I'm Not Yours

Chapter 8, Mates Are A Wondrous Thing

"Well, looks like I'm up to explain the rest," the guy from yesterday steps forward. Slicing through the atmosphere of the room.

"Mates are a wondrous thing. As you all witnessed. We are to pair as many mates together as possible during the ball. You will be to attend your kitchen duties during your shifts then immediately report to the tailers and etiquette classes. According to your schedule," he nods towards Bernie.

"I have them here," she shuffles b over to the lone table and grabs the stack of papers before quickly putting them into our hands. I look down at mine.

4 a.m.-7 a.m. :kitchen duty
7 a.m.-7:15 a.m. :breakfast
7:30 a.m.-10 a.m. :tailers
10:12 a.m.-1 p.m. :kitchen duty
1:10 p.m.-4 p.m. :etiquette
4:10 p.m.-7 p.m. :kitchen duty
7 p.m.-7:15 p.m. :supper
7:30 p.m.-11 p.m. -etiquette

It takes all I have to control my anger. What the heck!! 5 hours of sleep, and no lunch. I am going to quite possibly die. On top of that Ash and I need to come up with a plan to evade the ball. Neither of us need some random dude acting like they own us.....even if the thing with Jenna was kinda cute. But that's besides the point.

I suck in a deep breath, hold it together Jess.

"This is until the day of the ball where you will spend the day prepping. Until then,including today, you are to run on that schedule. Dismissed," the guard dude waves his hand in dismissal at us like we are dogs.

As soon as I leave the room I run to catch up to Ashely. Making our way back to the kitchen we quickly compare schedules. We have kitchen duty for lunch and our sleep schedule is the same.

***

Walking into our shared room I collapse onto my bed. Day 1 and I already want to murder every single person that helped to contribute to this schedule. It's stupid really.

My eyes close and my body starts relaxing into my bed when the door is slammed open again.

A second later like 3000 pounds land on top of me.

Gasping in a breath I mumble, "Jesus, Ash did you eat your mate or something. I swear you became heavier than the last time I saw you"

"I am offended. But that is a good start. Get up, we need a plan," she hits me with my pillow and stands up.

Groaning I roll onto my back,she's right. It doesn't mean I have to like it though.

"Well, the most obvious thing would be to run away," I mumble.

She stares at me.

"No," my voice is firm. "If we were caught they would kill or torture us. Especially with the ball coming up. No way,"

Sighing, she sits down on her to small of a bed and continues to stare at me.

"Do you have a different plan. Obviously it doesn't matter if we catch the flu, they'll still make us go. You saw Jenny," Ash dejectedly states.

I sigh and close me eyes for a minute. She's right. They don't care about our health, at least until we find our mate. I shudder at the thought.

No way am I allowing some werewolf dude to control my life. All they ever do is bring harm. It's all they've ever done.

"I don't know. Do we want to risk it?" I sigh. Sitting up to look at her.

She gets up and lays on my lap. Looking up at me she asks the question everyone secretly asked themselves today.

"We risk leaving or being the unfortunate person on the end of the mate pull with the Alpha's son. You heard them today. They think he'll find his mate, and it could end up being one of us,"

Nope. Not happening. I won't let Mr. Soon to be alpha take me or my best friend. They've already wrecked so much in my life.

I found out awhile ago that Alpha's have been kidnapping human females whenever they think they have potential to be a mate. Whether that we are one or not. The egoistic jerks think it's okay cause it benefits them. They don't think about our families, us, or our future. They take it all away.

Werewolves as a whole are definitely not my favorite creatures. They're pigs. But Alphas, I hold a loathing passion against.

"Okay, let's start planning the great escape,"

*****
Okay, so it's a really short chapter but it is what it is. There's also a lot of dialogue but I figured it was kinda important.

xoxo~Knight

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