Stella POV.
"Which room do you want Stella, cause whatever she wants, I want," Finn says with a big teasing smile on, but I wasn't in the mood, as soon as we walked inside this house, I felt like I didn't belong here, I knew I had to leave, to run out, toward the wood and hide.
"Finn, leave your sister alone, she's having a hard time," mom scolds him."Come on, Stella, on the pictures they sent, there's this one room that would be perfect for you," dad says going up the stairs and dragging me along with him, I didn't want to go up, but it felt like I was on autopilot.
"This one," dad says opening the door to one room, it looked to be very small, like a small closet, it's where you put the unwanted child if there was no space underneath the stairwell. "This one?" I repeat to dad."Well, no, not this one, this is the extra storage room for your mother, come on," dad says leaving the first room and going into the next one, it was a bathroom, he's putting me in a bathroom now?
"Ryan, I guess this is the room you wanted to show her," mom calls from another room, dad nods and guides me to where mom is calling."Thank you, babe, what would I ever done without you," dad says kissing mom's cheek.
"You'd put our daughter in the closet," mom answers him with a chuckle. "I'm not putting her in a closet, Stella can come out if she wants, I would be happy if she didn't, but if she does, I'll be there for her," dad starts trembling. "Dad, I'm straight," I assure him. "Thank god," dad says with a sigh."Even if you were gay sweetie, we'd still love you," mom promises me and he just nods.
"Would you love me if I'm gay? How come Stella got the best room in the house?" Finn asks walking into the room, he doesn't even look and decides I have the best room. "I'm their favourite," I say, although I knew Finn might be the favourite one, but they like me just as much."You're happy moving, she's forced to, she gets a good room to make it up for her," mom says.
"Fair enough," Finn agrees, everyone agrees that this room was great, but I still haven't seen the room, I waited for everyone to leave the room before I looked around. It's one of the biggest rooms I have ever seen, it's a lot bigger than my old room, it had sunlight coming through the big window, the sun made it feel warm and happy, I walked toward the window and saw that there was a giant window seat there. I took a seat there and looked out, I could see the woods, the whole house was surrounded by woods, big trees, and no animals, but the fear was still there."Get settled in," Mom calls from the door, dropping my bag, I stayed seated on the window seat unable to take my eyes off the woods, the woods were calling me, maybe it's a new bear thing, they call you into going into the wood so they can kill you, I rolled my eyes at myself, I'm being stupid now.
"Stella, you want pizza or fried chicken?" my brother's question pulled me out of my thoughts. "Huh?" I say confused."Mom, she wants Pizza," he calls and walks into my room closing the door behind him.
"You haven't unpacked yet?" Finn asks and I shrug, I didn't do much, the woods had me under their spell. "Do you think these woods have magic in them?" I ask him. "They are magical sure," Finn agrees with me."No, I mean, do you think they have magic, real magic?" I ask him.
"If you mean a creature in the woods calling you to come over, calling your name, telling you you'd be safe there, you feel like you need to run out and hide there?" Finn asks and I nod my head, that's exactly what I'm feeling, an urge to get out there. "Nahhhh..." Finn says and I look around for a weapon to smack him with, but can't find any."You stupid," I say frustrated.
"Hey, it's pretty out there, it's calling me too, but this isn't Moana movie, the sea isn't calling us," Finn says in a firm voice, he's a big Disney fan. "Thanks a lot, Finn, I thought that I was the lead or something, that I'll start singing and dancing," I say with too much sass. "You need to start unpacking," he says opening my suitcase for me and throwing it around the room to make it look like I am busy putting my stuff away."Thanks," I say, if mom and dad check on us, it'll look like I'm working on it.
"You welcome, can't have your ass grounded already, we need to go out and discover," Finn says. "But we're not going into the woods," I say in a firm voice. "Sure thing mother, we'll stay in the city, you see the city?" he asks me pointing out toward the window. "Finn, can you be less mean?" I ask him. "Someone needs to keep you humble," he answers me."And that someone happens to be you?" I ask him with a raised brow.
"We all got a job to do," he answered me with a shrug, how innocent of him, I started to actually unpack, putting my things in the closet, I had a big space to put my stuff in, more storage but at what price?"You still sad?" Finn asks me.
"I don't know, I'm not too excited, but I'll survive," I answer him. "Good, I need my sister out there with me when we go to explore the new country," Finn says and I chuckle. "Of course, who else would you throw to the bear while you run for your life," I say. "I was planning on throwing you to the wolves actually," Finn says while laughing out loud."Funny," I answer him, I haven't thought much of wolves since coming here, but I don't think wolves would be that bad.
