Betrayal (completed and redone)

The Mating

The Mating Ceremony was in an hour and I didn't know what to wear. There was a soft knock on my door and Sara walked in. she was one of my best friends. Sara had waist length blond hair, and silver eyes. It wasn't uncommon for werewolves to have eye colors like that. She had a curvy body and a full chest. “Your dad told me to come help you. and to bring you this.” She said and handed me a large white box.

I opened it and inside was a beautiful red dress. I stripped off my clothes and pulled the dress on. it came to about my knee and fit my figure well. Sara came up behind me and started to brush out my hair.

“Thanks Sara.” I told her. when she was done with my hair I turned around and hugged her, she hugged me back.

“I'm going to miss you.” she whispered in my ear.

“I’m going to miss you too.” I told her.

“Rained, are you ready?” My father yelled up from downstairs.

“Almost.” I yelled.

Sara pulled my hair back into a lose ponytail. she pulled a small box out of her pocket. she pulled a necklace out with a ruby in it to match my dress. “Hold your hair up.” she told me and I did what I was told and she clasped the necklace around my neck.

“There now you will have something to remind you of me.” she told me, and hugged me again. I looked into the mirror to see what I looked like. I already had a little bit of make up on and my dress went well with my figure. My black hair was pulled into a pony tail, my dress fit my curves well and the little make up was enough for the look.

“Rained its time.” My father yelled up.

“Coming.” I said and walked out of my room, and down the stairs to see my father standing there waiting.

“You look beautiful.” he told me, and hugged me. this is the first time ever since my mom died that he actually hugged me. I hugged him back for once since I wont ever have to see him again.

“Are you ready?” He asked me.

“Yes.” I told him.

            My father grabbed my arm, he placed it through his and led me to where the ceremony would be taken place. it was out by are river. I could hear the smoothing sounds of the river., it eased my nerves. I've seen matings perform before when my big sister was mated last spring. she has two beautiful pups now, I've only seen her once since then and that was from a video chat that we did. my father walked me to the big tribal circle carved into the ground. This was the bonding circle. My father walked around till he was facing everyone there. Seth walked out from behind a big oak tree. He stepped into the circles and he grabbed my hands. I couldn't help but blush.

“Greetings all.” My father began, his voice rang out. “We are here for the Mating of my daughter Rained Grayson and the Alpha from the pack just north of here Seth Carson."

The small crowd there started to cheer. I looked out at them and found Sara leaning against a tree. She gave me a smiled that said be brave and I couldn't help but smile back. I looked back to my father as he was pulling out a knife to carve the tribal moon into are chest. To humans it looks like a tattoo. My dad handed the knife to Seth, I held really still as he started to carve. It didn't hurt, I just felt cold where the knife was. Finally Seth was done with the moon. he handed me the knife. He removed his shirt so I could carve, I looked down at his body and back up at the spot.  I moved closer to him and pressed the knife into his skin.

            I began to draw, everyone knew how to draw the tribal moon. we had to learn when we were just pups. I remember when I learned it from my father I was a about 4 when he first showed it to me how to draw it. it took me 2 minutes to complete it. I lifted the knife from his skin, I handed the knife back to my father.

            My father opened his arms welcoming the moon to come out behind the clouds when it did it was a blood moon. The moon shone down on the tribal circle and it began to glow red like the moon. finally are tattoos were glowing red. I knew from watching my sisters mating that the tattoo would stay that color forever. Finally the circle stop glowing and the mating was over. I always knew it went by fast but it seem to be longer when your actually the one being mated.

            Sara ran up and hugged me when I stepped out of the circle. I hugged her back. when she let me go I saw tears running down he cheek, I didn't know if they were happy tears or sad ones, but I thought it would be best if I didn't ask her. I watched as she wiped her tears away. I felt tears prick at the side of my eyes, I didn't want to start crying.

“Ill see you tomorrow before you leave.” She told me and walked away.

I felt arms go around my waist, I turned to see Seth was behind me, I smiled up at him. He smiled down at me and then lowered his head till are lips met. The kiss was passionate and full of love. We parted from the kiss and he looked into my eyes. “ I love you.” He whispered.