Indestructible Love

I sigh and head back to our cottage, as I am in no hurry for the week to start again. My parents and I are Omega's, and we live here in Red River, led by Alpha Montgomery "Monty" Stryker & Luna Elizabeth "Liz" Stryker.

They are a good Alpha and Luna. I used to be friends with their son, Derek, when we were younger, but as soon after he turned 11 and I was about to be 10, his parents decided that it didn't look good for the future Alpha to associate with me, as I was an Omega.

I cried myself to sleep for the next week, sad at losing my friend.

I soon learned that we weren't the friends that I thought we were when I got to middle school. He never acknowledged me, ever. If I spoke to him, he acted like he didn't hear it It came to a head my freshman year when I said "Hi" to him in the hallway.

He was a sophomore and was with his little circle of friends along with his girlfriend, Heather Armstrong, on his arm. He had grabbed me by my throat and slammed me into the nearest lockers and told me to never speak directly to him again.

He had finally released me and I sank to the floor trying to breathe. I carried the mark of his hands on my neck for a week afterward, and after that, I wouldn't get near him again. They all walked away laughing and Heather looked back over her shoulder with a smirk on her face, as they went around the corner. He had never put his hands on me like that before. I knew Heather never liked me, but I believed that she put him up to it because, until that point, I had never been physically hurt, emotionally hurt, yes, but not physically hurt.

Derek was the All-American golden boy, who could do no wrong. His parents doted on him, and he was captain of both the football and the lacrosse teams. His golden blonde hair had streaks from the sun in it and his deep brown eyes made all the girl's hearts beat faster because they wanted to catch up his gaze.

At 6'2", Derek was a perfect specimen, with everyone wanting to date him. Heather had grabbed his interest at the start of their high school year. She was in the same grade as me now, but she had already turned

18, over six months ago.

She had failed last year and had to repeat, so she wasn't in the same grade as Derek anymore. I think it was because she was with him all the time, and never did her schoolwork, so she had to repeat her sophomore year.

Since he was going to be Alpha, he still got promoted, but the only thing he applied himself to was his favorite sports and sleeping with whichever girl would let him. He should have been more interested in actually learning something from school and learning to be a good Alpha.

I know he has been sent off for a year to learn tactics and advanced training to bring back to teach his Beta, Gamma, and trainer, but I have little faith that he won't just be the same man-whore there, that he is here, and not learning much there as well.

He won't get a second chance as it is unheard of to repeat Alpha training. He would bring shame on both his parents and on the pack.

The problem with him attacking me in the hallway made it open season on me at that time. I have been cut with a silver knife multiple times, stabbed, had my arm broken a few times, knocked out on a few occasions, and had cigarettes put out on my skin. I should look like something from a horror movie with all that had happened to me.

But each morning since I turned 16, I have woken up and completely healed from all the trauma that had occurred to me. All of my injuries from my freshman and sophomore years had disappeared from my skin on my 16th birthday, but I didn't get my wolf. She could not be sensed, at all, she did not communicate with me and when I was supposed to have changed into my wolf that night, she did not appear.

My parents sat outside with me for hours and comforted me. They have been the very best parents and I love them both very much. My mom, Claire Emerson, had brown hair and brown eyes, a slim build, and is the best cook. She is only 5'5" tall, but she is a powerhouse.

Father, Percival "Percy" Emerson, works as a gardener, and he has a huge garden that he built near the packhouse, with vegetables and herbs that he grows for mom. It helped out with our food budget for the pack, so Alpha Monty approved for the garden to be done.

My dad has very dark brown hair like mine, but he has hazel eyes. My dad is 6' tall and has a strong frame. He works in the garden, does the landscaping, and is the handyman for the pack as he can fix anything. He built our little cottage as he didn't want me to have to stay in the packhouse anymore. I was getting picked on constantly by Heather and her moron minions, for being an Omega, for being me, and when the physical abuse started, he couldn't bear it anymore.

It didn't stop it, as they just caught me at school, or when I had to work doing the laundry or helping my mom in the kitchen. Our home is just a two-bedroom cottage with a living room, a dining table in the middle of the main part of the house, behind the sofa that faces the TV, and a kitchen along the back wall. He also built a trap door with a stairwell to an area downstairs for my mom to store her canned food for us from our

garden which is behind our cottage.

She had a smaller version of what was in the packhouse, behind our home in little terra cotta containers for her herbs. Mom makes us delicious dinners at home, and they ask me about how school is. They already know how school is, but I try to be positive for them. They are hoping that when I turn 18 in 2 weeks, I will find my mate and he will protect me from Heather and her group of trolls.

