LEAVING THE PACK

  "Wh—what do you mean? Listen to me Theodore, you cannot believe anything Aurora told you. She hates me, and would see me dead." 

  "But you are a vampire, are you not?" 

  

 "I'm a dhampir. That means until I awaken my vampire powers, I will remain as such. Technically I didn't lie, I am human."

 "Enough!" He bellowed. "It doesn't matter. You are wanted by the vampire conclave. Keeping you here, while they are searching for you, could mean war." 

  "What about the dream, why we saw each other? The theory of maybe you were….. maybe I was destined to be your Luna?" 

 "Are you this delusional?! You are no destined Luna of mine Adira, and you never will be! Shira will forever me mine, not your lying a*s."

  

 "What about the kiss last night?"

 "Kiss? Did you think that meant anything? I only did it, out of pity. To give you something to hope for, so you would live. But it seems that I am already reaping the seeds of my stupid decision!" 

  

 "Stupid decision!" She held her tears back, trying to be strong, despite how hurting his words were. "A case of pity? Are these what I truly am to you?" 

  "That is what you truly are to everyone here!" 

  The sentence broke Adira's heart, the tears she had been holding back, came dripping down her cheeks like the never ending waters of a river.

 "I never wanted this!" She sobbed, pointing her index finger at him. "I never wanted to come back to your pack. So if you want me to leave, fine! Just get someone to show me the f**king way out of the goddamn forest!"

  

  "Fine…." He sighed coldly. "Liam is right outside the door, he'll take you back to the closest highway. You can find your way from there to whatever life you want." 

 "Good!" She wiped her tears with her hands and walked straight out the door without looking back. 

 Like he had said, Liam was standing right outside the door, judging by her experiences with vampiric senses, she knew with his werewolf senses he had heard all their conversation. 

 "So, can we go?" She asked. "Sure…" Liam glanced at Theodore, through the opened door. He looked sad, staring at the window trying to avoid looking at Adira. 

 It was like a part of him had walked out the door with Adira. Was the fight all acting? Did he really care for Adira? Liam wondered.

 But all this didn't matter now, Theodore had to see it through. He had to show strength, so his pack would be safe. A war with the conclave over Adira, would be the last thing the pack wants. 

  Liam's gaze returned back to Adira. "Yes, we can go!" Together they walked out of the castle, through the huge gates of the wall into the forest. 

 As they walked through the forest, Liam couldn't keep his eyes off Adira. He kept staring at her, and everytime she turned to him he would look away. 

  "Okay, come on, say what you wanna say!" She walked in front of Liam, with her hands folded on her chest. 

  "What?" He was dumbfounded.

 "You have been staring at me since we left the pack, so if you want to say or ask me something, just go ahead and ask it?!"

 It turned out, not only Theodore had realized what a beauty Adira was, Liam had too, and Adira had no clue. "Ohh.. yeah…" He stuttered. "If you are a vampire like Aurora said, how come you don't heal like one or smell like one?" 

 "I am not one!" She sighed and turned around, backing him. "I am a dhampir, that means, I have a vampire father with a human mother. I am born human, in order to awaken my vampiric powers, I'd have to drink human blood. It's one of the many reasons I ran away from my conclave, because I didn't want to become a blood sucking monster!" 

 Adira's face darkened, heavy tears filled up her eyes, that she held back from falling down. "I know you probably won't believe me. But I am sorry for lying, I never ever tried to spy on your pack for the vampires, nor am I still in bed with them!" 

 "It's okay…. I believe you, Adira" He took a few steps closer, now standing right behind her. "Wait, you do?" She turned around in excitement, unaware that he was that close and ended up bumping into his chest. 

 Now clustered into each other, her eyes moved up his face, and was left locked at his hazel colored eyes. She had barely noticed them since, his brown colored hair or his broad shoulders, not quite as large as Theodore's, but still well built muscles. He even had thick brown colored eyebrows, and cute dimples that appeared anything he smiled or laughed.

 "The high—The highway." He stuttered, took a step back, gesturing to the woods behind her. "It's just a few minutes walk, heading in that direction."

  "Wait, aren't you going to take me there?" 

  Liam knew better, he didn't know why he felt an attraction towards her. But he knew Theodore had a thing for her, so he was certainly not going to stick around any further, just to stop his feelings from causing any havoc.

 "No, I need to get back to the pack. They may need me. It's been hours since we left. You can make it to the highway from here, it's just a few minutes ahead."

  "Okay, I guess this is goodbye, Liam."

 "Yeah, this is goodbye." He started taking slow steps back. "I do hope you find the happy life you deserve, and just so you know, you are no pity case."

   "Thank you, Liam."

  "Goodbye Adira!" He turned around, shifted into a brown werewolf and ran into the woods.

 "Goodbye…" She sighed, turned around and continued down the path Liam had told her to follow. As she walked through the woods, the sun was slowly setting behind, creating a beautiful twilight. 

  Soon enough she started to see the highway just past the few trees in front of her, a smile quickly sprouting from her face. The hope of a life free from all these troubles was but a few steps ahead.

 "Adira…. Where are you…?" The scary voice of Aurora echoed through the woods, sending shivers down her spine. She quickly hid back on the closest tree to her.

  All that hope suddenly changed to fear. How did she find her, how was she going to escape? So many thoughts ran through her head. Just when all hope seemed to be lost, she saw a car driving so fast towards the part of the highway in front of her.

 She quickly ran towards the highway, hoping to run in front of the car. But before she could even reach the highway, Aurora dashed with her superspeed over to Adira. She was so quick that Adira ended up running into her and falling back to the ground. 

 "How pathetic!" Aurora chuckled, her fangs well visible in her mouth as she stood over Adira with her eyes glowing red. "Did you really think you could escape the conclave? There is no happily ever after for you Adira, only pain and suffering."