New Beginnings
Turning sixteen isn't the most amazing thing in the world for most shifters. Especially for those of us that are borne lower rank. Namely Delta and Omega but mostly Omegas. Omegas to most are seen as weak and only useful for breeding, used as a sexual outlet, or even a punching bag. We are not seen as people to those who still are set on the only ways.
Today happens to be my birthday; August 15th. I wish my birthday was later on in the year but it's not.
I walk into school and the smell hits me like a truck. I look to see who it is and groans inwardly knowing exactly what's going to happen. He looks over at me. A look of utter disgust crosses his face before he makes his way over to me.
"I've known that you were my mate since last week. I couldn't say anything because of the whole age thing. So, you wouldn't have been able to accept or reject my rejection of you being my mate," his words being dipped in venomous hate.
"I, Travis Markson, reject Opal Truit as my mate," he says with an amusing smirk.
"Ok, that's fine. I didn't want you as a mate anyways. I, Opal Truit, accept Travis Markson's rejection." I say loud enough for everyone to hear before I leave the school without saying a word to anyone and heads back home.
Since, both of my parents work during the day I pack everything that is mine and puts everything in my car before writing my parents a letter.
Dear Mom and Dad,
I have always known that you stopped caring about me when I was pronounced as an Omega at the age of ten. You only got the things you have for me because they were needed in case of an emergency or whatever. I am leaving and never coming back. All I have ever been for this pack has been a punching bag for those that wanted to take their anger out on something or someone. I made sure to get rid of anything and everything concerning me or about me. So I never existed. Is that what you wanted all along? You happy now? I hope you and everyone else in Stonewall Pack have a great life because I'm not coming back. I'm changing my name, birthday, phone number, and even where I come from so no one here can find me. Not even you two.
Sincerely,
No longer your Daughter,
Opal Truit
I leave the note on the counter along with my copy of the house key that I know has a tracker in it. I mask my scent as I leave the house and gets into my car. It takes me thirty minutes for me to get to the boundary line.
"I cut all tie with this pack." I say before driving through the Stonewall Pack boundary line.
Once out I stop at a close by gas station and fills my car up paying with some of what I have saved up from odd jobs outside of the boundary of the Pack area. I drive until I start getting tired and stops at a hotel for the night.
The next morning at five I wake up, gets ready, and leaves continuing on my journey to get as far away from Stonewall Pack as I can without leaving the country. I drive for several days, stopping at hotels to sleep, stopping at stores and fast food places so that I eat. While staying at one of the hotels I somehow legally changed my name and birthdate. I also contacted the phone company that I get Internet and things from to change my phone number.
Once I feel that I am far enough away I find myself on the outskirts of a city in a small town. I pull into a gas station and takes out my phone and sees if there are any house listings in the area and surprisingly there are. I look through them and finds one that looks promising. I put my phone up, fills my car up, then heads to the real estate place that the house is listed under. The agent takes me to see the house and tells me how much it is. It's not that much and I don't have to pay in full. I can make monthly payments or one yearly payment until it's completely paid for. We go back to the agency and discuss everything. I sign the needed paperwork and makes my first payment after talking to my online bank agent. The house has solar panels already, and all I have to do is make monthly water payments along with yearly trash pickup payments. As I am leaving the woman gives me the business cards for both the water works and trash disposal.
I head back to the house and starts to unpack my car taking everything inside. When I have everything inside I lock my car and starts to put everything where it needs to be.
"I need to get my schooling set up, get a job, call the water and trash companies." I say before calling both companies and pays for both.
I take out my laptop and looks for jobs close by and finds one that doesn't need training or anything which happens to be a receptionist at a company. I immediately apply for the part time job. I get a email telling me that I need to come in for an interview tomorrow at 6 a.m. I then check for online schools and enrolled in one that doesn't require me to pay before attending. I then go on the search for college courses that I can take for a low sum but also can be paid with scholarships that I somehow gotten through the random online jobs that I had done before I changed my name but told them that was my name. I finally found two courses and applies for them and is accepted. When I am done with that I leave the house and goes to a nearby grocery store and gets enough things to have for a week plus other needed essentials.
I get home and puts everything up and does what I need to do in class work for both my online high school classes and my collage classes. I submit everything that's due turning off my laptop and checks the time. I fix myself something to eat as I think of things I need to get.
"The house if fully furnished but I need to get a tv and a coffee table. I also need to get a dinning table and chairs."
I eat while watching SerVamp on my phone. When I am done I clean up before going to take a shower grabbing a towel and a washcloth from the closest that is in my bathroom after getting what I am sleeping in. On my way here while stopping at stores to get food and things I also stopped at places to get things like towels, dinnerware, silverware, cookware, sheets, pillows and things of the sort but not so much that I couldn't see anything out of my windows.
When I get done with my shower I set an alarm to wake up a 5:30 so that I can get ready for my interview in the morning. I make sure that all of the doors are locked and all unnecessary lights are off before heading to my room and going to bed.
The next morning I wake up to my alarm clock and gets ready. I eat and cleans up before heading out to my car after making sure that the front door is locked. I look up the address of the company building and puts it into my GPS before leaving. I get to the building and heads inside and goes up to the front desk.
