98
Lucy
After Duke, Amy, and Michelle dropped me off back at the dorms, I tried to get my mind off everything. It was just too much to think about, and if I kept dwelling on it, I’d never get anything done, so I got into my room, locked my door, and pulled out all of my textbooks and notes.
The GED test would be at the end of the month. I would figure out how to get my grades corrected so that I could sit for the test, but I had to be sure that I would pass it first, or I really would have to take the class all over again. I started with my math homework, going back over my notes and hoping that O
As much as I tried to focus on the math problems, the numbers and letters started to blend together. My mind felt hazy. I tried to fight the sleepiness and focus, but the lines grew blurry, and soon, everything wen t dark.
When I opened my eyes again, I found myself running through a dense forest. It wasn’t the same forest from my visions, but somewhere else. Maybe it was nowhere at all. The cool earth beneath my bare feet felt even and alive like it was humming with energy and guiding me through the forest. The moonlight filtered through the trees above, covering the ground with a soft white light.
Slowly, I stopped and looked around. Everything seemed to glow. It was like I had gone to some other world.
This way, someone whispered on the wind. This way…
I turned as the wind blew, pushing me in that direction, but I didn’t let it push me forward.
“Who are you?” I asked. “Why?”
A melodic laugh drifted on the wind. The trees rustled and seemed to beckon me down the path.
Lucy, this way.
My stomach flipped at the way the voice changed. It sounded like Allie, my mother. If there was a chance I could see her, even if this was just a dream, then I had to take it. I swallowed and followed the path slowly picking up pace as the path twisted and turned through the trees.
Then, I heard footsteps. I turned and saw wolves in the distance, running alongside the paths. I recognized the two white wolves and turned, running faster until I couldn’t hear them anymore. Then, I slid to a stop as a single black wolf with red eyes looked down at me from on top of a large boulder.
He turned and looked behind me where I could hear the two white wolves chasing after me. Then, he leaped over my head and back down the path toward where the two white wolves had been. I kept going up the path as I heard Allie’s voice whispering through the trees.
Finally, I reached a peaceful clearing. There were no trees to block the moon’s light. In the middle sitting on a large boulder like a vision, right out of that history book was a woman with dark hair in a gauzy dress. Her eyes glowed like two stars in her face as she smiled at me.
“You’ve come,” she whispered, waving me forward. “Come closer so I can see you.”
I hesitated, but she didn’t seem like she would hurt me. I approached her carefully.
She chuckled. “So nervous. Do you believe that I could hurt you?”
“I… don’t know what to think.”
She shook her head. “You haven’t been listening to everything, have you? I led you to where you were meant to be with the Blue Moon Pack.”
I stiffened. The necklace around her neck shimmered and flashed. She pulled it from around her neck and let it float in the air between us.
“This is at once your destiny and your fate,” she said. “It will become clearer to you when the time comes. The path that you’re meant to walk with Matt and Tony. Your path to becoming---”
I stepped back. “I don’t want it.”
She smiled. “You don’t have a choice. This is how I have foreseen it. This is how it will be.”
I grew stiff and I backed away from her. Her eyes narrowed as my stomach turned. The forest around us disappeared for a moment and I saw myself back in the Blue Moon Estate. I was pregnant and barefoot. I didn’t look like I had been outside in days. I looked out the window with my hands pressed to the glass.
Tony pulled my hands away and pulled me back into his arms. I felt my stomach lurch as I watched him turn my head and kiss me. His hand was on my stomach over a gauzy white dress.
“I can’t wait until our children get here…”
I shook my head and met my own gaze in the vision. Her hair was long and straight like someone had straightened it. Tony played with a lock of my hair. My eyes looked dark as if I hadn’t been sleeping. I was so pale. The look in my eyes was the same look I’d had when I was with my adopted parents: trapped.
“No,” I said as the vision faded. “No.”
“Heed me, Lucy. If you don’t accept your place in the world, then everything will fall apart.” She shook her head. “Your place is to birth the next Blue Moon alphas. The werewolf world---“
“No,” I said. “I don’t want it. I don’t want any of that.”
She shook her head. “You were meant for them—“
“Was I?” I asked. My eyes burned with tears. “And what about what I want?”
“It doesn’t matter what you want,” she lifted her head. “It only matters what should be.”
I shook my head. “If I hadn’t been picked up by those people. If I had been sent somewhere else, I would have never have met them.”
“It was meant to be, don’t you see that?”
I shook my head. “That I’m just supposed to be happy being trapped?”
I shuddered.
“You’re not trapped. You’re safe.”
I glared at her. The anger that kept simmering in the back of my mind seemed to be boiling as I looked at her and she kept talking.
“Blue Moon wolves are the strongest of all wolves. Tony and Matt will keep you safe. In exchange, you will help rebuild the pack.” She smiled. A dreamy look filled her eyes. “Then, we’ll have what we should have always had: unity and peace.”
I frowned, staring at her.
“Werewolves were always meant to be leaders of the supernatural world.”
I shook my head. Something about her words didn’t sound right. It sounded crazy and completely opposite to everything, everyone else was telling me. Everyone else who seemed to want me to live the life I wanted, that wanted to help me figure that out, said something different.
“I don’t believe you.”
Her eyes widened. “You think I’m lying to you?”
“I don’t care if you are.” I stepped back again towards the tree line. “I don’t care if you’re a nightmare, a vision, or something else entirely; I’m not listening to you.”
She narrowed her eyes. “And who do you think you are to go against fate? Against destiny?”
I shuddered again as I heard my adoptive father’s voice echo on the wind.
Who do you think you are?
You’re nothing!
“Your only purpose is to rebuild the Blue Moon Pack with Tony and Matt,” she said. “You would be better off giving in now before you can no longer go back.”
I stared at her. “Why… would you think that I ever wanted to go back?”
“They’re your—“
“Don’t even say that word!” I growled. “It’s not true. I’ve been tested over and over again. It’s not true! No matter what you say, it’s not true, and even if it was, I don’t care! I’d rather die!”
My words echoed through the dream and I gasped as I realized what I said. She stared at me, eyes wide. I swallowed and shuddered again.
“You really think you would choose death over your destiny?”
Destiny. I looked at her. “You… keep saying destiny, but I didn’t choose any of this.”
She scoffed. “Of course, you did—“
“I chose to be picked up by those people?” I asked. “I chose for them to sell me to that auction? I chose Matt and Tony to buy me and—and—“
I couldn’t say the words. I shook my head. Tears streamed down my face.
“Tony and Matt said you weren’t a real god… just a representative or something like that.”
“I represent the will of the moon.”
I scoffed. “A floating rock in the sky doesn’t have a will!”
Her eyes flashed. “That’s blasphemy. All that time in the human world—“
“That I chose, right?” I growled at her. “Who are you? What are you? Why are you here?”
“Don’t take that tone with me!” Her voice thundered, turning the sky grey. “You will do what you are destined to do! You will follow the path I have set for you!”
Fear pulsed through my veins. Her necklace returned to her neck and filled the dream with bright light. A storm started and lightning struck around me.
I was scared, but I clenched my fists and squared my shoulders, using every bit of strength I had in me, I looked her in the eye.
“Make me.”
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