"Kids, dinner," Mom calls us from downstairs, we leave my room and go down to the kitchen, the food was pizza, it wasn't the same pizza we had at home, but it's good too."You ready for school?" dad asks starting small talks with us.
"School?" Finn asks him, we thought we'll have some days off before we are forced to get back to learning. "Yes, the company did the transfer papers, you'll be starting in Saint Louis school tomorrow," dad says."Dad, we don't know anything about that school, how about some help?" I ask him.
"It's a local school, been open for like a hundred years, the education is top-notch, most of the students are local," dad says with a shrug, that's the whole explanation that we got regarding the school. If the students are all local that means they know each other, and we're going to be the new students who moved in during the half of the semester, maybe it'll be like the Twilight book, or maybe we'll be bullied. Knowing my luck, it's probably the latter, the twilight book had vampires, and we all know that those don't actually exist."Do we have uniforms?" Finn asks, we're used to those, so when dad said yes, it was something typical for us.
"We don't have the uniforms, we can't go tomorrow, we'll look like a sore thumb without them," I say trying to avoid going to school already. "We're driving you there early tomorrow, you'll get the uniforms, wear them before the classes start," dad says, there goes my hopes and dreams."But that's not fair," Finn whines, he too wanted to stay at home for an extra day.
"Life isn't fair, get a helmet," mom says, we're raised this way, we're always told to get used to thing, no one is going to adapt with us, we have to adapt with the world. "Thanks mom," Finn says with an eye roll while I chuckled at him, poor guy."If you're all setlled get an early night, you need your rest," dad says.
"We slept during the flight dad, it's morning back at home," Finn objects. "This is home now, get used to the new timing," dad says firmly. "Real cold man," Finn says on his way to his room, unlike him, I didn't sleep through the whole flight, I was busy crying, I'm exhausted now, and happy to obey and call it an early night."Good night," I say leaving the kitchen and heading back to my room, I got a bed all set for me, but I had to put my own sheets on, the house was fully furnitured for us, but it lacked a touch of home, it feels like someone's else place and that's not just because I wasn't feeling very confident in here.
I tried to put my things out while I'm at it, I tried to make the room look more of mine, but I kept having the feeling that someone was looking at me, like I'm being watched, I turned to the winodw, it was fully dark now, the day ended aburptly in here, it doesn't go slowly, it simply went dark.I tried to look through the woods but I couldn't see anyone looking at me, but the feeling of being watched didn't go away, I decided to close the blinds just to feel safer, but even with them closed, I still had that same feeling going through my veins.
I got under my covers, turning the light off so the one watching me couldn't see me anymore, I tried to sleep, but the fear had me wide awake, I was tired, and I felt the urge to cry again, but no more tears came down.I have managed to fall asleep, but I don't know what time it was, there was no alarm clock, so I had to depend on my parents to wake me up in the morning, my dreams were filled with nightmares, I saw figures following me, running after me, and I tried to runa way, a voice on the other end of the darkness kept calling me, telling me to come over to be safe.
I woke up with a gasp, I'm calling for someone that I don't even know, I'm calling for someone to keep me safe, I didn't even know that person and I'm dreaming of them, I'm losing my mind, it's this place that's driving me insane.I went to the bathroom and got ready for the day waiting for mom to tell me it's time for us to leave the house, I went toward the window and pulled the blinds up, sitting down on the window seat, I looked out of the window, I couldn't see anyone, but I felt like the woods are calling me, next I'll be singing the woods are calling me, I tried to shake myself out of this.
"You up early," Mom says opening the door and looking inside. "I couldn't sleep much," I answer her."If you're ready can you help me make breakfast?" Mom asks.
"Sure," I say, and walk down to the kitchen and look through to make breakfast, we had basic food in the fridge, I guess the company got us the food as well. I went with the easiest breakfast, making some toast and getting some kind of spread out, then I went on the search for coffee, I know dad doesn't like me drinking too much coffee, but I like it, it helps me wake up."Mom do we have any creamer?" I ask mom, looking around.
