The Alpha's Unexpected Mate

Aria POV Another year of this type of torture, Senior year was supposed to be a chance for every teenager to enjoy themselves and think about college and make long lasting friendships. But not for me, everything sucked hopefully this year I wouldn't have bruises all over myself again, maybe Heather and the rest would let me live this entire year with minimum damage but that was wishful thinking I just wish it wouldn’t be like last year when I   Spent two weeks in the hospital. "I thought you were supposed to be at school you dumb girl. " Sister Erica shouted at me. Another thing I'm looking forward to is leaving the orphanage. I've been here all my life I want to run away, I want to see new things, explore more… see more there has to be more to life than this cursed town. “I’m leaving sister, “I picked up my backpack and my glasses from the counter and take a deep breath. The bus doesn't take the route next to the orphanage and as a result I have to walk all the way to school. Its okay really, I didn't mind it a lot, majority of the students in our school don't use the route I do. I cut through the forest, Ranger Jack always gets mad at me when I do that but it takes off 20 minutes from my walk. By the time I went downstairs and opened the large metal doors of the orphanage. It had just began to rain.   “Great just my luck. "    I put my hoodie up and begin walking. The last time I stole an umbrella from one of the sisters rooms I got into trouble I wasn't allowed to eat supper for over month. Luckily I was going to school and so I got to eat lunch, breakfast was never an option for me, Sister Erica hated finding me in the kitchen. She said I was too greedy whatever that meant, the woman hated me most. My teacher Mr Edwards on the other hand was nice to me, he mostly packed two breakfast packs on Wednesdays because that's the only day I get to sit with him in the empty classroom before the school day starts, this year I’m in his class instead of leaving after the bell rings I’ll be able to see him perform, that’s what he says about him teaching. He calls it a performance I call it having a big ego. He's my only friend... No, there was a time I actually had friends and that was 2 years ago, before Heather and the jealousy. I had just gotten into the school's parking lot when the Bell rang. "Damn it I'm late," I start running towards the class barely making it in time. I was soaking wet, trembling uncontrollably it was late autumn and winter will be starting soon, I needed to gate a new winters coat or else I’ll die out here because of the cold. I could ask the sisters but. But they didn't care and sister Erica would beget angry if I asked her for a hand me down again, I think I’ll have to go to the lost and found, hopefully I’d get an old one.   The first day of school and I was already late luckily I knew exactly where I have to go. "Sorry I'm late,” I say as I walk inside the now filled classroom. Mrs. Gomez was looking at me from her clear glasses with that reproachful look she always had on her face. . I didn't know her that well only that sometimes when I had detention and that was a lot of times, she was there. She rolled her eyes at me.    "Take a seat Miss Clarke She said out loud and going then back to the mathematical problem that she had written on the blackboard. My eyes spotted the well-manicured redhead in the front of the class. Heather looked at me with a devilish smile and whispered something too one of her goons was seated by her. Great now I've had her attention, I wonder what type of tortures she has in mind for today. It wouldn't be that bad right? In middle school she had taken scissors to my hair, the teachers had to shave off my head as a result she was almost expelled. Her father had been angry enough to push her to apologize to me. She never did something like that ever again, at least not on my hair and not if she knew she could get caught. There goes my plan of keeping low for it the entire year. I wonder how many classes I have with the witch and her sidekicks.  By the time the bell rang again I was already dreading what will come next. "Hey Aria," Eva spoke walking towards me, I felt my heart beat quicken but before I could even say hi back she walked away not looking at me in the eyes. I couldn't help feeling the disappointment that washed through me. Eva and were once the closest friends, now she was Heathers. I wish she wasn't mad at me, it was all Adam's fault not mine. Eva, Adam and I were once close friends, when everything felt like it was hopeless and I was sucked into this dark depressing cloud I called my life they were there for me. But Adam had confessed his feelings towards me and then Eva got mad because she always loved Adam, in just one month I had lost them both. Adam finally dating Eva and them pushing me out like I was the monster in their little fairytale ending. What sucks most is I never did anything, I didn't want Adam to like me, I told Eva that but Heather got to her first, she poisoned her, told her that I wanted to take Adam away and Adam used me too, after all who would believe the stupid little orphan. "I didn't think that you was going to show your face. " Brandon said. I was just about to walk off the classroom when the big mountain in front of me stopped me. I almost forgot about them, Brandon had always been the popular boy. There was a moment in time that I loved him more than anything. The love between me and him was not like a love story rather a happy never after type of story, one where the girl is a masochist who enjoys being tortured until she dies… maybe not the best example but at that time it was how I felt. Now I just want to be left alone.    