Her

Chapter Seven

I woke up in my bed still feeling fairly dizzy. I looked at the alarm clock on my nightstand and it said 3am. I huffed and decided to get an early start on things. As I tried getting out of bed, I miserably failed and fell onto the floor. I had to grab onto my bed to pull myself up off of the floor.

I struggled to get to my dresser as I carefully walked over and started grabbing my clothes. I then carefully walked back to my bed and sat as I got myself dressed. After that I put my hair up in a messy bun and grabbed onto my bed and slowly got of my bed. Then I held onto my bed until I was able to reach my bedroom door where a grabbed the doorknob with both of my hands.

I guided myself carefully to the stairs and I was thankful that there had been railing on both sides of the stairs. I gripped one with each hand and made my way downstairs as I wobbled. I finally made it down the stairs after 10min. After that I made my way to the door trying to be careful but that failed as I once again fell to the floor, my head slamming into the front door.

I heard footsteps coming from the other side thinking it was my father, but it was my mother. "Clair what are you doing? Why are you up this early? I know it's Athena's party today, but you don't need to be up this early, what's going on? Did you fall?" She asked concerned slightly. I told her I was fine and proceeded to get up but fell again. "You're not fine Clair, something is going on. Are you into drugs?" She questioned and I rolled my eyes and told her no. Then she asked me if I was into other things like herbs and all that other stuff and I shook my head no.

She helped me up and she helped me get to the pack house. I was shocked that she was even helping me, but thankful to see a small side of my mom's soft spot which I've been wanting to see for 2 years now. She even helped me make breakfast this morning as all the pack members gathered in to eat. Today's breakfast was simple: Pancakes, sausage, and bacon. I seen my father finally enter the pack house and right away he shit me a dirty look.

"Why the hell are you helping out that daughter of ours? What's gotten into you Beth?" My father yells at my mom. Her face saddened a bit as her gaze fell onto the floor walking away away from me. "She seems a little off today, I thought I might help her today since it is Athena's party today and it's going to be extremely stressful for her considering how perfect everything Athena want's everything to be. Don't you think she at least deserves some of that help Max?" My mother asked. My father sighed. "You helped her with breakfast, everything else she can do on her own. For all you know she could be faking it so she doesn't have to do anything for her future Luna which is a disrespect to her, so I'm going to punish our disrespectful excuse of a daughter again. Maybe killing her a second time will teach her some respect. But it won't be today, Maybe right away tomorrow morning before she makes breakfast for everyone and this time I won't make it public for her."

My father spoke, but I was too out of it to show any reaction towards him. I quietly thanked my mother and grabbed onto the counter to support myself to stand up. My father gave me a look of annoyance and turned around and sat down to eat. Again I wasn't hungry so I didn't eat. "Too proud to eat or are you too sad with your own pathetic life?" I heard Athena's snarky question but I didn't care. All I cared about was making it through today and making sure everything was perfect for her.

I wobbled to the kitchen and it took me at least 3 hours to put all the salads together which should've only taken me an way less than an hour. I thought I was supposed to have help today but knew Alexis and Caroline would back off as soon as my father spoke to my mother this morning. Now all I had left to to do was cut up all the prime rib and set it a single piece onto each plates. I ordered enough for 100 guests, same with the salads and cupcakes which I didn't see and I started freaking out.

I picked up the phone and called the company I ordered them from only to find out that they were on their way and that I needed to go out there and grab them which was going to be impossible given my state, but I had to do my best just to get through it and push through.

As soon as I got the the prime rib, Alexis and Caroline came in and they had to have been quiet about it. "Sorry we're late, we had other business affairs to attend to, but we are here now, how are you feeling?" Alexis asked and I told the both of them nothing's changed. Right away they came in and helped me finish up the kitchen. The next thing to do was decorate the pack house which I didn't thankfully have to do and thank goodness I had to make lunch, but everyone was eating at my parent's house while we got the pack house ready for Athena's party.

She requested that Alexis, Caroline, Ann, and Beth decorated the entire pack house from head to toe with everything in black and pink which disgusted me. It was sandwiches for lunch again today being that everyone needed to eat lightly to enjoy the food later on. I went with ham sandwiches again because they were such a hit last time and very easy to make with me being light headed and stumbling everywhere and Caroline and Alexis stepped quietly to help me without getting caught.

I thanked them and then they made me a sandwich and told me to eat since I haven't been eating. I attempted to eat but I had enough energy to run to the garbage and I threw it all back up. Caroline and Alexis looked at me with concern across both their faces. "We are just about done decorating Clair, we are helping you with tonight's dinner as well, there's no way you're doing this alone." Caroline stated. I smiled a little.

The whole pack house had been decorated beautifully, I believe Athena was really going to like it, all I could do is hope and pray that the cupcakes get here on time or I knew Athena would make me pay dearly for it...

I sent Alexis and Caroline to carry the sandwiches over to my parent's house so I could sit down and relax for a little bit which I wasn't ever allowed to do. I took the time to gaze upon all the decorations. There had been extra tables put into the pack house and each one had a different color table cloth, some where pink and some were black, the ones with the pink had black napkins and plastic forks, spoons, and knives along with black plastic cups and the ones with the black table clothes had pink plastic silverware and cups. Each table was covered with chocolate candy and candles as well. There had also been pink and black streamers hanging from the ceiling along with balloons as well same with the entire outside of the back house.

It was now 5pm and her party started at 6pm and now was the time to start setting out the drink pitchers and then get started on putting the prime rib onto the plates as the salad plates had already been put together and thrown back into the fridge. The first 4 pitchers were hot and cold coffee, and the 2nd round of pitchers had hot and cold tea and then third round were several different flavored sodas because she didn't want anyone drinking until after dinner. Hopefully the cupcake delivery was going to be here soon as I began to panic feeling dizzy and lightheaded barely able to stand as a balanced myself.