"I'm here for an interview."
"Oh, you're the one who Mr. Fisher told me about wanting a part time receptionist job. His office is on the second floor, second door to the right. Knock twice before opening the door." The woman says.
I take the elevator up to the second floor and and goes to the right room. I knock twice hearing a gruff masculine voice tell me to come in. The interview takes twenty to thirty minutes in total before I head home. As soon as I get home and has logged onto my laptop and has my assignments cued up my phone goes off. I answer it and it's Mr. Fisher telling me that I am hired. He also tells me that I start tomorrow at six and ends at 12 p.m. After hanging up I do my assignments that need to be done.
It has been a year since I moved far from Stonewall Pack, changed my name, Birthday, everything that I could that didn't remind me of where I come from. I do get little reminders here and there about mates on a daily basis. I hear about my co-workers and their mates or them wanting to find their mates. That's what they are currently talking about at the moment.
"What about you Cloud?" My co-worker Laura asks snapping me out of my thoughts.
"Huh? What did you ask? I wasn't listening." I say making her sigh in disappointment while shaking her head.
"Honestly. I asked what would you do if you found your mate since the four of us already found ours."
"I already found my mate but he was an asshole. Not to mention, he rejected me because he, like everyone else in that pack thinks so lowly of Omegas. I accepted his rejection. If I could have myself, I would have been the one to reject him. I wish his older brother was still alive and had ended up as my mate. I would have been more than ok with that. His brother Axel was one of the only few in the pack that treated us Omegas like we were human, like we were something important."
"You were close to him weren't you?" Cidney asks, I nod.
"Yeah, I was close to him. He was one of my only friends while I was there. The other Omegas didn't like the fact we were close so I wasn't really friends with them. Axel wanted to change the packs views and ways of thinking when he was to take over. But now he can't do that because when he was hunting one night he had been attacked by a group of rogue Hyena shifters. He was found days later after he hadn't come back. The day that he went out to hunt I had told him not to, that I had a bad feeling about it. He just patted me on the head and told me not to worry about it. I wanted to scream and yell at him not to go. I can remember the look of pain as he saw me cry. It was so visible like it physically hurt him to see me cry." I say before looking up at the girls who are giving me a weird look.
"Cloud.... Did you feel anything before he was found?" Patty asks.
"I was asleep but I woke up to the feeling of having my heart ripped out of my chest. It hurt so bad that I cried silently for an hour or so while also trying to catch my breath." I say as they all give me sad eyes which makes me confused.
"Cloud, Sweetie, Axel was your first mate. Since he was no doubt older than you, he knew it, but you didn't. And with the inability of being able to tell your mate that you're mates until they are of age makes it hard for you to take in that fact." Vivian explains as tears well up and fall down my face.
"The mate that you were rejected by was his brother and your second chance mate. But don't give up there is a chance that you are a Fated Mate." Patty says.
"Fated Mate? What's that?" I ask confused making them all stop and look at me like I just asked the most stupidest thing in the world.
"You don't know what a Fated Mate is?" Cidney asks.
"No, should I know what it is?"
"Yes Cloud, you should know what a Fated Mate is." Laura says.
"Oh. Well, since I don't know can you clue me in?"
"Fated Mates are hand picked from the goddesses instead of like how they choose our mates for us. When it comes to Fated Mates meeting each other it opens their core and they have to immediately do the bonding ritual with their mate. If that doesn't happen then anyone able to knot will do it forcefully."
"How would I know if I was a Fated Mate and tell who my mate is?"
"They say that it's a pull and that the mates will smell like something you enjoy being favorite fruit, flowers, or scent of the outdoors like pine needles." Vivian says trying to give examples to which I giggle.
"I understand Viv."
"Thank fuck, I felt like I was a fish drowning." I roll my eyes before I look at the time.
"I should be going home. I have class assignments to do." I say making them nod before I head out of the building.
I get home and does all of my assignments before grabbing something to eat. While I eat I turn on TV and starts an anime that I have watched quite a few times. I finish my food and puts my plate in the counter top dishwasher.
"Should I get a pet or two? It's so lonely just by myself." I say to myself before taking out my phone and looks for a shelter or pet store near me.
I find both and decides to visit both. At the shelter I found a tan and black German Shepherd pup and an white, black, and tan Australian Shepherd pup, both female and 4 weeks old. When I went to the Pet store I found two purebred male and female black Ferrets that are 2 weeks old, and a three Maine Coon cats. One female and two male. The female is a calico, and one of the male cats is dark grey, where as the the other is white and tan. I name the German Shepard Sal, the Australian Shepard Cora, the Ferrets Space and Galaxy, and the female cat Ferris, the male white and tan cat is Butters. The grey cat was already named when I asked for him so his name is Salem. When I get home and gets the animals and everything that I got at the store for them out of the car I get everything set up and placed where they need to be.
Another year goes by and I graduated from my online schools gaining my degrees in both. I show my boss and I ended up getting a promotion from being a part time receptionist to a part time business analyst since I am continuing my college schooling. Having the animals around keeps the house from feeling empty and depressing but I'm hoping that I am a Fated Mate. I don't want to be alone.