I bowed my head down low I didn't want to look into his eyes, nothing good happens when I do that. In the beginning I always fought back, I always had a quick tongue and didn't take anything from them. But as the bruises and the scars got deeper I realized that it's better to not push it, I just need to keep quiet and just get by. "Oh look at that she's not talking, "Heather said walking towards Brandon and his friends and placed a hand over his arm lovingly. Mrs Gomez have been the first one to leave the class, she had a habit of always going to the toilet immediately after a class or going to the teacher's lounge, the rest of the students filed out of the classroom, some of them giving me some giving me pity glasses. “Are you going to talk? Or are you pretending to be mute today? Eww what's that smell? Oh I know that smell, that's the smell of cheap and reused clothes. No doubt it's from The Orphan girl, “Regina, Heather's friend said in an attempt to sound funny. Okay I'm not going to stand around and listen to all of this, as much as I don't want any drama, I can take this. I can walk straight past Brandon, his goons, Heather and her little posy and leave and head to my second class. So that's what I tried to do until I felt Heather's hands grip my shoulder intensely making me groan out and pain. "Where do you think you are going freak, I was still talking to you." She said then she pushed me and I lost my balance stumbling over to the tables, my hand collided with the chair as they tumbled down on top of me, caging me to the floor. It's hurt, my vision blurred just a bit. I struggled to breathe, I could feel something warm flowing down my brown hair, great now I have to deal with blood. But this is my favorite shirt. "Let's go she's not worth our time, " That was what Brandon said as  he guided them out leaving me alone on the floor. If there wasn't any blood I would have just gone to My next class and tried to suck it up but I had an open wound, I had to go to the nurses office a place I hated more than I hated Heather. Rosa the school nurse was supposed to be nice, nurses were supposed to be kind and loving and able to heal you with their words, not Rosa she hated me, every time I showed up she would just shout at me, that I'm stupid, and why do I get into a lot of trouble. “Are you kidding me Aria, it hasn't even been 3 hours and you're here? Why do you always get into trouble? You keep getting into fights! this is why you don't have any friends you know that. Just graduate already so that I can get some peace. I keeps seeing your face every single week. Not even the skaters give me this much trouble, and they do dumb s**t every day." Rosa started rambling again and I tried to tune her out.   "Aria I understand you an orphan and what happened to your parents was horrible seeing those being murdered in front of your very eyes, that would mess anybody up but you don't have to act like this." In the beginning I would always try to tell her that it's not my fault but everybody sees me as a villain. Maybe I should become one? Maybe I should become a villain, maybe then they'll finally stop doing this to me. There were silence…. only then did I notice that Rosa was staring at me intently. Has she asked me a question? "What?" I asked assuming that she really did ask me a question, she rolled her eyes but she responded. "I said do you still have those dreams? The ones about the werewolves howling in the night? You don't look good have you been sleeping? “Rosa always had a way of catching me off guard. Last year I had told her that in confidence thinking that she'd understand it, she just laughed. But now she's looking at me intently, there was no sarcasm or humor behind that question. I could read Rosa like a book and she meant this. Did she care? But what was I supposed to tell her? That when I go to sleep I dream of this man taking me away from all of this, a man who is not human nor beast but a monster, a werewolf. It's like every time I sleep he's calling me, begging me to find him how could I even do that? How could I find somebody who only exists in my dreams? He was a mere invention of a lover’s dream, but wouldn't it be wonderful if he was? Wouldn’t it be wonderful to love and to be loved? I'm stupid. I'm too naive, dreams never come true. Stop believing Aria, things don’t work like that. "No, that was a one-time thing it's stopped, I must have eaten a bad burrito that day. Can I go now " I say as I stand up, Rosa didn't look like she  believed me but She made no attempt to stop me or continue the conversation instead she just told me. "There's more you don't know, just try and be safe, and if you're still walking through the forest don't, it's even more dangerous now Aria," "Is there a dangerous animal? A bear? " "Worse Aria," “What could be worse than a rogue bear in the woods? " "Pack politics, new leaders, new territory…. Just be careful. "   I wanted to press her more but I knew I shouldn't do it. I think I can skip a few classes, it's not like they would notice I was gone and I was a top student my grades won’t take a dip anyways. The only person who would notice I was gone is Mr. Edwards and he was too busy right now. . Rosa must be over exaggerating. There was nothing bad about the woods, that forest was the only place I truly felt alive. But was nothing bad about that place and so with that I walked out of the school and went to the woods.