CHAPTER 3

But, I saw nothing. Curiously, I walked into my room and there she was, trying to find a pair of heels whilst holding a hair straightener in her hand. "Try these on," she said without looking at her, throwing me a pair of dark blue heels matching my dress. I scoffed and sat on my bed, taking off my shoes and slipping the heels on, they were a little bit lose, but they had fit fine and when I stood up they made me a couple of centimetres taller, and I was pretty short. "Alright time for hair!" she squealed and instantly turned around with a beaming smile, which widened further as she took a good look at me. In an instant, she had already whipped out her straightener and started to play with my hair, occasionally she would use the straightener. It almost seemed like five minutes before she retracted the device and beamed. "Oh, my Goddess! You look amazing! Time for makeup!" she gasped and unplugged the hair straightener, whilst grabbing all my makeup utensils and forcefully plopped me down onto the bed. I winced at the impact. "No Elena, I'll do makeup," I spoke, pushing her away from me as she tried to apply some eyeliner. She pouted a little bit, but reluctantly nods her head and walks out the door, leaving trail of her smelly sadness behind her. You could have let her,' The pouty voice in my head spoke, of course, my wolf Crescent would say that. Crescent is my wolf you see, when we had our first shift, she was that nagging voice in my head and obviously an annoying one, but I love her and she loves me. 'Well, I don't even bother to go to these events Cres, I don't want my make up to go to waste,'I retorted back to her, as I went over to my mirror and started to apply some mascara on my eyes, whilst I talked to Crescent. 'She was being kind!' she snarled playfully at me, I smiled and applied some lipstick after my mascara was done. I was never a big fan of makeup and only applied the basics because I liked the way I looked without it. Yeah well, too bad,' I replied, before shutting the link off before she could get any more annoying. I waltzed downstairs where my whole family was waiting patiently for me. Of course, everyone looked so amazing with their outfits, the pretty and good-looking genes seemed to be passed down to everyone in the family, which surprisingly I had to0, well, most of them. We all had different shades of blue eyes, different shades of brown hair and different skin tones ranging from fair to slightly tanned. Surprisingly, we all wore a shade of blue, my mother wore a sky blue outfit which complimented her eyes wonderfully, my dad had a matching colour for his tie and my two brothers had simply the same shade of pale blue for their ties as well. My sisters also wore matching dresses, which came in a nice dark blue, however much lighter than my very, very dark blue dress. As I went down, their eyes landed on me, my mother's eyes welled up with tears as my dad gave a look of approval, two brothers smiles at me, whilst my two sisters squealed in delight and rushed to hug me. "You look amazing!" they yelled and wrapped their dainty arms around my waist, squeezing the living life out of me. "Okay, okay, you can let g0 of me now!"I breathed, trying to pry their hands off of me, but being unlucky, they wrapped their arms once again. The night was full, everything and everyone were here. The music played in the background as everyone chatted amongst themselves in a delightful and happy matter. I watched how many couples found their mates within a few seconds and enveloped them in their arms, or in other cases, being dragged away in a rush to mate. The smell of arousals hit me like a tonne of bricks, my wolf calling out to me as she was like the many others, searching for their mate. Llenld Wds gIIpDIIg OILO Iy drII wIen we arrived and instantly, I could tell she had found her mate, her eyes glazed over and her nose pointed up to the air. She immediately let go of my arms and went into the crowd, disappearing from sight. I almost called out her name, but stopped myself from distracting her and looked around. In the distance, I heard some wolves had howled during the night and some Alpha's introduced their newly found mate to the whole audience, but I could tell that in some of the girl's faces, they dreaded this. Multiple Alpha's came to visit, bringing with them hundreds of wolves, both male and female for the festivities however q few Alnha's wpre missing or late three were one of the strongest packs of all, with some of the most elite warriors both male and female, plus had the most land and money which increased their pack's value. Of course, on out of three Alpha's had found So the night was still young and my sister had found her mate in a matter of seconds, a beta from the 'West Wind Pack', who was charming, to say the least, but no-so-handsome at that. My parents welcomed him with open arms, as well as the rest of my family, I included. They were to be mated in her next heat, and hopefully bring a child into the world so I could be an aunt, yay. My sister's mate, Matthew, had boring blue eyes and shaggy brown hair, his stature screamed beta and was well built. He was around the same height as me, but at the age of 22, you would expect much taller for his position. However, my sister adored him and I could see it in his eyes, that he adored her and it was frightfully nice to know that she would be going to his pack. Finally, as the night drew in, when the clock hit nine, I drew back from the festivities, and walked in the cold wind towards the library, hoping to at least get a few reads until my parents or sister dragged me back to the hall so I could find my mate. But, Crescent and I have not had a whiff of my mate's scent, nor did we feel any connection to anyone we had just met. As my wolf whimpered for me to go back, I pulled myself together and opened the library doors and inhaling the scent of old parchment, books and dust. I hoped my mate would smell like this because it was intoxicating. Settling down on one of the bean bags, I grabbed the nearest book and started to flip through the pages, to my luck it was a book about humans, actually more like a romance book with humans starring in it.