My Luna

Chapter 1: Escaping

Brooke's POV

"What did I say about answering me back", My father yells at me as he throws me against the wall of the living room.When I don't give him an answer he yells again,"Answer me!"

Just as he lifts me up by the hair my brother comes running in.

"Let go of her" he growls as my father pulls my hair tighter. I scream with the pain.

"I said let her go" My brother yells at my father. I can hear the anger in his voice. My father lets go of my hair and turns around to face Kyle,my brother. I mouth at him to stop knowing how much trouble he is going to be in if he continues to fight with our father.

All I can do is watch as my father starts walking towards Kyle and undoing his belt, getting ready to whip him. "Who do you think you are talking to like that boy".

I see Kyle brace himself as my father lifts his belt and brings it down on him.

***(20 minutes later)

"You shouldn't have done that" I tell my brother as I clean up his open wounds from where the belt hit him. He now has a large cut down the side of his face and many have been added to his back.

"I had to protect you" he replies with a small smile. My brother is only a year older than me but he feels this need to protect me all the time but every time he sticks up for me he ends up being beaten up by our father. We never know what we do to piss our parents off so much but they both hate me and Kyle. Getting beaten up is a regular for us but Kyle gets himself beaten up even more when he play hero and sticks up for me.

"I can't keep watching you get beaten up like this" I sigh knowing that even if I begged my brother not to stick up for me anymore he still would. He is the only person who loves me and he is the only person I love. Our parents don't love us and our pack certainly doesn't. Since we were born both me and my brother have been hated by everyone we know. Well there was this girl once but she is no longer around.

"How did our lives get so messed up?" my brother asks staring out into space as I continue tending to his wounds.

"I really don't know Kyle...I just don't know".

Just as Kyle opens his mouth to talk we hear a knock on the door. We both stand up and move towards the tiny window of the attic bedroom we share. Outside stood the Alpha of our pack, Alpha Johnson. Me and my brother both look at each other knowing exactly why he is here.

"No, I can't do it, I can't do this again" I tell my brother feeling tears forming in my eyes.

"It's ok, I won't let him do anything to you" my brother reassures me."I knew this day would eventually come", my brother begins saying as he walks across the room and starts shoving my clothes and few belongings into a bag.

"Knew what day would come. Kyle what are you packing for?" I ask worriedly.

"Your going to escape, tonight"

"WHAT!! ARE YOU CRAZY??" I whisper-yell at him so no one downstairs can hear me."I will never make it out past the boarder, even if I do I will be in more danger being declared a rogue. You know other packs don't take kindly to rogues".

"That's why I'm not going. I'll be distracting them while you run."

"No, I'm not leaving you behind. I can't imagine what will happen to you if they find me gone and that you helped me" I can't even bare to imagine what would happen to my brother. My eyes well with tears at the thought of the pain he would have to endure.

"You deserve a better life than this, you are leaving now. I have been watching the boarder security for a few months in preparation for this." He says taking out a map and laying it on the floor. "Tonight guards will be here, here and here" he says pointing out different locations on the map. My brother looks at me and sees the tears that threaten to fall. He sighs."I would die for you Brooke. You are my sister, my flesh and blood, the only one I love in the world. I would do anything just to know you are safe somewhere other than here." He stares into my eyes as he says this. I had never seen my brother so serious.

"I can't leave you here" I say in a half whisper as I start crying. "I won't be able to live with myself if I leave you." Just then we hear voices getting closer.

"The Alpha is coming. You need to leave now Brooke". My brother looks at me with pleading eyes. I know he just wants me safe but I can't just leave him here. He walks over to me and gives me a hug.

"You are leaving now" My brother says this with such certainty that I listen. I would only upset him more by staying. I look at the map. He has done all of this just to make sure I get out safely. He lets go of me at puts the bag he packed on my shoulders and hands me the map. We hear the voices grow even louder. They are almost outside the door. Kyle walks me to the window and helps me out of it. Before he closes it I grab his hand. "I love you" I tell him.

"I love you too. Mind-link me once you are somewhere safe." I nod as he closes the window.

I make my way from the roof of the house to the floor and break into a run for the boarder knowing that as soon as my parents and Alpha Johnson find out I'm gone they will come after me. As I get near the boarder I hide behind a tree to check me brothers map to see where the boarder patrol guards are.

"Shit" I say out loud to myself as I realise they are coming in my direction. I look up from the map just in time to hear a guard yell. He is about 100 meters away from me. I start running for the boarding before he can call for back-up. Within a minute or two I can hear a few people behind me running. I don't dare look back to see how many.

I run passed the boarder hoping they won't follow me but they do. All I can do is keep running. After about ten minutes I can feel myself slowing down due to tiredness. I notice that I don't hear footsteps behind me anymore. I stop and turn around seeing that the guards are gone and no longer chasing me.

Something doesn't feel right. There has to be a reason they stopped chasing me, right?

I turn around to continue walking when I trip over into a small ditch. 'Ow' is all I can think. I landed wrongly on my ankle when I fell and judging by how it is facing the opposite way of my knee, I am pretty sure it is broken. I try haul myself up to a standing position using a rock stuck into the wall.

As soon as I turn around I notice three wolves have me surrounded. Shit, shit and more shit. The last thing I need is this. I must have been to occupied in seeing if I was followed I didn't even sense them approach.

All three wolves are growling at me now. I smell the air. One female guard and two male. They are not rogues which means they are from a pack. One of the men are giving of a strong aura making me think he is a higher ranking wolf. They begin walking closer to me.

"Get away from me" I scream as two guards and the higher ranking wolf continue walking towards me.

"Who are you" One of the the guards ask."Which pack have you-" 

"Enough" The high ranked wolf interrupts,"No question until the Alpha gets here".

This can't be good. I take in their pack marks on their wrists. It is a crescent moon. Lunar Crescent pack. Shit. The last place anyone would want to be right now is here.

A car parks up a bit behind the group. My head starts spinning. A man I am assuming is the Alpha gets out of the car and starts walking towards us. All of a sudden my knees buckle but I'm caught by someone.

"Mate" is the last thing I hear before I fall into darkness.