Darkend

Chapter 1 - Mate?

Arya's POV:
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The alarm clock goes off.... I hate waking up in the mornings, I'd rather sleep in the basement if I had to, get enough sleep! Ugh.... I need to get up though. I stretch before getting out of bed, I walk to my bathroom. After all my necessities are done.

 I do light touch of makeup. I walk out of my room, and see my brother walking out of his room.  

"Hunter. Hey, I wanted to ask you something?"

"Sure thing."  That's weird, he usually ignores me...

"Do you think I'm ready to go down there, everyone's gonna start talking about finding my mate." He busts out laughing. And there he is...

"Do you really think your gonna find a mate looking like that?"  He said giving me an ugly grin.

I look at him with a blank face. Why do I think he's gonna change when he never does... We walk down the stairs and I see my parents sitting on the couch, I'm guessing they were talking about something when I walked down the stairs. They paused and looked at me. Oh no here it comes, the "talk". Don't they have anything better to do than gossip about my love life. 

"Morning mom."

"Hey, Arya so your dad and I have been discussing something about ma...." I cut her off before she says anything that triggers me. I NEED privacy. 

"Mom! This isn't the time to talk about that, I'm pretty sure it's gonna take me awhile to find the one. Not everything is about finding my mate." I always get frustrated when people bring up finding a mate... Sometimes I feel like I'm never gonna have a mate because of how much its brought up in my family. 

 "Okay okay. Come sit down." I head over to the couch. "Don't worry, you are gonna find him sweetheart." She says giving me a happy smile. Dear Lord help me! Okay whatever, it doesn't matter right now. 

I notice dad hasn't said a word to me since I got here. He looks at mom with a look. I'm guessing he wants my mother to stop ranting. Maybe this is my chance to leave the house. 

 "Okay, well I'm gonna go eat breakfast and head over to the Mall." I slowly say. 

My mom and dad look at each other. They think I don't know what they're thinking trust me. 

"Arya, you need to take a guard with you then." My overprotective mother says. 

"Mom, no! I want to go by myself, I'm always surrounded by guards. I can take care of myself." I looked at mom pleadingly. I look over to dad. 

"Sorry, I can't let you go by yourself, there are dangerous people out there that you can't handle yourself."  He said. 

"Dad's right Arya. You can't go by yourself. You can't take that risk." Hunter said. When does he care if i'm safe or not... 

"Okay fine, but tell them to stay 4ft. away at all times, because I don't like them close. It looks suspicious and weird."  I give up...  They nod, and I go to my room and grab my purse.

"I'll be back before lunch, love you!" I say giving a small smile. 

A car pulls up as I walk out the front door. Great a personal driver, when clearly I don't need this extra protection from anyone. Training isn't easy mostly when your an Alpha's daughter. But clearly I get treated like a baby. Why can't I make my own decisions? Whatever, I shouldn't be ranting about a useless problem like this.