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❄︎𝑪𝒉𝒂𝒑𝒕𝒆𝒓 2❄︎

•Zephyr•

Love mates.

The idea itself never fails to give butterflies in my stomach every time I think about it.

How beautiful, isn't it?

Having someone made for you, written in the stars, your destined soul mate, sent to you by the Moon Goddess. It's like a fairytale come true.

I know I haven't been fully loyal while waiting for my mate but I have promised myself to change and stop having any interest in others the moment I lay my eyes on my mate.

I'm 18 and the mate recognition switch activates from this very age. So, I'm pretty excited and always on search, careful about every passing scent or touch—hopeful to encounter them and finally have a proper, meaningful life.

You ask why need a mate to have a meaningful life?

Well, I'm a commoner. Yeah, I'm among the unfortunate bundle of werewolves who don't belong to any ranks, thus considered as the outcasts amidst their own packs.

My pack name is the Moon Stone. One of the greatest packs out there. Not the best, but greater than many others.

But due to my lack of ranking, I'm treated rather poorly here. My parents are Deltas and my big sister is a Delta as well.

I have no idea how the hell did I end up as a commoner. Even an Omega title could've gotten me in some place.

My distraous fate could only be restored by mating a person from any rank. So, I'm desperately hoping my mate is from one of the ranks, otherwise we'd both be a pair of outcasts and our future pups would be outcasts as well.

Moon Goddess wouldn't do that to me, right? Even a delta or Omega would be fine for me. I don't need any higher ranked mate or anything. Just any rank to have a better life, to finally belong somewhere.

I've already decided to join my mate's pack since I literally have no attachment or feelings for my own pack, where I'm nothing but a burden. Even to my own parents.

It's not like they beat me or hurt me, they don't even talk to me. Or acknowledge my existence for that matter. I'm invisible in my own house.

My sister Vienna sometimes talks to me, but very much small talk, and her face remains expressionless the whole time. I don't have any friends except my fellow commoners—they are very small in number. Only 3 of us here in this pack.

Back when I was 16, I had managed to have a couple weeks relationship with this Beta girl.

Like I don't have any clue on how I managed that. Probably because she was only using me to make her crush jealous—who didn't give a fuck about her by the way—but I really liked being with her.

She was cold but soft spoken with me, never hurt me or lashed out on me, even listened to stuff I rambled about. Actually, she was the only werewolf who never degraded me for being a commoner.

I really liked her till one day she abruptly broke things off saying she can't waste her time on someone who isn't her mate anymore.

How would she know if I wasn't her mate? I was 16 and she was 17. Her birthday was a few months later, maybe, just maybe if she had waited and see if I was actually her mate or not.

Anyway, let's stop talking about my sorry past and focus on my sorry present.

Which consists of me waking up at 7 in the morning and prepare breakfast for my family.

Mum says if I wish to be useful I should do household chores and participate in other pack social activities. I know she says it to save her face in front of everyone. She feels ashamed enough to have birthed a commoner like me.

Commoners like me have one advantage though, we get to befriend humans easily since most of our wolves almost don't exist.

At least mine doesn't.

We usually shift at the age of 3, for me, I haven't shifted yet. My wolf hadn't ever given me any sign of his existence so I've long accepted that I don't have a wolf.

It hurts seeing little pups running around in their wolf forms, adults training to be a better wolf for the pack, mates running and coddling each other in wolf forms, it hurts so much.

That's why I try to spend most of my time on human grounds, till I must return home.

Everyone is still sleeping as I prepare bacons and omelette for breakfast, pouring juice for my sister and coffee for mum and dad.

For me, I only fetch a piece of toast and some carton milk. I don't eat much, my appetite is as poorly as of a human considering us wolves literally gorge food down our system.

Resulting in me being really lanky and not to mention my height, which is practically as tall as a human teenage girl. My height only adds to the bullying I face from my pack members.

As I'm washing my plate, mum descends from the stairs, ready to head to work.

I take a moment to admire her. She's really beautiful, with her chestnut hair and dark brown eyes. If I was a Delta as well, she'd have so proudly said around that I look exactly like her. But she doesn't, because she hates the fact that I look like her.

Vienna follows her down and they sit on the table to eat, talking amongst themselves while I stand in the corner, silently watching them talk and hoping for a moment when I'd be called to participate in their conversation. But it doesn't happen. It never does.

My sister also looks like my mum, only her hair is blonde like my dad's. She's taller than me and is training to apply for a position in the patrol team.

The pride for her visibly reflects in my parents' eyes, and my heart aches longingly.

I wish they looked at me like that too.

"Dad's not gonna eat so you can clean up and head to college now." Mum says and doesn't wait for my reply as they both head out of the house.

Mum works at the Healthcare and dad leads the young Deltas in training. We're pretty much well off. Which doesn't favor me in any way though.

I do as ordered and leave for my college, happy to mingle with my human buddies, and also begin my search for my mate.

My college is one of the rarest institutions since not all of them lets humans and werewolves combine—I had literally begged dad to let me go to a combined college. Thankfully he listened.

As I enter the brick walled building, I inhale deeply and exhale sadly when no particular scent invades my senses.

Though it saddens me, it also offers me an opportunity to visit the mall or some park with my friends—mum only lets me stay out late now a days so I can find my mate.

"Guys!!" I yell and run over to my friends, Gabriel and Ethan, slinging my arms around their shoulders. "A little birdie says we should visit the arcade tonight!"

"Really? You can stay out late?" Ethan asks with a mischievous glint in his eyes, he is the troubled one among us and I nod, causing him to pump his fist in the air.

"I'd have to sneak out though. Mom's home and she doesn't want me out while she's here." Gabriel mumbles, pushing his glasses back with his index finger.

"Finee." I huff and Ethan shares me a high five.

"We're gonna have a blast. It's been too long since we had some fun."

I really wanna find my mate.

❄︎☽︎❄︎☽︎❄︎

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