The Lycan's Bride

Chapter 1

Adra POV

BEEP BEEP BEEP BEEP

I roll over trying to smack the button on my alarm. “Jesus I feel like I just fell back asleep,” I say to no one in particular while rubbing my hands over my face. I slowly get out of bed feeling like I was hit by a Mack truck, for some reason everything hurts. I decide to jump into the shower hoping it will help relax my tense muscles as I stand in the water I realize my arm stings as the water hits it. As I move to rub my hand over the area I realize I have scratches on my arm.

“How did that happen,” I think to myself. Then it hits me “oh my god isn’t that where the beast grabbed me in my dream? What in the world?” I jump out of the shower and look at the back of my arm and sure enough, there are three scratches. I turn to get back under the water thinking “I must have done this to myself last night when I was scared...yea I bet that’s what happened” I put it out of my mind and finish my shower to get ready for what will be my last week of high school.

I’m so excited this is the last week of school, my birthday is next week and I will be turning 18. That’s when my first shift will happen and I’m so beyond excited to meet my wolf and possibly find my mate. I turn on music as I get ready and dance around my room singing into my hair brush. As I’m finishing my makeup my best friend Lisa shows up and walks in laughing at me and my theatrics.

Lisa is a lovely girl shorter than my mom around 5′5" with short pink hair to her shoulders, blue eyes, and a thin build. She has a lot of spunk it's why we get along so well. I can be my mouthy self and so can she. I toss the brush at her and she begins jumping around the room singing: Girls just wanna have fun by Cyndi Lauper shaking her head flinging her short hair around and wiggling her body being funny and making faces.

“God I love this girl,” I think to myself there is no better friend out there, I am hoping that if our mates aren’t in this pack that maybe we will find them in the same pack together so we can always be together. I just couldn’t imagine life without her.

I switch off the iPod laughing and we head out of my room so we can grab our coffee. “Good morning mom and dad,” I say with a smile. My father is sitting at the table which always just looks so funny to me because he is just so huge I imagine it's how the Hulk looks trying to drink coffee with a tiny cup. I smirk to myself and chuckle a little at that thought, which makes my dad look up from the papers in his hand and raise his brows.

“And what has you giggling over there, baby girl?”

“Oh...I was just thinking how funny you look sitting at that tiny table must be how the Incredible Hulk looks” I laugh my dad chuckles and jumps up to come after me playfully and I scream and run for mom, who just laughs and smacks us with the spatula as we run around her. Lisa is standing by the wall barely containing her roaring laughter.

“Good Morning Lisa,” Ben says as he pats her on the head and walks back to the table sitting back down and sipping his coffee chuckling to himself.

“Morning Mr. Hale and Mrs. Hale” “Oh Lisa how many times do I have to tell you to call me Olivia,” Mom says “Well considering I have known her since I was three probably a lot more mom,” I say with a smirk grabbing my coffee in my mug so we can leave. Dodging my mom as she swats my arm playfully laughing. “You girls have a great day come here dear I want a hug before you leave” I give mom a quick side hug and kiss my dad’s cheek ” Bye daddy,” I say sweetly ” Have a good day baby girl, you too Lisa ...you guys be good no getting into trouble,” he says with a bright smile. We both put our hands on our chest like it hurt and at the same time say “Who US!!! Never!!” As we both crack up and walk out of the room laughing heading to start what will be our last week in the hell hole we call high school not that it's a bad place... it's just you know school.

We all belong to a medium-sized pack called Black forest our high school is an all-shifter school so we don't need to worry about holding back when doing sports and can have shifter history as well as pack history. We also study other supernaturals who live out in the world, even though in this part of the Appalachian mountains you don't see anything other than the occasional fox or bear shifter.

We are a pretty peaceful pack and we allow other shifter races to be on pack lands as long as they speak with the Alpha and do things the correct way. We even have a few rouges even though they prefer to be called free people since they don't have the mindlessness of one or the red eyes. However, they just come to school and then go back to the family groups they live in. Sometimes finding a mate and either return to their home or stay to become a pack member.

We walk out of the house and start walking to school talking about the full moon shift coming up Lisa is already 18 so she has her wolf she is just waiting for the full moon and I'm beyond lucky as my birthday is right before the full moon so I don't have to wait for the next month to shift.