Broken by Nebula . (whitelam books txt) 📕

"What is it?" she asked sitting on her bed.

"My Mate...is Alpha Nate."

"Oh wow...already? I figured you too wouldn't find out til like another week!" she threw her hands up.

"What?" I shook my head,"you knew?"

"Sadly yes. Even your brother knows. He talked to the old Alpha and Luna if you could be removed from the Pack House, he didn't say why, but they said no. a week later we finally found out why. You were going to be the new Luna." she whispered her eyes slowly closed in shame that she knew too much.

I sighed,"He doesn't want me."

"just as I thought, just as we all thought. We all came up with a plan. even the Old Alpha and Luna agreed. you are going to use Jon, Nates brother, to make Nate jealous. So he's going to be you pretend boyfriend. And since the Mate Bonds is so powerful, Nate cannot refuse." Kristen laughed.

"I'm so confused." I shook my head.

"Don't worry, just sleep here with me and I'll get you ready in the morning. Jon will explain." she patted the area beside her indicating me to lie down. I crawled under the pink Satin covers, she lied beside me,"Good-night Ariella."

"Night Kristen."

In the morning Kristen flat ironed my hair and put mascara, eyeliner, aqua eyeshadow, and pink lip gloss. she gave me an aqua floral shirt and navy blue shorts and black flats. I smiled. I always wanted to dress like this, but mom never lets me. Claiming on the fact that we didn't ever have enough money. I never complained. I ran downstairs to order food. Today was Taco Tuesday, although the girls are anorexic sluts, they eat the taco's to make the boys happy.

As the tacos arrived, everybody started to wake up from the smell of bacon. I placed out all of the steaming tacos, burning the tips of my fingers at times, on the island.

The island.

The island where I had my first kiss, with Nate. The island where we expressed our emotions so freely I'm surprised it didn't swallow us whole. The island where he said he didn't want me. The island is where I had my first heartbreak.

"Ehem!" som one coughed in my ear. I spun around to find Dianna waiting for me. "Bean and cheese." was all she said. Caroline and Penelope came down together, laughing like maniacs. they didn't even seem to notice me as I handed them tacos. Anna and Jake walked in holding hands. Jake muttered a "Thanks.'' then Cherri walked in.Annoyed she grabbed a taco shot me a look and trotted off. And then the unexpected happened.

"Hey babe," Jon winked as he walked in. I lifted an eyebrow, confused on how comfortable he is with saying that. Saying like he has many times before,"I know about last night." he whispered nodding his head toward the dining room table. I followed him, he pulled a chair for me and I awkwardly sat in it. He sat down on the chair next to me.

"Kristen told me this morning...about what happened. I figured Nate would do that. He's too busy with his slut." Jon said while unwrapping his taco, steamy from the foil. I stared at him questioningly when he slid something in my view. as I could've guessed it, a taco. 

"Why are you helping me?" I whispered faintly. Jon stopped mid-bite.

"Because unlike my stupid brother I'm still waiting for my Mate. When I gave up the Alpha spot, I thought Nate was going to do great things. And he has....but to be like this to his Beta/Mate, it's unacceptable. And I won't let it slide," Jon sighed. I nodded my head as if I understood what he was saying.

"Besides, It'll be fun to watch him get all jealous and protective of you. haha." Jon smirked.

"I can't let you do that. You'll get hurt because of me," I said. just one more person to add to James's threat list. Before Jon could reply Nate walked in, hair tousled and eyes sleepy, he looked very attractive. stop it, Ariella. don't think that! when Nate spotted us, his expression changed. a flicker of guilt flashed across his face, then he quickly turned away. I let out a breath I didn't know I was holding.

"Ha! did you see his face?" Jon whooped making me jump,"priceless..." Jon shoved the remains of his taco in his mouth. suddenly a loud crash came from the kitchen,"Ariella!" 

"There's my cue." I shoved my way off the mahogany table and tiptoed into the kitchen. I saw Nate standing and pointing to something on the floor,"clean it up." he demanded and walked out.

