CHAPTER 9. LET ME BE FREE

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        The next morning I woke up and rubbed my eyes. I looked down at the floor and saw that Elijah had made him a palat on the floor, by the bed I was sleeping on. I wanted to be happy and amused but I couldn't let myself. I put my feet on the floor and tried to make myself as light as I could when I tip toed past Elijah, to not wake him up, but my attempt failed. The floors creaked beneath me and he sat up instantly, like he just heard an intruder.

"Sorry I didn't mean to wake you." I said, trying not to stare at his abs. You could've slept on the bed if you wanted to, I would've taken the floor." I said softly, no longer trying to be sneaky with my steps.

"I'm fine. Your fine. It's all good, don't worry about it." He said a little disoriented from still being asleep. "The storm cleared we should head out." He Stated, more awake this time. He jumped up and walked into the livingroom, I followed behind him. Elsa and Nora had slept on the couch. Elijah clapped loudly, waking them up. "The storm's cleared, let's head out." He yelled. He grabbed a plain white tshirt that was draped over the back of the couch and pulled it over his head. Elsa and Nora had put on some extra sweat pants and sweat shirts that was similar to the ones I had on.

"Mom I'll race you there!" Elsa Exclaimed.

"Your on!" She agreed. They run at the front door and shift into their wolves when they jumped off the small porch, their clothes shredded as their wolves emerged, they raced each other into the woods. Elsa was a beautiful solid snow white wolf. Nora was cream colored like Elijah but instead of black mixed in her fur, she had gray mixed in with her cream colored coat.  Before Elijah could take off I stopped him.

"I just wanted to thank you again for agreeing to go through with the rejection ceremony." I said nervously.

"Don't mention it. We should get going." He Stated. He avoided eye contact with me.

"I still don't want to travel with my wolf yet." I said sheepishly.

"That's too bad.... look I know you only see bad in this whole situation..... but there is beauty in it. Just take your time, get used to it and hopefully you can one day stop seeing the bad." He said softly, still avoiding eye contact. He ran out the door, jumped off the porch, shifted into his wolf, and took off running into the woods.
     I ublocked my wolf and shifted into my wolf. I had her block me and she made her way back to the pack house. She unblocked me and I shifted back into my human form. Elijah gave me a robe to wrap into and he led me to the study to talk to the alpha. The alpha and his wife were both there reading a book together when we walked in, they didn't look up when we entered or when we asked to talk to them.

"Alpha, can we talk to you for a moment?" Elijah asked. He agreed. "We were wondering if we could go through with the rejection ceremony?" Elijah asked. Both of their eyes shot upwards the moment he uttered that question.

"Are you guys sure.... that's a very painful and an emotional thing to go through?" Delilah asked concerned.

"Yes we're sure." I Stated quickly.

"Well we will hold your acceptance party later tonight." Derrick said, hesitant to our decision.

"Wait, what? An acceptance party? Why?" I asked frantically.

"Do you not know anything about the rejection ceremony?" He asked irritated.

"Actually She don't know anything about being  a werewolf in total." Elijah informed.

"How can she not know about her own kind?" Delilah asked as if I wasn't standing right in front of her.

"My wolf has only been alive for 3 weeks and I've only known about being a werewolf for a little over a week." I said quickly, before someone had the chance to answer for me.

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