The Lycan Prince and I

Four

I had to go to school the week after. It was the last days of school and even though I dreaded it, I had no choice. As usual I made myself useful by hiding from everyone.

Then I was passing by the ancient walls of our school when I felt someone drag me and push me somewhere.

I wanted to yelp, but my mouth was covered and to my utmost shock, it was Raj.

“Don’t say a word.” He ordered me and I didn’t.

Then he let go of me and I couldn’t stop my heart from wanting to fly out of my chest.

I was in a river filled with mixed feelings. Here was the person who had rejected me. Who has made me look stupid and here was the boy who I was madly in love with. I didn’t know what to do or even how to feel.

“That day at school.” He said.

I knew what day he was talking about, but I was completely numb. Unable to utter a single word.

“Was a mistake.” He said.

I looked at him in shock. Did he mean he leaving me was a mistake?????

“It should never had happened and it never did.” He said.

Oh Goddess. He was about to tell me he wanted to be my mate!

“Gauri is my mate and no one else.” He said.

My heart crashed. All hope of living happily ever after with him disappeared into vapor.

“We never spoke, I don’t know you, you don’t know me-

He paused, then he smiled. “Oh yes. You know me. You’re the invisible one and that means we have no business together.”

Then he leaned close towards me. The tears were well gathered in my eyes now and my bottom lip was quivering.

“Glad to know we understand each other.” And then he walked away.

I slowly fell to the floor and cried my eyes out. How much humiliation could I face?

I ran out of the room and I didn’t care if anyone was looking at me, I ran straight out of school to our elephant and ordered I was taken home.

Once I got home, I locked myself in and cried.

My sisters came back home very very angry. They had had to wait while I went on alone. What were they even talking about? They always left me if I was a minute late. I didn’t even care about them.

One time my sisters had left me just because my teacher had been talking to me after school. I had no idea where the road to the palace and so I just had to stay back at school. Eventually mama had discovered my sisters had returned home without me and went into a complete frenzy. I was brought back home and mama punished my sisters heavily. I was just eight when this occurred.

Graduation day came and I did not attend. Mama had been so mad she refused to speak to me. Papa had been very unhappy but he tried to calm mama down. Mama had no intentions of talking to me again for the rest of my life. To make matters worse, I didn’t have a friend anymore. Lakshmi had been very upset and when I still couldn’t explain to her why I had become more distant, she flared up and walked out on me.

My sisters, Well my sisters were typically the same. Or rather they were happier because I hadn’t attended the graduation.

Jhanvi had said. “For the first time in your very unfortunate life, you did something right.”

I was not going back to that school especially after what Raj had done.

Now I had no mother or father or sisters, Well my sisters had never considered themselves to be my sisters anyways and I had no friends. How could I forget? I had no mate. I was the rejected she wolf. The ugly sister, the disappointing child and the worst friend on the planet.

I was everything bad. I hated the fact that my name was Urmi because I was named after the greatest ever female Alpha, Urmi Manika. I was the exact opposite of her. She would even be ashamed of me.

How the wolves handled their mating ceremony was that the entire class of the four year wolves usually aged eighteen, nineteen, twenty and twenty one were to all have found their mates. Aarti had found her mate a year ago, Jhanvi this year and well Gauri.

Gauri had stolen what was mine. There was no way Gauri was Raj’s mate. He had caught my scent not hers. But he had come to her and she had accepted despite even knowing that he did not belong to her. But Gauri was as selfish as a goat and that meant she only cared about her and her alone.

Raj himself had walked up to me and warned me off.

I hated them all.

Our mating ceremony was held all round the world, in every country. Sometimes I wondered what it was like out of India.

We had heard and were told that The King of all wolves. The Lycan King was from somewhere called England. I wonder what it was like. Wonder what it felt like. It was a dream almost all of us dreamt of I knew.

But we only had Alphas and betas and Lunas. Our leader far at the top was the Lycan King and only few had ever seen him.

Today was our mating ceremony and declaration of Alpha.

I had no mate. So what was the point. My entire family had already left. I could literally hear my sister chattering on and on about how tonight was going to be before they left.

When I was alone, I felt empty, and then said and weak.

I came down from my bed and mistakenly kicked something under my bed. My feet hurt like I had dropped a stone on it.

Then I looked down and pulled whatever it was out.

It was a trunk. That was funny, I hadn’t noticed it before. I opened it and what I saw stunned me.

It was a chest full of gold and Saris I had never worn. I couldn’t remember exactly since when I had this, but why were the gold not usually packed in their boxes and the clothes were here too. My room was as large as a farm Ranch and so why were these put here.

My hand touched a material and I brought out a vibrant Sari so beautiful i almost fainted.

I put the Sari aside and walked to my mirror and looked at myself.

Urmi. Urmi was all I could see. Urmi that had been laughed at, Urmi that was rejected, Urmi that had been treated with disgust and I felt a sudden change of emotions. I had no idea what it was, but I think I liked what it was.

I began to undo my single braid and I let my hair flow. The single look of my hair free shocked how much I changed.

I wore the red Sari and put on the gold bangles on my hands. I wore gold pins in my hair. I placed a delicate but eye turning gold necklace on my neck. I wore my gold earrings and wore my anklets. I dipped my hands and feet inside lemon mixed with olive oils and my henna that I had made a week ago shown like diamonds.

Then I picked up my kohl and lined my eye perfectly the way I had seen Lakshmi do. I placed on a single nose ring and then I looked at myself.

This wasn’t me. This was someone else. This was an entirely different person.

My Sari was red. The dress code was Silver and cream. But I didn’t care.

I walked out of my room and when a servant saw me, he fainted.

Then I knew what this new feeling was. It was confidence.