The Complicated Tales of Emily & Henry

Chapter One: The Complicated Tales of Jack Daniels

Chapter One: The Complicated Tales of Jack Daniels

Four Years Later...

HIS short blonde hair. His greenish-bluish eyes. Everything about him was permanently imprinted in Emily's mind despite the fact that they've had no contact in the last four and a half years. After the shock of marking Henry as hers, the couple had endured the most awkward car ride home. Before Emily had even gotten a word out Henry was out of the car and making his way inside his three-story house. Arriving home much later that night her mother Georgina had already been made aware of Emily's actions and had her suitcases laid across her California king bed.

"This is for the best." Emily's mother tried convincing her. Sending Emily away was just another way for her to not have to deal with her just as she had done for most of Emily's life. With Emily's father dead, she had much more important things to do such as finding other men to dig her claws into. "His parents don't want you going near him and seeing him every day would be torture for you."

"Okay." Emily agreed not that she had much of a choice. Her mother had already arranged for her to join her sister Teresa's pack. How she managed to do that in the span of a couple of hours wasn't a surprise, Georgina could be very persuasive when she really wanted to be.

By the next morning, Emily was on a flight to Southern California where she would spend the next two years of her life before her enrolling in college. For once in Emily's life, she had a semi-normal life living with her Aunt Teresa, her mate, and her cousin. Together as a family, they had dinner every night around seven p.m., where Emily was asked how her day was and where she would be scolded for getting in trouble or failing a test, and every other week they'll have family game night. Yeah, Emily missed some of the friends she was able to keep but she also couldn't imagine being sent to anywhere else.

"Class dismissed." Emily's psychology professor announced to his class of two hundred and fifty students. Immediately people put their things away and left the lecture room. Luckily for Emily, she had chosen a seat near the doors and was one of the first people out and didn't have to wait in the long lines to exit the room. Leaving McMicken Hall Emily made her way into the on-campus Starbucks. Already waiting for me was Delores her roommate and best friend for the last four years.

"I got you a white chocolate mocha, your fave." Delores places in front of Emily's chair. Delores was a lot shorter and thicker than the average she-wolf but beautiful nevertheless. Her medium length hair perfectly framed her round face and her grown out eyebrows gave her that sensual look that attracted so many people to her. Once she had taken a seat, Emily took a sip of her semi-hot drink. "Yum." She moaned. "Thanks."

"Welcome," Delores responded as Emily pulled her laptop out of her bag. "How was class?"

"Boring as usual." Due to the bore that psychology class was Emily would always find herself zoning out which would eventually lead to her having to spend hours after class going back through the online notes. If the teacher didn't have such a strict attendance policy she would just skip class and read the online notes just as she had to do anyway. "You?"

She rolled her eyes, "Fucking idiot slap my ass as I was leaving class." Delores was a known feminist around campus and especially in the werewolf world. She hated the misogyny that went on in packs and had spent the last six years of her life fighting to abolish the standard role for women in packs.

Before meeting Delores, Emily had never really cared, it was tradition and she had grown used to it. Going to Delores 'conferences and hearing her speeches had made Emily realize that the way women were treated not just in packs but in society period was shameful and there needed to be some reforms. Emily admired Delores' courage, not many people agreed with her on her views and as a result, she made a lot of powerful enemies, but not even that stopped her from spreading her message. A lot of people turned their backs on her when she began making noise and the same thing happened to Emily when people discovered why she had changed packs. Delores saw the way the pack treated Emily and stood up for her and since then the pair had been inseparable.