A/N *sensitive topics*

"A!" I heard someone yelling but I couldn't seem to jolt myself awake.

"You will always be mine, my little angel. No one will love you." I was chained in the corner while he walked around admiring my body. "It's just me and you...might as well make sure it stays that way." He says with a shrug.

"Noooo!" I screamed and backed away into the corner. I heard him laugh as he grabbed the burning hot rod out of the chimney. I screamed and backed away, my hands digging and scrapping against the chains and corner. "Please...ple-please!" I begged him.

"Wake up! Angelica, wake up. You have to get up! It's not real. Come back...follow my voice."

I want to follow the voice but the pain is unbearable. "You will never get away.." he laughed again. "Your mine!" He yelled and dig the rod into my flesh again. I scream and scream. Until I suddenly could hear that voice again.

"It's ok. You ok. He not here, your not there..." Emma whispered comforting things into my ear while hugging my side.

We were curled up in our bed. I wheeled into her shoulder but suddenly felt nauseous so I bolted for the bathroom. Our apartment was small and rundown, but it was cheap. The bathroom door was hanging off the hinges and the front door was only being closed because of the dead bolt. I made it just in time to empty the contents of my stomach.

I heard Emma sigh as she lifted my hair. When I was done I leaned back against the bath tub. I cried because of my the ghost pain, I cried from the memory and I cried because of him. "Was it the same?" Emma questioned as she rocked ya back and forth.

"No..." I took a big shaky breath. "I-i-it wa-as Of th-th-e time h-h-ee..." I covered my mouth with my hands and took a breath. I reached down and lifted the top of my cami to see the scar from the time he branded me. There were many more surrounding it but the seared and mangled flesh stood out the most.

"Oh, hunny. I wish I could have helped you. That monster never should have been aloud to do that. Shh..." she soothes me. "Your with me now. He's gone." She said. I cried for a few minutes before sobering up and put my b¡thc face on.

"For now. But anyways enough with the sappy crap. We have to be to work at what? 6?" She nodded. "So, it's Saturday. I think, I don't know but if it's not oh well. What do you want to do? Go shopping? Get Starbucks? We could get a cute outfit for our first day?"

"I'm thinking dresses, no. Wait. A cute ruffle top with jean skirt and combat boots." I laughed at her eagerness.

"Shopping it is." I muttered. "The mall?"

"Let's go!" She said rushing to the wall and grabbing the keys.

"Hold up...gur we ain't even wearing clothes!" I said and she looked at me then at herself.

"Oppsies! I guess we could start our own fashion trend?" She says with a laugh. I walk to our room and grab a cute black shirt with a cris-cross back and a cute pair of jean shorts. I grab a black skirt and white lace cami for Emma. She meets me half way with a hairbrush and makeup.

