4

Leaving the pack was the only thing that stood out to Hayley. She didn't want to stay where people defined who she was.

Sure, she had a few friends and all, but she didn't feel like she belong. Especially when those around her weren't afraid to point out her flaws and make fun of her.

(The wolf not wolf, they would mock.)

Hayley hated that everyone around her could shape shift. Everyone was in tune with their wolf, and knew the pain of the first shift, or the effects of the full moon on them.

They only had to worry about their mates.

(Should I reject him or not, would she reject me?)

And to make her matters worse, there was the fact of not having her actual parents around to help her through such a rough patch in her life. She didn't know which was worse, being wolfless or not having parents. She got bullied about both.

(Go find your parents,) they would say.

(Homeless girl,) they would call her.

Like she didn't have feelings too.

Hayley hated how most of them treated her. They gave her hateful looks and didn't hide the fact that they were keeping their distance. She differed from everyone in so many ways;She was certain she couldn't be a wolf.

Carrie, her adopted sister, had once said it's because she was part albino, but she didn't find it funny, and it made no sense whatsoever. Even though everyone in the Wolfgang pack had tanned skin.

Someone threw a note on the desk she was sitting at. When she opened the paper, they blocked the words ugly troll out.

Hayley scoffed, crushing the paper in her hands.

She was far from ugly. Her face was set in a soft defined beautiful oval shape, which was dotted with freckles across her Greek nose, that oddly matched with her thick bushy brows and unibrow. She had thin natural red lips that cracked at times. Mostly in the winter.

And even though she was more on the lanky side, which would make one think she was clumsy, she wasn't. She was agile and light on her feet from all the intensive training the Alpha put them through.

A book slammed into Hayley's face. When she looked down at it, they attached a note to the cover.

('Don't let the circus leave you freak!)

She only smiled to herself. She was more than used to the silly pranks, threats, and name calling by now. It was becoming more predictable and old. 

Their words no longer bothered her because she learnt how to block them out and had jokes of her own and knew just how to shut them up with her witty remarks.

Bullies were nothing but bullies, but when the tables turn, they acted as if they were always the victim.

She would always tell herself that they were the evil that was plaguing their very land, and the reason for their own failure.

Hayley nodded to herself. She decided that as soon as school was over, she would try to leave. Thinking that if she stayed too long, then her mind would get clouded like her peers around her.

She sighed when another note land on her table.

This time, it was an origami. Which she didn't stick her finger in it like the last time, where someone was nasty enough to put nose snot in it. Instead, she opened it up to see the words ‘reject' written all over it.

''So original,'' She said to herself. Looking at the poorly drawn figure of her laying on the ground, with what she guessed was blood on the ground, a wolf standing over her and something in its mouth.

She rolled her eyes. Sometimes she wished she was a wolf, so she could have cool powers to use against her antagonists. Like setting them on fire, going Hulk, or having a cool hammer to pulverise them with.

The bell rang, saving her from anymore torment, and that meant she had only two more hours before she can put her 'get away' plan into play. Which was very simple, walk to the edge of town. Cross under the barbwire. That was stupidly their border line, and make a run for it.

When Hayley got to her next class, she sat at the extreme back, having no interest in what was going on in the class. Besides the teacher, Constantine didn't even know what she was talking about most of the times. She was mixing up two different histories.

And so for the entire time, Hayley zoned out, imagining a life she would never have.

Hayley bolted from her seat as soon as the bell rang, but was stopped by Constantine, the winter wolf, aka Mrs freezie freeze. She got the name because she could chill you to your bones, but the big disadvantage was, her powers mostly work well in the winter. So they call her 'sometime freeze,' or 'maybe freeze.'

"Hayley, the bell doesn't dismiss you, I do,'' Constantine said.

Hayley bobbed her head several times, ''is that a part of the rules? Cause I have never seen that in the rule books."

A few kids laughed, and Constantine's face turned ugly. She was beautiful, could be a model with her height, hard staring grey eyes, pouty pink lips, straight nose, bob cut hairstyle, slim body, and long neck. But when she got angry, she had a way of morphing her human face with her wolf's face.

"This isn't about the school rules, this is my rules,'' Constantine growled.

Hayley gave her a smile, letting her sarcastic and witty side come out.

"Must you forget you are walking a very fine line, young lady? With no parents around, you sure push your luck a lot.'' Constantine stepped closer to the younger girl with a growl.

"Oh, sometime freeze, sometime freeze, if only I feared you. You better watch it, or else wolf's bane will be in your water supply." Hayley said, matching her teacher's anger. "Just remember that I'm not a wolf, not like your sad rabid arse.''

That got Constantine to back down.

"The Alpha might protect you now, but he won't always be around." Constantine said.

"Should I report back to him? Because that seemed to me like you are planning something, a challenge maybe?"

The two stared each other down for a while.

"I got to go, don't like wasting precious time." Hayley said. She blew Constantine a kiss and walked off.

Constantine watched as she left. The other students were going wild at the little show down, and she told them to leave.