Secrets

~Hailey's POV~
I have been looking for my mate for a while. I haven't found a trace of him, or even had the feeling he was near by. This kind of sucks...everyone else in the pack has their mate. I'm just the lone wolf that won't be loved. Literally! This total pack slut named me that. Almost everyone calls me Lone Wolf. Well everyone besides Tyler. Tyler is my best friend. He always has my back and I always have his. He is the family, I never had. My parents also disowned me for reasons that I am not old enough to hear. For god sake! I am 18.

I decided to go on a walk with Tyler. So I left my room. We all live in a giant pack house and all have out separate rooms. Well mates share rooms. I sometimes wonder is Tyler is going to be my mate. I know it is weird to think of that because he is my best friend. He is 17 and going to be 18 tomorrow. Mates find each other at 18. Tyler and I think his name is Skyler are the only 17 year olds in the pack. That means that one of them is my mate, or my mate is from a different pack. That would be a nightmare! If my mate is in a different pack then I have to join that pack. I will have to leave my pack for my mate's. I know it sounds kind of dumb, but the male stays in the pack and the female has to move there.

Anyways, I walked down the hallways past all the girls I hate, including the pack slut. She pushed away from her group and stood in front of me. "Has the Lone Wolf found her pathetic little mate yet?" she asked in her obnoxious tone.

"Shut up," I said.

"Ha, I bet you don't even now my own fucking name!" she laughed.

"Actually I do, Pack Slut!" my voice was rising. She knew she was making me angry, but I knew she was some what afraid of me. I think everyone could smell her fear a lot of the time.

"Wow, But just remember you are and always will be the Lone Wolf because I bet that poor soul, aka your mate, wants nothing to do with you. He is probably hiding, or even better, he probably killed himself. Think of it this way...Who the hell wants a little girl who has been broken so many times that there is too many to count," she said.

"Yet again...where is your mate?" I asked. I knew where he was, but she got to me...so I wanted to get to her. What she said really hurt me because what if she was right.

"How dare you!" she yelled.

"That's right, at least I still have a mate! Your mate is the one who committed fucking suicide to get away from you!" I yelled. I could see the tears forming in her eyes. I knew that I had gotten to her. I also added, "So the next time you decide to try to break me again, think of what I know. Also remember I can break you, just as much as you can break me." I pushed past her and started walked to Tyler's room. By now there was tears in my eyes. I was walking really quickly and I accidentally walked into something...or someone. I fell onto my butt.

"Oh sorry," I said looking up. It was Skyler. He looked down at me and offered a hand. I took it and stood up.

"Hey, what's wrong?" he asked. His eyes full of concern. I noticed that he must have sawn my tear streaked face.

"Um, do you know where Tyler is?" I asked quietly.

He thought for a second and responded with, "Well, I think he is out with the Alpha...I think he is training Tyler to become more powerful."

"Oh," I said as I felt more tears fall from my eyes.

"If you want, you can talk to me..." he said nervously.

"Sure," I said and he grabbed my hand and we walked to his room.