The Perfect Crime

Chapter 5

CHAPTER 5

"Is she dead?" a boy’s voice said.

"Poke her," a second voice said. This time is was a girl’s voice.

I felt something poke my side. I groaned.

"Don't actually poke her!" The girl’s voice shouted.

"But you said poke her!"

"I didn't think you were dumb enough to do it!"

"Shhhh did you hear that?" A different male voice said, probably referring to my groans.

I slowly opened my eyes. I saw 2 heads peering down at me. A male and a female. Their faces were unclear. My only conclusion was that I had died. And the room was white. Yes I made it to heaven! I mentally fist pumped.

"Am I in heaven?" I asked just wanting to make sure.

I heard a giggle come from the female. "No, silly, we're at a motel." Her voice was sweet like my mothers.

"Mommy? Why are we in a motel in heaven? Is this the place where you give me an inspirational talk and I go back to my body?"

My vision was clearing up and I saw I was lying on a soft bed covered with white in a white room. I suddenly realised that I wasn't in heaven nor was I with either of my parents. The male and female were twins. They were both blond haired and blue eyed. The boy was certainly good looking and the girl was very pretty. Another realisation dawned on me.

"I survived!" I exclaimed. I suddenly cowered, embarrassed. If I blushed I would be red right now. I’m glad I didn’t blush.

I looked past the twins and saw there was a couch in the corner occupied by another boy and girl both with amused faces. I mentally blushed again thinking about what a fool I made of myself. Suddenly I remembered I was in a room full of strangers and I had no idea what their intentions were.

I shot up the bed. I pushed my legs off the bed but someone stopped me. It was the twin boy. He had a grip on my arm. I tried to pull away but it just made him hold on tighter. I was getting scared. What if they were going to rape me?

“Let her go. Can’t you see you’re hurting her?” his twin said. He wasn’t actually hurting me, he was scaring me. But I wouldn’t mention that since she defended me.

“I’m sorry,” he said and engulfed me in a big hug. Relief washed over me, realising they weren’t going to hurt me. Unless that’s what they wanted me to think so they could kill me in my sleep and feed on me. I wasn’t so relieved anymore. All the people I knew weren’t so nice.

"We just want to help you,” the boy said. “My name is Teak and this is my twin sister Teal. On the couch there," he pointed to the couch in the corner with the girl and boy, “is Reed, our leader, and next to him is Angel."

I took a good look at them. Reed was muscular with blue eyes. His brown hair swept to the side. And Angel resembled an angel with her white blonde hair, pale blue eyes and very fair completion. Angel smiled at me. "We found you in The Land of the Beast. You were so pale and skinny we thought you had passed away," Teak spoke with such sincerity, "so we decided to take you back with us. If we had left you there you would have died. "

My fear of them vanished. "M-my name is Laine. And thank you for everything. I'm sorry for all the trouble. I was hoping to pass along a pack land. What pack are you'll from?"

This time Reed spoke. "We aren't from any pack. We used to be part of a pack, but then they were wiped out."

My eyes widened in shock. "Wha- I mean how did that happen." I started twiddling my thumbs nervously, "I mean you don't hav-"

He spoke without warning. "It was just after the war we had with another pack not so long ago. After months we had finally won. Everyone was at the pack house celebrating. The celebrations went out till the next morning. Everyone was drunk out of their minds. That's when it came. Due to all the celebrations we had not heard the warnings of a tornado. None of us expected we would get wiped out by a tornado. Fortunately, the four of us were had out getting supplies. When we had reached the house everything was completely destroyed and everyone was gone,” he let out a laugh, but not a happy one. “Who would have known that an entire pack of wolves would get wiped out by a tornado. A freaking tornado.

"Because our Alpha was no longer with us and since I was the strongest, I was made the leader of this little groupie. We've sent out requests to join a pack, but we haven't heard from any of them. Well that's our story. What about you? Why were you out all alone?"

His question brought my thoughts to my old pack. I thought of every horrible thing they did to me. I guess if I wanted to be a part of them, I would have to tell them.

"I- I ran away from my pack. I came from the Happy Snow pack. They- they're monsters." I half whispered the last part. "They have no morals. They can't tell right from wrong. Living with them was hell." I didn't want to give them too much of information. I wasn't ready to tell people.

I suddenly heard a loud laugh.

“Ha-happy,” Teak suddenly said between laughs, “S-snow pack? What kind of a name is that?”

His laugh was so contagious that I could help but laugh with him. Reed finally shot him a glare and he stopped abruptly.

They seemed like nice people, people who understood. They all huddled in the corner of the room to discuss what to do with me. I didn't catch much of their conversation. "...left... skinny... but... can't... risk it... die... It’s decided." They slowly walked towards me. I was still sitting on the bed with my legs stretched out in front of me.

"You can join us until we find a pack. You'll need to train with us. But rest for today and tomorrow. It looks like you'll need it. You'll be staying in this room with Angel and Teal. Teak and I are in the room next door."

I nodded not trusting my voice. I started thinking about Sean. I could feel tears in my eyes. All I wanted to do was cry. I hated Sean for what he did to me.  Reed and Teak stayed for a little while longer. We all just chatted for a bit learning things about each other. Soon after 10 the boys decided it was getting late and wanted to give us time to do “whatever girls liked to do before they sleep.” Their words not mine.

After the boys left the room it was just Angel, Teal and I. They looked at me and smiled. I gave them a small smile back.

Teal's blonde hair and Angel's blue eyes reminded me of my sister. But thinking about my sister took my mind to Sean. I thought about the pain I felt when he abused me and then the pain when he rejected me. Physical and emotional pain. I couldn't decide which one hurt more. I couldn't help it anymore. I brought my legs up to my chin and let the tears fall from my face.

I felt the sides of the bed lower and felt a hand on my back. I flinched thinking it was going to hurt me but instead it gently rubbed against my back up and down. I heard a soft voice say, "You're going to be okay." I laid my head down, believing everything was going to be okay.

Oh, how I couldn't have been more wrong.