THE JADED WOLF

I lay in my bed and stare at my ceiling, recounting the glow in the dark stars that I put there when I was ten, A lonely tear slips from my eye.

“Ugh,” I sighed, Sitting up, “It’s not fair, that bitch started it!” I whisper to my stuffed bunny abigail, I roll my eyes at the situation I’m in,

I got suspended from school again, because ‘stupid Trisha’ decided to run her mouth and call me a `Half-Breed` again though I’ve asked her twice to stop. ( My father is an ottawa Indian and I hate the word Half breed ) So I responded to the bitch by socking her right in the face,What? I asked twice. She is lucky I didn’t break her nose. So now I am stuck here, in my room, with no phone or tablet or laptop until I am off suspension, for… two... whole... weeks…

“I’M 15 MOM THAT’S PREMEDITATED MURDER!” I yell… Wow, that was a little to loud I hope our nosey neighbor Mrs Markus didn’t hear me.

Mom enters my room with Kaleb right behind her.

Kaleb plops down on my bed and half grins at me “Hi sissy” He says, “I think mom is pissed at you.” He sits up a scooches next to me with his back on my pillow (Kaleb is 3 years younger but is diagnosed M.E.H)

Mom looks at me and asks, “What’s murder sweetie?”.

“I CAN make it a whole month if you want,” she smiles her playful devilish smile so I know that ‘she loves me… but I really shouldn’t test her’.

However, I’m a teenager so I smile sinfully back at her. ``We live to test our parents patience″ although I think I shouldn’t try too hard,‘But what the hell, why not?’, “Ok Victoria, you win.” I say with a half grin “I’ll stay locked up for two stupid weeks.”

Kaleb inhales sharply and hides behind my pillows on my bed at the mention of mom’s government name. Mom rolls her eyes at me.

“Don’t make it sound like it’s a jail sentence Jade,” she says, narrowing her eyes at me as she is walking out of my room, and just when I thought I was in the clear she turns around on a dime and smirks, “And don’t ever call me VICTORIA, JADE… IT’S MOM, okay, my love?”

She turns back around and leaves my room. Me and Kaleb look at each other and smile.

“Gods that woman scares me” I say.

Kaleb just giggles as he leaves my room, “Later Sissy, I’m going to play Call of duty on V.R”.

Two weeks later and it’s June already. Summer break will be here shortly, ‘yay us’. I never did apologize to that wench Trisha Locklear, nor will I ever. I’m at school and getting books out of my locker for 3rd period and`oh crap! speak of the devil`.

“Hey skank,” Trisha says.

She has Dana Newmire and Nancy Atwood with her “Just great,” I say, rolling my eyes, “The Bitches have arrived”. I flipped them the middle finger and turned back to my locker. Nancy then pins me against the locker and writes the words `PIG` in big letters on my forehead with her eyeliner.

“Look you guys, she is so ugly that she makes a pig look like a princess’’ she says laughing, then she shuts my fingers in the locker door. “Oops! I’m sorry, did that hurt?” She sneers, “maybe now you’ll learn to keep your hooves off beautiful people like us”.

Ignoring her I look at my fingers to assess the damage.

“Awww is the baby gonna cry?” Dana laughs.

I can hear Lena in my head, ‘Let’s pulverize these girls into mush.’ ( Lena is my seventeen year old alter, I have multiple personality disorder or D.I.D)

‘We can’t do that and you know it,’ I replied with irritation. Mom would get mad at me if I got suspended because I got caught fighting, AGAIN!

‘They deserve it and soooo much more,’ She argued. I was in pain and quite pissed now.

The girls started gathering around me like I was a steak and they were dobermans, I inhaled sharply. “LEAVE ME ALONE!” I scream/growl at the top of my lungs. I am shocked because I didn’t know I could growl like that or sound that powerful either. The bitches Immediately freeze in their tracks, unable to move towards me,Then as if by magic they turn around (for lack of a better term) Leave me alone and walk away. Then Ruby Silmon, (my best friend), walks up to me and shakes me from my semi shocked state as I watch the bitches walk away.

“What’s up bestie?” she asks, “What did the Tramps `R` Us want?” She then sees my fingers and gets really angry, and for a split second I swear her eyes changed color but I just chalk it up to me not eating lunch and the loss of blood from my fingers.

“OMG Jade!” She yells, “We need to get you to the nurses station NOW!”

We head to the office building where the nurses station is and right as I walk in the door Nurse Jude greets me.

“Hi Jade,” she says, then she spots my blood covered hand.

