It was my fate

The thoughts inside my head were enough to slow me down. Filling my lungs with air, I started walking. The hallway seemed to be longer than any path I had traveled. I was walking with only one name in my head but I had no idea where to find him. 

There was no one around which was not a surprise as not many people lived in the mansion.

I could not figure out where Alpha Orion would be, I looked back when I heard a tiny noise but as a result, I collided with the large empty vase. I took the support of the wall quickly and stood up straighter, praying no one witnessed it. 

"Are you alright?" a feminine voice that I had never heard before fell into my ears and soon a soft touch was on my shoulder. I tried to keep my eyes on the vase closing my hands into a fist, I dug my nails inside my skin.

I nodded without looking at the person.

"Are you sure honey? Are you looking for someone?" 

I finally looked at the woman. The woman with hair like a beautiful sunset, and walnut-colored eyes with freckles on her nose stood in front of me with her brows scrunched together as she tried to figure out the presence of an unknown girl in front of her.

"Thank you, I am fine," I felt my cheeks becoming warmer. 

She was a werewolf, I knew it. 

"Don't worry darling, no one saw it," she showed her pearly whites to lighten up the mood probably.

I smiled fighting the urge to look away from her perfectly tanned face. 

"Do you need something? I feel like you are lost," she tried once again, there was curiosity dancing in her eyes but unlike others, she did not ask anything.

"I...uh..." 

"You need to be downstairs," another voice entered. 

I looked at the source of that voice, it was a pale girl with midnight black hair and grey eyes. She completely ignored my presence and focused on the other girl. I had never seen anyone of them before. 

Who were they?

"I was just on my way," the first girl replied calmly.

"Well hurry up," the second girl answered in the exact opposite tone while moving her hands in the air, "they are waiting to meet you."

Who were they talking about? I wanted to ask but it was best to keep the question to myself. 

"As I was saying, I was just coming but then I met....." the first girl pointed her hand delicately in my direction.

"Ruhee," I said after realizing they were both looking at me for an answer.

The second girl gave a wide smile, which showed her zero effort in proving it was a real smile, "Nice to meet you, can we go now?"

"Sure," the first girl looked at me and gave a sweet smile before leaving with the second girl while I stood in the hallway watching them walk perfectly in their high heels.

"Are you always lost?" an amused girl asked. I remembered the girl, she had her lavender hair in a messy side bun this time. She was the one who told me about Chelsea.

"This is a big place."

"It is," she nodded with a smile, showing her slightly chipped front tooth. 

"Why are you here?" 

I wanted to know the answer too, but instead of answering that I replied, "I was trying to find the Alpha."

The girl....Aria, tilted her head slightly, "He is downstairs with beta and everyone else, Chelsea came back a while ago."

The name instantly made a storm stir inside my heart. 

"You didn't know?" her eyes became wide, "wow."

"Who was the girl I was talking to? Is she with Chelsea too?" 

This time Aria was looking at me like I asked her if she could give me her kidney. 

"That was Chelsea."

My tongue could not move to say anything else. 

That was Chelsea.

The woman who Alpha Orion picked to be his Luna.

She was perfect. The thought was enough to poke needles inside my head but it was true, she looked like a perfect Luna, she had confidence, she was beautiful, she was everything Alpha Orion wanted in his Luna....she was not me.

"Are you okay?"

I licked my dry lips.

"I should go back to my room."

"Are you sure?" 

I nodded instead of saying anything else.

"Do you want me to come with you? Are you sure you can find your way back to the room?" Aria looked concerned. She might be thinking, what happened to the strange girl who came out of nowhere and started living in the mansion of their Alpha?

I nodded and this time kept walking instead of waiting and answering her question.

What was I thinking? Beta Bernadette said it was a decision Alpha Orion made before knowing he had a soulmate but why would he pick me over her? He had not even talked to me once. 

I closed the door of the bedroom and stood in the empty room away from the entire pack. It was my fate. Everyone was outside talking, spending time together, and welcoming their future Luna while I was in a room. Even Bernadette was with them. I shook my head, I could not blame her, she was the beta, she had responsibilities.

I stared at myself in the mirror. 

My light brown hair reached just below my shoulders, my eyes were round green with no spark in them, there were no freckles on my skin.....I was not Chelsea. There was nothing that could set me apart from everyone else...or make me similar to them. I was not meant to be here. 

I kept staring into the mirror...the green color of my eyes kept becoming darker, the outer part of the iris started turning into an amber-colored ring. 

With a gasp, I closed my eyes quickly and tightly then opened them once again but this time they were back to their original shade of dark green.

What just happened?