Sorry for the late update, but I recently wrote down how many reads this story had (1834) and then I checked back in a week and it had 2000! That's ridiculous. I thought that no one new was reading this, when in fact I am so very wrong. Here is a new chapter to make up for that. I love you all. If you guys don't comment, I don't know if you're reading so I wont update... Make sure to show the love so I will be more motivated!!
xoxo Maggie
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I somehow lost my shoes and I was all but sprinting towards the woods. I tied up my blue plaid shirt so that my bra wasn't showing anymore. I felt like I wouldn't be taken seriously if my red lace bra and my stomach was out in the open for all to see. I felt more betrayed then I felt lost. Finn gave away my right to choose, why? Caleb was pretty good looking and marrying him would make his sister, Alexi pretty damn pissed, which were good things. But choosing him as my husband would be a different thing. It means that I loved him, and I wanted to spend the rest of my life with him. But me not choosing and me not loving him meant a life of enslavement. Sure, maybe someday I will learn to love him, but what if learning to love someone took away the chance of me actually truly finding true love? I will never forgive Finn for this. He will have to pay for taking away my freedom, away my choice. This awful place took away my identity, my best friend, and now it was ripping away my choice.
"Gemma! Gemma! Wait up, stop going so fast!" I look over my shoulder and see Quinn in a short dress and wedges struggling to keep up with me. Her curly red hair was plastered to her forehead and she was panting like a fat dog in the heat.
"Quinn, I'm kind of on a mission now," I say going faster while trying to loose her.
She pants again and says "I heard about what happened. There's no need to feel ashamed for sleeping with Caleb... He's pretty cute! And now you guys get to be married at the ceremony soon! That's awesome, Gemma!"
I couldn't believe what I was hearing. She thought that getting married at this age was awesome? She was okay with that? Jeez, how brainwashed was everyone living here? Don't they realize that having no choice is archaic and wrong?
"I didn't sleep with Caleb, Quinn. Finn lied so now I am being forced to shotgun marry Caleb because of him and my father."
"Finn lied about that? What a jerk! Well Caleb is cute so at least there's that."
She smoothed down her dress and sighed.
"How is this okay, Quinn? Shouldn't I have a choice in who I marry? Shouldn't I be able to have a say in all of this and not have everyone, everyone but me say what I should and shouldn't do? Who I can and can't love? This is wrong, Quinn. I can't believe that none of you realize it! It makes me so mad!"
Her face is in a state of complete shock when I look at her again. Her eyes are bulging and dilated and she looks away from me for a second.
"That's not fair, Gemma. You got to leave this place for seven years and you got to see the real world. The one filled with humans. They have choices. They get to choose who they want to be, they get to choose who they love, they get to choose every damn aspect of their every damn life! And we don't, Gemma. So don't go telling me of the real world, the world I wish I could live in. You don't think I know that this is wrong?"
"I'm not stupid, Gemma. I know this isn't the way things should be, I know that everything about our life is calculated and completely unfair. And I smile and I pretend that everything is jolly damn good when I want to rip my hair and scream at the top of my lungs. And I do know this is wrong, Gemma. I do and I stay silent because I am afraid of what would happen to me if I say otherwise. You should do the same. I know that you are probably going to run off and give Finn an earful about what he did and how much you hate him and what not. But hating him isn't going to change the fact that you are going to marry Caleb, and you are going to do it with a smile, because damn it Gemma I don't know what I would do if your defiance pissed off the alpha. He's not the same person he was, Gemma. In fact, sometimes I think that he is not your father, but someone else."
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Whispering Pines Woods
Teen Fiction© 2014 Maggie Reid Gemma Donnahue lives with her mother and her abusive boyfriend, Todd. When Gemma is kidnapped and taken to her father, who she was told 7 years ago was dead, it is revealed to her by the dark, mysterious, and moody Finn what Gemma...
