TW: ED(Bulimia), bullying, body shaming. Skip to 2nd paragraph if you don't want to read.
I woke up this morning so happy. Until I realized that I had to go downstairs and eat breakfast against my will knowing very well that the food would most likely come back up. I was diagnosed with Bulimia when I was 13. I was bullied at school for some unknown reason so my parents enrolled me into a home school. I was called a lot of nasty things by people who didn't know who my parents were. Some of those things included being called fat, ugly, a retard, the list goes on and on but that's not what I'm going to focus on today.
I got up to go shower and put on my outfit for the day. Basketball shorts and an oversize t-shirt. My hair looked like a birds nest and I had the displeasure of having to brush out that birds nest. After brushing my hair I went downstairs and everyone stared at me as I descended the staircase. "It's too early for you all to be looking so gloomy. Who died?" I tried to lighten the mood since they all looked so damn sad. Sometimes I honestly wonder how they haven't driven me to insanity yet.
"Good morning to you too, Eva. I slept well, thanks for asking. What did I dream about? Nothing much. Just the usual. Throttling you in your sleep." Does anyone else suffer like I do with this idiot I have to call my brother?
Dad glared at him and shifted his attention to me.
"Sit down, sweetie. I have to talk to you about something." In that moment, I started thinking about every bad thing I've ever done in my life and I made peace with the fact that today was my death day.
I made my way over to dad and sat next to him and I grabbed a pancake off Sam's plate.
"This morning, I got an email from the Alpha of the Scarlett Pride Pack. Alpha Dominique Hendry. His best female warrior has challenged you to a match. You have approximately two weeks to decide whether or not you accept the challenge. Once you do, you will have three days to pack for your trip."
Wait, what? What did I just hear? Alpha Dominique Hendry? When did he become Alpha? I've never liked him. He's an arrogant and stuck up piece of shit who thinks he's champagne in a tall glass on the shores of the beaches of Ibiza but in reality, he's just luke warm piss in a plastic cup. And why on earth is a warrior challenging a Chief Warrior?
"Dad, does this not go by rank? You can only challenge someone of the same rank to a match but obviously not necessarily in the same pack? No disrespect but why am I being challenged by a warrior and not his Chief Warrior?" My dad's eyes shifted to my mom who was conveniently extremely fascinated by her manicured nails.
Mom eventually looked up at me. "Well sweetie pie, you're the youngest Chief Warrior. This girl is the same age as you but she's the Scarlett Pride pack's strongest warrior. If you do agree but you lose the fight, she becomes Chief Warrior of the Scarlett Pride pack and she would also dethrone you as the youngest ever female chief warrior and the title would go to her instead." She explained.
All I've heard so far is that this girl is after my title. Accepting would mean that I have to meet Dominique Hendry and that is the one thing I've hoped would never happen under any circumstances. Not accepting would make me seem like a coward and that is one thing I'm not.
Disrespect intended to all cowards out there.
The Scarlett Pride pack is also known for fighting dirty. They disregard rules, procedures and protocols to fights.
They basically fight to kill.
"If I do accept, and that's a big if, who gets to come with me? I know that I can't bring my Alpha or Luna but am I allowed to choose who gets to come with me? And how do I know that they're going to follow all the rules? They're not really known for following protocol."
Before anyone could respond to my question, Talon came flying down the stairs like a madman and rushed to the table. "Morning all. Eva, have you bothered checking your phone this morning? Apparently some girl from the Scarlett Pride pack has challenged you to a fight." Typical Taylon. Always late to everything. I swear this girl was late to her own birth.
"That's what they're talking about. Or atleast they were before you decided to act a clown and bolt down the stairs." Did I forget to mention that Sam and Taylon are always at each other throats? If they weren't siblings, I'm convinced they would have murdered each other by now.
"Sam, before you tell me I'm acting a clown, how about you go get checked for every STD known to this earth? And stop tripping and falling into people's vaginas. If not for pity from all the girls you've fucked, I'm sure your closest interaction with a vagina would have been at birth. So don't come at me with that bullshit."
The silence was so loud, you could hear a pin drop.
Then I burst out laughing and mom was failing dismally and hiding her smile. Dad looked like he was tired of all of us at this point and I didn't blame him.
Taylon sat down next to me with a triumphant smile on her face and wrapped her arm around my shoulder so I wrapped mine around her waist. I knew that I was probably sealing my fate and basically writing it in stone with what I was about to say.
"I'll go. I'll do it. Just so that I can get it over and done with." Dad's head snapped up and he looked at me with shock on his face. "Are you sure? You don't have to decide now. You have time to think about this. Think about how they fight dirty and don't follow the rules."
I'd already thought about those things and honestly, I didn't care. I hadn't had a serious match in a while anyway.
"Let me speak to him. Let me convince him to let us go. I need to shed some blood anyway." Rou, my wolf, spoke in my head. Rou loves shedding blood but I love her as she is anyway. "Dad, Rou would like to speak to you. May I let her?"
"What on earth are you doing? Why would you let Rou speak to dad? Unless you're both going to shift, don't do it." Taylon spoke through the mind link.
"Because she asked to speak to him. Simple logic. I'm not about to shift for dad or her. She'll speak to him through me."
Dad nodded and gave me permission to let Rou surface. I closed my eyes as I felt a ball of warmth travel from the top of my head, down my back and all the way to my feet. I felt my canines grow into those of my wolf. "Rou, no shifting! You'll speak to him through me." She whimpered at my authoritive tone but obeyed nonetheless.
I opened my eyes and looked at my dad. "Alpha Ethan. Thank you for granting me the opportunity to talk to you."
Dad nodded. "You're welcome. What would you like to say?"
"Alpha, I haven't had a serious match in a while. I have no opponent in our pack since I have defeated them all. I would like to accept the request made by the warrior of the Scarlett Pride pack. I still feel the need to prove myself. Once again, thank you for granting me the opportunity to speak. I have said all I need to say." Rou explained to my dad.
I closed my eyes and felt her disappear into the back of my mind together with the feeling of my canines against my bottom lip. When I opened my eyes, dad had no expression on his face.
"Your wolf knows how to bullshit her way through situations, that's for sure." We all burst out laughing at what my dad said. Mom nodded in agreement with what he said.
"Eva, I will email Alpha Dominique to let him know that you have accepted the fight. However, you tell your wolf that she needs to control herself. Should I hear that there was any unnecessary bloodshed, I will personally strip you of your Chief Warrior title and give it to Taylon. Do not disappoint me." I got up and went to hug my dad while failing horribly at hiding my excitement.
"Thank you! Thank you! Thank you! I love you dad." He wrapped his arms around me tightly for a few seconds before letting me go.