As of june 14, 2013 this has-been updated ! __________________________________________________________
Author's note.
Looking back at the earlier chapters, I realized I F*cked up. Excuse my french,
I said that Gemma Hasn't seen her dad in ten years. It was seven. Her dad "died" When she was 10. She is seventeen years old.
Please bare or is it bear? with me because as you can see, I desperately need to work on my grammar/editing/everything skills. Thank you for reading! I love you all!
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"So because of these stupid pack laws, a husband----erm mate, is chosen for me, for all of us, to have children with? What is this, the 1800's?"
Annie started to bite her fingernails, and Declan and Finn just looked at me funny,
"I know it must sound strange to you, you grew up a mostly human life. All of the pack laws are explained when you are fifteen, and even though they sound strange to you, they don't to us, because they are just how things are around here, like it or not."
I started to look at Will funny, when a though bumped into my head.
"Well, if we are all handed off to an eternity with a stranger when we are 18, how come Rachael is still here? She is nineteen, isn't she?"
"Since everyone here is somewhat close in age, the alpha--your father decided to have everyone mated on the same day, to make things more convenient."
It seemed like I kept getting angrier and angrier at my father these days.
"Well," I said.
"He can take those laws and shove it up his as----"
Everyone in the room suddenly went eerily silent, and their eyes dilated.
I heard footsteps behind me.
"I can do what with the laws, Gemma?"
Slowly turning around, I peered into the glowing eyes of my father.
"You heard me. I am not following those dumb rules! I want to be able to choose a husband, when I am like 25! Not have one chosen for me when I am 18! And on top of that, have a child!" I screeched at him.
"Gemma," He sighed.
"I am sorry, but that is how things work around here. Our population is diminishing, and it is the younger members of the pack's job to replenish our population to the way it once was."
"The way it once was?" I asked him, getting more and more aggravated by the second.
"Yes. That means atleast four children from each couple."
I couldn't believe my ears. He expected us to pop out children to "Replenish our population to the way it once was."? I say screw the population!
"What! I am not following your laws, father." I said back to him, putting extra venom on father.
"Well, you are expected to. How am I going to look to the rest of the pack if my own daughter does not comply to my own rules? You are expected to become the next alpha female when I resign. Act like it." And with that, he walked away.
I am expected to become the next alpha female?
"What does he mean by that?" I yelled, my voice traveling like a runaway bouncy ball all over the room.
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Whispering Pines Woods
Ficção Adolescente© 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...