Heather is still Derek's girlfriend and wants to be the Luna, badly. She takes every opportunity to abuse me that she can, and no one stops her because she and Derek are together, he is just away at Alpha Training. Heather is actually gorgeous with a shapely figure, long blonde hair, and blue eyes. She is 5' 10" tall and her outside doesn't match her inside, as she enjoys hurting people, well, at least hurting me. She used to be jealous of Derek, always playing with me on the playground when we were kids and tried to join us, but Derek

shot her down every time she started wanting to play with us about 6 months before Derek's mom decided he couldn't play with me anymore and started playing with Heather instead.

Heather's father was Alpha Monty's Beta, and the Beta female had Luna Liz's ear.

Heather should have been mad at him, but since he is the future Alpha, she put all her rage towards me and took every opportunity to pinch, slam my hand in the doors While I was cleaning and on the floor, and pretend it was an accident.

She generally makes my life miserable. After losing my best and only friend Derek, my life was a lot worse, as she kept after me daily. She has two friends, but they aren't actually friends. Whoever leaves out of the area or room to go somewhere else, to the bathroom, to get food or a drink, the remaining two girls talk badly about the one that is gone.

They just put up with her because she has a nice car, a brand-new red mustang, that she got when she finally made it to senior year this year, plus they also think that she is soon to be Luna and wanted to stay on her good side.

Lisa Blake is probably the nicest in this group. She has brown hair and light brown eyes, but she still isn't a very nice person.

She gets talked about the most, but she is smart, does her homework, and is in the honor program. I hope she decides to leave them to their hateful ways and do something great with her life, because as smart as she is she could probably be a doctor.

Irene Harding is the last of the three in this group. She has brown hair and hazel eyes that are on the green

side. She has great fashion sense, and always looks flawless. She couldn't care less about school and would graduate tomorrow if she could. She is a fashionista and dresses and looks fantastic every single day. She only shines when they are getting ready to go out and she does everyone's makeup.

I have no friends anymore because Heather went out of her way to show them what happens to people who are nice to me or wanted to be my friend. She has really hurt a few people and they decided it was better to find another friend than to be my friend and left me for them to torment.

Monday morning came way too quickly, and I headed out for school. I have learned to

make sure to walk quickly and get there a little early because if Heather is on the road

when I am coming in, she tries to either splash me by hitting the puddle nearest me, or

they will hit me with something from the car.

A can of soda, a water bottle, an apple, a raw egg, which was the worst of getting hit with something as they passed.

I was a mess all day the day that happened. As an Omega family, I don't get new clothes like

the higher-ranked wolves, I have hand-me-downs. I am only allowed to get what the higher-ranked wolves throw away.

When Heather saw me in one of her "old" shirts that she had worn like 4 times, she kept pulling on it until she had torn the front of it, exposing me as I tried to clutch what I could to my front. She started screaming out,

"You stole my shirt from me Gabi. I have been looking for this for over a week. You should get lashes for stealing it from me".

She goes shopping all the time, and she gets new clothing all the time too. She had thrown it away and when I was taking the trash out, I saw it sticking out of one of the bags. I carefully treated it, for the stains from being in the garbage, and washed it It had looked good as new, but I did end up getting lashes for "stealing" her shirt from the laundry.

She told Derek that it had been in the laundry to be washed and, since I washed the laundry, it was a believable lie on her part.

Derek believed her and told his father what had happened. I got 5 lashes per Alpha Monty for the theft of the shirt and Derek did the first three, and Heather did the last two because she asked him to. His lashes from the

silver whip didn't hurt as badly as the ones that she delivered to me.

My back was in shreds, and I couldn't get comfortable enough that night to sleep. I ended up crying myself to sleep and finally passing out a little after midnight.

When I woke up, my skin had healed again. Heather found out that I had been healed when she had come up behind me and slapped me across my back using her whole arm to inflict the most pain on my back.

Since it had healed, she didn't get the reaction that she was after. That was when she started the rumor that I must be a witch, as I didn't have a wolf at they could sense, so I had to be a witch to be able to heal myself like that.

People avoided me for months before I found out what she was saying. I denied it, but people believed what they wanted to believe.

Lunchtime is usually the most dangerous thing for me and I can't tell you how many times I have had my lunch tray spilled onto me. There is never a teacher around when it happens either.

