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Chapter 1: Home

^Rylin

"When you said your last goodbye
I died a little bit inside
I lay in tears in bed all night
Alone without you by my side"

All I Want- Kodaline

Chapter 1: Home

I sat there, staring out the window of the cab as the buildingsy moved in a blur behind me. I was leaning hard against the front of the cool leather seats, closing my eyes and taking a deep breath. I still to this day felt the pain throbbing in my chest.

I felt it everyday, for two years. I held it down, like bad medicine. I never once shed a tear, I remained silent, biting down on a toothbrush as my body thrashed in pain so the hall guard in my building wouldn't hear my screams.

But as I got closer, and closer, and closer the pain began to throb, and throb. I had no idea how close we were. Our whole pack had been relocated to California, Vegas didn't really have any forest to let out our wolves in.

I hadn't been told until about a week ago, when my parents said I had to come home, to find my mate.

My family is very 'mate oriented', as in extremely loyal to their mates. Unlike me, they care way to much about mates. So much that if I told them what happened to me, they'd tell me to apologize to him and beg him for forgiveness. I swear, I'm not exaggerating, they made one of my cousins do it and one of my uncles as well. I never saw the point, since they hadn't been rejected, just their mates lost their virginities already, which can be heartbreaking. It was almost unheard of to get rejected. But, now they're all happy-go-lucky lovey-dovey couples. It pleases the family, that all that matters.

I guess my parents, besides that, are average. But, they were just crazy about certain things. Well, just the mate thing actually.

As I felt the pain get more intense I heard my wolf wimped in my head. I soothed her as much as I could as could until we pulled up to a house I vaguely recognized from the photos mom had sent. I got help from the taxi driver, even though I didn't have that much luggage. I had one big suitcase and a duffle bag I had slung over my shoulder. I paid and thanked the man before banging on the door which automatically flung open.

"Rylin!" My mother screeched and I let out a breath as the pain began to subside.

"Hello Mum." I said as I hugged her, I was now 5,4, I only grew 2 inches and was still very short. But, my mother stood at a stout height of 5,3, giving me a bit of an edge on her.

"Oh how beautiful you have gotten! A little to beautiful, I do hope you virginity is still intact." my mother grilled me playfully and I laughed.

"Yes mum." I told her making her grin.

"Good girl. Now, dinner will be ready soon so go put your stuff away. The alpha and his son, along with his mate are join us for dinner!" She said and my grin faltered.

I figured he said his girlfriend he rejected me for he would claim to be his mate. But I didn't realize it would hurt so bad.

I greeted my dad and my brother, who said his mate also was coming, he turned 16 a few months ago and was able to meet her, Isabelle is her name, the night of his birthday.

I was happy for him, she sounds amazing and sweet.

After I got back to my room I instantly grimaced.

My mum took the liberty to redo my new room. Replacing my black sheets with white fluffy ones and putting up some girlish photography on my luckily dark blue walls along with piling my closet with dresses.