Times Have Changed

Chapter 7: Initiation

Katrina Reed

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I woke up hearing a knocking on my door. I then looked at the clock. 6:45. I then remembered that someone knocked at the door, and walked to the door, rubbing my eyes, and opened it to see Jax standing there looking better than ever, wearing a pair of basketball shorts and a tight shirt. I could see every muscle rippling under it.

"Ready?" He said, smirking. Whoops, was I staring a little to long?

"Yeah, hold on a second so I can put my shoes on." I say and walk to my closet. I then grab a pair of Nike free runs, and walk out. Jax was sitting on my bed looking around. I went and sat on the other side of the bed, and put my shoes on. I look up and notice Jax staring at me.

"Are you scared?" He asked me while standing up.

I then stood up too and both of us started walking out of the door.

"A little bit. Did you ever have to do anything like this?" I asked him.

"No. I have been in many battles before, but I never had to do any initiation like this because I was born into the Alpha position. There was an initiation for me when I was made Alpha, but there was no fighting involved. Only the blood ritual that made me the official Alpha." He said, walking to Emma's room, with me following.

Emma was ready to go when we got to her room. She walked out in the outfit I had laid out for her.

Walking down the hall, I couldn't help but gawk at Jax. I know he's my (soon to be) alpha, but he was gorgeous.

I then remembered about the way Emma looked at Shawn, and the way he looked at her. I still need to ask her about that, but I decided that was for another time when we weren't going to be initiated into the pack of out dreams.

We got to the staircase going down stairs and I was amazed. There had to be at least 500 people here. There was a lot of kids and teenagers in the group, and many adults and elders. When they saw us coming down the stairs it quieted down a lot, but some people were still conversing. I looked around and see about 50% of all the people were looking up at me. Some with looks of acceptance, and some with looks caution. I would be cautious too. With everything going on around, how would they be trusting of a new member who was taken to the dungeons that morning that held their men captive in doing so.

We walked down the stairs and many people started conversing again. Some about the new members, good and bad comments, and others about normal everyday things.

"Katrina! Hey!" Carly came over to us, with 3 other girls. All drop dead gorgeous, "This is Abby," She said pointing to a tall brunette with Brown hair, "And this is Brooke and Maia." She said motioning to a Blonde girl, who was glaring at me. And another girl who had light brown hair, and seemed really nice.

"Hi, I'm Katrina, its nice to meet you all." I said looking at the 3 girls. They all smiled at me, except Brooke.

We then all started talking about random things. Like how I was liking it here so far, if I was nervous to do my initiation, and If I had gotten a tour of everything yet. They offered to show me around, but Brooke said that she had better things to do. After she said that, she walked away and started to converse with some other people, and occasionally looked and glared over as I was talking with the girls. I was also introduced to a few other members.

"Alright everyone! Please Quite down!" Jax yelled, and walked up a few stairs so everyone could see him,"We do have 2 new members doing there initiation today. Katrina, age 17, will be fighting Alex."He said and paused as a group of boys wooed and pack members clapped," And Emma, age 16, will be fighting Jack."He said and the same group wooed and patted a different guy on the back.