A code for an Alpha

Chapter 7

(Unedited sorry will edit soon I promise)
I leave the locker room with the ice pack still tapped firmly against my aching ribs. My legs hurt from the running and i limp down the hall.
"Kat," Sarah comes over to me, "wooaahh, what happened to you." she says.
"You don't want to know," I say. She knows I don't want to talk when I'm like this. The thing about Sarah is she's known me for so long she doesn't usually question what I say or do.
"I'll meet you in the car," I suggest and she shrugs,
"Didn't you drive your self today?" She questions.
"Ohhh yeah I did whoops sorry." sorry I say and scramble away. I head to my car, shes a dark red F150 truck. I call her Karla after my pet goldfish I had when the days were good. I remember the burial service I had for the fish, there were balloons and ice cream, I remember crying and being wicked dramatic saying it should have been me. Until my Father scolded me saying we shouldn't wish to die. Now I can't say I believe him the constant feeling of worthlessness can chip away at someone until the crumble. Don't worry I don't plan on killing myself but I can understand why some do. I get in my car and take a slow drive home when I get there thankfully no one is home. There is a note on the fridge saying we are going out to dinner and I won't need to make it. I rush up to my bed and take a nice long nap. She i awake I quickly do my home work and get ready for dinner. A fitted shirt and black jeans with a small amount of makeup. I look okay but my whole body still kills. I pull up the shirt and rub some icy hot on them and a muscle rub everywhere else. The bruises look even worse now and I'm finding it harder to breath but I must power through it. Two weeks until my birthday and then I can leave I will be able to do what ever I want, but deep down I know that this dream will never happen as long as I still have a little brother to take care of.
I wait in my room until my father comes home with mother in tow.
"Katherine," he calls up to me, "your brothers are meeting us at the restaurant. Will you pleas come down here and get in the car." I slowly head down the stairs very careful not to move sharply or twist at all. When I finally make it down stairs father kisses my head causing a small throbbing sensation on my already painful scalp. We all get at the restaurant around the same time and we get the table. I hardly make it through the dinner my head kills from all the noise and my lungs feel like their being squished. I excuse myself from the table many times to go to the bathroom where I take pain pills, normally they would do the trick but for what ever reason their not working. By the end of the night I've already downed five pills and my ribs still throb with a great pain. I just want to lie down and fall asleep but I can't do that yet. After what feels like forever we leave the restaurant and I finally get to lie down once we're home.

About a week and a half passes and nothing changes my ribs kill I can't seem to focus properly and Axel keeps coming to my rescue in gym class. My eating habits become even more scattered then they were before and I've already lost 10 pounds, it is a new record I'm 30 pounds under weight for my height. My birthday is so close and I feel the tension getting worse as the date approaches. Mother is starting to pay attention to Josh she is yelling at him more and more even though I try to take the pressure off of him. Tucker and I start to prepare him for what is to come but nothing can really help the only one one that can is me I can stay and let mom beat me instead of him. Making this choice sucks I need to leave this awful town and go to college somewhere far far way but then I would be leaving my brother all alone to defend himself and I just can't do that to him. But I won't worry about it until I graduate high school, I'll be eighteen and free to do and go where I want.

3 days before my birthday.
I watch in horror as the hood of my truck ripples and smashes against a giant oak tree. I fly forward and the windshield cracks leaving an intricate spider web design. The air bags suddenly inflate but they don't do it in time, my limp body hurdles though the wind shield spraying glass every where and I pass out.

***Dream***
The wind whips through my hair as I run through the forest. I can fee something or someone chasing me for some reason I know that if I'm caught then I'll be dead. Leaves crunch under my paws... wait what?!? I have paws! This is so weird... I dart through a pair of large oaks and into a clearing. A growl sends the hair on the back of my neck on edge and I run faster than j ever thought possible. Suddenly I'm surrounded by trees again and I pull to a stop when I nearly fall over the edge of a cliff. Small rocks tumble down into a river below, a loud growl comes from the darkness behind the trees, I whimper in fear of the unknown. And when I'm least expecting it out from the shadows jumps a....
***Dream over***
I weak up with a jolt Axel stands above me and I scream.
"What, whats wrong," he says jumping looking around to make sure it's just us alone in the room. The memories come flooding back to me the dog that ran in front of my car causing me to swerve, the oak tree, my poor car. When I try to sit up pain shoots from my ribs.
"Dont," Axel says, "you'll only hurt you raked more. There was sever internal bleeding in you chest and one of your lungs collapsed. But the only injury you got during the crash was a concussion and sever whip lash, I don't know how Thats is possible when you pretty much went all the way through the windshield but what I'm really concerned about is your ribs. How did you sustain those injuries and who gave them to you. Don't even think of lying to me cause I'll know if you do."
"I... I... I can't, Im sorry," I say sadly, "what is the date today?" I ask him.
"The 3rd" he says. Tomorrow is my birthday Id been out for two days my parents must have been so worried.
"Can I use your phone I need to call my parents let them know I'm alright." I say.
"They've already been informed," he says matter of dactyl which pisses me off. With Axels help I sit up and even get on my feet only to fall back into Axels arms, he carries me to a wheel chair and sets me in it. He pushes me into the kitchen tossing me a juice box, looking at the label I see that it has over 300 calories and I set back on the table.
"Drink it," Axel commands nervousness drenches his voice
"No it has too many calories in it." I say
"You have to you have eaten in the last two days you need to regain your strength." he says as he hands me the juice box and poke the straw into it, he lifts it to my lips and reluctantly I sip it. It gross like drinking liquid sugar, I can practically feel the fat building on my body already. But I don't have the strength to argue.
"So your ribs should be almost healed by now. And the internal damage has been taken care of already." he says and I give him a confused look so he continues, "My father is a doctor he patched you up and gave you a non addictive bone regrowing steroid. Don't worry it's completely harmless it ready did most of the job but there was a lot of broken bones in your body. It's a miracle That you could even walk down the hall. The only thing is you'll be very tired for the next few hours and your parents gave you permission to stay here tonight and tomorrow so my dad can look at you. Brother, Tucker, wanted me to tell you that he was taking care of the demons and Josh for you and not to worry. what are the demons?"
"Nothing you have to worry about," i tell him and take a sip of juice. Once I finish the juice i yawn and Axel picks me up and takes me a huge bed and tucks me gently.

I know what you all must be think why am I okay with staying at a strangers house when I'm hurt and tomorrow is my birthday, let me put it this way I hate living in my house and I will take any chance of getting out of it even if it's just for a little while and I don't even care if I don't really know Axel but who cares his house is huge and this bed is reaally comfy. Before I know I'm asleep dreaming of the full moon tomorrow night and the dangers that await me in the future.