Mates Destiny

ch. 3 The surprise

ZOEYS POV

I'm on my way home after school let out. I'm happy and relieved after today. I mean I didn't get beat except for that one time.

The only thing is I didn't find my mate today. I had such a good feeling I'd find him today but I never once ran into him, maby he just didn't come to school today. I'm really hoping that's the case because then the only other option is that he isn't in our pack.

I'm not to concerned about it because if he is in our pack then that would mean he is one of the guys who would pick on me or he was one of the ones who turned a blind eye and just let them torture me. I'm hoping it's someone who is sweet and kind and will protect me and tear anyone apart limb from limb who dares look at me wrong.

When I'm done thinking about my future mate I've realized that I'm in front of the pack house. I dont see my mom's car out front which means I won't be beat by her yet today which means I can go clean my face up and redo my mascara and lip gloss so when I meet my mate tonight I'll look at least half ass decent for him.

I make my way to the house and thats when I get the feeling something is off so I slowly open the door and take a deep breath but I dont smell anyone else here so I turn on the light and slowly start to make my way to the basement door to go down to where my room is to get freshened up for the ball I won't participate in except to make sure food and drinks are always full. That's when someone grabs me.

"Holy s**t!" I gasp out in shock.

Angel walks up to me a giant smile on her face. She went ahead and got me a birthday present even though I told her not to.

"Angel what is this" I whisper.

"I got you just a little something" she says like its no big deal.

"but I told you I don't want anything" I whine

"it's just a small present please accept it" she tells me holding a big box.

"if this is a small present I'd hate to see a big one" I mumble taking the box with a smile.

"I wanna see it tonight please use it" she says smiling at me.

Seriously I wonder what it is this box is heavy. I shake it to hear something but its a small rattle like something wrapped in something else. I hope its not something that will get ruined if this night ends bad.

As im walking to the bed I start unwrapping it to find a big FedEx box and have to shift my hand so I can use a nail to cut the tape and open the box. I take out the black tissue paper to find a beautiful emerald floor length dress with a slit on the side going from my upper thigh to the floor. As I move the dress it sparkles like it has stars inside the fabric. with the dress out the box I see a pair of matching criss cross strap heels and diamond earrings and a ice diamond bracelet. I can't help but cry its so beautiful I almost don't want to wear it but it is a ball and even tho ill just be a server ill still be seen. So I need to be presentable and if I find my mate I'm sure his breath will be taken away by this outfit.

Even though I hate parties I gotta hand it to to the pack they did a good job setting our large dinning room into a big ballroom. I'm actually kinda sad I can't fully participate in this ball it looks like its gonna be one to remember and this dress makes my hair and eyes pop its perfect. I gotta say all in all Angel has good taste I can't wait to find her so she can see how this dress looks on me.

I finally find her and we start talking in a corner so it looks like im serving food so i dont get in trouble. Me and Angel were having so much fun everyone in our pack was busy with their new mates or talking to friends in other packs that me and Angel were able to sneak in a dance or two for my birthday moving to the beat of the music. We were joking around and making fun of the girls here that had spent so much time caking makeup on there faces hoping to gain the future Alphas attention just to be upset that he wasn't even here yet.

All the girls always fought over gaining his attention but he never paid anyone any attention not even Brenda is able to gain his attention even though she says they are close its obvious they aren't. Yet she still throws herself at him every chance she gets.

I'm just glad he's not here because I used to have a huge crush on him until he started to ignore me and not help when I was being beat. I've always felt a connection with him growing up but I put it off as teen hormones and a crush i have on him.

"look who just showed up. I was hoping she got lost on her way here" Angel said breaking me out of my thoughts as I looked around the party to see who she meant.

"of course she came here. she's not gonna miss out on the chance to embarrass me at the ball or to throw herself at all of the alphas here since Asher isn't here" I said as i saw Brenda making her way to the drink table.

"what she doesn't know is she won't get the chance too" I said to Angel as I went back to dancing with her.