Mine (On Hold Permanently)

Chapter 1 - Fist Sight

Hi everyone this is my first book and I would love for you to read it. Any feedback would be greatly appreciated and I’d love to hear what you think of my characters and what you want to happen in this story. If you don't understand something or you notice any errors then please PM me.

Thanks, Miss Mockingjay

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As I turned away from my locker, with the books that I would need for the first three periods of the day held up against my chest, I was bombarded with a massive hug from Kiera, my best friend.

"Cass!" she exclaimed in an excited voice, "You're finally back!"

"Yeah Ki," I said, "but I'll be off again with a broken arm next if you don't let me get my footing." I said, as I just managed to prevent myself from falling over.

She gave me a final squeeze and then released me and stepped back.

"It’s nice to see your beautiful face around here again Cassandra" Liam, one of my close friends, said as he walked up with the rest of the gang. There were six of us in my group of friends, Kiera, Liam, Zoe, Jake, Brandon and I.

Kiera is my best friend, and is kind and caring and always thinks of others first, and how others feel. My best guy friend is Liam. He is fun and flirty, but also knows when to be serious and can always make me smile. Zoe is extravagant and excitable, and always says what she is thinking. She also loves shopping and is the most 'girly' out of us all. We always tease Jake about being the group nerd. He is shy and smart, but is really fun and will open up to you if you can get him to trust you. He is the most rational of us all and we rely on him to make the important decisions.The most normal of us all is Brandon. He has a happy and funny personality, and usually just follows along with the rest of us.

"Yeah, I missed you guys." I responded, laughing lightly at Liam's affectionate banter.

"Just make sure that Next time You get sick you aren't off school for 2 weeks, I can't stand not seeing you for that long babe!" Liam teased, with a pretend pout on his face, as he slid his arm around my waist and we started walking towards our English class.

"I'll try not to." I said, the smile evident in my voice.

Zoe and Jake were walking together on my left and Kiera and Brandon were on my right. Each morning the guys would pick one of us girls to walk with. None of us are ‘together’, we are just really close friends and we have known each other our whole lives.

"Argh, English is gonna be so annoying today! I mean doesn't Mr S get that none of us actually care about 'the American revolution and how it has inspired many great works of literature'." Zoe grumbled as we walked, imitating our teacher's voice and making quotation marks in the air. "I mean I swear he has used the same speech every day this week, and I am so knackered after last night’s... exercising."

"Don't you mean party?" Jake asked in a slightly mocking tone.

"And he will still expect me to make notes on every single thing he says." Zoe continued ignoring Jake's interruption.

The rest of us stayed quiet, letting Zoe have her wine just nodding and making the appropriate noises of accent when she paused, knowing that it is best just to let her finish instead of trying to interrupt her.

"I mean were all werewolves, it's not like we actually need to know about the stupid human wars and rivalries." Zoe stopped her complaining as we walked in the door, and took our seats in the row second from the back.

"Quiet." Mr Solomond snapped as he walked in the door after the rest of the class. I pulled out my book and a pen and opened to the next blank page just in time for the start of the lecture.

Two hours later, the bell signalling for us to go to our next class rang, and everyone started packing up their stuff. I shoved my book in my bag and turned to my friends, "Don't wait up, I’m going to talk to Mr S about what I missed but I’ll meet you in calculus."

"Okay." Brandon said then he and the others walked out. I walked over to the teacher’s desk, at the front of the room, and waited for him to finish putting his file away before asking what I had missed.

"Don't worry," he said "If you read chapter 56-59 of your textbook then you should be back on track."

"Thanks." I said with fake sincerity, as I thought of my ever-growing mound of homework.

"Oh, and don't forget to take notes." He added just as I walked out the door.

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Darek's POV

I walked into the cafeteria surrounded by a group of friends and sat down  at our normal table.

"I'm gonna whip your ass in PT today Kyle." I said with a smirk on my face, imagining getting him back for beating me last protector training lesson we had.

"Yeah right," Kyle said "I'm too good a fighter." he bragged. We all laughed at his comment knowing that last week was just a fluke. I was the best fighter of my age and I was the alpha's son, so I'm next in line to be alpha. This means that I am stronger and faster than the others, who don't have alpha blood in them.

Kyle turned and started talking to Ash and Rose when it hit me. I caught a whisp of the most amazing scent I have ever smelt and it froze me in place. All thoughts left my head except one, mate.

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Cassandra's POV

The moment I smelt him I got up and just about ran from the cafeteria, this cannot be happening to me! I thought in desperation.

"Cass?" Liam called as I nearly barrelled him over in my haste to escape, "What is it?" he asked running after me.

I ran down the corridor and out the glass doors, into the parking lot before leaning against the wall and sliding to the ground.

"No, no, no, NO, NO..." I whispered to myself as my friends caught up and crouched down around me.

"What is it?" Kiera asked her voice laced with confusion and worry.

"What happened, do you feel sick?" Zoe asked.

"No, no, no, this can't be happening... why me, why me?" I said huddling my legs up against my chest.

 "Cassandra, we can't help you until you tell us what's wrong." Liam said putting a hand on my shoulder.

"I... I found my mate." I said looking up to see my friends reaction.

"But that impossible, people only find their mate when they are 19 or 20, 18 at the very earliest, but you're 15!" Zoe said

"Come on," Brandon said in a split second decision "we need to talk and we can't do that here." Then he grabbed my hand, helped me up, and led me to his car. We all piled in and he turned on the engine. As he started to pull away I looked out the window and saw Darek staring at me, I gasped in shock causing the others to look at me and when we turned around the corner and out of the parking lot I managed to find my voice for long enough to quietly stammer "Darek... it's Darek."

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Darek's POV

"Darek... Darek, did you hear what I said?" Ash asked

"What... no, sorry I have to go." I responded not even looking at my friends as I stood up and tracked her scent around the cafeteria and out the door, at a fast pace. As I walked out towards the parking lot I saw a group of kids, two years younger than me get into a car and start to pull out. As they started to drive away I caught Cassandra Ralmanof's eye and froze as a wave of shivers tingled down my spine.  Mate I growled in my mind.