Short Stories

Enemy of Love

Today started out like any other summer day, there was a layer of dew on the grass, and the trees stood tall and strong. I always liked the countryside, could never survive in a city. I guess that's just me and my country nature, but all is well with me. I have a good life, nothing to really complain about, to be honest. When I got to school, I proceeded to find my friends. We are kinda the troublemakers of the school buttt, can't help the fact that I only fit in with guys, and my friends, they are true and they don't care about my title or where I came from. They are my friends because they love me for who I am.
My first stop was Ace. My best friend in the whole wide world, a human. He and one other friend, Matthew, have been my friends since childhood, like early childhood, like 2 years old kind of childhood. Ace is tall with long dark black hair going down to his shoulders. He's a kind and generally shy guy, he's never really had many friends. And Matthew, he's always protecting me, I guess that adds to the reason why I'm in love with him. I have been since that day of the middle school dance. He had been my date since Ace was out of town and no one wanted to go with either of us.

I had a light pink dress that faded into a dark purple, I had been so excited to go, I wanted to look my very best. And so, I convinced my mother to help me make a dress for me to wear, and she did. That night, nearly every guy there asked me for a dance. Matthew, he had called me beautiful, and the rest of the night, I couldn't bear to be away from him. Even if he was a vampire and I was a werewolf. His mother had been graciously raised by werewolves, she had been accepted into a very kind pack and so, her family was part of the pack. My grandfather's pack. My grandmother and father raised her as their only daughter, however, she was not blood, and she could never be considered a true heir to the alpha and luna status. She was more like a family friend or a cousin. However she could still marry someone in the pack, and she did. She married the beta, Charles.

I was a few months old when I met Matthew, I don't really know why but, I remember everything from the first time I opened my eyes. Well, the first time I remember opening my eyes. It was raining outside, I was in a small brown basket with a letter tucked into my blanket. Written on the letter were my birth name and the day I was born. October 15. The alpha and luna, Samuel, and Martha took me in. They only had one son, Markus, for after he was born, Martha became born. She could no longer conceive a child of her own. So they started fostering, and I was their first adopted child. But that didn't stop my brother from teasing me, my parents from loving me, me from making good friends, me from falling head over heels for Matthew, or Matthew from becoming my best friend in the ABSOLUTE WHOLE WORLD. I'm just glad I can live this kind of life. My mother and father are the Alpha and Luna of one of the strongest wolf packs. Matthew sticks up for me, my brother would kill to protect me. And I have great friends who don't care about where I come from, how I got here, or even with whom I live. I am truly blessed. But I am also the way I am thanks to my father. He worked with me more than my mother did. I am a Daddy's girl and I'm country and proud of it!

Even though I have been tested for werewolf blood, and my father tried to turn me, I am not exactly a werewolf. You see, unlike regular werewolves, I can have a horse and not scare it away, I am more like Humans and Vampires with many animals and other things. I also share many a likeness for things that vampires do and witches with their many incantations. Witches just kinda keep to themselves so we don't know much about them. And there are so many different supernatural species to keep track of. But we don't really mess with other supernatural creatures. Matthew and I though, we love learning new things so almost every day we discover a new being and we research that being and make slide presentations, well, Matthew does, I prefer books a whole lot better.

Ever since Matthew and I first met we became inseparable. Our teachers had to put us in the same class otherwise we would pitch fits and wouldn't be able to learn anything. And man, we went nearly everywhere with each other. As we got older he introduced me to his other friends, we all eventually became friends. As I got older I was constantly being named "The Most Beautiful Girl". Ugh. What a title. As you could've guessed, I was hit on. A lot. I always said no, but every time, before I could get the word out of my mouth, Matthew would just show up out of nowhere and say "If you break her heart, I don't care what you are, I will hunt you down to the ends of the Earth, break every bone in your body, and suck every last drop of you blood so you look as pale as snow and then bring your head back to her as a reminder not to fall or date jerks." He was always protecting me. And the boys were usually too scared to even know my answer, but it didn't bother me, he saved me the show of having to watch a fellow classmate and schoolmate cry over my rejection.