"No, we have milk, it's better for your bones," she answer me and I groan, I preferred creamer. "I'll make sure to add some to my shopping list," she says, I know she's greatful that the company has provided some food, even if it's not our favourite.Stella POV."Ready to go?" Dad asked me, he saw the milk out of the fridge, and he said he was very proud of me for having milk and being healthy, I had to hold back my laugh, I was having coffee, but he didn't need to know that."I hate you, I hate the world, grrr," Finn says walking out, he was dragged out, and pushed toward the car, and he took a nap in the car as dad drove us toward the school, the whole place was covered by wood if I pay attention, I'll notice that there are other houses around, we're not the only ones out there, maybe if I scream my sound would be heard after all, I think to myself with a chuckle, I won't die a long and painful death after all."How are we gonna come back home?" I asked my mom, if they only have one car, and if dad is taking it to work, how would we move around?"You can take the bus," Mom said, and I looked at her with wide eyes."Mom, the bus? Really?" I asked her, maybe it's cool to get on the bus around here, but I had my doubts, taking the
Stella POV."What do we have next?" I groaned to my friend, I didn't want to look at my schedule, and I was in a bad mood, Mr James had ruined my hopes and dreams of having a nice day at school."Can I see your schedule?" she asks and I hand it over, showing her my schedule, she looks through the whole thing, pointing to all the classes we're gonna be sharing, I was happy to have a friend finally."We got one more class before lunch, come on it's not the worst class ever," Calesti promises me with a smile on her face."Calesti," I say getting her attention, we're becoming friends, I hoped, having a friend makes things a lot better."Yeah?" she says with the same smile on her face."My brother is here in the school with us, I wanted to check on him," I tell her, telling his grades next, he's younger than us."Oh, they're having lunch right now, you two won't be meeting a lot, they keep us separated since the younger students and the older ones keep starting fights," Calesti answers me,
Stella POV."Did you text mom?" I asked my brother, the whole place and area looked the same, everything looked so similar, I couldn't decide if we made it or not."I did, she's lost as well," Finn says with a groan, we have found the bus, we're not the only ones on the bus, but we're the lost ones, and we're the ones who don't even know where our home is."Great, how are we supposed to get home?" I say on the verge of tears, I was always the crybaby, and this whole place is driving me insane, this place is pushing me to the edge."We'll get off the next stop and walk until we find home," Finn says, it's the best plan any of us had so far, and so I agreed with him when we found the bus stop, we got out of the bus and started to walk, there are numbers, there are names of the streets, so you'd think we won't be lost."So where is home?" I ask Finn, hoping he knew the number of our home at least or the name of the street."No idea, text dad, you're his favourite," Finn says and I roll m
Stella POV.I woke up at school, I wasn't very excited about school, but if I went to school then I wouldn't have to go to the stupid doctor, I'm fine, I don't have anything that's wrong with me, I was just tired, I was scared and things happened, but I'm fine, I'm healthy.I wore my uniform and fixed my hair, I got my bag and walked down to the kitchen to meet with the rest, I sat down and ate my breakfast waiting for Finn and dad to join us too."You're going to school?" Dad asks me."You say it like it's a bad thing," I say with a shrug."I'm still going to get you a doctor's appointment," Dad says in a firm voice."But I need to get to school dad, I can't skip, we just started school yesterday," I say sounding hurt over the fact that I'm going to be skipping school."She's right, let her go to school," Mom says with a smile on her face."Thanks, mom," I say with a big smile on my face, it felt like I got out of going to the doctor and I'm happy about that."Come on, let's go," dad
Stella POV.A strange number was calling me, I looked at my phone and looked at Mom, we're still in the car, we're going back home, the doctor's news wasn't that good, the doctor said I was a bit underweight, and that I need to take some kind of vitamins, I glared at the doctor as he kept on going talking about how the sun and the town weather would fix me up, would make me feel better, but I only glared at him, I'll be much better if I go back home."What's going on?" Mom asks me as I'm looking at my phone confused."A number is calling me, it's a strange one, no one knows my American number," I say, we didn't have time for me to switch numbers yet, so no one is supposed to know this number."Answer it, maybe it's your father," she says, but my dad was still using his American number as well, he messages and never calls, but maybe he's just worried about me, I answered the starnge number still very confused about who that is."Hello," I answer the phone."Stella, are you okay?" A voi
Calesti POV.Jealousy is a green monster, jealousy is behind most fights among children, the ones who can't control their feelings and end up hurting each other, I know we're not like others, I know we're different but we should respect each other feelings.Theo is my cousin, he's like a brother to me, we're good friends, we might not be spending a lot of time together at school, but outside of school we're good friends, and we spend a lot of time together.I'm not a human, and neither is Theo, and that might be really cool, it's fun and all, but Theo is messing with the wrong person, Theo is too close to having his ass handed to him by our boss, that to put it in human terms, and messing with Milo never ends up well.When Theo dragged the human girl out of the restaurant I followed them, I don't trust Theo alone with her either, I know he's her number one protector, he'll be the one who'd keep her safe always and forever, but that doesn't mean that he won't get mad or overwhelm her w