"Alright...Let's go team Mach!" Mach stands for makeup, accessories, clothes, and hair. Emma and I started it when we first met. She would do the hair and make up. I would get the clothes and jewelry and things in that nature. She laughed and headed for the kitchen where she laid out the numerous make up products.

~~~sometime later~~~

"Alright...enough enough. I'm done. No more makeup!" I hiss at her and she puts her hands up in surrender.

"Fine. No need to go all b¡thc on me." She calls after me. I'm walking towards our cats bowl. A while ago when Emma and I first met we had came across a stray cat. He was so skinny and at the time so we're we but we picked him up and brought him with us.

*flashback*
"Good boy." I soothed the shaking cat in my arms. "Em...come here." She walked over and looked st the cat in my arms.

"Aww, can we keep him?" She asked with a hopeful flint in her eyes. I pondered a moment and smiled.

"Yeah. I mean we'll have to put back some money for the food and stuff but I would love to."

She squealed and reached out for him. "How about Carter? Or Tommy?" She suggested. I shook my head.

"What if it's a girl?" I said but instantly regretted it as the cat in her arms looked over to me and growled. "Ok, so not a girl. What about Smalls? Or..." I trailed off thinking.

"Smokey!" We said at the same time. We laughed and headed towards our "home". We were sleeping in an abandoned barn on the outskirts of town.

*flashback over*

We decided to name him Smokey. He's a gray cat, he likes to eat a lot, and is extremely needy. When he wants to be pet, you better pet him or else your in the doghouse. I was with him once and I refused to pet him and he threw a tantrum. A tantrum, like a full on tantrum then glared. I didn't even know cats could glare?!?

"I'm going to fill up Smokey's bowl. I'll meet you in the lobby." I said to Emma then heard the door close. "Bye-bye boy." I said to Smokey and patted his head. He meowed and began purring. I skipped to the door and down the stairs that connected to the porch.

"Hey em...bye Smokey." I said and dragged her out the door. "Let's go!" I said and we headed towards our bikes. We don't have a lot of access money but I know a guy, we were in a home together. He works on cars so we got ours cheap. We heads towards our dinged up black vintage bug. I nod to her and get into the passenger seat. When we got to the end of our street I looked over to the house/barn thing. It was weird looking and secluded but then again so was our house. I shrugged and looked away from the house.

*Damiens POV*
"What?" I groaned out and squinted my eyes against the light blinding me through the window of the hotel room.

"Come on. The meeting is going to start soon." I heard Alec say. You see I'm a werewolf. Im alpha of my pack with Alec currently residing as my beta. Right now no we're attending a conference where we go over the same things every month. It's honestly tiring treaties, alliances, borders, rogues, and mates. I can't wait to find my mate.

"Alright. Just five more minutes." He laughs and jumps into bed with me and I shove him away. He grumbled but lays down nonetheless.

"So I hear we are going to have some new neighbors. Simon said he saw them pull up. Said they were hot." I just scoffed. "I know. I know. Your waiting for your mate, you never know one of them could be your mate?" I just rolled my eyes but thought of the possibility that one of them could be. I'm sure she'd be perfect.

"We should probably get up." I told him and me I kicked my feet over the side of the bed.

"Yeah..." he sighed and walked into my bathroom. Well I guess it's ours because there's only one. After we both got cleaned up we headed to the meeting hall. I opened the door to be grated with he other alphas of different packs. We sat around the table with our betas by our sides.

*Angelicas POV*

"I'm done shopping!" I groan and then get a whiff of pizza and my stomach grumbles louder than a heard of buffalo.

"Alright. Just one more minute." I hear her call out. "Ah-ha! I found it. Last one I promise." This was super cute. It was black on the top and a nude/gold color bottom. The top had a flower pattern and spaghetti straps while the bottom was a soft nude/gold color. It stopped right above my knee and had a few black strips on the skirt. It was adorable.

I tried it on and looked in the mirror. I didn't like that some of my scars showed but it's nothing that a few pieces of jewelry, a few dabs of make-up, and some tights won't fix. It looked good though. I liked the way it hugged my body and didn't show to much but still looked cute.

"I love it!!" I squeal to her and she beams with pride. "Alright my turn. Get your butt in there. Although I'm hungry and I think I found a few things already. You just need to decide on which one. Then we go get pizza?"

She nods and moves to the fitting room. "You know it! I heard your stomach growling a mile away."

I go and browse the racks. I finally pick between a skirt combo and two dresses. The skirt was short and had lace on the bottom and a frilly looking pocket. I also grabbed a blue top to go with that. The next was a gray dress with a sequence top and a float bottom. The only downside was the ruffles but I think that she could get used to that. The last was my personal favorite. It was a light pink color. It was "form" fitting and was strapless. The top had lace and then bunches down into the skirt.

"So, Em you have three options. One being a skirt/too and the other two a dress." I told her. She came out and looked them over.

"No to the skirt. Um...which dress do you like?"

"I like them both but the link is my favorite. Although they both would look super cute I think the pink one would hug your curves better."

She nods, "exactly what I was thinking." She stayed with a smile.

"We'll get to t lazy bones try it on."

"Alright alright...jeez." After a moment she squeals and nun is out of the dressing room. "I feel amazing. I love it. Look!!" She says and hugs me. "We are so gonna rock our first day of school!" I laugh and take our items to the register.

After we pay we head to the food court and my stomach growls making us both laugh. I lock hands with her and we walk to the pizza line. I start to hum a song when I suddenly feel eyes on me. I turn around and see no one. I must be paranoid I tell myself even though it felt real. I look around and make eye contact with a big piece of eye candy. He smiled politely and looks away I laugh and tell "Brenda", or so her name tag says, my order. We go to find a seat but the only available table is the one next to the man from earlier. I smile again and sit down. He shifts and looks over to us.

"Hey, are you the new girls?" The guy next to him said. He has the greenest eyes ever. Imma call him Emerald. His golden brown locks sparkle from the light shining into the food court. Freckles dance on his nose while emeralds shine through his eyes. The guy sitting next to him was a little shorter with sandy blonde hair. He had nice eyebrows and piercing hazel eyes. I might call him hazelnut. They were both fine though!

I gave him a look like "dude your crazy" But answered anyway. "Uh...what's it to you?" Em and I looked at each other then at them.

The guy next to him gives him anointed look and says, "I'm sorry. What he meant to say was are you the our new neighbors. We noticed that earlier the house was taken and I thought I recognized you from earlier." The guy with sandy blonde hair next to emerald explained further.

I nod and give Emily a chance to speak. "Yeah, we just moved in. Why?" She asks curtly. I'm curious too, have they already found us? Me and I exchange a worried glance but quickly mask it with a smile.

"I just wanted to know why someone, especially as beautiful as you two ladies would move to the middle of no where. And to get to know our neighbors." He sad I nodded.

"Well that's us. Now if you'll excuse us we would like to eat our pizza." I said but they didn't get the memo because emerald just started asking us more questions.

"Where are you going to school?"

"Riverside. You?"

"Same. What are your names?"

"Why do you want to know Emerald?" The name and question slip before I can bite my tongue.

"What?" He magnates to spew out after his laughter died down. The other guy just cackled away.

"Your eyes are like emeralds." I say slightly embarrassed. "Anyway what's it to you? Why do you want to know?"

"Well it's actually Simon. And this man here Aaron. And sweetheart I just want to know your name, after all we are neighbors right?"

I nod and smile politely. "Well then see you around neighbor. I said as soon as I noticed that Em was done eating.

"Wait. Where are you going?" I heard him call after us. I just ignored him and kept walking with Em in tow.

"You think we can trust them?" She asks quietly. I just purse my lips.

"You can. I don't know. No one else." I say and she nods understanding what I mean. No one else can get hurt because of me. "We have to be careful."

"Yeah. I know..." she says sadly.