Spirit Holds on

Chapter 2

Kaylee POV

Beep. Beep. Beep

              I groaned rolling over to turn of the alarm. I hate waking up at the ass crack of dawn, but if I don't I will get punished. Here let me break this down a bit for you. ever since my mom died and I was blamed, my family an pack made me the only omega in the pack ( an if you didn't know I’m a werewolf). So I have to do all the cooking and cleaning and making sure the pack it taken care of.  If I don't do all this stuff and more my dad who is the alpha or my brothers will punish me. Let just say my life can be seen as a living hell.

BANG. BANG. BANG.

"You better be up you little b***h!" my brother Braxs yelled on the other side of my door.

"Y-yes I’m u-up, I will be down I-in 2 min..." I said meekly.

I trembled slight waiting for his response but nothing came. I got dressed quickly in my tattered sweater and a pair of old worn out leggings. I quickly grabbed my busted up old I-pod, which I’m glad it still works. Because if I didn't have music through all this I would have gone insane a long time ago. I pop in my headphones and played my favorite song (it’s called Girl by Maren Morris) as I rushed out of my room door which is technically it the storage closet but I can't complain at least I’m not forced to sleep outside. I hurried into the kitchen to start breakfast. 

"Girl, won't you stop your cryin'?

I know that you're tryin'

Everything's gonna be okay

Baby girl, don't you hang your head low

Don't you lose your halo

Everyone's gonna be okay

Baby girl..."

  I sang with the chorus while I whisked the eggs. I was swaying along lost in the music while focusing on my task that I didn't realize my brother Travis came into the kitchen. He came up behind and grabbed me by my hair and ripped the headphones out of my ears.

"Why the f**k didn't you answer me when I called for you b***h" he screamed in my ear causing me to flinch

"I-I-I d-didn't h-hear you o-over my my music, I-I'm s-s-sorry Travis" I stammered out. Travis threw me one to the ground and kicked me in the ribs, that's going to leave a a new bruise I thought as I was trying to catch my breath. As I was gasping for air he grabbed me by the hair again.

"Next time that you ignore me I’m going to beat you till you can't move! You got that you ugly cunt." Travis yelled at me and released my hair letting fall to the ground.

"Hurry the f**k up with the food everyone is waiting" he said leaving me in the kitchen. I pick myself up off the ground and dusted myself off and finished the food. I took it out to the dining room and set it up on the tables for everyone. Once I finished that I ran to my storage closet room and grabbed my school bag and my old hoodie. I couldn't wait to leave this house at least for the walk to school I will be left alone. I left my room and went to my father so I could asking him permission to leave for school. I stood in the door way for the dining room with my head down.

"A-Alpha, may I be excused for s-school?" I asked meekly, I fidgeted with my fingers waiting for his response.

"Yes you be excused but as soon as school is out you get back here immediately and start your duty and if you are late getting here you will be put in the dungeons for 3 days with no food or water." he said coldly to me

"Y-yes alpha." I said quietly and started to turn to leave but my brother Scott was behind me with an evil s**t eating grin on his face. I could tell he was planning something to get me in trouble. I bowed my head and left to head out of the pack house. As soon as I reached outside I took a deep breath of fresh air, I missed the day where I could just out and do whatever I wanted but it been many year since then. I popped in my headphones and started to play my favorite playlist. Since it was still pretty early I took my time walking to my high school, even though that place sucked, I liked it better than being trapped in a house where they treat you like a slave. The reason I like school more is because I get to see my best friend, she been there with me through everything. She stands up for me when people start to pick on me, even though I tell her not to. Because they will start picking on her as well and I don't want them to snuff out her light like they did mine. I'm just a shell of a person now a days, to be honest the only reason I'm still holding on is because of her an hopes that my mate may someday take me away from all of this. Funny enough my birthday is only a month away, but I'm not quite excited for it because it will be the first time I shift and also when I possibly find my mate. Another cool thing about my birthday is the fact that my best friend birthday is a day before mine. We were almost born on the same day but sapphire decided she was going to be first.

I stood at the gates of my school, I stared at for a minute it’s a big old building. This place holds good and bad memories but good will always outweigh the bad here. I took out my headphone and paused my music while I walked to the front doors of the school. It was still a bit early and not many student were there yet. I liked getting here early so I didn't have to deal with my fellow pack members as well as the neighboring pack members. I walk through the door and headed straight for my locker to put away my things but I noticed my locker was broken open and everything was thrown on the floor or in the nearby trash can. I can’t believe these people sometimes, can’t they just leave me alone. Haven’t they done enough to me, I would rather have them ignore then to do all of this. I collected my thing from the hallway and the trash can, then reorganized my locker. I grabbed the books I needed for the first half of the day. I love my first class because its art and can express myself through the work I do. I started to head towards my first period class when I heard someone running behind me.

"Kaylee... Wait up!" Sapphire yelled from down the hall. I turned around glad to hear her voice, smiled at her a waved slightly while waiting for her catch up.

"Hey sapphire...." I said quietly so she would be the only one that heard me, because if people heard me she would get in trouble for talking with me. I hate that I have to be practically alone in this pack. Like I said before sapphire has been my saving grace, she doesn't care what the other pack members think. She wants to be friends with whomever she wants, that being only me. She always says, 'f**k them, they don't mean s**t to me. You’re the only one I can about because I know the truth.'

"Hey girl, how is your morning so far??" she asked me once she got closer

"It’s been ok, like every other morning with the same old crap. How is your morning?" I say keeping my head down so people don't notice me. We enter our first period and sit in our chairs in the back like always.

"it's ok but it's better now that I'm here with you, I hate that I'm allowed to talk with you at the pack house." she say happily and angrily at the same time, I still don't know how she does that. But she the master at mixing two emotion together.

"I know but that is alpha's orders and I don't want you to get in trouble for me." I sigh, I wish my father would come to his senses and see that I'm not the one who killed my mother, but what they say is true about losing your mate and its worse for alphas. I didn't just lose my mother that day I lost my whole family. The bell rang pulling me out of my thoughts

"Ugh! I hate this class, I can't wait till we graduate and never have to come back to this place" sapphire say annoyed as the teacher enter the class. All their classes go by quickly and uneventful that is until lunch. Kaylee walked into the cafeteria with Sapphire slightly behind. Kaylee lowers her head and rushes over to the lunch line to grab some food. But before she could make it, she bumps into a solid mass. She looked up ever so slightly to see her brother Travis standing there with a wicked smile upon his face, Kaylee backed up immediately while she started to shake out of fear. She knew the consequences of touching her brother and what he would do to her.

"I-I-I'm so s-sorry, I-I didn't see you t-t-there Travis." she said in a low shaky voice. He just stared at her with the evil look in his eye while his wicked smile turned almost deadly.