Dylan

What the hell did I get myself into now?

How is it I am forever getting myself into situations like this?

These are just a few of the thoughts that keep going through my mind as I lay here with my face in the dirt. 

One good thing about this, is that the dirt is soft and has a rich smell to it, like ground coffee mixed with rainwater. It's not such a bad smell and I probably wouldn't mind any other time to lie here, but the circumstances I'm in now are not ideal.

My heart feels like it's about to beat out of my chest, and my temples feel like someone is beating them like a damn drum.

I guess this is what I get for losing my temper like this again, but I mean, I tried really hard to keep my cool. Well, sorta hard. There are just some things that I can't ignore, and bullying is at the top of the list.

Being bullied my whole life kinda makes me prone to jumping in to help others so that they don't experience the things I do. I'm not trying to be a savior or anything, hell, I can't even rescue myself but I like to look at it like my own personal form of therapy, or retribution maybe, who knows.

"And this time remember your place," Eren said as he spit in my hair before turning to walk away to his awaiting friends. I could feel the moisture from his saliva sink into the back of my shirt, and that is when the last shred of common sense left me.

Even though Eren is only the nephew of Alpha Rogan, he acts like he is the next alpha in line since Alpha Rogan has no male heirs to hand over Blood moon Pack to. It doesn't help the fact that his friends all make him think that he's more important than he really is.

Pushing myself up onto one knee was much harder than I wanted to admit, but I could hear the murmurs from those around us as I eventually got both of my feet under me, and slower than I would have liked, stood to my full height.

I felt more confident than I looked, and without a mirror, I could only imagine what my face and clothes look like, but I am done being disrespected and treated like I am less than the others. No one deserves to be ridiculed for being different, especially when our whole damn species is so different from the vast majority of the population. 

"When have I ever listened to you before, you pr*ck!" Eren's face lost the smirk that he habitually wore as he turned to face me. In fact, it was so rare to see anything other than that sh*t eating grin, I had to hold in the shiver that ran down my spin from the predator standing in front of me.

Eyes the color of lava glowed as I watched Eren try to keep his wolf at bay. Little did he know that two could play at this game, and I was tired of male wolves thinking that they were the only ones who were terrifying.

Letting Rae out was easy now, and she was ready to get a piece of this a**hole. I also had no inclination to stop her even though a small part of me was trying to remember why I should. "No one is around to keep me from finally killing you, you stupid c*nt. If I were you, I would watch my myself."

His face shifted for just a moment and his glare didn't hold the same threat as his words, but before I knew it, it was gone. 

Ha!

Little did he know, I was done watching myself and I had stopped caring about what happened to me long ago. People don't realize that if all they ever show you is hate, you learn how to hate yourself mote than anything else.

Standing there letting Rae come forward, I embraced the shivers that prickled my skin because she sat right under the surface waiting for my final approval to come out. Having no friends or family made it easy to keep what my wolf looked like a secret since no one went on runs with me, but it also prevented me from knowing what anyone else's wolf looked like to.

"What is she?"

"She's some sort of freak?"

"Is she even from our pack?"

Eren's little lackeys are such idiots, but it was funny hearing the same thoughts that run through my mind come out of their mouths. Having thought those same things was one thing, but hearing them say it felt way more uncomfortable than I wanted to admit.

Standing here like this made me almost forget why I was in this situation, but as my gaze quickly shifted to the side, I instantly remembered.

Lecia and Duncan were both on the ground a short distance from Erin's lackeys. They were no longer curled up in balls on the ground though. Duncan was trying to help Lecia to her feet, but was still in an awkward kneeling position himself. Unsure if they were afraid of me or if they had been the ones to say those things about me, I quickly turned my attention back to Eren.

Regardless of what they may think of me, while this fight may have started for them, it was now completely about me. Eren has always had it out for me and I knew damn well he would not miss an opportunity to belittle me, even if there was no one around to look cool in front of.

For some reason the thought that those two saw me as a freak hurt just a little. It surprised me that I could even feel those things still, but none the less, there it was.

My mind was moving so fast while I was trying to take in everything around me, I hadn't realized that Eren hadn't moved and was still standing there starring. Though his eyes were still glowing, the look on his face had shifted from pure rage to intrigue.

"What are you?"

Well, that was one of the last things I expected to come out of Eren's mouth, so I was unprepared with a response and just wound up gaping at him.

"Are you dumb or something? I asked what you are?"

So I hadn't imagined it, but it's really hard to explain to someone what you are when you don't even know yourself, so I figured I would just wing it.

"I'm a wolf, you idiot, just like you!"

"You may be a wolf, but you sure as hell are not like me," Eren barked out.

Again, I felt a small stitch in my chest from the pain of being reminded that there was no place I truly belonged, but I'd be damned if I would let him see that.

"You're right. I'm not like you," I responded as I moved my feet into a fighting stance.

"I'm better!"

Those two little words pushed him over the edge and I only had seconds to let Rae come forward and shift to keep Eren from chomping down on my throat.

The last I remember was feeling a sharp pain in my head when Eren's large auburn wolf and Rae were thrashing around on the ground and then it all went black.