LOVE AND HATE

VALERIE "Listen to me Evie Trisha Donald, Jasper is your mate and that's how it'll forever be. To you, he'll always be your mate and to me, my brother." I tell her sternly to which she raises an eyebrow. "I'm not joking." I tell her while glaring at her and she sighs. "And please, don't raise an eyebrow at me." I warn her. I seriously get annoyed when people raise one eyebrow because I can't do it myself and I have tried it like a million times. The only way my one eyebrow will raise is if I use my finger to take it up. Evie just rolls her eyes at that. "What about Rhino?" she asks me. "What about him?" I ask and pretend to be bored. "You are avoiding him, aren't you?" she states and at that precise moment, Edith comes to the room with Bella, both dressed up in beautiful dresses. "Oh, I got the news about the bonfire." I say loudly to change the subject. "Don't try to change the topic Valerie Dorah Victor!" Evie says sternly. "I don't know what you are talking about." I tell her and pray that the topic will change from Shawn to something else. "He was waiting for you all day." Edith says and I immediately feel guilty because I was purposely avoiding him. "Don't try denying the bond. Mates don't work like that. You both are Alphas; hence your connection will be much, much stronger. So, just talk to him okay?" she advises me and I nod at her. "Right, together you'll be able to take over anyone." Bella says while smiling. I snort at that. Together? "Okay, now both of you get dressed up." Edith says to us and heads downstairs. "Thanks Alpha for the money." Bella says to me. "How is school?" I ask her. I've financed her education. "Any bullies? Just call me if need arises!" "School is good and no bullies yet." She tells me, smiling. Since Bella has nobody to call family, I've taken over her responsibility. She is only seventeen and was through a lot before I found her. "Good, go downstairs, I'll be there soon and yeah, don't call me Alpha here." I playfully warn her and she nods. When I look around, I realise that Evie has already occupied the bathroom. Smart girl! Thirty minutes later, I finally get dressed in my printed oversize t-shirt which I wear off the shoulder. Evie slits the side of the shirt for me to make a knot. I pair it up with denim and black pumps. I then leave my hair straight and do minimum make-up. I look kind of....'rebellious' because that is what I'm doing, rebelling against my old Pack. I call Donald and ask how everything is going on in the Pack because despite being out of town, it's my duty to take care of my Pack. I head downstairs and keep thinking about how to approach Shawn but all of a sudden, I feel quite nervous. I was never close to Shawn, even when we were kids; I used to always consider him as a bully because that is what he was. No, he is. He always had this ego in his head about being an Alpha's son that wasn't the least bit appreciated by me because it made me nervous to talk to him. We were never friends and we barely spoke to each other as kids. I don't even remember having a proper conversation with him. So, this is like going to be the first time ever for us to talk to each other. He used to ignore me all the time until he started picking me up for bullying. Other than that, we were never found in the same room! 'He is your mate; if he does anything eat him up.' Yeah, that's my motto for confidence. When I get outside, I feel every single head turning to look at me and none belongs to my Pack. I can see some from my Pack chatting, but I go straight to the drink corner just for a cold drink and still feel gazes piercing my back. It's making me angry! I hear someone walking towards me and standing behind me. I gulp the cold drink in one sip and turn around only to come face to face with my ex-best friend whom I now refer to as 'viper'. 'Good! Something to vent my anger at!' I think to myself. "Hello Valerie." Caroline aka viper begin in a why-the-hell-are-you-back tone. I look at her and I notice she's wearing a red shimmer dress that covers what she thinks is necessary to get covered and holding a glass that contains a drink. I know it's bitchy of me to think like that but at least I didn't step on her wrist with heels like she used to. This is the girl who used to call me fat, overweight etc. etc..... I wasn't fat or anything close to that. I had a little belly that made my body slightly shapeless. Hell, I was only two kilos more than her and she used to call me a whale, that viper!!! "Hello Caroline." I say giving her a fake smile which she returns. Oh yeah, round one begins. If she thought I'm going to listen to all the crap that she is going to tell, then I would love nothing more than to prove her wrong. "I thought you were dead, actually we all thought you were dead. Looking at you now is indeed a surprise!" She tells me while smirking. "Aha, but you look..... shocked." I tell her, smirking. "Shock? Oh no, no. I'm just happy that you finally shifted at least now you won't be an embarrassment to the Pack and ya.... Uh... not to mention your family too." She tells me, giving me a smug look. "Oh yes, I shifted finally and don't be so happy because my wolf doesn't appreciate people who taunt her" I tell her rigidly. "Really?" she says and chuckles a little. "I doubt your wolf can do anything, after all it is a part of you and we all know you are weak" she says while grinning. That does it, the word weak. I growl ferociously at her while she continues to smirk. I want nothing more than to wring her neck but I control myself. Closing my eyes, I take in deep breaths. 'Not now Valerie, not now.' I remind myself. I lean a little bit closer to her and whisper slowly. "That's a nice glass you are holding. We wouldn't want to break it, would we?" I ask her, looking at her straight in the eye. I know my eyes are red now. "I don't want you to be termed as weak for not being able to hold a glass, so hold it tightly because you'll never know how.... and when.... it will break." I warn her and see her gulping looking at me. "Bitch." She cusses, glaring at me when I smirk. "Better bitch than a slut." I say staring at her and walk past her after dropping a gaze at her glass. When I'm walking past her, I concentrate on the drink in her glass. It isn't water so I know it would be slightly difficult. I always concentrate so much using my mind in controlling water that I know for sure this will work. Even though I'm walking ahead, my mind is focused on letting the drink in Caroline's glass free. I stop and look through my shoulder. I feel the liquid in her glass rising and not accepting the vacuum of the glass. Immediately the glass breaks and I hear an ear-piercing scream from Caroline who is running into the house with a soaked dress now. Yeah! Valerie wins and Caroline looses. I smirk and walk towards where my Pack members are. They are all chuckling because they know I did it. As for Silverstone Moon Pack people, they will believe Caroline herself broke the glass. I also see Shawn who is looking at me and instantly my heart beat increases. Good lord, he looks so yummy! My feelings are contradictory. One moment I want to punch him for hurting me all those years and the next moment I want to hug him and stay close to him. My brown eyes then connect with his pacific blue ones. Help me moon goddess because I'm in trouble!