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Athena:
This morning, I prayed to the moon goddess because, despite the fact that my day did not go as planned yesterday, I felt loved for the first time in my entire eighteen years of existence. I was barely done with praying when I heard Rochelle knock on my door.
"Hey, pig sister, come down here and make my breakfast!"
When I heard Rochelle yell, instead of sobbing and being grumpy, I sang all the way down the stairs to do my housework.
I continued to sing until I finished my chores and went upstairs to get ready. Because my life had taken an unexpected turn, I decided to put on something bright that would catch Daren's eye. I put on a bright red outfit because the way he kissed my entire body yesterday made me love myself even more.
When I got downstairs, Miriam looked at me as if she wanted to rip my head off. It pissed her off to see me happy, and this made me happier.
"Do you think this will last forever? Giving a man access to your body will only diminish your worth, and..."
"Just like your daughter, who has been f***ing my second mate," I said, keeping my face straight. Rochelle leapt to her feet and smacked me across the face, causing every bone and muscle in my body to twitch. I stood up right away to retaliate, but then I heard Daren honk outside.
"Enjoy it while it lasts, but it will not because I will always be the queen of the spotlight and a born Luna." "A slave like you would never be fit to wear the crown," she said, pointing fingers as her mother restrained her. “Well, I’m not the one without a mate at eighteen!” I yelled, storming off with tears in my eyes.
When Daren saw that I was crying, his expression changed. He gently stroked my face before attempting to exit the car, but I stopped him.
"Please let them be," I sighed, sinking into my seat. I tried to reach for his face, which was bandaged due to the wound I gave him the day before, but he caught my hand and drew me close to him.
"You know I can have my father arrest them because you are a royal treasure!" he said, taking my hands in his. I cupped his face and kissed his cheek, assuring him that everything was fine. He kissed me briefly, causing my body to warm up.
We left right away for school, and as soon as we arrived, Daren took my hand and led me through the hallway to my class. When we got to the front of my class, he kissed my cheek and asked for something strange.
"I will be joining the football team, and I would like you to come to the cheer tryouts as well,"
I attempted to kick it, but he assured me that I would be fine. "Being on the cheer team will boost your confidence and show you how beautiful you are," he said, and I agreed.
*****
"Hey, fat ass, aren't you supposed to be auditioning for mascots?" You would look great in a Barney outfit."
My step sister Rochelle yelled from the bleachers the moment I walked onto the field, and everyone around her burst out laughing.
Daren said it would boost my confidence, so I tried to ignore everyone and their disparaging remarks about my body. He loved me, and that was all that mattered to me.
"I can not imagine her doing a backflip."
"It would almost certainly cause an earthquake, and who knows, the entire school could collapse."
"I pity the soil and the earth's crust."
As they mocked and laughed at me, my world crumbled around me. My heart was heavy, and I wanted to get up and leave, but there were too many of them, and the teacher had not arrived yet. She could not help because she, too, was thin and fatphobic, but she would not bully a student.
"Students, please be kind and eat your vegetables," her standard responses rang in my ears.
I tried to ignore them by sitting down and waiting for the teacher or Daren, but they would not leave.
"Poor seats. I can't imagine how I'd feel if a hippo sat on my face,"
One of them said, and my tear glands immediately burst. My eyes welled up with tears, but they did not seem to mind.
"We are going to need an umbrella to shield ourselves from her fatty tears."
Their cruelty broke my heart, and my only crime was being a fat omega. My life was miserable because I was born a slave and the moon goddess cursed me by making me overweight. I could not take the insults any longer, so I stood up to leave, but my vision was blurred by tears, so I did not notice when one of them stuck out their feet, and I landed hard.
Their laughter grew louder as I rolled down the stairs like a sack of baloney. Instead of receiving assistance, all I could hear was their chanting and calling me various names.
"H is for hippo."
"Smelly pig."
Some made moo sounds, as if I were a cow. This enraged me, reawakening my wolf, but I tried to calm her down because I knew I would be expelled this time. While I was crying on the ground, everyone began to murmur, and his scent hit me all at once.
"Enough!" he yelled, and I opened my eyes to meet his gaze, a glimmer of hope on my face. Daren was standing in front of me with two other football players.
"Who did this!" he yelled, and everyone murmured.
"You are going to hate what I am going to do for hurting my mate!" He roared, and then he stretched out his hands to assist me, and I immediately gave it to him.
"Provide the culprit now or I will..." He paused, then let go of me, allowing me to crash onto the hard rocky ground before finishing his statement. "Reward them with a free meal," he said, and everyone burst out laughing.
Rochelle dashed down from the bleachers and threw herself on him, and my eyes widened in surprise.
“Daren?” I called out, and he pulled off the plaster on his face to show that he wasn’t injured and that it was fake.
"I told you I would never leave you; do you believe me?" he asked, and Rochelle squealed with delight. Cameron then approached me, stepped on my hand, and said the worst thing ever.
"I, Cameron Navajo, reject you as my mate!" He spat in my face.
"I will never be your mate, you disgusting thing!" he yelled, crushing my hand even more with his foot.
Daren yelled from behind me just as I thought everything was coming to an end, and he grabbed Cameron and punched him square in the face. Cameron smirked evilly as blood oozed from his nose.
"Why fight without warning? Let us settle this as alphas and decide who will be the next Luna!" Cameron said, and Daren stood by me, fuming with rage.
"If I win, I will take her as my slave, and you will lose the throne; if you win..."
"I accept," Daren said before his brother could finish, and everyone on the field gasped.
Was he a fool? How can he Sacrifice the throne for someone as worthless as me?
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