Upward

The Preparation

It was a day until the final fight was held in the middle of the forest only between the certain high ranking pack members of Upward and whatever Loba and her Rogues were going to bring. Kelani woke up hearing talking from her mothers and Shuri talking in the living room. She crawled out her bedroom and peeked around a corner to listen in. They were talking about Junior and Derek.

"I have never heard anything about babies being switched at birth. We all would have known if a child doesn't belong to our pack so this is impossible. Why would you think that?" Anita grunted.

"Oh it's very possible, it's been rumors about how a few families here have been looking quite suspicious after Kelani was born. Everyone in the pack was probably distracted when she was being anointed and they did it while our backs were turned. They switched those two boys, Derek originally belongs to us, Junior to them or maybe even another pack" Shuri argued.

Anita scratched her chin and looked at Shuri still not sure if she wanted to agree "I mean I can see why you're right. Junior does act very promiscuous and flirtatious with other girls and maybe even the older woman. I haven't seen any other young male or female act like that".

Kelani smiled from ear to ear, this explains why Derek acts to nice and calm and why Junior acts so off and greedy. So she finally made her away around the corner, all the attention on her as she walked in.

"Good morning hun, you feel better?" Anita hugged her. Kelani nodded her head and made her way outside. No one was surrounding Derek. They just all looked at him. Audre though was crouched beside him asking him questions about all of his known life that he could remember. He sounded sad and defeated. He detailed everything that happened to him whenever he would do the littlest things while being with the Rogues and his known mother. He would sometimes get treated like an omega just because he wanted peace. Kelani shook her head and finally walked over to the two and sat down by them. They both looked at her.

"Good to see you up and early, we have things to do all day today" Audre said getting up.

"Could you be any nicer? A good morning or how are you would be nice".

"I'm not here to be nice. I only prefer a few of us but to you and your family, we're all just co workers" Audre turned her head away and started to walk away but Kelani caught up to her "How come you never try to communicate with us? We love you and don't want you hurt. You're a higher up member and well taken care off. I'm sorry about what happened to your family and-"

"Don't you ever bring up my family you mutt! That's none of your business. I told you I'm just a worker and nothing more, now leave me alone" Audre cut Kelani off and walked down the road to the village. Kelani shrugged her shoulders and walked back to Derek who was still sitting on the ground.

"Wow she's a little bit much" he said comforting his woman.

"She's always been like that. I should have known she was gonna bark at me like that. Every time someone brings up her dad or family she gets offended and screams at us" she sighed. Derek nodded and they both stayed quiet until Anita came through the door to see what happened. She looked around and then at the two young ones on the ground. She pulled Derek off the ground away from Kelani.

"We're getting ready to prepare ourselves for tomorrow. I want both of you to come with all of us. Derek I want you to go with Shuri first, you guys need to take care of business" Anita sighed and rubbed her temples. She didn't look too well. Kelani felt bad for her mom having to carry on what her father left and it all looked hard and stressful.

Shuri looked welcoming as Derek walked up to her. They both walked to the village where the rest of the pack was. She wanted him to get a blood test with the smart people to see if he was related to anyone in Upward to prove her claim to Anita. Shuri was also another smart pack member, and knew deep down inside that Derek belonged with them. She has been studying him ever since he stepped foot on Upward soil. She looked over his past with the Rogues and focused on him which is something that no one in Upward does. All they do is look at someone and assume that they're a bad person, judging them right off the bat.