A Long Time Ago

He know's I'm here

Bryn's POV

We finish the dinner and have all the food over the tables, ready for the people to start arriving. We had some help with the decorations from the decorating company that the alpha hired. The ballroom looked beautiful and elegant. The tables are round and have namecards on, with a platform for the alpha's, beta's, gamma's and luna. There are also seats for mates. Nerves are bubbling in my stomach. Axel was probably eager to see me again. I wonder if he figured out that I'm the girl he used to be friends with when we were little. 

I want to shout at him for leaving me alone all these years and forgetting about me like everyone else, after he promised to call me. I want to cry on his shoulder about my parents and ask him why he became like everyone else. Mostly, I want to hold him tight and beg him not to reject me. I am not as worthless as the other pack members say I am. I know I could never do that, though, and that thought makes me want to cry again. 

I just want him to love me. 

'It looks pretty good, right?' Jada laughs, some decorates slung on her neck. I join in and start dancing on the dance floor crazily, pretending to waltz with someone. Jada slipped in the invisible persons space and danced with me. This is the most fun I've had in weeks. We made our own music, cackling at our inability to dance to a rhythm. 

'We're amazing!' I giggle, doing a turn into her arms. 

'If only we were each other's mates!' Jada and I do a prince and princess step, stepping in and out, our palms up against each other in the air. 

'Omega's!' Beta Marcus shouts and I fall to the ground from the spinning momentum. I scramble up and run up to Marcus with my head down, looking at my shoes. 

'Sorry, Beta Marcus. The party is done and the food is ready to be served.' I step to the side so he can find his seat up on the platform. Jada and I sit on the chairs by the entrace as the pack files in, all in amazing dresses and formal suits. 

Most of the girls look beautiful, and some of them ask me to take pictures of them. I can tell I look like I'm about to cry any minute. I keep thinking about how different this situation would be if I was still a beta and my parent's were still alive. I would've been alpha's soon to be beta and Marcus wouldn't be. I would get a pretty dress and make sure that Jada sat next to me. 

I want things to go back to the way used go be. 

But, no, I have to sit by entrance in a maids outfit, watching everyone pass. All the girls were talking about who was Axel's mate and I can't help a surge of jealously flush through me. I slump in my chair, waiting for everyone to take there seats. I'm sure I look completely deadly. I just feel frustrated, like everything I have ever wanted is being taken away from me. Here I am, a seventeen year old girl, serving the pack like some sort of slave and I have no choice in the matter. 

'Bryn!' A group of girls call. I look to see Tiffany, one of my old best friends, giggling with a bunch of other girls. I glance up at them and immediatly push my head down. I knew what they wanted to do. They want to mock me for being nothing and order me to get them some drinks. As soon as I dropped my title they all ignored me and began to spread rumours about the new omega that lost everything. Tiffany had a tight black dress on and a pair of six inch stilettos to show off her beautiful long legs. Her hair i straightend to perfection. She looked beautiful. 

'Tiffany,' I greet formally, 'would you like me to get you anything.' I try to speak lightly and stop bitterness from lacing into my tone. 

'Yes,' Tiffany starts, giggling at her friends, 'we would like seven waters.'

I nod, starting to walk towards the jug of water on the table. Tiffany runs up to me and gets in my way, shaking a bony finger in my face. 'No, we want bottled water.'