Everything I Thought I knew

Chapter Two-

I step back to admire my handy work on Caras make-up and hair. The sparkly skin tone smokey eye I put on her made her blue eyes pop! And with the blue dress that accentuated her hourglass figure she looked like a knock out. " Cara, you look gorgeous!" I exclaim putting my mascara wand away. " Not as gorgeous as you do El." "I seriously doubt I could look better than you. You're a bombshell."

I look at myself in the mirror the gold on my eyes matching the little bit in my eyes, the bright red lipstick making my lips look kissable. And the dress is classy and sexy at the same time, hugging me in all the right places on my butt, hips and chest. I speak up " Cara can I skip wearing heels and just wear my burks?" "Hell to the no! We just spent two hours getting dolled up! There is no way, I repeat NO WAY, you are ruining your look with old people flip flops!" Cara says standing there waving her arms around for emphasis. " You own Burks and wear them ALL the time Cara, they are NOT old people shoes."

"Elana I don't care that I wear mine and they are the most comfortable shoes in the world. There is just no way you are ruining your look with such casual shoes. Now go grab your gold prada heels and I'm going to wear my silvers ones and we are going to make all the boys drool over us." Wow Cara sounds like a mother.... "Fine, but the only reason they'll be drooling is because we have to stand on stage with our fathers." I say walking out and up to my room to get my heels.

“Elana, Cara! Are you ready yet we have to be on stage in 10 minutes.” Yelled Jason. “ Hurry up… this isn’t a beauty contest… it’s just formal wear to look respective.” Carter mutters. We both smirk at each other and at the same time answer our brothers through the mind link Yes Sirs! We both giggle uncontrollably until we reach the bottom of the stairs. Both of the boys are dressed in similar blue dress shirts, just Carters was a dark sea blue and Jasons was a sky blue, and black dress pants. “Well don’t you both look spiffy,” I say to the two boys. “Who the hell says spiffy anymore?” Carter says as Jason laughs. “ I guess that would just be my dorky younger sister, Carter. ” 

Smugly Cara says, “Now we only have 9 minutes until the meeting starts. Weren’t you both just complaining we were going to be late not even a minute ago? Chop, chop boys lets get going.”  I just laugh and link arms with her and head out to the center of the town to where the giant stage was set up in the park. 

“Alpha, Dad, Mom.” Cara greets the adults by the stage. “Alpha, Beta Walters, Mrs. Walters.” I say shaking each of their hands. Dad is in a black dress shirt and black dress pants, Beta Walters is in a red dress shirt and black dress pants and Mrs. Walters is in a purple sundress with a gold buckle around her waist with matching gold wedges. “Jason and Carter you will be with us and Elana and Cara you will be joining Mrs. Walters off to the side.” Dad explained “Alright now there will be a big announcement tonight at this meeting so I want no funny business and no interruptions. Is that clear?” He stared us teenagers down. “Yes Sir.”

“Alright so if there isn’t any questions, we need to address the pack.” Dad turned and headed up the steps to the stage all of us following in our perspective order.

“Settle down everyone, I have called this meeting with you all because as you all know the past few months all the Alphas around the world have been meeting a lot more as of lately, and as you all know a fair amount of our young wolves have been unable to find their mates. A solution that we have come up with is every year all unmated wolves from 16 years old and up will participate in a week long gathering in attempt to find their significant others. The location will be announced each year and this years location is London England.

I turn and look at Caras shocked face, which I am pretty sure is mirroring my own reaction. Neither one of us is brave enough to mind link the other while my dad is still addressing the pack. After the England announcement we didn’t hear anything else. 

As soon as my father wrapped up the meeting he dismissed the pack and turned to walk off the stage followed shortly after by my brother, my fathers beta, Carter, Mrs. Walters, and finally Cara and I. “Jason, Elana follow me to my office now. Beta, Mrs. Walters, Carter, Cara you’re dismissed have a great evening.” After my father said that he turned on his heel and marched into the house not even checking to see if we are following.

“Jason, since you are the future Alpha it is your responsibility to escort everyone on the trip as well as to make sure our young wolves represent our pack in the best way possible. I have faith in you Jay, don’t disappoint me… this task will let me know if you are ready to become Alpha or not. Elana, you are to help your brother… do you understand me? Do not undermine him or disobey him, you are to be the perfect Alphas daughter.

“Yes Alpha. I will not disappoint you, I will be a perfect leader while in England.” Jason says tilting his head in respect to our father.

“Yes daddy, I mean Alpha… I will help Jason as much as possible.” Stupid, stupid, stupid… I know he hates not being addressed to formally when spoken to. “ Elana… you know you don’t have to be scared of me but please refrain from calling me anything else but Alpha in public.”

Maybe my father isn't as scary as everyone thinks he is. Maybe just maybe he is finally getting over the loss of my mother. We all of course still love her but we know that she is in a better place. He needs to pull himself out of the darkness and learn to love again, this might be the start of a happier life for him and our pack. Who knows...