The Hidden City

CHAPTER TWO - ANASTASIA LAUREN KING

Anna! Anna, wait!

Rolling my eyes I turn around and face my best friend Staci.

” What Staci? ` A few minutes ago she was too busy to talk to me because she was trying to talk to Samantha, the most popular girl this year.

Why are you walking so fast? Why did you leave? Don’t you want to at least try to be friends with Samantha?

Samantha Darma Collins uuggghhh one of the popular girls. My age. Will also be introduced this year. Her wolf Carla is dark brown straight fur. A bit stuck up. There is some power coming from her. Likely to be mated to a lower leader like a Gamma.

Carla is a dark wolf full of darkness not good

No, Staci you know I do not! She does not want to talk to the witch freak! If you want to be friends with her you will do better if I am not around!

No Freak! No Freak!

You are not a witch! Stop talking like that!

“You know and I know that’s what everyone calls me!” I turn back around and continue walking to my next class.

Staci came to the dorms two years ago. A year early but she did not change till last year.

Rumors swirled around her about things her father did to her.

The other girls did not talk to her before she got her wolf, so we ended up being friendly.

That first year we hated the other girls together.

Then she got her wolf. I was the one with her when her wolf showed up, and I was the one with her through her first shift.

Staci Geniva Fontaine her wolf’s name is Gena. A shaggy brown medium size wolf. I do not feel any power from her wolf so unless she mates up she will be an Omega.

Gena good wolf. I like Gena.

Her parents have never come to see her so sometimes my mother takes her with us on our Sunday outings.

But over this last year we have started to grow apart. She spends more time around the girls we used to hate together, and less time with me.

As usual she did not follow me. She turned around to go find one of the other girls.

I am Anastasia Lauren King the Witch Freak. I’m not really a witch. But because I have the only white wolf, the Elders think I will have some super powers, or whatever.

So I get to spend every one of my Saturdays training with the witches! Like I have nothing better to do with my time! I really do not have anything better to do with my time, but I would like to think I could!

I have freakish good hearing even for a wolf, so good in fact, I had to have the witches get me ear plugs to wear just for a normal day. I have many other powers that I have discovered already, but I have not told anyone, not even the witches! Only my mom, and the witches know about my hearing because that was the first power to show. The rest I have found by experimenting but not told anyone.

Not Freak! Special! No Freak!

A little late with that response Penny.

So far I have found that I can change water temperature and strength. This comes in handy in my shower that barely drips warmish water. Also I do not seem to get burned by fire. I think that has something to do with my water control but who knows?

I do! Not water power! Fire power!

If it is Fire Power then wouldn’t I be able to set things on fire? Which I can not do! I think that would be sick! I can think of some girls or other things that I would burn! Ok, ok. I would not likely burn the girls.

Also I seem to be immune to witch spells. But it means I have to really pay attention, and act really well, in my Witch training on Saturdays.

I do not really know what all this means but it comes in very handy right now!

I love my wolf! Penelope, who I call Penny, to me is the most beautiful wolf I've ever seen! She is all white with a black star on her forehead. We rarely talk but that’s because we have already joined as one. Our thoughts and actions are usually as one.

I love you too, my Anna! My Anna is a good human!

I changed at age 8 for the first time and we joined when I was age 12. Early compared to most girls who shift around age 12 and as far as joining, some never do!

Until the age of 8 I lived with my mother Marie Claire And my father Andrew Davis King. But once I shifted for the first time I was sent to live in the girls dorm.

We are special! Only special wolves change early!

I bet my father loved that! He never paid me much attention at all, not even bad attention. When it came to me I was invisible to him.

Not your father really. Bad father.

My mother on the other hand has been a wonderful mother to me! There for me whenever she was aloud for as long as she was aloud.

Immediately coming into the dorms and school I was shunned by the other girls. But it could have been worse! I see some girls being picked on but not me. I think they think they will catch a witch's curse if they come anywhere near me! I even ended up in a great room because of it!

They thought they were putting me in an old storage room, when they stuck me in the room at the end of the hall. But that room, once I cleaned it out, was bigger than the others, and even had a balcony!

I love sitting outside! Moon nice!

No one cared that I moved everything out and put it in the other storage. Once the room was cleaned out it was huge.

Since everyone leaves me alone I was able to go through storage, and I found a huge bed frame and mattresses! I found an old beat up soft reading chair that I placed next to a bookshelf that I filled with a box of books I found. I also found a desk with drawers and an old round mirror that I hung above the desk.

My mother bought me bedding for the bed and once it was made up and full of pillows it was quite comfy! I put the little table, and two chairs that the city provided me with out on the balcony, and I can sit out there, and see male wolves walking around on their side of the center.

