Chapter four

Ariana’s POV

I couldn’t get my head over what Diana said as we made a run through the pathway heading to the exit. For some reason, every student had also gone out of the school and must be on that pack run Damien talked about.

It must be a race, right? That was what I thought as we then took another route heading towards a gathering. The day had traveled into the night, but one can still see his path.

The gathering was large and ahead of it was filled with trees lined up. Every student was facing those line-up trees while some teachers were around giving speeches.

“It’s a leg race, right,” I said turning towards Diana, but shockingly she started ripping her clothes off leaving me stuck and dazzled.

“A leg race? Hell no! It’s called a pack run because we are expected to run in our wolf form” She giggled, while I felt like I was hit with a massive bolt of lightning.

“With our wolves?” I yelled with open eyes as though I had seen my worst nightmare. It was only my first day in school, and they were going to know I was wolf-less. My heart pounded heavily in fear.

“Yes, why are you sweating? Are you having a fever or what?” She taunted. At this moment, she had ripped her shirt off and was now trying to get her pants off.

Her peaches were swinging directly at my view and I could have flushed, but I didn’t, due to how tense I was.

“I have something to tell you,” I said, sounding so serious, and she was alerted.

"What's that?" she raised a brow at me.

"Something I can't say here," I replied hastily.

Looking around to make sure we weren’t spotted yet, she quickly dragged me toward a building not far from where we were.

“What happened? You don’t look well. Was it about what I said concerning your mate?” She asked, shivering.

“Is it because of him, you don’t want to go there?” She continued.

“No!”

“Just no! Allow me to talk!” I yelled to call her attention back to me.

She jerked. Her eyes circled before she took a deep breath to calm herself. I also did because I needed it to get the words out.

“I… am… wait, I have a secret to tell you,” I said, gulping down hard.

“A secret? What haven’t I heard about you? It’s all in your file. Everything about you was disclosed to the public.” She raised a brow at me and my heart raced.

Does she know what I wanted to tell her already? If she knew, then why was she still dragging me to the field? I was puzzled and at the same time lost.

“What? There’s another?” She narrowed her gaze on me.

“You know everything?” I asked, my eyes bulging.

“Yes. You are wolf-less?” She took the words out of my mouth, making me gasp and my throat suddenly ached. I felt betrayed.

“What? Who told you that?” I acted like it was a lie, so I could get the truth out of her.

“That Marcus. When he brought you in, he told me. He can’t be right. I knew it was a bluff, so I shrugged it off.” She whined.

“What? Marcus did?” I gasped. My hand balled into a fist as I imagined strangling him in my thoughts. That douchebag was my fake mate, yet he had the guts to spill my deep secret.

What was he hoping to get out of it? I would surely make him pay. But on second thought, it was the truth. I couldn’t simply punish someone for speaking the truth, right? I felt stuck.

“We have to go, come on!” She snapped, pulling me out of my thoughts.

Immediately, I began to shiver. My eyes were so glued to the floor as I was thinking how to tell her that what she condemned was the truth.

“What is it? I don’t like the smell I am getting from you. You smell nervous. But why? Or don’t tell me what he said was true?” She gasped. Her hand flew to her mouth, wrapping it in shock.

“Can you keep it a secret between us?” I pleaded accepting what she said which made her nearly stumbled backward.

“You are wolf-less? Ooh, my fucking goodness. And now you have a mate?” She sneered. A form of disgust glinted in her eyes but varnished immediately after.

“You have to help me, please,” I begged and tried to reach for her, but she kept pacing backward creating a space between us and I felt shattered on the inside.

Not now, please. My friend couldn’t possibly reject me right now, would she?

“Hmm,” she sighed. Her shoulders also dropped and she swung a finger in the air, mulling over her thoughts. “I know a way, but it’s going to hurt.” She said, and my mood lightened up.

I felt hope building up inside me, and my eyes sparked almost immediately.

“What? What’s it?” I asked, almost jumping up on my feet.

“It’s going to hurt,” she said and without any warning, she walked towards me to the side and raised her leg in the air smashing it on mine and my knee made a sound.

Pak! 

My knee sounded and the impact made it twist to the side.

“Ahhhhhhhhhhhh!” I screamed my lungs out in pain. “What the…” she quickly sealed the mouth with her palm.

“I said it is going to hurt. The only way is to twist your knee.” She whispered into my ear.

Looking down, I could see blood gushing out from my knee as it twisted to the side and I couldn’t even regain my balance on the floor. I had to rely on her.

“Ahhhh!” I couldn’t hold down the pain and was almost biting into her palm which was covering my mouth.

“Now scream. Say nothing more, just scream.” She said and pulled her hand off.

Unable to hold down the pain, I screamed as though my life depended on it. With all my strength, I puffed my chest as the pain was the source of agony I was feeling.

“Ahhhhhhhh,” I screamed again in pain.