Hunting Mate

Chapter Ten

I had promised Pandora that we would talk about the incident at the party the following day, so when the following day came of course when I didn't go to her she came over to my house, we had been making small talk for the past hour as we watched TV but I was waiting for her to bring it up.

"so..who was that woman at the party?" she questions, there it goes I take a sip of my coffee "that..that was..Lola" I say "is she like.." she trails off looking a little disgusted "erg, no we never dated, Lola's my mother" I say and Pandora's head spins to me "what? you speak to you mother like that and you call her by her name?" she looked upset with me.

She shakes her head "you shouldn't do that to a mother, she brought into the world and she brought you up to be the man you are together, my mother passed away and I would give anything to have her here with me for even a second" she says I grab her as she cries "I don't just do it for the fun of it" I say and she pulls away from me wiping her eyes "so why?" I sigh and close my eyes "my mom brought me into this world, yes, but that was because she went into labor without even knowing she was pregnant, she didn't bring me up my sister and I brought each other up" I explain.

Her expression reads horrified, I sigh "my mom is an addict always has been, always will be; gambling, alcohol, drugs, the lot. She would bring home random guys, and sometimes females, every other night, she has eight children and only three actually got raised with her and her husband, they are both the same. My father tried to help my mom out, he proposed and got married to her they had me and my sister together and my dad really wanted it to work but 2 hours after the wedding my mom beat my dad so bad he filed for a divorce instantly and went for a restraining order"

I breathe forcing myself to hold back the tears "my mom got remarried after a year, he is the same as her, my dad tried to fight for us but got nowhere as my mom and her new husband had 'friends' but he never gave in one night me, my brother and sister tried sneaking out of the house and we got caught, the next morning, we all got beat badly, the morning after that I dragged myself to the bathroom and I found my sister on the floor, she had been raped multiple times and had a few bad bangs on the head, she died in pain from that and also choking on her own blood"

Tears streamed down my face, just thinking about it "I actually managed to drag myself up and throw myself downstairs, I wanted to die, a man came and got me I don't remember who he was, I don't think I ever knew, but I remember he took me into the room and sat me on his knee, I cried telling them all my sister was dead in the bathroom and they ignored me. They actually just laughed and told me she deserved it, my mom was completely out of it and making out with three guys at the same time, they made me watch her"

I felt a hand on mine, I look up and see Pandora had a face full of tears, I didn't even know how much I had said until then "why did they think she deserved it?" she asked I didn't think she'd want to hear this much "cause they found out it was her that had planned us packing what we really needed nothing else, and get out of the back window at a certain time knowing they will all be passed out, well thinking they would be, and that she was the one that planned our whole route from there to our dads, they had thought she planned it all out and we were following but they never knew that I was the one that suggested and bugged her into getting out of there"

Pandora puts her hand to her mouth "how did they find out it was her; how didn't they know you were a part of it too?" she asked "I worked out a couple of nights later that it was my brother who told them she planned those things, we didn't do all the planning around him cause he slept a lot but she was the one that explained the plan to him and then I found out that she'd blamed everything on herself so I wouldn't get hurt" Pandora wiped her eyes "how long after did you get out?" she asked "I would go to school the bus would pick me up outside my house or one of her 'friends' would take me and then they would pick me up afterwards, my dad would sometimes come at breaks and talk to me, he even tried getting me out twice but got caught"

I breathe again "I finally managed to ran away when I was 15 and moved around a bit until I came upon this place when I was 16, I did go back every so often so I could see my brother but he was already like them, he enjoyed the 'buzz' of the drugs and the alcohol so I started taking more on so I would have a reason not to see him or any of them and then she found out where I'm stay and has came by every so often to annoy me" I answer.

"What about your dad?" she asks I fuse my eyebrows together "what about him?" she licks her lips then looks at me again "you said you moved around a lot until you came here, why didn't you stay with you dad?" she asked I look down "he had a car accident, that's what made me figure out I wanted out of that place even more than it had ever crossed my mind before, he had gone crazy about my sister one night after a drink in the pub and came banging at the door demanding me and to know answers about my sister, a day later the police came to my school to announce my father had passed away in a car accident, I knew it was them-I just knew it-but the police wouldn't listen and I had no prove"

Pandora kissed my cheek "I am so sorry, I had no idea what you went through as a child" she says I shrug "you weren't supposed to, I hoped you'd never have to find out but things happen" I say, Pandora wipes my face with her sleeve and I smile at her "what about your other siblings? I mean you said your mom had eight children but only three lived with her; you're here, your sister passed, your brother is still there but what about the other five?" I shrug "never known, the only one that I know the name of is Leah but her father took her when she was around 1 and I was around 5 but that's it, the others I know only because my mom has a tattoo of a tally chart and she would add on every time she has a child, one got added on like six months ago maybe so I know she's had one recently but that's all"

Pandora smiles at me "I can't believe how much you've been through and you still have a light in your eyes and that just shines forever, don't take this the wrong way or anything but your eyes make me think of Coby, the cute wolf that visits me" she can't be starting to notice, I mean everything right werewolves are fictional, right? We are supposed to be hairy odd creatures that stand on two legs not shift into an actual wolf, if she finds out before we get together the Alpha will murder both of us and we will be what he feeds the rest of the pack on.