Lover Come Back

Escape

Escape

I'm that girl in school, everyone gives the dirty looks. I'm that girl at home where her family can't stand to look at her. I'm that girl on the street everyone shies away from. I'm the female werewolf that the pack hates. I'm the kind of girl no one wants. I'm unwanted.

Most of the time I skip school. A lot of the time, I just can't deal with the harassment or the mean, dirty glares I always get. Everyone thinks it's funny. They find it entertaining, it's a sick joke to them. Why can't they see it hurts me?

Simple. They don't care.

I'm home, right now.

Alone.

Everyone in the pack is either at work or school. Well, except my father who is probably out banging some scum off the street.

My mother takes her pain and anger out on me but all I can do is grieve for her. She might as well have already lost her mate. My father hardly even pays attention to her anymore. She doesn't deserve someone like him. She deserves better.

Sometimes I wish I could just whisk her away from this cruel world. Maybe if no one was hurting her then she'd be the loving mother I've always wanted.

I sigh and get up from my bed, using the strength I have left in me. I wish I could go for a run but there are a few problems with that.

1) Alpha's orders. He forbade me from going on runs. If I do the opposite of what he says, I will be severely beaten. (As if I don't already get enough of that)

2) I have bruises all over my body so I can't walk in my human for or I'd get weird, questioning looks from the humans and possible laughs from my pack mates.

3) I'm too weak from not shifting in a while, to walk all the way to the woods. It was a pretty good distance from the pack house.

But maybe that won't matter, that third problem. I know what I have to do tonight. If I ever want to get out of this horrible, wretched life then I must do what I have been longing to do from day one. It's only now that I've mustered up the courage to do it tonight.

I have to do it when the Alpha gets home. All I can do is hope that I'll be able to outrun him before he can kill me.

I rip out a piece of paper from one of my school notebooks that I only use for drawing and write a note to my mother and five year old sister, Elena.

Dear Mom and Elena,

I am going to be gone for a while and won't be back for quite some time. But I will come back for you both. One day.

Mom, I know it may be hard, but please find another mate. I don't want you to continue to go through all that pain when dad is cheating on you. You deserve so much more.

Elena, I love you so much it hurts. I hope you continue doing well in school to make mommy proud. Make friends and be a good girl.

I love you both and promise to come back for you some time in the future.

-Angelina

I put the note on my pillow and packed a plastic bag that consisted of a picture of my mother and sister, a pencil, a notebook, and some money that I slipped out of my father's wallet over a long period of time.

I tied the loops in a knot and stumbled down the stairs. I grabbed my father's car keys from the kitchen counter where he always left them, and headed out to the garage, where I fell down more stairs.

I needed to get to the woods.

My father had walked to "work" this morning instead of taking his car, making this one of the very few days a year that I could make a possible escape.