Luna Lyza's Story

The way things change

     Lyza, POV

" What the hell that bottle could have killed me!" exaggerating a little the part of the bottle killing me. As soon as that last word exits my mouth my dad is already standing in front of me and slaps me across the face.

" How dare you speak back to me in that tone who do you think you are speaking to?" Still feeling the tingling sensation on my cheek I look at hm with confusion wandering why has he changed so much.

" Now I am going to speak and you will listen." Instead of answering I simply nod my head in response.

" Tomorrow you will miss school and go job searching it is about time you start pulling your own wieght in this house and since your mother is no longer with us things are going to change.I no longer want that boy Jake lingering around the house, you will get out of school and straight home or to work. Dinner shall be on the table as soon as I get home from work and this house better be clean or you will face the consequences. Do you understand?" I nod my head and once again another slap crosses my face leaving both of my cheeks with his hands marked on them.

" Answer me with words!" I'm able to stutter out:

" Y-y-yes sir." in a low tone without looking at him directly in the eyes.

"Now get dinner ready I am starving!" Silently I prepare dinner, once it's done I serve him and rush to my room. After taking a nice warm shower and putting on my pijamas I decide to grab my laptop and start job hunting. Figured he does have a point without my mom around the way we live is gonna change drastically. Just thinking about her makes my heart ache.I feel my wolf in the back of my mind sad, she hasnt shown herself but I feel her presence. I'm giving her time since I don't feel quite ready yet either. Mom was the one that was going to train me and help me understand my wolf a little better and explain to me about the mating part but she is no longer here anymore. After a while searching I found three job openings that might work well for me since I am still in my senior year of high school. One of them is as a waitress at an Italian restaurant, the other one is at a beauty salon doing maintenance and the last one is at a coffe shop as a cashier. With the addresses written down on my phone I decide to call it a night. I send a text to Jake before going to bed:

Lyza: " Hey Jake dont bother picking me up tomorrow morning for school I will not be going."

Jake: " Is everything okay are you sick?"

Lyza: " Yeah I'm fine don't worry I just decided to go job hunting."

Jake: " Are you sure that is something you decided on you own or are you being forced to get a job?" I hate lyling to Jake but I dont want to make things worse. Anyways I dont want more people involved in my situation at home and I know that if he starts seeing that things are getting too out of hand he will involve his parents and things will not end up good. I dont want my father casting some kind of curse upon them. 

Lyza: " No one is forcing me I just figured that without my moms income now the only way I will be able to afford my lifestyle is if i work for it, Good night text you tomorrow." I place my phone on the nightstand, tuck myself into bed and slowly drift off into my sleep.

The next day I wake up to the sound of my alarm I turn it off and head to the bathroom to freshen up. Once I'm done I go into my closet to find something appropriate for job hunting. My mom always said if you want something you have to work for it and always dress to impress. Putting on my black pumps I complete my outfit which consist of a long sleeve white button down shirt, black dress pants and a high ponytail with light nude makeup to compliment my look.heading out of the house I get an Uber and decided to go to the Coffee shop as my first stop. There's a middle aged lady at the front counter with short blonde hair, which compliments perfectly her pale skin and round face. Walking towards her I read her name tag the say Myra.

" Hello Miss what can i get for you today?" She says with a really perky tone which I kinda find annoying since it is still very early. Even though I know that if I get this job I'm pretty much going to be doing the same. Luckily I dont have to look any further after talking with the boss and going through a surprisingly simple interview I get the job and I'm told I will be starting on Monday.The weekend went once again quite since my dad wasnt home and I wasnt aloud to let Jake come over which really sucked. It's Sunday afternoon I'm finishing up dinner when my dad enters the house with once again a bottle of rum in his hand. I'm guessing this is going to be something normal in his life now. Placing the plate on the table I take a seat on the opposite side to where he sits.

" Dad tomorrow after school I start my new job at the Coffee shop, that means that dinner will be an hour latesin i get out at six in the afternoon. I hope that is okay with you?." Instead of answering he simply nods his head as he continues eating the pasta alfredo I made for dinner. Once done I head to my room, shower and then put a movie on till I slowly fall asleep.

It's been a year since my mother was killed and things have changed a lot Jake and me barely speak because after I started working we became distant and since he is not aloud in my home well it made this worse. At home this are horrible my dad is constantly getting drunk and now he has escalated from slapping me to beating me up everytime something goes bad or if he is just simply in a bad mood.

Flashback

The first time he beat me up it was because I had decided to stay with twenty dollar from my paycheck to buy myself a new pair of sneakers for work. Once I turned him in the money he counted it and noticed he was short.

" Where are the twenty dolars that are missing here?" he asked with his voice full of rage and a horrible smell of rum lingering in his breath.

" I-I-I used them to get new sneakers for work." I say softly preparing myself for a slap while Emily is growling loudly in my head. Emily is my wolf she revealed herself a week after I started working and noticed my dads abuse. She is a beautiful white wolf with a black star shaped mark on her left thigh which indicates the mix and that I am a hybrid and so is she since we are basically a two in one.

" Did I tell you that you could get yourself new sneakers?"

" No but I needed them for work my other shoes where broken." I respond while looking down and playing with my fingers do to my nervousness. Suddenly I feel him tugging on my hair and next thing I know I'm on the ground.

' Let me out I will show this bastard who he is really messing with'

' Emily he is still my dad let me handle this and anyways we still dont know what he could do to you if he finds out you are with me, He probably thinks that you still haven't awoken and its probably for the best right now,' she silently goes to the back of my head but i can still hear her growling softly.

" I didnt mean to upset you I just really needed those shoe's." With no warning he punches my head and I fall to the ground then he kicks me repeatedly till I'm close to the point of unconsciousness. He grabs me by my hair forcing me to get up from the floor.

" You have ten minutes to get yourself cleaned up and come back downstairs." He says with a blank expression on his face. blood runs down through my nose, while I'm in the bathroom I do my best to stop the bleeding and hold back the tears. There's a noticeable bruise that is starting to appear on my left eye. I'm also pretty sure that I have a rib or two broken since it is getting difficult to breath and I also feel a strong presure when i inhale. the is a pretty deep cut on my forehead the crossed through my eyebrow. No matter how fast a wolf can heal I'm positive that I will still have visual brusing tomorrow and I wont be easy to hide. Once I'm done cleaning up a little I rush downstairs as I was told. He is standing in the kitchen with a cup in his hand and there is a horrible smell invading my nostrils like if there was something rotten in the house plus the horrible smell of alcohol that usually envades the house now.

" Take this drink it is a potion that will clear up your skin from the cuts and bruises, I can't afford the principle calling me asking about your presences even though its your fault all bad things happen." I hesitate a little but decide to take the potion not for him but to avoid this conversation with Jake since we dont speak my but he does question a lot how am I doing and how are things at home.

End of Flashback

That was pretty much my life this past year. I'm seventeen now and I know that this year I am aloud to attend to the mating ball at the Diamond moon pack house. Now my question is how will I get in there territory since the dont allow wolfs who that have no pack and no invitation to enter there lands.