Scarlett's secret ~ (Finding A Home)

chapter 3

That brings you almost up to date on my past and the conversation between Dean and my mother. Thing's didn't ended up working out for Dean and his mate. She left him 2 years after they got together, because she didn't like the small town life. She wanted to live in the bigger cities. She wanted more than Dean could give her and she never wanted kids.

You see I never spoke a word to my mother, since I was 8 years old. I would say a few words here and there to my brother throughout the years. It just seemed like, he didn't care what my response was. I seem to only be a burden to him.

My brother and mother at the time only thought I was human, because I didn't smell like a shifter. Even now with me being in Washington around a lot of bear shifters and some wolf shifters  people still think, I'm just human.

The reason is they think I'm not a shifter is because, I take scent blockers. The first time I shifted as a small child my grandmother had me start taking them. She told me if anybody were to find out I was a shifter, they would kill me.

I was told from a young age that I had to hide what I was. When I went to live with my mom and brother, I found out they were shifters also. They were a different type of bear shifter than I was.

The real reason, I never told them about me being a shifter, is because they kept calling me just a human.

Over the years being with them, I heard my mother tell mark that he needed to be careful.

To be cautious, because if people found out about his shifter side it could lead to big trouble. Even though shifters was now living in the human world it could still be dangerous for them.

A good percentage of human people are still shifter prejudiced. To me I felt like if they couldn't accept me as me, then how would they react to knowing about them. Just see me as being a human it was sad and stupid.

Did they see me as a Prejudice person or just a disgusting human . Wouldn't that make them the prejudiced people even though they are shifters.

One thing my grandmother always said was, a statement from the Bible. Do into others as they should do unto you. My grandmother was a Christian lady but she was also mean and cruel. She was always scared to let me out around other children, because I was a shifter.

I know it was also because it was a way to get back at my father, for not leaving his money to her. Even though I was her grandchild it seemed like she was disgusted with me. I heard my grand mother say that shifters was distasteful and they should stay amongst their own kind.

I do know it didn't help the situation when I refuse to go to my brother's wedding or my mother's wedding.

Why should I be there for them, when I know they didn't really want me there. To them I was the human spectacle.

My brother never introduced me to his mate. She never got the chance to really meet me. I thought it was because my brother was ashamed of me. I wasn't included in any of his wedding stuff.

When Jennifer, was doing all the girl's get together's I was never invited or included. Who knows what my brother has told her about me or if he even mentioned me to her.

The same goes for my mother and her wedding. Even though I didn't really like her, didn't mean that I hated her. I was happy for her, she really loves Dean and my mom was his second chance mate which was a very rare thing.

Dean was very disappointed and upset with me. I don't speak to him must but I do talk to him sometimes. He got ready frustrated with me. He always seemed to take my mother's side or his son's. He doesn't know the whole truth, just like my mother or my brother. He hasn't really put any effort into getting to know me.

I do get it at first it was a big shock, when he discovered my mom was back in town. That she was his second chance mate. Then he had a son on top of that. His son had just found his mate.

It has been around three months and now he wants to start to get to know me. He wants to try to help me, like there is something wrong with me. My mom has already left a depression on him. To him I'm a spoiled an ungrateful and spiteful person.

Yeah, I'm sorry but that's not going to happen. I want somebody to like me for me. Not to judge me right out of the gate. I want someone to get to know me as myself.

My mom and her husband are going to be pissed, when they get home. Not because I didn't do the chores, that she had left for me to do. I got all of that done and the house all tidied up. It is because tomorrow is Thanksgiving and they have planned for us all to go to Dean's family for Thanksgiving.

I have other plans, I'm packing a bag and going off in the mountains and not coming back until the night before school starts back. I will deal with the consequences when I get back.

Little does anybody know my plans. When Christmas break comes around I'm leaving to go back to Colorado. I'm going to get myself a lawyer an apply for emancipation.

I don't know where I will go from there, but one thing for sure is I'll have a new beginning. I'll probably go east so I can have a fresh start. I won't have to look for my mate, because I've already found him.

Little does anyone know, but I was there when my brother got married. That is where I met my mate from a distance. I was just up in the tree lines because they had an outdoor wedding.

My mate is a firefighter just like Dean and they seem to be friends. I have heard Dean talk to his coworkers about me and how difficult I am. He has gave them the same perspective as my mom has gave him.

Little does my mother know, I was at her wedding also. Even though they had their wedding in a church. I was still there, just in the very back of the church at the side exists.