I open my eyes, kicking my blanket down. Today is such a hot day. I turn to see I'm alone, nowadays I never know when I wake up, where I am or if I'm alone.

I sleep in his room, he sleeps in mine. He would sometimes sneak into my room when I'm already asleep because 'his wolf misses me', he blames poor Wolfie for everything.

I try to kick off more blankets because I'm sweating, but there is none. Ana keeps saying 'outside, find mate' but I just blow her off, I haven't even brushed my teeth I'm not going outside now.

"Where are you? Ana wants to see you." I mind link Lijah while getting up to brush my teeth. Great now I sound just like him blaming my wolf, but it's true. My whole body hurts. Maybe I'm starting to get sick.

"Hey Love, I'm with my dad, I'll come to you as soon as I can." he replies me. 'See Ana he'll come when he is...' I don't get to finish, because I drop to the floor screaming in pain.

"Help" I mind link Lijah, and soon my parents come running into my room. "Everything hurts" I tell them through clenched teeth.

My dad picked me up carries me outside and puts down outside on the wet grass. Great now I'm in pain and wet. How is this helping? I need a doctor!

"Ladybug you're shifting, don't fight the pain just let it happen." Shifting? I guess it makes sense, but why does it hurt so bad? Nobody said it was going to hurt this bad!

Another wave of pain hit me as I scream? Or howl? I don't even know but it hurts. Soon Lijah comes running up.

"I'm sorry, I'm here now. You're going to be okay, you're strong, you can do this" he says rubbing my back soothingly. "I can't, it hurts" I say tears coming out of my eyes as my bones start to break one at a time.

"I know, I'm sorry. It's almost over just hang on baby" he says kissing my forehead. Then everything happens so fast, I'm shifting.

When I look down, I see white paws where my feet used to be. When I look up, I see everyone with big smiles on their faces. I can shift now.

And I'm a white wolf, one of the rarest wolves ever! Is it wrong of me to think Wolfie and Ana looks like chess pieces together? Black and white.

"Come on Love, let's get you used to those wolf legs. We're going for a run" Lijah's voice pulls me from my thoughts that made Ana scowl.

I give Ana full control while Lijah shifts into his wolf. We run into the woods, Wolfie running behind me bitting at my tail and heels playfully.

Ana runs as fast as she can towards the water hole, wanting to test our speed. When she gets there she turns around to see Wolfie has fallen behind. So I'm a fast wolf, NICE!

I look in the water to see my reflection, white as snow. When Lijah shifted he wasn't even that interested to see how he looks because apperently all Alpha's wolves are black, but seeing my white wolf is interesting.

Out of nowhere Wolfie bites my butt. What? I turn around growling, how dare he? "Baby, you have a black moon imprinted on your pretty little butt" he mind links and I can hear the laughter in his voice.

He always calls it my 'pretty little butt'. But he can't bite it! We might be wolves, but we are not animals, we don't bite each other's butts.

I tackle him to the ground and we play like that for a few hours until we get tired and make our way home. When we get there I take a pair of clothes my parents left out, go behind a tree and shift back.

I go back to the house where everyone is waiting, as soon as I enter everyone is staring at me. Yes, I just shifted, it's a big accomplishment. A gasp leaves my moms mouth "your hair" aww, not again!

I look at my hair to see everything is white, no more black hair. I didn't even have time to register what is happening when someone pulls at my pants.

I turn around with big eyes pushing Lijah away "What are you doing?" He looks at me with a frown, like he was doing the most normal thing in the world and I'm the crazy one.

"You're hair is still white, I want to see of the moon is still there." he says like it should have been obvious. "go away" I say pushing him.

I pull my pants down a bit to see, I'm walking in circles like a dog trying to catch its own tail but I can't see anything. I stop when I hear Lijah snickering. "Baby, it's the other side." he laughes out while I'm glaring at him.

I turn to look and there it is. It looks like I got a tattoo of a moon on my lower back butt area. Turning around I show Lijah, and all he does is whisper 'beautiful'.

When I feel like the walking dead, Lijah helps me up to my room, putting me to bed. Luckily I won't sleep for two days like Lijah did after his shift because I'm older and stronger than he was. But right now I feel like I can sleep for a week.

Lijah climbs in next to me rubbing my back. "Your wolf is beautiful, Baby. I'm so proud of you." he tells me and I can feel my eyes getting heavy, but I don't want to fall asleep yet. I want to stay in this moment with him forever.

I didn't know it was possible, but now that I can shift, it feels like the mate bond has grown even stronger.

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