My Mates Mum

Chapter 1

MERIDITH kept her face still, joining her side was her friend and partner Alexandra, both girls hair had been bound in pony tails - messy but keeping their hair up with a shred of normalcy. Her friends hair was dark - almost blue - and her eyebrows thick, giving her glare a threatening edge. Meridiths own hair was the mix of red and brown, usually in waves - but her mother forced her to keep them straight, to prevent her hair from being unruly and in the way. Alexandra was coming with them, her piercing deep, sea coloured eyes were captivating - and she was close to Meridiths age. Having similiar looks with Meridiths mother, the orphaned girl was going to pretend to be Meridiths sister.

"Your mother wants to leave." Alexandras cold voice brought Meridith from staring out at her family home - perched on the roof top like an eagle - waiting to leap from the building and kill.

"I know." Meridth replied back in the same tone. She had played dolls when she was younger, Alexandra had been her playmate, instead of the usual scenarios involving clothes and a ken doll, it was usually the two kidnapping and torturing each others dolls. It was like a competition, whatever they did to the dolls, they would send a blow to the other person until they gave in. Meridith never lost, but always won. Sometimes Alexandra didn't break, and Meridth called it, congratulating her on not giving up any information. And now - soon - that game would be played on others, for real.

"Meridith." Her mothers voice said coldly from behind her, no one jumped, her mother never raised her voice. She did, but it was scary that she wanted to be feared and in control - raising her voice to get Meridths attention wasn't her being in control.

"Mother." She replied, turning to face her mother, her features glared at her daughter. Alexandra didn't interfere, continuing to stand in her stone warrior position, staring out at the grounds beneath them. "I will be there in a minute."

"You will come now." She growled.

"No - a minute." Meridith shot back, wanting to savor her safe place once more, before leaving it for possibly months, and then going off to kill a whole pack of wolves that didn't do anything wrong.

"I leave, with or without you." Her mother spat venom, turning on her heel and finding her own way back through the window she had silently leapt through to get onto the roof. Meridth bit her tongue, not bothering to tell her of the door behind the chimney that led to the attic.

A moment of silence passed after her mother dissappeared through the window before Meridth spoke. "I suppose we must leave now." She replied poshly, being taught to speak like she was better than everyone else. She walked to the hidden door, Alexandra following closely. "We'r going to have to talk like we know each other."

"We already do." Alexandra replied vaguely.

"Yes, but more teenage like." Meridth had never been around when Alexandra had to act, but she knew the girl sucked at lying. She had gotten the two in trouble over the years because of that flaw.

"I understand." Alexandra replied vaguely once again.

"That means you should stop speaking to me as if I own you." Meridth said sharply, jumping from the rungs of the stairs, landing silently, she knew the stair case made her steps loud and completely avoided it out of habit.

"Fine, biatch." Alexandra replied, causing Meridth to snort out a laugh.

"Better." Meridith further continued to condescend her. "The name calling gives it a nice touch." She rolled her eyes.

"The eye roll does the same for you." Alexandra jumped from the rung as well, her feet hitting the ground with same silent way Meridiths did. "Apparently we'll be having a conjoined room."

"She lied. I have already seem the map plans - your room is just next to mine with a thin wall seperating it - easy to break." Meridith informed, opening the door quietly before stepping out, evaluating the hallway by habit.

"No loud sex - got it." Alexandra joked, getting out of her Hunter mode as she knew none of the others were around to stop her. Meridith sent her friend an annoyed smirk.

"Only you." She sighed dramatically, opening up the last door - the car awaiting them - idling in the driveway, ready for their departure into the killing feild. Meridith wanted to hesitate, but hesitation got people killed - and to keep the two people going with her alive, she would need to kill.

"I hope you girls love unpacking - it's all we'll be doing when we get there." Meridiths mother said, her tone dull, already bored and wanting to end the lives of people in the entire New Moon Pack. "You'll start the school in less than a week - it's already four weeks into their term."

"Meaning?" Meridith raised her sculpted eyebrow. Unlike the other Hunters, who didn't attend to their beauty or facial features, Meridith did. She plucked and shaped her eyebrows - wore whatever makeup her Grandmother would buy her on the side - making her almost feel like a normal teenage girl.

"Exams and tests." Her mother replied, already bored as if she was the one in an Exam right at that moment. "Assessments, assignments - whatever thoes human and werewolf scum do." Meridith had to bite her tongue to refrain from reminding her mother that she herself was a human.

"Okay." Meridith said, bored of the conversation, she always liked Exams and tests - it didn't involve the teacher droning on about whatever - Meridith liked to teach herself. She was good at it. Climbing into the backseat, Alexandra did the same with a single, unnecessary box, between them that contained small daggers - a "just incase" while they travelled to their new home. Meridith kept her mouth closed, Alexandra and her never really spoke while her mother was around, not speaking would have been boring if Meridith and Alexandra didn't silently meditate in this time. Alexandra lost her parents to wolves - causing the girl to not care who or what she killed. Which made Meridiths mother take her in - a warrior who didn't ask questions and just killed - Meridith knew she brought Alexandra as an example of who she wished her daughter would become.

But Meridith stayed in her conflictive state - not all werewolves were bad. Her mother obviously had a very hidden and mysterious agenda that she was keeping from her only daughter. Out of all the packs in the world - why the New Moon pack? Who was there that had her mother wanting to kill every last one of them before it was illegal to do so? Thoughts nearly consumed Meridith before she closed her eyes and pushed them away completely.