Moonbound Trials

With just a week left before my birthday, I'm trying to squeeze everything I can out of it. I do not want to end up at those ridiculous Moonbound Trials over in London; I'd rather stay right here in boring old Pryor, Oklahoma. Nothing exciting ever happens here, and that's exactly how I want it. I just want to keep being with my friends. Jace, Piper, and Reed. I really don't want to be in London next week meeting my mate. I known my mate will love me, but I'm nowhere near ready for that'll. I can't deal with somebody like that being in my life right now. Ever since my parents died, my life has been spinning out. The only family I've got left is my brother, Gavin, and he's the Beta of the Stonefang Pack, which is one of North America's strongest packs. Our Alpha is Cassian, and he is hard on everybody. He hates it when a pack member skips training. He's ruthless, and he's determine to turn this into the most powerful pack around, but that is not going to happen with how he's doing it. Anyway, today is probably my last day at this high school because summer starts next week. Usually I'd be excited, but this year I just can't find it in me. I hear Pip on the stairs, but there is no way I'm getting up unless somebody literally drags me out of bed. She jerks the door open and yells, "Get your lazy ass up right now. This is our last first day of school together, and I am not showing up late!" I groan and turn over. "Five more minutes," I say pleadingly. Pip just watches me until I finally drag myself up, shower, and get dressed. Pip is nuts in the mornings. Well let's be real, she's crazy all the time. Unlike me, she went into The Moonbound Trials last year on purpose, and my brother, who'd already been doing that since his sixteenth birthday, ended up finding her as his mate. We've stayed best friends since he brought her home with him last year. She is easily the prettiest out of all of us; I'd say she is tall, with black hair so dark it almost looks blue. She is crazy tall, with tan skin and bright blue eyes that hit you right away. Jace is one of my other friends, and he's a little more laid-back than she is, but not by much. Those two are partners in crime and always getting into trouble together. When they first met, it felt like the god of mischief decided to throw them together so they could run wild and make as much trouble as possible. Unlike Piper, he is blond and brown-eyed, though he is taller than Pip, and let's hope she never hears that. And then there is Reed. He is the calm one in the bunch. He is the one who keeps everybody chill and tries to keep us out of trouble, which is honestly a big job. He is basically the peacemaker of our group. He is pretty tall, just not as tall as Jace. He has green eyes that I love and chestnut brown hair that always looks messy, but it works on him. Then there is me; I swear I ended up with all the recessive genes, because I do not look like any werewolf I've ever seen. I'm short, which is really uncommon. I've got dirty blonde hair, and my eyes are two different colors; one is violet and the other is cobalt blue. Nobody knows how that happened, but I like it. That just makes me stand out from everybody else, and I know how to wear it.