I think they see her heading for me and take off, so they don't have to be involved. Every time it happens, I ask them for cameras to be installed in the cafeteria, as Heather always claims that I did something to her, and she "had" to defend herself, and her goon squad agrees with whatever she says.

That is an outright lie.

As an Omega, I don't get to be trained like the rest of the ack, so I am almost defenseless here. We don't have any intrinsic value, according to the Alpha, so all we do is the manual labor and work that no one else wants to do.

I am calling bullshit on this.

Everyone has value, even Heather's slut squad.

I think that Alpha Monty wants to do it this way, so they don't have to fear all the Omegas rising up and demanding to be treated better. Everyone has gifts and I think it would be better for the pack if, instead of telling someone what they will be doing, you let them pick what they would like to do. I also think that they need to pay the Omegas who are doing the deep cleaning and regular daily cleaning money for their hard work.

Scrubbing toilets and showers is back-breaking work and is needed daily, and we have to do a deep cleaning

weekly.

During the week, I get to help with the laundry as my Omega duties, which is good because I get time to do my homework after I get the loads changed out, and the dry clothes folded. It could be a lot worse since it is hot in here, it messes up their hair to come in there to bully me.

I am fair game when I am delivering the clothing to where it goes. I have a cart and I already separate everything so I can get it done quicker, and I restock their towels when I see them leave to go shopping, or out to a party on Friday nights.

Even though I am not trained, I still struggle and try to break free when they do catch me. Usually, Lisa and Irene hold me, and Heather does the dirty work. They all three train with the other wolves, and although they aren't very good at fighting, three against one are never good odds. I can't eat lunch in peace, I can't go to the library in school in peace, and I was getting desperate for someone to talk to when my boyfriend dropped

into my lap.

Since he trains a lot, they can't bully him, they can't beat him up or intimidate him as Derek isn't here for Heather to make him do her dirty work.

We have been dating since right after the school year started, and Jack Walker is my hero. At 6' tall and handsome, he looks and watch the guy's workout and then spar on the training field. He has brown hair and brown eyes with long lashes, and I am glad that he wanted to be my boyfriend. I have been picked on a lot less since we got together.

I don't consider myself to be beautiful, I am just pretty. I have dark brown hair and beautiful blue eyes with long lashes, and my eyes are my best feature. I don't wear any makeup, I just cannot afford it, and I wouldn't know how to apply it, even if I could. I am 5'9" tall and I have curves, but I am on the thin side. I can see my ribs when I change.

I miss breakfast half the time, as I don't have time to go eat at the packhouse, and then make it to school. We only have one vehicle, and my parents take it to the packhouse. It is a little over 2 miles away. The school is over 4 miles away in the opposite direction, so I usually grab an apple from one of the trees near our house and eat it on the way to school.

I have learned to just give up on eating at school, unless Jack is with me unless I just want to wear what was on my tray on my clothes.

So, the only meal I get during day is dinner with my parents in our cottage. That is the only time it is safe for me to eat.

On Saturday, I go with mom and dad to work all day at the packhouse. I got all the washers going with the bedlinens that I had stripped and then made the beds back up for them. This gets repeated hundreds of times.

On Saturday. I am usually free of bullying while I am doing it. About three months ago, Heather cornered me with the terrible twosome and they held me while Heather hit me.

I ended up bleeding on the floor and on top of several of my clean sheets. Luna Liz showed up while they were still holding me down and hitting me. Instead of getting onto them, she told them in her Luna Tone,

"Do not mess with Gabi when she is supposed to be doing her work. Now she will have to wash these clean linens again, and that costs us time and money to have to rewash them".

They have left me alone now when I do the bed linens, but they still try to trip me in the hallways when I am

carrying the dirty laundry to the cart, causing me to trip and land face-first into Goddess who only knows what is on those sheets.

The worst part was that I also had to clean up blood from the floors, and rewash already clean sheets because their actions got them dirty. I have already decided, that if I don't find my mate here within a month of me turning 18, I am going to ask to just be given my diploma early and leave this pack.

I am sick of it here and my parents have already told me the same thing. They will leave with me, and we will become rogues together so I can have some peace. I am praying to the Goddess nightly that I am not tied to any of the assholes here at this pack, as I would be so upset to be bound to any of them for the rest of my life.

We are planning on doing this as soon as I am 18 in a week, and I really pray I don't win the dickhead lottery for a mate. I asked Jack if he was my mate, and he said, "l cant tell if we are or not, as you are not 18 yet". He always says that, but my mom said that my dad knew that she was his mate when he turned 18. So, he didn't tell her and waited for her to turn 18 too, and then they claimed each other.

