First Shift

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    Angelica was standing in her room looking in her full-length body mirror. She was fourteen and was five foot tall. She had beautiful dark purple hair that went down to her hips, and beautiful blue eyes. She would always wear a wig to cover up her purple hair because the other kids at school made fun of her when they saw it. When she was younger, she did not understand why she had purple hair or why she was so different from regular kids but now she does. At the age of five she started hearing a voice that told her it was her wolf and that she needed to find her own kind, it confused her a lot. At the age of ten she shifted into a wolf for the first time and it was then that she realized she was a werewolf. She started doing research in her free time away from others and learned that the voice she has talked to for the last five years, that says her name is Starfire Purplemoon, was her wolf talking to her. Starfire also told Angelica that her real name in Angel Purplemoon, but she did not know anything more than that.             From all the different research Angelica did, she learned that werewolves first official shift was at the age of fifteen, and after the shift is when they got their smell for their mate to find them. From her shifting before she knew who her wolf was being pulled to, but she did not know if they were mates or not, she was also afraid by who this guy was. She could not even begin to ask her parents about any of it because they were human. She could clearly tell that from the way the smelled after she first shifted. After her first shift a lot of things changed for her because she could tell who was a human, witch, werewolf, and werecat. She strongly believed that there were vampires but that they stuck to their own kind and did not mingle with the others.  Since finding out that her parents were humans, she learned that she was adopted and that her birth parents were killed a year after her birth.         She was in her freshman year of high school and was getting scared because this is the year that everyone in her class would shift into a werecat or werewolf or find out if they were witches and warlocks because they were all turning fifteen. Her own birthday was tomorrow, and she had decided that she was done hiding her purple hair from the kids around her. It was getting to long and a lot of the kids in her class either dyed their hair different colors or had natural different colors. This high school was different from the other schools she had went to in the past. She did not smell any humans in there at all. Somehow, they managed to separate all the humans from magical creatures just in time for their magic to come out.         The guy she was being pulled to just happened to be the most popular boy in school and he currently had all the girls wanting him because of it and the way he looks. He stood five foot nine inches tall as a junior, he had dark brown hair and green eyes. He was the captain of the varsity football team as well as the quarterback. He was full of muscles and tone all over from the way his clothes fit him. She happened to be the shy kid that did not talk to anyone but the teachers. She sat by herself at lunch and did not even try to make a single friend. She had gotten used to being different in elementary school and middle school so it did not bother her to not have friends, but she did wonder what having a friend who would not judge her would be like.         It was currently eleven pm and she had school the next day but from previous shifts she had she knew it happened at midnight right when your birthday starts, so she decided to stay awake instead of being woke up by it. The first time she shifted was painful but since then it has been getting better. She is hoping it would not hurt this time and that after today she would learn how to control when she shifts like the book says she should be able to do especially in a school with others that might be able to help her figure out who she truly is. She had already talked to some of the teachers there that she could tell were werewolves but when they found out that she shifted early and what her actual name was they refused to talk to her which only confused her more.         After the shift on her birthday she quickly changed back and went to sleep so she could be ready for school the next day. When she woke up and got dressed, she went downstairs to get some breakfast. Her parents looked at her strange and it was finally her mother, Shania, that spoke “Aren’t you forgetting something? Your hair is purple. You did not put a wig on yet.”         Her parents did not even like seeing her purple hair and that bothered her more than she cared to admit. She just simply responded with “No I am not. This high school is different so I am going to try it for today at least. I hope I can go without those stupid wigs from now on. I have always hated them.”         Shania had been living with cancer the last two years and wears wigs to not be bald, so she hates wigs as well. She simply looked at her with understanding and said “Good luck sweetheart. We love you.”         Once she got to school it seemed different in many ways. The werewolves that had already shifted were looking at her strangely trying to figure out her new smell, while everyone else watched her walking up with her long purple hair flowing all around her. No one not even the teachers had seen her real hair color so in her classes she had to verify that it was her and she even had to take a new photo for the school id’s. She got told that since this was her natural hair that she needed to embrace it and not go back to wigs, by all the teachers and the principal. She did like the results she got by no longer wearing a wig and she even got many compliments. Being a shy kid and having random classmates come up to you and tell you that they liked her hair was nice but overwhelming.         The school has three cafeteria’s and they separate out lunches based on magic races. Werewolves eat together in one cafeteria, witches and warlocks eat in another, and all werecats eat in the third cafeteria. When lunch time finally came around, she walked into the cafeteria to get her lunch but as soon as she did the whole place went dead quiet and everyone was staring at her. She froze in place for a few minutes trying to figure out why she suddenly became the center of attention. It was not until she turned around to run and ran smack into Aiden that she realized he was right behind her. She had smelled Aiden and noticed how her wolf reacted to his new smell of her first official shift, but she did not notice that he was so close to her.         She simply froze again and when she thought she could move she slowly looked at him starting from his feet and working her way up to meet his beautiful green eyes. When she went to open her mouth to say sorry, he grabbed her by the waist and kissed her so suddenly and passionately that she did not know how to react other than to kiss him back. When their lips met, they both felt sparks throughout their bodies especially on their lips. To say it felt magical would have been an understatement. When he finally let go of her and looked in the cafeteria everyone quickly turned away and went back to eating. She loved the kiss but was confused by what had just happened. When she finally worked up the courage, she looked back into his eyes.         “Why did you do that? I have never seen you kiss anyone before.” She said with the puzzlement still in her voice.         “You smell fantastic and I have not kissed anyone. I was waiting for my mate to be the first one I kissed. Your smell took me by surprise. I could not resist you any longer. It was hard enough to keep the distance in the hallways. The second I smelled you this morning my wolf went crazy. He wanted to take over and go to you right away. I was not going to do it this way. I wanted to talk to you first, but I could not help myself. You are just so perfect. I hope you can forgive me and would be willing to sit down with us to talk,” he said while pointing to his friends.         “Thank you for the compliments and I will join you, but can I get some food first please?” she asked while indicating that she has not gotten food yet.         He simply smiled at her and said “Yes you can go get food. I will save you a seat right next to me.”         “Okay. I will not be long,” she said while walking away.         She knew she needed to get down to bottom of everything and she knew she felt a pull to him but was that the matting bond or something else. He did mention that he was waiting for his first kiss to be with his mate, but he never actually said that she was his mate just that he could not resist her smell. It could be for a different reason, couldn’t it? Maybe it had to do with her true name, or maybe it had to do with her alpha aura since he is an alpha, or maybe it was the mating bond. It is going to be the first thing she asks him when she gets to his table with her food.         She needs to know everything especially since she has not been wanted much at home for the last five years. Her human parents freaked out when she first shifted. She did not mean to wake them up, but the pain was terrible. When she shifted back, they told her about her parents dying and asking them to watch her until a pack would, they did not expect her to shift so early. They also told her that after she shifts on her fifteenth birthday, she no longer had a home with them. She did not know how much of that was true but after school she would find out. She was not worried about that right now; she was more worried about Aiden.         Once she got to the table and sat down Aiden wrapped his arm around her as if they were dating. She got a really confused look on her face before asking him “What are you doing?”         “Oh sorry. I guess I should explain some things first instead of assuming you know everything. You did only have your first shift last night.”         “Actually, last night was the fifth time that I have shifted but the first one that changed my scent to everyone.”         “Wait you have shifted before? Why was I never able to smell you? Why have you been hidden?” he asked so confused.         “I have shifted every year on my birthday since I turned ten. I am not sure why. Everything that I have found says the first shift happens when you are fifteen. I do not know if the smell was not there until this shift or if it was me hiding my hair from people. I used to get made fun of a lot for my purple hair, so I would cover it up. I got sent to this school and realized I am not so different so for my birthday I wanted to see if people would like my natural hair color. People here seem to not care about it and they actually like it which makes me happy.” She tried to answer his questions the best she could.         “I find it odd that you shifted so early. Maybe my father, alpha of my pack, will know more about it. I will ask him when I get home later.”         “Okay” she replied.         The idea of him going home hurt her because it brought up the thought that she may be sleeping outside from now on, but also because with the bond she felt with Aiden she did not want him to leave. She has nowhere else to go if her parents were right about kicking her on her fifteenth birthday. He could see the sadness flowing off her even though she was smiling and no one else noticed it.         “What is wrong Angelica?” he asked.         “Nothing, and my real name is Angel.” She lied, but she did not want anyone to know what was going on inside her mind especially since she is used to be alone.         “Can I ask you something?” she said after a few moments.         “You can ask me anything Angel.”         She smiled at hearing her real name flow out of his mouth. It sounded so normal and something she could get used to it.         “Okay well earlier you said that were waiting for your first kiss to be with your mate, yet you kissed me due to not being able to resist me anymore. So, does that mean that we are mates?”         “Yes, that is exactly what I meant by that. All the werewolves, that I know of, are from my pack, except you of course and a few teachers. With me going to be the next alpha of my pack I can mind link with them. As soon as I smelled you this morning, I warned them all to stay away from you because you were mine. I know a few of them wanted you from their looks. So, when you walked in here everyone knew you were with me even though we had not spoken yet about it. That is why they stopped and looked at you the way they did. You have all the girls here jealous, but I do not care one bit because you are my mate and I will fight anyone who tells me differently. I have never liked any of them that way anyway.”         “Oh, okay. I kind of thought that maybe we were mates since I have had a pull to you since the start of the school year, but I did not know if it was because of being mates or because we both have a strong alpha aura.”         “I did notice the alpha aura from you too but only today when you came into school. With you having the pull towards me before today I am really thinking the wigs might have stopped my pull towards you. I do have a question for you now though,” he said.         “Okay what is it?” she asked.         “Will you be my girlfriend? Especially since we both know the mating bond is there.”         “Yes, I will,” she said proudly.         “Great! So now can I put my arm around you?” he questioned.         She just nodded her head yes, he smiled and put his arm around her. With that he asked her one more question. “What pack are you from since you do not belong to mine and I do not know of any other packs around here?”         “I do not have a pack that I know of, and I would rather not talk about my family,” she said while getting sad again.         He knew something was wrong this time, but he did not want to push her. He figured that she would talk to him when she was ready to. He was just happy to have his mate in his life especially when everyone else in his class had their mates two years ago.         She went from being a shy little girl to the girlfriend of the quarterback in half a day and her purple hair made her popular with the other girls as well. She had a good fifteenth birthday so far, but she knew it would not stay that way. She just kept her head up and finished her school day out knowing she may be homeless later.
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