The tiny cot-like bed that the city provided I turned into a couch. I found an old little space heater, and put it in the room on a wall and painted around it so it looks like a fireplace.

I love my room! No one does room checks on me, so no one knows how I have my room set up. Haha it looks like a poor princesses room! My wolf is always happy in this room!

Yes! Room nice! Love room!

The other girls share a room that has two twin beds, two desks, two bookcases, one table with two chairs. Yup I got the best out of the deal!

They thought they were shoving me away and forgetting about me !!

I go to wolf school Monday through Friday, Witch training on Saturday, then once a month my mother takes me out to the store ring on Sunday. Most girls do little jobs on the weekend to earn a pay from the city. I earn a pay from the city for just going to Witch training, because they are sure that one day I will come into my powers, and use them for the good of the city!

Your powers come. You are a strong human!

I requested my pay to be cash instead of being put in the city bank, and I keep it in a box in the back of my closet. Not too worried about anyone stealing it, because not even Staci comes to my room!

I do not know how much I have. I have never counted it. I do not need to spend it because everything I need is provided by my mother, or the city.

On Sundays sometimes I meet Staci for breakfast and go to the training grounds. We work out or learn fighting moves. Neither of us are really into that kind of stuff but it gives us something to do.

I am 17 years old. In two days I will be 18 years old and my birthday falls on the day of the Introduction Ball!

Because my birthday is on that day they let me do my scents a little early. So that I could be introduced on my birthday, and not wait another year.

Last week I went with nine other girls to a witches cabin for three creepy days! Before we went we all had to shower in a scentless soap, then wear a sweatshirt and sweatpants and sneakers that they provided us, with NO UNDERWEARS!

Then for two days we all sat around in a cabin doing nothing. We were not allowed to shower. You think girls can not stink? Oh boy! They sure can stink!

On the third day, the witches called us each one by one and sniffed us over and over, and decided what our first two of three scents that we would have were. Mine is Vanilla and Citrus. Citrus, how generic is that! Not Vanilla and Lemon, or Vanilla and Orange, no just Citrus!

I love our scents. Smell nice! No stink!

They then made up various things with the scent like soap, shampoos, perfumes, and sprays. Of course since mine is generic I can buy them in the stores and not have to come back to the witches. As if that would be a problem, since I spend every Saturday with them!

Our third scent will be found by our mate. It is supposed to smell like his favorite food, or something like that. We are supposed to smell so delicious that he will just want to eat us up! Is that a joke for being a wolf? I guess I’ll find out one day if I get a mate!

One day we get mate. I want a mate! Mate good!

I do not think I will. If I do I doubt he will be around long once he hears the others talking about me! I am sure I will be a rejected female and have to live in this dorm the rest of my life! But how bad would that really be? I am sure I could stay in my room!

No! Mate good! No freak!

As soon as I got back to my room I took a long hot shower, and used my new scented items. I really like the way they smell!

Last Sunday my mother took me to the shops, and bought me everything I would need for the ball! Of course she bought me a year's worth of, yup, you guessed it, my scents! She even found eyeshadow, and lip gloss with my scents!

Everything matches my olive skin, and my gray hair! My skin is smooth, which I love and I put lotion on it everyday. I see some girls with scars, or dry skin. The dry skin just makes me want to throw a bottle of lotion at them! As far as the scars, I know they can not help those. Most came before they were under the protection of the city, when they lived at home.

That’s right Gray Hair! As if I needed another reason to be different than anyone else in my school! I have long, very long, light gray hair that hangs straight down past my bottom! I have never cut my hair. Sometimes it is hard, but I like that it is different. Most girls have short hair so it is easier to keep under the bonnet we all have to wear.

My eyes are goldish brown, and I have a natural makeup look on my face. But my mother still insists on buying me makeup all the time. I just shove it in one of my desk drawers.

My eyes are gold! Special! Only I have gold!

I stand at five seven. But I got heels with my dress because my mother says most males stand over six feet!

I am a large wolf! I can match the male wolves!

My body is on the skinny side I think, because people keep reminding me to eat. Eating is not my favorite thing. I mean I like food, and all, but sitting down, and eating a ton of food, not my thing. I usually just grab to go food like fruit and yogurt, or sandwiches from the kitchen. The less time around those girls the better!

One day I hope to get a hot plate and a refrigerator in my room! I mean I’m sure I have the money! I just have not figured out how to get them, much less get them to my room!

Anyway my Ball things will all show up this Friday on the morning of the Ball. The rest of the girls are getting their things the day before me.

Dress nice! You're nice in dress! Mate will like it!

Staci is very jealous right now. This whole week she has been kind of rude to me. She will not turn 18 till next month which means she will have to wait a whole year for her Introduction. It just gives her another reason to grow further apart from me