I am hoping that Jack is my mate, he is really the only person in the pack who is nice to me in front of others.

Everyone else is too scared to acknowledge my existence. So, I hope that is why, because he knows that we are mates, and that is why he is with me.

I am going to wait until I turn 18 though to confirm it. Jack has been whining this whole time that I won't sleep with him, but it is the only thing that I have to give my mate.

I have nothing else to give him to show him how much I love him. I have three shirts and two pairs of ill-fitting jeans because they were from someone taller and larger than me. I tie the waistband with a thin rope, and that is a good thing too, so people cannot take them off of me easily. I am glad we don't have P.E. as this is an all- rewolf school, we train in the training area behind the packhouse and it results in a shorter school day.

It also keeps the Omegas from slipping through a c***k and learning some defensive techniques.

We Omega's go back to work at the packhouse, and the rest of the school goes to train.

My school week went by quickly and we are in high gear at the packhouse, as it is Saturday, and I am really happy because tomorrow is my one day off each week.

Luna is super excited because her son is coming home with his mate next weekend. Soon-to-be Alpha Derek is going to be back next Friday night and will be bringing his mate, Piper Lowell, with him.

Piper is the only child of Alpha August Lowell, and Luna Olive Lowell, of the River Bed pack. They are close to us. If you are in wolf form, you can just cut across the forest to get there in about an hour in wolf form, but it would take you almost 4 hours in a car.

You would have to backtrack out of here, and then go over, costing you precious time.

They are actually our neighbors, as we are in the same Shasta Trinity National Forest as well. She was there to learn as well, as they also trained them to be Luna at the Alpha Training. The only stipulation in them going is that you have to be the child of an Alpha for you to be able to go there. I have heard that quite a lot of deals and treaties have been made while there and now that we are getting into the middle of March, everyone is about to come home for their last school break before we graduate in May.

I am finishing up with my laundry as I have already changed and made up all the beds, and I am washing the dirty laundry in the industrial washing and drying machines. I feel a hand come up and slide across my waist and turn me around before a mouth descends down onto mine, taking me into a heated kiss.

I jerk back and look up to see Jack with a smirk on his face before he bends his head again to give me a second kiss.

Now that I know it is him, I am willing to kiss him back and I put my arms around his shoulders and fit myself up to him.

He makes a growling noise from deep in his throat and presses into me even harder and Ifelt him resting on my stomach as he breaks the kiss and tries to curb his excitement of our kiss.

"Gabrielle, why are you making me wait? Do you not care about me? Don't you want to sleep with me, baby? I love you and I want you. I want to grow old with you. What are you waiting for?" Jack asks me as he keeps pressing his hardened into me.

"l do care for you, Jack. I truly do, but I don't know if I love you, or if you are my mate.

Imagine how my mate would feel knowing that the only thing that I had to give to him, had been taken by another. He might be mad enough to reject me on the spot for it. I am not going to take that risk.

I care for you, and it is only like 8 more days. Can't you wait for me for 8 more days to find out? Please, baby?"

asked him.

Jack nods at me and then pulls me in tightly to him and sniffs my neck and then into my hair as he groans again in frustration.

"I am only willing to do this for you baby. l am going to train for a while in the gym to work past this problem I now have going on", Jack tells me, and then gives me one more kiss before he takes off to go to train, pulling his phone out of his pocket as he exits the laundry room.

He trains a lot, and I guess that is normal for our warriors. He does it quite a bit, but as an Omega, I cannot train, so I just support him the best I can, by not nagging him about it when I don't know what he needs to do to stay a warrior.

He has really been pressuring me a lot in the last few weeks. I keep asking him to be patient, but he is ready to sleep with me now. I may surprise him for a minute by sticking my head in the gym when I go to reload the freshly washed towels. I am loading up my carts.

I wash more towels than anything here, as with the daily training, with Sundays off, we go through a lot of them at both the gym and here in the packhouse. I am really glad for the industrial washers and dryers we have here as they really are great time savers.

I got all of the washers loaded and started, grabbed my rolling cart full of clean towels, and I headed down the sidewalk to go reload the towels in the gym. I have to do this trip 3 times a week, but I only ever load up outside the shower area.

They just grab them from the loaded cubbies on the wall where I place them and put them on a hook near the shower to grab after they are done.

