A Cold Howl

Chapter 1: Who are you?

I wake up to my mother's voice, but continue to ignore her, knowing exactly why she's forcing me to wake up from a nap I planned, hoping I could miss the event.

"Aria! Get ready. You can't escape this event, so enough of your silly naps. It's 8:00 and you have to be there by 9:15." My mom screams as she pulls the blanket off my body, leaving me no choice, but to finally get up. I groan in frustration, not wanting to get out of bed.

"Come on, your outfit is ready and so is your food." She says with a calmer tone, busy preparing my luggage since last night.

"Mom, you don't have to get all excited about this. You don't even know if I'm going to meet my mate or not." I mumbled, hoping she doesn't hear me clearly because she always says the same thing.

This isn't just for you. It's-- "...for the family too." she says while looking at me. I wonder if dad would be just like mom. Would he be excited about this dumb event as well? Just as I was about tear up, my mother's loud packing shakes me out of the thought.

I shrug it off and get ready, so she stops nagging over and over again. I put on the outfit she set for me and took a glance at my mirror. Hm. Not bad. I guess if today is going to crappy, I might as well look good living through it.

(Aria's outfit^)
After I finished eating, my mom dropped me off to the Sullivan's mansion where the event was being held. I get out of the car and turn around to face my mom. She gives me one last smile and gets out of the car to pull me in for a hug.

(Sullivan Mansion^)

"Happy birthday, sweetie. I love you. Your dad would've never let you go to this," she laughs while tears come out of her eyes.

"I love you too mom." while trying to stop my tears from thinking that this might be the last time I see her. And just like that she drives off and I have to head inside this hell of a place.

I followed the crowd of excited teenagers making their way to the entrance, where I suddenly caught a boy staring at me with his sparkling hazel eyes for what seems to be a long time. I feel weak as he looks at me from head to toe, but I don't sense anything. Why was he staring at me?

(Boy staring at Aria^)
I return a similar gaze, until someone with a familiar voice yells my name. "Ari! Wait!"

I turn around to see my best friend, Olivia. I smile at her pacing towards me, forgetting about the guy.

"Hey! Slow down." I laugh.
"Whatever. Who were you looking at anyway?" She says, out of breath.

I turn around to look for the guy again, but his eyes were no where to be seen. A bit of disappointment hits me and I don't know why. I look back at Olivia and deny it so we could go inside, maybe we'll find him in there. She looks at me with a confused expression, but shrugs it off. We walk through the crowd of people socializing, looking for their mate.

"You know, I heard a rumor that Greyson Sullivan is finally attending." Olivia whispers to my ear. I shiver at his name.

"Just now? He's probably 23 or something by now." I scoff. It's not fair. Just because he's the Alpha of the best pack there is..

"Well, his looks make it difficult to punish him." Olivia winks. I roll my eyes at her comment.

That guy was bad news. All I ever heard about him was negativity, but most of these girls disregarded that. I guess being an f-boy and cocky meant only positivity to them. I heard he's only attending the event just not because he was threatened to be taken off as Alpha without a Luna. Pfft. I roll my eyes at the thought.

"This is where we part. I'm going to look for my dreamy man and rub it in your face." Olivia says while sticking a tongue out at me. I laugh then nod at her, giving her the permission to ditch me, like always.

I make my way to the beverage bar when all of a sudden, a minty scent comes across my nose.

My wolf growls a little inside. I uncontrollably look around to locate the scent, not caring at how desperate I look. Suddenly, I hear someone say hi and I look to them, hoping it was my mate, but it wasn't..

It's him.

The guy with hazel eyes.

He smiles at me, but he's not who I was looking for. I get confused and a bit disappointed. So, I ended up standing there, wondering where my mate was

"Not much of a talker, huh.. My name is Chase. Chase Andrews." He says while scratching his neck awkwardly.

I blush a little at his action and smile back at him. "Nice to meet you. I'm Aria Cohen, but Ari is okay." I say shyly. Silence between us erupts again, but he jerks his face towards me, about to ask a question.

"Would you like to dance? It's getting boring here and--"

There it is again. That amazing minty scent. I search for it behind me, but nothing, so I look back to Chase.

But next thing I knew, Chase was under some guy getting ready to punch the living hell out him. I try to get a better view of who it was, but all the struggling made this difficult. I realized that Chase was getting attacked right now and make my way to help him, when all of a sudden the guy growls something while he was still on top of Chase.

"Leave. My. Mate. Alone." he growls, causing everyone in the mansion to flinch. I turned to face him and began scanning his face and realize something I was not prepared for.

My mate is Greyson Sullivan.

(Greyson ^)

Hi, guys! This is my first time attempting to write a story and I hope it's okay.

I've been obsessing with werewolves and vampire stories, but I've read almost all of them, so to satisfy my cravings, I decided to try to make my own.

Hope it's okay.

Bye!