondered what I would have done if I had found them in bed. Oh no! I couldn't bear to think of that. If she was dating the three of them, that meant that she was sleeping with the three of them.Oh my! How did that even work? I couldn't think of my daughter whoring herself out but with the way that they had explained it, th
MiaIt was revelation day. It was a hassle trying to calm mum down after witnessing me and Quinn kissing. She had glared at us with her eyes widespread and in disbelief."Can someone tell me what is going on here?" She yelled."Please calm down, mum." I pleaded with my face blushing red. I was embarrassed. I shouldn't have let this happen like this. I felt like she was disappointed in me and I hated myself. I wanted my mum to know about my relationship with the boys but it was not like this. I felt bad with the way she was looking at me and I wished that the ground would open up and swallow me whole."Calm down?" She squealed. "I just saw you kissing your brother while the others are looking at you. That was a passionate kiss for it to be seen as brotherly. You were sucking on each other's tongues and Jack was looking at you as if he couldn't wait to undress you. How can you tell me to calm down?"I sighed. I shouldn't have said that. "I'm sorry, mum. I will tell you everything that
Quinn"Mia! Wait! Stop!" I shouted at her to stop but she wouldn't. She kept on running, heading outside and I knew that I was messed up if she could get out of the gate. She would misunderstand the whole scenario and harden her heart before I could find my brothers, and go home to beg her.What was she doing here? Scratch that. That wasn't the right question to ask. She could be here for reasons of her own that she knew. The right question to ask was why she would think that I was cheating on her. I understood that the situation wasn't a nice one and it was possible that jealousy suddenly crept up on her but she should have held on to her logic. I was a wolf and never would I cheat on my mate. She was far from thinking right and that was what I had to help her do which was why I had to run to her before she could escape.I ran after her, watching as she took a bend. I sighed. If she could get out of that turn, she would be at the gate and that would be the end of my immediate apolog
MiaI flicked off the paper in front of me, tired of staring through fonts and ink. I had been busy. No, I had been trying to keep myself busy. Those were what I had been trying to do all day, all week since the boys had left.I missed them. I missed them with an ache that had my heart rolling and I couldn't imagine how they would feel as well since we were all mates and were apart. I was sure that it would be hard on them the same way it was hard on them. I wondered how they felt. We had calls everyday and almost every minute but that couldn't suffice for being together.I couldn't tell if they were in pain from our phone conversation as they were trying hard to hide it from me which was also what I was trying to do. I was also hiding it from them how much I missed them so they wouldn't be distracted and be able to concentrate where they were.I sighed. As if we could hide how we felt. Even if we didn't talk about it, we all knew that we were missing one another greatly. It was the m
QuinnI thought I had seen the last of Susan by telling her how I didn't miss her but I was wrong. She was more determined to have me in her space and because I mentioned my brothers the other time, she extended a bit of the gesture to them though it was all too obvious that what she was doing to them was fake and all she was concerned about was truly me.I sighed. I hated unnecessary attention of any kind and I had tried my best to avoid it by staying on my own in the barracks but now she was bringing me out in the open against my wish.I didn't like this and I was going to have to talk to her. What did she think that she was doing? That I was going to like it? She was being ridiculous if she didn't know it and she had to be dreaming if she thought that I was going to like her gesture.I remembered that I wanted to tell my brothers something and was about to speak up but the bell beat me to it."Oh! That is the bell for dinner. Shall we?" Jack said."No problem." John replied.We had
QuinnI missed Mia. I missed her with a pang. I didn't think that I could stay far away from her any longer. It was easier staying far from home when I wasn't a mated wolf but it wasn't the case now. My mind was conflicted and my heart longed to be home where she was.It was affecting my body as well and I had gone weaker and wasn't discharging my duties properly. I wasn't the only one as I had expected. I wasn't the only one mated to Mia and missing her. The three of us were weak and the major had noticed immediately the second day that we reported for duties. We got tired easily and were easily distracted.He had teased us about losing our abilities because we had been away from so long and had told us to get back in shape as soon as we could. I shook his head. If only that he knew. He didn't know that what we needed wasn't more trainings but being by the side of our mate.There was no way that Mia could be allowed to stay and live here with us as she wasn't an officer. We were the
MiaNo matter how much you anticipated or feared a day, it was going to come. I didn't even have the time to anticipate this time as it had come suddenly. I hadn't been expecting it. How could their major tell them to come back and give them only two days to do so? Who did that? He hadn't even given them time to prepare at all and had just wanted them to be back. Didn't he think that they were going to have to prepare? What if they were in the midst of something important when they had gotten his mail? Were they supposed to have dropped it all and reported to work?I believed that they were. They wouldn't have been military men if that wasn't the case. They weren't meant to complain when they got an order but followed without a complaining.I snorted at my thought. I knew that they were military men before I got involved with them.I was going to miss them. I stood by, watching them with my arms folded on my chest as I watched as they packed their luggage into the car.They turned whe