As for werewolves, we are more open about our bodies, and as we are usually in peak shape from all the work we do or training for the ones who can, we are all pretty attractive as a group. Not that I look a lot, but I noticed while I was at Jack's training that 85% of our men have the V cut.

They all look pretty good, but Jack's 6-pack is an attention-getter, and he has a little fan club. I know the school bicycle, Story Coleman, almost drools when she sees him, and she is at every practice that I have ever been at to watch him.

She is really pretty with brown hair and blue eyes; she is petite at 5'5" and always seems to have a smile on her face. She doesn't wear a lot of makeup and has never been mean to me, we just don't talk.

She always smiles at me and tells me how lucky I am to be dating Jack, and I always give her a nod, as I do feel lucky to be towels in the women's locker room first, and it is a ghost town, no one is here and there

is really nothing to do, but re-fill the towels.

All the soaps, lotions, toilet paper, and hygiene items have stayed fully stocked since the last time I did this on Thursday.

I go into the men's side, and I hear something in the shower area, and since it is occupied, I stick my head into the training room area to see if Jack is still working out or done. I didn't see anyone working out inside the fully stocked gym, and the room was completely deserted.

So, I may be in luck and that is Jack in the shower and maybe we can go get food together when he gets dressed. I put all the towels up, as I am not going into the shower area, I don't care if we are dating or not. I am not ready to move to the next level yet, especially when I am this close to my 18th birthday.

I am still hoping that my wolf will come to me then I pray to the Goddess over that too. I want to get to know her and spend time with her She is the other part of me, and I am so ready to meet her. I hope I get her on my birthday.

There's a loud moan followed by a loud, "Faster, Jack, faster. I am almost there". I hear sounds of something lightly slapping in the shower and then a scream of, "Jack, OH yes, OH Goddess, yes, baby, YES!!" from the

girl.

I feel like I am about to get sick. We have been together since school started in August.

I have wasted 8 months of my life with this f****** jerk, and he is cheating on me. I felt the bile roll up my throat and I heard Jack roar out his release after she got hers.

I know I will be sorry for this, but I don't have time to leave without being seen, so I quietly roll the cart to the back of the lockers, as I now see two piles of clothes sitting on the long bench in front of the first set of lockers.

I sit there behind the third row of lockers and try not to lose my lunch while I wait for them to come out and get dressed.

"Baby, I am glad that you called me, but I thought you were going to try to stay with Gabi for the rest of the school year?" I heard a familiar voice say.

"l am, but she refuses to sleep with me until she knows if we are mates or not. I have been really trying but she is not willing to sleep with me unless she knows that we are mates. That is the only way. I have really been

pouring on the charm, but so far all I have gotten is kissing and some petting, which she always stops too soon", Jack said grumbling.

"Give her time, she is about to be 18, you never know, you two could be mates. But you know I am always available for you, whether you are or not. I enjoy our "training" together, Jack".

I heard her say and I peeked around the corner to try to see who it was. I can't see her from this angle, and I am getting frustrated.

"We are not mates. I already know. That is why I have been pressuring her to sleep with me before her birthday. I will be 19 in two months, and I already found my mate 4 months ago, while I was out at a club.

She is just an Omega, and I want at least a warrior as my mate. I want my pups to be strong. If my second chance mate doesn't end up being a warrior, I will just reject her too, and then take a chosen mate", Jack tells her.

"l haven't found mine yet, but since I do a lot of "training" he might very well reject me when I do find him. I hate you missed out on getting to be with your mate. I have heard it is the best feeling in the world when you are with them", I heard the girl say to Jack.

"When did I say that I didn't get with her? I gave her a bogus name at first and we danced for a while, then I took her to the women's room and locked the door. We had sex in the bathroom. I asked her name while I was kissing her goodbye. She gave it to me. It was like Evie or Erica or something like that. I just rejected her and left her lying on the ground in the bathroom crying out, and left the club.

I had got what I wanted from her anyway. I hope she doesn't get pregnant with my pup; I would hate for my firstborn to not be with me, especially if it is a son. But I won't be going to look for her. We are done. I have rejected her, and I don't need her anymore", Jack tells her and then I hear him laugh.

He crushed someone and used them in the worst way, and they just left them. From the sounds of it, he didn't use protection either. He is disgusting and I really feel like I am going to throw up at any moment I have truly

dodged a bullet with this guy, and I am so thankful that I made him wait. He is just looking for another notch in his belt, and I am not going to be playing along.