Prologue-"A bitch maybe?"

"Mom! I'm late for school, could you please hand me a granola bar?" I shouted from upstairs. I had overslept today as I stayed up all night finishing up my project which was due this afternoon.

"Here sweetie." My mother called from the dining area where my family is eating breakfast. I slid down the railing of the stairs, grabbed my bar and swiftly ran out to the garage to get my bike but not before pecking my parents on the cheek and punching my brother on the arm.

Let me introduce myself. I'm Cleo Havard. I'm a seventeen year old girl attending senior year in Dartwell High School. I'm not really a typical girly girl as I like to lie on my bed all day except getting up to get food on weekends. I do online shopping instead of going to malls as I'm... well, too lazy.

Oh, did I mention that my family and I are werewolves? My dad is the ex-Beta of the Night Shade pack. My brother, Storm who is two years older than me is the current Beta of the pack. We live at a house beside the pack house, where the Alpha family resides in. The current Alpha is Uncle John but the title is going to be passed down to his son, Flash tomorrow on his 18th birthday.

I hopped onto my bike and started the engine. As I passed by the pack house, a black sports car raced pass me and I automatically knew who it was. He was wearing his polaroid sunglasses with his brown hair being messy as usual. He slowed down to my riding speed and showed me the "loser" sign before racing pass me again.

Flash Winston. Just these two words can make my blood start boiling. Our parents were best friends so is my brother and him but not us. We're like the north and south, east and west. Total opposites. I can't really remember when we started hating each other but from what I know he used to pull my hair and snatch my toys when we were younger and in an attempt to get back at him, I used to throw all his toy cars away secretly.

As we grew up, we still just can't see eye to eye for each other. I hate that he's such a prankster, a jerk who bullies people for fun, a manwhore going around flirting with plastic barbies and not saving himself for his mate. A mate is your one and only partner given by the Moon Goddess. Not saving yourself for your mate almost seem as if you're defying the Moon Goddess.

Whoever's his mate is just an unlucky one. My wolf sighed in fake pity.

Agreed.

I continued the rest of my journey to school peacefully. Feeling the wind blowing against your face is way better than getting stuffed inside a vehicle. As I parked my bike and got off, the first sight I saw was that disgusting jerk and the biggest slut in our school and from the Red Hue pack, Caitlin Miller blocking the entrance of our school and shoving each others' tongues down their throats. She had straight blonde hair and blue eyes. Very typical.

I rolled my eyes at the awful sight and walked towards the entrance as I looked at everyone trying to find a way to get into the building but also not disturb a soon-to-be Alpha and his "privacy".

"Almighty Alpha couldn't keep it in his pants huh? Get a room you two! If you didn't know, you're blocking the entrance. Now, please excuse me." I gave them a fake smile while Flash threw me an annoyed face like I've interrupted them having sex or their climax.

"You're just jealous that you couldn't have him alright? Now who gives a shit about a little wolfie like you? Oh wait, calling you a wolf seemed quite insulting to you. How about I call you... a bitch maybe?" Caitlin pretended to be excited while thinking of what to call me.

I felt like my wolf is getting really agitated hearing this from a wolf that is of lower rank than her. Sure, we are not from the Alpha's family but being Beta's daughter, I couldn't tolerate any disrespect too. My eyes grew from the usual hazel to golden in colour. I felt my wolf trying to take over me as she wanted to teach that bitch a lesson. Just as I was about to start clawing her throat with my nails, I heard a loud growl beside her. I turned my head to look and saw that jerk's eyes are as black as a bottomless pit. He growled loudly at me again which forced me and my wolf to bow down submissively. Even though he is not an Alpha until tomorrow, he still has the authority to command anyone in the pack.

How dare he force me to lower my head to someone of lower rank than me?

Despite my displeasure, I lowered my head eventually as I waited for my wolf to calm down before looking up and glaring at the both of them. If looks could kill, they'll be six fee- wait no, ten feet under.

Probably reached hell already. My wolf commented.

However, it was a mistake. Caitlin was smirking at me as she knew the soon-to-be Alpha just defended her and shamed me. That stupid Flash just gave me the "L" and laughed which turned my glaring face similar to that of a tomato.

Stupid bunch of wolves in the pack. Really wanna inject them with wolfsbane and slit their throats with a silver knife.

Instead, I controlled my strong urge to do that and said, "Hmm, I just googled 'who gives a shit' and my name wasn't in the search results. So, thanks for patronising me but I'm not interested. See ya later... bitch... and jerk." I sneered at Flash at the last part and walked off. My wolf was laughing so hard when we saw both of their faces convulsed in fury before we left.

Hey just imagine a pair of devil horns coming out of their heads instead of wolf ears. My wolf said eagerly.

I was laughing so hard with my wolf inside of me if any humans looked at me they would think I have a mental disorder or something. Fortunately, our school is only for werewolves so as to not expose ourselves to human beings. Dartwell High consist of many packs of werewolves in California and it is one of the biggest werewolf schools in the werewolf world. Our packs signed treaties with each other so we were all in pretty good terms.

Allow me to introduce my wolf. She's called Cleo too. She has golden eyes apparently but I don't know how she looks like as I haven't had my first shift yet. I'm one hell of a weird wolf. Most wolves, if not all have already had their first shift when they're 16 years of age except me. In spite of that, my father trained me real hard against my liking until I'm almost as strong as my brother and Flash in human form so no one could bully me just because I couldn't shift. I'm actually kinda grateful for that as I have a lean body now and one of our pack's top warriors.

As I passed by the giant ass clock in the main hallway, I realised I'm almost late for my first class. I ran at werewolf speed to the chemistry lab. I reached there on time and took my usual seat beside my lab partner and best friend, Teegan.