Finn POV."I don't understand why are you crying?" I ask my sister confused, she's a softie, she cries easily, and today is a bad day, I didn't want our parents to see her crying, they are good and nice and all, but if they find out she's crying about something stupid, which she most probably is crying about, they wouldn't be so nice or soft on her, favourite or not, dad isn't raising a softie, he's raising a bad bitch."I'm not crying," My older sister lies to me, I'm only fourteen but I can easily read her, I know when she's crying for real, and when she's just tired, she's lying about being tired, something made her cry."Liar, did someone hurt you? You just have to tell me and I'll deal with them," I say meaning every word I have said, I'll be there for my sister, older or younger, she's my sibling and I'll take care of her."No one hurt me," she says, and I believed her, but as I said she's sensitive."Then did someone say something that made you feel hurt?" I asked her in a soft
Stella POV.My brother was on my side, and mom tried to talk to me, but I wasn't sure how to tell them about everything that had happened, how do I explain how things were going and why? I don't even understand half of the things that are going on, but they are going and I'm standing here confused, looking at things like a lost girl."Hello," I answer the phone, seeing another strange number, it must be Calesti."Hey, do you need a ride to school?" Calesti asked me and I thought about it, do I want to see Theo again this soon?"Uhh... you don't have to, dad can drive us on his way to work, and I have my brother with me," I say trying to get out of this."Hey, it's just me, I can drive you both," Calesti says, so it's just her in the car, Theo wasn't there, it wouldn't be that bad after all."Okay," I agree with Calesti."Great, I'll be there in five minutes," she says, I was still in bed, I couldn't sleep, I had been awake most of the night, and I didn't feel like getting up this morn
Stella POV."Are you even trying? You're worse than your mother," my uncle offends me, or maybe I shouldn't be offended."Mention mom again and I'm calling her," I threaten her, he still looks young while she looks like my mom, so if he wanna have a fight why don't he have it with her, she can teach him a lesson or two."No Stella, that's evil," he says shaking his head at me, we both know that she'll chew him a new hole."Then don't say I'm baby Olivia, I'm Stella, her daughter," I warn him."Fine, I won't call you that," he agrees with me and I finally could relax, well not really relax since we're still working on my shifting, I'm close, very close to doing that, but then Wolfie would scare me and I'd hide and push her back inside of me."How about a break?" I ask him, getting a headache, the headache wasn't from all the practising we're doing, we've been practising for a while now, but it's there all of a sudden, I had a terrible feeling, a pain inside of my soul that isn't suppos
Scott POV."Don't you dare," the guy says looking at me with hate and fury in his eyes, he had red eyes, the first and most obvious sign of being evil, rumours say that vampires have red eyes, and he looks like it, he doesn't smell like it, I can't actually smell him since I have my oxygen mask on my face."Hey man, take it easy, just relax," I say to him, trying to calm him down, he still had a gun pointed at my head which might mean that he could be the one who started the fire or the fire has sent him into insanity."What's your name?" he asked me, people who are scared, don't know how to react to fear, so maybe the fear had him going more on the aggressive side."I'm a firefighter, I'm here to help you," I say trying to stay calm."What's your name?" he asks me again, still looking at me, trying to see my face and my details, but I was hidden behind my mask."My name is Scott, I'm a firefighter, and I'm here to help you," I promise him. "You are Scott, the famous Scotty," he says
Scotty POV."I hate them both," she whines, she wants to go to work with me, and although I loved her, I didn't like taking her to work with me, my job is dangerous, I deal with death and accidents on a daily basis, I could get a call about a wolf accident and that would be bad, how would I get her out of the danger way, I need to keep her safe or the two alphas, and my Luna would kill me, that along with her brother and his mate, the number of people that would kill for her is scary."You don't hate them, you're mad because Milo spanked you yesterday and James just said no to having chocolate pancake," I say, she can't have sweets every morning, it's driving her insane and we can't deal with a sugar rush while we're trying to get her to train and start shifting."I don't like them, can you drop me at the alpha's place?" she asks me, I could drop her at the alpha's place, he can keep an eye on her and help with her training and she can spend some time with her uncle."I'll check with