“Not again! Let me guess, you fell against your locker door and it mysteriously closed on your hand?” ‘She says this because she knows the girls have bullied me before. She also knows I believe snitches get stitches’. But today I have had just enough. I am done! “Nope,” I say “Not this time. It was Trisha, Dana and Nancy!” I proudly proclaim which shocks not only my friend Ruby but nurse Jude as well.

“My, my, my, we are actually telling on the little trouble makers this time,” Nurse Jude says with a smile.

The school officer overheard me and he called all three of them into the office because the school supposedly has a 0 tolerance for bullies. ‘Ya right, tell that to my body and the poor kid the boys beat up every other day.’ The nurse thanks Ruby for walking with me, then writes her a hall pass to go back to class.

Ruby hugs me, “Later girl,” she says. She leaves the office humming the song `Getting away with murder by papa roach`. I smile, gods I love my bestie. My attention turns back to the nurse.

“Nothing appears broken,but it’s going to hurt like hell for a while,” Nurse Jude says as she finishes bandaging my fingers.

She sighs “can’t you just avoid them Jade?” she asks as if this is MY fault somehow. “You know if you ignore them they would leave you alone” She says with a stern look on her face like I could magically become invisible so the bitches couldn’t see me.

“Well isn’t this fanfuckintastick,another trip to the E.R to make sure nothing is broken, Mother will just be sooo happy that I didn’t fight, ’this time’,” I say as I roll my eyes. I moved over to the waiting area of the office because the Nurse said it’s school policy to report these incidents to the Principal.

“Please don’t curse” Nurse Jude says “just be honest with the principal and things will be okay”.

‘Just great,’ I thought. I text ruby really quick, which is hard to do with one hand(at least my thumb is ok) -Hey bestie shouldn’t have snitched I’m probably gonna die I luv ya, laters.- I put my cell away and sit quietly waiting for the three stooges to get here wondering if I should have just kept my mouth shut. The three of them walked in looking like they had no clue as to why they were called in.

“OMG!” Dana screeches, as she sees me sitting there, “She snitched, the little bitch snitched!”

Trisha looks at me with an evil smirk, “I hope you are done with living cause you just signed your death warrant.”

Nancy takes her gum out of her mouth and sticks it in my hair, “Well that could be an improvement,” She laughs.

′Gods I hope they get expelled’ I say to myself removing the gum from my hair and flicking it at them. All three of them walk past the front desk and go to the back where the principal is.

“Mr. Martin, we’re here” Trisha says in her ‘I’m a sweet innocent girl tone’, “What am I here for, did I get another honor certificate?” I rolled my eyes again.

‘That thing is NOT innocent,’ I say to myself, ‘I think she was born with horns’. The girls enter Mr.Martin’s office and after a few moments Mr. Martin gets up and shuts the door.

Okay’, I think to myself, that’s not normal. About forty-five minutes later the girls come out all smiles and walk past me. Trisha not-so-discreetly makes a ‘your dead’ motion by raking her thumb across her throat as she walks by. (Yep I’m gonna die)

Mr.Martin calls me into his office, “Jade, could you come in here please we need to talk.” He sounded like he was upset with me. I did nothing wrong but I went to his office anyway.

“Yes Mr. Martin,” I said sadly, holding my hand so he knew it hurt like hell.

He was sitting behind his desk looking smug, “So Trisha tells me you started it by-” I immediately cut him off.

“I knew this would happen, I knew you would take their side,” I said angrily, I was pissed. “Their daddy has money and donates to this school regularly and by the way, which one of the little tramps did you screw? Huh, Mr. Martin? Or was it all three? I heard you were a minute man,” I was livid, “or did you just get oral from Nancy. I heard she is notorious for it?”

Almost everyone knew Mr. Martin was a pervert and in this school it’s not what you know that gets you ahead it’s who you give head to. Mr. Martin straightened his tie and stood up with his hands on his hips.

“I beg your pardon,” he spat, “How dare you talk to a principal this way! I could expel you and-” I cut him off again.

“My birthday is in about 2 weeks. I will be 16 when this summer break is over. I won’t be back, or do I need to bring my daddy up here AGAIN?”

He slumped his shoulders a little. “N-now w-wait a minute,” he said, stuttering his words. See he has had to deal with my dad before and he doesn’t like going toe to toe with my dad. I don’t know why but my dad has this aura about him.I don’t know If it’s his Ottawa heritage,or maybe it’s something else but some are scared of my dad. “No need for drama and such Miss Blackhart,” he began, “We can come to a good conclusion without the need of Marshal Blackhart.” I calmly ignored him and got up and headed for the door.

“We are not done Miss Jade,” Mr. Martin stated coldly, “There is still the matter of what happened with Trisha and the girls.”