"What took you so long today? Class is almost starting. Thank god you came before Mrs. Pufferfish or you'll be spending your afternoons in the detention room." She looked at me. Her baby blue eyes were wide with curiosity.

"Don't even mention about it. It's that damn jerk again but this time he's with his whore." I spoke with so much venom in my tone that I hope the poison would reach both of them and murder them for me.

"Wow, it's always Flash that made you so agitated. You two seemed like an old married couple every time, I see." Teegan joked.

"Did I hear you correctly? Me? Him? Couple?! Teegan, are you running a high fever now?" I exaggerated by putting the back of my palm on her forehead.

"No, I'm not having a fever. But seriously, have you ever thought of him being your mate? I mean, both of your birthdays are tomorrow and y'all are finding your mates too. There's always a possibility you know." Teegan wriggled her eyebrows at me, something that I can't do no matter how hard I tried.

"Hell no. Our Moon Goddess wouldn't be so heartless as to make him as my mate right? I'd rather have an 80 year old wolf as my mate than him." I rolled my eyes and shuddered, trying to imagine Flash being my mate. God, I can just imagining me committing suicide already.

"Oh whatever, we'll see tomorrow. By the way, we'll be hosting a birthday party for you and Flash in the pack house tomorrow after the passing of the Alpha title ceremony to him. I'll be at your house at five in the evening to dress you up so don't go into hiding." Teegan winked. I swear, she's more excited for my 18th birthday tomorrow than me.

Teegan is like a total opposite of me. She is tall at a height of 5'7 unlike me who's only 5'3. Her light brown hair with purple streaks contrasted with my black hair with red streaks. She wore clothes that made boys stare at her all day while I just wore jeans and a random shirt as I'm too lazy to find clothes everyday. She probably owned almost every pair of heels in the world while I own a whole cupboard of sneakers.

I was about to reply Teegan when Mrs Maddox or we like to call her 'Mrs Pufferfish'. With her plump 5' build, she wore a pair six-inch heels which can easily intimidate my petite 5'3 figure with her bulging big round eyes and plump short lips which resembles a human pufferfish. The scary part is, our infamous teacher always hand out detention slips to us like it's free. Well, technically it is but you get what I mean.

She's a real fat for a wolf. My wolf mumbled.

Hey that's so rude to our teacher. I dramatically paused for a moment before saying to her, but that's so true.

My wolf howled in laughter which made me laughed silently too.

"And so, the speed of reaction goes... Ms Harvard? Could you please repeat the last sentence I've said?" The infamous teacher's big and round eyes stared right into my soul. I could literally feel the hair on my skin standing as straight as a pole. Okay, maybe that's an exaggeration but you get my point.

Everyone in the room was looking at me and I suddenly felt the pressure of being the centre of attention. I looked at Teegan from my side view and prayed that she would help me but she gave me an apologetic look. She was probably day dreaming like any other day in class.

"I... um..." I trailed off as I realised I didn't really know what to say. God, please have mercy on me.

"I see... Please make your way to the detention room after your lessons are over. You can day dream there however much you'd like." Mrs Pufferfish handed me a detention slip and smiled a little too sweetly for my liking.

Sadist. My wolf commented.

Karma's a bitch. I sighed internally.

I've learnt my lesson and my wolf stayed a little too silent since then until Chemistry is over. I went for the next few classes without Teegan and finally, it's lunch time. I went to the cafeteria to look for both my besties, Teegan and Mason and I spot both of them right away at the corner of the cafeteria. They waved at me and I strode to them and sat down at the opposite side of them.

"Hey Cleo, how are you feeling?" Mason's voice lined with concern and gave me a warm smile.

I gave him a puzzled look and he started explaining. "Teegan told me all about your happenings today. First, you met Flash and Caitlin. Next, you got a detention slip from Mrs Pufferfish. Must be a really bad last-day-being-seventeen day huh?"

"Not a bad last-day-being-seventeen day but just a really bad day overall. Plus, I only had three hours of sleep last night after completing a project that was due today." I wonder what's with my luck today. I ruffled my hair to vent my frustration and used my palms to hold up my face as I'm so damn tired.

"Aww, poor Cleo-y. Come, let me feed you a french fry." Teegan cooed to me as if I'm still a baby.

"It's okay, babe. She can take care of herself. Let me feed you a fry." Mason put an arm around her shoulder and fed her using his mouth.

"Geez, I feel like a third wheeler here. Please get a room, you're contaminating my eyes." I jokingly closed my eyes with my hands.

Mason and Teegan are my best friends since kindergarten. When they found out they were mates, they were ecstatic until Mason almost wanted to propose to her right on the spot. Of course, I feel happy for the both of them.

"Find your mate tomorrow then. I bet you'll be acting the same as us too." Teegan gave me a knowing look along with Mason.

"Sure, sure. I'll totally be acting all lovey-dovey with him." I rolled my eyes. I'm honestly not looking very forward in finding a mate. Not really interested to have a lover anyways.

"Yea, keep rolling your eyes. Maybe you'll find a mate back there." Mason smirked while Tee snickered.

Such friends we have, Cleo.

"You guys made me not want a mate even more." I joked and they put a hand on their hearts, pretending to be hurt by my words.

"Okay jokes aside, I have to head to the detention room soon. See you guys tomorrow." I stole some of the fries that they were eating, grabbed my bag and started to head to the room of hell tiredly.

"See ya, Cleo! Don't worry, tomorrow will be a new year and new start for you." Mason called out after me. This gave me a sense of courage to face this day.

You can do it, Cleo. I assured myself as I slowly trudged towards the room of hell.

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A/N

yay! prologue is done!! Really long intro i must say. (2500 words hehe) Anyways, will be uploading the first chapter soon so stay tuned!!