Love Me More

Chapter one

Hi everyone! So I tried indenting and all, but then it didn't quite work out the way I wanted it to... All the paragraphs are uneven and will look funny, but I hope you don't mind! Oh well. I guess I won't indent for the next chapters... or try another method.

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      I giggled, leading the other girls further into the woods. My glossy coffee-coloured hair snapped behind me, fluttering against the wind.

      “Raine, are you sure we should be doing this?” A small voice whimpered from beside me.

      I glanced over at my best friend, Charlie, who looked at me with a frown. Her lips quivered, and her chocolate brown eyes stared back at me innocently.

      “It’ll be fine Charles,” I teased, a smirk forming on my lips, as I watched her grow irritated from the use of her nickname that she loathed so much. She had said that it made her, ‘sound too much like a guy,’ though she was far from it. A little on the short side, she stood exactly at 5 feet, and her curvy body she liked to hide so much did little to keep guys from wondering, why her name had to be Charlie.

      There was nothing wrong with her name of course, I personally thought it was cute; it suited her. I laughed as her nose scrunched up in annoyance, but let me slide. She quickly adjusted her glasses as it slipped off of her nose.

      “Guys, we are so going to get into trouble for this,” Raven, one of my other friends, grumbled.

     “Especially when Ryan and the Alpha finds out about this,” Elizabeth chimed in, shaking her head in disapproval. Her loose strawberry blonde hair flipped from side to side, her hips swaying to the rhythm of the pace we were walking at.

      “Stop, don’t remind me! I don’t want to look at Ethan in the face, telling him where I went off to with you guys!” Collie groaned into her perfectly manicured hands, despite being excited at first.

       I rolled my eyes at their outright whines and complaints, giving them my best ‘don’t-tell-me-you-don’t-want-to-do-this’ look. “Come on guys, live a little. Don’t be so tied down by your mates; this is a girl’s night remember? Don’t tell me you’re ditching out last minute!”

      “Of course; we’d never leave you alone, Raine! We’re a team remember?” Charlie reached out and squeezed my hand, sending me a hopeful smile.

      I bit my lip, and restrained my unshed tears from falling.

      Mates. I could never have that anymore.

      I lost my mate two years ago, when he was anonymously murdered during his day time shift. I could still remember the day I found out about the devastating news – it all just felt too real; it was like it only happened yesterday. The murder weapon? A bullet made from silver, or so I was told.

      I remembered how I had slowly starved myself, locking myself up in my room without talking to anyone for weeks on end. I felt like I was dying myself. All I could do was mourn, and wish he was still alive; only to be devastated when shock registered in me that he was never ever coming back. He was gone, just like that, disappearing from my life. The murderer? Even to this day, no one knows who the bastard is. And all this time, Charlie stood by me, guiding me every step of the way. She had always been there for me, and I knew she would continue to stand beside me. Simply put, we trusted each other with our lives.

      Shaking myself out of my thoughts, Raven peered at me with a concerned expression. “Raine?"

      “Yea?” I responded.