When Darkness Calls

The Last Dance

The glare I received sent shivers down my spine.

And I don't know if it was because we were somehow supposed to be connected in someway, soul mates, or whatever, but I wasn't as afraid as I feared I should be.

Then as soon as it had appeared the glare was replaced by a smooth snake like smile. "The last dance." He snaked his arm around me even tighter. "Then we're gone."

"Look." I turned to him with a failed attempt at peeling his arm off. "Clearly we're not meant to be. some mistake or something but I'm truely sorry when I say that I'm not going anywhere with you. ever." I put on a fake smile and again attempted to push away from him.

"Your being very polite for some one who doesn't have a choice." He shook his head and leaned into my ear to signal a private conversation, not that my friends couldn't easily listen in if they wanted to. "But I'm quite aware of your feisty side, and since we're at a ball ill pretend like I don't know your hiding behind a mask of superiority and fear."

I stayed calm, he was an arrogant price of donut and he was pissing me off.

Taking a deep breath I leaned into his ear, "Of course I have a choice. Your the one who has to deal with whatever it is." I smiled even though he couldn't see me. "and I've already made up my mind."

He let out a low rattling growl before stomping angrily off.

I let out a breath and turned back to my smirking friends and smiled, "shall we dance?"

I didn't actually get to dance, because I didn't have anyone to dance with.

But I laughed alot through out the night, avoiding any topic at all relating to the dark moon pack.

And after a while I began to enjoy myself again, but it never got easier watching people dance with their mates.

"And now, I would like to wish everyone a Fantastic night. Now youngins, My Daughter has a bit to say as she will become alpha Of the Cedar Mountain pack all alone, in Just 4 months when she turns 18. Blake, Please." My father started the applause as I stepped up to him and my mother, who looked less worried then the last time I'd walked off of it hand in hand with a supposed murderer.

I pulled to the front the most elegant part of me I could at the moment as I looked out at the crowd.

"4 months from now I will stand in this exact spot, probably smiling from ear to ear as I take my parents place to lead. And I know, no one could ever replace them, but I will do my very best to make them and everyone in this, one of the strongest packs in America, proud. But as of right now they are allowing me to invite anybody who is now mated to wolves of our pack, to join. It won't be like you cannot come and go, you can live wherever and support your original pack, as we will you, as long as in any time of need, you support this pack with the utmost priority. I'm looking to form some more allies, and lose the tension between packs as my mother and father had ever so greatly begun to do." I smiled as cheers and applause echoed throughout the hall.

But to my ears one clap seemed to stand out to me, and my eyes locked with familier mossy green ones in the back of the room.

He clapped in a slow routine, and I felt my chest start to rise and fall in beavier breaths as he glared.

"And when..." my voice trailed off and I turned to my parents with a pleading look.

They nodded and I turned back around with a wide smile to the happy crowd, looking anywhere but at Damon.

"And now, enjoy the last dance of the night". I smiled and clapped lightly as the music began to play again.

Not a few seconds after I'd stepped back into the crowd showered in thanks and compliments, praises and good wishes, I was being yanked by my elbow to the side.