No More Safe

Chapter one: Finding the Ball

        " Here sweetie." Mom smiles and hands me my dress.

"Thank you, Mama" I say in my high, human accent. I slip into the dressing room and make my way past the fancy she-wolves to the dirty back hallway and find a dressing closet. Few humans enter the mating ceremony. Even fewer humans are picked to be a mate. I am entering in the mating ceremony because it is my best chance of surviving. If I don't, I'll go home to my abusive mistress and spend the rest of my life as some useless punching bag until The Mistress eventually beats me to death. But no one will know. No one will care because I am just a useless human slave.

I step out of the dressing closet with no confidence whatsoever. The I wear is just a plain, long white one. It also doesn't cover up any of my bruises so I had to put some foundation over them. That was the only makeup I could afford after buying my dress. Although, I was able to use some of the mascara, eyeliner, eye shadow, eye pencil, and lipstick from when my mom attended the mating ceremony. She had used her mom's old dress and was able to pay for more makeup. Unfortunately, the only year that she was able to go to the ceremony was when she was pregnant with me, so no one chose her. My father was actually just some cute stable boy that my Mom had a crush on. Nothing special, I was just an accident. But still, my Mom loves me with all her heart, and I want to help her once I find a mate. Correction I want to save her from The Mistress so I won't that call one day saying that my mom was pummeled to death by her owner. In my opinion, it's not okay to treat humans like animals, especially if you are an animal.

Several she-wolves glance my way and laugh. "Can you believe her?... Humans never have a chance... ugly servant" they whisper to each other. Their aura is strong, and I can sense that they are purebred she-weres. Of course all the popular, snooty half-lings are. That's the only thing good about them.

Slowly, I make my way out the door and find myself in a maze of hallways.

"Left, Left, Right, Left," I mumble off the directions to the mating ball that my mom got from a tourists map. I take a Left, Left, Right, Left, and end up right where I was.

"Dang it!" I yell into the hallways. My voice echoes back to me, and I realize that in the amount of time it took me to go around the building in a giant circle, everyone else cleared out of the building. Anxiously, I start pacing the floor and scouring every inch of the hallways and rooms for maps, directions, signs, anything.

"UGH!!!" I scream in frustration as I look into the millionth room that still has no directions

"Are you okay?" A voice asks from behind me. I scream and start going into attack mode.

"AHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH-" I look up to see a young man with brown hair and blue eyes in front of me.

"-HHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!"

"I'm not going to hurt you!" the man yells over my screaming.

I pause

"AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH-" A hand covers my mouth, muffling the noise.

"aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaahhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh-"

" Oh. My. Gosh. The one girl I run into, and she's as annoying as crap!" complains the boy who is muffling my voice.

"aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaahhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh"

"Where were you headed?" He asks me.

"aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaahhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh"

"The mating ball???" He asks, and I pause for a brief enough period of time to nod and say a muffled "Uh, huh." before I'm back to-

"aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaahhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh"

"Oh, my gosh! How annoying can you get?" The boy yells and .

"What are you doing???" I yell now that he is using his hands to pick me up, and my mouth is free.

"You'll see." he says, and I yelp in fear

"For the last time!" He says and twists a corner into another hallway. "I'm not going to hurt you!"

"Then where are you bringing me." I ask stubbornly.

"Right here," he says and swings open two double doors. They each are laced in gold and studded with diamonds, so it must be an important room.

I look up and gasp, before me are 2 lines people. One of men, and one of woman. It's the mating ball. And I'm late. And I'm in the arms of a strange young man I've never met before.

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