CHAPTER TWO

CHAPTER TWO

AVA

Her lips trembled as she spoke, I was told it was as a result of all the spirits they had to consult.

  "The person who stole the claw is the same person who has it under her bed" the witch suddenly said. I was shocked by her words, I looked around to be sure that everyone else had had heard the exact same thing I heard from the witch.

  But my heart was broken into a thousand pieces when I met Theodore's eyes, he was looking at me with a mixture of disgust and disbelief.

  I took a step closer to him, my lips trembling, my eyes misty. At that moment nothing else mattered to me except him, only if Theodore could tell me he believed me then I would be completely okay.

  "Theodore trust me, I didn't take the claws, you believe me right? You know I would not do something like that, I don't steal" I said as I walked up to him, trying to stretch my hand to touch him.

  "But the divination said otherwise Ava" I heard Lina's voice from behind.

  I turned around quickly to look at her, I could not believe what I was hearing. She too did not believe me. "Or are trying to say the witch is lying?" She added with her arms folded. I could no longer recognize by best friend, this was not my Lina.

  "There must have been a mix up somewhere" I said with a shaky voice as I tried to approach Theodore again. But my heart was shattered into a thousand pieces when he gently pushed my hand away from him.

  "Don't touch me" he said with a mean face and voice. "Are you still trying to fool me? I had been told since a long time that you were not really who you pretend to be, but I choose not to listen to all of them not knowing that you have always been hiding your true self under a facade. And you still have the guts to tell lies."

  Hearing those words from my Theodore broke my heart into a thousand pieces, the tears flowed uncontrollably from my eyes as I stared at him in unbelieve. I would never have believed that I would hear those words from Theodore.

  "Now enough of all the emotions and pretence" I turned around to see alpha Lucas, his eyes were burning with rage.

  "It's such a shame that I also bought into your pretence all these while Ava, but why am I not surprised?" He stepped even closer to me. "You are so lazy to train, that is why you are left so much behind by your pairs, you can't even do what your mates do, and that is why you are a very bad warrior."

I wiped my eyes with the back of my palm, I had always told them in the past anyways that I did not want to be a warrior, why did they just keep trying to force it on me? Why waste all of those times training when I can actually do other girly things?

 "now because you are so desperate for power and you do not mind getting it through a dubious means because you are too lazy to practice like your pairs" Hot tears oozed out of my eyes as he said those hurtful words to me. No matter how much I tried to defend myself, no one believed, not even Theodore or even my best friend Lina.

  "You should have said the truth earlier, may be you would have been pardoned, you made us all go through the stress of bringing the witch here" Lina said crossly before walking away from me as I tried to explain myself to her.

  "Meanwhile we have arrived at one decision" Alpha Lucas said stepping closer to me. "We can not continue having a thief and a cheater among us".

  I shook my head on hearing that, my tears almost blinding me.

  "I and the other leaders of this pack has decided that we would no longer have you here, leave!".

  His last words continued to echo in my ears, as I looked from one person to the other.

  I was surprised when I looked at around and saw no pity in anyone's face, none of them felt an atom of pity for me, not even my friend. I was even more surprised because I thought I saw something that looked like a smile appear on her face, but it disappeared almost immediately.

  I was distracted from her face again by alpha Lucas's voice.

  "You are allowed to take only your clothes, but you are to leave this pack house immediately. You do not deserve to be among us".

  He slowly turned around and walked away, every other person walked away after him till I was left all alone outside.

  Amidst tears, I slowly walked to my room, the room I shared with Lina and two other girls and started packing my few belongings.

  Theodore walked in while I was packing, I quickly stood up to face him, I wrapped my arms around his neck and gave him a tight hug, I was a bit relieved at first when he did not push me away.

  Maybe he would understand this time around if I explained to him.

  "Theodore you believe me right? You know I would not do such a thing right?" I spoke into his neck.

  He slowly held me by the shoulder and moved away from me, then he stared into my eyes causing me to have a little bit of hope that he would at least believe me this time around. 

  "At first I did not know what to believe"

  I opened my eyes wide as I stared at him, he probably finally realized that he had judged me wrongly in the beginning. But I was more heart broken by his next words.

  "But you do not expect me to believe you over the witch, the spirits do not lie" he slowly said before he moved my body away from his completely. He gave me one last glance before he walked away.

  I wanted to break down, I wanted to throw a tantrum and cry my eyes out. But that would not be necessary.

  I wiped the tears that had fallen from my eyes with the back of my palms and started packing my things.

  After packing I decided to see Lina for the last time, and say a few words to her since we might not even get to see each other again.

  I walked slowly to the back of the pack house where we both normally hung out, I saw her with another girl.

  So sad that she had replaced me already, but even more sad were the words I heard my best friend say about me, I could not believe my ears as I stood there and listened to everything she said.