Birthday - 1
I walked over the grass, carrying a pile of wool blankets.
We were selling up for tonight’s full moon celebrations.
I love these monthly gatherings of the pack.
We eat, laugh, tell stories of the pack’s history and of the gods‘.
Then those that can shift will run in the woods.
The rest of us, we stay behind and pretend we aren’t envious of the others.
For eighteen years I have been part of the group who is left by the fire to watch the pups and make sure they stay in the fire pit.
It was getting old, I wanted my wolf to come to me, I wanted to prove I wasn’t a dud,
I turned toward the sound of my father and smiled.
S -Dad
I had been out checking the woods together with the Alpha and Gamma in preparation for the night..
Selene Armeria Winstone
Hi, dad,
I called as I placed the blankets down on a log and then took some of them and placed on other logs we used to sit on around the fire.
They were more for coziness than for warmth, all werewolves ran hut.
Even those like me who didn’t have a wolf.
Alpha Mark
Looking forward to tomorrow?
The Alpha Mark asked as he, Gamma Jonas and my father walked up to me.
Selene Armeria Winstone
Kind of
Gamma Jonas
What do you mean, kind of, green bean?
Gamma Jonas asked. He, my father and the Alpha were all of their friends for all of their lives
No one had been surprised when Alpha Mark had named my father his Beta and Jonas his Gamma as he took over the running of the pack from his father.
That had been years before me and my brother were born. We grew up with the Alpha and Gamma families as an extension of our own.
My brother, Aegaeon, was best friends with James, the Alpha’s son.
Everyone expected me to be best friends with Cindy, Gamma Jonas‘ daughter.
But we didn’t get along at all. We just remained on friendly terms because of our Families.
S -Dad
I think my pumpkin is nervous. Turning eighteen is a big step,
Dad said, placing his arm around me and pulling me to his side.
Alpha Mark
That’s right. She will be able to sense her mate, and he will be able to identify her if they both are over eighteen.
The Alpha said with a big smile.
S -Dad
She’s too young for that kind of thing,
My dad scowled and both of his friends burst out laughing.
My dad and Alpha Mark were partly right
I was nervous about being able to sense my mate.
My wolf still hadn’t come to me, I had never been able to shift and for each full moon that came and went I looked weaker in the eyes of other werewolves.
You started to be able to shift between the age of sixteen and twenty–five.
Everyone knew the younger you were when your wolf came, the stronger it is and therefore you, would be.
James had shifted for the first time a month after turning sixteen, my brother seven months after his sixteenth birthday.
Cindy had been a little over seventeen when she shifted.
I was almost eighteen, and I hadn’t even felt a slight tingle during a full moon.
I was afraid that if I found my mate, he would think I was too weak.
Alpha Mark
You’re not still worried about your wolf, are you, little one?
The Alpha asked. I nodded.
We had had this conversation many times in the last two years.
Alpha Mark
Selene Armeria Winstone, two years is nothing she will come to you,
I flinched as he used my full name.
My mother has a thing for all things growing and has middle named her only two children after her favorite plants.
My father didn’t object because he loves her too much to not let her have her way.
Selene Armeria Winstone
I know, Alpha
S -Dad
You are perfect, just the way you are, pumpkin
Father said and kissed the top of my head.
Selene Armeria Winstone
You have to say that, you’re my father
Selene Armeria Winstone
I pointed out.
Gamma Jonas
And if some boy tells you anything else, you tell us, and we will beat his ass
Selene Armeria Winstone
Thank you uncle Jonas
He told me and ruffled my hair
I objected and tried to get away, but my father laughed and kept me in place.
I hated when people messed with my hair.
It was hard to keep under control with its sunny curls at the best of times, but mess with it and it gets fluffy, poofed and uncontroable. Becaming one big poof of Tangles and frizz.
Alpha Mark
Okay, enough lazing around, Move your asses. I will see you later tonight, little one, and after midnight we will colebrate your big day,
My father sighed with pretend annoyance.
Sometimes I think the three of them are stuck in a permanent teenager mode, and it scares me a little to think of them running the pack.
Our pack is one of the strongest and most highly thought of packs in the world.
As my father and his two friends continued their inspection, I got back to my tasks for the evening.
Usually I would help my mother as she and some other women prepared the food.
But I had been put on other duties, and I’m guessing, and hoping, it’s because they are working on a surprise cake for my birthday.
As I walked over to Sally, Jonas mate, to get information about which games she has been planning for the pups, I tried to remember that I’m lucky.
I have a good family, I have good friends and a good pack.
So what if I don’t have a wolf?
Three out of four isn’t a bad thing, right?
And if I found my mate, and he loves me as mates do, then I have four out of five.
Unless he rejects you because you don’t have a wolf, a small voice in my head kept saying.
It’s like the voice is a broken record, playing over and over again in my head.
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