APUI: Volume 1 - My Life as a Werewolf

Chapter 19: 'My Hero!!!' - You're Two Days Late

< 💣 B POV 💣 >
By the next morning the rain had returned. Lora, Ash and Abbey had slept in a tent on the cliff top and were taking the day off school to be with me.
I heard cars driving through the forest and I knew someone had finally decided to spare enough of their time to rescue me. Chris came into view first, with the members of the pack soon following, all on quad bikes. Jackson picked up the rear.
"You're late you mother fuckers!!!" I called up to my 'rescue' team. "Oh, and hi Chris" I added, letting my brother know that he was not included in the group of men I was insulting. The men muttered apologies but Jackson just stood there, expressionless. So, I decided to continue my favourite past time; ranting.
"You bitches didn't care about me enough to get ropes yesterday and now it's raining which has made this rescue ten fucking times more fucking difficult and you are just such idiots!!!! I mean seriously you know that some fucking sixteen year old is stuck on a ledge in a gorge and you nothing for two fucking days!!! I have a life!!! It's your job to protect your pack but I'm still here!!! BITCHES!!!!!"
Everyone stared at me while I ranted. I was so pissed that they didn't help me. I couldn't help myself because the rock face looked nearly impossible to scale and my friends and brother helped by shouting at people, providing me with provisions and alerting people of the accident in the first place. Yet, my mate, the person who was supposed to love me more than anything or anyone else, didn't care and left me for dead for two days.
Yeah yeah, I understand he obviously doesn't want a mate as he rejected grace, and therefore partly rejected me, but he technically should still feel the dying mate bond and have some feelings for Grace, Emily, Emmy and me. Well, enough feelings not to leave us in a LIFE-THREATENING SITUATION. main words in that sentence bring LIFE-THREATENING. And he was an Alpha so it was his job to protect his pack, which include me.
SOOOOOOO ANGRY. I even knew he has feeling for me from the way he stares and tries so hard to me make me jealous of Amili. So why doesn't he care about my life!?!?! oh yeah, cause all guys ever do is pretend to care for you so they can get into your pants and hurt you, emotionally, mentally and physically. UGH.
The rescue team tied an anchor loop rope around a massive tree branch, almost overhanging the chasm. They then connected a pulley to that anchor and the climbing rope to the pulley.
They clipped a harness to one side of the rope on the pulley before lowering it down to me. On the other side of the rope, they connected a quad bike, which Jackson was sitting on. I climbed into the harness and did up the straps before collecting the few belongings I had.
"3,2,1, GO" everyone called a Jackson drove forward.
...for a metre.
...until he got bogged on the muddy and slippery ground caused by that night and morning's rain.
As I dangled approximately a foot (30cm) off the ground, I laughed and shouted that I knew that was going to happen. If they had of rescued me yesterday, they would have been fine as the ground was hard, but they waited for today, and it rained, which made the ground soft, which stuffed up my rescue. I can see that the rescue team really didn't think this through.
I heard shuffling on the cliff-top and the rope jolted and rose a bit. The next thing I knew I was rising in stops and starts, slowly making my way to the surface.
When I reached the surface hands grabbed me and helped me to my feet. I looked around for my rescuer, but no one stood out so I assumed everyone had helped pull the rope.
Ash, Lora and Abbey all gave me a group hug before I ran up to Chris and hugged him. He smiled and said "even though I hate you, please don't die on me". I laughed and hugged him back harder before jumping and kissing him on the cheek.
Lora pouted. "I didn't get a kiss?" she asked with fake disappointment. Ash and Abbey pouted too, claiming they also wanted kisses. So I ran around trying to lick them.
After 5 minutes abbey had just avoided being licked whereas ash had been licked on the side of the face and Lora on her arm.
"Ewwww" Lora screamed. "You are such a dog". "That's insulting," I replied, "For all of us, not just me". By the time Ash and Lora had stopped complaining that I had passed them rabies, and abbey had finished silently gloating about her cleanliness, the rescue team had already left and Chris had begun the walk home.
Abbey looked up from checking her phone. "Jack wants us back at school" she said. three heads turned to me and I nodded. "It's fine" I said. "Go to schooling". I made shooing gestures with my hands and the girls all disappeared behind trees to undress and shift.
As the three wolves disappeared in the direction of the school, Lora mind linked me, saying "Now I know your story, I understand your personality. You won't let anyone in incase they make a mess. Jack has made a mess, but you have made a bigger mess with your pride. I'm here to help."
I smiled and walked into the forest, thinking about how Lora had managed to bring a new ,non subjective, perspective to my story.
She didn't know me back then and didn't know what I was like but she is more similar to me than Ash, best friend or not, and understands mostly how I felt. No one can ever understand truly what u went through unless they have been through it themselves.
I walked along the path slowly, scuffing the leaf litter and thinking about my friends, family and mate. Without warning, my phone rang, raising me out of my pondering.
The voice on the other side of the line was one I knew all too well.
"Bella" he said on the phone.
Hands grabbed at me and pulled me into the thick bushland surrounding the path.
"Bella" he said again, in person this time.
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A/N
I'm on time! be proud! and it's long! and has a cliffhanger! what more could you ask for in a chapter?
I realised I owed u at least one on time chapter for my sketchy schedule.
So,
Hope you enjoyed the on-time, reasonably-long, cliffhanger-ending chapter!
❤️ <3 Grace