The News

Sitting in the bay window of my room, watching my two youngest brothers practicing their training moves. Pulling myself from my daydream and getting up to go back to my laptop to finish the english homework that I had been putting off for two days. After half an hour of trying to type out the jumble of words in my head, my mom mind-linked me.

“Honey, dinners ready. Come down and eat with everyone dad has something to tell everyone.” She said.

“Coming mom be there in a minute” I mind-linked back.

Heading down the four flights of stairs to the large kitchen, dining open area of the pack house. As I came to the bottom of the stairs I could already smell the delicious herb chicken and roasted vegetables the pack members prepped. Dad, mom and my four brothers are all already sitting at the head of the long table along with the other 40 or so members of the pack. Dad waiting to speak until I took my place next to my mom and twin older brothers.

“Thank you all for coming tonight. Luna and I have exciting news with our oldest sons turning 18 tomorrow we have invited our closest neighboring packs. Joining us for this occasion will be Opal moon, Red Sky, Eclipse, Crescent moon and for the first time in our packs history the royals will be attending. This means everything must be in perfect shape. We will need a lot of help preparing. Our Luna will be dealing with meals, rooms and making sure our guests are happy. I will be dealing with security and welcoming our guests along with my family.” My father said.

“Yes Alpha” everyone at the table spoke in unison.

“Oh my GOD, are you serious?” My best friend Lily yelled when I told her what my father had said last night at dinner.

“Yes, he said the royals are coming, really” I replied.

“The prince’s are so hot, you are so lucky imagine if they mated with one of us.” She said. Yeah imagine our dreams and girly talks over the phone at night would come true. “Being a real life princess, if I mate with Shane then I would become queen one day.”Lily continued as I went into my own world again.

Shane was the oldest of the royal children, he was every girls dream. He’s the same height as my father at 6’8; with jet black hair and green eyes. According to the wolf times he works out meaning he well built, from the pictures we’ve seen he is very defined and as lily said hot. Jamie on the other hand is slightly shorter than his older brother at 6’5; he has light mousy brown hair with blue eyes. Like his brother is well defined. Unlike his brother he seems more outgoing and adventurous. Maybe because he will never be on the throne?

“Are you ignoring me?” Lily’s voice jolted me out of my thoughts.

“No, what? Sorry I was just um” I stuttered.

“You were daydreaming about the prince’s again? Haha I know how you’re feeling girl they’re dreamy.” Lily laughed as she pulled me towards last period math with Mr. Franks.

Sitting in math class suffering through with Mr. Franks droning on about problems I had already solved in the homework, my mind started to wonder again to the prince’s, Chris and Kyle’s birthday and the possible future that could be. A pen hit my arm making me jump I look at Lily who was giggling and pointing towards the front of the class.

“Miss Black welcome back I hope you had a good dream. If we could continue now?” Mr. Franks said making me duck my head downwards and nod.

Feeling my cheeks getting warmer as Lily stifled giggles beside me; the bell couldn’t come fast enough. Sighing once it finally rang Lily and I walked towards our lockers and threw the books we wouldn’t need for homework into them, for me it was math and English books but for Lily it was all of her books, she may be smart but she is a slacker when it comes to school work.

“Come on lets go for a drive.” Lily said walking out of the school towards her car. I nodded following her and getting into the passenger seat.

“Where are we going?” I asked as Lily pulled out of the parking lot. When she didn’t respond I looked at her and she smiled at me winking.

“It’s a surprise. Don’t look so worried I’ll have you home before dinner or your mom would skin me alive.” She said heading towards the mall.

We walked around the mall talking about the Prince’s and the boy’s birthday. I still hadn’t gotten them a present yet so I was looking for something special. Normally mom would pick something for all of us to put our names on but since it was such an important birthday I wanted to get them something myself but hadn’t found anything yet. As we were walking Lily stopped at one of the jewelry stores and was gawking over the amazing engagement rings and droning on about her ‘perfect man’ while my eyes caught on a necklace set. It was a set of wolves howling upwards together that pulled apart into two necklaces.

“That’s perfect.” I muttered to myself heading inside with Lily following behind me.

“That was an expensive present!” She said pulling up to the pack house. I looked at her and smiled.

“It’s an important birthday and this is so them.” I said climbing out of the car. “I don’t care about the cost my pocket money covered it just fine.” She nodded as I closed the door and walked towards the front door.