Beyond Her Hopes

Graice’s P.O.V I wish I could just stay like this.. Asleep with nothing to worry about. Just me and this beautiful world that I’ve created. I’ve always had a wild imagination, ever since I was little and needed an escape. I created this beautiful garden with a lovely stream and this beautiful willow tree. The flowers grow around everything and the colors just make it even more beautiful! And the nymphs in the pond give it a whole new vibe! I’ve been sitting at the pond for quite some time now, running my hand through the water. The sky looks as if the sun is setting, with the beautiful purple, pink, and blue colors swarming around each other. As I was looking across the pond, I felt my stomach drop. The trees and flowers started to morph. Then I heard a sound. I can’t quite make it out though. “Wait” I said aloud. “When did I fall asleep?” As I started to think about how I came here, to my special place I felt my heart drop into my stomach. I remember getting home from school and the new girl Jess asked to hang out. She was taller than me, about 5’9” with a short shoulder length bob. Her hair was a blackish brown with a small hint of red. She was athletic and slim like a dancer but she was sassy. She seemed pretty smart as well. Her eyes are a greenish hazel color and she was tan. She was insanely beautiful so I’m not sure why she wanted to hang out with someone like me. I’m only about 5’5” I have long wavy medium brown hair. My eyes are blue but they have a purple and pink tent to them. I have a slightly golden skin tone and I’m in shape. But the scars… those make me look horrible. I was going to accept but then I saw Markus scowling at me from the front door and refused. He was angry at me for hanging out with someone that was prettier than my sister. That’s right, he dragged me to the basement. “No!” I sobbed. I would do almost anything to stay here! Stay with the nymphs and the nature surrounding them. I would do almost anything to stay here, safe and happy. “Please! I’ll do anything! Please don’t send me back to that hell! Please!” I screamed. As the tears started to fall from my eyes, everything began to vanish. My happiness my safe place. It was vanishing. I was waking up. ‘Please let me stay’ I thought. Out of nowhere a bright light shone from the dissipating sky. “Hush my dear.” The voice said. Out of the light a beautiful woman appeared. Her hair was black as night with what looked to have sparkles and her skin fair. Her eyes were, white? Who is this and why am I thinking of her? “I know you don’t have a clue as to who I am but in time you will know” she said. Her voice sounded like a smooth sea of bells. She wore a magnificent dress that was black and looked to hold all the stars and was wearing a crown that was shaped like a crescent moon. “Why must I go back?” I asked. I knew I was only dreaming but I found comfort here. And for some strange reason I found comfort in this woman. “ in two weeks time on your eighteenth birthday I will come to you. I will give you the answers that you seek” she explained. “Wait please don’t go!” I yelled at the lady. “ I’m so sorry my dear but it is now time for you to wake up. Please hold on just a little longer my little star.” She sounded sad, but also that name, my little star? It sounds… familiar? “ please just let me stay here!” I screamed at her. “Please I can’t go back! please!!!” I screamed but to no avail. I felt everything vanishing and just like that. Darkness. Pain, quick and sudden. Then again in almost the exact same spot. “Wake up you wretched freak” screamed a voice. I know that voice, Markus, my father. I can’t move, there’s so much pain. I can taste the metallic liquid in my mouth. My own blood. Markus has always been like this. Always so abusive. Just like the rest of them. Ever since I can remember, I’ve been abused. “ come now I didn’t hit you that hard did I wretch!” He yelled. To be totally honest I’m not entirely sure why this happens to me. I do everything that I’m asked of! I do all of the chores! I don’t make myself flashy so my sister is always in the spotlight! But for some reason I’m the one with the scars! I’m the one that gets dragged down to this basement everyday and gets tortured! SMACK! I felt a hand land on the side of my face. I was about to say something but Markus grabbed my hair and pulled me up. “ you better answer me you b***h! I asked you a question!” He yelled in my face. Almost immediately after he began to land punch after punch and kick after kick. I don’t think I’ll be attending school tomorrow. “ I don’t have time for this. Clean yourself up and get to your room! I don’t wanna look at you anymore. You make me sick!” Markus yelled as he landed one last blow to the ribs and retreated back up the stairs, probably for another beer. Finally. Once I got back to my room I went to my dresser. I grabbed some scrubs that I got from the trash and walked over to my makeshift shower. Once I stepped in I let the Luke warm water run over my body turning red because of the open wounds. After I was finished washing up I dried off and grabbed my box of herbs I have stashed under my bed. Luckily I am so far ahead in my classes I’ve used my spare time to research ways to heal faster. I also use the spare time to train, who knows. Maybe one day I’ll fight back. Once I bandaged all of the wounds I put my herbs back in their hiding spot and triple checked that my door was locked and barricaded. I wouldn’t want them to be able to come in here while I’m sleeping. Who knows what they’d do! “ let them bastards try to do something and I’ll kill them!” A voice said. Jumping up I looked around my room. “Who said that” I whisper yelled. But no response came. “Maybe I’m more exhausted than I thought!” I spoke silently to myself. “ no kidding!” That same voice spoke. I must be loosing it! Maybe if I ignore it and get some rest I’ll be fine. Then I let the darkness take me. Back to my safe space. Jess’s P.O.V Today was my first day at this school. The smell of humans is insanely strong. Yes I’m not human, I’m a werewolf. As I headed to the office I walked by this girl. She was really pretty as far as I could tell. She had long wavy medium brown hair, she looked to be about 5’5” and she had gorgeous eyes! They were bright blue with a slight purple and pink tent to them! As she passed me I stopped dead in my tracks. ‘Blood’ my wolf rayn stated. ‘ I know but it smells a bit… old?’ I decided not to think much of it at the moment but for some reason I couldn’t shake this feeling. I also got another smell from her. ‘ rayn did you get that other scent? It was hardly noticeable ’ ‘yeah I did, she’s not human jess. And for some reason I felt like bowing to her’ she stated. ‘That’s strange, I better tell my brother and daniel’ I thought to myself. I quickly pulled out my phone and sent a quick text to my brother and Daniel. They weren’t at school yet. Daniel is suppose to be the next beta and my brother is the next alpha. So basically they don’t start school for a couple hours more. Lucky bastards! As soon as I grabbed my schedule I headed to class. I had calculus. When I neared the room I smelled her. The girl from earlier. She was sitting at the back of the class with her hood covering most of her face but peering out of the window. She had this longing and pained look on her face. The seat next to her and in front of her were empty as if no one wanted to be near her. This girl in the class saw me watching her and studying her walked up to me. “ hi! Ummm I wouldn’t sit back there if I were you.” She stated with a pained voice. “ and why is that?” I asked calmly. “ Sarah and crystal would get angry. They banned everyone from talking to her.” She explained. “ why would they do that? And what is her name?” I said getting a little annoyed that they avoid this girl like the plague. “ her name is graice” she whispered silently to me. “ well fortunately I don’t really care what people say I can and can’t do, I’ll do as I please got it?” I said sharply which made her step back from me. After that confrontation I calmly walked to the seat next to graice. It didn’t seem like she was paying any attention. I even tapped her shoulder a couple times. Finally she looked at me, she seemed to be studying me as if asking why I wanted her attention. Right as I was about to say something the bell rang. ‘ that bell is sooo annoying!’ Rayn stated making me chuckle a bit. As I was standing up preparing to leave for my next class a group of girls gathered around my desk. “ what do you think you’re doing sitting back here with that” she ordered in a pitchy wannabe queen voice pointing a crooked finger at graice. “ well for starters I was taking a seat. There weren’t any others in the back not that it’s any of your business.” I retorted at the bleached blonde screechy girl. “ look you may be new here but we run this school wench, got that” said the ugly light brown headed girl. I took a step toward her and stared her dead in her eyes, “ you may think you are all that but if you ever speak to me that way again I will smack the poorly applied makeup off your face and make you regret it. Got that?” I stated threateningly. ‘That scared her!’ Laughed rayn. I almost immediately smelt the fear on them as well. After that was said I shoved past them and continued to my next class. As I walked out of the classroom my phone dinged with a message. *message from Lucious* L:Hey dad said to try getting close to that girl. He’s not sure why someone that wasn’t human would be staying in human territory. Me:alright I’ll try. She smelled of blood and rayn said she felt like she was supposed to bow? I’m not sure what that was about but it’s strange. Plus she seems very shut off. L:hmmm… I’ll tell dad. But that is strange. Me and Dan will be there in like 20 minutes. See you soon sis. Please stay safe and out of trouble! After putting my phone back into my pocket I arrived to my next class. History. It’s my least favorite class but I’m still pretty good at it. ‘Smart ass’ rayn states. I chuckle at the remark. Me and rayn are very alike. Eventually the final bell rang and I was finally able to leave this place! As I walked out of the school I saw graice walking and decided I’d catch up. When I made my way by her she slowly looked at me and in such a small hoarse voice asked “ why are you wanting to be around me? You could get hurt or into trouble.” “To be honest, I don’t listen to anyone. I’m a little hard headed!” I retorted. ‘A little? Haha please! You are hard as a rock on steroids!’ Rayn howled. Ignoring her I focused on graice. After a while of walking I decided to ask her if she’d like to hang out. She ended up declining when she noticed a guy glaring at her from the door. She looked a little pale. And…scared? I got the message and headed off. Once I got to the tree line I undressed and shifted to rayn. Rayn is as tall as me and has golden fur with blueish green eyes and reddish brown stripes. She’s a special wolf and is insanely fast. Almost as fast as the alpha. Once shifted I grabbed my belongings and ran to the pack. It only took me about 5 minutes with how fast rayn is. Once I arrived I shifted behind a tree and walked into the house. My mother and father has already left for a meeting in another pack so I decided to grab some food my mom made and take a shower. After I dried off I dressed and went to speak to lucious and Daniel about graice. We decided we would try to get close to her and find out more details about her. Finally I returned to my room and started drifting off to sleep. Allowing the darkness to consume me.