I sighed and reached for the knives one after another. flinching each time as I recalled the many times James stabbed me with them. As I reached for another knife, a hand shot out and grabbed it. I looked up to find Jon's innocent face.

"What are you doing?" I asked dubiously.

"Helping you, duh babe."

"Why?"

"Because we're dating remember?" Jon jerked his head to the door. I stole a glance and found Nate glaring icicles at me. I went back to putting on the knives in their holder. When I finished, Jon and I walked out; him holding my hand. It felt so weird, then he handed me my taco, I shook my head,"I'm not hungry."

"Good, then let's go." he grabbed my hand and lead me out the front door. My nose started to sting. It always stung when I felt like crying. I saw evil glares coming from Diana and Cheri, but I acted like I couldn't see them. Jon noticed, grabbed my arm and jerked me outside. I was almost in tears and could barely see, I was certain I was going to run into something. Jon put me in a red convertible, I slid into the leather seats...then the tears came. They were those big globby tears that reminded people of Alice in Wonderland. I normally only cry when I'm by myself, or if I'm in my room.

"Ariella..." Jon whispered to me.

"I'm fine, I promise." I wiped my tears and recollected myself. But I wasn't fine. I never would be.

"No you're not, what's wrong?" he asked accusingly.

Life Jon! That's what's wrong! But you can't fix life now can you?" I outbursted.

"No, I suppose not."

"Just drive. I wanna get to school already."

It was almost 8:30 and Jon insisted on buying me a smoothie. I think it was a kiss up for me to tell him what was wrong. But I can't and I won't. I was just hoping my friend Sunshine would be at school today. She flew to Ecuador to see her aunt, who was very sick. Sunshine said she would be at school on Monday, but she wasn't there. Sunshine wasn't really her name, it's just what I call her. Her real name is Isabel, but she hates it since it's the name of her mother, who abandoned her at 3. which was very brutal at her age, considering the fact that Sunshine...is a shifter. Sunshine is the only friend I had. She always smiled, always laughed and you could never tell if she hated you or not.

"School's about to start," I said to Jon as I hopped out of the car. I was greeted by several glares coming from our pack who were stationed by the statue of William Penn, the founder of our state. I quickly ran inside and was welcomed with a smack. I had run into somebody. I looked up to apologize when I looked into a face of blonde hair and brown eyes. 

"Sunshine!" I yelled.

"Ariella!" she pulled me into a tight embrace, warm and welcoming. I smiled and hugged her back.

The whole day she would not stop talking about how crappy this town was compared against Ecuador. I couldn't help but agree. She promised that she would tell me more at lunch. I hope it was not about a boy, I'm tired of boys from now on. I've just about had enough about boy drama. Come around time for lunch, Sunshine had finally noticed my change of clothing style. I told her about the whole "Mates" thing and she tried her best to understand. I sighed, I hated being shoved by hormonal teenagers getting in line to eat the most horrid meatloaf ever. So I never eat here. Or anywhere for that matter. But unlike me, Sunshine would bring her lunch in a coach bag. She could only afford that bag from series of babysitting. Something I didn't have time for. we sat at our normal table beside the bathrooms. It was the only table clean and far enough from Cheri scolding that "The smell of our weirdness was affecting her make up." That line alone made me want to throw up. Sunshine smiled at me like it was slapped across her face. I was about to ask her why she was smiling when somebody ran into me, shoving me to the corner of the table. I was used to it, but this time was different. Blood was seeping through my shirt, slipping to the ground,"Ah," I pressed my hand to my stomach against it. I pulled my hand away and it was drenched in my blood. "Ariella!" cried, two people. The one I recognized as Sunshine, but the other... I knew that voice, deep and smooth. It made me want to run to him. But it was a voice I didn't expect to hear.

It was Nate's voice.....

 I stared in disbelief to the voice I heard. I stared at him, Looking into his eyes just for a brief moment and getting lost in them. For once, he looked at me like a caring mate, his eyes were full of worry and fear as he