I turned sharply and stared directly into his green eyes, “Let me make myself perfectly clear MR. MARTIN,” I spat out, “You deal with the bitches,I QUIT!” And with that, I walked out of his office and off school grounds, then I pulled out my cell and found Ruby’s number and texted her to see if she could get my things from my locker and to meet me at my home. I told her I quit and I was done being a puppet for those twat waffles. The next thing I did was I called an uber for a ride home. This was gonna be a long day.

When I got home mom was waiting. The school had called her.

“What do you mean you quit!?” Mom yelled, she was pissed. “You can’t just quit, school is important!” she said sternly.

“Well I did mom. I’m done with those bitches. I can’t do it anymore!” I said as I entered my room.

I was about to slam my door when Mom said “Okay,I love you and if that is truly how you feel then I support you fully” then she looked down and her eyes got wide, “What happened to your fingers?” she asked with worry.

I looked at her calmly “Oh you mean they didn’t tell you all of it,just that I quit?” I started to cry again “Do you even know that I have been bullied for the past 3 years?”

Mom got our stuff together and took me to the E.R the x-rays didn’t show any broken bones thank the goddesses but they still rewrapped it and told me to keep it wrapped for at least 4 weeks.

That night as I lay in my bed I drifted off to sleep. I dreamed I was running through the woods free of the judgment of others. I didn’t have to worry about curfews or rules or bullies for that matter. I could just run and play and have fun and enjoy the feeling of the dirt between my paws. Wait… what the…? I HAVE PAWS! I quickly look down and sure enough I have paws. ‘Well, whatever’... This IS a dream’ I thought,So I took off running, whipping around trees, chasing rabbits, howling at the moon, just having a great time.

I sit back on my hind legs and stare out at the beautiful moon. I inhale deeply. I never knew the beauty the world had to offer. I can smell the dew on the grass, I can hear the crickets’ wings rubbing together to make that sound. I can feel the vibrations of the wind when it goes through the forest a little too hard and with it I can smell all the food that is being made nearby. I guess this dream is meant to show me that I’m stronger than I think, and maybe I shouldn’t give up? I don’t know but I’m loving this dream.

The next morning I wake up and Kaleb immediately comes into my room without knocking and sits on the foot of my bed.

“Hey Sissy,” he says “You gonna take me to the mall?”

I kick my blanket off of me and roll my eyes as I get out of bed. “Can I get coffee before you come in here and bother me?” I say sarcastically. I walk over to my closet looking over my shoulder. “Can you leave my room so I can get dressed or would you prefer I go in my ‘Nightmare Before Christmas’ PJs?” I say in a snappy tone. ’I am still upset about yesterday and don’t wanna deal with his happy mood’ “And shut my door while you’re at it”.

Mom interrupts my little banter, “JADE, you WILL take him to the mall and you WILL apologize for your attitude. I don’t know what has gotten into you but knock it off” She leaves my room and walks down the hall towards their room

(‘VIKKI’S P.O.V’)

Vikki walks into her bedroom where Marshal is getting ready for work.She shuts the door and sighs, “I don’t know what is up with Jade. She is getting an attitude the closer she gets to her 16th.” She hugs Marshal tight, “Marshal I’m worried you don’t think-.”

Marshal Interupts her, “My love calm down,I don’t think it’s possible, My wolf was gone before they were born. I chose you over zion”. he kisses her deeply, “Besides she would have to kill to activate her wolf and I don’t see my princess doing that”.

( Normally a wolf doesn’t appear until the 18th birthday unless the host kills someone be it defense or other.)

Vikki seems calmer now that she has spoken to him.

“I just worry Marshal,Our kids safety is our priority”

She puts on a smile and heads back out to the dining room to start breakfast.

“Jade, If your dressed you and Kaleb can meet me in the dining room for breakfast please”,

(‘JADE’S P.O.V’)

I walked out of my room and into the kitchen and while we all sat down to eat breakfast I said, “Ok, but if I have to go with him to the mall I’m driving the mustang.”

Mom laughs “Nice try Jade. You just got your license!” (We have a 1964 cherry red mustang that they swear one day will be mine but I think hell will freeze over first.)

She hands me a credit card and says “Now I know you know the rules on this, correct?”

I nod in response to the question then look at Kaleb “Ok twerp,” I say, “My birthday is in two weeks. I’ll be 16 soon, that’s practically grown. Don’t make me look stupid okay!” I smile sweetly at him as we go to the garage to get into the Saturn. “Buckle up, you know the rules” I say, smiling. Kaleb knows I’d never hurt him. After all, he is my baby brother and I would KILL to protect my family.

Something tells me one day I might have to.

Side note: Please understand I have NEVER written before ever...please be nice lol..