Milo POV.She's going to give us a hard time, no she's going to show us what hard time is, she's a spoiled girl, of course, she's spoiled, she got two alphas and a third wolf who is spoiling her, who are ready to move heaven and earth to make her smile, and then if that wasn't bad enough, she has an uncle who's also a Luna who's protecting her, and a third alpha who decided to adopt her as his niece as well, he called her cute and would growl at us whenever one of us try to scold or discipline her.Now imagine trying to deal with that girl, try to train her, to make her get to deal with her wolf and obey us, a girl with two wolf alpha souls inside of her, she comes from a family that's strong wolves, she's not new to this life, but she's also very stubborn and on the verge of getting her ass handed to her."I swear Stella," I growl, using her real name this time instead of the nickname I've been using since the day we met."He's my brother, he's not dangerous, I just want to see him,"
Stella POV."But Milo and James said that I'm too young to do that," I say with a pout, I can't shift, and I can't reject him unless if I shift, and now I don't know what to do anymore."You're not too young, younger humans manage to shift after they meet their wolf, I heard your brother did it," the alpha says and I looked at him with wide eyes, Finny didn't tell me that."Babe, we agreed on not telling her yet," my uncle says and I turn to him with hurt filling my eyes."I'm telling mom," I say deciding to snitch on him."Great, now Olivia is going to chew me a new one," Uncle groans. "Back to her, she needs to shift, you're welcome to stay in here, I'm not going to throw you out of my house, so stay in here if you want to, or go back to your pack, she needs to shift," the alpha says in a firm and final word."I prefer if you stay, I can help you through shifting," Uncle says."We got a Luna at home too, she could help," Milo answers him sounding offended."No offence to your Luna,
Stella POV.'Stella, I need you to run,' James says in my head, trying to get me to move, but the fear was stronger than his order, I stayed where I was standing in the same place, the same point.'Stella, for fucks sake, move!' Milo says, but I was frozen looking at Theo, he and the rest were talking, they were fighting, all three of them sounded angry ready to fight, but I wasn't listening the fear had a good hold on me, and on every sense of mine, I couldn't move or hear, or do anything else."Come on, we need to move," Scotty says holding my hand and starting to run, that made me run with him, we both moved out of the way, away from them three wolves who were now fighting, we could hear them kicking each other butt."Is that the wolf that's trying to kidnap you?" Scotty asks me and I nod my head crying, I didn't know that I was crying, but I was clearly."That's Theo, he's insane," I say seeing him do something to me, seeing him made things inside of me move and shift, I felt like
Stella POV."I love you, I love you, oh my god, I love you so much," Scotty says, hugging and kissing my face all over, I blushed and tried to hide my face but he kept on kissing me, not letting me go, enjoying the kisses and I loved being kissed as well."Scotty, I wanna sleep," I say I was trying to sleep, but when we got in the bed he started to kiss me all over."I know, we're gonna sleep, just when I'm done kissing you," he says, still kissing me."Scotty," I whined and this time he does let me go."You're the cutest EMT ever, I wish you'd always be there with me," he says with a big sigh."I like it too excpet for the part where we had to deal with Milo and James," I say with a pout on my face, I don't like seeing them hurt, or having to fix them, I don't mind fixing strangers, but those two were mine and I don't want to see them hurt."Agreed, those two are too sexy to be hurt," Scotty says making me giggle, we cuddled and decided to get some sleep.In my dream, it was differen
James POV.We got our asses kicked, we got our asses kicked, how could that happen? We're two alphas and one of the best enforcers in the pack, and we got our asses kicked by some vampires, I recognize the vampire, she's one from my pack, one who killed my family, this thing betgween us is now personal and I'm going to kick her ass.They've hurt Olli, and they dislocated my shoulder, kicked Milo off his legs so many time I'm pretty sure they broke it, and now we're back home, we have taken a hot shower, and we're hugging our soul, all we knew was that we screwed up, the vampire won, and we went running back with our tail between our legs. We would've gone back to Milo's place, but we didn't want to guide them back in the pack, we needed to have them thinking that we're running away, that way we'll save that pack from their warth."Are you two okay?" Stella asks us again, she's not believing the lie that we're fine although we're not, we lied yet again and said that we're okay.We had
Stella POV.He was driving to the place that the radio told us to get to, I looked around, this looks like just a road, what did the wolves do to get in troubles in the middle of the road? Did they have an accident like the one I did? Or maybe they had a fight and ended up hurting each other bad enough to call us, well they called Scotty and I'm here with him."Are they okay?" I ask him worriedly, about the wolves that are hurt."I hope they'll be okay, we'll see when we get there, they're usually okay, but they call us when they're young and scared," he says."Oh, okay," I say, so it's just some young wolves who are in troubles."They'll be very intersted in meeting you though, wolves, young ones, they like to meet the Luna, the future Luna of another pack, and one who got two alpha souls, girl, you're a legend," he says making me blush."Thank you," I say blushing still."I love the blush, if I knew that this kind of talk would get you red, I would have been kissing that cute butt o