“I am never leaving this bathroom. I love the tiles in the shower too. Maybe we can get a deal on this tile if we order in bulk for both our future houses” I tell Nicole.
This bathroom was the size of my bedroom at my old house. I have a seated vanity to be able to do my hair or makeup at if I choose to wear any, with a Dyson hairdryer hanging from a hook next to it. I have a towel stand sitting between the shower and the whirlpool tub, with the fluffiest white towels that I have ever seen sitting on it, I am so happy right now. I cannot believe how many emotional changes have occurred since this morning. I have gone from brokenhearted and broken, to feeling blessed at having such a beautiful room and a real chance at a happy life. My heart is still broken, and I am still sad because my mate didn’t love me enough to want to claim me, but I feel like I will be ok. I will get past this, I am not the only person to have been rejected, and I have faith that Brax and Mason will help me reach my full potential.
“Come on Jade,” Nicole tells me pulling me towards the door to my room.
“I was just going to take a shower, well I changed it to a bath, but I was just going to get clean and go to bed early. We have training early in the morning and I am just exhausted”. I tell Nicole.
“Sorry, Jade. My cousins can’t wait to meet you and it is time for dinner anyway. You haven’t eaten all day, don’t think that I didn’t notice. I know you had some drinks today, but you do need to eat. They serve breakfast starting at 5 am to 7 am. Lunch is 11 am to 1:30 pm, and Dinner is from 5 pm to 7:30 pm. That way whatever time you have training or work scheduled you can go before or after it, and not miss any meals. Even if you don’t eat much, you still need to eat something. So come on, we will go down as a family” as she just pulls me out into the hallway, where we meet up with Jessica and Nicole’s parents, Aubrey and Bryan.
We take the elevator at the end of the hallway down and Nicole hands me the key card that allows me to use the elevator to get up to the 5th floor and enter my room.
There is an elevator at both ends of the packhouse, and anyone can get to the 2nd through the 4th floors, but you need a key card for the elevators to get to the 5th (Beta or Gamma Floors) or 6th floor, for the Alpha family.
We enter the dining room and are waved over to the head table on a raised platform that makes us be a foot and a half higher than the regular tables. It is almost 7 pm as it has been a long day, but there is still plenty of food available. Another table had been added to the platform as we added five more people to the head table with a Gamma family now back in place at Stone Moon. I sit at the end with Jessica, with Nicole sitting to my right and her Parents to her Right. I get up from my seat to go get my food with Nicole and Jessica.
I am surprised at the selection of food that is still available for us at 7 pm. I ask one of the servers if it will be thrown away if it is not eaten. She advises me that anything not eaten will not go to waste. That the pack Warriors that are about to change shifts will be grabbing the food after their shift, and when Grave shift gets relieved, they will either grab some leftovers or get breakfast, it is too their preference if they want dinner or breakfast. I am glad to see that nothing is wasted here, as the meats are either chopped, sliced, or pulled apart to make sandwiches that are wrapped and dated, then put into a large glass door refrigerator for you to see what is available before you go to open to door. There are side items in a small container in there as well with the leftover dated and lined up with their dates, fruit salad bowls, and bigger bowls with the leftover soups in them, also dated. “Anything over 3 days old will get thrown away if it is still there at that time” is what she tells me as we walk around the area. I see that there are 3 microwaves on the counter along with napkins, condiments, and real silverware.
I decide on a turkey sandwich from the leftover fridge and grab a bag of chips and a bottle of water, I wasn’t super hungry, but I probably needed to eat something. I go to return to my seat and fall to the floor in the worst pain that I have ever experienced. My food falls from the tray and my water bottle bursts onto the floor. It felt like my insides were on fire, and I could not breathe. I don’t know what is going on, but I am so glad that the dining room was almost a ghost town because I felt like I was going to die. I hold onto my lower stomach and try to curl into the fetal position to try to find some relief. I hear Nicole call out frantically for Aubrey and Bryan to come and help. I hear other footsteps come running in from the living room area as I just let go and pass out. The last thing that I hear is Mason calling out for me to “stay calm, we are going to help you”. As I let the darkness take me, I hope that they can help me. I don’t know what is going on and I am terrified.
I wake up and I am on my bed, with Nicole laying on one side of me, and Jessica on the other side of me. I am so happy that I am not in the hospital. I was so scared that I was going to die last night, I hope it was not serious. I don’t know if I can handle that happening again, I am hoping that Nicole will know what happened to me, but I don’t want to wake her up at 330 am to ask her. I carefully get up from the middle of my bed and crawl to the bottom of the bed to go to use the bathroom. I figure since I am up, I will go ahead and take a shower and get ready for the day. My training starts at 6 am and I feel rested, so I don’t want to go back to sleep.
I don’t have any cute exercise clothes, and I realize that now that I am here, I really might stay and go to a local college, instead of going somewhere else. I was just going to go to M.I.T to get away from my pack. Now that I am here, I really want to stay here with Stone Moon. I feel safe and protected here, even if I had only been here for 12 hours. That is just crazy. I was so stressed yesterday and today I feel totally calm. What a difference a day makes…. or what a difference a pack that doesn’t suck makes. Luna Monica had spoken more to me yesterday than I had spoken to Luna Evelyn, in the 17 and a half years that I was in her pack. I already trusted Alpha Andrew and Luna Monica, and I trust Mason and Brax too.
I start thinking about my wolf and feel scared that I hadn’t heard from her since we had left my old pack yesterday. I hope I didn’t lose her; I hope that isn’t what has caused me pain last night. I just got my wolf, please let her still be with me.
I reach out in my mind and call out to her, “Ivory, are you there?”
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