I'm a what!?

part one

My eyes shot open when I heard the front door slam *ugh* I roll over to check the time..5:30 in the morning. Seriously? I dont know why I agreed to run 5 miles ever morning. Any second now ho...

"Come on scarlett up up. We do this every morning now. You should know by now to be up! Oh and you need lock that front door of yours. You never know what kind of creep that can walk in here in the middle of the night" hope says while ripping my covers off.

"Okay fine I'm up. Happy?"

"Yes very"

Hope has been my best friend since I ran away and moved here. She was the first and only person I opened up to about why I ran away. You see for an unknown reason my parents started abusing me. Life was good till I turned 10. I was their princess, their everything. Then all of a sudden I became their punching bag. The person they took all their anger out on. Since I turned 15 and was able to get a job I saved as much money as I could and got out of there. I moved to a small town that doesnt show up on the map. I was traveling for about a month before I discovered this place while passing through, so I decided to settle here. At first I was staying on any bench I could find till one day hope saw me and helped me get this small one bedroom cabin in the woods. It's small but it works.

I groan and roll out of bed and into my closet to pick out an outfit. I pick out bright pink leggings and a crop top that matches. I quickly change and headed into the bathroom to brush my teeth and throw my hair up in a hair tie.

"Okay I'm ready, let's get this over with."

Hope chuckles
"you know damn well this is good for you, plus it keeps us looking sexy for our ma...boyfriends"

"Hope we been through this so many times this summer, this year is about focusing on me and doing things I want to do. I mean this is our senior year for crying out loud! Its supposed to be all about letting go and having fun"

30 minutes into our run hope grabs my arm and makes us stop.

"Scar hold up, wait a second I need a minute" now shes laying on the ground and I start to laugh.

"This was your idea hope, you normally can run for hours, what's wrong?"

"I'm not sure, maybe I'm just tired late night last night"

We run in the woods since there is no where else to run. I lay next to her and stare up at the sky. I've always thought of the woods as a second home. When I was a child I used to run away when my father started drinking cause that meant i was about to be his punching bag. My favorite thing was watching the birds fly in and out of the trees wishing my life could be that simple.

*SNAP*

twigs snap in the distance snapping me back to reality.

"What was that?"

"Oh uh probably just a rabbit or something, let's continue this run"

We get up off the ground, brush off the dirt real fast and continue running.

HOPE'S P.O.V

I know exactly who that was, you see, I'm a werewolf, but scarlett doesnt know. Were running right on the edge of the packs boarder. Normally no one is patrolling at this time, that's why I chose this time to run. Which has been very successful thus far until now. But I could smell the pack beta, luke, so I faked being tired so he can pass by without scarlett seeing him. Yes I could tell her that it's just a wolf or coyote, but since we are werewolfs our wolf is so much bigger than normal ones. Now I know I'm in trouble because I almost let her see what we are.

"A human hope? Seriously? Alpha is not gonna be too pleased to hear about this"
Luke says very angrily in our mind link.

"I'm sorry beta luke, normally no one is patrolling at this time"

"Alpha mason is coming home today, you would know of you were at the pack meeting last night! I'm running patrols this morning to make sure everything is ready for when alpha gets back. Leave now, take her home. DONT make it obvious."

"Yes beta luke"

I lead scarlett home. I grew up in these woods so I know it from the back of my hand. She didnt notice we made a huge u-turn and is now headed back to her house.